Ep. 1990 - Behold The INSANE Future Of The Democratic Party
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is a battle on for the future of the Democratic Party. |
| 0:03.6 | That battle is over which direction they are going to go. |
| 0:06.3 | Are they going to continue in the intersectional woke direction or are they going to steer |
| 0:09.6 | back towards something like moderation? |
| 0:11.8 | See, the Democratic Party of my childhood, the Bill Clinton Democratic Party. |
| 0:16.0 | Sure, it had heavy minority support, but it was largely considered the party of |
| 0:19.9 | blue-collar workers, |
| 0:21.0 | union workers, for example, the lower middle class. |
| 0:24.9 | And then it had some elites, but generally speaking, it was considered a sort of broad |
| 0:29.3 | populist coalition inside the Democratic Party. |
| 0:31.8 | And then in 2012, Barack Obama decided to abandon independence, abandoned moderates, |
| 0:35.9 | abandoned blue-collar white voters, |
| 0:42.2 | and he was going to go specifically at minority voters and get them to turn out in heavy, heavy numbers. And ever since then, the Democratic Party has been moving steadily in the direction |
| 0:45.2 | of a heavily minority voting base combined with single white ladies who are sympathetic |
| 0:50.1 | to an intersectional worldview. In 2020, Joe Biden's voter base was 40% minority, which is |
| 0:56.2 | really, really high. It was 40% minority. There's a lot of women. And independents who are |
| 1:03.4 | male, particularly, not particularly pro-Joe Biden. White voters, not particularly pro-Joe Biden. |
| 1:10.1 | Now, this is all coming to a head, the future of the Democratic Party. Is it going to be a moderate party that steers more in the direction of, say, John Federman or Josh Shapiro, or is it going to be a Democratic Party that steers more in the direction of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Talib, Ilhan, Omar? This is all coming to the head in New York's 16th congressional district for a reason. So there's a primary happening in the 16th |
| 1:29.5 | congressional district. a reason. |
| 1:30.2 | So there's a primary happening in the 16th congressional district. |
| 1:39.5 | That primary poses Jamal Bowman, who is an extraordinarily radical person who relies on the philosophy of intersectionality consistently. |
| 1:42.3 | And he is running against a person named George Latimer. |
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