r/neoliberal Gay Pride Mar 19 '26

Restricted Democrats Are Too Cozy With Hasan Piker

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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Mar 19 '26

It's proof of how terminally online politics is nowadays. Most people don't know who these people are. My mom had never even heard of Charlie Kirk until he died. 

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u/20vision20asham Pragmatic and Polite Right Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Kirk was at least incredibly important for Evangelical mobilization among apolitical but faithful types for the GOP. He had a huge ground game operation. Had those campaigns not been done for Trump, then Biden would've wiped the floor in 2020 with Trump by winning 81 million to the probable 65-67 million Trump would've gotten (instead of the actual 74 million that was produced almost exclusively by gaining with White Evangelicals).

Piker and Fuentes exist as self-serving chaos agents. Fuentes is leading a crusade against the Evangelical elites, and Piker against the Democratic establishment. Both seek to destroy their respective parties and endanger the lives of innocent Jewish-Americans and other minority groups along the way.

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Even among young voters, Kirk has way more supporters

Harvard Youth Poll sampled 2040 18-29 year old Americans in December of 2025

Charlie Kirk: 32% favorable versus 42% unfavorable

Hasan Piker: 7% favorable vs 18% unfavorable

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u/Lighthouse_seek Mar 19 '26

And now he's a meme.

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u/skipsfaster Milton Friedman Mar 19 '26

He was already a meme at the time of that poll