It did not matter, for a reason brilliantly analyzed by Dale Beran in an essay for Quartz about the unexpected influence of the provocative 4chan message board from which so much of the alt-right slouched into existence: Since these men, like Trump, wear their insecurities on their sleeve, they fling insults in wild rabid bursts at everyone else. Trump the loser, the outsider, the hot mess, the pathetic joke, embodies this
