{"id":71153,"date":"2026-04-08T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker-bhaskar-sunkara\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:55:07","slug":"why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker-bhaskar-sunkara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker-bhaskar-sunkara\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do elite Democrats fear Hasan Piker? | Bhaskar Sunkara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party establishment rushed to condemn the Twitch streamer after news of his alliance with a Michigan Senate candidate<\/p>\n<p>Gas has topped $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022. The president\u2019s approval rating just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-approval-falls-lowest-rating-most-accurate-pollster-iran-war-11792365\">fell below 40%<\/a>. The war in Iran is entering its sixth week, with thousands dead and no end in sight. The strait of Hormuz is blockaded, food prices are climbing and US households are staring down hundreds of dollars in added living expenses.<\/p>\n<p>So naturally, the Democratic party has found something truly urgent to focus on: a Twitch streamer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/08\/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party establishment rushed to condemn the Twitch streamer after news of his alliance with a Michigan Senate candidate Gas has topped $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022. The president\u2019s approval rating just fell below 40%. The war in Iran is entering its sixth week, with thousands dead and no end in &#8230; <a title=\"Why do elite Democrats fear Hasan Piker? | Bhaskar Sunkara\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker-bhaskar-sunkara\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why do elite Democrats fear Hasan Piker? | Bhaskar Sunkara\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}