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I haven't watched his show since probably around 2018 or so, also at the tail end of my liberalism. Even back then, it irked me that he framed these inherent problems with capitalism as just the doings of a few bad apples, and of course ~~Trump~~ Drumpf as the reason America was bad now instead of just a part of the problem.
I will admit he was a factor in my radicalization, in part because he wasn't able/willing to explicitly state that capitalism is the problem. This was probably 2015ish, when Trump was still being treated as a joke and Hillary was the obvious shoe-in . I won't give him full credit, obviously most of the heavy lifting was done by reading theory and just paying attention to the world, but he did show me that even the best libs support the status quo and won't entertain alternatives