The Blues Go Red

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🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Matt Continetti is back to discuss the wave of democratic incumbent losses to insurgent DSA candidates and the party establishment's lack of pushback, and what this could mean for the next democratic administration. Plus, the revelation that Trump has made $2 billion as president, Nina Totenberg's false announcement of Justice Alito's retirement, and Matt recommends Michael Connelly's Ironwood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:07.0	Expect the words.
0:10.0	Some reach and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of furze.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:18.0	Hope for the best.
0:19.0	Expect the worst. Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, July 1st, 2026. It's Canada Day, or some would have it, day of the next four states to join the Union. But until that happens, we'll muddle through and by we,
0:41.1	I mean executive editor, A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.
0:47.7	Hi, John. Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana. Johnson, hi, Eliana. Hi, John. Joining us today,
0:54.1	our old friend, A.E.I Pooba, author of the right,
0:57.3	the 100-year history of American conservatism, Matthew Contonetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John.
1:04.2	So, Milot Keros, the 29-year-old DSA candidate running against 14-term Democratic progressive Congresswoman Diana DeGette
1:14.6	won her primary last night, indicating that the DSA insurgency within Democratic ranks now has
1:25.3	geographical depth and width going into the mountain state.
1:32.0	And I think this means, by the way, two now of the DSA line candidates that is atop,
1:39.6	Hawaii in New Jersey and Mila Keros in Colorado are effective defenders of the attacks on the
1:49.6	United States on 9-11. So we do we actually have now a pro 9-11 wing of the Democratic Party. It's small, but you can't say it doesn't exist. You can't say it
2:07.8	doesn't exist. So I think we kind of felt this coming. I wrote a piece for the free press
2:14.6	earlier this week in which the likelihood that Milacouros
2:19.0	would win was sort of the opening salvo in a piece about the 40-year history of the Democratic
2:28.0	Party's unwillingness to deal with anti-Semites, anti-Semitism, Jewish issues, and all of
2:34.0	that within its ranks that led to
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