A Note on Vulgar Populism

(…and Chapo Trap House)

Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash

Some people don’t get Chapo Trap House. Some people don’t quite understand how people can, ‘meet on Twitter’ as the presenters of the podcast did, or how a left-wing show could spend more time mocking the Democratic party than crusading against the far-right. Most of all, some people don’t understand why many thousands of people — often younger, and hardly uneducated — would…