Yes this is what everyone missed. If you watched South Park over the past 3 seasons, or watched Milo Yiannopolous' videos on YouTube, there is a battle going on against the progressive movement. Its about freedom of speech. But the liberals failed to see this, because they were too busy labelling everyone misogynist and racist.

Yes, the rising up of embittered masculinity is a hell of a sight.

Sure there are these guys, they are online in reddit's /r/pussypassdenied, they might froth at the mouth when they say 'lock her up'. These guys have always been easy to hear, those voices are still coming from inside the bubble of firstworldproblems. This is not what Thiel seems to be talking about, or what Trump has put up on his website. Perhaps Trump's personality faults are being used to keep us on this narrative that the modern economic progressive movement is working for all of us, and anyone who says differently is intellectually or morally flawed? This might explain why we have managed to leave half the population in our economic trail dust for 25 odd years.

masculinity?

Are you trying to inject a identity narrative?