Domestically, they are calling for a re-assertion of Christian values to counteract the ‘globohomo’ promotion of ‘degeneracy’ and blame the country’s economic woes on the liberation of women. Women should therefore return “back home“, says Groyper leader Nicholas Fuentes, a hyperactive 22-year-old who gives three-hour long sermons from the “studio” in his basement.

On foreign policy, the Groypers advocate for a ultra-protectionist, ‘America First’ approach to trade, aid (particularly Israel) and, most of all, immigration. Mass migration, they argue, has set America on a course of demographic replacement, which can only be reversed — or at least delayed — by closing the borders.

This notion of ‘demographic realism’ (as Groypers describe it) has invited accusations of white nationalism. Fuentes, a fluent speaker, would refute the label, but sharing platforms with prominent white nationalists such as Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor sends a clear enough message.

It is somehow perfectly 2019 that today’s ‘rebels’ are a group of hyper-reactionary boys yearning for a return to an era that they never lived through. And yet, you can’t help but feel that one explanation for their ‘traditionalist’ worldview lies more in a lack of interaction with the opposite sex than any particular vision of American cultural renaissance.