It’s where his audience was, and where the discussions took place. I think saying that moldbug was responsible for the intellectual scaffolding of the alt-righ

It’s where his audience was, and where the discussions took place. I think saying that moldbug was responsible for the intellectual scaffolding of the alt-right overstates his role. The intellectual underpinnings of the alt-right world view is more closely aligned with the stuff expressed on Roissy’s blog than anything moldbug wrote. Imo, moldbug was just a convenient associate who was tapped to lend the movement a thin veneer of intellectual rigor.