The Glenn Beck Program - August 03, 2026


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00:00:00.520 Hey, it's Monday. We've got a great podcast for you. Good day with a guy with a gun. He
00:00:05.480 helped stop a bad guy with a gun during a mass shooting event in an Idaho In-N-Out fast
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00:02:09.640 twins fall idaho very small little town great town it's 2 30 in the afternoon jordan salinas
00:02:15.960 and his girlfriend are sitting in the drive-thru at the in and out on blue lakes boulevard
00:02:20.360 Their plan is just, let's have some lunch, then we'll maybe go ride some horses.
00:02:26.180 And that's when people start running.
00:02:28.500 They thought at first it was a kitchen fire.
00:02:31.420 That's what the mind does.
00:02:32.580 It reaches for the ordinary explanation first.
00:02:35.800 Because the ordinary explanation is always, well, almost always the right one.
00:02:40.980 Employees are coming, running out the doors.
00:02:42.900 People are crossing the road in a dead sprint.
00:02:45.380 Kitchen fire has to be.
00:02:46.460 Then pop, pop, pop, pop.
00:02:49.620 He gets out of the car.
00:02:51.060 He says it was automatic, mechanical.
00:02:54.340 The only thing he remembers from those seconds is his girlfriend saying,
00:02:58.040 don't, don't, what, what, honey.
00:03:01.440 Out in that lot was a 24-year-old man with a rifle.
00:03:05.340 He had already fired into the restaurant.
00:03:07.680 He was firing at cars.
00:03:09.140 A cab driver was charging his Tesla in the parking lot, got hit.
00:03:13.560 A man named Lane was just sitting at the stoplight,
00:03:16.380 watching the bullets go into the car directly in front of him.
00:03:19.620 And then the bullets started going the other direction, a pistol from the drive-thru line.
00:03:24.140 Then somewhere else in the same lot, an off-duty Idaho state police trooper doing exactly the same thing.
00:03:31.620 He didn't like it when bullets started firing both ways, at least Salinas didn't.
00:03:37.720 He turned away from the restaurant, moved into the open parking lot, and killed himself.
00:03:43.680 Cohn said the shooter was focused on the man shooting back at him
00:03:49.800 And that's what let everybody else get out
00:03:52.640 But three people still died
00:03:55.420 Seven were wounded
00:03:57.480 Two of them are critical condition
00:03:59.040 One of the dead worked at the counter
00:04:01.740 In a building that had just been open for nine days
00:04:05.300 Jordan Salinas is 35
00:04:10.620 He works in healthcare
00:04:12.680 He lives in Kimberly.
00:04:14.960 And in 2021, he was there at a shooting at the Boise Town Square Mall that killed two people.
00:04:21.140 It was then and there that he decided that's not going to happen again.
00:04:24.780 If I'm around, it's not going to happen again.
00:04:26.200 He decided he was going to learn how to use a firearm.
00:04:28.700 So for five years, he drove out to the desert outside Eden on weekends, and he practiced.
00:04:35.800 Five years every Saturday.
00:04:37.880 He told the Idaho statesman he had never pointed a gun so much as an animal.
00:04:45.860 He said four words that he had run so many times in his head they had worn a groove inside of him.
00:04:52.440 Observe, orient, decide, act.
00:04:59.780 He's a citizen vigilante.
00:05:03.700 No.
00:05:04.260 Well, let me tell you a story.
00:05:09.400 Let me tell you who he used to be up until recently.
00:05:13.940 Let me take you back to England, 1285, Edward I.
00:05:17.600 He signs the Statute of Winchester, and in it, a thing called the hue and cry.
00:05:24.800 What the hell is the hue and cry?
00:05:26.300 The hue and cry?
00:05:27.100 If you witnessed a felony, you were required by law to raise the alarm.
00:05:32.820 And then every able-bodied man who heard that alarm was required by law to drop whatever he was holding and join the chase.
00:05:41.600 Town to town, county to county, until the man was taken and handed over to the sheriff.
00:05:46.400 And if he got away because nobody came, the whole hundred paid for the crime out of their own pockets.
00:05:54.380 Your neighbor's stolen goods came out of your purse.
00:05:59.280 Same statute.
00:06:01.120 Every man was able to keep arms in his house
00:06:04.240 according to his means
00:06:06.260 and not for the king's army
00:06:08.440 but for exactly what happened Saturday.
00:06:13.000 That was the law 544 years.
00:06:17.000 For 544 years, that was the law.
00:06:20.940 There was no police force.
00:06:22.820 There was you and your neighbor.
00:06:25.980 You know that London didn't get a police force
00:06:27.820 until 1829. 1829. And the founding principle written down for that first force was this.
00:06:37.480 The police are the public and the public are the police. Officers being only members of the public
00:06:44.520 who are paid to give full-time attention to the duties which they are incumbent on every citizen.
00:06:51.280 So police officers were just like you. I've said this so many times.
00:06:55.460 you're the first responder it wasn't until jimmy carter where first responders became the police
00:07:03.360 officers or the ambulance you had always been the first responder police just paid to do full time
00:07:13.440 what was already your job the badge is a new thing the citizen is the old thing so citizen
00:07:20.600 No, no. Saturday afternoon in that parking lot.
00:07:26.640 He had them both standing 45 feet apart.
00:07:30.300 A trooper on his day off, no uniform, no radio, no backup, no call.
00:07:34.560 And a health care worker from Kimberly who just wanted a burger.
00:07:40.300 Neither one of them was on duty.
00:07:43.660 Yet both of them were on duty.
00:07:50.600 I wish this was more of a story where the good guy wins, but not really, because three families got a knock on the door.
00:07:59.940 Two people are still in critical condition.
00:08:03.440 I don't think anybody in Twin Falls is calling this a victory today.
00:08:10.940 Not all of us are capable of running into gunfire, and not all of us should be running at gunfire.
00:08:18.980 Everybody needs a gun.
00:08:20.200 Salinas is not a hero because he had a gun.
00:08:26.520 That's Idaho.
00:08:27.420 Half the parking lot had a gun.
00:08:28.980 I can guarantee it.
00:08:30.360 Half the parking lot had a gun.
00:08:34.020 This guy's a hero because for five years of Saturdays in the desert outside Eden,
00:08:39.880 when nothing was happening, nobody was watching,
00:08:43.100 there was no reason on earth to keep going out there, he did.
00:08:51.080 I've said this a million times.
00:08:54.260 Courage isn't manufactured in the moment.
00:08:58.460 It's withdrawn in the moment.
00:09:01.760 You can only take out what you've already put in.
00:09:09.980 It's an interesting side note to this story.
00:09:12.700 Within hours, the internet had the wrong man.
00:09:15.940 Police chief had to come out and say, no, this is on Sunday.
00:09:19.620 No, no, the name going out circulating online, that's wrong.
00:09:24.780 He had nothing to do with this whatsoever.
00:09:27.620 You have it wrong.
00:09:28.880 Thousands of people with all of the time in the world, every tool available to them, got it wrong.
00:09:37.600 One man with about four seconds got it right.
00:09:47.120 Observe.
00:09:48.760 Orient.
00:09:50.620 Decide and act.
00:09:55.080 You know what our problem is?
00:09:58.500 Most of us stop and observe.
00:10:01.060 I mean, we are, I am a pro at observation.
00:10:04.720 I'm magnificent.
00:10:06.880 I could win medals at observing.
00:10:09.920 I think all of us could.
00:10:12.160 We are gold medalists in observing.
00:10:15.460 because we haven't even thought about the other ones.
00:10:21.300 We just observe.
00:10:22.480 Oh, no, no.
00:10:23.140 We observe and then we'll grab our cell phone
00:10:25.580 and we'll record it.
00:10:29.740 You know, the rest of this isn't about talent.
00:10:32.080 It's habit.
00:10:33.960 And habit is only ever a thing
00:10:36.000 that you did on a day when it didn't matter.
00:10:40.900 So you'd have it on the day when it did matter.
00:10:45.460 things could have been a lot worse, a lot worse
00:10:51.560 in this small little town in Idaho
00:10:57.740 if it hadn't been for one man.
00:11:03.700 Go find your desert.
00:11:07.400 Go out on Saturdays
00:11:09.440 and do more than observe.
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00:12:25.440 sponsored by preborn so bill maher uh definitely not a conservative um a couple of weeks ago came
00:12:34.780 out and said hey my vote is up for grabs if these socialists are though are the choice
00:12:41.180 have you have you read what they say you hear what they're for i'm not with them and apparently
00:12:47.760 he said i went on vacation and everybody was yelling at me how dare you're a republican he's
00:12:52.600 like i'm not a republican i'm just not stupid so he reads a few sentences out loud on hbo and his
00:13:01.720 own audience gasps at this this is not a conservative audience it's not a church crowd
00:13:07.740 in Tulsa. It's Los Angeles, an audience that shows up on a Friday night to laugh at Republicans.
00:13:13.840 And Maher told them the Democratic Socialists of America have gone openly communist,
00:13:18.660 that when the president says it, it happens to be true, and that his own party being,
00:13:26.320 right now, his own words, is being colonized. Then he read from a post of one of Mayor Mamdani's
00:13:34.800 top age, urging people to vote for communist candidates. And the room went deathly quiet.
00:13:40.120 Listen. Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of
00:13:46.300 America are actually communist, that's not one of them. And it's not hard to prove it just by
00:13:52.500 quoting the DSA and their candidates. Let's just read the quotes. The DSA platform says,
00:13:58.880 your work, you work as much as you are able and no more than needed. If that was any closer to
00:14:04.880 Karl Marx's dictum from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs,
00:14:09.820 they'd be sued for plagiarism. Not to leave any doubt, New York Mayor Mondani once tweeted Karl
00:14:16.060 Marx's words exactly. They're not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hassan Piker,
00:14:23.260 thinks communism is so groovy.
00:14:26.480 He laments the fall of the two
00:14:28.400 of the most murderous regimes in history,
00:14:30.900 the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.
00:14:34.440 Mandami's aide, his top aide, Sia Weaver,
00:14:37.000 said if you don't believe in the government's sacred right
00:14:39.680 to seize property, it's over.
00:14:41.880 And impoverish the white middle class.
00:14:45.700 What?
00:14:46.540 That's a goal?
00:14:48.080 he then um he goes on and the key to this the the reason the response to the gasp
00:14:58.960 the most important thing he said all night um he just read a tweet that said more people should
00:15:04.460 vote for communists and it was from a democratic socialist candidate okay and they went
00:15:09.860 he looked at them and said good i'm glad you're shocked people have to realize this is going on
00:15:17.460 we're in a moment here right now um and bill maher may be the most important man on the planet
00:15:25.500 to stop this this is something that i've been warning about forever this is the reason i do
00:15:31.760 this job if it wasn't for the people who are actually communist actually socialist actually
00:15:37.620 want to destroy our country if they were just democrats i wouldn't be doing this job i really
00:15:42.320 wouldn't. It's not worth it. It's not. These people are serious, and I've seen them coming
00:15:49.140 forever. But here's what I want you to understand in the moment. Nothing read was leaked. Nothing
00:15:56.660 was hacked. Nothing came from a whistleblower or an undercover camera or a dossier. Everything he
00:16:03.620 said in that entire monologue, and I urge you to go watch the whole thing and then share it,
00:16:07.480 is published. It's sitting public. It's sitting on a website with a nice red and white design
00:16:13.920 and a friendly cartoon fist waiting for anybody in America or around the world to click on it.
00:16:20.260 The address of this program is dsausa.org. dsausa.org. Write it down. It is the most
00:16:32.300 effective thing in American politics right now, and neither party wants to talk about it.
00:16:37.980 So let me tell you what's on it. They call it Workers Deserve More. It opens with a lovely
00:16:44.820 little story about a day off in the world without capitalism. You don't have debt. You have no
00:16:49.940 mortgage, no landlord, no health insurance because you don't need it. Food, education, energy,
00:16:55.560 medicine, transportation are no longer businesses. You can walk your kids to school. You can read a
00:17:01.400 book. You meet friends for dinner. It reads like a brochure for a very nice retirement community.
00:17:08.180 And that's the point. That's the part they want you to read. Then scroll. Under the headings of
00:17:15.460 mass incarceration, they don't say reform the police. They say demilitarize departments,
00:17:22.820 break the police unions, and move the money as steps towards their words, not mine,
00:17:28.340 fully abolishing the police and prison system, end quote. That's sign of a lunacy. That's just
00:17:35.140 lunacy. These are lunatics. But why stop there? Under working class democracy, they call for
00:17:42.960 abolishing the Senate, abolishing the electoral college, replacing the president and the Supreme
00:17:49.140 Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress, answerable only to Congress. I want you
00:17:57.080 to think about that one. This isn't a policy proposal. This is the removal of two of the
00:18:02.360 three branches of the government of the United States. This is a complete redo of the Constitution.
00:18:09.180 It's throwing all of it out and starting fresh. The end of that, Democrats, is that what you want?
00:18:17.160 Under economic democracy, public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries.
00:18:23.060 so they do want to own the machine.
00:18:29.640 Okay, under foreign policy, defund the Department of War.
00:18:33.340 Now, listen to this.
00:18:34.460 I just want you to think, what is the world's response for America
00:18:39.800 defunding the Department of War, closing all of our overseas bases,
00:18:44.700 abolishing ICE, an end to all detention and deportation,
00:18:49.380 amnesty for everyone regardless of status,
00:18:52.180 and end to sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.
00:18:56.040 Those three countries by name on their own website.
00:19:00.820 Wow, that's quite a world, isn't it?
00:19:03.900 And in the preamble, the sentence that ties the whole thing together,
00:19:07.420 they are building a party to draft a new constitution
00:19:11.520 and to create a new democratic socialist republic.
00:19:16.520 Not amend this, not to reform America, draft a new one.
00:19:22.180 now you share this with people i can guarantee you i can i can see it because i can see it in
00:19:28.660 my own family's eyes okay what they'll do is they'll roll their eyes they're like these are
00:19:33.260 fringe kids on the internet and they don't speak for anybody well the website answers that too
00:19:38.940 there's an author's note at the bottom the program was drafted between april and june of this year
00:19:44.700 by a committee elected through the process of their own 2025 national convention the committee
00:19:50.580 included members of their national political community,
00:19:53.560 their board of directors,
00:19:54.820 and leaders of their national committees.
00:19:56.960 They went to the NPC to amend, finalize, and approve.
00:20:00.940 This is not a blog post.
00:20:02.740 This was a ratified governing document
00:20:05.240 produced by leadership
00:20:06.640 for the purpose of guiding those who get their endorsement.
00:20:11.340 Okay?
00:20:11.900 And that endorsement is very important to some people.
00:20:16.620 This is not the Democratic platform.
00:20:20.580 We care about those, right?
00:20:22.640 You're supposed to care about those.
00:20:24.040 What's in there?
00:20:24.760 It tells you.
00:20:27.820 And this isn't a small organization anymore.
00:20:30.320 On the 4th of July, they announced they passed 121,000 members,
00:20:33.820 which, according to their own numbers,
00:20:36.040 makes them the largest socialist organization in American history,
00:20:39.660 larger than Eugene Debb's Socialist Party at its peak in 1912.
00:20:44.220 Also, the Marxist Unity Group faction,
00:20:47.600 The one that Marr named holds three of the 25 seats on that national board.
00:20:53.540 Five of their members won congressional primaries this year.
00:20:57.640 Now, the second thing you're going to hear is, you're taking this out of context.
00:21:00.880 You're exaggerating.
00:21:02.020 That's a right-wing talking point.
00:21:04.500 No.
00:21:05.620 No, actually, the loudest voices saying it out loud are right now have a D after their name.
00:21:10.340 John Fetterman on the Democratic Socialist agenda, quote,
00:21:13.880 This isn't a big tent.
00:21:15.400 It's anarchy.
00:21:17.040 And then the question he put to his own parties, why can't Democrats call this out?
00:21:24.600 Henry Cuellar of Texas, quote, I read their platform and it's radical.
00:21:31.720 He wants Democrats to reject it by name.
00:21:35.640 Now, he's got standing to say it.
00:21:37.960 He says they spent more than $20 million trying to primary him twice.
00:21:42.820 He beat them both times running on border security and oil and gas jobs in a Democratic primary.
00:21:48.380 Mark Kelly of Arizona warned that abolishing police, prisons and borders and defunding the Pentagon don't make sense and will cost his party seats.
00:21:57.440 Annie Andrews running for the Senate in South Carolina as a Democrat called the ideas un-American and unhinged.
00:22:03.960 Rahm Emanuel says it's a losing message anywhere outside of a few zip codes.
00:22:08.820 And Chuck Schumer, asked directly whether his platform belongs in the Democratic Party, wouldn't answer because that guy's terrified.
00:22:16.140 There's one more piece, and it's the part most people have not heard.
00:22:20.180 Last week, Fox reported that people identifying themselves as DSA's own international committee have signed on to a statement from a group called Friends of Socialist China, a pledge to support and defend Chinese socialism.
00:22:35.620 Which, by the way, I just want you to know, that socialism is full-fledged communism.
00:22:40.680 They say they're not for communism. Well, they don't.
00:22:43.620 But others say they're not for communism.
00:22:46.160 Yet, they describe China as socialist.
00:22:50.900 By the way, let's not confuse when I say they.
00:22:53.340 I mean the Democrats say they're not communist.
00:22:55.260 But you're in bed with socialists who describe themselves as communist, at least half of them.
00:23:01.480 And they describe the record of the socialist countries as overwhelmingly positive and calls the idea that socialism produces oppression, a piece of capitalist propaganda that needs correcting.
00:23:13.440 Some of those names have been on that list since 2022.
00:23:16.400 This is not an outlier.
00:23:18.080 In January, the DSA issued a formal statement demanding that Nicolas Maduro be returned to Venezuela.
00:23:23.520 A research institute report in February documented their delegation's meeting with Maduro and the head of Cuba, followed by campaigns back home pushing exactly the policy priorities those governments wanted, including taking Cuba off the terror sponsor list.
00:23:41.520 Prison camps and thought control are propaganda.
00:23:46.180 Really? Maduro should be restored. Have you talked to people who live there?
00:23:50.760 The Chinese model deserves defending their words, their letterhead, their website, not mine.
00:23:58.860 So here's where I'm landing on this, and it might not be where you would think.
00:24:03.420 We don't need to beat these people.
00:24:06.720 We need to provide the introduction to these people.
00:24:13.160 You know, they can't wait to tell you who they are.
00:24:16.940 Look at the numbers.
00:24:17.660 echelon insights asked voters last month the free market came back at 40 plus 41 capitalism
00:24:26.320 plus 20 the dsa minus 21 socialism minus 29 communism minus 73 when reuters and ipsos
00:24:37.500 asked at the end of july whether democratic socialists have good ideas 51 said few or none
00:24:44.240 But in the same poll, 47% of Americans said they don't really even understand what democratic socialist policies actually are, so they couldn't comment.
00:24:53.980 Half the country, half the country has not been shown this document.
00:24:58.620 Half the country have no idea.
00:25:00.800 And in that vacuum, all they've heard is libraries and fire departments and free health care and a nice story about a day off.
00:25:10.280 That's why the fight isn't an argument.
00:25:12.620 It really is a link.
00:25:15.340 When your brother-in-law tells you this is fear-mongering, don't debate him.
00:25:19.160 Don't.
00:25:19.900 Don't cite me.
00:25:21.400 I'm not the source.
00:25:22.360 I don't want to be.
00:25:24.020 Just send him the URL.
00:25:26.080 D-S-A-U-S-A dot org.
00:25:29.860 Let him find the words fully abolishing the police and prison system on his own screen, in their own typeface, their own logo at the top.
00:25:39.360 Let him scroll down to see the author's note and see that the leadership has signed off on it.
00:25:44.940 Because the moment somebody discovers this for himself, it stops being a talking point from a radio host and becomes something he knows.
00:25:53.980 That's why I've always told you, you have to do your own homework.
00:25:57.040 I discovered when I was 30 that there was very little that I actually knew myself.
00:26:02.160 I had been told a lot of things, but I hadn't earned the right to say that's something I truly believed.
00:26:07.840 It was something I had heard.
00:26:09.360 or something that I was taught.
00:26:11.740 I had to go out and find them for myself.
00:26:15.160 And that's the beginning of what was happening in Mars' studio Friday night.
00:26:18.700 Nobody argued anyone into anything.
00:26:21.240 He just read out loud from a document to a room full of people
00:26:24.020 who thought they knew what they were supporting,
00:26:25.940 and they made a sound, oh, boy.
00:26:28.880 They wrote it down.
00:26:29.660 They put it on the Internet.
00:26:30.980 They're proud of it.
00:26:32.360 All we have to do is introduce them to the rest of America.
00:26:36.800 Let Americans read it.
00:26:39.360 D-S-A-U-S-A dot org.
00:26:43.980 More in a minute.
00:26:45.940 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:49.960 Yesterday afternoon in Milwaukee, not the capital of Wisconsin, but in Milwaukee, a high school gym, bleachers pulled out, doors propped open for air.
00:27:00.340 Crowd that was skewing young, the kind of crowd that campaigns, a campaign that prays for this kind of crowd.
00:27:07.180 Nine days out from primary.
00:27:08.720 And it was very American.
00:27:12.620 Until you started listening.
00:27:16.740 The frontrunner for the governor of Wisconsin brought two guests to that gym.
00:27:21.420 One was a congresswoman from Minnesota.
00:27:24.160 The other was a man who broadcast about 3 million people from a studio in Los Angeles.
00:27:28.860 When he was introduced, some of the people of the room came to its feet.
00:27:32.700 And he told them that Wisconsin is the heart of the historic American socialist movement.
00:27:37.240 That's true.
00:27:38.360 He posted it, too, on his way in.
00:27:40.720 The People's Republic of Wisconsin.
00:27:44.000 So he's right partly about history, maybe more right than he knows.
00:27:48.440 And once you know it, the whole afternoon can read differently.
00:27:51.560 So let me fill you in on that so you can read the room and see what's really going on.
00:27:56.500 First, who got the standing ovation?
00:27:58.940 It's the guy that in August of 2019, on a live stream reacting to a Republican congressman named Dan Crenshaw,
00:28:07.740 the Navy SEAL who lost an eye in Afghanistan.
00:28:10.380 He went on a live stream and praised the enemy fighter who took the eye,
00:28:14.300 called him brave,
00:28:16.440 in a language that I'm not going to repeat on the radio,
00:28:18.580 nor would I do it in my private life.
00:28:21.000 And then he went on to say that America deserved 9-11.
00:28:25.400 Then he said, dude, I'm just saying it.
00:28:27.500 Okay, dude.
00:28:29.400 Well, Twitch suspended him for a week.
00:28:32.440 He walked it back on his uncle's show, called it satire,
00:28:36.320 said he should have used better language, and then he clarified that he hadn't said Americans
00:28:41.360 deserved it. He said America deserved it, as though that were the repair. Well, years later,
00:28:47.380 he's still working that same material, joking about a sequel. He has aired Houthi propaganda
00:28:54.040 on his stream, the Iranian-backed outfit in Yemen shooting at civilian ships, met it with sympathy
00:29:00.200 instead of scrutiny democratic congressman from new york richard uh richie torres wrote to twitch
00:29:06.400 and amazon calling him the poster child for the anti-semitism that broke out after october 7th
00:29:12.680 democratic congressman in illinois brad schneider said in march that when democrats put this man on
00:29:17.920 their stages the party forfeits the credibility to condemn bigotry on the right the democrats said
00:29:24.260 that not me the democrats said that and then you have the woman standing next to him she's the one
00:29:30.060 who described the murder of 3,000 Americans
00:29:33.120 as some people did something.
00:29:37.840 Okay, well, yeah, they flew planes into buildings.
00:29:41.880 Reporter asked the candidate
00:29:43.260 whether campaigning with him was a risk.
00:29:47.400 The woman who wants to be the governor,
00:29:49.260 Hong in Wisconsin,
00:29:53.540 said it's not a risk.
00:29:56.860 What would be a risk is to not build
00:29:59.160 The Broadest Coalition Possible.
00:30:02.420 Oh, my gosh.
00:30:03.820 You know, I talked about this earlier.
00:30:06.100 Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
00:30:07.920 Something all of our moms said, most likely.
00:30:12.660 So you should remember it.
00:30:14.900 And we should apply it today.
00:30:17.040 Let's look at our friends.
00:30:18.900 Coalition is the oldest word in the story.
00:30:21.160 And Wisconsin really invented it.
00:30:23.760 Let me tell you who Wisconsin really is.
00:30:25.660 in 1910 a milwaukee elected pattern maker they elected him mayor his name was emil seidel he was
00:30:37.900 mayor the first socialist mayor to run in a major american city same city that sent the first
00:30:43.720 socialist to congress that same year and they kept electing socialist mayors on and off for
00:30:48.680 the next 50 years. But here's what they were known as. Sewer socialists. They campaigned on
00:30:58.020 sewers and garbage collection and water and milk inspection and paving, municipal housekeeping.
00:31:04.660 Out of New York, the party's leading intellectual lawyer named Morris Hillquit, he was a man who ran
00:31:10.640 for office in New York over and over and over again and kept losing. And he looked at Milwaukee
00:31:14.940 winning and he coined this as an insult and it stuck but not as an insult sewer so they're nothing
00:31:20.920 but sewer socialists you're not revolutionaries you're plumbers milwaukee took that insult and
00:31:27.700 wore it like a jacket but sidell years later that's the that's the mayor uh in wisconsin
00:31:36.300 that kept winning he was writing a memoir it never got published i wonder why in it he left
00:31:44.900 a few lines worth carrying to you today. He said, they wanted more than sewers. Oh,
00:31:52.340 so very much more than sewers. Who are the they? The socialist. He. He wanted more than sewers.
00:32:01.680 Oh, so very much more than sewers. But that's the arrangement. And it's held for 116 years.
00:32:08.760 The sewer wing wins the elections. How did Donald Trump win in such a socialist place?
00:32:14.480 Well, there's lots of reasons, but one is he could appeal to the sewer socialists because he was effectively talking about the sewers.
00:32:21.960 He was talking about jobs.
00:32:23.120 He was talking about the price of gas.
00:32:24.920 He was talking about all those things.
00:32:27.180 And that's a sewer socialist.
00:32:28.940 That's language sewer socialists listen to.
00:32:31.380 Somebody who's going to go in and fix things.
00:32:34.060 The platform wing writes down what the movement is actually for.
00:32:39.300 The plumber knocks on your door.
00:32:41.360 The theorist keeps the plan.
00:32:44.280 And neither one of them is actually lying, exactly.
00:32:48.100 They've just divided the labor.
00:32:50.400 One is the front man.
00:32:52.300 The other is behind the scenes.
00:32:54.680 Hillquit never came to Milwaukee.
00:32:56.460 He sneered at it from 1,000 miles away.
00:32:58.960 But Sunday, the sneer flew in, took a microphone,
00:33:03.020 and a high school gymnasium in the suburbs of Milwaukee
00:33:06.200 and got a standing ovation.
00:33:08.540 And he didn't talk about sewers.
00:33:11.100 He said they were going to run up the numbers on August 11th and carry that into victory in November
00:33:15.700 until there would never be another Republican winning in Wisconsin ever again.
00:33:22.180 And then he said, it's not me, it's all of us.
00:33:25.800 Now, I want you to watch the division of labor in this campaign because it's textbook.
00:33:32.620 The ads and on the stump, all they're talking about is cost of living, child care, health care, wages.
00:33:39.160 She's a chef.
00:33:40.360 She washed dishes.
00:33:41.520 She is a single mom who couldn't find a place she could afford.
00:33:45.120 That's the sewer socialist.
00:33:47.100 And I don't say that with a sneer.
00:33:48.800 Those are real things in real lives.
00:33:50.440 And if my own party had better answers on the price of a house and a week of groceries, you know, she'd be 20 points behind instead of 20 points ahead.
00:33:59.140 Why?
00:34:01.200 Because in June, she sat in that Los Angeles studio with Piker for 90 minutes.
00:34:07.860 And in a rapid-fire round, she said yes to state-run grocery stores, yes to cracking down on tech, yes to freeing Palestine, yes to a statue of Scott Walker built for the express purpose of letting people tear it down.
00:34:25.580 That's all more than sewers.
00:34:27.100 The last one was a joke, I think.
00:34:29.560 But that's more than sewers.
00:34:30.660 what you have to understand when when they say a broad coalition you have to understand a coalition
00:34:37.820 is not a guest list it's a contract you don't get somebody else's crowd for free you get it by
00:34:45.560 owing somebody something and when the man on that stage when you know what he was talking about
00:34:54.360 wasn't a budget line or a bill number.
00:34:58.320 He asked for the win itself.
00:35:01.980 And what does he believe?
00:35:04.860 You don't have to guess what the rest of the coalition wants
00:35:08.020 because they publish it.
00:35:09.900 We've been talking last hour,
00:35:11.280 the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America
00:35:13.260 sat on Fox a week ago,
00:35:14.700 went down the list on national television,
00:35:16.620 abolished the Senate.
00:35:17.720 Yes, replaced the presidency.
00:35:20.080 Yes, replaced the Supreme Court.
00:35:21.720 Yes, abolished ICE.
00:35:22.780 Yes, opened the borders.
00:35:23.920 Yes, defund the Pentagon.
00:35:25.460 Yes, open and empty the prisons.
00:35:28.520 Yes, put the large corporations under public ownership.
00:35:32.540 Yes, nobody had to leak that.
00:35:34.600 Nobody hacked anything.
00:35:36.300 She said it out loud on a Sunday show.
00:35:38.780 And the plumber on your porch is still talking about your groceries bill.
00:35:44.700 That is the way socialists work.
00:35:52.260 Sewer socialists.
00:35:53.920 it's not a smear.
00:35:56.720 It's a tactic.
00:35:59.500 Now, if you're on my side on any of this,
00:36:02.840 we're nine days away.
00:36:03.700 Don't spend the nine days away celebrating.
00:36:05.940 The same polling that has her running away with a primary
00:36:09.220 has November inside the margin
00:36:11.380 in a state that decides presidencies by 20,000 votes.
00:36:16.060 A candidate you find easy to mock
00:36:18.180 is not the same candidate
00:36:19.740 or not the same thing as a candidate that's easy to beat.
00:36:22.500 She might be.
00:36:23.920 But this is Wisconsin.
00:36:26.180 Ask anybody who's been through a Wisconsin November.
00:36:32.920 Now, why does any of this matter to a man today in Twin Falls?
00:36:37.860 Or a woman in Macon who's never cast a vote in Wisconsin?
00:36:47.020 Because we all have to learn this.
00:36:48.900 Sewer talk is your life.
00:36:51.020 It's your street.
00:36:51.720 It's your water.
00:36:52.360 It's your kid's school.
00:36:53.920 The number at the bottom of your receipt.
00:36:56.980 Platform talk is about categories of people.
00:37:00.340 Who owns, who takes, who is owed, who has to be broken so the arithmetic works.
00:37:06.560 One of those is government.
00:37:09.600 The other one, every single time, every time it has been tried, ends up needing somebody to blame.
00:37:17.720 If somebody is just talking about the sewers, that probably is a good thing.
00:37:23.000 But you must then see who's standing around them.
00:37:27.200 The question to ask a candidate is not who she stood next to on any given Sunday.
00:37:33.180 Because anybody can dodge that.
00:37:35.400 The question is Mayor Seidel's question.
00:37:40.040 But instead of sitting there in a book for 114 years, it's asked loud in public, on record, before the ballots are counted or even cast.
00:37:47.520 When you do have power, what is the much more than sewers to you?
00:37:57.280 And believe me, they'll tell you.
00:37:59.160 They'll tell you.
00:38:00.040 They always have.
00:38:00.700 They're telling you by who they stand around.
00:38:03.700 She's telling you by taking the Democratic Socialists of America endorsement and running as a Democratic Socialist.
00:38:11.980 They'll tell you.
00:38:13.420 Because they've written it down.
00:38:14.760 One of them wrote it down and left it in a drawer for 100 years, but the other ones have written it down.
00:38:22.020 They're in their own party, and they're talking about it openly.
00:38:25.140 They're proud of it.
00:38:26.180 See what they wrote down at dsausa.org and share that with your friends, dsausa.org.