It’s not exactly strange that elements of the Magaverse have embraced Andrew Tate. What’s strange is that the Democrats do not seem interested in holding the Trump movement to account for it.

Andrew Tate, the misogynist influencer who is accused by numerous women around the world and now British prosecutors of rape and strangulation, as well as assault, sex trafficking, possession of child abuse images and extreme pornography, and various other forms of gender violence and exploitation, was arrested in Miami last week, along with Tristan, his brother and sidekick. Or I should say, they were rearrested: the men were previously charged in Romania, where they were under house arrest until, following some conveniently timed diplomatic moves from the Trump administration, they were allowed to leave the country and resettled in the US. When asked if the Trump administration had secured their release from Romania back then, the Tates’ lawyer said: “Do the math. These guys are on the plane.” Now, finally, they are awaiting extradition to the UK, where they are dual citizens.

The Tate brothers have long made their living by making provocative, contemptuous statements about women online. But in June, the New Yorker’s Heidi Blake published a long investigation that centered not on what the Tates have said, but on what they’re said to have done – detailing a long and documented history of alleged sex trafficking, violence, and sexual assault along with a disturbing pattern of police mismanagement, incompetence and indifference that allowed the men to go free. The Tates denied wrongdoing in that piece; their lawyer called the new British charges against them “garbage”. But if anyone thought the Tates’ misogynistic influencer........

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