I'm going to link this video because it's a good video breaking things down.
1:29 is an interesting point. Seems like he's already pissing off one of Dave's replacements, Bryan Callen.
Commenting on the Candace Owen appearances: Candace's January commentary on Steven is one of the most cold-blooded passive-aggressive moments on alt media. She asks people to pray for Steven in an obvious attack on his mental state, then shivs him with a cute little accusation of fake Christianity. The woman has highly sociopathic tendencies.
Back to the subject of this thread, there were a few things that made me suspicious of Steven over the years. The first one was the op-ed he wrote after marriage basically taking a victory lap on the great sex he was having because he and his wife saved it until the wedding night. I actually support celibacy until marriage, so I should've been in the choir he was preaching to, but the way he was bragging about his sex life in a nationally syndicated column made him look like an egotistical freak. Which, well.
The second thing was the scuffle with the union guy. It's fine to defend yourself, but editing out the other dude getting knocked on the ground, then whining about getting punched, is used car salesman behavior and also a little gay. Steven is a very big dude who trains BJJ. Failing to handle his business is concerning. Defend yourself if you want, or file a police report, but making yourself look like a victim with deceptive editing shows mental weakness.
The third thing was the Change My Mind debacle
where some clever college kid named Yusuf punked Steven on his own show. This deserves a full breakdown, but to summarize what happened, Steven held a last-minute Change My Mind event surrounded by local fans and expected another slack-jawed retard he could dunk on for applause, as usual, but Yusuf approached the question in a pragmatic way and sunk Steven's boilerplate Republican battleship. As Steven lost control of the conversation, he got more triggered and, most significantly, physically loomed over Yusuf, obviously wishing he could choke him out. A 6'2" weightlifter BJJ practitioner intimidating a 140 lb kid over a political argument is incredibly shameful and shows even more weakness than the union incident. You couldn't lose a debate more convincingly. In the end Steven only salvaged it by spewing a stream-of-consciousness jumble of statistics to keep the tempo of the show going. I doubt if he even knew what he was saying.
The common theme through all of these incidents is that Steven is massively-self aggrandizing, a relentless ladder climber, and soft. One of the most prolific College Republican-esque stereotypes.