A large amount of white ruralish right wingers eat up his message, even if it is misguided. For all their talk of personal responsibility and working hard, nothing unites conservatives like blaming others for their problems.
I doubt very much he is any kind of plant. Right wing Americans can certainly get their numbers behind their cause du jour and have some beefy social media techniques to push their agenda. It's just a similiar situation to their quickly successful boycott of Bud Light over an obscure instagram post. It obviously works a lot better with light beer and country music than it does with a Barbie movie though!
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