With regards to Cernovich, Spencer, and the alt-lite/alt-right shit-flinging, I can offer my two cents, seeing as I'm one of the only people on this forum who knows both of them personally.
Cernovich has always been good to me. I used to regard him as a mentor, as he gave me lots of useful advice on writing, working out etc. when I was younger. He helped promote my site when it was getting off the ground, and the core of
Gorilla Mindset---positive affirmations---is something I know works, because it helped me deal with a false rape accusation during the worst period of my life. Cernovich hired me to edit his book
Danger and Play: Essays on Embracing Masculinity nearly three years ago, and when I tried to offer him a discount on my usual rate, he declined and paid my full rate up-front (in excess of $2,000 for the whole book).
So Cernovich has never
personally let me down. I wish I could say the same for other people who've had dealings with him.
As for Richard Spencer, he used to suck up to me on the regular, and he even gave me free admission to one of his private events in the hopes that I'd write it up for
Return of Kings (which I did). Then a year ago, he thoughtlessly threw me under the bus, blocking me from joining his site
AltRight.com after his business partner Daniel Friberg had told me I
would be part of the site (I was by far the most popular writer for Friberg's site
Right On, which was merged into
AltRight.com as part of the deal).
Spencer's sole reason for blocking me was to get revenge on Friberg for refusing to allow Mike Enoch to join the site. This was
after Enoch had been doxed and revealed to be a fat, bumbling coward with a Jewish wife, who tried to throw his own fans under the bus by begging
Salon to protect him from "neo-Nazis":
https://mattforney.com/mike-enoch-right-...eadership/
Enoch was also the one who initiated the Hitler salutes at NPI's 2016 conference, the event that caused the alt-lite/alt-right schism and ended Richard Spencer's career before it even began.
That was Spencer's petty, childish justification for not letting me join
AltRight.com: "If my friend can't be part of the site, YOUR friend can't either!" Spencer even went and publicly denounced me without telling Friberg; we were both stunned when we woke up the next morning and saw his Tweet.
From my perspective, there's no difference between the alt-lite and the alt-right. They're two sides of the same coin, two groups afflicted with Bitch Sickness (as AnonBosch put it a year ago), who fancy themselves Leaders of Men yet have the sneakiness and emotional incontinence of women.
Every sin that one side accuses the other of committing is one they commit themselves, from shilling and being "merchants" (see: the content paywalls that have been going up on every alt-right site) to disloyalty and "punching right" (see: Spencer screwing me over despite being one of the foundational writers of the alt-right, or his similar disavowal of Identity Evropa because they wouldn't bend the knee to him), to sexual degeneracy (you'll see this one soon enough, but some tradthots are gonna have to change careers when this shit goes public), to being too extreme (Nazi LARPing won't catch on with the general public, but neither will the alt-lite's embrace of aggressive homosexuality and hedonism).
It's a circus. A sideshow. A goddamn meat parade. It means as much as the latest antics of Chris-chan, DarkSydePhil, Channel Awesome or any other collection of lolcows. Men of good character are needed to lead revolutions, and men of good character are in short supply in both the alt-lite and alt-right, either because they've been driven out due to
Mean Girls high school power games or they've quit in disgust.
The future leaders of Western civilization haven't yet emerged, and they likely won't until after the current collection of drama queens burns themselves out.