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The Fantasy of a Liberal Joe
To think you can “build” your own Rogan Experience is to fundamentally misunderstand the power of alternative media.
There’s a fundamental difference between the so-called “Manoverse” and, say, the equally growing ecosystem of explicitly right-wing podcasts typified by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire operation,newer conservative talking heads like Dan Bongino, far-right personalities like Charlie Kirk, and the continuing afterlives of Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson. Of course, there is a natural imbalance at play here: Trump and his fellow Republicans can nod along with Rogan’s more pernicious views, like his transphobia and penchant for conspiracy theories, while liberals have to shoulder the burden of defusing and challenging them while working through the conversation. Rogan might be operating on a scale of his own, but there are an increasing number of other podcasts, YouTube shows, and online spaces with growing and naturally formed constituencies whose political identities remain fluid.
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