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Milo Yiannopoulos Represents a New Force in Electoral Politics

• bloomberg.com By Joel Stein

He examines himself in a mirror to see if he wants to add a gray suit to his purchases, which will push his bill to almost $12,000 at Savile Row's Gieves & Hawkes. He's buying clothes for his next round of college speeches in, as his bus announces in huge letters next to five giant photos of him, the Dangerous Faggot Tour. It resumed at Texas Tech University on Sept. 12 and is scheduled to hit campuses including Columbia, Dartmouth, the University of Alabama, and the University of California at Berkeley before concluding at UCLA in February. "I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting," he says, taking off his glasses. "I wander around enjoying myopia."

Yiannopoulos is the 31-year-old British tech editor and star writer for Breitbart News, where he's the loudest defender of the new, Trump-led ultraconservatism, standing athwart history, shouting to stop immigrants, feminists, political correctness, and any non-Western culture. Yiannopoulos gained his initial fame as the general in a massive troll war over misogyny in the video game world, known as Gamergate. He was permanently banned from Twitter in July after the social media company said his almost 350,000 followers were responsible for harassing Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.


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