Why would he? 80% of Democratic voters have never watched him.

Yah, no kidding.

If a random podcaster matters so much, let's talk about the huge stable of nuts that are on the right wing, starting with Nick Fuentes.

When the right wing or the Murc's Law Media get to wringing their hands about how "radical" the Democrats are and to make them answer for every lefty podcaster in existence, I want an explanation for donnie having dinner with Fuentes.

Neoliberals want him to matter just as much...

They want to sticl problematic streamers like Piker to every progressive so that instead of talking about progressive policy, they can just make candidates defend a fucking twitch streamer using the candidate for views.

That's why the republicans, neoliberals, and billionaire owned media won't shut the fuck up about this douche.

Who? Until this faux brouhaha, I'd seen his name but had no idea what he streams about. I still don't beyond he is some flavor of left wing? Centrist, progressive, radical? Have no idea...

Typical centrist genocide supporter delusion. They attack progressives and people who promote progressives, and when those progressives win, they always claim that they are the reason why the progressives won.

I find Hassan analysis very weak but the claim that he is not influential is so laughable

He was maybe one step above being a nobody before they started boosting him. Far right online influence campaigns are definitely effective when they target terminally online progressives, but this is like trying to go the other direction and trying convince my mom that Hasan Piker is coming for her Subaru, which is definitely not going to land, because my mother doesn't use reddit.

He's at best a sideshow.

Elections were supposed to be an education population making an educated decision on who should lead...it's not that. It's now a popularity contest, and it's treated like a slightly more serious American Idol. Shit like this is farming popularity contest bullshit, not leadership ideas.