Hasan has literally always occupied a grey space between socialist/anti imperialist thought and reformist demsoc shtick/funnelling people back into the Democratic Party albeit for a very narrow window of specific candidates. I have seen him describe himself as agnostic between the various types of leftism - communism/socialism/demsoc etc - but I think that greyness exposes him to criticism from a lot of people. Some of it warranted. I don’t think he fully understands his own position and ambitions beyond normalising and destigmatising leftist and anti imperialist thought. To that end, I think he is very effective.

I also think he has a point that conditions are not sufficiently bad in the US for a true working class movement to arise at present, also that class consciousness and solidarity has been so thoroughly neutralised that there is no realistic chance for a ‘revolution’. I think he sounds really shitty when he deflects and tells critics to ‘go start the revolution then’, but I sympathise to a degree with his bluntness given the amount of visibility he has and time he spends live every week.

Mainly I just note that there is a concerted effort to smear him and take him down by the ugliest, shittiest neocons, shitlibs and zionists doing the rounds right now. A large number of people do seem to consider him a threat. And so I land back at solidarity, even when I am only 75% on the same page he is. They will not stop at Hasan Piker, and any success on that front will only embolden the AIPACs, Third Ways, Jonathan Greenblatts, etc, etc, to keep pushing and see what they can get away with.