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Once your “radical” viewpoints have landed you a 10k per month Patreon and a six-figure book deal (because publishers think it’ll be easy to promote that ish), consider changing that voter registration to “Republican” and hanging out with all the prosperity gospel folks

It’s all the same “up by my bootstraps, helped by no one except all those suckers and marks I tricked” nonsense, so why not? Better haute couture and brunches, I suppose

In brief: you, a Winner in the Marketplace of Takes, are a “republicant” but for the latest cargo shorts, rompers, and big billowing 90s b-boy skater shirts. But you and your GOP brethren might have a shared fondness for Carhartt work apparel (authentic!) and chastity belts