The issue that turns him is the fact that if the Democrats "win" this election, there will never be another one.
That's right. The Regime is very unpopular. They can no longer submit their agenda for popular approval.
That means they will do what all corrupt, authoritarian regimes do: They will rig elections. "President" Kamala will grant illegals the right to vote with the stroke of her pen, and the Supreme Court, stacked with her appointees, will affirm that the dictator now has the power to issue edicts without Congress.
Yudisthustra's Dice (sp?) said that it was a mistake for Rogan to endorse. The idea, I think, is that Rogan has a certain amount of credibility as a neutral party and the moment he endorses Trump, he loses that. He becomes a less useful political arbiter.
I completely disagree. As Breitbart said, politics is downstream from culture. The war we're waging is emphatically not a political one. It's a cultural one. And right now, we are getting demolished with the left's unchallenged cultural power.
It is the left -- the Regime -- that gets to decide who will be valorized and who will be smeared and anathematized. The Regime gets to decide who will have the rights of an American to speak, and who will be harassed, blacklisted, and debanked.
The left is waging, and has been waging, a campaign of social terrorism against us for ten years. No one wants to speak out against the left, because when they do, the left declares them -- as they declared Elon Musk -- "Public Enemy Number Two" (with Trump, of course, number one).
This social terrorism will continue producing political success for the Regime -- until we are no longer afraid. We must strip from them the power to declare who is to be praised and who is to be condemned. We must regain the power to declare, for ourselves, what is right and true, and what is evil.
Joe Rogan is an influential, popular figure. He is "Cool Guy." So is Elon Musk. He's routinely called a real-life Iron Man.
So, in his way, is RFKJr.
Ryan Long has been complaining for years that our current cultural and political landscape is determined completely by what "hot 22-year-old girls" think. Girls lean to the left anyway, and add to that a toxic bullying machine that preys upon girls' natural agreeability -- their desire to please other people -- and the pressure girls feel to conform with the dominant group.
This in turn quickly turns to young men endorsing the hot 22-year-old girl position. Most of us are older, and we've exited the intense Mating Game competitions. But for young men, there is little more important than attracting a high quality mate. And if the 22-year-old hot girls are all saying that it's racist to enforce the border, the young men will soon start repeating that.
It doesn't matter if they're insincere when they repeat it. The left demands you repeat their dogmas -- they're not insistent that you believe them. Just that you repeat them. Because the more people repeat their dogmas, the more the dissenters will feel isolated and menaced, and the more self-cenorship they'll engage in.
And after that, it's very easy to roll up most institutions. Corporations will just hear one side claiming that free speech is racist. Eager themselves to conform with the dominant culture norm, they'll start enforcing the left's demands for censorship and purging their employees of wrongthink.
Rogan's status as a cultural arbiter and taste-maker is far, far more important than his role as a direct vote influencer. By denouncing the Regime, and declaring it uncool, he creates the space for millions of other people to do likewise.
22-year-old girls have a lot of cultural power, but so too do Cool Guys.