I think the movement stumbled into two potholes almost simultaneously and everyone bashing on him got it out of both of them. His discrediting and rejection of the movement didn’t help but in my opinion the far bigger problem was just the lack of advertising.

Until all of the controversy I’d literally never heard about the petitions, nor had I ever heard of anyone involved with it. I was aware of the lawsuit around the shutting down of the crew but I believe that was the extent of it. Even the likes of Lewis Rothman weren’t talking about it until about 2 months ago, so how’s a random person on the street going to know about it?