The Ben Shapiro Show - July 16, 2026


Communism, Homeschool Panic, and the Democratic Meltdown

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homeschooling
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Ben Shapiro
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Jennifer Welch Laurence Olivier John Fetterman Angie Sullivan Thomas Massey Katie Couric Andy Beshear Ellie
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7 minutes

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118

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7

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17

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In this episode, we have an insane take from the insufferable Wine Mom podcaster, socialist revolutionary, Jennifer Welch, on the insanity that is the Democratic Party and its embrace of the crazies and their ideas.

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00:00:00.000 Folks, the reason that I am so exercised about the issues the right is experiencing right now is because I would like to see conservatism win.
00:00:07.000 I want to beat the Democrats in elections more than anything, but it's especially important right now because the Democrats have lost their minds.
00:00:13.000 For the few sane people that are still in the Democratic Party, they seem to be refusing to do or say anything about that.
00:00:18.000 And we have an insane take for you today, this time from the insufferable wine mom podcaster, socialist revolutionary, Jennifer Welch. 0.90
00:00:25.000 The mainstream Democrats are embracing the commies, they've just been eaten by the commies. 0.85
00:00:31.000 There was a House Democratic resolution. 0.75
00:00:34.000 It was actually promoted by Thomas Massey, the bewilderingly insane Republican who's been ousted in the primary, to defund all military aid to Israel.
00:00:44.000 It was voted for by one Republican.
00:00:46.000 That's not a sentiment that has a lot of traffic inside the Republican Party.
00:00:49.000 A majority of Democrats in the House who voted voted in favor of defunding all military aid to Israel, 103 of them, because immorality on both the foreign and domestic front had become a litmus test for radical Democrats.
00:01:03.000 And the normie Democrats.
00:01:04.000 The people who are supposed to be moderate are just accepting this.
00:01:07.000 They're swallowing it whole because they too are trying to look for love in all the wrong places.
00:01:11.000 Andy Bashir, who will be the first person eaten by the DSA, here he was with Katie Couric saying that the Democratic Socialists of America, you know, these communists, the big problem with that, you know, there's really nothing wrong with them.
00:01:23.000 They're just too passionate.
00:01:24.000 They're just too passionate.
00:01:28.000 Many who are running under the Democratic Socialist brand or the Progressive brand are making their case with just extreme passion.
00:01:36.000 They are convincing voters that they will work as hard as they can.
00:01:40.000 And that's what voters are asking for right now.
00:01:43.000 They just want the extreme passion of the communists. 0.77
00:01:46.000 John Fetterman, again, the last sane Democrat, he said yesterday, Why exactly are you embracing the commies?
00:01:52.000 Like, what is your thing here?
00:01:56.000 For me, what you're afraid of is defined by what you won't criticize or won't call out.
00:02:03.000 And I'm always going to call out people that are.
00:02:06.000 They're not, again, they're not Democrats.
00:02:08.000 In fact, some of them aren't even socialists.
00:02:11.000 They've actually self identified as communists. 0.81
00:02:14.000 You know, I'm not sure why there's more outrage within the party, and they will refuse to acknowledge or say, well, I haven't been paying attention to that race so much for all those. 0.99
00:02:25.000 I mean, again, he is right about this. 0.66
00:02:27.000 The fact that Democrats continue to make room for the psychos, they will be embracing every psychotic position they possibly can by the end of this election cycle, and certainly going into 2028.
00:02:39.000 If you're perceived as too moderate, you got nothing.
00:02:41.000 You got nothing.
00:02:42.000 You're going to get outflanked and outflanked dramatically.
00:02:44.000 And they just keep going crazier and crazier.
00:02:46.000 Again, many of the faces in their beloved media ecosystem seem more insane every day. 0.97
00:02:51.000 So, Jennifer Welch, again, I will never understand how a person like Jennifer Welch has an audience, mainly because she's awful on camera. 0.51
00:02:56.000 Truly awful on camera.
00:02:57.000 I speak as someone who's not particularly amazing on camera.
00:02:59.000 Jennifer Welch makes me look like Laurence Olivier.
00:03:01.000 My goodness. 1.00
00:03:02.000 Jennifer Welch was on her show ripping into homeschooling. 1.00
00:03:09.000 This is where the Democratic Party is going, attacking the homeschoolers.
00:03:14.000 They are incapable of critically thinking.
00:03:16.000 They're incapable of deduction skills.
00:03:19.000 And what pisses me off about this the most is how many parents project a script onto their kids. 1.00
00:03:26.000 I'm a dumbass. 1.00
00:03:28.000 So, therefore, I'm going to make sure you're a dumbass. 1.00
00:03:30.000 I'm an idiot. 1.00
00:03:32.000 I made D's, as our caller said, Ellie. 1.00
00:03:35.000 She, you know, the people, the dumbest people she knew in college were homeschooling their kids. 1.00
00:03:39.000 And so, this is trickle down stupidity. 1.00
00:03:42.000 This is MAGA on steroids. 1.00
00:03:44.000 This is MAHA.
00:03:45.000 This is TradWife.
00:03:46.000 This is unvaxxed and unjacked and all that.
00:03:52.000 These people, these folks.
00:03:54.000 First of all, homeschoolers generally outperform public school students.
00:03:58.000 Second of all, this bizarre hatred for parents schooling their own children and extraordinary faith in the public school system, which is failing all over the country in a wide variety of areas, is pretty astonishing.
00:04:10.000 But don't worry, the hatred doesn't stop there.
00:04:11.000 Welch has a co host.
00:04:12.000 That co host's name is Angie Sullivan, who says she does not trust parents who want to be with their children.
00:04:21.000 You would not believe how many people in Bible study homeschool their kids.
00:04:25.000 And you just think, oh, I worry about that.
00:04:29.000 And then you see those witness booklets or whatever they're called that the Duggars use, and they're like top out at eighth grade.
00:04:35.000 I mean, I just think homeschooling is a bad idea from soup to nuts.
00:04:39.000 I don't care if you're a nuclear physicist. 0.99
00:04:44.000 I think it's just weird as fuck that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night. 0.98
00:04:51.000 And just the socialization. 0.99
00:04:52.000 For me personally, it was that I would have gotten up on my hands and knees and strapped them to my back and crawled.
00:04:58.000 To get them to school every day, just to get them where I wasn't.
00:05:02.000 So I don't trust somebody that wants to be with their kids 24 7. 0.99
00:05:06.000 I think a lot of dumb people do it because it's just easier. 0.98
00:05:10.000 And that's a concern. 0.99
00:05:13.000 Homeschooling is absolutely 100% not easier, not easier at all.
00:05:17.000 Okay. 1.00
00:05:18.000 This lady is crazy. 1.00
00:05:19.000 This is a crazy thing to say. 0.98
00:05:21.000 First of all, you don't trust parents who want to be with their kids.
00:05:25.000 What is wrong with you?
00:05:26.000 Seriously, what is wrong with you?
00:05:28.000 Do adults need a break from their kids sometimes?
00:05:30.000 Sure.
00:05:31.000 Do good parents want to be with their kids a lot?
00:05:34.000 Absolutely.
00:05:35.000 Folks, there is nothing more important on this planet than defending children.
00:05:38.000 And that includes children who are unborn.
00:05:41.000 The fact is there's so many Americans who don't even know that children who are unborn actually have value.
00:05:47.000 Well, because they never see the child.
00:05:47.000 Why?
00:05:49.000 I understand that conceptually you can understand all of this, but seeing a child in the womb, kicking, sucking its thumb, interacting, you know, actively growing, like that is a thing that changes lives.
00:06:01.000 This is why you need to sponsor an ultrasound through preborn.
00:06:05.000 It just costs 28 bucks to donate.
00:06:06.000 I'll pound 250, say baby, or visit preborn.comslash Shapiro.
00:06:10.000 And I'm confused.
00:06:12.000 You don't trust somebody who wants to be with their kids.
00:06:14.000 You just trust somebody who wants to be with other people's kids.
00:06:18.000 That's your pitch.
00:06:19.000 My goodness.
00:06:20.000 And the Democrats will embrace all this sort of stuff.
00:06:21.000 They do.
00:06:22.000 So when I say that I want the Democrats to lose, it's because I want them to lose.
00:06:25.000 But I don't just want them to lose in name.
00:06:27.000 I want them to lose in policy.
00:06:29.000 I don't want any of the policies that the Democrats are pushing.
00:06:32.000 I don't want a weak foreign policy.
00:06:35.000 And I don't want a hatred of free market economics that is being propped up by a bunch of lies about how income inequality damn all of us to the loss of the American dream and all this slop.
00:06:48.000 I'm not interested in a bunch of conspiracy theorizing about how the American dream is dead and you can't get ahead.
00:06:52.000 And therefore, all the meritocracy itself must be ground under.
00:06:56.000 I don't want that.
00:06:57.000 I don't want it from Democrats.
00:06:58.000 I don't want it from Republicans.
00:07:00.000 And listen, it may be because the world's imperfect that we have a bunch of imperfect choices in the future and presidential.
00:07:06.000 Sure.
00:07:06.000 I mean, people very rarely get what they want in politics.
00:07:10.000 But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't call it out when we see it because it is both bad strategy and bad principle.
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