How a 13-year-old boy was radicalized by the alt-right, then figured out they were full of it

Am I the only one who finds the Washingtonian article just a bit too neat?
Did I just read some sort of allegorical piece?

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Towards the end the author is recommended a book which “was like discovering a diary I could have written myself.” Or it was the other way around, that the idea for the article started when the author read the book? The wholesome ending to the article, where far right extremism was defeated by leaving a pile of news clippings on the kid’s bed, would have been entirely her own contribution I suppose.