Don’t Trust Kyle Kulinski
- john raymond
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Kyle's Purposeful(?) Blind Spot on Trump, Russia, and the Real Threat
If you’ve been listening to Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk for any meaningful stretch of time, you’ve probably noticed it: a consistent refusal to accept the full gravity of Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. Over the years, Kyle has positioned himself as a "straight-shooter"—someone who doesn’t take corporate money and calls out the establishment from both sides. And yet, on the most important national security question of the past decade, he got it wrong—and stayed wrong.
He treated “Russiagate” as a partisan exaggeration. He echoed the mantra “Russia Russia Russia” with an eye-roll, as if the reality of Trump’s Kremlin ties were simply a media obsession, not a matter of foreign infiltration and asymmetric warfare.
And now? Even as damning revelations continue to emerge—confirming Trump’s alignment with Putin’s goals and his sabotage of Western alliances—Kyle still refuses to fully confront what that means. He continues to analyze Trump as if he’s just another lying and hypocritical right-wing politician. As if Trump’s border policies are just "far right" when they are, in fact, part of a broader authoritarian playbook designed to dismantle democracy and aid foreign adversaries.
You cannot—cannot—admit that Trump may be a Kremlin asset and then turn around and debate him on tax and tariff policy like it’s politics as usual.
That is not clarity. That is denial.
Kyle wants to eat his cake and keep his followers fed. He wants to ignore the idea that Trump is 100% compromised while continuing to do content critical of the man. But you can’t have it both ways. Either Trump is a deeply flawed but ultimately an American right-winger—or he’s a geopolitical weapon aimed at the heart of our democracy.
And if it’s the latter—as the data prove—then people like Kyle, who dismiss that reality or dance around it, are doing more harm than good.
Kyle has been wrong about the most central issue of our time. He refused to see the throughline. He refused to follow the pattern. And even now, with the mask is fully off, he still insists on pretending every issue is just another partisan scuffle against a flawed ideologue.
That’s not journalism. That’s intellectual cowardice.
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