I find Kyle kind of hard to watch and annoying recently. He has become very selective of which stories he reports on when they relate to "the russia scandal" or whatever you want to call it. While I'm by no means a russia collusion conspiracy theorist, he's been entirely dismissive of the idea that Trump has any scandals or questionable ties related to anything not directly affecting policy from the very beginning, doesn't seem to want to admit that he was wrong about parts of the scandal, and actively ignores any such news. He is on a crusade against the dnc and corporate dems (mostly for the right reasons), but completely fails to call out trump for equally sinister shit.
But kyle calls out trump and the GOP literally all the time for everything and has always said that trump is the swamp and corporate sleeze along with the rest of the GOP. All it takes is a casual glance at his channel's section to see that.
He just focuses on the Democrats almost equally cause he wants them to reform, and they are the only real legislative course of action for us progressives who want change. If they stay mired in corporate conflicts of interest, they aren't any use to the citizens because they will always be just a lesser form of the GOP in regards to bowing to corporate pressure or kowtowing to their demands. That's why our system is broken after all
In regards to Trump's conflicts of interest, Kyle actually has been mad for a while that the mainstream media doesnt talk about his ties to Turkey, Saudi arabia and south korea, and other countries relating directly to his business ventures both before and after the election, but wont shut up about the Russiagate, which he always says he doesn't want to end in a nuclear standoff like the cold war.
Generally speaking Kyle hates the russia story as much as me, because its 247 wall to wall news coverage, generally drowning out plenty of other important issues that could be substituted while an actual investigation takes place.
And to make matters worse, it has become a name that centrists call progressives who call out the corp Dems, which furthers his animosity to the Russia narrative. He equates it to Red Dawn or somthing super exagerrated for the sake of simply turning a blind eye to what he would see as real progressive activism, and i think its a very fair point.
His ire with russia has grown as the hysteria that everything under the sun is seen as a russian agent has grown.
I don't blame you at all for not knowing any of that, i just watch every single one of his videos every day so i know the absolute nuances of his positions. I could not really follow anyone who gave trump a legitimate pass on issues. If you need any specific points proven here i'll be happy to dig them up for you
Why do you get the impression that David Pakman is a centrist apologist? I don't see that at all.
I don't think david is an apologist necessarily, nor do i think seder is. But they do give a lot more passes or don't cover certain stories relating to the DNC, like the flushing of delegates from the unity commission and such, which can give a certain impression from the audience. WIth something like Justice Dems, David even gave the impression when asked that it was only about primarying corp democrats and was self defeatist for that reason, when the actual purpose of JD is way more broad, and has been run against plenty of Republicans too.
