While most conservative Republicans are distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Marjory Taylor Greene, left-wing political commentators like Hasan Piker seem to be getting the better of any moderates left inside the other side of tent.
Piker streams on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, widely attracting a younger demographic with his polarizing rhetoric.
Conservative Australian-American commentator Miranda Devine says he left polite company miles behind in the rearview mirror.
"He breaks every taboo," she recently said on Fox News. "He says America deserved 9/11; he condones the October 7 attacks on Israel."
Even Democrats have criticized Piker over the last few months for his commentary on Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and the vulgar, violent and antisemitic language he uses to describe his opposition to Zionism.
Meanwhile, he continues to be sought out by mainstream Democrats like U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, who invited Piker onstage Tuesday night at Michigan State. Scores of young people, students and other potential voters reportedly filled two MSU lecture halls to see them.
"El-Sayed is just an opportunistic politician," Devine noted. "He knows that Democrats have a big problem attracting the sort of Gen Z and particularly male vote."
Still, she recognized that he is not the only Democrat courting Piker and his radicalism.
"It's also Rashida Tlaib (Michigan); it's also Ro Khanna (California). Some pretty mainstream Democrats are quite happy to stand alongside him and sort of launder his rank abuse," Devine lamented.
She thinks that speaks volumes about the heart of the Democratic Party and its agenda for America.
