Posobiec pointed to the reported online habits of both men, saying they were immersed in “the same type of fetish… this furry fetish.” Citing analysis from Dr. Chloe Carmichael, Posobiec read her assessment: “Crooks’ fixation on hybrid male-female body art and Robinson’s trans obsessions both suggest a drift away from basic human grounding… it’s just a further derailment of their concept of humanity.”
He argued this mindset breaks down the basics of human interaction. "This dovetails with treating the special human gift of language as dangerous," he said. "They default to violence because they believe disagreement threatens their existence."
Posobiec tied the issue to his op-ed at Human Events, “Making Beasts of Men,” where he asks why two high-profile political assassins are reportedly tied to the furry fetish. He connected the pattern to the broader decline of male stability in America, saying: We need to understand how young, white men and their demonization and dispossession is driving more extreme sexual behavior, fetishes, and yes, violence.
Lisec agreed and went deeper, arguing the psychology cannot be separated from economics. “Both of them seem like the type who, in another era, would have had fantastic economic opportunity,” Lisec said. “That’s the entire point of the populist right. It all comes back to economics and opportunity.”
He added that societies where left-wing ideologies dominate tend to produce this dynamic: “It’s downstream from a lack of economic opportunities for the masses to be upwardly mobile.” Lisec said that Crooks and Robinson share this profile: young, downwardly mobile, and pushed into antisocial online subcultures after pandemic-era isolation.
Lisec argued these digital environments, furry porno simulators, Reddit-heavy influence, role-play servers, warp behavior. “The antisocializing behaviors here became normalized to these young minds,” he said. He warned that this leads men into spaces where they begin “fantasizing about illegal activities like bestiality or political assassinations,” because online extremity becomes routine.
Both said they are not alleging any coordinated political motive between the two attackers. The point is that the profiles line up, that isolated young white men, economically stalled, psychologically adrift, and deeply attached to online fetish culture that erodes their grounding in reality.
