If you wish to grapple with the political consequences of pushing away Rogan, you also have to acknowledge the consequences of welcoming him. To welcome him to the left, you largely have to extend a hand to his brand of "anti-PC" bigotry. This is largely the antithesis of the social left, so I can't imagine what that would look like. 

I'm personally not good with that. While Rogan is not a far-right extremist, he is an idiot with a lot of real bad, right wing takes and comments who often gives a platform to the far-right without sufficiently pushing back on them. He should not be welcomed as part of the left, and he should routinely be criticized for his routine idiocy. He doesn't deserve to be celebrated for having a take that isn't shit every once in a while. 

I find it interesting that Krystal Ball doesn't even really try to grapple with this tradeoff, which largely makes the video worthless, imo. 

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And why should we validate this brand of pseudo-intellectual bullshit, where he regularly makes dumb-ass statements about things that he knows nothing about? Like, after the recent controversy regarding vaccination, he said something to the effect of "I'm a fucking moron and I'm not a respected source of information". I agree. I think it is damaging to validate this type of "Idiot talks about things that he knows nothing about" content as being more than worthless drivel. If you don't know what you are talking about, you shouldn't be talking about it to millions of people, and you shouldn't be welcoming far-right voices to talk on your show when you lack the tools to challenge them.

As for "who said anything about not criticizing him", well, Krystal Ball wants the left to treat Rogan more like the right treats Rogan, and how does the right treat him? Largely by celebrating when he says something they like and not paying much attention to the rest. 

Pakman gives a nice breakdown and prime example of the right wing propaganda pipeline. Baseless conjecture gets dressed up as hypothetical evidence. Said hearsay is then signal boosted and repackaged repeatedly until a completely baseless conspiracy theory makes its way to Capitol Hill. Disgusting.

If you are scared, go to church!!

This is actually a really good break down of exactly how misinformation is played up in today's social media environment.  The transition from it could to actually stating it as a fact in the first part of the video is pro level work.

The Establishment Declares WAR On Nina Turner - Corp Dems, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Fox News, Wall Street are fund raising for Turners primary opponent Shontel Brown in Ohio congressional race

The Establishment, including in the Dems are actively trying to bring down Nina Turner (previous national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign and democratic socialist) 

It is feared by the Establishment Dems that she will disrupt their 'business as usual' model going forward, she is a very strong advocate for M4A, Tuition free college Education, making Israel accountable, The Green New Deal, destroying the exploitation of Big Pharma, higher minimum wages, stronger unions, much higher taxes on the Rich, and many other socialist/progressive policies 

The system has united against her 

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Well she better learn how to swim or she will sink.  Since I live in Ohio, what she is platforming on isn't going to get strong support so she will need to gain as many allies as possible.  Having ideals are great, working to get them accepted is something different.  If you are going to beat the establishment you better come prepared in a general conservative area with the right firepower.