Most grifters are usually traveling men who have the hidden hand supporting them for all their future grifts.
At best, Tariq Nasheed is a formerly homeless pimp who is so politically stupid that he truly believes Republicans are a better option for black folks.
At worst, he’s a formerly homeless pimp who is a paid agent for Republican think tanks to spread blatant misinformation and voter apathy to black folks.
Tariq is a millionaire off the backs of black folks donations. His interest in Trump has nothing to do with FBA uplifting, it’s all about tax cuts for his bracket. He’s a straight up c00n when it comes to politics.
He's the latter. In public, man's been music artist, paid reality/daytime TV actor/extra, dating/life coach, writer, documentary producer/filmmaker, political pundit, political advocate, museum curator, conference event promoter.
Most of these career paths don't have ANY correlation other than your success or lack thereof in one of them usually leads you to the next path. We've seen it with other YouTube talking heads, not just black folks (notable ones include Steve Bannon and Ben Shapiro).
The irony is, and I used to listened to him heavy from 09 to about 2017, he called his very own transition out when he discussing other YouTube talking heads; Roosh V, Pewdiepie, and a few others that escape me. He said the dating coach to right wing provacateur was a identifiable pipeline.
When you been around as long as Tariq, you go where the next consistent paycheck takes you. No one is buying his books. He's running out of documentary material to discuss and he has to go through fundraising which is always a painful task. His actual movies were never good. He really doesn't know shyt about politics.
The only thing that he has been consistent with is the anti-african immigration sentiments, because immigration is an easy talking point to drive engagement that really requires little investigation, evidence, or startup capital. What kills me is, his suspected propegator Ann Coulter doesn't even talk about immigration as much as he does. His arguments are appealing to certain audiences because he contextualizes things for people who have no interest in critical-thinking, but elementary explanations to things that they don't even want to understand the mechanics of.