A Certain Very Online Leftist Is Now the Right's Favorite Measuring Stick for Everything

Darlings, picture this: a comedian gets dragged for old jokes. A Fox News headline appears. And somewhere in paragraph two, a name gets dropped that has absolutely nothing to do with the comedian in question.

HotAir ran the piece on October 16, headlined Shane Gillis Must Be Stopped! (But Not Hasan Piker?)and the game here is not subtle. When the right wants to argue selective outrage, they apparently now reach for the same name every single time. And if that feels familiar, it is because Fox News simultaneously published a separate piece asking whether this same streamer is "bending the Democratic Party further left than ever," which, per the headline, might break it. The audacity of becoming someone else's rhetorical device. He is no longer just a story. He is a unit of measurement. My loves, that is either a nightmare or a brand deal waiting to happen.