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It's not so much who he supports but rather what he supports. He supports entryism into the Democratic party as his main strategy. He's still on that 2020 "harm reduction" bullshit copium. This isn't to say socialists can't or shouldn't engage with electoralism, but every serious socialist agrees that it is absurd to do so under the banner of a bourgeois neoliberal party hoping that you can somehow "push it left", "make it better", "take it over from the inside" or whatever.
That's not how this works and we have seen over and over again that it doesn't work. You don't change the party, the party changes you. No matter how good your intentions are, as soon as you become part of that toxic ecosystem you start to become co-opted and corrupted. Socialists have to have their own independent party. It is absolutely useless to keep voting for people who candidate under the Democrat label, especially now that parties like PSL exist, all you're doing is prolonging the uniparty's life.
Also, Hasan has a serious Russia derangement syndrome and supports Ukraine, which besides aligning him with imperialist NATO and its proxy war on one of the main pillars of the multipolar world (Russia is an essential supporter of Cuba, Iran, the Sahel States, and China's energy lifeline), basically means he is on the same side as literal Nazis bent on ethnic cleansing. Which makes him a hypocrite every time he advocates for Palestinians, because Ukraine is on the same exact shit as Israel.
The Banderites are just as racist and genocidal as the Zionists, they are also armed and funded by the West, you constantly find them aiding Zionist-sponsored terrorism around the world, they are just as in love with assassinations, destroying infrastructure and terrorizing civilians, and they openly brag about wanting Ukraine to be a "bigger Israel". And yet Hasan continues to take their side and give credence to anti-Russian propaganda narratives.
I don't know if he's just stupid and ignorant, if he has some irrational bias against Russia, or if he's just trying to please his liberal audience and friends, and i don't really care. The fact is that he is not a consistent anti-imperialist, and he would rather support a bourgeois party than build a socialist alternative despite the fact that we have seen time and time again that "lesser evil" politics is a dead end when you just keep playing the game the bourgeoisie wants to you play.
He is not stupid, he knows about all this, but insists on the entryism (he will deny it is entryism) into the Democratic Party as a harm reductive strategy, or to turn the party leftwards (which is unironically a Trotskyist thing to do). One time during a stream, he remarks on how his strategy has "Historically never worked" before continuing his bullshit lol. He is not naive or stupid, he genuinely believes (and he will tell you this, though through fanciful rhetoric) that the blame of the low revolutionary fervor present in the Statesian masses is their fault- not ours (as Marxists-Leninists).
DSA has been trying this shit for half a decade and they dragged CPUSA with it to its downfall as well. It will never succeed.
https://cosmonautmag.com/2019/04/michael-harrington-and-his-afterlives/
Motherfucker tells people to read Lenin and then proceeds to do everything Lenin roasted Bernstein and Kautsky for.
Yikes, being pro-Ukraine and being anti-Zionist is just a liberal-minded combination (very bad). I never knew of a Ukrainian organization as horrible as the Zionists (I never even heard of the people you mentioned). If I do recall, he is a wealthy streamer that has a large fanbase, so it makes sense that he might be unwilling to alienate their viewers too much (supporting the Democratic Party in that way does so while also allowing him to claim "lesser evil" as a justification, though this does not work with principled communists).
Oh, and I forgot to mention he soft-supports the "Uyghur genocide" narrative. He doesn't go all the way and call it a genocide but he buys into the false claim that China tried to repress the Uyghurs and their culture. He also thinks China is too repressive on free speech, which is yet again emblematic of his liberalism. But he likes China's high speed rail, so people call him "pro-China".
I like steak, so I am pro-American... oh, I also drink dairy milk, so I am a white supremacist (obvious joke that is referring to a white-supremacist dog whistle).