He's talking about Silicon Valley ( since WHEN ARE THOSE TYPES CONSERVATIVES? ), YOGA ( which has been around for a very long time and never really being popular with some ), astrology, paganism, (I doubt that you'll find many Trumpers involved in any form of THAT! ), etc.!
Science Fiction has also NEVER gone out of style; however, I don't think that many young adult Trumpers are into that now.
Old people talking about "poisons" in food? REALLY? How many "old" people are blaming that ( not even talking about the Chinese Flu shots! ) what ails them on that; especially conservatives? And Bobby Kennedy Jr. is something of a crackpot LEFTY, even though he is aboard the Trump Train.
“He’s talking about Silicon Valley ( since WHEN ARE THOSE TYPES CONSERVATIVES? )”
Peter Thiel. Joe Rogan. Elon Musk. Maybe you just haven’t kept up with the microdosing of psychedelics by rightwing tech bros. It’s not new.
https://www.vox.com/2024/2/14/24067911/a-brief-history-of-silicon-valleys-fascination-with-drugs
“And Bobby Kennedy Jr. is something of a crackpot LEFTY, even though he is aboard the Trump Train.”
I think that’s Sailer’s point. Cultural left weirdness is now finding fans among people who think they are on the right.
What amuses me is Chesteron did write about this same cultural goofiness afflicting England over a hundred years ago. And a lot of it was big in California in the 1960s. And now the same stuff is finding fans on what passes for 2025 Right, especially among the MAHA crowd.