Was Richard Hanania himself the source for the Richard Hanania hit piece?
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Can't find any evidence of this. Anyone know?

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I think galaxy-brained plots are rare. By default people don't do things; things require work, and secrets/conspiracies more so.

Note this market tracks not the probability that Hanania revealed info to the media, but that he will admit to it - and regardless of what you think the base rate of successful plots are, the base rate of revealed plots is low.

"Richard Hanania has a white supremacist past" is a total non-surprise to me.

@evergreenemily The fact that he was once involved in this milieu was never a secret, and he even wrote some very obvious roman à clef stories about it, for example (from May): https://www.richardhanania.com/p/ron-unz-confronts-the-far-right

@evergreenemily I was much more surprised to discover, as a result of his response to this story, that he is now pro-immigration. Perhaps his views genuinely have become less dreadful, albeit he is still clearly bigoted and obnoxious and it's a very low bar in this case.

Timing is suspicious with the book coming out...