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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10 minutes

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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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00:00:00.000 You keep hearing the left say, oh, that's a grassroots movement.
00:00:00.000 It's really funny.
00:00:02.000 It's so grassroots.
00:00:04.000 Unless your last name is Soros.
00:00:06.000 So apparently, according to the New York Post, George Soros and his son Alex spent $103 million in the midterm election cycle so far.
00:00:14.000 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.
00:00:25.000 Virtually all of the money was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee.
00:00:30.000 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.
00:00:39.000 By contrast, Elon has spent $85 million.
00:00:42.000 Andreessen Horowitz has spent $91 million.
00:00:45.000 Miriam Adelson has spent $68 million.
00:00:47.000 APAC has spent $30 million.
00:00:50.000 The public sector unions, by the way, have spent far more than that.
00:00:54.000 The four biggest public sector unions in 2023, 2024 spent $915 million in elections.
00:01:02.000 This is why when you hear Democrats, Jabber about they want money out of elections.
00:01:06.000 They only mean money they don't agree with.
00:01:08.000 Otherwise, they really, really like spending money on elections.
00:01:11.000 Now, as you can see, AOC is trying to make nice. 1.00
00:01:14.000 She's trying to make nice. 0.55
00:01:15.000 And the mainstream Democratic Party is trying to make nice too.
00:01:18.000 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.
00:01:25.000 And so Hakeem Jeffries put out a tweet congratulating a bunch of DSA candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Michael Lasher, and Darializa Avia, Chevalier.
00:01:35.000 In New York, quote, congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation.
00:01:40.000 We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far right extremism.
00:01:44.000 Yes, that's what we must worry about.
00:01:45.000 The entire Democratic Party is now swiveling hard to the left.
00:01:48.000 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.
00:01:58.000 It's time for a national billionaire's tax and a new social contract.
00:02:02.000 Think about this just 10% of people, 10% of people in this country own two thirds.
00:02:07.000 Of the wealth.
00:02:09.000 A 30 year old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents.
00:02:16.000 That's a five alarm fire.
00:02:18.000 American wages have stood still and the costs across the spectrum, cost of living, have skyrocketed.
00:02:25.000 The system is fundamentally broken.
00:02:27.000 The federal tax code, the corporate tax code, and the inheritance tax code seem to be written for a different set of Americans.
00:02:35.000 It's time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax.
00:02:39.000 A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.
00:02:46.000 We also should end this tax free lifestyle loan.
00:02:50.000 This is the gimmick that allows the ultra wealthy to borrow against their stock portfolios while reporting no taxable income.
00:02:59.000 She's not going to date you, dude.
00:03:01.000 He's going to get outflanked.
00:03:02.000 He's going to get outflanked.
00:03:03.000 Newsom thinks if he swivels to the left, the DSA is not going to eat his lunch.
00:03:06.000 They will eat his lunch.
00:03:07.000 Whoever Bernie Sanders endorses is the front runner.
00:03:10.000 It's that simple because the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this.
00:03:13.000 Senator Chris Murphy, he is doing the same routine.
00:03:16.000 He says, Capitalism, it's not working.
00:03:19.000 We have to try what?
00:03:20.000 The rent control nonsense of New York?
00:03:23.000 We have to try full scale socialism or what?
00:03:27.000 Does the Democratic Party actually need to embrace the moniker of socialism, lean into it?
00:03:34.000 No, but I think we have to understand that people do not believe that this version of capitalism has worked.
00:03:40.000 And frankly, it hasn't worked.
00:03:42.000 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.
00:03:51.000 Meanwhile, we just saw the first trillionaire made in this economy.
00:03:56.000 This version of capitalism isn't working.
00:04:01.000 So, again, again, capitalism is bad, according to Chris Murray.
00:04:04.000 This is where the Democratic Party is going. 0.67
00:04:06.000 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
00:04:15.000 Yeah, he says this is all just revulsion at the corrupt political class. 0.72
00:04:18.000 Guys, trying to channel the jet fuel that is the DSA is not going to work.
00:04:22.000 It will explode on you, I promise.
00:04:26.000 Here's what I think we're seeing across the country, and it's happening in both political parties.
00:04:32.000 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.
00:04:57.000 And I think that that is driving Some of the dynamics we're seeing in both political parties right now.
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00:06:11.000 Cory Booker doing the same thing.
00:06:13.000 Oh, no, they're part of our coalition.
00:06:14.000 We need a big tent coalition. 1.00
00:06:16.000 Any politician, right or left, who includes in their coalition psychos, the psycho will take over the coalition.
00:06:22.000 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.
00:06:33.000 It is our subway car, after all.
00:06:35.000 And we need more people in the subway car.
00:06:37.000 At the end of the day, you're going to get held hostage by the dude with the knife.
00:06:39.000 That's how it works.
00:06:40.000 Here's Senator Cory Booker.
00:06:42.000 A lot of people right now are trying to paint the Democratic Party and insinuate division and differences before us.
00:06:50.000 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.
00:07:00.000 Well, guess what?
00:07:01.000 You are about to be forced to agree with the people who are holding the knife inside your coalition.
00:07:07.000 15 House Democrats have now signed a pledge to promote capitalism over socialism.
00:07:11.000 There are a few dissenters.
00:07:12.000 Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, of course, last sane Democrat in the Senate.
00:07:16.000 He says it's insane that being patriotic has now become partisan.
00:07:21.000 Being patriotic now has become partisan right now.
00:07:26.000 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.
00:07:34.000 And that's truly absurd.
00:07:37.000 You don't have to agree with everyone that's in the White House or some other things.
00:07:42.000 I will always remain intensely proud of our nation.
00:07:45.000 And where we are, we are the good guys.
00:07:50.000 Meanwhile, the so called moderate wing of the Democratic Party, they're getting heckled out of the room.
00:07:54.000 Joe Biden got heckled at the Maryland Democratic Party Gala.
00:07:59.000 It's a battle that's never truly over.
00:08:07.000 And we'll look.
00:08:13.000 They're chanting Genocide Joe again.
00:08:15.000 Free Palestine, trans pride radicals, same flag.
00:08:18.000 That's the flag. 0.72
00:08:19.000 Well, I can't sugarcoat it. 0.97
00:08:21.000 It's American flag versus that.
00:08:23.000 These are indeed dark days.
00:08:25.000 Let's remember.
00:08:28.000 And why is he still speaking?
00:08:28.000 It's just terrible for him, honestly, that his wife keeps trotting about like this.
00:08:32.000 He is not with us.
00:08:33.000 Chuck Schumer was getting booed at the Pride Parade.
00:08:35.000 And it's going to happen all over.
00:08:37.000 Get ready, Democrats.
00:08:38.000 Get ready.
00:08:38.000 You did this to yourselves, you did it.
00:08:50.000 Hi, everybody. 0.99
00:08:54.000 Oh, well, there is Chuck Schumer looking at Hello, fellow gay kids. 0.98
00:08:58.000 Chuck Schumer. 0.97
00:08:59.000 Things are going poorly for him over in New York.
00:09:01.000 No wonder, James Carville.
00:09:03.000 He is saying it's time for Democrats to talk schism.
00:09:05.000 Why?
00:09:05.000 Well, because in the New Democratic Party, James Carville will be thrown over the side of the boat just like everybody else.
00:09:14.000 She has attacked interracial relationships in the American flag.
00:09:18.000 Lady, I ain't in the same party as you.
00:09:20.000 I'm sorry.
00:09:22.000 I just not.
00:09:24.000 And I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word, schism.
00:09:32.000 I really do.
00:09:33.000 Everybody's always said, no, no, we're a coalition, we're a big tent.
00:09:38.000 And there's just some that I can't be in the same tent with.
00:09:42.000 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.
00:09:56.000 Of a democratic socialist of New York City is insane.
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