I'm curious what people here think. I'm sure everyone here has seen the salt about Joe Rogan and how Kamala should have gone on his podcast (her team kept her off so she wouldn't show off how retarded she is to even more people) or how the left needs its "own Joe Rogan" (not possible because they would cancel it the minute it deviated from leftist orthodoxy). A lot of that is the left blaming everyone but themselves like they do every time they lose an election, but I kind of wonder if there's something to the theory. I don't listen to Rogan, but my understanding of his podcast is that politics isn't really the main focus and his listening base contains a lot of largely apolitical young men who are drawn it him because he talks about things they're interested in and doesn't shit on them like the legacy media does. If I'm a Joe Rogan listener who's not plugged into political stuff and I see Trump do a 3 hour interview for the podcast and see Kamala make excuses not to do the same, that's gonna leave me with a favorable impression towards Trump and make me more likely to vote for him. Since Rogan has 50 million listeners even a tiny percentage of them being moved from Kamala to Trump or not voting to Trump could move the needle.
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The largest contribution it probably made was ripping the mask off for undecideds. The left was in full swing misrepresenting Trump's conversation and all you had to do was listen for 5 minutes to hear him share an anecdote and circle back to a mostly straight answer. Trump became the authentic choice.
The loss was more about people feeling economically threatened. People who are experiencing existential angst lose their minds when they try to doublethink. They can do it when they're calm and demoralized, or just incoherent with insanity but most people aren't that. Kamala's campaign required an ability to doublethink and so it only appealed to people who were already drinking the DNC koolaid and who were still insulated from the economic damage that went down from 2020-2024.
Worse, people could remember a better economic reality under Trump, so in failing to denounce his 4 years for Biden's 4 years, Kamala was asking Americans to denounce their lived experience.