The Ben Shapiro Show - June 26, 2026


How The Socialist Takeover Has Divided Democrats


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1,944

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166

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The Democratic Party has been swallowed up by the far-left, and it s time to wake up to the fact that the party s problems are not caused by Bernie Sanders, but are caused by the MAGA crazies.

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00:00:00.000 For months, headlines said there was a MAGA civil war.
00:00:03.000 Well, you know, the GOP had its civil war and the crazies are all self-deporting.
00:00:08.000 The Democrats, not so much.
00:00:09.000 Gavin Newsom is about to get electorally outflanked by the far left.
00:00:12.000 Make no mistake.
00:00:13.000 The Democratic Party has been eaten by its radicals.
00:00:15.000 That started a long time ago.
00:00:17.000 Meanwhile, Senate Democratic candidate in Michigan, Abdul El Sayed, you know, that dude who loves Ayatollah Khomeini and all the rest, he dropped a creepy blues clues campaign ad that presumes that his would-be constituents are six years old.
00:00:29.000 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is still pulling the wool Over his own eyes.
00:00:33.000 And Governor Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania is calling it all performative politics and suggesting it'll all go away.
00:00:38.000 So, former DNC Chair Jamie Harrison is literally begging Hassan Piker at this point not to use the Democratic Party.
00:00:44.000 Quote If your movement is so strong, why does it keep needing the Democratic Party's ballot line, infrastructure, volunteers, donors, and voter file to win?
00:00:52.000 Apparently, your apparatus isn't strong enough to do it on its own.
00:00:56.000 Fight to make the Democratic Party better.
00:00:57.000 Push it, challenge it.
00:00:58.000 But don't use the Democratic Party as an Uber to get to office and then complain about the ride after you arrive.
00:01:02.000 If you're on the team, be on the team.
00:01:04.000 Why should they be on the team? 0.59
00:01:05.000 They've gotten everything they want, especially because the entire Democratic Party is surrendering to the nutjob, surrendering to it. 0.53
00:01:11.000 Gavin Newsom, who's willing to say anything to everybody, he has now moved to maybe we should do Medicare for all. 0.79
00:01:17.000 Like, yeah, let's do Bernie Sanders, Medicare for all.
00:01:22.000 There's no snow of Medicare for all.
00:01:23.000 I want to go back to it because I think it's so important.
00:01:25.000 Yeah.
00:01:26.000 It's inevitable from my perspective.
00:01:28.000 It's just the economics, the econ, it just doesn't work.
00:01:31.000 It's, I mean, as a private sector guy, I've got a bunch of private employees.
00:01:34.000 I mean, as a business, It's not working.
00:01:37.000 Obviously, you look at the cost growth in government and that Medicaid debates we're having, Medicare.
00:01:41.000 And the outcomes.
00:01:42.000 And the outcomes. 0.95
00:01:43.000 So, dumb as we want to be, the challenge is, and this is the challenge, just purely one of pragmatic political reality. 0.95
00:01:51.000 And you're back to being a pragmatic progressive, which I like as well that frame. 0.97
00:01:56.000 How the hell do you do it without taking something away that people have come to enjoy for generations?
00:02:02.000 And that's their private health insurance.
00:02:05.000 He is going to get outflanked.
00:02:07.000 That's just the reality.
00:02:08.000 Now, he thinks he's going to be able to virtue signal to the left by saying that it's all about power.
00:02:13.000 He's going to speak the tough language.
00:02:15.000 It's not going to be enough.
00:02:18.000 I'm done winning arguments.
00:02:20.000 And we got to consolidate power.
00:02:20.000 We got to win.
00:02:22.000 And again, this book is about power.
00:02:23.000 The subheadline, again, how to, I mean, this is it, wield power. 1.00
00:02:28.000 Without it, it's all bullshit. 1.00
00:02:31.000 I mean, it's academic bullshit. 1.00
00:02:32.000 And it's frustrating. 0.99
00:02:33.000 It's becoming more and more frustrating.
00:02:36.000 Okay, again, that's not going to work.
00:02:38.000 There is a split emerging in the Democratic Party. 0.98
00:02:40.000 People who wish to uphold the Democratic Party against the nutjobs. 0.96
00:02:43.000 And the people who are just going to back the nut jobs because, again, more important to defeat Republicans. 0.91
00:02:49.000 So, for example, Representative Gregory Meeks says this is a New York City problem.
00:02:52.000 It's not going to happen nationally.
00:02:54.000 Oh, really?
00:02:55.000 Oh, really?
00:02:58.000 It is a New York City problem that we've got to be focused on because I think it is clear that when you listen to at least some of the statements that have been made, they don't want to be a part of the Democratic Party.
00:03:12.000 They want to divide the Democratic Party.
00:03:14.000 That's not going to happen nationally.
00:03:18.000 Okay, so again, some Democrats are trying to push back against Governor Josh Shapiro in very purple Pennsylvania.
00:03:23.000 He says that maybe when these people get elected to office, they'll moderate.
00:03:26.000 Nope, nope. 0.99
00:03:28.000 The mistake of every idiotic mainstream movement when these people get responsibility, that will moderate them. 0.99
00:03:34.000 Last words of Franz von Papen as he ushered Hitler into office. 0.99
00:03:37.000 Here's Governor Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania. 0.56
00:03:41.000 I think what is important are the people who are making a lot of noise, who are engaging in these performative politics.
00:03:48.000 Have to now figure out how to deliver results.
00:03:51.000 It's one thing to speak in platitudes during a campaign.
00:03:54.000 It's a whole other thing to actually deliver for people who are genuinely hurting, who genuinely need to see cost of living go down, meaning their ability to make ends meet, you know, go up, fixing a broken health care system, reining in excesses, being able to, you know, give people the promise of liberty that we've talked about.
00:04:15.000 I think we as a party need to find our way toward candidates who actually can deliver for people and make their lives better.
00:04:25.000 Again, we will find out if that is true.
00:04:27.000 I think it is not, especially because the Democratic Party, again, they will just end up solidifying behind any Democrat who ends up with the nomination.
00:04:34.000 That is what is happening with Democrats and Abdul El Sayed, a terrorist supporter who is running for the Senate seat in Michigan.
00:04:41.000 Democrats are getting behind him no matter what.
00:04:42.000 Because, again, more important to grab power than to stand up against the nuts in your own party.
00:04:48.000 Abdul El Sayed has now cut a Blues Clues campaign ad.
00:04:51.000 I kid you not.
00:04:53.000 Let's check it out.
00:04:56.000 Which is why we need money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for all.
00:05:05.000 Here's the mail, it never fails.
00:05:07.000 It makes me wanna wag my tail.
00:05:09.000 When it comes, I wanna wail. 1.00
00:05:17.000 Thanks, mailbox. 0.91
00:05:21.000 We just got a letter.
00:05:26.000 I wonder who it's from.
00:05:29.000 It looks like my ballot.
00:05:35.000 It's a Ma'ez Halakhamedi.
00:05:40.000 Does he think his supporters are children? 0.59
00:05:46.000 Children can't vote.
00:05:50.000 Either he's aiming at six year olds or he's aiming at people with the brains of six year olds, which is also possible. 0.91
00:05:55.000 Votes could do, we can't do.
00:06:05.000 It's cute, guys.
00:06:06.000 It's really cute and it's fun.
00:06:07.000 It's like when you were watching Nickelodeon as a kid, except that that guy loves terrorism.
00:06:11.000 That guy loves terrorism and he really, really hates the country.
00:06:14.000 But he can also do a credible impersonation of the weird guy from Blues Clues.
00:06:20.000 Congrats, America.
00:06:21.000 This is where it's crazed socialist jihadism, spoon fed to you as children's programming.
00:06:28.000 We're doing great.
00:06:28.000 We're doing great.
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00:07:35.000 So why is the Democratic Party just going to Go for all of this?
00:07:38.000 The answer, of course, is because they hate Trump just that much.
00:07:41.000 Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, he really wants to be speaker. 0.99
00:07:45.000 He basically says we should not at any point look at Abdul El Sayed or Daria Lisa Chevalier or any of the rest of these communistslash terrorist clowns. 0.95
00:07:56.000 We shouldn't look at any of them because Donald Trump's the president. 0.97
00:08:01.000 They were saying you're next about Hakeem Jeffries.
00:08:04.000 You're next.
00:08:06.000 You can't think this is.
00:08:09.000 This is a positive development in New York politics, can you?
00:08:13.000 And all they'll just, you know, Dems will be Dems or something like that.
00:08:17.000 I don't see how you can say that.
00:08:21.000 You need to reject those things, I think.
00:08:23.000 First of all, I've clearly rejected those things.
00:08:26.000 That's number one.
00:08:27.000 Number two, and my record speaks for itself, this is not a Dems will be Dems situation.
00:08:33.000 Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America right now.
00:08:36.000 Are you kidding me?
00:08:39.000 So what?
00:08:40.000 Well, the answer is the debt is an excuse for everything.
00:08:40.000 So what?
00:08:43.000 You must side, as we discussed yesterday on the program, you must side with the far left just to stop Trump if you're a traditional Democrat.
00:08:49.000 It doesn't matter if the far left is going to eat your lunch and then wear your face around as a skin mask.
00:08:54.000 It doesn't matter.
00:08:57.000 Some of the Democrats are, of course, very enthusiastic about this.
00:09:00.000 Senator Chris Murphy, who, again, wants to run for president, I don't get it.
00:09:05.000 I'll never get it.
00:09:06.000 He put out a statement I don't know, man.
00:09:08.000 Who is the Democratic Party if not the voters?
00:09:10.000 Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders.
00:09:12.000 Party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us.
00:09:14.000 And right now, They are demanding our party be bolder.
00:09:17.000 Ah, it's all about boldness.
00:09:19.000 Communism and pro jihadism and hatred of America, all of that is about being bold, don't you see? 0.97
00:09:25.000 So, again, the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this because, in their heart of hearts, they agree that America is kind of crappy.
00:09:32.000 They agree that America's economic system is utterly unfair.
00:09:35.000 And so they don't have the courage of their own convictions to even push back against this sort of stuff.
00:09:40.000 So they'll just all get behind it.
00:09:41.000 They'll all just get behind it.
00:09:43.000 Here's UAW President Sean Fein saying that they're going to fight like hell for Abdul El Sayed.
00:09:50.000 The rich, they don't want someone like Abdullah Syed in the U.S. Senate.
00:09:54.000 But the one thing we've got to counter that is we've got the people.
00:09:57.000 And that's why the UAW is going to go all out in this Senate primary and is going to fight like hell for Abdul Osayed because we know Abdul will fight like hell for us.
00:10:08.000 And that's all that matters, right?
00:10:10.000 And all that matters to the union members of the UAW is that the dude who has stood in favor of Middle Eastern terrorism at every turn, that guy must be a senator.
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