emptywheel

Casual empiricism would suggest that most of Mensch’s fans are Trump opponents, right?

Sure. But she's a Tory and a hoax.

I wouldn’t say a hoax, quite, in that I suspect that she is sincerely nuts. Tory, yes, obvs. But her fan club, I think, are anti-trumpets pure and simple. What I am trying to get at there is why there is an audience for her - including among people who are ordinarily quite sane.

Cernovich is funded by Bannon-tangential entities. Where and to what end did Louise arise from?

Cernovich also rose from Gamergate/MRA-arseholery before he attracted wider attention. My first instinct, perhaps wrong, is to see this as an ecosystem rather than a simple product of manipulation. Entirely apart from big funders, there are ecological niches for nutters/grifters