I know that talking about the hypocrisy is going a few steps beyond merely beating a dead horse at this point but isn't the whole "no publicity is bad publicity" mindset of the alt-right and particularly with richard spencer one of the biggest reasons for the whole "optics civil war" split? Anything for his ego though, I guess, even if it is overwhelmingly twitter shitlibs going "lol lmao closeted homophobe republican xdddd"
There is no actual foundation to the manlet cult at this point. Fuentes is a fag who never primaried any Republicans, and he's too narcissistic and stupid to even shut his mouth and endorse Republican candidates like Joe Kent without bad mouthing them. Moreover, it's not like he or his incel freak crew are ever running for office themselves, so there's no there there. Right now he's basically in a thing that e-celebs go through where they can't just be boring for a while, because there's nothing solid and real about them.
Richard Spencer, a fellow narcissist, had the same problem. He toiled in obscurity for a long time until the media found him, recognized him as an anti-social LARPer that nobody really liked, and started promoting him as the leader of the alt-right movement which they hated. Once that fag got a taste of exposure to millions of people, he couldn't just stop taking interviews, since then he'd go back to the tiny audience he actually deserved. You can see just how small his natural audience is if you look at his twitter and substack, which I didn't even know about until I wrote about it a few days ago. Because Spencer didn't want to admit that about himself, long after it was obvious that there is no reason to let enemy propagandists around you, let alone give them interviews, he was still giving interviews. This fanned his narcissistic supply, and allowed him to pretend that he was truly popular, instead of just a temporarily fad that people didn't actually like. But eventually the media got what they wanted out of him and it was all over.
Once upon a time Fuentes could reasonably pretend to some people that he was a legitimate political actor, but those days are long gone. If he gets no publicity for a while nobody is going to give a shit about him. So he's in that spiral stage where he needs to be a LOLcow and do dumb shit to maintain fake relevancy. Because once he stops entertaining people with this shallow, short term bullshit, his popularity will collapse, like Spencer's did, to what he actually deserves, which is something like a 50 viewer streamer.
I didn't write that very well, but I hope that was made clear. There really needs to be a term for that stage that some celeb goes through where there's nothing left but cheap publicity stunts.
