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.
You caught me. Nancy Pelosi herself wrote me a check for $500 to make comments on lemmy.world to promote the idea that actively alienating young men or just ignoring the increasing move of that demographic to the right is a bad idea.
Your comment could’ve been written by that genociding ghoul.
And what is $500 to an oligarch politician that filled her pockets and is worth $252.7M?
Either way, if you’re smart enough to be simping for that crowd it’s all good too.
Keep doing what you’re doing on the way down.
Won’t be missed.