Some desperate hope for political gain, plus vanity and a need for attention, were presumably behind the eyebrow-raising synergy stab from Donald Trump and the vile provocatrice Laura Loomer. (You remember her—the one who cheers the drowning of immigrants at sea, and whose support Trump welcomed.) Here, it’s mainly the second and third of those motivations (vanity, attention) that concern us, and this was reflected in the results: Trump’s 29 percent got him yet another A.W.I. win. Loomer was a close second (25 percent). And the anti-porn porn-site regular Mark “black NAZI!” Robinson (15 percent) clearly stepped up in a big way. Not even Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and J. D. Vance (tied for fourth, with 7.1 percent) could compete with that.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
