The introduction of the "Groypers" into our national consciousness over the last six weeks has ignited curiosity about what is causing the evident moral and intellectual disintegration of American conservatism. As someone who has been covering this space for years, I do not believe it's possible to grasp what's happening on the right without accepting that the left has, for decades now, been on its own illiberal journey—because to a far greater extent than most observers would like to admit, the former phenomenon is a response to the latter.

If there's one thing that voters of President Donald Trump and reactionary online personalities alike have made clear, it's that they're frustrated by the eagerness of mainstream institutions to excuse left-wing overreach while treating every right-wi

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