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Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker

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The DSA's Four-Step Revolutionary Playbook

At 19:30 · chapter starts 14:30

Drawing directly on Vladimir Lenin's own writings about purging moderate communists, Shapiro maps the DSA's strategy onto a historical revolutionary template. Step 1: take over the deepest blue areas with radical candidates and replace even far-left incumbents. Step 2: claim those victories represent a national wave, even if turnout was low, and let social media do the amplification work — aimed at 12 to 30-year-olds living online. Step 3: threaten every moderate Democrat with primary challenges until they capitulate. Shapiro invokes Dostoevsky's 'The Demons' to illustrate how radicals have always exploited the sentimentality of liberal fellow-travelers. Step 4: rinse and repeat. The goal isn't to win the presidency immediately — it's to capture a major party, which gives any movement at least a 40% shot at national power. Jamie Harrison's plaintive tweet asking DSA candidates not to use Democratic Party infrastructure is dismissed as 'a little late.'

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The DSA's Four-Step Plan to Take Over America

Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker · Jun 24, 2026 Government

The DSA is running a Lenin-style playbook to capture the Democratic Party from within. Step 1: take over deep-blue districts with radical candidates. Step 2: declare a national movement. Step 3: terrorize moderate Democrats into submission. Step 4: repeat until one major party is theirs — and then wait for your shot at the White House.

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What Happened in New York: All Three Won

Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker · Jun 24, 2026 News

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran an ad during the NBA Finals backing three radical congressional candidates. All three won — Daria-Liza Chevalier in NY-13, Brad Lander in NY-10, and Claire Valdez in NY-7. Shapiro calls it the beachhead the DSA needed.

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