We spoke to Milo after his latest tour stop at UCI

This Sunday, Milo Yiannopoulos the bleached blonde face of the alt-right, came back to UCI to judge a “cultural appropriation” themed costume contest and preach to the assembled masses.

Speaking to a nearly full room, Milo began his speech with a sarcastic, “Happy Hilloween.” For the self-declared ‘most fabulous supervillain of UCI’, though, this rally was about something more. This movement, as he argued to the BBC, was about fighting the increasingly sensitive culture of the left surrounding UCI.

And Milo’s strategy, as he put it in his speech, is simple: “revel in… notoriety.” He did emphasize other uniting values, arguing that the “religious right” are friends of the conservative movement, and that the Republican Party must never again only cater to the super rich.

Milo’s supporters seem to illuminate this policy. But more so than the seeming audacity behind members of the crowd, is the social commentary Milo was providing. One member of the crowd, an African American woman, questioned how the Republican could ever win back black votes. Milo’s answer was simple: the Clintons, through a regressive policy of mass jailings in the 90’s systemically oppressed blacks. Milo further argued that there was evidence of a mounting dependence on the state, which Democrats were using as tools to manipulate minority populations. He finally called upon blacks too, “set their feelings aside,” and look at the facts.

Milo wearing a burkha to judge the cultural appropriation costume contest

Milo also made a point of addressing the “failed states” of Europe. He emphasized that the EU was doomed to collapse, as socialism and weak borders systematically weakened the entity of individual states. He did, however, remind the crowd that the UK, through Brexit, was still redeemable.

He reiterated a common saying among the right: the establishment was wrong. Pointing to incidents of rape gangs in London, Milo finished his response by echoing a commonly held fear among Trump supporters: that the fear of seeming Islamaphobic was threatening the livelihoods and safety of innocent civilians.

Milo’s supporter in police outfit with a Pepe Donald Trump

Another member of the crowd asked about a frequently debated issue among democrats and republicans: the media. Milo argued that conservatives, and other members of the public, need to begin to analyze the data and methods within studies, rather than relying on previously published analysis. These bogus, he argued, could be easily debunked by an educated and well read public.

Milo also answered a key inquiry on practicality; when posed a question on libertarians, Milo responded that Libertarianism was good “in principle, just tedious in practice.”

After the lecture, I had a short chance to interview Milo (apparently I was the small guy in the room compared to the BBC, who would have guessed). I first asked him how could his supporters, in the modern day environment on universities, could fight for his proposed conservative policies. His answer was relatively cynical; quite simply, student government was a lost cause. He did, however, point out that the university’s increasingly coercive movements into the sex lives of students was going to inevitably backfire. When I further questioned on how he would conceive of such protest occurring, he replied that students needed to, “troll like hell.”

Prefacing my question by citing the extreme protests at Berkeley involving the LGBTQ community, I asked Milo how he expected conservatives to feasibly respond in the future. Milo had a rather long winded response; first off, he explained, conservatives, unlike ‘leftists’ were not naturally obliged to radicalize.

Most conservatives, he argued, were naturally more inclined to continue existing in the status quo, in a relatively moderate manner. He further contended that until moderates begin to realize the oppression of the left, conservative activism will continue to be in the minority.