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Chapter 1: What recent events have influenced the Democratic Socialists' rise in New York?
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All right, so for today's show, I wanted to talk a bit about the Democratic Socialists. The Democratic Socialists are coming. They had a big night last night, so I've been thinking about this last night and through today. There was Democratic primaries in New York City last night. I believe Zoran Mamdani and...
uh what's his name i'm sorry i'm playing uh hassan piker i saw him putting out some videos uh they they were like seven for seven for further picks including three big uh congressional primaries that mom donnie got behind he won um all of them so this is kind of the big talk of the uh of the political town that there is this ascendant group within the Democrats.
I colloquially call them the Democratic Socialists. I think that's what they refer to themselves as. I think I've heard Mamdani refer to himself as that. I'm not sure that that's correct, but we'll get into that a little bit. But
You know, I thought maybe we could just do an episode kind of talking about this group of of people who I do think are ascendant in within the Democratic Party structure, who they are, why I oppose them and why all of the people who oppose them are doing a very bad job of opposing them.
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Chapter 2: How is the Democratic Party experiencing a shift in power dynamics?
Because there's something there's a lot that's interesting about this. And part of it is that probably a lot a lot of the people who are, let's say, the most hysterical about what happened last night or the most hysterical about Mom Donnie becoming mayor of New York City.
are a lot of those same people would look to guys like me and go see what type of bedfellows you've made by say, you know, also opposing, you know, Israel's destruction of Gaza or the war in Iran or something like that. So that's one aspect that's interesting. We'll kind of get to that. But before, I mean, I think it should be stressed as we go into this, that this is a big deal.
This is a big sea change within the Democratic Party. There's a real crack up that's happening and it's been building for a while. You know, the last the last 10 years have been a really wild 10 years, a really wild decade in American politics. A lot has happened. I've been alive for like almost four and a half decades. And this last one, politically speaking, was the wildest by far. It's 2020.
Since 2016, we've elected Donald Trump. We went through Russiagate.
Chapter 3: What factors contributed to the Democratic Socialists' recent electoral success?
And I mean, just COVID alone takes it. The lockdowns and the vaccine regime. And we went through Biden being senile in Ukraine, the Israel, Gaza. There's just a lot has happened over the last 10 years. And so you always have to be a little bit careful to, you know, a little bit careful to just start creating a narrative over the last 10 years because so much crazy shit has happened.
But one narrative that we can be pretty, you know,
that we can observe that's fairly obvious is that there was something approaching a civil war within both the democratic and republican parties starting 10 years ago um when donald trump ran for president as a republican and bernie sanders ran for president as a democrat and this both of them were were like almost internal civil wars where you had these kind of these these
You know, you had these establishment candidates and then you had these two candidates that were outside of the establishment that were kind of flanking them from the populist left or right, respectively. And, okay, on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders didn't win. He lost. Donald Trump won and took over the Republican Party. Bernie Sanders lost.
But it took them cheating him in order to get him to lose, which we now kind of know a lot of the details about. And it really took them cheating him. And then the second time in 2020...
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Chapter 4: Why do some view the Democratic Socialists as a threat within the party?
We don't know as many details, but they still kind of cheated him without cheating him or whatever. But the point is that there was this populist left wing, also called itself democratic socialist insurgency, that had to be put down by force, if you will, that had to be cheated in order to give it to Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden.
And so this force has kind of been there for a while, but they've really, you know, been handed... a tremendous opportunity right now for a few different reasons. Number one is that they, okay.
So the Bernie Sanders energy, now Bernie Sanders, I think kind of, you know, in a weird way, by the way, two things that are kind of noticeable about last night is that it is mom Donnie who's emerging as the, uh, kind of de facto leader of this movement, not AOC, not Bernie Sanders. AOC and Bernie Sanders are strangely absent leading this movement that almost seems to rightfully be theirs.
And I think part of that is because they've both been kind of exposed as the frauds that they are. But anyway. I think we can get into all of this. Part of part of the issue there is that they're all just kind of a bunch of liberals is what they all really are. But anyway, maybe we'll get into that in a few minutes.
But Bernie Sanders and AOC aren't really don't seem to be leading the thing right now. But that thing, that energy does seem to be the most powerful force, certainly on the Democratic side of the aisle.
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Chapter 5: What role does the media play in shaping perceptions of Democratic Socialists?
And part of that is because, well, None of their issues and concerns were ever really addressed. Everything that Bernie Sanders talked about is still relevant to American voters. And, you know, well, it's really kind of a one-two punch in a way. First off, the Democratic establishment...
that cheated them out of the primary in 2016 and in 2020 the democratic establishment that insisted that they get in line behind joe biden then went and like humiliated itself in the
most you know the grandest way imaginable with joe biden collapsing on the job um throwing kamala harris in the there in the last minute and so the liberal establishment that had opposed this let's call it a left-wing insurgency discredited itself tremendously um
and frankly the people holding it together are just kind of old and you know it's nancy pelosi and chuck schumer these guys are like 90. it's just it's fun and they just went through this biden debacle and ultimately they got trump elected for the second time the democratic establishment has failed at what their their clear number one priority was which was to defeat donald trump
So they've failed. And in a sense, the Mamdani wing is like the only thing left standing, not implicated in the Joe Biden failure, let's say. And so they have that going. And then they have the fact that the Donald Trump administration has just completely torched its own presidency and coalition.
And so in some weird way, by default, they almost become the most energized political movement in the country. Perhaps. At least they had a good night last night.
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Chapter 6: How do economic policies relate to the Democratic Socialists' agenda?
But I think that's all I think all of that's worth paying attention to. Well, let's hear let's go to the Van Jones clip because here is Van Jones kind of perennial Democratic insider liberal masquerading as a leftist, if you ask me. But but here's his his take on on last night's elections.
Well, New York City matters because the two most exciting left-wing candidates are here, AOC and Mamdani. But also, this is the stronghold for the establishment, Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. This is a battle between the establishment and this insurgency, and the roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight.
If Mamdani gets a hat trick, three out of three, this is a new era for the Democratic Party. And you can't write off New York City because this is the place where both it's a power center for the establishment and the insurgency. And they're going head to head tonight. And right now, this is not no longer a movement. This is a movement and a machine at the same time.
And there's just no way to sugarcoat this. If Mamdani pulls off the hat trick, it is a new era in Democratic Party politics.
Well, and if you're a moderate Democrat who's on the election, who's on the ballot this November, Van, I mean, they're all going to get asked about the positions that we're hearing from these other fellow Democrats.
Well, look, I think, you know, from our frontline Democrats will be able to make their case for themselves.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Democratic Socialists' policies on American voters?
I think they'll be able to do OK. We got a lot of national security Democrats in other parts of the country. But this is a this is a big deal tonight. And I think that, look, I don't know. I don't know what you want me to say here. This is a straight up battle between the establishment and the insurgency. And the establishment is getting its butt kicked tonight in New York City.
All right. I mean, I think overall, in terms of political analysis, I think Van Jones is right about that. you know, that this is a moment where in New York City, as he pointed out, the home of AOC and Mamdani, but also the home of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and a lot of Democratic establishment hacks, the insurgency is dominating them right now.
And I think this is something, look, this is something that everybody needs to pay attention to because this is really the threatening force Within the Democratic Party right now. And I think that part of the reason why these guys are dangerous is because they in a way, they're kind of like regime approved revolutionaries. which in some ways is the worst of all worlds.
I mean, perhaps real revolutionaries who wish to kill you and your family are worse than that.
Chapter 8: How can traditional political parties respond to the rise of Democratic Socialists?
But there's something about the regime-approved communist, the regime-approved revolutionary, who isn't actually that much of a threat to the system. You know, there's Bernie Sanders. Oh, my God, the guy. You know, you almost wonder, like, in the conception of the average Bernie Sanders fan... Like they they view it that Bernie Sanders is some huge threat to to power.
Like we live in this capitalist system and he's this democratic socialist who wants to take power from the evil billionaire class and give it back to the people. And also everyone kind of likes him. Like in the establishment, he's just kind of a well-liked, well-received guy who everyone talks kindly. But does that just seem weird a little bit? Like if he was a revolutionary, they would hate him.
Anyway, that's not really that's neither here nor there. But I do think that these guys are for several reasons. These guys are a real threat. And one of the reasons is that I think essentially they're not that dangerous to power that they guys like this could be allowed to become, you know. Candidates, congressmen, presidential nominees, who knows?
And I think that they've got a lot of advantages. And one of the advantages is that they have been laser focused on shit that people actually care about, like the unaffordability stuff. They've been really talking about the issues that actually matter. And then one of their other biggest advantages is that this was something that Donald Trump had.
And I've really noticed this watching Mamdani over the last year or so. If you remember, one of the things that Donald Trump had that ended up being a quality that really worked in his favor politically, was that he would drive people crazy. The littlest thing. I remember, you know, sometimes there are like fighters, like Ilya Teporia was like this, Conor McGregor was like this in his prime.
There are these real power punchers where it doesn't even look like they're throwing that hard, but they just like touch guys and guys fall down. And it almost looks like, you know what I mean? You're like, whoa. Anyway, Donald Trump... always had that thing where he could just touch them and they'd fall to pieces.
He could say something not even that bad and they'd act like it was this crazy offensive thing. Mamdani is the same way. I mean, you're watching these people just get furious. You watch Alan Dershowitz
talk about mom donnie and it's it's as if mom donnie just ate a jewish baby on live television or something like he just describes him this vile nazi blah blah and so anyway there's just something when you really piss off all of the worst people that becomes politically attractive
Hey, listen, I am the most libertarian free market, you know, against democratic socialist political commentator out there or up there with. I'm tied at least. But out there in the world of people talking about politics, I'm like right up there in the top 1% of the top 1% of the most against government intervention into the economy at all.
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