In 2025, Media Matters conducted a survey that indicated roughly 9 out of 10 channels on alt-media are conservative-leaning. (I would dispute the methods of categorization used in this study but the general assessment is correct: alt-media is overwhelmingly right-wing.) Many progressives will read the widely circulated Media Matters study as an... See more

After the 2024 popular victory, the difficult but necessary question we must ask ourselves is; to what degree is today’s left unpopular because most people actually reject it’s ideas? Perhaps part of the reason for the left’s in-fighting, failure, and dysfunction is because audiences and voters are voluntarily selecting to go elsewhere.

Much of today’s left is concerned with an increasingly scarce moral high ground. Winning is a distant consideration. In this environment, vanguard politics serve as a way to differentiate themselves from the rest of society. And when their political programs fail, they see it as a vindication of their own elite positions. Under this social... See more

Once social democratic policies are in place, they are tremendously popular and nearly impossible to reverse. Social Security has remained intact for over 90 years.

Unlike legacy news, alt-media allows viewers to choose a narrative that most appeals to them. Adjusting for the sensationalism and attention baiting that is common practice within right-wing media (and of course the ever deepening pockets of the oligarchs that fund them), we are still left with a landscape that is vastly disproportionate.

The left is structurally disadvantaged under capitalism. But we also need to consider that one of the reasons we are losing is because people don’t like us.