Talk about a 180. Grovetown's 13-year-old C.J. Pearson, who became a conservative star for his YouTube denunciations of President Barack Obama, has a new favorite presidential candidate: arch-liberal Bernie Sanders.
The onetime chairman of "Teens for Ted Cruz," Pearson announced last month that he was no longer conservative. And Wednesday he said he had shifted all the way to the "democratic socialist" Sanders, essentially the polar opposite of his previous choice.
Conservative WSB Radio host Erick Erickson is not amused, writing in a post directed at Pearson:
Right now you are a kid. If you want fame on social media that bad right now, the man you grow into is going to be twisted up with shallow roots. You're going to get blown over in a breeze. So get off social media and go play.
Pearson shot back on Twitter, making light of Erickson's stunt in which he literally shot holes in the New York Times over its gun control stance.
Pearson's doings have long attracted outsized scrutiny. Here's what one of our insiders wrote about Pearson way back when in October, when Pearson was on the other end of the ideological spectrum:
"He is being exploited for his age and his race," said Benjamin Dixon, a left-leaning African-American radio commentator in Boston. "He's being propped up to say the things that conservatives want to say but cannot."
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