Crushing White Claws With MAGA Hipsters on Election Night in Dimes Square | GQ

Magdalene Taylor embeds with the crypto weebs and Trump bros of downtown Manhattan’s right-wing scene.

Save this story Save this story This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. As I arrived at New York’s biggest cryptocurrency and art-adjacent edgelord election watch party, a young man in a shaggy blonde wig and suit was pulled past a spread of cold McDonalds to deliver a mediocre Trump impersonation before a set of flash-on iPhones, speaking of how yuge the night was going to be and the certainty of a GOP victory. It marked the sort of casual confidence that defined the evening

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