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

In the past decade, liberalism has taken a beating from both sides of the political spectrum. Its critics to the left view its measured gradualism as incommensurate to the present’s multiple emergencies: climate change, inequality, the rise of an ethno-nationalist right. Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has... See more

Basically, the idea here is that America produced a lot of highly educated people with great expectations for their place in American society, but that our economic and social system was unable to accommodate many of these expectations, causing them to turn to leftist politics and other disruptive actions out of frustration and disappointment.