00:00:00.000Yesterday, ex comedian Jon Stewart looked into the camera and told you not to worry about the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:00:07.000He said they're just a bunch of enthusiastic kids who are just, you know, gung ho about affordability.
00:00:13.000Sure, those cute little squirts get a little over agitated.
00:00:16.000They start jabbering about communist revolution from time to time, but they're really just naive, smart, energetic youngins who are concerned about affordability.
00:00:39.000The affordability stuff, that's just cover so that useful idiots like Jon Stewart can pretend that they are not revolutionaries determined to tear down America and the West.
00:01:18.000Okay, so yesterday, Jon Stewart, you remember him?
00:01:20.000He's that 63 year old ex comedian who still masquerades as a cool, hip 40 year old who makes funny faces at the camera.
00:01:26.000Well, anyway, Jon Stewart did a rather fascinating interview insisting that the Democratic Socialists of America aren't actually the evil communists they pretend to be.
00:01:36.000No, says Jon Stewart, these are just good hearted people who don't actually mean what they say.
00:01:41.000They're not popular because they're evil, they're popular because they just have so much energy around affordability.
00:01:49.000We're in that same bull place now where all these new ideas, suddenly the Democrats are, these democratic socialists, they're crazy.
00:01:56.000And you're like, well, but that generally their crazy ideas aren't where the energy is.
00:02:01.000The energy isn't around, like, we shouldn't have prisons or borders.
00:02:06.000The energy is around a belief that they're economic populism.
00:02:11.000And when you call it socialism, I think it's a misnomer, like in the same way that if you call Social Security socialism, that's kind of a misnomer.
00:02:21.000Okay, wrong, as we'll explain in a moment.
00:02:25.000Now, Stewart isn't the only liberal who's been doing this sort of pretzel routine, pretzeling himself into weird contortions in order to avoid the reality, which is that the Democratic Socialists of America are actually evil communists who are using the affordability schmear in order to hide their actual agenda.
00:02:41.000Barack Obama did this with Stephen Colbert, you'll recall, just a few weeks ago.
00:02:46.000You look at somebody like Mamdani, who I think is an extraordinary talent.
00:02:51.000He wants people to be able to afford housing in New York.
00:02:55.000Well, you know, I would assume liberals in New York want the same thing.
00:03:02.000And so I don't worry as much about some of these issues within the Democratic Party.
00:03:12.000What I'm more interested in for Democrats is do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar, right?
00:03:23.000Can you talk plain English to folks about it?
00:03:26.000I think that's one of the powers that Mamdani has.
00:04:27.000Because if the traditional Democrats admit the opposite, that the Democratic Socialists of America are actually evil, and now they're just passengers on that bus, that they are now fellow travelers with the evil, that gets really awkward.
00:04:38.000Remember, John Stewart is a lot of things.
00:04:40.000I despise John Stewart as a personality.
00:04:42.000I think John Stewart has more to do with the devolution of political talk in America than nearly any figure in American history.
00:04:49.000I truly believe that John Stewart's reduction of political thought in America to funny faces And clips, as opposed to, you know, explication of actual issues, is one of the things that broke American political commentary.
00:05:01.000But you can't say that Jon Stewart sort of hates America in the same way that Sazor Mamdani does.
00:05:07.000Remember, it was Jon Stewart who has spent an enormous amount of his career talking about 9 11 first responders and trying to get additional benefits for them.
00:05:16.000And I am awfully tired of hearing that it's a 9 11 New York issue.
00:05:21.000Al Qaeda didn't shout death to Tribeca.
00:05:28.000They attacked America, and these men and women and their response to it is what brought our country back.
00:05:38.000It's what gave a reeling nation a solid foundation to stand back upon, to remind us.
00:05:45.000Of why this country is great, of why this country is worth fighting for, and you are ignoring them.
00:05:54.000Okay, so again, this was a big cause for Stewart, and I didn't like even how he approached this cause in terms of federalism, but that was a cause of his.
00:06:02.000So, how exactly does he make common cause with people like, for example, Zarn Mamdani or Hassan Piker, a man who says that America deserved 9 11?
00:06:48.000Also, you might have noticed something, some changes behind me.
00:06:54.000I finally framed the Cutie Cinderella newspaper from 9 11, the morning of 9 12, the newspaper right there, the newspaper that covered 9 11.
00:07:06.000It's now officially sitting behind me, and I moved the North Korean poster up in place of the fan art.
00:07:20.000So again, how do traditional Democrats deal with this?
00:07:22.000With the fact that they have a coalition that is now being led by people who truly despise America.
00:07:26.000How does John Stewart, who stood up for American first responders on 9 11, deal with the fact that Hassan Piker is now a leader of his movement, a man who says America deserved 9 11 and has an actual newspaper from 9 12 sitting behind him?
00:07:38.000So the only way for John Stewart and people like him to live with the obvious conflicts, with the cognitive dissonance, is to pretend that Hassan Piker is cosplaying.
00:07:59.000In fact, the proletariat in the United States have never been the seedbed of socialist revolution, ever, ever, ever.
00:08:05.000By the way, they've never been the seedbed of revolution literally anywhere.
00:08:08.000The people who always lead the socialist revolution are radicals, over educated radicals, people who generally spring from the upper middle class.
00:08:17.000And in America, there are people who are over educated in hatred for America.
00:09:45.000It shows how income and education affect presidential voting.
00:09:49.000The group of people who are by far the most likely to vote Democrat from 2016 to 2024 are people who were highly educated brokies.
00:10:02.000If you were making $30,000 to $60,000 a year and you were a post grad in terms of your education, 70% rate of voting for the Democratic presidential candidate.
00:10:14.000The group of people who are the least likely to vote Democrat were people with a high school degree or less who made a lot of money.
00:10:24.000The people who are the most educated, who believe that they are owed the most by the system, but earn the least, vote Democrat the most.
00:10:31.000The people who didn't go to college, who believe that they are owed nothing and then do really well, those people vote Republican.
00:10:40.000Nate Silver points out, based on this grid, what is the most Democratic voting group in America?
00:10:44.000It's voters with postgraduate degrees, but lower to middle household incomes of 30 to 60 grand per year.
00:10:49.000This is also very much the sweet spot for the DSA.
00:10:52.000In the group's most recent member survey in 2021, 80% of members aged 25 or older had bachelor's degrees, but 45% had household incomes below $60,000 per year.
00:11:02.000By contrast, who are the most Republican voters in the country?
00:11:05.000It's not necessarily voters with a lot of economic anxiety.
00:11:08.000Rather, it's the precise opposite corner from the DSA high earners who didn't attend college.
00:11:14.000Derek Thompson of The Atlantic pointed out on X According to the DSA's own surveys, the share of members who are millennials.
00:12:55.000People who are members of a partially assimilated group feel that they're stuck between two worlds.
00:13:00.000There's a historian named Mary Matassian who explains that intellectuals in colonialized countries are usually a particularly good breeding ground for dissatisfied revolutionaries.
00:13:10.000She says, The intellectual may resent the West, but since he is already at least partly Westernized, to reject the West completely would be to deny part of himself.
00:13:18.000He feels that something must be done and done fast.
00:13:21.000The assaulted intellectual works hard to make invidious comparisons between his own nation and the West.
00:13:25.000Think here, again, of people like Zarn Mamdani or Ilhan Omar.
00:13:31.000These are the pseudo intellectual, the artistically unsuccessful, the people who believe their talents are unappreciated by their supposed inferiors.
00:13:38.000These are the people who got a post grad degree in lesbian nance theory at the university and thought they were going to make $300,000 a year by lecturing people on culture and now make $30,000 a year.
00:13:50.000These are people who actually are not part of the struggle.
00:13:53.000They don't have families, they're just engaged from the larger community, and they have a lot of time on their hands.
00:13:57.000These would be like university students who joined the revolution.
00:14:01.000Now, understand this coalition of scavengers, these people, the high education, low income group, these people are not upset because people cannot afford things.
00:14:17.000If the economy is bad and Democrats are in charge, Republicans run on affordability.
00:14:21.000And if the economy is bad and Republicans are in charge, Democrats run on affordability.
00:14:25.000Donald Trump ran on affordability in 2024, and Democrats ran on affordability in 2020.
00:14:30.000What's going on right now is that the people. who have years of education and useless idiocy have turned their seething resentment into a movement.
00:14:40.000They have decided that they have been deprived by society.
00:14:43.000And now that resentment means that 9 11 was not bad and that Mao maybe was good.
00:14:49.000Now listen, for some of these people, maybe it's not totally their fault.
00:14:52.000It is true that we have been sold in the United States a really, really big lie for generations that the best way to get ahead or maybe the only way to get ahead is to go to college.
00:15:31.000So everyone was told, go to college since basically World War II.
00:15:34.000And universities, who suddenly had a gigantic influx of people coming into college, many of them unqualified to be in college,
00:15:56.000So now you are churning out dispossessed college graduates convinced not that their college screwed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but that the system, capitalism screwed them, that America large scale screwed them.
00:16:09.000As Nate Silver says, I'm reminded here of Peter Turchin's elite overproduction hypothesis.
00:16:15.000It basically argues that America is producing too many college graduates relative to the number of high prestige, well paying jobs available to them.
00:16:22.000People who wind up in this situation often carry heavy student loan burdens or other sorts of debt.
00:16:27.000Even if their material situation is objectively just fine, it's rarely great.
00:16:31.000They're gloomy about their own financial prospects and they feel aggrieved about the state of the country.
00:16:35.000Their class status is ambiguous, privileged in some senses, but they're part of the have nots in other meaningful ways.
00:17:03.000Here he was taking on a self described socialist who calls herself Doomsday, who cut off her parents because they quote unquote chose fascism.
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00:20:12.000So what does this mean for democratic candidates?
00:20:14.000Well, one indicator that the revolutionaries are in charge is that you have to prove that you are a good destroyer of the system, that you are one of the governing class to be a member of the new democratic governing class.
00:20:26.000You have to be overeducated and you have to be a brokey.
00:20:29.000It is the only way to prove that you have skin in the game against the system.
00:20:33.000This is a problem for some of the Democratic candidates.
00:20:35.000Right now, if you're aspiring for office, then you need to be highly educated, poor, and preferably have some sort of third world background.
00:20:42.000That is the thing you're looking for to be part of the revolution.
00:21:37.000It's about being left behind by the system, especially for people who grew up rich and privileged.
00:21:42.000So if you grew up rich or privileged, like Zorhan Mamdani or middle class, top of middle class, like AOC, and then claim that you were dispossessed, this is skin in the game.
00:21:50.000This, by the way, is why Rokhana is an awkward fit.
00:21:56.000It's why Gavin Newsom is trying to cosplay as a kid who grew up in poverty rather than rich.
00:22:01.000It's always been sort of a weird political oddity.
00:22:04.000And none of our candidates used to do this.
00:22:06.000If you go back to the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, even 70s, it wasn't a thing that candidates would go around talking about how they grew up poor and are still poor.
00:22:28.000And he's supposedly a third world victim of America, despite the fact that his family are some of the greatest beneficiaries of America ever.
00:22:34.000So he's got all the elements you'd want from a revolutionary.
00:22:38.000The thing driving the DSA, the thing that Stewart and Obama refuse to acknowledge, because if they acknowledge it, they have to recognize that they are in the passenger seat on the revolutionary car that is headed for the cliff.
00:22:50.000The thing that drives the DSA is absolute, utter hatred of America, combined with a belief that success itself is evidence of evil.
00:23:00.000This is why Zorn Momdani spends an enormous amount of time talking about the Middle East.
00:23:05.000It's why he spends an enormous amount of effort targeting, say, Ken Griffin.
00:23:08.000It's why he spends an enormous amount of time targeting specific landlords with dark night rises type administrative courts.
00:24:14.000So yesterday, he had to come out and say that he doesn't have the legal authority, but he did get to say mean things about Netanyahu, which is the thing you want from the New York mayor commenting on Middle Eastern policy.
00:24:27.000As I've said, I agree with the ICC that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes, as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC.
00:24:37.000My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law.
00:24:41.000To determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here.
00:24:48.000It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.
00:24:52.000The federal government, however, does.
00:24:54.000And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.
00:25:20.000The reason that the DSA and the far left have decided to use the Palestinians as a moral litmus test is because if you can take the most self created losing group on planet Earth, the Palestinians, who have now turned down a wide variety of peace offers over the course of literally decades, voted consistently for terrorists, openly root for the genocide of the Jews, openly support violence against civilians, and are thus unsuccessful.
00:25:46.000And if you somehow turn them into victims, if you, if you somehow invert this, that's putting true ideological skin in the game, man.
00:25:52.000If you can somehow turn Israel defending itself against genocidal Hamas terrorists into the bad guys, if you can somehow say that Israel was pursuing a genocide while going house to house in Gaza, minimizing civilian casualties, and meanwhile, Palestinian civilians who were very involved in 10-7 are suddenly the innocent victims of all this, and not the innocent victims of Hamas using them as Actual human shields, but the innocent victims of Israel, you're inverting reality in revolutionary ways.
00:26:35.000If the DSA is chiefly overeducated, largely white people who don't earn a lot of money, if that is sort of the core group, there are just not that many overeducated poor people in America.
00:26:56.000It turns out that a lot of people who, say, went to high school and do not like socialism, those people aren't going to be fond of the DSA.
00:27:02.000So now the DSA is swiveling directly into old style racial pandering.
00:27:07.000So Abdul Al Sayed, who is really suffering in his primary against Haley Stevens in Michigan because black voters don't like him, he's putting out tweets like, quote, black women have to work an extra seven months to earn what white men earn in a year.
00:27:21.000So, I'm just going to point out that that is not true.
00:27:23.000The only way that you can make that statistic plausibly true is if you just take, in aggregate, black female wages and white male wages.
00:27:33.000But that you'd have to ignore the number of hours worked, you'd have to ignore the type of job, you'd have to ignore the education level, you'd have to ignore time in the workforce, you'd have to ignore all the other confounding factors in order to get to that dumbass statistic.
00:27:43.000But the reason El Sayed is doing that is because El Sayed is really, really lagging among black voters.
00:28:54.000And black voters, by the way, are not in love with James Tallarico, which is why, presumably, a black lady was screaming at Tallarico at a town hall that black people don't trust him.
00:31:42.000But if you think that affordability is the thing that is driving Republicans down right now, No, what is going to allow Republicans to come back is not really discussions of affordability.
00:31:51.000It is making sure that people understand the evil of the opposition.
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