He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.
I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.
Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”
He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.
I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.
Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”