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Cabot Phillips
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Despite inflation rising, the Iran war, and public dissatisfaction, Democrats gained only about half a percent on the generic ballot over the last 3-4 months.
Cabot Phillips revealed the DSA's official 'Workers Deserve More Plan' calls for abolishing the Senate, defunding the War Department, and replacing the president and Supreme Court with bodies subordinate to Congress.
Abolitionist activists cut off the drug supply for lethal injection — so Idaho reversed course and went back to the firing squad. The result? Death in seconds versus 8-10 agonizing minutes. Theo Wold argues it's not barbaric; it's the most humane option available and there's no Hippocratic oath violation in sight.
The executive order approach was always a gamble — and the Supreme Court called the bluff. Theo Wold explains that because the Court issued a constitutional ruling rather than a statutory one, most congressional options are now foreclosed. Fixing birthright citizenship will require a constitutional amendment.
Church attendance cratered after 2000 — and Ben Shapiro says government did it. When the state provides everything the church once provided, there's no reason to show up on Sunday. Social Security means you don't care for grandma at home; welfare means you don't need your congregation. Government didn't just grow — it replaced religion.
Tucker Carlson is not actually starting a third party — he's running a blackmail play against the GOP. By threatening an outside spoiler, he's positioning himself to blame Republican 2026 losses on their failure to embrace his positions, then demand the party hand him the wheel.
JD Vance argues Milton Friedman's laissez-faire economics only worked in a Christianized America — and now that the guardrails are gone, government must fill the gap. Ben Shapiro fires back: that's not Hamiltonian, it's accidentally Marxist.
Democrats haven't surged on the generic ballot, but Republicans face a brutal map, a red-carded Texas Senate race, and DSA candidates forcing party leadership left. Ben Domenech's verdict: midterms are going to be terrible for Republicans, and the Supreme Court just handed Democrats the perfect escape hatch on transgender sports.
Forget Pentagon budgets. Foreign fans came for the World Cup and discovered Buc-ee's, Waffle House, and air conditioning. Ben Domenech argues the 2026 tournament may be America's biggest soft power export in decades — and it didn't cost the defense budget a cent.
Most people who say they like socialism think it means free healthcare. The actual DSA platform calls for abolishing the Senate, the presidency, the War Department, and joining the Third International. Cabot Phillips argues this gap between what voters think they're supporting and what they'd actually get is the biggest landmine in American politics.
In a clip played on air, JD Vance argued that Milton Friedman's ideas made sense in a 1980s America with strong Christian institutional guardrails — but that in today's secular, globalized environment, laissez-faire economics produces very different results. The panel had sharply divided reactions.
Michael Knowles points out that Hamilton precedes Friedman and that even Reagan protected steel — so the historical case for government industrial policy isn't crazy. Ben Shapiro fires back: protectionism has always been dumb, it was dumb in the '80s, and it's dumb now unless national security is genuinely at stake.
Chief Justice Roberts anchored his birthright citizenship ruling in 15th-century Anglo common law — and Theo Wold argues he missed everything from the Declaration of Independence forward. The real kicker: Britain itself abolished birthright citizenship in 1981, making Roberts' appeal to English tradition incoherent.
Boomers own the most houses in America, don't want to sell, and have left younger generations paying rent in apartments they can't afford. Ben Domenech argues this is the core truth underneath the socialist surge — and Republicans have failed to offer any answer to it.
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