The Radicals Are Here

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Underneath the "cuddly" rhetoric of the Democatic Socialists there lurks admirers of some of the most evil men in history. And, says our guest Tal Fortgang of the Manhattan Institute, they are also poised to take control of the whole of the Democratic Party.

There's also some hockey talk (USA! USA! USA!), the State of the Union and Gavin Newsom's SAT scores.

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0:00.0	This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong. Isn't that a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. It's the Ricoshae podcast. I'm James Lilex. Stephen
0:22.8	Hayward is here and we're going to talk to Tal Fortgang about the Democratic Socialists
0:28.2	of America. Can't wait. Let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:35.6	Welcome, everybody. It's the Rickishay podcast number 778. I'm James Lillax here in Minneapolis.
0:45.0	Calm, it seems, for the moment. And I'm joined by Stephen Hayward in California, I presume.
0:50.1	Charles is still out and about. We hope to get him back soon. He's not entered the pantheon of hosts who've come and gone.
0:57.6	He will be with us again.
0:58.6	But it's just us here today with our guests to come, which would be fun.
1:02.5	And I got to say, USA, right?
1:06.2	USA!
1:07.6	So it was like a replay of the old Olympics, you know, where we beat the hated Ruskies,
1:12.1	except now apparently we've got the hated Canadians. And I heard a term the other day
1:17.6	that just absolutely put me on the floor referring to the Canadians as Syrupians.
1:26.1	I had not heard that one. That's good.
1:27.9	Not bad.
1:28.9	Not bad.
1:30.1	I, for one, don't like a state of amity and discord between our, I mean, they're right up there.
1:38.7	They're close.
1:39.3	I have been living close to Canada all my days.
1:42.1	When I was a kid, I used to get in a bus when I won a contest at the Fargo Forum delivery boys and would go up to Winnipeg,
1:50.2	which was sort of like this mirror image of Minneapolis up there.
1:53.5	I love the whole civilization out in the outskirts, the prairies and the plains and the wind-swept world.
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