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He got his start as a white Black Panther, as a white Jewish Black Panther. >> What? >> Yeah. >> Okay.

>> You obviously know about like, you know, the SDS kids and the trots that became neocons and and [ __ ] like that. There were so many people in Trump 1 who got [ __ ] canned instantly because there was an article in the Daily Beast about them like >> Yep. concocting some weird speedball with like Sealis and Gratom and [laughter] and like driving a car into a woman's house even though they were nominated to be surgeon general or something. Are we still playing neoliberalism versus social democracy?

>> I think we have to nationalize like everything. Welcome to Doomscroll. I'm your host Joshua Cinderella. My guest is Felix Beerman, a co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast.

The most common refrain on every left-wing podcast is, "What are we doing wrong? Why is the left losing?" We're here today uh just past the threshold of a pretty historic election. And I finally get to ask the question, why is the left winning? The way I always answered that question, uh why are we losing?

It's kind of the same way I would answer the usually similarly paced question, you know, what's wrong with young men? I would always say nothing. They're perfect. But now I've been vindicated.

[laughter] That's my next question actually. Yeah. So, uh, exit polling seems to indicate that young men, uh, 18 to 29 had a plus 40 margin in favor of Zoron. Uh, 2024, we had basically a year of discussion that like young men were not savable, that electoral politics was foregone, they swung heavily towards Trump in the previous election.

uh how do we explain the difference in these two outcomes? >> I was kind of fascinated by like the year-long uh self flagagillation in liberal quarters about young men specifically. >> I get like I it's not just specific to this election, but like really for the last 10 years I would get uh vicarious humiliation listening to people talk about this. [laughter] like it's, you know, everyone sounds like an [ __ ] when they talk about this.

Obviously, um the right-wing like, you know, you need you need to ration your jerking off in this way and like do this and either like go ...