Felix Biederman

Felix Biederman is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo was reportedly grossing more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon. 1 Biederman grew up in the Hyde Park section of Chicago, Illinois, and has said he hated it because it is a “very stratified, snobbish area” full of “well-meaning liberal people that live in this city that is operated by criminals in the Democratic Party.” He credits his experiences growing up in Chicago as formative of his left-wing politics, saying it is “a city born in segregation and inequality and racist policing and murderous extralegal executions” that was from “very early on” a “testing ground for penalizing the poorest people for existing.” He named the late libertarian economist Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate who once taught at the University of Chicago, as one of the worst people ever associated with the city. 2 3 As with all the Chapo hosts, Biederman is sharply critical of mainstream Democrats deemed insufficiently supportive of socialism, in particular Hillary Clinton. In a Chapo parody following Clinton’s loss in the 2016 Presidential race, Biederman declared in faux-Clinton voice: “I may not be Dale Earnhardt… but I smashed into the [expletive deleted] wall because I couldn’t turn left!”4