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Theo is the example par excellence of a cultural mercenary. Now, overall this is, of course, a bad thing, because he has no actual loyalties and will prostitute (in the same way many of us do) himself to where he feels the winds of change are coming.
People who tar him as just another run of the mill conservative comedy podcaster, ala the Full Send boys, are missing that he is, quite often, the left leading edge of the reactionary comedy sphere, kinda a fun house mirror of Nick Mullen (who was/still to some degree is the right leaning edge of the revolutionary comedy sphere). However unlike, say, a Nick Fuentes, who critiques the right for the purposes of creating a more radical right, Theo is too dumb to actually have a political programme or coherent ideology, but is smart enough to know where his audience is.
Theo has very little loyalty to the powers that be, he is loyal to his audience and what they find funny, and loyal to a kind of loose libertarian value set. He's like if libertarian's were funny purpose sometimes.
That said, way better and more informed shit out there. Just, beware of thinking of your enemies as a truely consolidated whole, there are always areas of division and fracture, and Theo exemplifies one of those areas.