Rogan is a target because outwardly reasonable people just get in the way of radical agendas. When they come for the comedians, I think it's really truth they'r

Rogan is a target because outwardly reasonable people just get in the way of radical agendas. When they come for the comedians, I think it's really truth they're afraid of. But Rogan isn't provocative about much at all. He appears unapologetically honest about his feelings toward the people and topics he's presented with, and I think that guileless honesty is a contagious threat to a mainstream that trades in outrage. He reminds me a lot of the way when John Stewart utterly took down Tucker Carlson by just in-effect appealing to the principle of being a good man. At the time, Carlson represented a neocon movement that had become just as cynical about truth and power as regular people see ostensibly progressive elites in media being today. Personally I think as an emotion, most anger originates somewhere in shame, and Rogan's avuncularity and basic good nature triggers people in proportion to their other issues - which the outrage-trade is designed to elevate and exalt. A self-described meathead who is professionally funny and who people genuinely like is anathema to humourless true believers who can't see past their own sense of purity, and in a social media culture that thrives on hysteria, together, are a perfect storm for backlash. I wouldn't take it too seriously.