re: #194 scottslemmons

He got his first taste of fame and recognition when he was a 12-year-old kid getting head-pats for parroting wingnut sociopathy. He’s never bothered to mature beyond that point because the praise was just so good.

You could have some fun with wingnuts in alternate universes where they didn’t have the wingnut wurlitzer to promote them and corrupt them. Shapiro without the childhood fame could be an actual success as a lawyer. Sarah Palin as a one-term governor and non-addled grandmother. Trump without his dad’s money would’ve been a small-time legbreaker for the Mob ‘til they shot him in his 30s for getting too ambitious. Alex Jones would’ve still been abducted by aliens in his 20s, but his brain would be toiling as a mind-slave on Arcturus-7 instead of getting stuffed full of mind-control tech today…