Sorry to bump this, but I've been wanting to ask this ever since I first saw light of the 'Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia' book:
The book seems to make several references to President Donald Trump (since Miko is obviously supposed to be Trump). Mainly the same sort of strawman a lot of western media tends to portray Trump: that he believes all immigrants are evil regardless of whether they came here legally or not. When even the infamous "they bring drugs and rapists" comment is far from that viewpoint when put into its proper context.
The end of the book makes no real mention of if ZUN thinks the form of right-wing populism people like Trump promote is bad, instead mainly to say the book was criticizing outrage porn and tabloid junk in general.
What exactly does this all say about ZUN's political views if my interpretation of the book is correct? If my interpretation is wrong and ZUN didn't intend for the Trump references to be a jarring insertion of his supposed (ironically reactionary and disingenuous) politics, how so? Has ZUN always been blunt about his stances?
And on another note, I did some research and ZUN called fans of KanColle annoying back at a convention a few years ago, at least those who converted to that side from Touhou, saying Touhou was better off without those people. What type of 'annoying fan' is he talking about? KanColle has often been accused of being nationalist propaganda, and if my assumptions about ZUN's politics above is correct, this MIGHT the type of fan he's talking about, but unless Touhou pulls a Marvel Comics and becomes obnoxious propaganda that panders to progressives, he can't do anything to shoo off these non-progressive fans of his series (like myself). Of course, this only assumes that ZUN is an obnoxious progressive, and I don't know that exactly yet, but if he's not I don't know what kind of 'annoying fan' he could be digging at there.