


Most of these videos show Brand saying a great deal, without communicating much at all generally, his videos push back against government control, embodying a kind of vague populism. Now, Brand’s channel certainly isn’t defined by these interviews - he openly disagreed with all three, and also takes the time to talk to liberals and leftists - but his channel has since made a significant shift, tilted in the direction of vaccine skepticism and Trumpism, although significantly more nuanced than their clickbait titles suggest. In the past, Brand has interviewed Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro, all of whom became internet-famous due to their ability to repackage puritanical, regressive social conservatism into something resembling youthful rebellion. But the recent criticism of Brand goes a bit deeper than Russiagate, even if that seems to have sparked the main backlash.
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Russiagate has always been an incredibly divisive, somewhat ridiculous subject - there are some who harbor feverish fantasies about Vladimir Putin being a comic book supervillain who hypnotised helpless Americans into voting for a reality TV host, and others who simply question the Trump administration’s ties to Russia.
