Episode 1014 dismantles the "Democrats in Disarray" panic after Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's progressive primary win in Michigan, tracing Third Way's $15 million war chest against democratic socialism back to nearly identical Red Scare rhetoric almost a century ago. Driftglass and Blue Gal prove that the same "socialism!" screeching Republicans threw at Obama just two weeks into his presidency in 2009 is word-for-word the same panic thrown at another Democrat facing deep economic crises a century earlier. That "Red Scare" was funded th...
Episode 1014 dismantles the "Democrats in Disarray" panic after Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's progressive primary win in Michigan, tracing Third Way's $15 million war chest against democratic socialism back to nearly identical Red Scare rhetoric almost a century ago.
Driftglass and Blue Gal prove that the same "socialism!" screeching Republicans threw at Obama just two weeks into his presidency in 2009 is word-for-word the same panic thrown at another Democrat facing deep economic crises a century earlier. That "Red Scare" was funded then by Hearst's media empire and is now funded by Big Pharma, Big Banks, and Big Tech.
The episode also indulges in a little well-earned schadenfreude over a solar-industry-funded super PAC quietly picking off the Republicans who sabotaged clean energy, one primary at a time.
It's about corporate "centrist Democrats" manufacturing a crisis, media amnesia as a weapon, and why the same lies have been recycled for 100 years.
Links for this episode:
https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-all-socialists-now-82577
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/centrist-democrats-launch-new-pledge-moderate-party/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-what-progressive-primary-wins-mean-for-democrats
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cheri-bustos-next-american-era
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/fema-democratic-disaster-requests-trump-01013938
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-31/alaska-road-permit-shows-how-trump-upends-business-norms
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/08/theres-nothing-we-could-do-cornyn-concedes
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/10/white-house-max-miller-pressure-campaign-01031353
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-vaccine-executive-order-autism.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/how-solar-donors-helped-take-down-a-trump-backed-republican-01028209
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