THE #1 REASON DEMOCRATS LOST TO TRUMP | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.

“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”

The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.

“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”

But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.

It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.

“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”

With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.

While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.

But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.

Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.

I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”

And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”

Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”

It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.

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When Biden took the White House, I predicted that we would get Trump again if the democrats failed to deliver for working people. And here we are...

stacyunderhill
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Aint it convenient that there is always 1 or 2 democrats to sink anything good?

benoitlevesque
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I'm so tired of these weak ass democrats!!!!

chuuwieee
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We lost confidence in the party when they screwed over Bernie. It’s been mostly downhill ever since, Bernie could’ve beaten Trump with one hand behind his back.

StevesOldBoat
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So in other words I get to blame Joe Manchin for this

jasonrich
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At the end of the day, Machin and Sinema are the reason why we got Trump again....

rubenlozano
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Glad to see Kyle coming back from the election shock and focusing on issues as the main reason again. Welcome back

NeoKailthas
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So because of two purple Democrats, we lost everything. Typical.

akiltircuit
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BBB was a political spike on the football field if it got through. It didn't. Now everyone is going to live on and not even know what we missed.

balthorpayne
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So Kyle is basically saying its Joe Manchin's fault

GamerKru
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The stupidity that some believe Trump is a champion of the working class. That’s almost as funny as evangelicals that think Trump is one of them. How stupid are people??

chadchapman
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It's over. No more analysis needed. America is no more.

billyakin
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When you control the house and the senate, and after 4 years working people still can't afford food or rent, while millionaires tell them that everything is great.. you'd better belive they'll question whether they'll vote for you or not.

Maey
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Imagine blowing through over a billion dollars and being 20 million in debt and saying she ran a phenomenal campaign…

John-giyh
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yeah...this is a considerable factor...but more and more frankly I'm convinced a big chunk of blame goes to the fact that the american public had little to no critical thinking skills

eyokirvideos
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The biggest factor was inflation. People held Democrats largely responsible.

jackied
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I think it is time to stop blaming parties and candidates and start looking at the electorate. How many countries would vote for a sociopathic, compulsive liar, conspiracy theorist, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who tried to put an end to democracy in their country?

tyrogers
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NO PRIMARY!!!

this election showed why primaries are so important, they help the party nominate the STRONGEST candidate...if you don't have a primary that means we didn't get to choose and the candidate was just appointed without any input from the electorate what do you think is gonna happen?

cjvaye
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#1 reason is the gaslighting that everything is ok and #2 is no plan to do anything differently

logantcooper
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Kamala didn't deserve to win. Neither did Trump.

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