Even though they make $100,000 a month, that revenue stream is so precarious given how temperamental, punitive and self-defeating the left is. If you like the podcast, the book’s fine-more of the same, nothing you haven’t heard before, and missing any contribution from Amber A’Lee Frost, the best writer among them. Since then it’s been sold-out tours and hit pieces written by the jealous and feckless at Vox.

In the months following the 2016 election, Chapo’s audience ballooned and they built a solid following of teenagers, Twitter artists, wonks on speed, disillusioned liberals, and suspicious leftists.

Kids are reading the red book and having struggle sessions and electing socialists to Congress. This year, DSA President Nick Mullen reported that their membership has increased by 800 percent since the 2016 election. Now, calls across the country for universal basic income and healthcare are louder than a Thunderbolt T-1000 civil defense siren. In 2011, every major media outlet spun Occupy as a wasteland of idiot bums and rapists. Before 2016, skewering liberals offering “intelligent dining solutions” to people starving in Puerto Rico was “counterproductive,” “fringe,” out there. Their cri de coeur comes in the book’s final pages: “Socialism can emerge as the only genuine alternative to the savage, hopeless, gangster style of capitalism - an alternative that offers an actual future, one in which there are enough resources to take care of everybody and to take on humanity’s challenges with a dab of dignity.” If Chapo Trap House has one message, it’s this: You must never respect a liberal. Who is The Chapo Guide to Revolution for? Democratic Socialists? Brocialist charlatans? Teenagers on the subreddit? Self-hating lobbyists? Journalists, comedians? Regular listeners of the podcast? This book’s just a status symbol of a certain level of success, a marker of a bygone time and far less significant or impressive than the $100,000 Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felixer Biederman, Virgil Texas, and Amber A’Lee Frost make every month via Patreon.

Struggle session will menaker