Interesting... I don't like to give too much credit to various nonstandard theories, but not a terrible one. I still take it at face value that he was an outsider who got a surprise popularity that caught establishment off guard, and his since been attacked in media and politically like no other I can remember. It took me a couple years to see past the unfair coverage of him on the bits of msm I'd casually watch, and I find Europeans I've spoken to are even less exposed and prone to inaccurate framing of his actions (the few I speak to, and not lumping laeserin with them as she seems way more informed than avg euro). It's hard to know much of anything with certainty anymore 😢