Great Pod Almighty

The nation’s most popular political podcast is gleefully (and profanely) flaying Donald Trump and betting that the revolution will be streamed.

- Alexander Nazaryan

LIBERALS ARE a bunch snowflakes. It’s an insult conservatives adore, summoning with it the image of a bleeding heart so tightly wound by the dictates of political correctness that the slightest provocation from a truth-teller with a concealed-carry permit will send the rattled lefty into full mental meltdown, cowering on the floor, sobbing through yoga breaths, begging Nancy Pelosi to make it all OK again.

The three hosts of Pod Save America may be bros, and they may be wonks, but they are definitely not snowflakes. They are furious and profane, frequently mocking and infrequently measured, closer in temperament to Rush Limbaugh than to All Things Considered, with a bracing splash of Lenny Bruce’s wild existential neurosis.

Pod Save America did not become the nation’s most popular political podcast over the past few months because it offers insights impossible to find elsewhere. What it promises instead is a “no-bullshit conversation about politics” conducted by former Barack Obama speech writers Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, as well as former presidential spokesman Tommy Vietor (former White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer co-hosts one of the week’s two podcasts). Implicit in that promise is unapologetic bias in favor of the liberal humanism now buried deep beneath the rubble of Hillary Clinton’s blue firewall.

CNN or NPR might gently suggest it was unwise for former Donald Trump transition-team member and current House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a Republican representative of California, to personally relay classified intelligence to Trump— and to announce to the media that he had such information and had given it to the president; Pfeiffer, conversely, calls Nunes “a moron.”