Join Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis as they engage in a compelling dialogue about the shift within the Democratic Party. The conversation highlights political figures like Mamdani and Omar, who have become emblematic of a potential transformation towards socialist ideologies. Both hosts dissect the impact of such changes on the political landscape, questioning the sustainability of these views amidst America’s diversity and foundational values.
00:00:00 Discussion on Political Pandering and Jacob Fry
00:05:09 Discussion on Political Ideologies and Ideals
00:06:25 Citizenship, Political Activity, and National Sentiment
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience. What? Nobody pandered more than Jacob Fry. Do you remember him weeping over George Floyd? Of course. Oh, my gosh. I mean, he did everything he could to pander and to pretend and to fawn. It didn’t get him anywhere. They kicked him to the curb anyway. It didn’t even matter. I mean, every single person needs to take a lesson from this. You can’t pander to the left. No other mayor, Mark, groveled more at the feet of BLM and DEI than Jacob Fry. And they still tossed him aside like trash for someone who calls Somalia home. Precisely. He wants Minneapolis to be more like Somalia. He has said that. And people are okay with that. They love it. They do love it. Now, there’s excitement for him. There’s excitement for Mamdani.
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I’ve got to ask you a question. This guy makes Mamdani look like Dan Bongino. No kidding. This is bad.
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But this is really happening. So I have to ask you why it’s happening. I’ve got a theory. I’ve been thinking about this over the weekend. I think what’s happening is the left believes they should self-correct. Trump’s victories. We’ve got six months of a list full of Trump accomplishments that are some of the most stunning and consequential accomplishments of any president in our lifetime, Mark. And I think they believe, all right, let me quote Beto O’Rourke. Let’s have people return their cars to the road. Well, have you heard the clip of him that’s going viral that we have to be ruthless in reclaiming power? I know. The Democrats, this is what they’re about, is ruthless power. And sometimes people like Beto O’Rourke say it out loud. They say the quiet part out loud.
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They do us the favor of revealing what’s in their heads and their hearts.
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They’re revealing what’s in their heads. And so Beto, and I’m going to play this clip until you’re tired of it today on the show, because this is what they care about. Winning doesn’t work for them. Hillary lost. Biden lost. Lord knows Beto lost. I mean, they lose. They’re not winning with votes. So they’ve got to look at redistricting. They’ve got to look at playing dirty. They’ve got to look at trying to throw charges at Trump and all this crap. They are about ruthless, ambitious power. And so I’m wondering if this crazy, wild-eyed move towards communist, Marxist, socialist looney tunes like Mamdani and Omar in Minneapolis, is that part of this effort to get ruthless power back? Of course it is.
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And you have to wonder about its ultimate wisdom, because you’ll get the occasional Mamdani who may or may not win for mayor of New York. You’ll get this guy like Omar Fatah who may or may not win for, probably will win for mayor of Minneapolis. He doesn’t have a busy four-person election to navigate his way through. Right. Is that just a function of the moment in a Somali-heavy city like Minneapolis? Or is it emblematic of something that is broader, something that the Democratic Party is slowly turning itself into? And if it is, as you’ve described, a thirst for power, an attempt to rattle the cage and reclaim power in some bold way, how can it do anything but fail miserably? Because for every Mamdani, for every Omar Fateh in Minneapolis, there’s still more Democrats in America still who are saying, man, I miss JFK. Man, I miss Joe Lieberman. Man, I miss Bill Clinton, some of them are saying. Bill Clinton would be a center-right figure by today’s measure. If it’s a quest for power, it’s doomed.
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Well, the Somalis alone won’t get this guy elected. So you’re right. It’s either doomed because normal, reasonable people, Democrats, if there’s any left, are going to say, uh-uh, we can’t do this. We can’t. I mean, to hear this guy talk about making Minneapolis like Somalia is stunning. And you think about this. And I do believe he was born here in the United States, if I’m not mistaken. Tracy, can you fact check that for me and see if Omar Fattah was born here or not? Born in D.C. That’s what I thought. Yep. But certainly Somali and his family from Somalia. You think about the image of people migrating here, immigrating here from another country and then basically taking over power, taking over. Look at look at Congress. Look at Ilhan Omar. You know, look at these people who are coming to the United States. And this sounds, you know, edgy. And I don’t want to be racist. I mean, I know I’m not. It’s not racist. It’s a fact.
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Do you have any problem with Byron Donalds? No, of course not. The last time I checked was a black man just like Omar Fateh.
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It’s attitudinal. It’s political. It is, but I also don’t have a single problem with somebody saying, okay, my family came here from another country. So that’s not really the driving force. No, it’s all behavioral and political. And ideological. I mean, you know, no cash bail and let the criminals roam the streets and open borders and we’re not going to cooperate with ICE. And how about, P.S., mix in a little redistribution of the wealth while you’re at it. And, you know, very Marxist, you know, and against private property. That was the classic I played on Friday. Mamdani would like to abolish private property because everybody deserves to own something.
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It’s the root of all liberty is private property ownership. And in fact, go back two minutes to what you were saying, all of it great. There’s not even a problem. I mean, it’s part of the definition of America, people coming from other lands, becoming American, and then establishing whatever life they want, including running for public office. There’s no problem. No. There’s certainly no problem with somebody coming from another land, becoming American, getting citizenship, and running for public office. That’s not the problem with Omar. That’s not the problem with these folks. It is that they hate the country they have come to.
