Donald Trump was a dream candidate for /pol/. In debates, he trolled his debate opponents with taunts as mercilessly as they did to their foes online. Both Trump and /pol/ users had the same concerns, calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and sharing a sense that the United States needed a strong leader to arrest its decline. They dubbed him the GEOTUS—the “God-Emperor of the United States,” in a nod to an ancient, pitiless galactic dictator from the military strategy game Warhammer 40,000. While /pol/ wasn’t large enough to sway any election with their own votes, its users became an online
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