@vox: “People wanted the Democrats to fight back.” Political commentator @hasandpiker tells Vox’s Astead Herndon that moderate Democrats’ only strategy is to paint the progressive left as unelectable during primaries, and then position themselves as better options than Republicans during the general election. Watch the full conversation on Vox’s YouTube channel this Saturday. #Democrats #HasanPiker #Progressives #Midterms
Moderates tell voters better things aren’t possible which makes voters believe moderates are the only option, which is WHY progressives haven’t polled well in the past. But people are sick of status quo and seeing progressives as the way out
2026-08-14 20:11:01
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NormaJeane :
He’s not wrong. But also….can we not make Piker the voice of progressives and left-wing peeps. Thanks 😭😭😭
2026-08-14 20:13:34
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dennisj :
Love Hasan down, he speaks facts with such clarity. You never hear that. Refreshing as fuck.
2026-08-15 09:59:36
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Bubba HiTop :
Respect to Vox for doing this interview!
2026-08-15 07:16:49
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newsofthe.word :
ppl should read the DNC platform
2026-08-15 15:16:08
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Rod Green :
I don’t know what the Democratic Party stands for. They give vague platitudes like “affordability” but what does that mean? What is your legislative agenda? What reforms do you want to make? What policies do you want to push forward? What is the plan when/if Dems retake Congress and the White House? There’s no direction, no vision. What are dem voters voting for exactly?
2026-08-14 23:28:50
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Gonzalo 🙋🏻♂️ :
Every middle class American FEELS exactly THIS
2026-08-15 11:21:46
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Dat Boi :
HE SPITTING
2026-08-15 19:52:23
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Mp40room :
He is alt right, his dad is founder and is leader of the Future First party in Turkey. He informed on the founder of PINK to the FBI, and liberals still don’t know he is one of us 🤣
2026-08-14 21:08:43
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Soapbox_Professional :
I say we fight the establishment Dems like hell, then if we lose that fight and still end up with the harm reduction candidate, we hold our noses and vote for harm reduction. Some harm reduction could be nice for a change. We need to stop the EXCEPTIONALLY BAD stuff that's here, and even worse that's on its way, then get back to fighting the Dems.
2026-08-15 04:54:41
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Ima_duppy_conqueror :
Dems have to be a wider party (harder). Trumpism is centered on bigotry. Easier to unify on hatred.
2026-08-15 13:55:36
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moothecow23 :
Hasan is not good at this.
2026-08-15 04:41:38
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veronicacarrill780 :
Bingo!!!!
2026-08-14 23:39:29
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Nate Shinabargar :
Yea bro, take a look and see where/how often the dsa wins
2026-08-15 14:58:24
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janjan :
He’s the reason they will lose
2026-08-17 15:10:18
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OmiR :
💯 they suck
2026-08-15 20:33:24
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DefinitelyNotMe :
Hassan Piker works for the republicans. he will do whatever he can to see Trump stay in power
2026-08-15 09:19:28
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ccoleasu :
We’ve been saying this for awhile! The current platform of the Dems is hoping the GOP will eat itself out of existence, but because they won’t do anything the GOP managed to get Trump elected twice.
2026-08-15 14:40:36
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dannydarko1177 :
After what I saw
2026-08-15 21:21:01
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user6697881066323 :
like it or not, dems need Hasan. period.
2026-08-14 23:54:54
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likecomputer01 :
Pikers is always right, just right too early. Especially w Isreal
2026-08-14 22:26:50
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Sleestack :
The Centrist Democrats are weak and spineless and they don not have the stomach for this fight.
2026-08-15 01:07:37
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Spanishfoxrx :
Hasan is the GOAT! The youth are speaking up for the changes we want and it’s the boomer establishment and AIPAC trying to keep us settling for bare minimum.
2026-08-15 09:50:29
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Nah :
Centrist democrats are Republicans anyone an enemy to both centrists and republicans is a friend to ALL Americans
2026-08-14 22:22:36
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Jeff: The Meat That Can Talk!™ :
Centrist Dems try to de-incentivize corporations from doing bad things while trying to incentivize corporations to do good things, and it hasn't worked. The corporations will take their money whether its subsidies or tax cuts, use it to pay off politicians who won't hold them accountable, and then do whatever they want. Everything has to go through corporations in order to get anything done, somebody always has to get a cut. Take the $400 billion in subsidies to build fiber optic infrastructure that Dems gave telecom companies over a decade ago, they pocketed that money and never built it and no one held them accountable for that. Look at our military industrial complex where we spend so much money for stuff like fighter jets that don't even work, where they charge $100 for a box of screws because it's all one big grift. Socialism is "there's a problem, you solve it directly". We can build things without having to go through contractors, who cut corners and underpay workers. If there's a bunch of useful technology we want to use that's privately held between a handful of corporations, who often paid pennies for those patents from publicly subsidized research, we can just seize those technologies and use them. Capitalism puts a middleman in between every exchange who overcharges you for goods and services and then underpays you for labor. What do they do? They're not inventors, they're owners, and private ownership of capital is not a form of productive labor. It's a siphon of money from working people to the richest people in our society who then use that money to make our lives even worse.
2026-08-14 21:16:51
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