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Is Chapo Trap House a Gateway to Fascism?
With unparalleled passion and vigor, Bernie Sanders made a name for himself on the American national stage by pioneering an effective style of populist leftist politics–liberal Democrats have grown so accustomed to satisfying the conventional etiquette of politics, that they could not conceive of a candidate who’s unyielding in their fight to make good on their professed ideals. Sanders supporters emulated that behavior, and it was immediately taken by liberal intelligentsia to signify a cozying up to Trumpist ideology–some even went as far as to theorize that the hammers and sickles served only as concealment for Swastikas beneath.
A way this has manifested to great effect is an ongoing controversy over whether the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House is serving as an initiation phase to fascist ideals by way of devaluing the appeal to the politics of civility and compromise that the liberal left championed for so long. The New York Times’ Nellie Bowles voiced one such concern, but even weirder is the clandestine trade that has come to form on social media where a litany of center-to-left liberal commentators meticulously analyzed segments of the podcast in the faint hope of producing evidence of the ever-so-elusive leftist-to-fascist pipeline.
