Joe Rogan’s Bernie Sanders endorsement revealed something important about the American left.
I am not a deontologist at all, which is I think why I break so hard from modern liberalism. And I think liberals are actually only deontological in leaning when it doesn’t benefit them, but are fine with a deontology violation when it does – such as nearly all pseudo-libs think it’s just peachy for Hillary Clinton to cozy up to the vile Henry Kissinger.
Here’s how that disagreement plays into the Rogan controversy. Shortly after the Rogan controversy broke out, Sanders fans started pulling out references to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and arguable war criminal whose counsel Hillary Clinton welcomed in 2016.
By contrast, Joe Rogan endorsing Sanders is nothing at all. Kissinger is one of the biggest war criminals in history. Rogan has a podcast where he occasionally says something that mildly questions absurd trans ideology. The differences are…vast. Rogan isn’t to my taste and is pretty misogynist. But he is nothing like the vast evil that is Kissinger.