Steven Crowder has been doing a series of video where he sets up a table at a university campus with a sign indicating a view of his such as his belief in the 2nd amendment or his suspicion on the idea of male privilege. He did a recent one where he showed up with a sign reading "Socialism is evil" and invited people to approach his table and challenge it.
I had been reading that there was one kid that apparently wrecked him in a debate. I was expecting the guy to be some super academically wonked out university socialist who was knee deep in the study of Marx but it turned out he was actually more of a Trump/Bannon type guy. He even referred to himself as an "economic nationalist" at one point.
Debate starts at 7:11.
A few other interesting points:
- When Crowder refers/asks him if he's a liberal, he said he doesn't necessarily identity as one
- The guy indicates at point that he is against mass third-world immigration and says that he supports raising the minimum wage because he thinks that it would create a disincentive for companies to hire illegal labor
- Guy refers to Paul Ryan in a seemingly negative way at one point
- The guy also supports universal health care and other safety net type policies. This by itself would make me think he's some sort of Bernie supporter but when it's combined with the other points I've noted above, it makes him seem similar to the Stephen Bannon populist-right type as opposed to someone like Crowder or Ben Shapiro who is more of a mainstream conventional right wing type.
Anyways, posted this up because I thought it was interesting to see a view like this get expressed on a big platform (Crowder has huge reach) as opposed to being confined to a post on a subreddit or chan board somewhere. Makes me wonder how many other people like this are out there that will move onto into the mainstream view in the last decade.
I had been reading that there was one kid that apparently wrecked him in a debate. I was expecting the guy to be some super academically wonked out university socialist who was knee deep in the study of Marx but it turned out he was actually more of a Trump/Bannon type guy. He even referred to himself as an "economic nationalist" at one point.
Debate starts at 7:11.
A few other interesting points:
- When Crowder refers/asks him if he's a liberal, he said he doesn't necessarily identity as one
- The guy indicates at point that he is against mass third-world immigration and says that he supports raising the minimum wage because he thinks that it would create a disincentive for companies to hire illegal labor
- Guy refers to Paul Ryan in a seemingly negative way at one point
- The guy also supports universal health care and other safety net type policies. This by itself would make me think he's some sort of Bernie supporter but when it's combined with the other points I've noted above, it makes him seem similar to the Stephen Bannon populist-right type as opposed to someone like Crowder or Ben Shapiro who is more of a mainstream conventional right wing type.
Anyways, posted this up because I thought it was interesting to see a view like this get expressed on a big platform (Crowder has huge reach) as opposed to being confined to a post on a subreddit or chan board somewhere. Makes me wonder how many other people like this are out there that will move onto into the mainstream view in the last decade.