You're thinking along the right lines. It's foolish to assume that Carl is exceptional so Carl can't make any progress in this endeavor.
I don't know which page it was on, but I believe that if feminist groups start to protest Carl, it could make him a plausible candidate. Sargon's opponents could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as easily as the man himself could.
That's true, any sort of organised effort against him is only going to help him solidify his points. He's even mentioned that he's "sure" antifa are going to show up to one of his rallies in Bristol, which sounded like an open invitation really.
That said, Jess Philips isn't going to organize anything. The threat she made on her twitter was so empty, you could hear it's echo. Who makes an implied threat with a "I might just."
Serious question; when has Carl ever come off as charming, intelligent, or convincing outside of his own videos on his own channel? The Rogan appearance was widely considered "not great" at best and a garbage fire at worse. Every debate he's in, he's generally considered the loser and that's from anywhere from white nationalist Richard Spencer to feminist Winters. You're responding like there's not a history of him constantly fucking up and embarrassing himself when he's required to actually respond in real time to someone, like everyone just wants him to fail and is saying he will without any reason for it.
Sure, he might outwit the biased media with his Devil may care attitude and sharp wit. He also might fuck up spectacularly due to ego, a bad temper, and all around lack of mental composure. But which one of those does he have a longer history of doing?
Carl isn't necessarily going to come off as any of those things. What he has to his advantage at this point is that he has an audience, and he has stood for the position. He doesn't necessarily have to be able to charm the pants of the voters, very few politicians ever have a personality that lends themselves to politics, they're just active in politics and therefore get the nomination.
Also to be serious here, the thing that will likely work in Carl's advantage is the fact that there aren't going to be that many debates taking place. The reason I'm saying this is because debates traditionally aren't really a part of the EU election cycle, as much as they are a part of the parliamentary cycle, and even in those instances that there are debates, it is up to the whim of the press to invite particular parties to take part in cross talks, or debates if they are hosted.
The biggest thing Carl is probably going to have to put up with, if he does get invited to them is question time style Q&A's which will be interesting to see how he performs under questions from the carefully selected adversarial activists in the audiences that the BBC often loves to provide.
Dank is going to be an interesting candidate. He honestly is the better choice between the two in the fact that he actually has been on the receiving end of an overbearing power of the state, and had his reputation ruined by them and the press as a result, so realistically he has a really strong argument against state censorship, where as Carl has been kicked off twitter and patreon.
