“I live in the county south of Vero. I’ve never heard of this yahoo. Guess he is not as prominent as he would like to believe. “
He may not be as popular as he’d like in his own locale, but with 100k plus on line followers he demonstrates how so many people believe their own bias most of all, and so they will attach themselves to persons, comments, themes and ideas that meet their own belief and bias, whether or not what is being presented is true.
Even we here at FR are not immune to that phenomena.
Some people ain’t worth the cost of the shovel.
Examination of our own biases is not encouraged. Some may be perfectly legit and cause no harm either to self or others. But that is not always the case which is why vigorous public discussion should be the norm. It helps present different issues from different perspectives and lets the light shine on the darkest of them. You can’t clean the corners in the dark.