Amanda Marcotte

I've been tracking right-wing sexual dysfunction for years, and I'm going to cautiously say 2025 is the year the madness broke onto normal people's radars. Are we hitting peak incel? Maybe! Looking at the year in Mar-a-Lago face and Elon's IVF babies.

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The right hit peak incel in 2025

From Mar-a-Lago face to Elon Musk, MAGA's sexual dysfunction exposed itself

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It's a risk, but a prediction: The White House ballroom will never be built. Every red flag for a bunk project is waving. Yes, it's symbolic. It's why Trump is grasping at cheap ploys like renaming the Kennedy Center. He can't build stuff, just steal.

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The White House ballroom will never be built

Trump can't focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project

The simplest explanation for why Susie Wiles was so honest about Trump to Vanity Fair: like most Republicans, she's focused on post-Trump plans. Like the rest of us, Republicans are just waiting for him to die, so we can all move on.

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Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump

The White House chief of staff says the president has “an alcoholic’s personality”

Finally here! I've been working on this article for a few months now. Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show. Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.

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The online clip factory that's radicalizing teen boys - Salon.com

How a wildly popular YouTube “dating” show heaps mockery on women to create "so many more incels”

People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it. But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online.

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Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism

There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men

The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth. They would rather lose elections than change. The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis.

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Zohran Mamdani knows how to win

Not just in New York — Mamdani's campaign shows how to inspire voters nationwide

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience. His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way." His followers won't hear it from a woman.

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Don't worry — Erika Kirk will never replace her husband

She can't replicate his brand of gutter misogyny

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny.

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RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids

The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing

Republicans forgot something about Jeffrey Epstein: Trump's old pedophile friend left a lot of victims. Who can talk. The harder Trump yells "hoax," the more obvious it is that whatever is in the Epstein files about him must be hair-curling.

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Try as they might, Republicans can't silence Epstein's victims

“The only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing,” said one victim