The Economist’s Open Future initiative asked her to reply to five questions in around 100 words each. Think of any progressive intellectual of any significance from the last century and try to imagine them surviving today.

We have wowed our potential clients with animation, left them in awe at our grasp on statistics, and preached on soapboxes to the multitudes about why they . The alt-light figures that became celebrities during this period made their careers exposing the absurdities of online identity politics and the culture of lightly thrown claims of misogyny, racism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia and so on.Those arguing for it tend to really be motivated by faith that their ideas will triumph under those conditions. Like Nagle, I am perhaps overly familiar with the forms of online discourse she describes; and that she was able to do so so accurately makes me trust her on everything else - for instance, on the fascinating history of how representations of "the mainstream" have been gendered. Very early on, players found out that when a Horde player said “lol”, it would be read by the opposition as “kek”. These forums, organized on the basis of anonymity, developed a subculture among the users that combined extremely transgressive and dark humor with a deeply misogynistic and racist attitude. You don’t hear about Marxists, Anarchists, ‘Anti-Imperialists’, and others, Nagles idea of politics left of ‘Tumblr’ stop at Chapo Trap House or Jacobin.

However, instead, she became a source of comedy and ridicule among large online audiences from right across the political spectrum. Internet, once lauded as the free, “horizontal” space of a new kind of anarchical democracy (not long ago but around 2013 many of the liberal left still saw and hailed the new “democratic” terrain of the Internet) today has been dominated by the misogynistic, Nazi-sympathizing Man’s Rights activists.Thus there are hundreds of genders, Marxist universalism is misogynist, and effacement of agency requires reparations through any number of micro-payment platforms. Suddenly when Trump got elected, liberal or left leaning journalists were trying to catch up and work out what was ironic and what was real. Do any of the recent economic changes in the US affect the rise of the Alt-Right and spread of fascism? Unfortunately it's near impossible to have a sane or good faith conversation about this because of how heated the culture wars have become online, but the longer term social implications, which apply to men and women, are surely going to be very significant as millennials get older.

On pages 70-72, Nagle quotes a list of gender-related terms which she assures the reader is "directly from Tumblr. The right took the opportunity to talk directly to those who felt rightly or wrongly alienated by the debate. Unwilling to stomach the liberal shibboleths that fail to adequately explain the emergence and significance of right-wing subculture, she's the only one willing to descend into the grimiest of Internet grottos and give us the benefit of her incisive and cool-headed analysis.

She claims that Pepe Memes and Otherkin are examples of a feedback loop of transgressiveness between the Alt-Right and Tumblr left. I don't think she's asking productive questions, such as why people want to identify as victims or what can be done to correct this situation.

We have been getting our arses kicked online, and people like Richard Spencer, Milo, and Steve Bannon have understood the power of populist narratives. Kill All Normies is an important book, albeit one whose conclusions are likely to prove unflattering and potentially unpopular. In her book Kill All Normies, Irish journalist Angela Nagle elucidates the circumstances that fomented this ideology.

At least since the disclosure book "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff about the conditions in the White House in this country waves high , we know how chaotic and haphazard the current president of the superpower USA leads his government.