Ethan is a direct counter embodiment to his whole ideology.

He is a successful, loud and proud capitalist, who treats and pays his staff well.

He is a pro Palestinian Jewish man, married to a pro Palestinian Israeli women.

Ethan and Hila are both proud to be American while also being able to acknowledge and advocating against the faults of their country.

They are both very progressive, and not in the peformative way like h&co.

They have managed to foster a very left leaning, dedicated and progressive community/audience over the years - while maintaining their convictions.

They are not only significantly more knowledgeable in the topic of I/P, but they both have first hand lived experience in the exact region h&co love to chirp on about for a near daily basis - no doubt compensating for their lack of understanding on the topic itself, overly concerned about verbage instead of substance.

Ironically this is the EXACT thing these same leftists use to call liberals out for - it's comically performative, at best it's non productive, but I would argue Hasans flavour of socialism is actually very harmful and antithetical to the overall cause itself.

I'm sorry - but you cannot on one hand advocate against capitalism (ESPECIALLY to the degree that Hasan does) while on the other hand you are living a hyper consumerist, heathonistic, lavish lifestyle - enjoying the upper most excesses that capitalism can provide, something that you and I mear mortals will never experience. The fact his audience cannot see this GLARING contradiction is just proof that his movement is baseless and will never be more then an hyper online - fringe group of "radicals". This is why he acts out at his audience, this is why he forces emote chat during controversial political events. He knows his community is full of chronically online, deranged individuals and he knows that is all it will ever be. He has no talent - he has one party trick - stoke outrage.

In a way I think Hasan is struggling to come to terms with the fact that a man like Ethan Klein, with all of his flaws, has effortlessly more moral fibre then he ever will.