My impression, based on nothing, is that the apparent increase in reactionary nerds might be due to the crumbling of liberal worldviews

There's always going to be an appetite for feel-good slop, and an important element of that is always going to be making us feel better about whatever the status quo happens to be. In liberal storytelling, this often takes the form of capeshit, with the Great Men in capes helping a well-meaning if slightly overbearing empire in its neverending task of preventing chaos

That's not the only kind of capeshit though, as batman demonstrates. Maybe the empire isn't overbearing - maybe the chaos is already here. Maybe, in fact, our militant billionaire protagonist is implied to be too fair

So the happy-faced capeshit keeps getting made, because there will always be an audience. The angery-faced capeshit will presumably grow as more liberals grow reactionary, but they won't stop buying the happy shit too, so its audience gets more whinily reactionary

Source: own rectum