How is Grayson any kind of genius? Anybody who gets Conservatism as simplistically wrong as he does certainly does not present him or herself as 3 digit IQ material.
Grayson doesn’t “get Conservatism wrong”, he understands Conservatism well enough, he made a personal decision to actively oppose fiscal Conservatism and embrace welfare state wealth transfers and populist rhetoric against the Fed Reserve, ‘banksters’, Wall street, etc...
The guy understands the political spectrum, he chose most of his positions he took in his political career based upon calculated decisions based upon opinion polling and his perception of himself that he could master populist demagoguery.
I don’t think anyone really knows if the man has any interest in the philosophical underpinnings of a Democratic Republic, he simply rented the policy positions of the party and coalitions of voter blocs most likely to get him elected in Central Florida.