As someone who occasionally read Dilbert back in the day, I do have to say that the “author self-insert character is always right and always complaining, and everyone else is always an idiot” tropes are well-tilled soil for right-wing outrage culture.
Add in there that he already had an “perpetually angry woman” character and “Indian office worker stereotype” character, and it becomes even easier to see how he got there.
As someone who occasionally read Dilbert back in the day, I do have to say that the “author self-insert character is always right and always complaining, and everyone else is always an idiot” tropes are well-tilled soil for right-wing outrage culture.
Add in there that he already had an “perpetually angry woman” character and “Indian office worker stereotype” character, and it becomes even easier to see how he got there.