Trumpland: Kill All Normies (2017)

Based on Angela Nagle's acclaimed book, Kill All Normies, Fusion's feature documentary, Trumpland: Kill All Normies, traces the white supremacist "alt-right" movement to its origins in obscure online subcultures populated by sexually frustrated young men. The film investigates the "pickup artist" industry, in which self-proclaimed "alpha males" teach "betas" how to coax women into sleeping with them, the "incel" community, composed of "involuntarily celibate" men who vent their rage at women, liberals and mainstream society on online message boards, and the "Gamergate" phenomenon, in which mobs of online misogynists harassed feminist game critics and developers for years. These online communities and events were characterized by a culture of "trolling," in which anonymous internet posters engaged in collective online abuse of people who espoused feminist or multicultural values, often hiding behind a posture of irony. When Trump announced his candidacy, all of these online currents coalesced into a vast army of internet trolls devoted to their anointed leader's crusade against "political correctness." Soon after Trump's election victory, some of these trolls stepped away from their keyboards and into real physical space, dropping any pretense of irony and declaring their allegiance to a genocidal ideology of white ethno-nationalism. In August of 2017, this new racist movement erupted in a violent, murderous confrontation with counterprotestors in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.