Sam Harris

I think we'll get to people like Mamdani and Hassan Piker and...

That's part of the problem there.

People just don't see what's happening there.

But I don't view it as so much a matter of Jews and anti-Semites.

I view it as a matter of Islamism and the values of open societies, right?

So that's what I'm tracking.

I mean, I'm also tracking anti-Semitism, unfortunately, now.

But anti-Semitism was not something I've been focused on for the last quarter century.

Islamism is.

And it overlaps with the problem of anti-Semitism, but they're not.

quite the same problem.

Well, I'm happy he'll be, if he is actually in the race for the duration, I'm happy he'll be there because I think he'll push the Democrats to have something like a sister soldier moment around the lingering shades of wokeness, which are all too lingering.

I mean, from what I can tell, we're really poised to pitch back into...

some sort of George Floyd hysteria.

I mean, you know, we'll get to Hasan Piker.

I think the fact that the New York Times is burnishing Hasan Piker as though he were the future of progressive politics in America is a very bad sign.

I think it's done immense brand damage in my mind to the Times as though that

That hasn't been happening for years and years, but I mean, it's just such a colossal moral and political error, but it makes me worry that I'm just, you know, wish casting all of this and that the democratic party is unrecoverable.

Now, I mean, I just, I just think the fact that the people at the New York times think that Hassan Piker is worth signal boosting is

I mean, tells me something that it tells me that I'm out of either they're out of touch or I'm out of touch with the culture left of center because he's basically our Nick Fuentes, you know, I mean, that exaggerates it by 10%, but I mean, it's totally irredeemable character.