Imagine his approach if such a failed visa applicant was Muslim? In any other circumstance he might at least properly interview him; with Robinson, he did not.Is it of a part with the anger of the comedian Dave Hughes, who seems to have dropped the irony from his longtime grievance-merchant schtick to fully embrace it as a serious conviction?He is the angry, hard-done-by everyman, with an estimated net worth in the millions.Is this shift to the rhetoric of division and resentment simply informed by it being where the audiences, and the money, are at?From a distance, these wealthy and successful men seem to have been hit by a delayed dose of post-COVID resentment at the power elites to which they profess not to belong.So, why? What's really going on here? And why are we paying so much attention to one TV host's apparent reinvention of himself as a post-mainstream media polemicist?On the one hand — who cares?On the other — I was always taught in journalism to follow the money — and the bucks are big these days in trading the usual bugaboos of new-wave grievance politics You know them well — immigration, "elites", Islamophobia and taxation.When these complaints are packaged into advertising, fundraising and podcasts and the wider attention economy in the US, there is serious money to be made