There's a lot of back and forth on him atm as he claimed "Antifa" and BLM were starting the fires in Portland then publicly apologised for spreading misinformation. Now some of his listeners are saying it's good he did that and others are claiming he's sold out and covering up the truth for money. There's also some issue with Spotify employees apparently wanting his podcasts monitored and edited before being uploaded and trigger warnings being put in place which has pissed a bunch of them off too.
In general this one thing (possibly the only thing in fact) on which I often feel sorry for politicians - when they make a mistake with a policy decision that will set out a long running strategy they are faced with two choices.
1. Continue bloody-mindedly pursuing the same incorrect strategy - which is really a totally insane thing to do
2. Admit they were wrong and change the strategy - and be accused of making a U-turn
Nine times out of ten they opt for option one which is why we see loads of fucking completely mental ideas pursued pointlessly to the bitter and disastrous end. But in fact, I would rather - as a rule - they went for option two.
Our present Tory government has often in fact chosen option two and as a result their leadership strategy is - not unfairly, but even so, actually rather harshly - described as "government by U-turn" or some such.
Now, far be it for me, to actually stick up for this useless bunch of lying, vicious scumbags, but actually the only things they have done right as far as I've noticed is when they have had the balls to admit that they have made an almighty cock-up and changed direction.
Of course, before anyone thinks that I've suddenly gone soft on these arseholes, I do feel it incumbent on me, to point out that the reason that they have so often done the right thing in changing their strategies are
1. They have made lots and lots of bad mistakes
2. They have made lots of mistakes that are so bad that even they - the MOST fundamentally dishonest and uncaring government of our lifetime, whose natural instinct is to lie their way out of any given situation, regardless of how ridiculous the lie is and how harmful it would be to the people and to the country to pursue that lie - recognise that it cannot be lied out of and even their supporters would be able to grasp the consequences and understand that it was their fault.
In other words, Boris Johnson's government had made a number of utterly colossal fuck-ups that it has made them momentarily honest.
So, to go back to the original dilemma and to look back at the insoluble question
1. Continue bloody-mindedly pursuing the same incorrect strategy - which is really a totally insane thing to do
2. Admit they were wrong and change the strategy - and be accused of making a U-turn0
There is a solution to this constantly arising issue - just stop making such an enormous number of potentially disastrous fuck-ups.