Erickson's presence feels entirely artificial, tbh. He left RedState around the time when Trump was starting to make waves and while he went all-in on NeverTrump, that didn't work out too well for him or his blogs at The Resurgent & The Bulwark - his former coworkers on RedState have been piling shit on him, calling the latter site 'The Bullwank', etc. and theirs definitely seems the more successful site by far. And obviously, influential paleocons like Tucker (at least once he gets whatever he's planning for Twitter off the ground, if he's not immediately crippled by the new WEF CEO) can blow whatever numbers he scrounges up out of the water any day.

Certainly I don't believe Erickson has anything resembling a natural audience, no more than the child rapists at the Lincoln Project do. The Buckleyite 'fusion' consensus is dead and there's precisely zero passion on the right for more of the failed old 'deepthroat corpos, bomb brown people for Raytheon, let immigrants undercut American workers and don't worry about losing cultural ground to degens because Jesus said to love the sinner' bullshit. The base isn't buying that anymore and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Erickson's audience these days are made up of the most cucked of boomers and cheerleaders from the left, same as the Lincoln Project.