The White Knights of Andrew Tate + Elon Musk + Donald Trump

"You having fun?" Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hard Target (1993)

A centuries old trope of fiction is the Knight-Errand saving the Damsel in distress.  John Woo's greatest American film (No... not Face/Off), Hard Target introducing JCVD slow motion, roundhouse kicking mullet-twirling awesomeness against 4 hoods in New Orleans to save the unfortunate Yancy Butler.  Classic 1990's action film sequences!

Nowadays, rightwingers have adopted the term "White Knighting" as a social media insult against men who push back and call out their violent misogynistic behavior.  Other Incel, MGTOW, MRA-types will join in and beat down the "Beta" male claiming the only reason he's doing it is with the faint hope a woman will pity-fuck him.   

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I confess I knew little or nothing about Andrew Tate prior to Greta Thunberg delivering an epic facial and leading Romanian officials to Tate's secret sex slave lair.  Tate's appeal to teenage boys and Republican rapists was unknown to me but, it fits a pattern.  As the Right has descended into Full-blown Fascism, it finds the worst examples to elevate, emulate, and defend at all costs because if they can make Rapists, Traitors, Criminals and Conmen into National Heroes and examples to live by well then those people can assume positions of authority and execute the Rightwing goals of eliminating millions of people who do not conform to Conservative Ideology.

Ultimately... that is the goal.  Widespread removal of certain peoples from society and the reshaping of cultural norms, rules, and laws to rigidly enforce a Reactionary Nation-State supported by the pillars of Racism, Patriarchy, Misogyny and worse.

So, it shall comes as no surprise that a cadre of the dregs of rightwing very on-line society have tasked themselves with White Knighting Andrew Tate and his brother even though The Tates have been arrested and now charged with running a rapist sex slavery ring, and despite protecting the children and rooting out sexual monsters was the entire rallying cry of Q-Anon for the last 5 years.

Of course, it should come as no surprise that Rightwingers aren't actually interested in the things they profess to believe in;  conservative long ago jettisoned their morals, ethics, values, and beliefs.  Well before Trump.  Donald John Traitor merely picked the low hanging fruit of rightwing rage and engorged himself.  Much as he engorged himself while sexually fantasizing about his daughter Ivanka.  Disgustingly, I believe it is far more likely true than not that Trump sexually abused his daughter growing up.  But, again Trump's true character is of little consequence to conservatives; he feeds their visceral hatred of The Other and makes them feel righteous in their rank racism and blatant bigotry.

So, Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump White Knights defend them not because they believe them to be innocent but because they know they are guilty of everything and much more and the power and freedom to commit acts of atrocity against the Other, the weak, the outsiders, women, beta males, the LGBTQ, is what conservatives yearn to do.