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How Joe Rogan and Far-Right Media Sent Trump Back to the White House

Joe Rogan. Ben Shapiro. Charlie Kirk. Bill Maher (yes, the new version). Some call them meatheads. Others examples of toxic masculinity poisoning our public discourse. There are seemingly hundreds of them and they get huge audiences and may well have tipped a crucial part of the electorate to embrace and vote for Donald Trump. Gen Z, those born in the mid-90s until the mid 20s voted in far fewer numbers for Kamala Harris than for Joe Biden.These media bullies have taken the mantle of Rush Limbaugh and brought from AM radio to cyberspace. They have won the podcast wars with listeners in the stratosphere. How did this all happen? We trace the rise of Limbaugh to the rise of Rogan and how the Democrats failed to understand this development and the disaffected male voters who were swayed to give their futures away to Trump and the Magas.Read more

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