Mamdani Chic
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
James Lindsay schools us on the uptick in socialism in America, its origins, and what the hell we can do about it! Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter. Learn More about “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://linktr.ee/micheletafoya Subscribe to “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://apple.co/3nPW221 Follow Michele on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya Follow Michele on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmicheletafoya/ Learn more about the Salem Podcast network: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I think there is a groundswell of conservatism in both the United States and in people, especially under about 50. |
| 0:07.7 | And it's particularly prominent in people in their 20s. |
| 0:10.4 | But the problem is that it's also very radical. |
| 0:13.2 | I've been in quite a bit of trouble for calling it a woke right that answers, you know, the woke left. |
| 0:19.0 | So rather than focusing on the idea of building prosperity and individual liberty and all of the |
| 0:23.8 | things that have made America great so far so that we can apply those and make America |
| 0:27.2 | great again, they're leaning into their own identity politics. |
| 0:30.2 | There's also a very radical contingent on the, on the right that if we don't actually |
| 0:35.7 | pay attention to this, this is how we lose 26 and 28 |
| 0:38.7 | completely because everybody's rightly horrified by that behavior, the identity politics in |
| 0:44.5 | particular, the anti-Semitism, which is basically the definition of being on X now is |
| 0:49.1 | dealing with anti-Semitic and racist content on the daily basis. This will sink the Republican ship before, you know, the next stage of MAGO, whatever that looks like. |
| 1:04.8 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 1:12.3 | Hit that subscribe button wherever you are. Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble. |
| 1:18.4 | Just subscribe. You never want to miss an episode. We've got so many good ones in the can already that are in the catalog for you. |
| 1:24.1 | And so many good ones coming down the line, including today, James Lindsay, |
| 1:28.1 | anti-communist. This guy has done so much work, so much study, and he enlightens us on the realities |
| 1:37.2 | of socialism, fascism, communism. Why are people like Ilhan Omar and Zoran Mandami, Mamdani, we all get those consonants |
| 1:49.1 | backwards now and then. |
| 1:50.7 | I've been called Toyofa many, many times. |
| 1:53.6 | Anyway, Mamdani, why are they getting traction? |
| 1:57.2 | Why is this socialist movement getting traction? |
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