Jillian Michaels: No More Hostage to the Clinically Insane — Extremism & Cowardice in Both Parties

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Jillian Michaels

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Jillian Michaels addresses the pressing issue of cowardice in American politics, arguing that the real problem isn't extremism but the lack of courage to confront it. She discusses how both Democrats and Republicans avoid holding their own extremists accountable, resulting in a more mainstream presence of fringe ideologies. Jillian also calls for responsible leadership, emphasizing the need to marginalize actual hatred and promote a shared standard of decency and accountability.

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0:00.0	Keeping it real with Jillian Michaels.
0:06.5	After this past week, arguably the past year, likely the past five years, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the biggest political problem in America isn't extremism.
0:20.2	It's cowardice. This is what passes for courage now.
0:24.5	Talk tough about the other side and pretend that your team is made up of angels and scientists.
0:30.8	Meanwhile, the fringe gets louder, uglier, and more mainstream because none of us want to be
0:37.4	the adult in the room.
0:39.4	Seriously, Democrats, Republicans, it's the same script.
0:43.4	They'll condemn extremism as long as the extremist is on the other team.
0:49.0	Dems don't want to call out their lunatics because they're terrified of getting eaten alive by AOC
0:53.6	and her army of angry
0:55.1	lesbian baristas with nose rings who wear a Palestinian flag as a shawl, along with, of course,
1:00.9	their counterparts, the band of brothers in ninja turtle costumes at Portland protests. Meanwhile,
1:08.3	Republicans, they don't want to check their own fringe because they're afraid to lose the votes from followers of a guy who lives in his mother's basement thinks Hitler was cool and that women secretly want sexual violence.
1:20.9	Come on.
1:23.9	And the way certain people tiptoe around that guy specifically, you would think he's a great white
1:28.4	shark with a podcast. He's a white supremacist, misogynist, anti-Semite, a literal Costco bulk
1:35.9	value pack of terrible human characteristics. And it's not just online insanity. We're talking about
1:42.6	real people, real offices.
1:45.5	Graham Platner, the Democrat running for Senate in Maine, Nazi tattoo.
1:49.9	Posts calling cops bastards.
1:52.4	Some Democrats condemned him.
1:54.3	Others like Bernie, they still back them.
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