In 2014, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a rampage and killed 6 people. The killings were a tragedy, but somehow they were viewed as lying on the margins of politics. For some, the incident raised the issue of gun control. For others, it raised the issue of mental illness. The fact that Rodger was an Incel (Involuntary Celibate) who hated women suggested the nation’s culture wars were also involved. Yet the massacre was never viewed as part of a more fundamental shift in the structure of American politics.
It should have been. Elliot’s rampage heralded a new realm of illusion in politics.
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