On Thursday, disgraced "manosphere" influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, boarded a private jet from Romania, where they have lived for years, to Florida. That these moral monsters have been welcomed to our shores with open arms is appalling and shameful. The saga also exposes an unfortunate fault line on the American Right—one the Right must correctly sort out if it is to have any meaningful staying power as a political force.

In 2023, Romanian authorities charged the Tate brothers with human trafficking, sexual abuse, money laundering, and forming an organized crime group to exploit and traffic women; Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. Last year, British authorities similarly procured an arrest warrant for the brothers. Andrew Tate, a convert to Islam and an unapologetic defender of Hamas, has used "manliness" to claim that men should impregnate as many women as possible; he has (unpersuasively) denied all rape and sex trafficking allegations. The Tates' escape to Florida became possible because Romanian authorities lifted travel restrictions, which was rather surprising given that the nation had invested so much time and resources in the case and had not completed its prosecution.