He attacked Tucker with the label about a year ago, that was one of the big blowups, then attacked Tucker and Candace Owens months ago.

Fair enough, I don't keep up with all these Talking Heads and their nonsense because I find it both draining and literally pathetic e-daddy worship how most people do. So the little details of it are always lost to me. So if it was happening back then that's completely out of my knowledge zone.

It didn't gain traction, is my sticking point

Well, gaining traction is how things turn out this way ain't it? When I said it myself, I didn't "hear it from somewhere else." I wasn't adopting the language being used by "my team."

I saw something happen and the words formulated on their own as the best descriptor for what I was seeing. Which is why you'd just know what I meant by it, because its a sincere and organic phoneme, if I can call it that in this context.

But it seems like for a lot of people, its all the same "consensus based" nonsense. They wait for the latest Grifter or Influencer to tell them how to feel, and how to label things, and the Newest Outrage Label to smear with and go from there. And that is how it "gains traction" and becomes something completely at odds with what the words literally mean.

I suppose its the difference between those of us on the "Right" through thinking things on our own, and those we seem to live and breathe the latest news from Tucker/Owens/Twitter/etc to pick what new thing to be outraged and mad about today.

This sounds accusatory towards you but I don't mean to point any of it to you personally as it doesn't seem applicable, but we also both know people who it does apply to. Also:

Candace was woke

Owens was always woke. Her literal rise to fame was trying to do something so fucking woke the Woke themselves formed rank to destroy her because it would drag them down to. And she "switched sides" entirely out of grudge and ego from that event. She only seems "based" because she is carefully crafting her image to be this perfect icon for the more rebellious Right at any time and always says exactly what you want to hear. Except its from a black woman so its worth more, because identity politics are good if we do them!

That's not really relevant to your point, but I never miss a chance to shit on Owens.