Let me tell you about a podcasting phenomenon.
A show that, within three years, grows from lo-fi youtube live stream into the most popular
podcast on Patreon, a million-dollar behemoth with over 100 thousand listeners per episode,
that sells out live shows all over the world, and secures endorsements from celebrity comedians
and journalists.
What does this vital new voice have to say?
Welcome to the world of Chapo Trap House.
Birthed during the 2016 primary battle by three twitter friends, bonded by an enthusiasm
for Bernie Sanders, Chapo updates the socialist manifesto for alienated millennials.
Its tenets: Jobs are evil.
Entrepreneurs are hucksters.
You are owed a life of pure leisure.
Chapo is trying to sell you their adolescent entitlement as enlightenment.
The collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism has wrought unprecedented improvements
in global well-being, with a billion people lifted out of desperate poverty over just
the last 25 years.
But...
I mean, hey, Will was lonely and bored at his job at a boutique New York publishing
house, so I guess we have to smash the system.
Chapo Trap House has nothing but acid hatred for the Democratic establishment.
And they’re gunning for total domination of the party.
Chapo’s polemical style is sourced straight from twitter, where progressive clout is measured
by your ability to insult strangers on the internet.
Civility is for suckers.
Civility retains the oppressive capitalist status quo.
Why not mock an autistic man’s appearance?
Chapo’s politics is gleeful tribal warfare.
So, tune in to hear them fantasize about assaulting a sitting senator.
And justify mass looting.
Chapo’s scorched-earth strategy is intended to terrorize people into compliance, to terrorize
people into silence, to terrorize people from making videos just like this.
They’ve raised a massive online mob to viciously harass critics.
To bombard people with threats of violence and death.
This is a bumper crop of young radicals that see cruelty as a virtue, and that seek nothing
less than total domination.
This is about as radical as you can get before you start picking up bricks.