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In reply to the discussion: Meet The Brogressive, Your New Worst Enemy [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)I read the part about Bernie in the article, and the author was referring to hypocrites who claim to be Bernie supporters, the same as she calls out phony progressive. Brogressives don't support progressive policies, they are learning "liberal media messaging" to undermine and sabotage those policies.
Though the fedora dig is a low blow and inaccurate (Brogressives come in all shapes and sizes: and they include the infamous Pick Up Artists as well as jerks who are outraged that women aren't obliged to submit to their demands) -- the rest of the article describes a very real phenomenon. There does seem to be a lot of young libertarian white males who are forming activist groups and engaging in social media campaigns that are meant to infiltrate progressive strongholds and seed them with libertarian white male supramecist ideas.
This is not the sme thing as seeking an alliance since they are not honestly representing their ideas. Instead, they are gaming the system to do a "leveraged buy out" of existing progressive infrastructure. The Third Way taught them that it's easier to steal one of the Big Two parties than push their ideas through a third party position.
Brogressives is a great description of these infiltrators.