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Not sure I trust the methodology here. I would've expected shows like The Ezra Klein Show or Pod Save America to be fairly big on the left here (and on the Apple Podcast charts, TEKS is ahead in rank of some that are listed here, PSA not far behind).
The description of the methodology is not very clear. For example, it's unclear what they consider a "show", what their search strategy was to arrive at their initial list of shows, and how the raters determined whether a show was leaning left or right (i.e., some of this is described but not in a way that would make it reproducible, and there seems to be some gut feel involved). The exclusion of shows produced by TV stations makes sense but excludes more left- than rightwing sources.
I don't doubt that right-wing shows have the upper hand in the non-traditional media market and agree this is a problem, but this project may be exaggerating the difference a bit.
Pretty Ezra Klein is a genocidal fascist not a leftist...
According to .world, supporting genocide is the moral leftist ideal, and if you don't support genocide you're a fascist.
They also think the sky is yellow and the everyone wears a goatee in their mirror universe.
Did something change? Last I knew they were insufferable libs
Same with Ezra Klein, who is representing the enlightened center.
To me, Ezra Klein is a pretty clear example of a left-leaning US political commentator. Not a far-left one, sure, but still one I would firmly expect to show up on the left-leaning side of this list. I know that ratings like this are far from perfect, but the AllSides media bias rating seems to agree (though marked as initial/low confidence): https://www.allsides.com/news-source/ezra-klein
Based on your evaluation, what would be an example of a commentator that leans moderately left (like just left of center) to you?
Someone else already replied, but I personally consider centrism as the whole middle range of the dial, so to speak, and not just the point directly in its "middle." So if someone is a corporate apologist and they maybe have some socially lefty views but then they regularly bag on actual leftists and espouse "abundance" that's basically a handout to real estate developers instead of actually addressing wealth inequality—then I consider them a centrist.
Fascism and genocide are directly opposed to leftism.
Hasan maybe. Dude is a capitalist creep but does tend to promote some actual leftism.
Liberal leftism yes but not socicalist and communist leftism.