I think he wants to distance himself as far from bellgab as possible.
Lee expressed this to me himself.
He still obviously has aspirations to be a broadcaster and in the age of cancel culture the whole bellgab/HW shitstorm would be a career ender.
In order to be cancel-proof, all he'd have needed to do was be politically ambiguous.
But he's got too much MAGA coursing through his veins for that to have ever happened.
I guess the fool proof method would've been to couch himself as a leftist (from beginning).
Vara(probably tipped off by Bart)really fucked him over by revealing his real name
I personally don't think that was the deathnail.
But, that's just, like, my opinion, man.