Democrats need their own Rush Limbaugh/Joe Rogan. I nominate Pete Buttigieg for the job.

[Yavin4]

Give that man his own podcast. Build up his brand by having him debate Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh, Charlie Sykes. etc.

[SheilaAnn]

1. Ahh, Pete's too sweet of a guy, we need a tough, nasty, afraid of nothing type, a Bernie Sanders type but I love Bernie

so it could be problematic. Do we have any tough nasty peeps in the Dem party?

[snot]

2. Every time we get a really good one

(e.g. Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Jimmy Dore, et al.), we call them a Russian asset and try to deplatform them.

Agreed about Bernie; he too tried to re-introduce pro-worker & other old school Dem values into the conversation, and was so successful that Trump as well as many Dems started to talk that talk; and Bernie's managed not to be completely marginalized – but just barely.

I don't know about Limbaugh, but Joe Rogen didn't become popular by spouting the establishment Republican party line; he became popular by questioning more or less everything, which together with pressure from other disruptors, forced the establishment party to at least pretend to move closer to the disruptors' lines of thinking.

[chouchou]

3. Good idea but, I don't believe we have Disgusting-Human-Garbage-Hosts to tackle the airwaves.

[Cyrano]

4. I'd prefer that humans recognize and condemn the evil they peddle

Humans have been buying snake oil forever.

I guess we need to reach the next stage of evolution before everyone recognizes those who take, and give nothing but rot in return.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Doesn't work. Progressives won't go on the airwaves and lie about shit...

[cachukis]

6. First off, you need uninformed listeners.

Then you need to sell to an emotional, shallow audience.
We don't know how to sell to that crowd.
That, simply, is why we don't have a Limbaugh or Rogan.