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For months, pundits have decried the absence of a “Joe Rogan of the left” — an online media figure who can galvanize young men to support Democrats in the way that popular right-wing creators like Rogan, Adin Ross, and the NELK Boys have done for President Donald Trump. Now, it appears that Democratic operatives have a $20 million plan to build such a figure.

Nina Smith, a Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Stacey Abrams, said instead of propping up a creator who checks the perfect ideological boxes, Democrats should embrace the online spaces for young men that already exist.

For example, creators like Hasan Piker, a left-leaning creator with over 5.5 million subscribers on Twitch and broad popularity among young men, has largely been ignored by the Democratic establishment. Piker’s political content leans farther left, sharing a populist economic message paired with strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy in Israel.

“There is a tendency to shy away from those spaces because our favorite thing to do in the Democratic Party is to, pardon my language, shit on the left,” said Smith.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What a silly premise to start with. Joe is all about conspiracy theories. Gotta love that heavy drug use... What's the left aiming for if they echo that? Makes no sense.

And remember that Joe started with MMA, classic male supremacy vibes in that area. Not by all but certainly by many. So again, who is trying to copy that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

In all fairness Joe Rogan used to be a Bernie Bro which took a turn for the salty after 2016.

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