After the 2024 presidential election, a week-long sampling of Steve Bannon's podcast revealed relentless outrage and exhausting content, even at 1.5x speed. Bannon projects a bizarre, rumpled charisma: a strange, compelling intensity suggesting either a mental break or secret knowledge. Bannon combines insider knowledge with outsider fury and promises to guide listeners toward a coming revolution and expose the deep state, creating a fantastical thrill of inclusion. Sen. Ted Cruz emerged as a massively popular podcaster. Cruz is often described as one of the most off-putting men in Washington, and fellow Republicans have publicly derided him.
He has a sort of bizarre rumpled charisma-the strange, compelling intensity of a man who has either had a mental break or discovered the dark secrets of the world. Bannon has both an insider's knowledge and an outsider's fury, and when he promises to guide listeners along the coming revolution or expose the workings of the deep state, there's a certain fantastical thrill to imagining being a part of his universe.
Cruz is often described as one of the most off-putting men in Washington, even by fellow Republicans. "If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you," Sen. Lindsey Graham once joked. "I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," former Speaker of the House John Boehner said.
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