100 Man-Points,

“he problem with us on the Right is that we tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, thinking that most people are basically decent until they prove otherwise, even as we are highly suspicious of strangers in general.”

In my ‘civics’ style classes at the undergraduate level, they emphasized there was a single fundamental distinction between the ‘right’/Conservative and the ‘left’/Liberal dichotomy in the USA.
Short hand, the Right/Conversatives believed people are basically evil and require control.
The left/Liberals believed people are basically good and require only assistance.

It rang hollow in 2009 and it rings hollow still today. In my experience the progressive left is deeply suspicious and prone to purging their own ranks, while the right is open and welcoming to any damn fool who walks in the door. It may be a legacy of the Christian ethic, ‘he who is without sin throw the first stone’, that the right tends to be OK with you until it’s proven you’re a total piece of scum.

I do agree about Andrew Tate being a scammer though. Even if he wasn’t violent with the women around him, the cam girl business is no more than a getaway drug for men who are desperate for even a tiny bit of attention.

He fooled many people because he speaks fast and confidently, and he is able to communicate his ideas very clearly, no matter how messed up they may be. Most of the truths he was saying were already mentioned by Roosh and Heartiste about a decade ago and probably earlier than that, so for Andrew to get such attention now, just shows how charismatic he is.