PositiveNewsweekWhile The Chapo Guide to Revolution is first a gallows humor overview of the political landscape, somewhere between Mallard Fillmore and Punishment Park (in part thanks to the skin-crawling illustrations by Diaspora Boy author Eli Valley), it also has a white-hot anger for those who have followed the wrong rule and brought us to this. Chapo Trap House is emblematic of the young, socialist \'dirtbag left (a term coined by Chapo co-host Amber A’Lee Frost), sometimes associated with the Democratic Socialists of America, but just as often with Twitter discourse. The Chapo perspective comes preloaded with political vulgarity, a hatred of lanyard wonks who prefer fixes to ideological commitments, and the overwhelming dread that comes with believing capitalism (and the politic processes captured by it), won’t just bring us to environmental ruin, but will also turn the world toward totalitarianism, fascism, genocide—whatever’s most convenient in defense of hoarded capital in a burning world.
