Why Do Western Men Keep Glorifying Rapists and Pedophiles?

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Andrew Tate, 39, was arrested in Miami on July 19, 2026, alongside his brother Tristan. The Crown Prosecution Service announced seven counts of rape against Andrew, three counts of sex trafficking, three of assault, and 19 charges related to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. Court filings provided by the Department of Justice allege that two women were strangled unconscious by Andrew Tate and penetrated without their consent. One accuser recalled being unsure whether he “was just a rapist or if he would kill her.”

Antonio Gramsci understood that the ruling class does not maintain its grip on power through force alone. It manufactures consent. It builds, as he wrote in the Prison Notebooks, a cultural hegemony so pervasive that the subjugated classes internalize the values of their rulers as their own. The peasant does not merely obey the landlord.…