‘Young Turks’ Host Blasts Fellow Leftist’s ‘Unsophisticated’ Opinion About President Trump’s Supporters

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s landslide victory, far-left pundits have been ramping up their rhetoric in an attempt to further demonize him and his supporters.

But there have been a few exceptions, including “The Young Turks” co-host Cenk Uygur, who shared a more nuanced view of pro-MAGA Americans than most of his fellow leftists.

As the Daily Caller reported, he pushed back against the characterization of YouTube influencer Bryan Tyler Cohen:

“There are no long-standing principles that they abide by. This is the purported party of family values, the purported party of the Constitution, of law and order, of states’ rights, of fiscal responsibility,” Cohen said. “They will throw that shit out the window the moment, the millisecond, it becomes inconvenient for them and that’s what they did. But you’re saying these things to people as if they’re operating under some principle — that they should be against the establishment, that they should be against these donors — when they’re not.”

“The only long-standing principle is their allegiance to Trump. And so my worry is that like, you trying to get through to them on these issues of principle is falling flat because it’s not principle that got them there in the first place,” he continued. “There is no long-standing principle when you are a Trump supporter.”

Uygur told Cohen that he was both “right” and “wrong” in his analysis. “The Young Turks” host suggested Cohen was correct about what Trump supporters used to be like and about their “hypocrisy” about “family values.”

“Now where’s the part where I think you’re wrong? And this is the part where people — I think I’m a little ahead of people and people think I’m being naive. So what I’m sensing, Brian, is from their audiences — and I’m not just sensing it like through intuition — they’re literally doing polls while I’m on their shows,” Uygur said. “They were doing interactions, calls. When I went to AmFest, talked to literally hundreds of guys who are MAGA, as, you know, they came up to talk to me, etc. And this is not the same base as Trump 2016.”

Uygur has fielded significant pushback from his own side of the political spectrum since appearing at the America Fest conference earlier this month:

I’m no fan of Cenk Uygur, but it’s funny watching people criticize him for sharing a stage with Charlie Kirk while they had no problem supporting Kamala Harris, who shared a stage with Dick and Liz Cheney. The hypocrisy is real! pic.twitter.com/APwFPqU11Y

— RealTimBlack (@RealTimBlack) December 28, 2024

"This moment, like truly, a part of me died when I watched this……just like shriveled up and died, floated away into the ocean." — @franifio confronting @cenkuygur about his appearance with Charlie Kirk at TPUSA on the topic of left wing media. pic.twitter.com/pCuaKM6dCz

— Thinking Munk (@ThinkingMunk) December 28, 2024

Watch Marc Lamont Hill push back at Cenk Uygur for his claim that his background is the “most smeared group in America” while disingenuously adding that he knows “black people have had it harder.” This follows backlash Cenk Uygur faces for sharing the stage with Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/zR5BvRqeGa

— DannyKPolitics (@DannyKPolitics) December 27, 2024

Of course, this wasn’t the first time in recent memory that he and co-host Ana Kasparian have ventured from the predetermined leftist orthodoxy, as TheBlaze recently reported:

Left-wing commentator Ana Kasparian had a passionate and negative reaction to the report that Vice President Kamala Harris may run for governor of California after her disastrous election loss.

Kasparian was discussing the issue with “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur when he opined that if Harris ran for governor in California that she would easily win.

“I think Kamala Harris would probably win in a cakewalk for governor,” said Uygur.