radix

Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republican-committee-sues-google-email-spam-filters-rcna53580

You were just that good at circumventing it. You had to be double-banned in response.

He is a certain type of anti-intellectual who believes "nothing is true unless I discover it myself."

Education is useless, truth is a lie, etc, etc.

So he destroys everything he touches until he can recreate knowledge himself, poorly, expensively, and redundantly. Then declares himself a genius for getting back to basically where the rest of humanity already was years ago.

Who's bringing the roadkill bear meat?

I'm not actually convinced it was Vance specifically. Their support seemed to grow a bit after the US election gave their movement a bit more legitimacy, but then started back the other way when people saw what it means in action. Vance's visit was timed at roughly the peak, but, snark aside, it's probably more correlation than causation.

The actions of the Trump administration as a whole are a more plausible cause of any slight erosion of support.

Combine this with German polls showing a drop in AfD support this month since Vance's meeting with them (https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/), and you have actual European Nazis looking at the Trump administration and collectively saying "whoah, maybe dial it down a bit."