He leveraged his past success as a web developer to get into online culture war punditry. Now he's a prominent race-baiting reactionary.

There's a sort of cult of personality around him at this point. His acolytes follow him for his nativist views, and then adopt his technology unthinkingly.

I don't know why my comment was downvoted above. This isn't a serious distribution and you shouldn't expect it to be. It's a vanity project of a niche alt right tech bro, and this is the level of rigor you should expect.