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Ep. 2530 - This One Clip Explains Why France Is Burning

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Ep. 2530 - This One Clip Explains Why France Is Burning

This transcript is a monologue blending political commentary, advertising, and cultural criticism. The host opens with promotional spots for Daily Wire films and GOP get-out-the-vote efforts, then pivots to a lengthy argument that Western civilization is collapsing under the weight of mass immigration, generational welfare spending, and elite self-hatred. Riots in France and Italy are presented as the inevitable consequences of open borders and socialism, supported by statistics showing migrant populations doubling across Europe since 1990 and commentary from Bill Maher and Neil Ferguson on demographic and fiscal imbalances. The host then applies this framework to American politics, citing Mahmoud Khalil's deportation case, allegations against Ilhan Omar, and Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign in Michigan as evidence that hostile actors have been imported and are now being pandered to by Democrats. Pro-Palestinian vandalism in New York is framed as the same anti-civilizational fight. A substantial data analysis argues Republicans are wrongly fixated on Gen Z male podcast audiences when Hispanic and middle-aged voters delivered far larger swing margins. The show closes with criticism of Netflix's creative missteps on Narnia and East of Eden and the WNBA's anthem protests, both framed as examples of progressive institutions alienating their core audiences.

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Across France and also across Italy over the course of the last week or so. We have yet more footage emerging over the course of the day yesterday and into today. Looting, burning, all the rest. Here are some of the looters, you know, gathering the stuff they've looted. Because here's the thing. When you don't have proper funding for your school, when you don't have air conditioning, what you do is you loot, obviously. That's what I've always done. You know, when I have a problem with something going on in my life, I go down to the local Best Buy and I just grab a TV. It seems to make things better. Or maybe looting is a way of life for a lot of people and now they have liberty to actually do it. So looters are organizing their stolen goods in front of priests. That's a thing that happened. Also, here's a shopkeeper defending his store, but then getting kicked in the back by rioters because why not? I mean, he's a bad guy. He owns a shop. There's the shopkeeper who's coming up. And then you see a youth, a French youth, one of the good-hearted French youths coming in to dropkick him. Or maybe you'd like this picture. Again, we're now just doing Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There's a shopkeeper who lives above his store and a bunch of looters below are trying to break into his store. So he boiled some water and is now pouring it on them and shouting that their father smelt of elderberries. And believe it or not, the people on the left are very angry at this man. Here's the deal. If you're breaking into somebody's store and they pour hot water onto you, you have that coming. You earned every bit of that hot water. Here is an injured Asian restaurant owner showing her burnt storefront. She says the life of work. We felt completely safe with the gates closed. And then we heard the gates being lifted from all sides. I don't know if someone hit me or how it happened. With an iron bar, I think. So she was hit. And by the way, again, a metaphor for the West. We felt safe with our gates closed. And we heard them open. But, you know, the French can French. So here's a French couple smoking and drinking while the streets behind them burn. I mean, we're basically just doing the dog in burning room meme now. But like for all of France. For all of France. Okay, so what is happening here? What is happening here? Well, you know, as Bill Maher says, the progressives out there, the progressives out there, they are not the same as the traditional left. They believe full stop in the evil of Western civilization and they are ready to burn things down. Here's Bill Maher.
Speaker 3I mean, the English put out a pamphlet a couple of weeks ago about asylum seekers and they had to tell them, like, we don't do rape here. We don't do child molestation here. We don't do female genital mutilation here. There are people coming from countries where we do not really share much cultural heritage. And there are beliefs that just are not compatible with liberal beliefs, which is what's so weird. I was getting into a little in the editorial that the, the liberal progressive ideas are somehow the ones that wound up on the other side of the tracks from where the progressives are, are supporting.
Speaker 1Well, yes, because the progressives hate the civilization at the root of all of this in France, in the UK, in America is civilizational self-hatred. That is the thing that unites everybody under the flag of loserdom, the Palestinian flag. Hatred of the West. That's the whole thing. Now, listen, welfarism, it's not the end of the world. It's possible for robust civilizations to pursue a certain amount of welfarism. Many states have done this over the course of time, but that's not what we're seeing right now. What we're seeing right now is something different. The voluntary self-abnegation of one's powerful civilizations. See, here's the thing. Robust civilizations, civilizations that work, would like for their civilizational values to predominate. Hopefully those robust civilizations are sharing the same traditions as those of America. You know, the traditions of free speech and liberty and private property. All those things. We want those to spread around the world. That's good. Robust civilizations defend their values and wish for those values to be spread elsewhere. Doesn't always have to be done in point of gun, but you want those values to spread. You want your culture to spread. But as civilizations weaken, they turn inward and they decide they're guilty for all the problems of the world. And they decide what is really necessary on planet Earth is for them to withdraw from the world and work on building utopia at home. They convince themselves that endless welfarism is a substitute. It's a substitute for civilizational confidence, for national greatness. There have been some great indicators of this over time. Remember back in 2012, the Olympics happened at the UK. And every time there is an Olympics, the host nation does a sort of entire show about what makes their nation special. If you recall back to 2012, the UK did an entire routine about the National Health Service during the Olympics opening. There's nothing about the spring, the spread of British civilization around the globe, the spread of liberty around the globe or Anglo-American law around the globe or the end of slavery. No, what the UK was pushing during the Olympics opening was their welfarism, the National Health Service. This is a flashback to 2012 in the UK. Literally people dancing on giant beds with the gigantic insignia NHS. From Harry Potter and the Child Catcher from Choo-Choo-Choo. Thank you, bang bang. They literally did an entire dedicated segment to the national health service totally insane right this was supposed to be the greatness of the uk right is that basically it was mary poppins and the national health service okay it's not just the welfarism it is welfarism plus a belief that the sins of the past mean that you are guilty and thus you must import the third world open your borders and all the rest so you might look at all that chaos in the streets in france and think to yourself well you know i'm not feeling particularly solid i feel like things are a little chaotic right now yes this is true and that's just one reason you should diversify into precious metals you know the question isn't whether you should take all of your money and just like plow it into precious metals the question is whether having a portion in physical precious metals makes sense as a counterbalance when the dollar continues losing purchasing power golden crest metals can help you understand the option 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generational imbalances in welfare and tax systems exacerbated by reflexive keynesian spending every time anything nasty happens these are no country for young men the same by the way is true of most of east asia since 1960 across the 38 advanced economies that belong to the organization of economic cooperation and development the old age dependency ratio people aged 65 and over per 100 people aged 15 to 64 has doubled from around 15 to 30 while fertility has plunged from 3.3 to 1.5 and the aging trend is not about to stop across the oecd the dependency ratio is forecast to rise from 32.6 seniors per 100 people of working age in 2024 to 55.2 in 2054 meaning for every 100 people of working age in 2054 there will be 55 who are of retirement age the working age population will decline by 13 over the next four decades across the oecd in certain countries like italy latvia lithuania poland the decline will exceed 35 you're seeing the same thing happening in the united states so add to gigantic welfarism mass migration and what you end up with is this thing you end up with this europe decided they were civilizationally guilty and therefore they were going to combine high level welfarism with mass migration so we made a chart using grokba which is an awesome awesome ai or si as the kids now say looking at international migrants as a percentage of all the people who are living in the united states overall population in european countries 1990 to 2024 there is literally only one outlier in this chart it's poland which is basically banned migration but every other major western country in europe has imported vast numbers of immigrants from the third world from radical muslim areas so you go back to 1990 and again these these stats are drawn directly from the united nations about nine percent of sweden was international migrants as a percentage of their population in germany that number was 8.7 percent in spain it was two percent in the uk it was 6.3 percent in france it was 10 percent in italy it was 2.6 percent now fast forward to 2024 21.4 percent of sweden's entire population is international migrants 21.4 percent so since 1990 that means more than doubling the same thing is in germany almost 20 percent of the population is international migrants in spain 18.5 percent in norway 18.1 percent in the uk 17.1 percent in france almost 14 percent in italy 11 percent again poland is the big outlier here so this is what you get this is what you get what we are looking at here is the importation of people who hate us at home plus a gigantic welfare state that acts as a magnet for those people and that is supposed to palliate the rest of us about the transformation of our culture and the destruction of our fundamental values welfare will pay for all of it now who pays for it in the end who really pays for it the answer is no one the answer is no one because the young people don't want to pay for it the old people don't want to pay for it nobody wants to pay for it the future will pay for it well you are just asking for civilizational collapse at this rate that is what you are asking for and you're watching it in real time in france what are they going to do with it more socialism more communism more social welfarism it's not possible france is already one of the most spendthrift countries when it comes to government expenditure on planet earth the same thing is true of italy the same thing is true of the uk where do they go from here what is the thing that is being asked for and the answer is nothing is being asked for everything is being demanded this is why you are seeing statues being defaced is why again you see the flag of demand the palestinian flag flying at every one of these this one is not just a protest over union pension or pay this is a protest that the civilization itself must be torn to the ground that the civilization itself is fundamentally corrupt and the question is whether we are going to do that here at home as well is that something we need here in the united states because again this is not restricted to what's going on in europe it's happening right here at home a great test case is mahmoud khalil mahmoud khalil is an anti-semitic anti-israel anti-american activist who was imported to the united states to a major university to essentially make trouble to fight western civilization he literally was a founder of a group that called for the destruction of western civilization the trump administration wants to deport him he was arrested secretary of state marco rubio previously said that khalil's presence or activities would compromise a compelling u.s foreign policy interest and vowed to strip the immigration status of foreign khamas supporters in june 2025 according to the daily wire a federal judge in new jersey ordered khalil's release from ice detention now khalil is asking for the supreme court to save him because he is about to be deported so he tweeted out that actually he has rights he has rights and reminiscent of the old 19th century french saw that says when i am weak i demand that you abide by your principles of liberty because you are strong when i am strong i destroy your freedom and liberty because i am strong you are weak mahmoud khalil writes quote today i ask the supreme court to affirm that federal courts have the power to hear my case the government knows all too well that it's baseless allegations and smears against me cannot survive the slightest scrutiny in federal court that's why it's doing everything it can to keep those courts from looking at my case and to channel it into its kangaroo immigration courts so the question is simple can the government weaponize immigration courts and channel it into its kangaroo immigration courts so the question is simple can the government weaponize immigration laws to punish someone's speech then tell federal courts they have no power to step in you see we owe it to foreigners to come to our country and hate us we owe it to them that's the central argument on a moral level that mahmoud khalil is making and sure he can couch that in legalese he can pretend that what he's actually arguing is about the various rights held by green card holders but at root the question for the civilization is do we owe it to mahmoud khalil to import him do we owe it to ilhan omar to import her and keep her here and her entire family do we owe it to the parents of zoran mamdani or the parents of abdul el sayed do we owe it to these people to import them here is our civilization guilty and so because our civilization is guilty we're going to import a bunch of people here and then we're going to welfare everybody to death and we'll blame capitalism and we'll blame the american system and we'll blame colonialism to compensate for all of that that is the big question for our civilization no civilization can survive the kind of self-destruction that we are currently undergoing now the trump administration to its credit is trying to reverse some of this there's a reason they're trying to deport mahmoud khalil and now it turns out that the feds have dna evidence to prove that ilhan omar wed her brother according to the new york post one source says dna evidence was critical to proving an allegation that ilhan omar married her brother when she wed ahmed nur sayid elmi in 2009 because she was trying to get him a green card which never came to fruition it's unclear whether the dna was taken before or after homeland security investigations searched the congresswoman's home in washington dc last monday when federal agents were seen exiting the bungalow with boxes marked seized property evidence previously sources said the immigration fraud pertained to either omar or her father nor omar muhammad allegedly misrepresenting the future congresswoman's birth date so she could become a u.s citizen when her dad naturalized in 2000 now again why her dad was naturalized in 2000 is beyond me bottom line is should she ever have been imported the answer of course is no meanwhile again import the third world become the third world shout free palestine and mean chain the west that's what you mean The flag, the Palestinian flag, flies over every failed anti-Western cause, every single one. It used to be the Pride Progress flag was the uni cause. Well, now it's the Palestinian flag, which presumably is why you are now seeing Palestinian activists disabling the Brooklyn subway fare machines to protest Israel. I'm not sure why disabling the subway machines has anything to do with the UDIN, but somehow these people discovered it. They somehow figured it out. Here's some of the footage. Again, these are pro-Palestine activists who are spray painting cameras to try and prevent them from seeing things, drilling into the subway machines, literally destroying them, and then putting up a sign that says, free Palestine, live free, ride free, F the NYPD. This is what this fight is about. It is all the same fight everywhere. It is the forces of civilization against the forces of anti-civilization. A person named Calla Walsh published this footage on X. Walsh is an American leftist from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who worked on Gen Z outreach for Democratic senators, then joined the Democratic Socialists of America, and now has several arrests and a record of traveling to Tehran and Lebanon. She appeared on state media chanting death to America. And again, the goal here was to destroy the subway system. Quote, every tap funds a war profiteer. OMNY is operated by Cubic, a military equipment company making combat simulators. They sell the F-35 fighter jet training system to imperialist Zionist entities like Israel. The F-35 is a key weapon in Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and all of the U.S.'s imperialist wars, responsible for massacring millions of people. Take action. Smash the reader. Jump the turnstile. Hold the gate for others. ride-free F the NYPD and free Palestine. It's always the same bleep. It's always the same stuff. Palestine Action, by the way, also decided it was necessary to vandalize the Capital One branch on the Upper East Side. You can see the images. Smashed the windows of the Capital One branch. Fighting Capital One in order to fight for a free Palestine. The cause is the cause, folks. According to NBC New York, quote, a Capital One branch in the Upper East Side was vandalized with pro-Palestinian messages on Monday. The alleged group behind the vandalism has already claimed credit. The NYPD said the act of vandalism happened around 7.40 a.m. Responding officers met with Graffiti reading, Pal Action and Drop Elbit. Elbit is an Israeli defense company. The pro-Palestinian group, Palestine Action, has railed against Elbit for its role in the conflict in Gaza and companies such as Capital One that do business with it. Quote, today, our actionists showed Capital One the price of their complicity in genocide. Do business with Elbit and we will cost you money. And this is the fight. 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They want to open the borders, shut down the power plants, set loose the criminals, turn your children transgender, confiscate your money, and raise up the Palestinian flag while they defile the American flag. All true. That is true. And remember, the party of open borders is Joe Biden's party. That is the reality. Quote, all of us here tonight represent the greatest nation in world history, with the most extraordinary people, the most incredible art, most advanced technology, and most exceptional culture ever to exist. And perhaps most importantly, the greatest military in the world. And we will not let anyone take it away, President Trump. Well, that is the question. Because the Democrats are perfectly, perfectly happy to take all of this away. They're perfectly happy to do it. And they're going to do it, again, in the name of supposed tolerance and diversity. I've talked about Abdul El-Sayed's race in Michigan because, frankly, I think it's a bellwether for the country. If an openly pro-terrorist senator is elected to the United States Senate, where his entire family is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a person who lies for a living, who says he can't say a positive word about the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, a person who says about terrorists attempting to kill Jewish schoolchildren, hurt people, hurt people, a person who literally signed letters on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, if that person enters the United States Senate, there's something very dark going on in America, pretty obviously. Well, the thing to recognize is the tactic. The tactic is the same for the third worldists in France that it is for Mahmoud Khalil, that it is for Abdul El-Sayed. And that is, if you notice what they're doing, the problem is you noticing. You must be an Islamophobe if you notice that El-Sayed is a radicalized Muslim. You noticing is the problem. You're the problem. You're an Islamophobe, right? This is exactly what El-Sayed did over the weekend when he was asked about the Muslim Brotherhood. He had precisely two words for whether he would disown the Muslim Brotherhood. Yeah, sure. And then he moved on to, how dare you ask me the question, well, the reason, as we've said before on the show, that you're asked the question about the Muslim Brotherhood is because you spent weeks not disowning the Muslim Brotherhood. And then you decided to equate Israel and Hamas. And then you also decided to say nothing as your entire family was openly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. But now El-Sayed is cutting ads in Michigan, basically saying that he's just a religious man, don't you see? He's just a guy who wants to go to mosque. Why don't you leave him alone going by? Now, don't ask questions about where he goes to mosque. Don't ask questions about where he goes to mosque. Don't ask questions about the imams from whom he learns. Don't ask any of those questions. Don't ask about the style of Islam that's being preached in a lot of mosques in Dearborn. That you shouldn't talk about. That makes you rude. That makes you bad. You have to be like that lady in France. You have to be shocked when El-Sayed turns out to be precisely who El-Sayed is. You have to import everybody. You have to march for the cause. And then when it turns out that you're the one, that two-serve man actually turns out to be a cookbook, when that happens, you're supposed to be surprised. And if you fail to be surprised, then it's because you're an Islamophobe. So now El-Sayed, programming directly to Dearborn, is cutting an ad about how he's just a faithful servant of Allah. That's all. And anybody who's doubting any of his actual political principles, it must be because you just hate Muslims. That's all. You're like a racist. You're a bigot. Don't ask about what he believes or what he says or what he stands for. Just understand, you are an intolerant, evil, colonialist Westerner if you ask the question. Here's the ad he just cut. People of faith in Washington. I'm Abdul El-Sayed, man of faith. That's a good thing. And I approve this message. Okay, what's unbelievable about that ad? What's truly incredible about that ad? If you watch that ad and you had no idea who Abdul El-Sayed is, for those who can't see, there's not a single picture of a mosque in that ad. There's not a picture of him in the thobe. There's not a picture of him kneeling on the floor. You would imagine, hey, that dude's a religious Muslim. Shouldn't there be a picture of him praying as a Muslim? Like, you know, there are pictures of me praying. I am a religious Jew. You know what I'm doing? I'm wearing a yarmulke. I've got my phylacteries on. I've got the tallit on. Like, when I pray, I pray like a Jew prays because I'm a Jew. If you watch that ad, there are multiple images of El-Sayed in churches. He's praying along with black voters in a church. Okay. And then there's a picture of a menorah in that ad. There's a picture of a menorah in that ad from Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed, like the only picture of him actually praying is just a non-descript room, backlit, with his head a little bit bowed. You would have no idea what he actually believes. And that's the whole point, is to obscure. And if you point out what he actually believes, it means that you are some sort of Islamophobe. By the way, if you actually put him in a church, he looks deeply uncomfortable. Here he was at church with Ayanna Pressley in Flint. Yeah, he looks into it. He looks super into it. Now, again, that's fine. He doesn't have to be. into Christian prayer. He's a Muslim. But don't cosplay as my faith is exactly the same as your faith in every way and is not opposed to your faith, except for the fact that, you know, global political Islam has made a habit of wiping Christians off the planet everywhere it touches foot. That Constantinople used to be called Constantinople and not Istanbul. That political Islam has a habit of blowing up Hindu shrines and replacing them with mosques. That the Dome of the Rock was built on the Temple Mount where the Jews were before. That Islam is, in its political essence, a conquering religion. No, no, you're just supposed to say that he's a man who just prays every day, you know? He's just serving God the way that you would by saying that hurt people hurt people when they drive trucks into Jewish kindergartners. I mean, just like you would. This is what we've imported. Meanwhile, El-Sayed, naturally, he says that his big problem is that Israel, you know, Israel is taking our money. That's the big problem. Big problem. Let's be clear. Abdul El-Sayed cannot answer. He can't answer a very simple question. What needs to be done to fight radical Islam? What action, what material action should be taken to fight radical Islam? His policy prescriptions would be precisely the same as Ayatollah Khamenei's. It would be American withdrawal from the Middle East and end to the state of Israel. That's, those are his policy prescriptions. So here is Abdul El-Sayed on ABC News. So you don't consider
Speaker 4Israel to be an American ally?
Speaker 5An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn't be fighting is not an ally. It's like, I mean, do you have kids? I do. And if you have a, your kid has a friend who keeps bumming off their money and then talks about them behind their back and then gets them into fights with other friends, what would you tell them? What would you tell your kid to do with that friend? You probably tell them maybe it's not actually a friend. I think it's time for us to realize that like Israel is not actually our friend. He is such
Speaker 1an evil and despicable liar. Truly. The United States is flying planes alongside Israel. Israel is the only fighting ally the United States has at this point. None of the other countries we are supposedly allied with will lift a finger to defend our interests. None of them. Zero. El-Sayed, by the way, again, supports all of our enemies. Forget about our allies. He openly supports our enemies. El-Sayed, by the way, is not just an isolationist who's in favor of cutting military aid. He actually favors funding for Ukraine. He says, quote, in Ukraine, you're talking about attacks from a leader of a neighboring sovereign country who clearly violated international law in an attempt to breach the sovereignty of the Ukrainian public. That is conditional on that circumstance. Oh, weird. What would you say about Israel acting against Hamas invading its borders? Okay. Don't look for consistency here. Be the only, the only through line for Abdul El-Sayed is if it favors radical Islamists, he's in favor of it. And by the way, the people in Michigan who are voting for him know this. Nate Friedman, the reporter, he went to Michigan and asked El-Sayed voters why they're voting for him. Here's one Lebanese Muslim explaining.
Speaker 6I have a question for you. Is that okay? Yes. For the election? Yeah. Say it. Oh, and why say it? Can you tell, can you tell us why? Huh? Can you tell us why? Because, you know, he have different things. Yeah. He came from overseas. Not like some American people here. They didn't know just English. They didn't know more in Michigan. Yeah. The guy came from outside. He know a lot of politics.
Speaker 7Right. He know a lot of things. What is good he can do. This Republican in Detroit, he told me that he doesn't like this connection that the family has to the Muslim Brotherhood. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6He's Muslim. He's when he doing something good. It's good for everybody. Of course. Of course.
Speaker 1Yeah. He's international. That's why he's being voted for. Again, the bug is not a bug. It is a feature for these people. And when I say these people, I mean, Abdul El-Sayed and his supporters. The feature is the feature. The radicalism is radicalism. And then if you notice, they call you intolerant. Have the civilizational spine to say no to people who wish to destroy your civilization. That would be the message. But don't expect that from the Democrats, by the way. James Tallarico over in Texas, who, again, is running a very fraught race in Texas. James Tallarico met with a person named Kasuda Hayat in Irving, Texas. According to the Dallas Express, he courted Muslim voters at an Irving gathering that a participant promoted with photographs and a list naming several North Texas elected officials. The Irving gathering comes amid organized Muslim voter outreach in Texas, as the Dallas Express previously reported. The Council on American Islamic Relations lists Texas among 12 priority states in its national election. Which calls for mosque-based registration drives, early voting outreach, and transportation to polling places. The Council on American Islamic Relations was founded as a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot. It was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members, the Council on American Islamic Relations. This person he's meeting with in this picture, Kasuda Hayat, posted on Instagram last week, quote, Dallas took to the streets last Sunday. As we mark three years of the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, we march for the living, for our martyrs, and for the land. Our demands remain. An end to genocide, a full arms embargo, the right of return, and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. By the way, the right of return means every Palestinian descendant should be allowed into Israel to destroy the state. Combine the right of return with, quote-unquote, liberation of He's just talking about the destruction of Israel, and there is James Tallarico smiling alongside him. Understand, the destruction of the West, Democrats are fine with it so long as they get their welfare first. That's what this is about. Our friends and sponsors over at Kalshi are rating, that Texas race, Tallarico has come down just a little bit in the momentum game. He's currently at a 62% shot on Kalshi, which, you know, momentum matters as we get to the end of that race. But the fact that the Democratic Party is fully in line with all of this is pretty astonishing. Well, listen, all of these races are kind of depressing. I totally get it. You should go out and vote, but also you should get better sleep because maybe you'll be less depressed if you get better sleep. And this is why you need a Helix sleep mattress. So now you traveling a few weeks ago, just didn't sleep all that well because I was not on my Helix sleep mattress. Now I am and I am sleeping better, which is good because I have lots and lots of kids who wake me up all the time. So when I get on the mattress, I need to be asleep. Well, now Helix has the best offer it's ever given. The sleep trial used to be 120 nights. It's now a full 365 night sleep trial. So an entire year sleep on the mattress in your own home. Make sure it's right for you. That's how confident they are that you're never going to return it. Every Helix also ships free in the U.S. and includes a limited lifetime warranty and the happy with Helix guarantee for seamless returns and exchanges. Again, that's a 365 night sleep trial. Helix can offer that entire year because they know that you're going to love the mattress. Once you're lying on every night, you're going to feel better. Go to helixsleep.com slash Ben, get 20% off storewide during Helix's fall sales event. Again, that's helixsleep.com slash Ben and get 20% off storewide helixsleep.com slash Ben. And again, I guess that the argument they make to themselves to vote Democrat is, you know, it doesn't really matter. I mean, sure, Abdul El-Sayed and his family, like they're all kind of close to the Muslim. Sure. But does it really matter? Anna Navarro over at The View says, do we even care about the Muslim Brotherhood? They're basically defunct. By the way, they are not defunct. The Muslim Brotherhood is a vastly important movement in Egypt. It is the founding ideology of Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is banned by the UAE as a terrorist group. But here's Anna Navarro soft peddling the Muslim Brotherhood.
Speaker 4The Muslim Brotherhood is practically defunct in Egypt. That's like asking him to denounce bell bottoms. This was a thing, though, you know, we're talking about things that his mother did in the 70s. And his mother, who he wasn't, he wasn't raised by. He was raised by his father and his stepmother. Oh, they're practically defunct.
Speaker 1It's like a thing from the 70s. God, the ignorance. But it's deliberate ignorance. This is the leopards eating people's faces party. You're all voting for the leopards to eat your face. That's where we are. Now, again, it'll be interesting to see whether this is a true Democratic wavier, according to The Washington Post. They're a bunch of deep red districts that are now battlegrounds. Again, Democrats only need three new House seats to win the majority outright. There are a bunch of redistricting efforts that actually are backfiring on Republicans in some Hispanic districts in Texas, for example. And there's some pretty significantly Republican districts that are now sort of in the sights for Democrats, including, for example, the Florida 27th. That is the 74% Hispanic district that has represented Maria Salazar being challenged by Democrat Elliott Rodriguez. In Wisconsin's first, a district being held by a Republican for 30 years is being challenged by a Democrat named Mitchell Berman. The Minnesota first, Trump won that district by 13 in 2024. But now the Republican, Bran Fidstead, is being challenged by Jake Johnson, who is a teacher. There are a bunch of districts that are looking pretty dicey for the Republicans. The thing to remind everybody of is what President Trump put out in that Truth Social post. What Democrats want is the thing you are seeing in France that is not a byproduct of the movement. It is the purpose of the movement. It is the thing that they want. Now, it would be helpful as if the president weren't distracting himself with silliness. The president spent yesterday opening a whole new front in the renaming things wars. He said, New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico. We are the United States of America. The name would add great value and prestige to the state. Home values and incomes would rise. You'd even be prouder while saluting our beautiful American flag. Maybe even the crooked elections that New Mexico is known for would become honest again. Um, um, hmm. Hmm. oh man i really do we have to rename like that's the battle we want to pick we're like a couple weeks out from the election that's the battle we want to pick right now all right so this brings us to a bigger problem for the republicans and that is the republican party under the trump administration but largely speaking for a lot of republican leadership is really really really online it's really we've talked about this a lot all the american people were looking for in 2020 was a sense of normalcy and joe biden decided to blow up the country by opening the border wide and spending oodles of money and keeping the country shut down for an additional year all the american people wanted in 2024 was some sense of normalcy and president trump came in and then he proceeded to unleash a wild tariff war and then follow that up with a bunch of picking various apples from the tree i like some of those apples some of those apples i'm not so fond of and i think they have worms in them but the sense of constant chaos is not the friend of the trump administration i think one of the reasons that you've seen both the right and the left run off the rails here the democrats and the republicans is they are super duper duper online every single election in the country right now because the elections are so close because the polling data is sometimes skewed people are tending to operate off vibes so for the left the vibe is the ascendant dsa we must mirror the priorities of the ascendant dsa we'll see how that works out for them i don't think it's going to work out well for them for the right there's been this move over the course of the last several years to suggest a vibe shift particularly among young male americans and those are the people that we are supposed to aim for if you're a conservative or republican you must aim for the gen z male it's gonna be the most right-wing generation okay okay so we should all take a deep breath here i want to do a little bit of voter analysis because enough with the vibes and now to actual real analysis here's the thing if you wish to build a victorious coalition you have to determine where the votes are you have to john dillinger the bank robber said the reason that he robbed banks is because that's where the money was if you are going to build a political coalition you have to go where the votes are and that means that if you have a choice between winning over 100 of a tiny constituency or winning over 60 of a gigantic constituency you pick the latter that's quite important because again i think the republicans have been drawn increasingly into a vibes based politics that is not helping them very much and that's true across the board even the popular policies of the administration have gotten way way way too online because again all the vibe discussion about how the podcast bros put trump over the top in 2024 so there is some new data and it is not salutary to this idea that republicans really ought to be programming to the young males if they wish to win future elections so a couple of pieces of evidence along these lines so puck has a piece looking at the podcast sphere and what it finds is that the podcast fear is not particularly popular with americans period right now including among young americans by the way according to puck news joe rogan had a 53 favorable rating among young men at the beginning of trump's second term that number has now fallen to 42 andrew tate has a negative 30 net approval rating tucker carlson's net favorable rating has dropped by 12 points as well according to peter hanby writing over epoch john della volpe the director of the youth polling from social sphere has been tracking young voter sentiment for a quarter century making him one of the nation's foremost gen z broologists if joe biden's honeymoon lasted arguably eight months until the afghanistan withdrawal donald trump's honeymoon only lasted about 90 days with young men della volpe said once he started talking about tariffs we could see how quickly the mood changed and we saw that more younger people believed he would have a negative not a positive impact on their lives again note that timing it's the tariffs gang at the time of trump's inauguration according to the data young men believe by a 33 margin that trump would make a positive difference in their lives today by a negative 35 margin they say his presidency is making their lives worse that is a jaw-dropping 68 point swing away from the president on the question effectively erasing support from one of the core groups that got him elected in 2024 support for the gop is now at 33 among young men that is down 14 points the vice president has been programming heavily into podcast to stand is standing at 28 percent with young gen z males his net favorability is 17 points underwater right now 32 percent of young male trump 2024 voters are now open to voting for a democrat in the midterms roughly half said they were open to voting democrat in the 2028 presidential race when presented with favorable messaging why does that matter because again if you're building for the future and you're a republican you might want to build for the future and you're a republican you might want to build around a set of principles and approaches that are broader in nature than programming into x programming into podcast to stand and yet the republican party and in particular the vice president's shadow 2028 campaign they're steering directly into the notion that young americans young male swing voters must be pandered to those are the most important people in america if you lose them you lose everything that is not what the data say ought to analyze here how important were the so-called podcast bros statistically in the 2024 election again vibe shift talk talk about joe rogan talk about theo vaughn that is not statistical analysis so let's do a bit of statistical analysis and determine let's say you're the republican party or you're the 2028 republican nominee which votes ought you to pursue so there are about 158 million votes cast in 2020 and 155 million votes cast in 2024 those were very important and there's a big gender divide so you see why people are focusing in on the males if they're republican and on the females if they're democrat there is about a 20 to 30 point gap in the net margin of women who voted kamala versus the men who voted for trump but the truth is pretty much everybody swung to the right hispanic women swung 20 points to the right hispanic men swung 33 points to the right gen z women swung eight percent to the right gen z men swung 16 percent to the right millennial women swung narrowly to the left like by two points men swung right senior women swung eight percent to the left senior men swung four percent to the right okay so in order to see what populations ought to be targeted with particular policies you actually need to compare the actual vote shift from 2020 to 2024 so in 2020 hispanics made up 13 of the total vote that dropped to 11 in 2024 gen z men the one that are being focused on by all of podcast stan now these are the future they made up eight percent of the electorate in 2020 they made up seven percent of the total electorate in 2024 millennials remain basically steady at 23 of the electorate middle-aged people 45 to 64 actually dropped as a percentage of the electorate from 38 to 35 seniors you're an old country gang seniors increased from 22 to 28 of the electorate so why am i focusing on this because looking at just the percentage voter shift doesn't actually tell you how important those groups are again go back to the past that original stat i gave you would you rather win over 100 of 10 voters or 60 of 100 voters the answer is obviously you'd rather win 60 of 100 voters that's 60 votes if you win 100 of 10 voters you want 10 votes so you have to look at what's called the base rate here we have to look at which swing groups are the most important which ones mattered most now again we were told gen z men were the ones that mattered most that is statistically untrue it's statistically untrue so for example hispanics shifted radically in president trump's favor in 2024 they went biden plus 33 in 2020 harris plus six in 2024 it's a 27 point shift that swing made up about three percent of the total electorate in 2024 and that means that about 4.6 million net votes moved in the hispanic community from democrat to republican in 2024 now take middle-aged men 45 to 64 they voted trump plus seven in 2020 but plus 20 in 2024 and that means that about 4.6 million net votes moved in in 2024 a 13 point shift that swing accounts for about 3.4 million votes in 2024 now gen z men remember these are the people we're told are the ones who matter most this is why you shouldn't be too online gang gen z men gen z men shifted 16 toward the gop they went biden plus 15 in 2020 and they voted trump plus one in 2024 that swing made up one percent of the electorate it consisted of about 1.7 million net votes so again take a look at those stats and what do you see what you see is that the hispanic swing was worth well over 250 percent more than the gen z male swing that the middle-aged male swing was literally worth twice as much as the gen z male swing so if you have a choice between targeting gen z or targeting middle-aged men or hispanics you should choose the middle-aged men and the hispanics rather than the gen z men they are just too small for you to choose between the middle-aged men and the hispanics small a group now take a look at millennial men millennial men tied biden trump in 2020 they voted trump plus seven in 2024 it's a seven point swing among millennial men that was worth about 1.2 million net votes and senior men were worth about 800 000 net votes so bottom line is if you are spending all day looking at gen z men at the podcast of sans fear at the vibe shift if that's what you're looking at you are missing the boat in fact if you look at the net swing of non-college educated gen z white men right this would be the high school educated white men of gen z the people we're told are the most important by the podcast bros. They made up 3.4% of the electorate in 2020 and 2.9% of the electorate in 2024. They voted heavily for Trump in 2020 by 26 points. They voted 35% swing for 2024 for Trump. That's a net swing of nine points. That is about 400,000 net votes, raw net votes. So if you're aiming at non-college educated white men in Gen Z, rather than say the Hispanic shift, you are aiming literally for one-tenth the shifting population. So why am I bringing all of this up? Because if Republicans wish to be victorious, they need to what we call broadcast, not narrowcast. They need to stop worrying so much about, oh no, I'm going to alienate a couple of podcast bros. Oh no, Joe Rogan might get mad at me or Tucker Carlson might get mad at me. Oh no, what's going to happen if I lose podcast to Stan? What's going to happen if people on X get really, really mad? It turns out that's a terrible electoral strategy. It's a terrible electoral strategy for Democrats too. It turns out Democrats, just, I don't want to give notes to the people who I hope lose, but Democrats, if you program to the pod, save America bros, that is a bad strategy. That is not where the public is. If you decide that blue sky is your crowd, if you decide that Abdul El-Sayed is the future of your party, it's not going to go great for you. That's not where the American people are. What would be better for America is if both parties started digging where the votes are. They're all digging. They're all digging in the wrong place. Why don't you actually go after where the American people actually are? Now, what holds true in the world of votes also holds true in the world of entertainment. So the big entertainment story of the day is that Netflix seems to be in a state of mild meltdown. So Netflix stock is down roughly 20, 25% in 2026. It's Q3 earnings are coming up later today. The company made two big moves since Wall Street started telling people that they were selling it. What's a fix last week. They cut staff and they installed a new chief content officer. The stock closed Friday about 70 bucks. That's down from 93.76 at the end of 2025. That's 35% below its mid April high. The co-CEO Ted Sarandos admitted the company is not growing as fast as I want us to. He's pointing toward live programming as a potential growth driver, but Netflix fired a man named Dan Lynn, who is the chief content officer. Here's what variety is reporting. Quote, everyone is collateral damage. That's how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lynn ousted as the company's head of film. Following last week's 6% workforce reduction in Netflix, which claimed victims, including chief content officer, Bella Baharia and Lynn's right hand, Doug Belgrad. Consensus said it was a matter of time before co-CEO Ted Sarandos would show Lynn the door. And it took one day. Now, why is all of that happening? Four sources with knowledge of the story of Lynn's death had a falling out during a Zoom call about Narnia earlier this year. On a virtual meeting populated by numerous Netflix executives, Lynn is said to have been dismissive to the director in conversation about the progress of the film. Lynn is known to be incredibly fair, but at times obtuse in his frankness. Word traveled fast around Netflix. The meeting had gone south, at which point sources said Baharia called Gerwig's producer, Amy Pascal, to smooth things over. Two sources also said Gerwig's new all-powerful CAA agent, Brian Lord, went to Sarandos directly over the faux pas. And Lynn was subsequently disappeared from the audience. So it sounds like Lynn was actually resistant to Greta Gerwig turning Netflix into an abomination. The news gets worse for Netflix on the Narnia abomination. And we've played that trailer. This is the Netflix Narnia trailer that involves the transing of Aslan. Now, woman voices Aslan, who is the Jesus character in the Narnia books. According to Geeks and Gamers, Netflix may have a $280 million problem on its hands. Just one day after Greta Gerwig's controversial Narnia, The Magician's Nephew trailer debuted, a new insider report alleges that the expensive fantasy adaptation has been plagued by disappointing test screenings, additional filming, and growing tensions behind the scenes. No shock there. One source reportedly described the film as awful. Another characterized the situation as a genuine problem. According to World of Reels, The Magician's Nephew trailer is still in the works, but it's a bit of a shame it's not. In October 2018, it was reported that the film would be re-released after its release. The film is still in the works, but it's still a bit of a shame it's not. Now, everybody knew this was going to happen. Who had a brain? Or who was even Christian familiar? Greta Gerwig is kind of Christian curious, but that does not make her a Christian. She is not someone who at a deep and fundamental level agrees with the philosophy of C.S. Lewis. So she'll say she appreciates Catholicism, but then she says, that she likes the Virgin Mary because it connects with pagan energy, and she doesn't like the God the Father thing. So she speaks religion as a foreign language, which, when you're adapting one of the great IPs of Christian literature in the 20th century, you probably want someone who actually agrees with the general direction of the IP. Here's Greta Gerwig being asked by Stephen Colbert about how her faith informs her work. Let's just say this is something that I would say Christian believers don't tend to say. How does faith influence your work?
Speaker 8Well, I think it's been a thread through all of my work, and as you said before, we met through Lady Bird, and Lady Bird was my, taking my experience of going to Catholic school and how that shaped me and who I was and kind of transformed my understanding of the world. And I think that it's something that, for me, film, and faith have always gone hand in hand. I think growing up, going to church, singing in the choir, it was a place where people gathered together to experience something. The very act of making a film is an act of faith in and of itself.
Speaker 1How's the act of making a film an act of faith in and of itself? It kind of depends on the content of the film, no? Here's Greta Gerwig talking about how she wanted to make Narnia magical, and she decided the only way to do that was to put some eyeliner on, aslan or something.
Speaker 8I mean, it's a small, small thing. I'm trying to make it magical. I want to make it feel like magic.
Speaker 1Okay, so just going to point out, every single human who is of Judeo-Christian religious bent knew, anybody who's a fan of C.S. Lewis, and I am a massive fan of C.S. Lewis. I own a signed copy of the Screwtape Letters. I'm like the biggest fan of C.S. Lewis there is. Anybody who's a fan of C.S. Lewis, I'm like the biggest fan of C.S. Lewis, there is. Lewis, there is. Lewis knew this was going to be a disaster. Here is how Hollywood thinks, because they are just, they speak Christianity or conservatism or biblical values as a foreign language. They don't know anyone who lives in that world, truly. And so they thought, hey, famous IP, Narnia, famous director from Barbie, Greta Gerwig, she's been to church once, that'll be a hit. And everybody out here was like, uh, what now? What you doing? Because I'm going to work. I watch Barbie. I know what its value system is. I know what Greta Gerwig thinks. This is stupid. And the sort of Ishtarization of Narnia, where you just take a bunch of stars and kind of shove it in there. I ain't going to do it. That's not going to work. But this is the problem. Here's a perfect example of go woke, go broke, and particularly go woke slop, go broke. So I'm going to give you a couple of other examples from the Netflix universe right now. So Netflix over the last week put out a series called Below. Below is a sort of Jaws-like story about a giant squid. It's essentially terrorizing a town. Okay, so in Jaws, the shark's bad, right? It's like the evil of nature or the danger of nature. In Below, the squid is only unleashed on humanity because humanity is bad, because humanity did global warming. And so, spoiler alerts, the squid is only mad because her baby squid, it's a mama squid, her baby squid is threatened. Her baby giant squid is threatened because, the iceberg in which she is nesting her egg has melted. So it is the cruelty and evil of man that is responsible for the squid eating all the people. Spoiler alerts complete. That's stupid. And it makes the show bad and silly. I'm going to take one that's closer to my heart, East of Eden. Okay, now I am like target our audience for East of Eden. When we did Ben's Book Club, we actually did East of Eden as one of the books. I have a signed copy of Steinbeck as well. East of Eden is one of my favorite books ever. I love East of Eden. I don't reread books very often because I have a good memory for books. I've read East of Eden three, four times. My wife's favorite book is East of Eden. So if you're talking about like core audience, core, core audience for a new production of East of Eden, which has been decades in the making. And the last East of Eden project was made by Elia Kazan back in the 50s, and it starred James Dean. Okay, so the new East of Eden project is supposed to be taking the entirety of the book. Now, they give it to Zoe Kazan, who is Elia Kazan's granddaughter. And the entire premise of East of Eden, not to get into literary abstruseness here, the entire base of East of Eden, for those who have not read the book, the villain of the piece is a woman called Kathy. Kathy is described in basically as the snake in the garden. She is inherently evil. This is the main point of Steinbeck's book, that there is such a thing as unfathomable evil. It is not explicable. It is not justifiable. It exists in the world. And also, you are not bad. You are not bound to it, right? That is the theme of East of Eden. So Kathy has a child. Her child's name is Cal. She has a couple of kids. One of them is Cal. And Cal believes that he is basically cursed by his mother's evil and the entire second half of the book is about him learning that he has the power to overcome that evil okay that is the entire thematic of the book in fact when steinbeck wrote the book his publishers asked him why don't you give kathy a backstory and explain why she's evil he said you're missing the entire point of the book the point is some evil is inexplicable there is some evil that cannot be explained by past experience right that's that's the entire point of the book that's the entire point of east of eden okay so my wife and i start watching literally the first episode. Kathy is now the narrator. And Kathy, who in the book is a murderess and an adulteress and a prostitute, and maybe the worst character in all of literature. She's the narrator explaining that life is complex and morality is complex. And by episode two, you're learning the reason that Kathy is so evil is because, wait for it, she was molested as a child. Because it turns out that if you just take classic IP and you turn it inside out in favor of a modernistic reframing, a feminist reframing of East of Eden, you end up with something that doesn't look like East of Eden. And so my wife and I were like, core audience of East of Eden. We were out by episode two. Okay, this is how Netflix blows it. Because it's not even that they're super duper woke, although they are. The truth is that Netflix, like a lot of these places, they do not speak conservative at all. They don't even speak conservative at all. They don't even speak traditional values at all. Just like you can't read East of Eden. You cannot read it without knowing the Bible. You can't. You can't read East of Eden without having read the first four chapters, I would say, of the book of Genesis. You must, in order to understand even what's going on in East of Eden. But none of these people have, and they don't know anyone who has. And so it's like, hey, just take this IP, throw it at somebody who doesn't know their ass from their elbow on this sort of stuff, and it'll be fine. It's a gigantic blind spot. And the problem for them, and you can see it everywhere. So Netflix, they've signed a ton of podcasts. It's one of their things now. They have a bunch of podcasts. They have the Ringer Network. Again, I love a lot of shows on the Ringer Network. I'm a big fan of a lot of what Bill Simmons is doing. But they brought on Chelsea Handler and Jay Shetty and Brian Williams. Not one person who could fairly be described as right of center. Not one. Now, I can tell you, I mean, as a person with a very large podcast on the right, there are a lot of people on the right who have fairly large outlets. Netflix is not talking with any of them because they're so afraid of alienating their left-wing employees that they end up making a bunch of left-wing junk just by default. And so Netflix has basically become cable television of 2004, 100 channels and nothing to watch. And that is why they are failing right now. And by the way, you'll see this bleed over to other networks as well if they copy this model. Listen, we're happy to pick up the pieces here at Daily Wire. I mean, we are more than happy to provide competition. Honestly, the entertainment slate that we are bringing out over the course of this year, right? Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, and then Confession. Then we have much more, much, much more coming over the course of the year is just better. It is legitimately better than a studio like Netflix that is spending billions of dollars on their content. Why? Because Netflix does not have a vision right now. And because they're not fluent in the broad panoply of Americanism. They're just not. And they're paying the price for that. This happens to be in arenas, by the way. So the WNBA is militantly attached to the idea that they must never be a successful league. It truly is an amazing thing. So according to Fox and OutKick, WNBA players left the court for the national anthem for the second time during the finals. They are bound and determined to destroy whatever goodwill they have with the American public. The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries were off the court for the national anthem before game two of the WNBA finals on Monday night, repeating their game one absences, despite a provision in the league's own rulebook calling for players to play. So the WNBA players are bound and determined to destroy whatever goodwill to stand and line up during the performance. Just like in game one, the teams left the floor less than one minute before the start of the anthem and returned mere seconds after the singer sang the final note. So they literally just left for the anthem. Now, that's against the WNBA rulebook, but here's what it looked like. You see, look at them. They're literally just running off the court for the national anthem. That's how much they hate America. This is supposed to be modeling behavior for the little girls in the stands. This is the WNBA finals. And then the anthem ends, and they're going to run back on the court at the end of this. By the way, look at that packed stadium. My goodness. WNBA is drawing in the dozens at this point when Caitlin Clark isn't on the floor. That's the WNBA finals. Incredible how love, desire to be loved by the left, love to be loved by the right, love to be loved by the left, will legitimately destroy entire industries. Go woke, go broke is a very real thing. It doesn't always work, but if you keep doing it for long enough, then it will. All righty, folks, the show continues in just a moment. We're going to get to Hunter Schaefer. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The host argues that mass immigration, expansive welfare policy, and civilizational self-hatred have produced riots and disorder across France, Italy, and the UK.
  2. Bill Maher and Neil Ferguson are cited to support the claim that progressive ideology and generational welfare imbalances are driving Western decline.
  3. Data is presented showing international migrants as a share of European populations roughly doubled from 1990 to 2024, with Poland as the sole outlier.
  4. The cases of Mahmoud Khalil, Ilhan Omar, and Abdul El-Sayed are used to argue that the U.S. has imported people hostile to Western values.
  5. Pro-Palestinian activists are described vandalizing NYC subway fare machines and a Capital One branch, framed as part of a broader anti-civilization movement.
  6. The host argues Republicans must "broadcast, not narrowcast," presenting polling data showing Hispanic and middle-aged male voters swung far more than the heavily targeted Gen Z male demographic.
  7. Netflix is criticized for declining stock, staff cuts, and culturally tone-deaf adaptations of Narnia and East of Eden, framed as a case of "go woke, go broke."
  8. The WNBA is criticized for players leaving the court during the national anthem, cited as another example of progressive self-destruction.

Summary:

This transcript is a monologue blending political commentary, advertising, and cultural criticism. The host opens with promotional spots for Daily Wire films and GOP get-out-the-vote efforts, then pivots to a lengthy argument that Western civilization is collapsing under the weight of mass immigration, generational welfare spending, and elite self-hatred. Riots in France and Italy are presented as the inevitable consequences of open borders and socialism, supported by statistics showing migrant populations doubling across Europe since 1990 and commentary from Bill Maher and Neil Ferguson on demographic and fiscal imbalances.

The host then applies this framework to American politics, citing Mahmoud Khalil's deportation case, allegations against Ilhan Omar, and Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign in Michigan as evidence that hostile actors have been imported and are now being pandered to by Democrats. Pro-Palestinian vandalism in New York is framed as the same anti-civilizational fight. A substantial data analysis argues Republicans are wrongly fixated on Gen Z male podcast audiences when Hispanic and middle-aged voters delivered far larger swing margins. The show closes with criticism of Netflix's creative missteps on Narnia and East of Eden and the WNBA's anthem protests, both framed as examples of progressive institutions alienating their core audiences.

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