Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’

Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’

Hasan Piker, the far-left political commentator and streamer, has enjoyed a remarkable rise into the mainstream left media ecosystem. He has now campaigned alongside Democratic Senate candidates, been a guest on some of the largest podcasts in America, and appeared on CNN and NBC News. Most recently, the New York Times published a conversation between Piker, the paper’s culture editor Nadja Spiegelman, and the New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino. Th…