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5:50Now PlayingRobby explains how Hasan Piker and the Democratic Socialists of America are recycling failed ideas.
The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment: Candidates affiliated with this group are winning Democratic primaries all over the country—and that's bad. Very, very bad. Why? Well, because their ideas for how to run the country are wrong, and dangerous, and in many cases authoritarian. We know that because we can read their plans and listen to their speeches.
Now, I know what you're thinking: Don't Republicans call everybody who disagrees with President Donald Trump a socialist? Sure, that label as an insult has been overused before. But these people self-describe as socialists and communists—and they revere figures and governments from history that engaged in actual authoritarian communism.
Take Hasan Piker, a popular far-left commentator associated with the DSA. He recently spoke at a gathering of College Democrats and explained his plan to drive all the nonsocialists out of the Democratic Party.
You might have some questions about that, including, uh, what was he wearing? Well, it turns out he just so happened to dress in the uniform of one of his favorite great men of history: Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.
Mao did, in fact, change the world—by making it much worse.
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