I miss the halcyon days of 2012 when Politics YouTube comment sections consisted of 16-year old white teenagers screeching about how we need to "AUDIT THE FED"/ how "GOLD DOESN'T RUST" instead of the late-2010s crypto-fascism we see today.
All the former Paulbots faced a fork in the road: become a Berniebro or a Trumpkin. Former allies, now locked in a battle to see who can spam internet comment sections most obnoxiously.
Paulbots and Berniebros (well, before "Berniebros" were a thing) always shared a common kinship.
Horseshoe theory is real. I think it's the memes that bring us together, though.
Ron Paul united the "muh anti establishment" crowd in 2012, but 2016 gave them options. Prefer a quasi fascist streak of anti establishment? You're in luck, here's Trump! Borderline anarchist who wants to drown the government in a bathtub? Cruz is your guy! In the mood for a proletariat revolution? Time to #FeelTheBern. Or were you just with Ron for the cult of personality? In that case, here's his spineless and pandering son Rand!
Yeah, united them enough to win the Virgin Islands.
(I won't make the obvious joke.)
Because you would be stealing it from The Professor.