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Right-wing political commentators want to seem like strongmen with undeterred will, unfazed by critique of their flawed ideological theses, so it’s hard to implicate them in any manner of internet drama given their reticence to engage with those outside of their enclosed ecosystem–yet after careful planning and a good amount of wit, Ethan Klein of h3h3Productions managed to get Steven Crowder on the backfoot while exposing him for the real fraud he is.
YouTube’s right-wing political contingent is full of pompous figures like Crowder that feign a vying to debate their ideological nemeses, only to cower in fear when the opportunity presents itself bare. h3h3’s history with Crowder is full to the brim with interesting — and occasionally revealing — details, but the long and short of it is that the latter is quite displeased with the former’s dismissal of their pleas for debate. In YouTube speak, Crowder saw an opportunity to widen his reach by appearing on Ethan’s show and serve his usual embarrassing style of dialogue-tree red-herrings to seem dominant so that the politically-naive may come his way, but h3h3 refused to play on the Koch stooge’s terms and primed him up…
