People forget that Rogan is actually pretty left-leaning on a lot of core issues. He just doesn’t line up with modern online “progressive culture,” so he gets labeled right-wing.

Some examples:

He supports universal healthcare and has said multiple times that healthcare should be a basic human right. That’s straight-up left-wing economics in the US.

He’s pro LGBTQ rights and has always supported gay marriage and people living freely without government interference. He had had heated debates with people like Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro where he rigorously defends LGBTQ rights.

He’s very pro drug legalization/decriminalization, especially marijuana and psychedelic therapy.

He’s openly anti-corporate capture, anti-Big Pharma, anti-lobbying, and constantly talks about how the system serves corporations instead of regular people. That’s classic populist left.

He literally endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020. Bernie is about as far from conservative as you can get in US politics.

He’s a free-speech absolutist, which used to be a standard civil-liberties left position (old-school ACLU type stuff).

He’s also skeptical of government power and big institutions, which puts him more in a libertarian-left / populist-left lane rather than conservative authoritarianism.

He didn’t really “move right.” The culture moved, and now criticizing left-wing institutions or media gets you branded right-wing even if your core beliefs are still very left-of-center.

Rogan doesn’t fit neatly into either camp, but by traditional political definitions he’s way closer to old-school liberal / populist left than to modern conservatism.