Does he think the misogyny and racism espoused by the likes of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate risks the movement he is trying to grow?

“They’re doing what they’re doing, and I don’t really pay much attention to it,” Pearson said. He added: “We are on the precipice of an entire cultural revolution. And we are killing it.”

The club was visibly sweaty when the night’s headliner, Waka Flocka Flame, took the stage. People rose to the rafters in a bid to get a better view of the “O Let’s Do It” singer, who endorsed Donald Trump in the last presidential election. “MOVE!” one woman (green) shouted at me when I inadvertently bumped into the photo she was taking.

Flocka himself was much more relaxed. It’s not his first time performing at a CJ Pearson-hosted event, but he said the crowd’s conservative bent had little to do with his return. “It’s the love,” he told me. “It’s organic. It’s a real free space.”

How does he politically identify?

“With the people,” Flocka said. Spoken like a future politician.

A couple attendees felt the same. “I think people should be more warming to each other and not so mean,” said Cierra Garcia (red), a 26-year-old visiting from Texas, about her fellow second-floor partiers. “Everyone up here has some fuckin’ ego.”

Garcia, she said, was all about love and is not overtly political. “Everyone argues, everyone bitches, and I just wanna have a good time!”