Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has given a lengthy interview providing his thoughts on the state of the U.S. election campaign, the populist movement, and his journey into it. Speaking to Hearts of Oak podcast host Peter Mcilvenna, Kassam charted his journey from a youthful supporter of the Bill Clinton-like Tony Blair to a seasoned populist and his experiences with “locomotives of populism” like Donald Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, and Nigel Farage.
On the elections, Kassam said he senses that “we are on a winning course right now… despite [Trump’s] campaign leadership, not because of his campaign leadership.” He explained the turnaround is due in part to the fact that MAGA stalwarts such as Corey Lewandowski have been brought on board and given a greater role relative to the likes of Chris LaCivita, who was steering the campaign onto the rocks after the Democrats ousted Joe Biden in favor of Kamala Harris.
Harris herself is also given credit for the change in fortunes, with the public finding her more unlikeable the more they see of her: “She’s become almost as unpopular as Hillary Clinton—and I say ‘almost’ because America got to know Hillary Clinton really well for decades and decades. If they got to know Kamala as well as Hillary, she would be half as popular, if that,” he said. “She is just a fundamentally unlikeable person.”
PEOPLE POWER.
Speaking to imprisoned War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime friend and collaborator, Kassam argued that the great strength of the former White House chief strategist’s following is that it is “people-led.”
“He’s just the guy who’s conducting the orchestra; the musicians are the ordinary Americans out there… who are doing the heavy lifting in the communities every day, who are building these families and teaching their kids the right values,” he explained. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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