I may write a separate piece on the phenomenon of Jimmy Dore, a materialist analysis of his brand of YouTube “populist” politics which has yielded him a 2 million dollar mansion in LA’s Studio City, his second LA house, with neighbors like Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney and firmly places him in the 1% of the US elite class, as he continues to larp as some downtrodden beleaguered “pothead comedian making a show out of my garage”. Dore is not an isolated phenomenon who got to where he is, with millions in his bank account and assets of over 5 million at a minimum, based solely on his comedic genius and rhetorical brilliance. No, he’s the product of a particular moment in American society, the coming together of structural factors at the material level, like the establishment of the online media space with the growing prominence of YouTube, and at what Marxists call the superstructural level, meaning the particular nature of the political field that Dore situated himself in post 2016. Take away Bernie, and Dore is still a failing loser comedian doing shows to 6 people (same with Dave Rubin if you take away Trump: the two phenomena are rooted in the same underlying structural factors).