Is Spike Cohen left or right?
Cohen is a libertarian activist — the Libertarian Party's 2020 vice-presidential nominee — who now runs You Are The Power, a nonprofit he founded in 2021 that organizes grassroots activists around local, solutions-oriented liberty campaigns rather than electoral politics. He self-describes as a libertarian, favoring sharply limited government across both economic and social policy, which places him outside a simple left-right frame. In 2025 he has been openly critical of Donald Trump from a libertarian direction, arguing Trump betrayed libertarian supporters through spending and debt increases — extending a critique he has made since his 2020 campaign, when he called Trump a 'lifelong crony' — while crediting him for freeing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. He remains a fixture of the liberty movement circuit, speaking at events such as FreedomFest 2025 and state Libertarian Party conventions.
How credible is Spike Cohen's audience?
Spike Cohen scores 0.0 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #218 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.