I was just thinking about why Tomi Lahren fell off and Candace Owens is still going strong. She stopped being a clown. The right is on a constant road to the dumbest possible position and people that decide to plant their feet and go no further get left behind. It's a viral loop of stupidity. The arc of the right is almost identical to Russian propaganda as it values masculinity and nationalist christian values. Love of the old ways. Hating gays.
Amash is a classical liberal that planted his feet in 2014, and therefore is suspect due to his pervasive "weakness." I'm in much the same position. I haven't changed my orthodox libertarian views much in the past 5 years, but I am butted up against people that take much more extreme positions for the performative aspect. I don't think people stuck in this media loop can see how they present to the rest of the world, but they don't really care. They're performing for each other because there is enough eyeballs now in the viral loop to support their point of view (and patreon).

Look at the issues he cares about...

These "pressing" issues are largely the invention of Twitter. If you never logged on to social media, you'd probably never experience them in your day to day life.

Have people buy their own. https://apple.news/APh8RbxwTSwix-39oZA70rQ

Choose your fighter.

Putting politicians in full control… seems trustworthy

Let me translate her pause: “Senator, you dumb fuck…”