Abstract
This article analyzes digital discourses and imagery circulated by prominent figures of the extreme right through #Twinks4Trump. I argue the hashtag’s creators strategically mobilized #Twinks4Trump during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to produce a networked site of identification wherein rearticulated queer vernacular rhetorics, specifically the daddy/twink dichotomy, functioned as toxic tropes in the promotion of a homonationalist agenda. A Freudian-inflected examination of Instagram posts produced by the two most prominent figures of the movement offers an understanding of the ways the affordances of social media culture enable the forging of a toxic identification based in the subject’s impossible desire to return to the purified interiority of a racialized pre-Oedipal state.
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