John Cohen

Why?

Look, bottom line is it's a free country and I believe in free speech.

So Hasan Piker should be free to have his own show, to stream, to say and do whatever he wants.

That's not the question.

The question is.

Should Democrats be supporting him?

Should Democrats campaign with him?

Should Democrats seek his endorsement?

Should Democrats cozy up to him?

And the answer is definitively no.

Not just because the things he says are profoundly offensive, and I will run through those in a moment, but because he is such an extremist that it will only do damage to Democrats and the Democratic brand and hurt their chances of beating right-wing populism and expanding the map across the country.

Hassan Piker, by his own words,

is anti-American, he is bigoted, he's anti-Semitic, and he is deeply misogynistic.

We published this for a specific reason and a broad reason.

The broad reason is that if Democrats are going to not just be Trump and Trumpism, but MAGA long run, we need to be able to build majorities in lots of red and purple places.

And right now, the Democratic Party is perceived as more extreme than mainstream in many places.

And a majority of Democratic voters want the party to move towards the center.

So if the party aligns with folks who are this extreme and cozies up to them, it's going to make it much harder, not easier for Democrats to not just flip the house and get the White House back, but beat Vance and MAGA and Rubio and the rest of them long run.

The specific impetus was that the pod save folks, right?

right, very prominent Democrats, had featured Hasan Piker at a conference where they are officially elevating him and aligning him with Democrats.