Podcast host Joe Rogan said on a Friday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that Democrats’ “cultlike” ideology was repelling “reasonable” leftists.
President Donald Trump campaigned on ending censorship and wars and appeared on several comedy podcasts — including Rogan’s — during his 2024 campaign. Rogan said on his podcast that Republicans now support that agenda, but Democrats have moved toward intolerance. (RELATED: Mark Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Admin Pressured Facebook To Censor Content, Expresses Regret)
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“The weirdest thing to me is that we’re in this complete shifting of the polls, where the Republicans now are in favor of free speech,” Rogan said. “The Republicans want to end the wars. They want to stop contributing to foreign countries. They want comedy to be comedy again. They don’t want restrictions on people’s behavior and thinking.”
“And the Democrats have developed this sort of like cultlike idea of what everyone should accept. And what’s normal and what’s not normal. And what needs to be elevated in our population. And what needs to be ignored,” he continued. “And it’s just like, god damn, you’re ruining it for everybody that thinks in a left way. Like anybody who’s reasonable — like a reasonable left-thinking person, which is most artists, by the way. And then you get to this point where you’re like, ‘No, I can’t go along with you on all these things.’”
Rogan argued Democrats exploit issues to be able to act in mean-spirited ways.
“You’re just a bunch of fucking assholes who are using these subjects as a way where you can behave incredibly shitty, incredibly uncharitable —like, vicious, mean, ostracizing people from — I don’t want any part of you,” he said. “I don’t want any part of the way you guys think and behave. And to pretend that you’re doing it for good? You’re gluing yourself to the wall for climate change? The fuck you are. ”
“You’re just a nut. You’re just a crazy, entitled nut. And you’re fucking up society,” he added. “This is not the way that people should be behaving … And the Republicans are smarter about it now, in this day and age, because they’re like, ‘Hey, we’ll take you in. Hey, it’s fine. Come over to us. You can say whatever you want. Comedy’s back.’”
The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Gallup all recently conducted polling that has found the Democratic Party holding record-low favorability.
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said on “CNN News Central” Friday that “the Democratic brand is in the basement.”
“It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public,” Enten said.
Moreover, a May Puck/Echelon poll also found that likely voters broadly viewed the Democratic Party as “liberal, weak, corrupt.”
Trump appeared on Rogan’s podcast on Oct.25, 2024, for a three-hour episode that had already garnered over 40 million views on YouTube by Oct. 30, 2024. Rogan endorsed Trump the night before the presidential election.
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