Why Democrats Can’t Control ‘Woke 2’

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
What you're talking about is a Democrat Socialist take over the Democratic Party. Woke 1 being entirely obliterated by Woke 2 We saw this in Technicolor in Florida with Alex Vindman. This woman named Angie Nixon showed up, who's Woke 2 There are bad losses, and then there's this. The establishment knows how to deal with Woke 1.0. They know how to maneuver the levers of power to get behind that. They have no idea how to deal with Woke 2.0.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:33)
It's a problem with the sales pitch of Chuck Schumer and Keane Jeffries in the Democratic Party. Woke 1 is dead. Woke 2 has totally replaced it. And there isn't enough money in the world on ActBlue to save their ass.

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**Josh Holmes** (2:22)
Good Thursday to you.
Welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program. A full cast and crew. Back at it, I'm Josh Holmes along with comfortably smug Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook left to right across your radio dial. I don't know if you all have noticed, but there have been some political happenings across the country.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:45)
That's right.

**Josh Holmes** (2:46)
A number of primaries. And if it's Tuesday in primary season, what you're talking about is a Democrat socialist take over the Democratic Party.
And again, we're dealing with that. Down south, we're reliably told that this was a Manhattan project.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:08)
Right.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:08)
Memdani phenomenon.

**Josh Holmes** (3:10)
But it's not. It's everywhere. It's Michigan. It's Colorado. It's Virginia. It's everywhere.
And now it's in the great state of Florida. But there's a more interesting context to all of this that we have sort of been working through here on the Ruthless Variety program, talking about a lot today, which is this whole issue of Woke 1, as AOC terms it.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:37)
Hey, hit the board.

**Josh Holmes** (3:39)
Woke 1 was crazy.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:41)
New edition.

**Josh Holmes** (3:42)
New edition.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:42)
It's crazy.

**Josh Holmes** (3:43)
It's crazy.

**Michael Duncan** (3:44)
That's what she says.

**Josh Holmes** (3:46)
Woke 1 being entirely obliterated by Woke 2
And Woke 2, of course, is like communism, socialism, Marxism meets anti-Semitism. And that kind of foursome of pillars that they have there has drowned out what used to be really prolific liberal left superstars in many different ways. And we saw this in Technicolor in Florida with Alex Vindman.

**John Ashbrook** (4:19)
Yeah, yeah. He was like a pillar, like he said, of the whole like Woke 1 of the anti-Trump lib brain rot kind of thing of like, no, actually, Alex Vindman's a hero because he's fighting Trump out on the front lines.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:35)
Well, this guy was like literally the centerpiece of the impeachment of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

**Michael Duncan** (4:41)
Brod the Russigate wave to the top.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:43)
You would think this would make you a made man for life. Never have to pay for a Chablis at any liberal bar for the rest of your life. Totally. You're a made man.

**Josh Holmes** (4:53)
Free, chilled Chablis. But look, in that era from 17 through 20, every single Democrat primary voter had this brain disease that forced them to see all of politics through the lens of Russia and Russigate and Mueller.