Snapshot · The Ben Shapiro Show
Shapiro points out that DSA candidate Chevalier started college in 2008, graduated from Columbia in 2016 with a Middle Eastern Studies degree, and is currently in her 7th year of a CUNY sociology PhD.
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Shapiro turns the analytical lens from the coalition's voters to its leaders, and the portrait is deliberately unsparing. Zohran Mamdani, son of a Columbia professor and a documentarian, was a failed rapper before entering politics — never holding a real job. Daria Elisa Chevalier has been in school since 2008, and is currently in her 7th year of a CUNY sociology PhD. Claire Valdez studied painting and art history at the School of Art Institute Chicago, discovered politics while working a 9-to-5 at Columbia, and found the regular work schedule 'revolutionary.' The pattern, Shapiro argues, is not accidental — revolutions across history, from Lenin to Hitler, have always been led by disaffected pseudo-intellectuals who feel personally disrespected by the system and have enough free time to organize. [1] — Ben Shapiro "Shapiro profiles the DSA leadership class: Mamdani is a failed rapper whose father taught at Columbia; Chevalier has been in college or gra…" 18:50 The DSA is, in Shapiro's framing, a 'make-work machine for college-educated losers' — a credentialing pipeline from elite universities to political agitation.
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