00:01:46.040And this was just apparently a constant thing
00:01:48.760that you have to deal with when you're in-
00:01:49.880Well, if it gets rewarded, you're going to do it.
00:01:52.160So she wasn't being like wrong. She was doing the right thing. Just sucks. Anyway, multiple outlets were reporting that the chair of the DNC, Ken Martin, has faced criticism over his leadership, not just for throwing a cell phone at someone else's desk, but specifically for the handling of the party's 2024 election autopsy and a loss of confidence among donors and insiders.
00:02:17.260If you're unaware of this particular fiasco, it is quite interesting. So they did the election autopsy. The guy didn't want to release it because he thought it was a low quality or it didn't reflect what Democrats wanted to hear about why they lost the election.
00:02:34.620and then people began to make conspiracy theories so this was given him in 2024 he was eventually
00:02:42.040forced to release it in 2026 and it basically didn't call out anything that's what everyone
00:02:47.560was so surprised about it didn't mention gaza it didn't mention biden not stepping down it
00:02:52.680didn't mention any of that and then as of august 2026 there has been a new revelation which is that
00:03:00.900he hid one of the chapters in it that was handed to him in a binder saying that Biden himself and
00:03:07.460not stepping down or passing on the church when he should have was the single point of failure
00:03:12.420and also talking more about the Hispanic, Black, Asian American, and Native American
00:03:17.680turn on the Democratic Party and why that happened. So let's start with the Civil War
00:03:26.740because it's weird it would this was triggered by the dnc's choice of which state goes first in the
00:03:33.3202028 presidential primary which to me seems and i know it's a big deal but it feels to me a lot like
00:03:41.080who gets to enter first at the prom or something but it's not it really sets the tone for who wins
00:03:47.120it does it does and i learned that from this i was like i don't get it it really matters i'd say
00:03:52.540it probably matters as much as 30 to 40 percent yes in fact there is this very reason why for
00:03:58.760example bernie sanders had no shot at running for president when i think he probably could have won
00:04:04.040honestly in the primaries so here's the thing okay black voters make up a large share of southern
00:04:11.140carolina's democrats and they've long been the party's most loyal national base nevada is this
00:04:17.860diverse battleground with a substantial Latino population. Black leaders treated keeping South
00:04:24.780Carolina as the first state to do primaries for the presidential election as a non-negotiable
00:04:32.140recognition of Black voter centrality, especially after the recent Supreme Court rulings that
00:04:38.100weekend voting, the Voting Rights Act protections and triggered redistricting fights that reduced0.99
00:04:43.160black representation in the south allegedly again that seems so incredibly stupid that like1.00
00:04:49.100it almost seems racist is this victimhood fight every but also wait are you saying black people1.00
00:04:54.860are incompetent and i can't even get their acts together to get an idea it is it just seems really0.97
00:05:00.280screwed up to imply that hurts black voters disproportionately wrong i just i don't even0.99
00:05:06.000want to it's obviously racist and it shows that the democrats are just super being racist they1.00
00:05:11.740think black people are like idiots that can't get ids that can't get jobs that can't get yeah you1.00
00:05:16.280know this is like biden when he was like you know we want to do this both for rich people and black1.00
00:05:21.020people oh i thought you were going to say if you don't vote democrat then you ain't black that0.97
00:05:24.980that is that too right yeah i need to police their identity it's disgusting i cannot imagine0.99
00:05:29.860how much i would have to hate my own people to be a black person who voted democrat0.98
00:05:33.840just the level of disgust they treat you with it's good for us if for america if the the black0.98
00:05:41.360democrats do vote first because they're less crazy than the white democrats it's not good for us0.92
00:05:46.200because they'll elect a more electable candidate no that is that that's kind of the crux of it
00:05:50.280though is that in the end i think anyone who wants a fairly rational future for the democratic party
00:05:55.960wants the primary to be in south carolina and to be controlled by black voters because they will0.74
00:06:02.500wipe out any off the charts insane outlier bernie sanders and stuff like that except this time it's0.93
00:06:10.440more like AOC that's what kind of people are saying they're like if South Carolina is where
00:06:13.940it starts then AOC is off of this but anyway so to recap normally it's been South Carolina but now
00:06:20.900people are like no it should be Nevada and then when the people are like no obviously you should
00:06:25.780be black or black people in South Carolina who should have the voice then the Latino people0.76
00:06:29.660are like wait what am I do I mean nothing are we not a large you do mean nothing by the way0.88
00:06:34.460So the Democratic Party, apparently. But anyway, South Carolina Democratic Party chair,
00:06:40.700Christelle Spain, put it super bluntly in her comments, which went viral and kind of the most
00:06:45.940salient ones that are showing up on X, for example. She claimed that elevating Nevada0.99
00:06:51.040over South Carolina, quote, would be because of their Latino vote. So you would then be telling
00:06:56.560Black voters that you matter less than Brown voters, end quote, which is also putting all0.72
00:07:01.600these artificial divides by that by that logic you're telling brown voters that they matter less0.98
00:07:07.060than black voters yes no but like of course they do that's taken as the obvious dnc position of0.85
00:07:13.980course brown people matter less than black people we live in a strict racial hierarchy within our1.00
00:07:19.420organization yes people are so fucking evil it's trying anyway al sharpton and others also echoed1.00
00:07:27.320this slap in the face framing. And then some countered saying things like, the earliest0.97
00:07:31.500primaries should be in competitive swing states, not South Carolina. Honoring the importance of
00:07:37.100Black voters and the Democratic base is also valid, but that still shouldn't be the South0.87
00:07:42.660Carolina. It should be Georgia and Michigan. The purpose, I'm reading a quote, of a primary is to
00:07:49.360choose the strongest nominee to win the general election. It does us no good to show us a
00:07:57.040candidate that is popular in a state that will be irrelevant when it really matters, which is a very
00:08:01.220valid point. Anyway, Latino advocacy groups like Voto Latino Victory Project, etc., Nevada Democrats0.98
00:08:07.000pushed hard the other way, arguing Nevada better reflects some modern coalition Democrats and their
00:08:12.560needs and that Latinos deserve symbolic first slots after the 2024 shifts. And this produced
00:08:18.280open, racially charged sniping between Black and Latino Democratic factions right before the
00:08:23.740committee vote exactly the quote giant fight between blacks and hispanics described the dnc
00:08:31.240rules and bylaws committee did ultimately keep south carolina as being first and nevada's right
00:08:38.580after that and then new hampshire new mexico michigan and virginia it's not ratified yet
00:08:43.120but this takes place within again that cloud of a larger struggle basically between this like hey
00:08:50.900let's just be the traditional old-fashioned Democratic Party and the very progressive,
00:08:55.780more socialist fragment of it that I think is going to represent the future of the Democratic
00:09:02.320Party, and we can talk about that. Progressives and DSA-aligned voices viewed the South Carolina
00:09:08.100first outcome as an establishment move to disadvantaged left-wing or socialist candidates.
00:09:13.480One person in that camp named Christo Ivales put it this way, quote,
00:09:20.140South Carolina is an early state for one reason only, to block any challenges to right-wing
00:09:48.300and no the funny thing is that the black a lot of black democrats and a lot of people complain
00:09:55.280about this on the right they're like oh you've got all these black democrats when the party
00:09:58.600doesn't really care about them and on top of that they treat them as like a locked voter base0.98
00:10:02.460and on top of that they don't share democratic values the the reality is that a lot of black0.99
00:10:08.100democrats are essentially republicans and this is stupid that they vote for democrats for the0.99
00:10:16.420mainstream elections right but it's also in terms of keeping the democrats from going crazy1.00
00:10:22.040a very important counterweight they are just racially supremacist republicans that's that is
00:10:28.820essentially what we're seeing here and you go in there with arcs or bernie sanders ideas and they're
00:10:33.900not gonna have any of it they're like no i see what you guys are they're not they're not about
00:10:38.760communist bs and i mean they're the type of people who really supported biden that was a big early
00:10:44.440support base for him yeah part of me just they feel like the democratic party is using black
00:10:51.800voters as a cudgel to maintain their own power hierarchies well also just ignoring their actual
00:10:57.760needs which is seems just pretty damn evil but anyway the basic gist of it is that people see
00:11:05.880south carolina on the left especially see south carolina as a filter that favors moderate black
00:11:11.100establishment aligned candidates and makes it super harder for an AOC style or DSA backed
00:11:16.860contender to survive the opening round. And that's what a lot of Democrats really want.
00:11:21.720They want, look at the Momdani wave that has really swept a lot of, at least terminally
00:11:27.640online leftist communities. Nevada was seen as the way to make that feasible for presidential
00:11:33.740election. So that's why this had become a bit of a civil war. People were like, no,
00:11:39.520this is the future of the Democratic Party. Don't stop us. We want stronger unions. We want
00:11:44.940different demographic mixes. And no, they just. I actually agree with the decision they made here.0.93
00:11:50.700I think if you care about Democrats winning, it's better to do this. Not winning, but winning was a
00:11:56.540sane candidate. I guess they could get some sort of crazy populist, which would be very dangerous
00:12:01.460for the future of America. I feel like AOC would easily win a presidential election if she could
00:12:06.900make it through the primaries because in the end she's young and attractive and articulate and
00:12:14.040people don't really i mean i think she'd be competitive i agree with that yeah but i don't
00:12:19.620think she's a safe person to allow to be president no but i'm just talking about who would likely win1.00
00:12:25.080so look if it were aoc versus vance i don't know man there's a lot of women who are just like oh1.00
00:12:32.360girl power not to go back to the 90s they'd be really excited about a young pretty woman people1.00
00:12:38.500like young pretty women people who are like that are would vote democrat regardless yeah but yeah1.00
00:12:46.660and there's also a lot of swing voters who aren't going to do the homework and look at oh another
00:12:51.980white man and then oh this charismatic looking young woman she looks like she could yeah i don't
00:12:57.520know. I just feel like she'd be a genuine threat. And a lot of progressive Democrats were super,1.00
00:13:03.200super angry after the decision was made. Some explicitly frame putting South Carolina first
00:13:08.680as the establishment trying to shut down a progressive presidential candidate and their
00:13:14.480attempt to make the party shift leftward. Online and DSA progressive accounts, sorry, online DSA
00:13:20.980and progressive accounts basically called the decision one that protected black Jewish and
00:13:27.600moderate allies within the DNC, which is common left shorthand for traditional democratic power
00:13:35.120centers that progressives often criticize as insufficiently radical or too tied to their
00:13:41.020institutional interests, which is not wrong. I have the same impression. I don't, I really think
00:13:45.560they have a fairly level-headed understanding of what happened here. And I don't, I think they're
00:13:49.980right and i think it is it's corrupt the process is corrupt the dnc is corrupt you did you guys
00:13:54.740not know that that's your own team corruption that's your your guy's whole thing is corruption
00:13:59.840like you're like i voted for the party and they're like no communism communism has always
00:14:06.140been about corruption right that's why we don't like it right yeah absolutely so all of this is
00:14:14.040happening while the DNC has some pretty serious money troubles. The New York Times, I referenced
00:14:21.440them at the top. They published this article. It's not money troubles. They're completely broke
00:14:26.140from mine. No, they're not just broke. They're in debt. So the New York Times article is titled
00:14:30.240Inside the Phone Throwing Drama at the Troubled Broke Democratic Party and some choice quotes
00:14:35.920from it. So much is going politically right for Democrats these days. President Trump's approval0.69
00:14:40.260is down, gas prices are up, and an unpopular war with Iran drags on, but dysfunction and debt
00:14:45.140inside one of the party's key institutions, which is getting crushed in fundraising by its Republican
00:14:49.700counterpart, are creating rising anxiety for top Democrats. Mr. Trump controls a 400 million
00:14:56.300super PAC, and a Republican National Committee is sitting on nearly 130 million. Mr. Martin's DNC
00:15:03.800is two million in debt that's such a contrast two million in debt yeah versus trump's 400 million
00:15:12.580super PAC and the not the the rnc sitting 130 yowza that is so wild it's about irresponsibility
00:15:20.080versus responsibility they were broke after the camel campaign as well they just wasted money
00:15:25.100maybe there seems to be a genuinely different strategy so they write in the article for more
00:15:29.740a decade, the DNC has transferred millions of dollars every election to sister committees
00:15:34.460responsible for winning the House and Senate. But the National Party is now so short on cash,
00:15:39.620even after taking out a $15 million loan last year, that officials have privately conveyed
00:15:44.720to congressional leadership that there will be no such transfers in 2026.
00:15:49.320What the Democratic Party has essentially been doing is taking all of its money, even going into
00:15:54.980debt, although the debt had to do, I think, more with Kamala's election. But this is what I
00:15:59.660on the ground when i ran for office they're taking all their money and they're giving it to
00:16:04.140candidates so the the opponent against whom i ran was extremely well funded he had a team like when
00:16:11.440i turned in the republican party does not do this by the way no i received so i received help from
00:16:17.160people in the community who were nice and bros i did not receive anything more than an endorsement
00:16:23.760from the committee in our county and thank you guys for that of course but i was also the only
00:16:29.300person running their choice was to oh we also spoke at their big events and stuff like that
00:16:37.300we've been something of a hit at republican you don't like me because i'm too weird anyway but
00:16:43.480like in general it wasn't just me also super normies who were running did not get any help
00:16:49.700or support from the party so it was mostly the people that i met who were running considering
00:16:55.160runs, et cetera, were semi-retired local entrepreneurs who wanted to give back to
00:17:02.020their communities and were just literally just self-funding everything and begging friends and
00:17:06.560family for money. Meanwhile, like when I went to turn in my petitions, after I collected the lion's
00:17:13.040share of my signatures, I can't remember how many it was, but I spent weeks in self-freezing
00:17:19.280temperatures pregnant waddling around with a diaper on so I couldn't I wouldn't take breaks
00:17:25.460this is the humiliation I went through to collect these votes and then I go to turn them in person
00:17:30.320in Harrisburg which is the capital of Pennsylvania and I'm there I'm turning in my votes on the day
00:17:35.600where you turn in your votes and then my my democratic opponent he has I think three people
00:17:42.960were present on his team turning in his petition votes and not a single one of the the signatures
00:17:50.440was collected by him personally jesus so you have to keep in mind the profound level of financial
00:17:58.440and logistical support that democratic what's funny here is that the republican party has all
00:18:04.460this money in part because they're not spending it on winning they're spending it on being a
00:18:08.220republican party yeah the one so i want to criticize the republican party too here i don't
00:18:12.800know if it's such a win that they're sitting on all this money because they are not helping
00:18:18.720candidates at least on a local level get elected they're just sitting on money i guess they just
00:18:24.820like to have their scrooge mcduck vault because it's just so fun to breath stroke through the
00:18:29.440coins meanwhile i guess what this says is an individual republican is do not donate to the
00:18:34.460rnc donate to candidates yeah for real don't yeah just donate directly to candidates because you are
00:18:39.100wasting your money but i honestly i came away from that article and i'm like good for them
00:18:44.220they're actually supporting because they are explicit in this that they have just given their
00:18:48.580money to get people elected and it has been fairly effective so i kind of don't want to as much as
00:18:56.480this oh own the lips i kind of feel like they're owning us they may be stressing out the they're
00:19:02.640not doing so well organizationally. They're toxic, but they're, I'm not saying the RNC is perfect
00:19:11.180either. Anyway, I'm going to take some more quotes from this quote. Some of the problems are a
00:19:15.360hangover from 2024. While vice president Kamala Harris raised record sums that year, her loss
00:19:22.360left many big democratic donors disillusioned with her, with the party. Her campaign also had0.87
00:19:27.360millions in debt to the DNC spent much last year paying off with Ms. Harris's help. And so it was
00:19:35.700Kamala Harris's election, plus them just giving away their money to just put them in this position
00:19:40.380and they're very stressed out and the leaders losing it and it's kind of toxic. But so all of
00:19:47.060this has me wanting to discuss with you, Malcolm, and then seeing what people are saying in the
00:19:51.260comments too what can we expect from the future of the dnc and what we have here like a lay of
00:19:57.500the land is we have the donation troubles right after 2024 there was this big pull up pullback
00:20:03.060by dnc mega donors who were really frustrated with the direction of the policy so they did a terrible
00:20:08.740job but yeah the party did a bad job and i think it's good that they're not getting donations
00:20:13.720but look at what the party just did the party just basically double down yeah we're gonna double
00:20:20.060down and you know you're not allowed to change us. You're not allowed to disrupt us. You're not
00:20:23.660allowed to pull us more progressive. We're not going to listen to the grassroots surge of interest
00:20:28.100in socialism and in the environment and all these other things. And so I don't see this donation
00:20:34.880issue changing with the mega donors because the organization is not changing. But in addition to
00:20:40.640these mega donors, overall, Democratic funding has also faced headwinds in 2025 to 2026 relative
00:20:47.800to republicans especially at the party committee level but it's not like everything's drying up
00:20:53.580candidates are still getting donations and stuff anyway democratic primary turnout is quite good
00:20:59.480right now okay so money troubles because they're refusing to change but they're still people are
00:21:04.580democrats are still way better than republicans at turning out to primary elections yeah they
00:21:10.080didn't the next election is even harder for us yes so let's see based on multi-state results and
00:21:16.720multi-state analyses and reporting through mid to late July, 2026, that across the board, yeah,
00:21:21.840it outperforms. But also I want to argue that broad Gen Z sentiment is worrying.
00:21:28.060This is a slightly off topic, but I think it's important to note this here, something that's0.55
00:21:32.140been trending on X recently and more births put this as part of his, this is why people don't
00:21:37.280have kids. They expect they need to spend so much more money to do anything than for earlier
00:21:43.060generations did. And this is part of the problem. And he's using this survey that's now trending
00:21:48.460is part of his argument. It's this 2024 Empower survey of 2,203 U.S. adults, which found an
00:21:55.920overall average salary of around $270,000 is what people felt they needed to be financially
00:22:02.380successful. But the generation-specific figures are what really make this survey super notable.
00:22:08.520So what do you think baby boomers thought they needed per year to be financially successful?
00:22:13.060In this, I'm going to guess $150,000, $199,874. Okay. Okay. Baby boomers. All right. What about0.92
00:22:21.420Gen X? I, the young, I'm going to guess 200,000, 250,000. 212. Yeah. 212, 321 for Gen X. So like
00:22:30.980twice as much as baby boomers. Millennials. What do you think? Us millennials, us olds,0.79
00:22:36.460but not that old's a million a year no 180,000 dude i'd be happy with 180,000
00:22:44.540that'd be good that'd be really yeah that like yeah on the patreon i i mentioned once in a leaflet0.83
00:22:51.900stream i do the whole subscribe donate etc and she does everything she got very embarrassed and
00:22:55.260she was like my fans donate enough to me you don't need to say that right like oh we don't say it
00:22:59.260enough you guys should donate to leaflet donate to leaflet no what get our weekend episodes okay
00:23:06.300actually yes yeah no so in case you don't know we have a sub-second patreon that gives paid
00:23:13.600subscribers access to weekend episodes we do seven episodes a week and you can get access
00:23:18.500to these weekend episodes where we say more spicy things and are a little more candid and
00:23:23.500yeah we post things or we say boring things that i care about but the rest of the world won't care
00:23:28.020about no no one else is going to care about how annoyed i am at ellie isaer yukowski i don't know
00:23:34.340yeah i don't know i am so anyway it's for the the people in the know the the real men of culture
00:23:39.920real men of culture women of society yes so anyway you can support us if you want to we
00:23:46.760appreciate it apparently we don't receive as much as other people and 180 000 a year sounds freaking
00:23:52.200awesome yeah right but so now guess what gen z thinks they need all right so what do they think
00:23:58.220they need something remember boomers around a hundred thousand dollars gen x around two hundred
00:24:02.820thousand dollars millennials 180 gen z what is the what do the children want what do they think they
00:24:08.760need uh they have a million i guess 587 797 000 500 god my god to to yeah they know and we know
00:24:20.700that they are never going to get that unless they're in the one percent that actually gets
00:24:24.580excited about ai and build something cool but that is not everyone or the other one percent that
00:24:29.900marries them and lucks out everyone else knows they're not going to get that and you know the
00:24:36.360one way they think they're going to get that is by stealing it by stealing it by socializing it
00:24:44.060okay the the demand for socialism that we are going to see as ai rises that we already see
00:24:52.280what's so funny is the group that wants socialism is fighting against the technology that allows for
00:24:58.620socialism i know i know i know that's the funny thing so elon musk recently had this
00:25:04.480a very contentious interview with the editor-in-chief of the economist it's so funny to
00:25:10.340watch the commentary on both sides because our like progressives are like she owned him and then
00:25:15.600all the rightists are like he owned her and they're like we're all watching the same exact
00:25:19.900interview and it's so weird we all just don't care about the logic or the arguments being made
00:25:26.800they're just like she said the points she said the thing yeah i anyway so one thing that on this
00:25:34.320hole oh i lost my train of thought let's see no you're gonna say something that happened in the
00:25:39.280article about socialism being allowed through ai oh yes i'm obsessed with ian banks the sci-fi
00:25:44.400writer in his culture series yes so elon musk and she's like but did you know that ian banks
00:25:50.260was a socialist and elon musk tries to explain to her and then she cuts him off but yeah the
00:25:58.480whole point is ai makes capitalism sorry makes communism possible like the whole real communism
00:26:06.600has not been tried or it makes look the thing about socialism and communism is that you have
00:26:12.040to steal money from the people who are working which is presumably people working communism was
00:26:18.640designed for a post-scarcity society but if the people working aren't human if it's ai who's making
00:26:24.180all the money you can do this stuff yeah yes then you're not stealing from humans anymore it's just0.57
00:26:29.480ai being like whatever dudes fine bro whatever that economic system looks like it's likely going
00:26:35.660to be different than generic capitalism but we're already pretty socialistic we don't let people
00:26:39.120starve to death like i think we should right if we're extremely socialistic oh we've come on we
00:26:44.060did like united states is a socialist paradise episode we've done this whole thing but it might
00:26:48.180yeah it is ironic but my point is that what we can expect as ai rises and as time goes on and
00:26:55.820as younger generations gain influence and older generations die is an extreme okay it's one of
00:27:02.680those things of well the dnc won this battle they are going to lose the war younger democrats also
00:27:08.580So they tend to be more progressive, more critical of institutions and capitalism, more skeptical of the democratic establishment and more left-leaning on foreign policy, especially with regard, of course, to Israel and Palestine and criminal justice.
00:27:26.020So if you look at Pew's 2026 political typology, adults under 30 and Democrats under 30 specifically are far more likely to fall into groups like leftward progressives.
00:27:35.300That is to say very progressive across the board and skeptical of the party and left out left, which is Democratic leaning but disillusioned, whereas older Democrats are more likely to be concentrated among Pew's profile called loyal liberals who feel like they're better represented by the party and its leadership.
00:27:52.020They're about to die. So this is a very temporary maintenance of stability. Also, Gallup data show
00:27:59.160Democrats under 50 have become notably less positive about capitalism over the last 15 years,
00:28:04.360while older Democrats' views have shifted a lot less. So they're holding the party to a form of
00:28:11.140what we would call sanity that's not going to last. And younger Democrats prioritize issues
00:28:16.220like housing costs. Well, this is why I don't think that we can continue to really operate
00:28:19.940like a two-party state going forwards right it's good yeah when part one party believes in
00:28:24.920overthrowing government probably yeah and also younger democrats are way more skeptical of police
00:28:31.060in the criminal justice system they don't want law and order they are less likely to view police as
00:28:36.180essential and more supportive of major reforms and rebuilding systems for racial equity whatever
00:28:42.300that means whereas older democrats obviously you know what it means it means a racial hierarchy
00:28:47.240it means racism because i thought maybe like racial equity looked if you break the law you're
00:28:53.600in trouble it doesn't matter what color you are but apparently racial equity means if you break
00:28:58.260the law but you're this color you're not in trouble yeah the people aren't aware that this
00:29:03.680is a mainstream position on the left now look at the anthony trial that just happened right look at
00:29:08.340the just absolute crickets on the left over the woman going to jail for calling a child
00:29:14.420grapist a grapist no sorry she didn't call him she called him the n-word the other one sorry
00:29:21.380inward but the one about the n-word was particularly telling because at her trial she they didn't need
00:29:27.680the witness there to convict her they didn't have him come to stand once yet they wouldn't hold his
00:29:34.080trial for child grape because the the witness wasn't there anymore so the the standards for
00:29:40.380trying a black immigrant for grape are significantly lower than the standards for
00:29:46.440trying a white woman for saying the wrong thing it is astonishing that we're at that point as a
00:29:52.080country but we are and everybody knows it at this point right everybody can see the severe inequity
00:29:58.280of how court trials are carried out and the way our justice system works but the way you hear it
00:30:02.560from mainstream democratic influential voices even voices of people i like like ezra klein
00:30:09.000it's going to sound very different. This revolution isn't going to sound like we need to
00:30:13.460destroy the justice system. We need to enact socialism. Like in a recent podcast that Ezra
00:30:19.440Klein and his guest Ben Wilker did, they just argue that Democrats are losing trust, not just
00:30:25.120because Trump's appeal, but because many voters see neither party delivering materially better
00:30:31.060lives. And that party's path forward involves a focus on affordability and democratic legitimacy.
00:30:36.740with democratic legitimacy, really meaning our side always wins and affordability, meaning
00:30:43.880someone else pays for everything I want. And I just find this, I don't know, disturbing. So I,
00:30:51.420one, the reason why I wanted to do this episode is I think that the fact that there was a civil
00:30:56.580war is important. The fact that the, we'll say radical side lost it is way more trivial
00:31:05.120than a lot of the people who are having butthurt about losing right now would let on.
00:31:10.700Okay, this probably means that AOC has absolutely zero shot in 2028,
00:31:15.120whereas I thought that she did for a while.
00:31:18.780Functionally, her campaign is over before it began.
00:31:22.340But that doesn't mean that for the next presidential election,
00:31:26.120there will have been a whole bunch more pent up demand.
00:31:28.440Maybe what we're going to see in the next cycle is the Democratic Party truly dying.
00:31:33.540Between this confluence of them having financial troubles and then now choosing not to change when they're getting very strong feedback that people want them to change and become more radical, I feel like that could pave the way for some form of partial or total collapse, followed by a replacement by something far more radical.
00:32:07.800If you look at the book that I said, the tell-all that came out in 2026, it's called Evan Parker's
00:32:13.200Nothing Left, Confessions of a Democratic Operative.
00:32:15.600She talks about how they have aggressively given up on the white working class population.
00:32:21.920It's not even seen as something that they should want to aspire to like anymore.
00:32:27.340It's now very much, yeah, white working class people are the problem, right?0.54
00:32:31.420She also detailed everything was filtered through race, gender, and identity.
00:32:36.080Healthcare and economic issues for ordinary workers were considered secondary and had
00:32:39.600to be reframed in racial terms if anyone was going to listen.0.87
00:32:42.440Donors leaving voicemails saying that they wouldn't give candidate wasn't a woman of
00:32:46.660color if the candidate wasn't a woman of color.
00:32:48.900Resumes of white men were just discarded.
00:32:51.780Language policies, e.g. correcting pregnant women to pregnant people.
00:32:54.880barker argues donors and activists leaned into race and identity politics partially because it
00:33:01.720let them avoid the harder economic realities of facing non-college workers she notices the average
00:33:06.920american worker having only about a thousand dollars in retirement savings staffers and
00:33:11.480consultants allegedly use their own identity and bad face to undercut and settle scores
00:33:16.200she said at a hollywood movie level of toxicity she she says that the elite progressive type
00:33:24.020industrialized radicalism she highlights people from wealthy long time leftist families examples
00:33:29.460include koei cockburn sister of olivius weill who push hard left causes like defund the police style
00:33:37.640initiatives while living far from the consequences this is something we all see and her breaking0.74
00:33:43.820point was getting iced out of campaigning after speaking up the post 2020 woke peak culture and
00:33:50.740watching the party talk past heartland economic pain basically she's just like i don't care about
00:33:55.400average which everybody knows but i think she was shocked to see that no they are explicitly a racist
00:34:01.100party their agenda is explicitly racist and explicitly about racial supremacy and those
00:34:07.560factions if you wonder what it felt like to be in a country as the nazis were gaining power
00:34:12.800you are seeing it right now right they believe in a very explicit ethnic hierarchy they believe in
00:34:19.800that you can and it's something and that's the number one thing to them and a lot of what's
00:34:25.900getting dropped as i've talked about and i think that we're going to move more in the direction of0.58
00:34:30.380these factions getting dropped because of what we're seeing here is the gay agenda if you want
00:34:36.360to call it anything the where they're keeping their voter base and everything like that is going0.99
00:34:40.300to lead to that being dropped more aggressively and faster than otherwise would have you for
00:34:45.780example if a gay person tried to run and among south carolina black democrats they're not going
00:34:50.020to win oh i mean were they going to win before no they could win in nevada they could win in0.88
00:34:55.320new hampshire they could win in a lot of states yeah yeah but they're not going to win among the
00:34:59.140the black south carolina democrats yeah and i don't even think somebody but will they go for
00:35:04.800they will also push back against the islamists though so that that does give us these are the
00:35:10.060types of democrats that are most likely to find somebody like hassan disgusting or be deeply
00:35:14.440disinterested in a politician like mandami what is the same with the people who controlled the dmc
00:35:19.340i think what we're going to see is some sort of coup within sort of the democratic party i think
00:35:24.300that you could get enough excitement for one of the islamist supporting candidates to actually
00:35:30.480have them work so i think that's where we're going but that that whole contingent is only
00:35:35.780going to have a very no it's only going to age and it radicalizes the younger contingents more
00:35:40.040And I think it shows why we're given a grace period to transition out of a democratic state.
00:35:45.020But it's something that's likely a conversation that I am increasingly attempting to.
00:35:51.280And I think that we on the right need to think about if you have the types of people that
00:35:57.700they want to win in the White House, right?
00:36:00.900If they take power, elections stop, right?
00:36:05.120Kamala has basically already said this.
00:36:06.760She said that the things that she regretted the most was not tabling, changing the way election rules work and stuffing the Supreme Court with justices.
00:36:13.900It means being ruthless. And we must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things.
00:36:28.260For example, and I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the Electoral College.
00:36:35.780we need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district
00:36:48.280courts we need to revisit if they so want statehood for puerto rico and dc yes
00:36:59.580like oh it's like what she was running on she said she should have run on that she said she
00:37:06.360should have talked about it more as part of her plans and apparently i guess that means that was
00:37:10.240part of her plans if they're playing the game this way we need to consider playing the game this way
00:37:14.960and not in a panicked way not in a running around with like a chicken with her head cut off way
00:37:19.400but in a just realistically this is the direction we may need to go to have a stable country well
00:37:26.040this is something that came up in the episode that we ran on the different way that conservatives
00:37:32.540and liberals view each other with conservatives viewing that hasn't gone live yet this will
00:37:37.360probably go live before that oh okay so there was research that came out recently that basically
00:37:42.260said that liberals dehumanize conservatives way more than conservatives realize basically that's
00:37:48.640the punchline and with that being the case liberals are going to do a lot more to undercut
00:37:53.760conservatives and conservatives won't realize that they'll be like what look they have a senate
00:37:58.560majority this year whatever their team won for now haha it's fine and then they don't realize
00:38:04.800that this this group of people that is in power for this period really hates them and also thinks
00:38:12.360that they hate them more than they actually do that yeah basically your average conservative
00:38:18.060unaware of how much the other most conservatives think liberals hate them however much they think
00:38:25.400they hate you scientifically you are underestimating it and the correction there the market correction
00:38:32.240there is not to hate them more but to be more willing to take drastic action while still
00:38:37.780treating them with love and empathy because i think that's what makes the conservative party
00:38:41.160so strong is what i argued in that episode yeah the the what you argued was that's how you can
00:38:45.220of can also win them over to your side when they get a little bit of exposure to the right actually
00:38:50.440what the right is and then realize how not toxic it is how healthy and wholesome it can be it
00:38:56.480because what you described in that book also that sounded horrible that sounded really yeah not fun
00:39:02.080whereas it's so clear that the people working for republican like congressmen and stuff are having a
00:39:07.140good time where they released anthony fauci's diaries and they made the first page styled like
00:39:12.040teenage girls guidebook and i'm like oh my god i love it's not just the white house twitter team
00:39:17.880yeah this is not a toxic environment people don't have that level of fun in a toxic environment
00:39:23.100it's just yeah oh god it's so good it's so good it was yeah let's get trump a third term
00:39:30.980i really can't tell if he's trolling or serious and i think that the problem i have which everyone
00:39:40.240has with us too is that the answer is yes he is trolling he is serious he is both is that your
00:39:49.180take too what he is trolling he is serious running again yeah yeah that's what we want right
00:39:59.460i would be excited about fans running but
00:40:05.800the timeline is so weird now that i cannot predict what it will be like in two years
00:40:15.220oh you are you looking at prediction markets no holy market i know that right now the two
00:40:22.620top candidates to win the next president are marco rubio or jd vance 20 jd vance okay so
00:40:28.76020% Judy Vance, 13% Marco Rubio, 11% Gavin Newsom.
00:40:33.820Wow, why do they think a Republican's going to win?
00:40:37.060I thought, I figured people's safe bets would be this.
00:40:39.920It's more that there's just no strong candidate as a Democrat to win.