TRUMP IS MEGA-F*CKED | 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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You know your campaign is in trouble when getting shot makes you less popular.

starwolf
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"I cannot tell a lie" - George Washington
"I cannot tell the truth" - Donald Trump
"I cannot tell the difference" - MAGA

ProfessorVector
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I think it is super important to remember that there is still time for the tides to swing and we need to stay vigilant until election day. Trump is not out of the race yet.

willhelterbrand
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It feels like a lot of Americans voters really want to go back to some level of normality and the attempted assassination was a big sign that Trump will not get the country there. I do believe it played a role in not getting him the bump we were expecting.

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Trump is exhausting. People are just sick and tired of him now.

Diatonicth
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Don't get cocky. Remember in 2016 when everyone and their mom was saying Hillary had it in the bag? Then come election night, Trump won?

GrimNobody
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Remember your vote is more important than a poll.

TheindigenousSyndicalist
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It honestly feels like republicans really are starting to get sick of him, die-hards aside. I know so many center-rights that refuse to support maga at this point. Just an anecdote of course

TheCosmicNemesis
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Well Trump is giving speeches telling his constituents that they he will fix it so that they never have to vote again.. His slant towards authoritarianism is not going to help him in the polls..

ghostcobra
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JD Vance really was a catastrophically stupid pick.

PhuckedUpPhilosophy
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Even though for the past 50 years democrats have done better on the economy every single time with no exceptions.

MrMarinus
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Trump is greed and else. Never has been anything else.

Thulgore
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Shifted me as a voter ( I’m independent, in SC) . I wasn’t voting for Biden or Trump because they’re both terrible choices. I don’t mind sucking up a Kamala vote though. So i’m one of the gained voters

kristenmoon
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Seems that even Trump supporters have gotten really low energy. There’s not even an attempt to make a positive case for Trump anymore

jj
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It's only going to get worse for Trump. We're all tired of hearing about this creepy, weird, old wanna-be dictator.

filmorejohnson
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I dont trust polls but the swing in these are pretty compelling. The biggest swing weve seen in years. We must VOTE!!!!

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We finally have democrats who, in my view, are not pulling punches while pointing out what a terrible person Trump is.

I think they are being more effective now than at any point in the last 8+ years.

Trump is a target rich environment. It never should have been hard, but we needed strong opposition to actually fight him.

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Never count out Trump. Dude always finds a way

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If trump loses he will throw JD Vance under the bus and their all the blame at him

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How about the Michigan poll where trump got 0% of the Black vote.

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