The 'Manosphere' Starts to Turn on Trump

 The 'Manosphere' Starts to Turn on Trump

It was once hard to imagine Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz—three of the loudest voices in the right's online culture—openly criticizing Donald Trump. They were cornerstones of his appeal among young, anti-establishment male voters, whom he rode to a decisive election victory in November.

Now, however, they're questioning whether the man who promised to drain the "deep state" has instead become part of it, while flirting with the very elites he once vowed to expose — and leaving some of his loudest supporters openly entertaining the idea that "America First" might now belong to the socialists and a younger generation of Democrats.

"The only party right now, that to me seems 'America First,' is the Democrat Socialist party," the influencer said Schulz on his Flagrant podcast on July 10.

Rogan, arguably the most prominent among them, and whose endorsement some analysts credit with boosting Trump's re-election, has repeatedly slammed Trump's immigration agenda. He called the administration's ICE raids "insane," saying they targeted "construction workers and gardeners" instead of criminals.

"The Trump administration—if they're running and they say, 'We're going to go to Home Depot and arrest all the people at Home Depot, we're going to construction sites and just tackle people at construction sites'—I don't think anybody would have signed up for that," Rogan said on his show on June 18.