As Democrats continue to blame everyone but themselves for their devastating loss on Tuesday, one leftist added another name to the blame list, comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan — claiming that he is recruiting men to fascism, and declaring that Democrats need to find a “feminist” version of Joe Rogan.
During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” leftist political commentator Anand Giridharadas falsely claimed that the “media ecosystem” is a “radicalization funnel” that takes people who are simply concerned about the economy and pushes them into “full-blown fascist politics,” citing Joe Rogan and Dr. Jordan Peterson.
He began the discussion by highlighting the supposed “mental health challenges” and the “defenselessness” that Americans have felt over the past few years, arguing that these “traumatic experience[s]” have led people down a radicalization rabbit hole that caused Trump’s victory.
Giridharadas then made the absurd declaration that the “media ecosystem” is a “radicalization funnel” toward fascism. The media ecosystem is overwhelmingly Democrat-run, so the only “radicalization” that has been committed by these networks has been to move left-leaning people even further to the left, evidenced by the shocking number of leftists on social media sobbing hysterically about a Trump victory — parroting exaggerated and false claims about Trump “taking away” their rights. However, Giridharadas is still in that echo chamber, so he appears to truly believe that radicalization on the right led to Trump’s victory.
“Particularly the media ecosystem, it is not it’s not a good one. It’s a negative one, it is a radicalization funnel,” he said. “What they have done in the online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, the way militant groups do around the world.”
He went on to claim that “low level annoyances with the world” such as questioning why eggs are “so expensive” and why children are learning strange things in schools — both of which are actually serious concerns from Americans, not “low level annoyances” — are just the start of a descent down as “fascist” rabbit hole.
“It takes people from low level annoyances with the world, ‘Why are eggs so expensive? Why are my kids learning things in school I didn’t learn?’ And then moves through You Tube videos, podcasts, moves them from the annoyance, to a full-blown fascist politics,” he said.
Giridharadas claimed that the supposed “elaborate multibillion dollar infrastructure” of right-wing media does not have an equivalent on the so-called “pro-democracy side” — arguing that the left does not have the equivalent of Joe Rogan.
“We don’t have, when a man is lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction,” he concluded.
Morning Joe had Anand Giridharadas on today and he had a total meltdown about @joerogan, @jordanbpeterson, and other conservative media figures.
Wild stuff from Giridharadas on the conservative "media ecosystem":
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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 8, 2024
The most hilarious part of that entire statement is the fact that the left did have a left-wing equivalent of Joe Rogan — it was Joe Rogan. He was a Bernie Sanders supporter and expressed love for former President Barack Obama on numerous occasions. He supported government healthcare and numerous other leftist policies. However, as Rogan began to pay more attention to how Democrats were moving further and further to the left, and as he began speaking to more conservatives, he changed some of his positions to move closer to the center. Regardless, Rogan is still very much a left-leaning person, it’s actually the left that moved away from him.
Elon Musk voted for Obama twice.
Joe Rogan voted for Bernie 2020.
Tulsi was in charge of the DNC.
RFK Jr. is a lifelong Democrat.
They are all backing Trump.— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 5, 2024
