The Ben Shapiro Show - June 29, 2026


Who REALLY Controls The Democratic Party?

Topics
Soros spending in elections corruption in politics schism in Democrats
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Ben Shapiro
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George Soros Chuck Schumer James Carville John Ossoff Cory Booker Alex Soros Andreessen Horowitz Miriam Adelson Michael Lasher Darializa Avia Bernie Sanders John Fetterman Claire Valdez Gavin Newsom Chris Murphy Chris Murray Genocide Joe Brad Lander Joe Biden Jabber and 3 more
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AOC and the DSA are trying to make nice, and the mainstream Democratic Party is trying to be nice too. They want to wave an American flag in one hand, and a Pride, Progress, Free Palestine flag in the other.

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00:00:00 You keep hearing the left say, oh, that's a grassroots movement.
00:00:00 It's really funny.
00:00:02 It's so grassroots.
00:00:04 Unless your last name is Soros.
00:00:06 So apparently, according to the New York Post, George Soros and his son Alex spent $103 million in the midterm election cycle so far.
00:00:14 With the November elections still more than four months away, Soros could shatter his own spending record of $128 million set during the last midterms four years ago when he was the single biggest political donor.
00:00:25 Virtually all of the money was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee.
00:00:30 Of that money, a little over half came from George, and the other half came from a nonprofit which lists Alex Soros as director in its tax filings.
00:00:39 By contrast, Elon has spent $85 million.
00:00:42 Andreessen Horowitz has spent $91 million.
00:00:45 Miriam Adelson has spent $68 million.
00:00:47 APAC has spent $30 million.
00:00:50 The public sector unions, by the way, have spent far more than that.
00:00:54 The four biggest public sector unions in 2023, 2024 spent $915 million in elections.
00:01:02 This is why when you hear Democrats, Jabber about they want money out of elections.
00:01:06 They only mean money they don't agree with.
00:01:08 Otherwise, they really, really like spending money on elections.
00:01:11 Now, as you can see, AOC is trying to make nice. 1.00
00:01:14 She's trying to make nice. 0.55
00:01:15 And the mainstream Democratic Party is trying to make nice too.
00:01:18 They want to wave an American flag in the one hand, reluctantly, and they want to wave that Pride, Progress, Free Palestine flag in the other.
00:01:25 And so Hakeem Jeffries put out a tweet congratulating a bunch of DSA candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Michael Lasher, and Darializa Avia, Chevalier.
00:01:35 In New York, quote, congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation.
00:01:40 We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far right extremism.
00:01:44 Yes, that's what we must worry about.
00:01:45 The entire Democratic Party is now swiveling hard to the left.
00:01:48 Gavin Newsom, who, by the way, is against a wealth tax in California because he recognizes everyone will leave, is in favor of it nationally now.
00:01:58 It's time for a national billionaire's tax and a new social contract.
00:02:02 Think about this just 10% of people, 10% of people in this country own two thirds.
00:02:07 Of the wealth.
00:02:09 A 30 year old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents.
00:02:16 That's a five alarm fire.
00:02:18 American wages have stood still and the costs across the spectrum, cost of living, have skyrocketed.
00:02:25 The system is fundamentally broken.
00:02:27 The federal tax code, the corporate tax code, and the inheritance tax code seem to be written for a different set of Americans.
00:02:35 It's time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax.
00:02:39 A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.
00:02:46 We also should end this tax free lifestyle loan.
00:02:50 This is the gimmick that allows the ultra wealthy to borrow against their stock portfolios while reporting no taxable income.
00:02:59 She's not going to date you, dude.
00:03:01 He's going to get outflanked.
00:03:02 He's going to get outflanked.
00:03:03 Newsom thinks if he swivels to the left, the DSA is not going to eat his lunch.
00:03:06 They will eat his lunch.
00:03:07 Whoever Bernie Sanders endorses is the front runner.
00:03:10 It's that simple because the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this.
00:03:13 Senator Chris Murphy, he is doing the same routine.
00:03:16 He says, Capitalism, it's not working.
00:03:19 We have to try what?
00:03:20 The rent control nonsense of New York?
00:03:23 We have to try full scale socialism or what?
00:03:27 Does the Democratic Party actually need to embrace the moniker of socialism, lean into it?
00:03:34 No, but I think we have to understand that people do not believe that this version of capitalism has worked.
00:03:40 And frankly, it hasn't worked.
00:03:42 I mean, you have 40% of Americans today that are working full time and don't have enough money saved up in the bank for an emergency car repair.
00:03:51 Meanwhile, we just saw the first trillionaire made in this economy.
00:03:56 This version of capitalism isn't working.
00:04:01 So, again, again, capitalism is bad, according to Chris Murray.
00:04:04 This is where the Democratic Party is going. 0.67
00:04:06 Senator John Assoff, who wants to play Obama in Georgia, again, Assoff is Jewish, so he's going nowhere, like really fast inside the Democratic Party, because that's the rule. 0.82
00:04:15 Yeah, he says this is all just revulsion at the corrupt political class. 0.72
00:04:18 Guys, trying to channel the jet fuel that is the DSA is not going to work.
00:04:22 It will explode on you, I promise.
00:04:26 Here's what I think we're seeing across the country, and it's happening in both political parties.
00:04:32 We are seeing a growing revulsion at the corruption of an entrenched political class that, especially since the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to limitless secret corporate funding of politics, has been less and less responsive to the needs of the American people and more and more responsive to powerful donors, whether they're corporate interests or the ultra-rich.
00:04:57 And I think that that is driving Some of the dynamics we're seeing in both political parties right now.
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00:06:11 Cory Booker doing the same thing.
00:06:13 Oh, no, they're part of our coalition.
00:06:14 We need a big tent coalition. 1.00
00:06:16 Any politician, right or left, who includes in their coalition psychos, the psycho will take over the coalition.
00:06:22 If you are trapped in a subway car with a dude with a knife, and you say, listen, our subway car must include the dude with the knife, none of the rest of us are wielding knives, but that dude with the knife who is high on LSD, he must be in our subway car.
00:06:33 It is our subway car, after all.
00:06:35 And we need more people in the subway car.
00:06:37 At the end of the day, you're going to get held hostage by the dude with the knife.
00:06:39 That's how it works.
00:06:40 Here's Senator Cory Booker.
00:06:42 A lot of people right now are trying to paint the Democratic Party and insinuate division and differences before us.
00:06:50 I'm one of these people that believes very clearly if everybody in your coalition agrees with you on everything, then your coalition isn't big enough.
00:07:00 Well, guess what?
00:07:01 You are about to be forced to agree with the people who are holding the knife inside your coalition.
00:07:07 15 House Democrats have now signed a pledge to promote capitalism over socialism.
00:07:11 There are a few dissenters.
00:07:12 Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, of course, last sane Democrat in the Senate.
00:07:16 He says it's insane that being patriotic has now become partisan.
00:07:21 Being patriotic now has become partisan right now.
00:07:26 You look at the kinds of polls right now, I think 18% of Democrats were intensely proud to be American or proud of the country.
00:07:34 And that's truly absurd.
00:07:37 You don't have to agree with everyone that's in the White House or some other things.
00:07:42 I will always remain intensely proud of our nation.
00:07:45 And where we are, we are the good guys.
00:07:50 Meanwhile, the so called moderate wing of the Democratic Party, they're getting heckled out of the room.
00:07:54 Joe Biden got heckled at the Maryland Democratic Party Gala.
00:07:59 It's a battle that's never truly over.
00:08:07 And we'll look.
00:08:13 They're chanting Genocide Joe again.
00:08:15 Free Palestine, trans pride radicals, same flag.
00:08:18 That's the flag. 0.72
00:08:19 Well, I can't sugarcoat it. 0.97
00:08:21 It's American flag versus that.
00:08:23 These are indeed dark days.
00:08:25 Let's remember.
00:08:28 And why is he still speaking?
00:08:28 It's just terrible for him, honestly, that his wife keeps trotting about like this.
00:08:32 He is not with us.
00:08:33 Chuck Schumer was getting booed at the Pride Parade.
00:08:35 And it's going to happen all over.
00:08:37 Get ready, Democrats.
00:08:38 Get ready.
00:08:38 You did this to yourselves, you did it.
00:08:50 Hi, everybody. 0.99
00:08:54 Oh, well, there is Chuck Schumer looking at Hello, fellow gay kids. 0.98
00:08:58 Chuck Schumer. 0.97
00:08:59 Things are going poorly for him over in New York.
00:09:01 No wonder, James Carville.
00:09:03 He is saying it's time for Democrats to talk schism.
00:09:05 Why?
00:09:05 Well, because in the New Democratic Party, James Carville will be thrown over the side of the boat just like everybody else.
00:09:14 She has attacked interracial relationships in the American flag.
00:09:18 Lady, I ain't in the same party as you.
00:09:20 I'm sorry.
00:09:22 I just not.
00:09:24 And I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word, schism.
00:09:32 I really do.
00:09:33 Everybody's always said, no, no, we're a coalition, we're a big tent.
00:09:38 And there's just some that I can't be in the same tent with.
00:09:42 The idea that we must neglect everything else that's gone on, all of these other primaries, all the recruits Jason has, all huge, phenomenal successes we've had, and declare that the party is now under the control of.
00:09:56 Of a democratic socialist of New York City is insane.
00:10:02 It is insane, but you guys did it.
00:10:05 It was your decision.
00:10:06 You did it.
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