No, The Regressive Left IS NOT Mainstream And We ARE NOT Conservative

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🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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No, The Regressive Left IS NOT Mainstream And We ARE NOT Conservative. Story after story from far left digital media tries to paint the regressive left as the mainstream left, but this is not true. According to data from Gallup and Pew the best you could say is that the left is split down the middle with 54% of Democrats wanting more moderate policy and the majority of voters oppose identity politics. But the social justice left keeps pushing this narrative and today gained a surprising ally, Quillette. Quillette is a publication often associated with the intellectual Dark Web. Today they published an article arguing that Dave Rubin and people like me a re "new right" which is just absolutely wrong and could be stretched to imply that Nancy Pelosi is "new right" because of how often she criticizes Ocasio-Cortez.The reality is that the left is in a state of civil war and many former liberals are walking away ceding ground to the fringe regressives.That doesn't make me or anyone else on the left conservative, it just means that eventually we will be politically homeless, assuming we aren't already. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are many people in media that are trying to legitimize what we would call the
0:03.6	regressive left as the mainstream left, but that's wrong.
0:06.8	Because polls from Gallup and Pew show us that most Democrats want moderate policy
0:10.7	and the Hidden Tribes report shows us that progressives are only around 8% of this country.
0:15.7	Yet in response to the criticisms that I or others will have about this group,
0:19.1	we're often called conservative or reactionary right-wingers.
0:22.0	And the reason is, they're trying to legitimize the regressive left as the mainstream.
0:27.1	So it was surprising to see Quillette, a publication often associated with the intellectual
0:31.2	dark web, making this exact argument.
0:33.7	At the intellectual dark web, as well as people like me are part of a new right,
0:37.6	challenging a new left.
0:39.2	But that's not true.
0:40.6	We do have liberals and conservatives who are willing to engage with each other,
0:44.0	who are both critical of the regressive left.
0:46.3	And that's because this regressive group is a chaotic,
0:49.1	destabilizing force that targets itself so often.
0:52.2	Barack Obama and people like Bill Maher have criticized them for it.
0:55.8	Today, I want to take a look at this story from Quillette and challenge the argument
0:59.6	that there's a new right as well as address criticism of me and others within this new group.
1:04.9	But before we get started, make sure you head over to mines.com slash Timcast and follow me there.
1:09.8	I'm trying to break 100,000 subscribers and I really want to activate a platform that isn't
1:14.6	controlled by the tech oligopoly.
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