BAP is Spontaneous Controlled Opposition

 BAP is pro-decline, not anti-decline. Revolutionary, not counter-revolutionary. 

 It's not really on purpose. He's just not smart enough, not high-status enough, to know any better. 

 Egalitarian, not elitist. Openly claims to be Fascist, isn't mistaken. Irresponsible. BAP is a lose-with-dignity RINO who happens to found or constructed more aesthetically-piercing mein. All his enemies have to do is put a mud pit between him and victory, and he will refuse to get his hands dirty.  

 It's cope. When he said, "YOU ARE GAY" his fans secretly agreed with him, and that was the intent. It was approval framed as condemnation, because countersignalling or irony or whatever. "Yes, my banter is tasteful, thanks for noticing!" As such, no he has not betrayed his fans and is unlikely to do so. Ref: husbands and wives deserve each other, even wives (male). Gays, and BAP likewise, engage in caricature masculinity. Much the same way the little girl tries to look womanly with clown-streetwalker makeup, they're trying to hide a lack of substance with a bombastic appearance. As with most forms of narcissism, the subculture is about collectively agreeing to pretend nobody can see through the facade.

 "Dissent against the Soviet system united liberals, reactionaries, the religious, the secular, monarchists, ethnonationalists, cosmopolitans, Russians, Latvians, Bashkirs, and any other things besides." Uhh yes the terribly "reactionary" value of global unity. Hardly Christian at all, especially not Catholic. "Dissent against the [Union] united." Hmm. The only reason stupidity on this level doesn't kill you instantly is because Gnon wants it to hurt.

 If being a grift is possible, then it is certain. He doesn't want it to be a grift, but doesn't have the not-grift option. 

 When the Regime perceives someone as genuinely dangerous they Julian Assange them. Or just hang them from a doorknob. Have them suicide in their 24-7 surveilled jail cell, have them commit Canadian Healthcare with a bullet to the back of the head. 

 I'm not at all convinced that Assange was a real danger. Americans are not genuinely being fooled; they're getting tyranny because they demand tyranny. Assange would have made some folk stay late to produce more legal bafflegab, that's all. Nobody is going to wake up because they're already not asleep. (Especially the guy who has to work after hours.) However, they certainly confused Assange with someone dangerous, and boy howdy it turns out they're not ineffective when they're motivated. See also: Truckers.

 Even these paranoids don't stop BAP from making money. Conquest's first law & they don't make errors in the overconfidence direction. 

 As an aside, the books are fantastic. "I know, nobody has tried solving the problem by writing a book before!" What a novel solution! "Oh wait I know what everyone else did wrong - they didn't oppose popular government with a popular book! That must be it!" The previous writers didn't make enough money, you see. "Maybe if I put my legal name on it?" Yup. There you go. #Winning.