Brendan O’Neill has an excellent essay in Spiked on the right’s grotesque infatuation with Andrew Tate.
The Tate sympathy on certain sections of the right speaks to the evacuation of moral principle from contemporary political discourse. It’s actually unconscionable to get chummy with a man who allegedly sexually exploits women for financial gain. There was a time when upstanding communities viewed pimps as the lowest of the low. Men, in particular, were full of contempt for these parasites who preyed on the economic anguish of women.
He concludes:
Tateism and wokeism are two cheeks of the same arse. The clash between these camps is a classic case of the narcissism of small differences. It’s a battle whose shrillness and noisiness disguises the fact that both sides are made up of narcissists who are fine with porn and prostitution and who believe men should have ownership of women — whether of their identities (the woke mob) or their bodies (the Tate mob). We who prefer reason to conspiracy theory, sexual equality to misogyny and decency to ugliness need to speak up.