As for his alt-right turn: Its an entirely rational decision: I am sure he also knows that the feminists of the left will simply offer him up on a silver platter to the British state. Sympathetic to feminism or not, the Assange experience was a salutory lesson in that regard: A man of the left (Assange), remains faithful to the left, and after a whiff of sex all except a small posse of left and right wing libertarian stalwarts simply walk away. I am quite sure Brand was not going to repeat that mistake.