Point taken about GG's comments on the house speaker, though he at least noted his political disagreements with him. I scrolled back through the System Update shows as you recommended and only saw one interview with a right wing figure, Vivek Ramaswamy, unless 'non-woke' Coleman Hughes and 'liberal myth of diversity' Freddie deBoer are also on the right (I've not heard of them before). Leftists Matt Stoller (I think?) and Gabor Mate are interviewed in the same timeframe and there are multiple mentions of Brand, Assange, and dumping on mainstream politicians, dems & repubs. Admittedly I haven't watched most of these, so maybe you're right about the 'red meat' for MAGA types, who also deplore many mainstream republican figures.
Anyway, it seems to me that if it's a grift it appears to be v. narrowly focused (or more easily explained by shared principles of left/right libertarianism) and they're not doing it very well by calling their rightwing viewership 'snowflakes' and calling out their hypocrisy on Israel/Palestine. But still, something to keep an eye on, and Dore's uncritical acceptance of conspiracies & lies around global warming are a red flag to me (though the criticism of govt policy is often fair).
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