Natalie Winters

We don't need to reinforce that.

But you know why we have to?

Because even though we, the grassroots, the war room posse, we won the idea war, where have congressional Republicans, where have Senate Republicans, where have any actual Republicans in leadership been to actually prevent the Islamicization of

of America, whether it's homegrown radicalism, the importing of foreign migrants, it's absolutely reprehensible.

This was a debate that was settled a decade ago.

And Steve, like you've always said, the future of American politics is right wing populism and left wing populism.

And now because our Republican betters didn't stand in the breach and actually do anything to combat this, you're seeing this weird amalgamation where left wing populism is looking

More like, you know, the Hamas protester crowd where you're getting this fusion with radical Islam.

I'm just so sick and tired.

You see it rearing its ugly head right now with the way that they're reframing mass deportations of these Republicans who don't think that America is a civilization or a country that's worth defending.

And I'm so glad we have a Sharia-free caucus in America, but I'm more upset that we have to have that in the first place and that we have to even watch clips like that.

That should be an AI deepfake that's getting censored as misinformation, not actual government policy that a few weeks from now is probably going to look like more of the immigration policy of this administration is pushing than something that's just straight plucked out of the Quran or the Hadith.

I mean, they say it's defending democracy, but it reads like a war plan.

They're talking about basically how to integrate AI, particularly AI with military use cases.

I'm even talking VR and drones.

That's virtual reality into the landscape of Democrat protests.

There was sort of a quiet meeting that was held at Harvard in late 2024 that kicked this whole initiative off.

They distilled it into a report called How AI Can Support Democracy Movements.

It was led by Erica Chenoweth that we've reported on extensively here, not just because her resume is full of USAID grants and lectures, but because she's hardwired into the Democratic Party apparatus.

She's co-hosted