Socialists Defeat Democrats: Now It’s USA vs. DSA artwork

Socialists Defeat Democrats: Now It’s USA vs. DSA

Ruthless Podcast

August 6, 2026

A huge victory for the Socialists over the Democrats in Michigan. November is now the DSA vs. the USA.
Speakers: Josh Holmes, John Ashbrook, Michael Duncan, Comfortably Smug

Topics: Politics, News

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
The civil war in the Democratic Party has been fought and won by something other than the Democratic establishment. It seems like communism, socialism, anti-Americanism is alive and well and maybe the heartbeat of the Democratic Party at this point.

**John Ashbrook** (0:14)
Of course, we're talking about Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrats' standard bearer for Senate and the state of Michigan.

**Josh Holmes** (0:20)
His biggest supporter, the man he spent election eve with at a pool party, said America deserved 9-11.

**Michael Duncan** (0:30)
The DSA-occupied Democrat Party no longer wants a prosperous America. They want to pillage America.

**Josh Holmes** (0:37)
The takeaway is this is the Democratic Party. Now it is USA versus DSA.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:47)
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**John Ashbrook** (1:08)
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**SPEAKER_4** (1:08)
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**Josh Holmes** (2:28)
It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome the great Sean Hannity.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:34)
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**SPEAKER_10** (2:51)
Good Thursday to you.

**Josh Holmes** (2:53)
Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety program. It is DSA versus USA. The Civil War and the Democratic Party has been fought and won by something other than Democratic establishment. I'm Josh Holmes, along with comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left to right across your radio dial as always. Fellas, I'm just taking a look at the results. We were reliably told that this was something that was confined to the boroughs of New York. A Mabdani phenomenon.
It doesn't look like it. It seems like communism, socialism, anti-Americanism is alive and well and maybe the heart beat of the Democratic Party at this point, doesn't it?

**Michael Duncan** (3:40)
And we're not even talking about, this is not just like congressional districts.
This is a statewide, right here. That's what the DSA took down the other night is, it's gonna be a statewide race in Michigan. This is not something that's happening in New York City like Holmes said. This isn't even just a thing that's happening. Oh, you know, you heard Colorado's going a little lefty. It's not just a crazy little thing happening there. It's happening in Michigan.

**Josh Holmes** (4:06)
It's not some weird congressional race. This is the heart of the industrial Midwest, ladies and gentlemen. And this is the party that this is what they have to provide. It is fundamentally un-American.
Not just in...

**Michael Duncan** (4:22)
That's not opinion. That is in their charter.

**Josh Holmes** (4:24)
They're anti-American. They want to destroy Western civilization, America included, and it's in the charter. Secondly, they believe that an economic system that has raised more people out of poverty than all of socialism in the history of it combined is the problem. They want to 25 years remove from 9-11. They want you to believe that our oldest and most significant ally in the Middle East is the problem in Islamic radicalism. Jihadism is the answer to it.
If you would have told me that any of this stuff was even within the realm of possibilities five years ago, I would have said, that's a fever dream.

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