Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "How To Totally Miss The Point of Your Own Argument" video.
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iHost I see this sort of comment on every video criticizing Saagar, and I think it misses the point. Asked point blank if he's conservative, Saagar will say he is. Recently he's been very vocal about his conservativism, eg calling for the military to confront protestors.
But go back a year or two. Look through the comments of Rising videos, MR and TMBS videos, etc, and you'll see scores of people writing as if Saagar is a progressive liberal, or at least a new kind of hip conservative ally who believes in progressive policies.
So Saagar may not have denied being a conservative, but the critique the left has of him is that the format of Rising, and Krystal's complicity, whitewashed his staunch, retrograde conservatism and authoritarianism, and by proxy may have rehabilitated the image of the "liberal with a woke conservative friend" trope seen so often among centrist liberals, but now on the liberal left.
Nathan J. Robinson has a few good articles on Rising and Saagar. One of them is a review of Krystal and Saagar's book wherein they allegedly lay out their vision for the country...except Saagar never really says what he wants; it's all just the duplicitous railing about elites and corporations you see from Tucker Carlson; and that very absence of an agenda can make it seem, to an unfamiliar reader, as if Saagar agrees, if not in detail or scope then at least in principle, with Krystal's progressive outline. That strikes me as a kind of tacit and deceitful denial.
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