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Originally Posted by Matata
Oh where, oh where will he find a publisher that wants to make a ton of money?
Milo got where he is because he is unbelievably persuasive, he's willing to discuss the taboo and he is funny and charming as hell. He drags people into the mud with him and embarrasses them, but it doesn't stick to him because he presents himself as a ridiculous person who does this sort of thing all the time. Everyone who told him to go #### himself on Bill Maher embarrassed themselves, you can't presume to have moral authority while telling someone to go #### themselves, it makes you look a complete ass.
Milo's ability is not to win an argument, but to win over the undecided observing the argument, particularly young people. He gives voice to a lot of people who have felt silenced. He's able to mock moral authority in a way that appeals to young people while encouraging them to become conservatives. This is why he is hated with such astounding vitriol, he has an exceedingly rare ability to get young people to pick or change teams politically.
Every controversy has fueled him so far with and being shut out again by the mainstream will appeal to his audience. Media is far too fractured for him to be forced out in a meaningful way. He'll fade away if he doesn't adapt because this schtick won't last forever, but it'll probably last a few more years.
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As a young person who prefers the federal Conservatives myself (though that admittedly is no further right than a centrist compared to American conservatives) I think you and I have a
vastly different view of Milo and his appeal to young audiences on either side of the fence.
If it was so easy to sell his book to a new publisher wanting to make "loads and loads" of money, why didn't S&S just keep it? You think other major publishers are immune from the same pushback? from the same consideration of basic optics?
I think you rely far too heavily on romanticizing what, in truth, isn't much more than an far-right talking head who says a lot of truly hateful things that some people are thinking. This doesn't make him a hero, maybe a hero to vile people, but the reality is so far removed from the picture you're painting.
He is not hated because he's rallying young conservatives and bringing liberals over to the right, that's ridiculous. He's rejected because of the hate he preaches.
To your last sentence, that is a VAST difference from the glowing endorsement you gave him earlier:
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Originally Posted by Matata
If you think you'll be seeing less of Milo, I got some real bad news for you.
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but much more likely. He won't disappear, but don't be naively fooled by the Alex Jones of the world into thinking he's a rising star. He's running out of friends, out of venues, and sooner or later: he's going to run out of people who will bother to listen. He isn't the first talking head for this rise and fall to happen to, he won't be the last.
Milo is a sad tale, not an exemplary one. A sad tale of someone who hates his own self so deeply that he depends on the acceptance of others to keep him going. What a shame that those others are a toxic bunch themselves, as the more they encourage him the further he goes to appease them, and the further he goes, the worse he'll make his own life in the end.
Sad.