Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

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🗓️ 27 December 2025

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During President Trump’s first years back in the White House, we saw various wins for his administration. But, we also saw national movements of unrest against him, including No Kings rallies and democratic socialist political campaigns focused on thwarting his presidency. Where do we stand politically as we move into 2026? Paul Kengor, author and editor of the American Spectator, joins us to discuss that question. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. - - - Ep. 2553 - - - Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3 - - - Today's Sponsor: Daily Wire Shop - Visit https://dailywire.com/shop today! - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy morning wire,morning wire podcast,the morning wire podcast,Georgia Howe,John Bickley,daily wire podcast,podcast,news podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first year of President Trump's second term was a tumultuous and politically contentious year
0:07.5	that saw major wins for the president, but it also saw nationwide orchestrated protest
0:12.6	movements against him, including no king's rallies and Democratic Socialist political campaigns
0:17.7	focused on thwarting his presidency. So with the dust settling from 2025 and 2026 dawning, where do the two parties stand now?
0:26.3	In this episode, we sit down with Paul Kangor, author and editor of the American Spectator,
0:30.8	to discuss that question and more. I'm Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howe.
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1:02.1	Joining us now for a look back politically at 2025 and a look ahead to 26 is Paul Kangor,
1:08.7	editor of the American Spectator and Political Science Professor at Grove City
1:13.2	College, where he's also the senior director of the Institute of Faith and Freedom. Paul,
1:18.2	you need more titles. Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, good to be with you, John.
1:22.6	Love anything I can do with the Daily Wire anytime. I'm all in. We love hearing that and we'll hold you to that.
1:29.4	So look, this has been a crazy year.
1:31.4	We wanted to kind of stop and look back at it politically,
1:34.7	specifically the No King's Movement and some of the anti-Trump efforts that we saw over the course of the year.
1:40.7	Big picture first.
1:42.0	How effective do you think the demonstrations, the activism against Trump
1:46.2	were this year? Did they actually work? Well, I mean, it's hard to judge that, right? I mean,
1:52.4	the left did do well in the elections. They put a lot of people out in the streets throughout
1:59.1	the summer through the No King's rally.
2:01.7	So if the, you know, to use an old Soviet word agit prop, right, agitation and propaganda,
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