It finally came to me what Rackets reminds me of from my childhood.
He is basically a late 80's televangelist. The sex scandal, the drugs, the hubris...it's all there.
Granted, he is small potatoes compared to the money the televangelists were pulling in at their height. Some of those fuckers were opening amusement parks in the middle of nowhere. But there are other similarities. Like when one of them got his with tax fraud or getting pegged by a secretary on vhs, all the other televangelists would circle like sharks, trying to take their shots, hoping to collect the followers, only for themselves to get hit like weeks later by an FBI raid or something.
It lawtube but with even more religious granstanding and a lot more eyeliner (Tammy Faye RIP).