Kulturkampf

[benji]

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025/democrats-former-chair-tries-to-become-the-lefts-joe-rogan

The search for a liberal Joe Rogan has led Democrats to an unlikely candidate: Jaime Harrison, their former party chair.

Harrison will launch “At Our Table” on Thursday. It’s an interview show he’s been recording from his home in South Carolina and from the road, where he frequently spends time with the party’s once and future stars.

“Civic education in America is at an all time low,” Harrison told Semafor this week, shortly before meeting up with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, the latest ambitious Democrat to visit Harrison’s home state ahead of its 2028 presidential primary.

“It’s really important to start educating people about these processes that are so important in terms of determining who our leaders will be,” he added.

The first episodes of “At Our Table” put Harrison next to 2024 vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, South Carolina kingmaker (and Harrison mentor) Rep. James Clyburn — and Hunter Biden, the prodigal former First Son who has not spoken out since his father ended his last presidential bid.

What questions are you asking these Democrats that nobody else has been asking?

At the end of every episode, I ask them who they’d give a special award to, and we call it the Sit Your Ass Down Award. Who in politics would you like to give the Sit Your Ass Down Award? And it really is enlightening to hear. Jim Clyburn was very diplomatic, and he told me: Jaime, I’m not going to answer that. Tim Walz was very game.