Laura Ingraham: They Saw This Nightmare Coming

That coming up, but first, AOC to the rescue. That's the focus of tonight's angle. Now, with each passing day, it becomes more clear. Socialism is a runaway train that's threatening to derail the Democrats' big dream of retaking Congress in November. So why is this happening? Because the true believer socialists advocate policies and approaches that are very unpopular and, to the average person, very scary. Mandami's aide, his top aide, Sia Weaver, said if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over, and impoverish the white middle class. Beast mode. I love her so much. She's awesome. Beast mode. Well, that was the guy El-Sayed decided to hang out with at the poll on the final day of the campaign. Don't forget. No wonder Haley Stevens won more working class voters. They saw this nightmare coming in Michigan. And they know that Medicare for all is not about healthcare at all. It's about empowering Washington bureaucrats with more of your money. Some Americans worry, though, you can only make Medicare free and universal if you increase taxes. So if you are elected and make this push, would you need to increase taxes? I am for taxing billionaires their wealth. For the average person, and you look at your W-2, if you're an employee, he gets paid every two weeks or four weeks. After you pay your taxes, the next biggest check that comes off the top of your pay stub is to your health insurance company. So imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20 million a year, instead you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare. Oh, just a little bit more. Notice how he blinks. He blinks more than anyone I know. That's a sign. A little more for your healthcare. That's all he says you're gonna pay. Well, then you're gonna be involved with the government. Ever try to get your social security card replaced from the government or get someone on the phone at the IRS? Well, it's not fun. And now imagine reaching out to the new Medicare for all office when your health is on the line. No thanks. Because more power in Washington always means less freedom for you. That's the main deliverable of socialism. It's a total inverse of what they promise. And as the dispatch notes, reliable polling shows that there's no avoiding the fact that democratic socialism just isn't very popular except among those Democrats who occupy the far left quadrant of the ideological spectrum. Quite simply, liberals like it while almost everyone else, including moderate Democrats, are either negative or still making up their minds. So no matter how many embarrassing sorority girl videos El-Sayed posts on Instagram to distract the voters, if Michiganders believe that at his core, he's a socialist, well, he's gonna lose big time to Rogers. Savvy Democrats understand this, which is why AOC decided to end her two and a half year absence from Sunday shows to give everyone their talking points on this. And it was more like kind of speed dating over at ABC than an interview. So you have Wisconsin coming up next, Francesca Hong, who is the Democratic Socialists of America supporting candidate for governor. Are you, you haven't endorsed her. Are you going to? No, I haven't endorsed in that race. My focus has been in winning back the Congress, winning back the House, and positioning ourselves to have the best chance possible to win the Senate. So I've been focused on those legislative races. What do you make of the? Well, that's pretty strange. It's a battleground state, Wisconsin. It's key to 2028. But of course, the truth is AOC knows that Hong is a terrible candidate and she's not very bright, which reflects badly on AOC if she goes on to lose. Of course, ABC's follow-up was the bare minimum. The abolished prisons, abolished police, which is also positions that have been taken by a lot of the progressive candidates who have won. How do you get around that? Yeah. Those are not positions that are supported by. Right, I mean, I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they'll have a tendency to be nationalized. But these races ultimately are local and all politics are local. My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate. Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that. Oh yeah, thanks. You know, he should try out for the WNBA, Jonathan. I like Jonathan Karl, but that's a nice assist of a female player, good job. But the entire approach and the entire purpose of this interview was not to demonstrate a careful rethinking of these bad socialist views, but instead, AOC, with Jonathan Karl, is kind of working to rebrand the movement. I have a local city councilman that has this saying, woke one was crazy. Did the movement go too far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. During this time, and especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window. The doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. During lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. That's it? The George Floyd riots during the Summer of Love caused billions of dollars in damage, resulted in the deaths of as many as 25 people nationwide. It destroyed businesses, injured police, destroyed recruiting of police, and she thinks she can wash it all away six years later by saying the equivalent of oops. Well, sure, if the interviewer lets her get away with it, with open-ended questions and zero meaningful follow-up. What, in your mind, is the difference between socialism and communism? I think, to me, the fundamental difference is, I mean, there's many. One prevailing one is democracy, and I believe that democratic socialists are fundamentally pro-democracy, and we believe in the ballot box. Socialism, pro-democracy. Actually, let her get away with that. This is a classic CYA. The question is, who is allowed to vote in this new socialist world? Anyone who crosses the border. And will there be a Senate to actually vote for? Not according to the DSA's platform, which includes a plan to essentially dismantle how we've run our government for 250 years. So the question remains, is AOC's stature within the party, within the socialist movement, big enough to blunt the toxic truth of what socialism really is? Well, Andrew Cuomo, he doesn't think so. You have seen a surge for the quote-unquote DSA democratic socialists in the party. That is short-term, I think it's unsustainable. When you ask the DSA to get past the superficial, they don't have anything to say. The more they talk, the more Americans they turn off, and the more Democrats they turn off. If I was their attorney, I would say, stop talking. I can't believe I'm agreeing with Cuomo, but he's right. And if AOC thinks that El-Sayed can win simply by bathing in her reflected glory, she may not be as smart as her consultants tell her she is. I can tell you, black folk in the working class don't like the socialists. Abdul's got a lot of work to do. By the way, I talked to a Republican strategist who said, he promised me, that they're gonna make Hassan Piker as famous as Donald Trump in that state. I don't understand at all why Abdul is piling around with him. Because Abdul El-Sayed is a dud who never took the medical boards, and he thought Piker could get the college kids and the liberal Karens to like him, to vote for him. And they did, that's why. Now, over the weekend, another former Clintonite threw in the towel on his old party. Julian Epstein and I used to spar during our MSNBC days, but the socialist whack jobs aren't what he bargained for. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum. There is no room in the tent for people that wanna destroy our constitution. There's no room in the tent for people that wanna align themselves with radical Islam. There's no room in the tent for people that wanna align themselves with anti-Semitism. This is where the party's going. This is not a party I wanna have anything to do with. They're dropping like flies. Now, as we've told you for many years, AOC is the thought leader for the modern Democratic Party. It's not even close. And it's not surprising that ABC would call on her to defend the Democrats after weeks and weeks of craziness from the left. And she did the best she could. I really believe that. But even AOC, with all her charm and all her talent, cannot hide the fact that her party has mostly given up on the United States of America, on its people, on its constitution. And they're demanding a new and radical system where they can rule forever, like their heroes in China and maybe Cuba. That's the real crazy. And it's not going away until it's beaten and beaten badly at the ballot box. And that's the end.