Why Dems’ Quest to Create a ‘Left-Wing Joe Rogan’ Is Destined to Fail

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The idea is a contradiction in terms, like saying we need an intellectual version of “Jackass.”

Updated May 23 2025 2:45AM EDT / Published May 22 2025 10:53PM EDT

Why the Left can't find their own Joe Rogan. — Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images

Please stop with the “we have to find a left-wing Joe Rogan” bulls--t.

For one thing, we have plenty of popular left and left-leaning voices who already fit the bill—among white dudes, Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, and Howard Stern spring to mind.

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Why Dems’ Quest to Create a ‘Left-Wing Joe Rogan’ Is Destined to Fail

The idea is a contradiction in terms, like saying we need an intellectual version of “Jackass.”

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