What’s sad is that they defined themselves and “can never come back to the center”.
Everyone is now fully aware of how contemptuous, how bereft of common sense, how dishonest and incompetent they are. It won't work.Reality has to change to meet their expectations, not the other way around. They believe that reality must bend to their consensus, even if that consensus is delusional at best and malignant at worst.
They can never build "their own Joe Rogan." The notion is ridiculous--not just because it evinces their tendency toward top-down control, but because their cult renders intellectual, political and philosophical exploration outside of narrow ideological parameters impossible.
These people have psychotic meltdowns, blacklist peers, and cut off relatives over politics. They're incapable of empathizing with anyone outside their congregation.
For all their fetishizing of credentials, their masturbatory exaltation of their educations, they're violently allergic to intellectual curiosity--how on earth COULD they "build" their own Rogan, or a Lex Fridman, whose curiosity and openness are part of their brand?
How COULD they lower themselves to understand why they're so despised?
They certainly aren’t getting any sympathy from those commenting in the Instapundit post.
Nor should they.