At his blog, Futrelle keeps track of various overlapping online subcultures devoted to anti-feminism and out-and-out misogyny, such as “men’s rights” activists, Gamergaters, and the “incel” community (short for “involuntarily celibate,” a community of men, including the mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who blame women for their inability to get laid). Not all pickup artists are putrid enough misogynists to feature on Futrelle’s watch list, but those whose blogs he monitors and reports on, chosen because they tend to be the most overtly misogynist, absolutely love Trump.

“Trump is, in many ways, their ideal alpha male, an arrogant, deliberately obnoxious asshole who treats women like shit but has a former model more than twenty years his junior as a wife,” Futrelle told me over email. “It doesn’t hurt that she’s Eastern European; PUAs like Roosh Valizadeh contend that American women are basically spoiled by too much feminism, and see Eastern European women, by contrast, as relatively unspoiled.”

Pickup artists like Daryush Valizadeh, who goes by the name “Roosh” to publish his “Bang” series of books purporting to teach men how to have sex with women in various countries, and James C. Weidmann, who goes by the ridiculous name Heartiste, absolutely adore Trump. In him, they see a kindred spirit, a man who believes women exist to be submissive and flattering and provide sex and have no value outside of that.

Heartiste is a blogger who teaches the “Sixteen Commandments of Poon.” It’s a manual on how to emotionally abuse a woman, with gems like if “she has displeased you, punish swiftly, but when she has done you right, reward slowly” and give “your woman 2/3 of everything she gives you,” in an effort to constantly remind her that you believe she’s less valuable than you.