Mamdani's Backlash Begins

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode: Mamdani's Backlash Begins
Date: July 27, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: James Rosen (Chief Washington Correspondent, Newsmax)

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Overview

This episode of "The Rob Carson Show" focuses on the growing rift within the Democratic Party, the rise of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) figures like NYC Mayor Zoran Mamdani, and increasing backlash from both within and outside the party. Rob Carson brings his signature blend of humor and sharp political commentary, joined in-studio by James Rosen, to analyze trends in the Democratic Party, implications for 2026 elections, the surge in anti-Semitism in New York politics, and the role of the DSA in shaping current events.

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Key Themes and Discussion Points

1. Democratic Party Turmoil and DSA Influence

• Carson opens by lampooning the Democratic Party’s candidate selection in Maine and highlights widespread dissatisfaction among traditional Democrats, especially with DSA influence ([01:14]-[03:32]).

• He points to internal party decision-making, disenfranchisement of voters, and controversial candidate choices with “questionable” backgrounds.

• Notable Quote:
  Rob Carson:
  "The Democrat Party...choosing for the people the candidate they will have after the consultants chose Graham Platner...It's a pedophile dating website. He's still trying to hit on teenage girls. No problem." ([02:30])

• Rising backlash among everyday Americans, especially among Black and minority voters:

  Rob Carson:
  "All of the black men that I spoke to… 60 or 70% of them said they're MAGA. They are MAGA supporters. They're conservative. And this Democrat Party with all their bad guano craziness have driven them from the Democrat Party." ([04:11])

2. DSA Radical Agenda and Its Perception

• Discussion of the Democratic Socialists' policy platform, with Carson mocking proposals such as abolishing the Senate, presidency, ICE, borders, Pentagon, prisons, and promoting public ownership of most corporations ([07:01]-[08:59], repeated at [14:03]-[14:41]).

  Notable DSA Platform Items:

  • Abolish Senate & Presidency ("True" - [07:10], [14:11])
  • Abolish ICE and borders, give amnesty for all illegal immigrants ("Absolutely" - [07:44], [14:17])
  • Defund Department of Defense ("Absolutely" - [07:59], [14:25])
  • Abolish prisons/large-scale government ownership ("At least in large part" - [08:38], [14:38])

  Carson dismisses these as “pipe dreams” and "seditious":

  Rob Carson:
  "What they are espousing here is, is seditious." ([08:09]) "None of that is going to happen. It is a pipe dream by a bunch of spoiled, entitled liberal academics." ([08:59])

3. Profile of DSA Supporters

• Carson runs through data showing most DSA supporters are highly educated but low-income, frustrated, and have large amounts of student debt:

  Rob Carson:
  “They have degrees...no skills whatsoever...lots of student debt. So guess what? It’s all your problem that they failed.” ([09:35])

• Caricature of the "spoiled, entitled" DSA demographic:

  "They have borrowed money for worthless degrees. They're unlikable, they're detestable, and they're indoctrinated and they want to overthrow the country. Good luck with that." ([10:30])

4. The Shrinking Democratic Center and Socialism’s Popularity

• Reference to polls showing socialism is unpopular outside core Democrat/younger cohorts. Carson points to the dwindling mainstream base and DNC financial troubles ([11:37]-[13:40]).
• Comparison of party approval ratings, with Trump leading among Republicans ([12:41]).

5. Anti-Semitism and the Zoran Mamdani Controversy

• Carson and Rosen deep-dive into the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions by NYC’s mayor Zoran Mamdani ([25:02]-[39:19]).

  • Rosen analyzes Mamdani’s attempt to find a legal way to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu during a UN visit, describing it as a performative, ahistorical gesture.
  • Rosen links these moves to a broader pattern of left-wing radicalism and ahistoricism.
  • Concerns over safety for Jews in NYC, rising attacks post-October 7th.
  • Efforts to bar Mamdani from the 9/11 memorial in light of his anti-Israel activism and statements ([36:11]).
  • Connections drawn between DSA-backed politicians, anti-Semitism, and analogies to radicalism in 20th-century Europe.

  James Rosen:
  "Over the past 10 days or so, Mayor Mamdani removed the mask… he said he was having an active conversation… about whether he could order the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu..." ([25:32])

  “The entire socialist communist enterprise has been built ... on what I call ahistoricism, a conscious turning of a blind eye ... to the irrefutable results of history.” ([26:57])

  “Now finally, just not long after that video was posted ... we saw a knife wielding assailant stab a Jewish man... one wonders if those kinds of incidents will be by future historians added to this tally of 100 million deaths and countless injuries, robberies and tortures and beatings and incarcerations, etc.” ([29:16])

  Rob Carson:
  “All of these things add up to me a very dangerous person. And then James Rosen, you also add this up with the Democrat Party going way socialist and leaning into anti Semitism. I think that happened in Germany a while back.” ([34:17])

6. Media, Party Response, and 2026 Outlook

• Carson and Rosen predict that unless the party expels the DSA and reins in far-left rhetoric, the Democrats face electoral disaster ([38:31]-[39:08]).

  Rob Carson:
  "If [the DSA] remain part of the Democrat Party, they will take over... and they will destroy the Democrat Party." ([38:31])

  • Rosen points to Gavin Newsom’s “big tent” position as evidence the party is avoiding a reckonin g.

  James Rosen:
  "That would seem to indicate how the Democratic Party is heeding your call for some kind of reckoning. In short, by avoiding one." ([39:08])

• Closing advice from John Fetterman, cited approvingly:

  James Rosen (as Fetterman):
  "My strategy should be not be weird. Don't be communist, don't be weirdo socialists. And don't praise Mao." ([20:21], [39:46]) Rob Carson:
  "Otherwise, I think it should be a pretty great midterm for us... Stop saying so much crazy crap." ([20:32], [40:01])

7. Victor Davis Hanson’s Perspective

• Adds a historical and philosophical take on the leftward lurch of the party:

  Victor Davis Hanson:
  “This party is a Jacobin 1960s... conglomeration of anti civilizational stuff. And they, when you see the agenda of the democratic socialists... Do you think that Hamilton and Jefferson and all these people died for you people... we're just going to say okay, we see we got your. No, that's not going to happen.” ([40:15]-[41:34])

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Carson dissects his social weekend, highlighting a political shift among younger Black men:
  “All of the black men that I spoke to, I'll bet you 60 or 70% of them said they're MAGA. They are MAGA supporters." ([04:11])

• Satirical take on DSA's revolution:
  “Get rid of the Department of Defense. Okay, and what is she saying? She's saying an overthrow of the country and the fall of the United States of America.” ([07:59])

• James Rosen's breakdown of Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt:
  “It remains a mystery as to why it would take Mayor Mamdani and his team of lawyers longer than 30 seconds to arrive at such a conclusion, let alone three days or longer.” ([26:25])

• Rob’s formula for unity:
  "Homeboys, hillbillies, Hebrews... When we started seeing anti Semitic protests in New York City around ground Zero. And I said this has to stop." ([41:34])

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Important Segments and Timestamps

• Democratic Maine candidate selection—party control, anti-Democratic process ([01:14]-[03:34])
• Personal stories: Rob's hookah bar visit, shift in Black voters ([03:34]-[07:01])
• DSA platform rundown and response (True/False game) ([07:01]-[08:59], [14:03]-[14:41])
• Who are DSA supporters? ([09:00]-[10:30])
• Socialism’s popularity among Democrats/Independents, party approval, DNC debt ([11:37]-[13:40])
• NYC Mayor Mandami, anti-Semitism, Netanyahu arrest fantasy—Rosen interview ([25:02]-[39:19])
• Debate about banning Mamdani from the 9/11 Memorial ([36:11]-[37:21])
• Victor Davis Hanson historical context and warning ([40:15]-[41:34])
• Carson’s call for mainstream Americans to oppose anti-Semitic extremism ([41:34]-end)

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Language, Tone, and Format

• Language/Tone:
  Straightforward, humorous, often biting; Rob Carson is sarcastic but earnest, using satire, analogies, and colloquial phrases. Rosen is analytical, formal, and historical.
• Format:
  Fast-moving, a mix of news commentary, personal anecdote, satirical asides, and sharp guest analysis.

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Takeaways for the Uninitiated

• The Democratic Party is facing deep internal fractures, particularly from the emboldened DSA.
• DSA’s far-left platform is framed here as disconnected from reality and broadly unpopular outside elite, indebted academic circles.
• Zoran Mamdani symbolizes the rise of radicalism in local government, with escalating anti-Semitism stoking protest and division.
• Both host and guest predict dire electoral consequences if mainstream Democrats cannot or will not push back on DSA influence.
• The episode is laced with historical context, warning parallels, and urges for coalition-building against what Carson characterizes as anti-American radicalism.

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Episode Highlights

• Rob on today's left:
  "It's a death spiral into hell... completely bankrupt."
• Victor Davis Hanson on the DSA:
  "Do you think that Hamilton and Jefferson... died for you people?"
• Rosen on Mamdani:
  "The entire socialist communist enterprise has been built... on what I call ahistoricism..."
• Fetterman's advice:
  "My strategy should be not be weird. Don't be communist, don't be weirdo socialists. And don't praise Mao."

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For listeners seeking political analysis with humor, this episode gives a scathing, energetic critique of the Democratic Party’s far-left turn—mixing serious warnings with satirical punchlines and accessible data for context.

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Transcript

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[Victor Davis Hanson]

Now,

[Rob Carson]

you are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the. Welcome back to the Rob Carson Show. It's Monday, ladies and gentlemen, and this is Graham Platner's replacement in the state of Maine as Democrat senatorial candidate. Because we're not from the left, we're not from the right. We're from the bottom. Yeah, we are rising. There you go. Yeah. Not from the right, not from the. Not from the left, not from the right. Scraping the bottom of the barrel. It is so. Oh, my God, it's so spectacular. So the Democrats in Maine had a convention and they are trying to convince of Maine that they actually chose their senatorial candidate, which they didn't do. It was a bunch of delegates and a bunch of party apparatus and they've chosen this doofus named Troy Jackson, who. Who I've heard there's some dirt on him that's coming. But anyway, that's. That's their choice. That's their choice. Here's Charles Dingman. His name is Charles Dingman and he's the DSA or no, the. The Democrat chair in the state of Maine talking about the great choice that. That the. The people of Maine made. But they didn't room. Look at what Maine Democrats did. I know, I know. And the 17,000 Democrats who. Yeah. Not the 280,000 that voted for Graham Platner turned out in every county. Yeah. To elect 500 of the delegates in this room. Yeah. Understood. Just what is on the line this year. Yeah. And they had no. The voters had no choice. It was you guys. You, the Democrat Party once again choosing for the people the candidate they will have after the consultants chose Graham Platner and the Democrats of Maine said, nazi tattoo. Not a big deal. Kick profile. It's a pedophile dating website. He's had that for about 10 years. He's in his 40s. He's still trying to hit on teenage girls. No problem.

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[Rob Carson]

Rape allegations. No problem. Oh, wait, he's behind in the polls. Problem. Problem. There you go. Oh, my God. How was your weekend? How was your weekend? My weekend was good. It was busy. Had a wonderful weekend with my daughter. Went out, went to a hookah bar on Friday and had a cigar. I don't do the hookah. Hookah to me. You ever tried hookah before? It's these flavored cubes of tobacco, I guess. And you put it in this thing looks like something you might have had in college to smoke some weed. And it tasted. To me, it tastes like you're smoking a urinal cake. So I said no on the hookah. But I ended up having a cigar and hanging out with a lot of really cool people. And by the way, it was a very urban environment, meaning that I was the only white guy there. It was all black people. And then on the inside of the hookah bar, there are a lot of Middle Eastern people and all that. But it was fantastic. I had such a great time. And I'm going to tell you, all of the. All of the black men that I spoke to, I'll bet you 60 or 70% of them said they're MAGA. They are MAGA supporters. They're conservative. And this Democrat Party with all their bad guano craziness have driven them from the Democrat Party. I mean, it was like vitriolic, screw the Democrats, they're nuts kind of stuff. And I think it starts with this war on masculinity. That's a good part of it. The war on the family. That's a good part of it. You know, and all of the failed policies of the Democrat Party. I had a fantastic conversation with a lot of men at that event. And a lot of women too, by the way. I love a lot, a lot of women there. And it was quite flirtatious. Thank you very much. It was. It was actually quite wonderful. And, and oh, I got broken up with this weekend. That was funny. I haven't been broken up with a very long time. I imagine she's probably listening. It's okay. It's all right. We weren't really like steady or anything. We weren't exclusive. But yeah, that happened this weekend. It was the first time in like 30 years I've had a woman say, you know, I'm going back to my ex. Oh my God. This is my life. This is my life now in Washington D.C. but actually, it's actually very cool. The only reason I bring it up is because this is my life in 2026. As a man who was a family man who had like three minivans. I had three minivans. I lived in at least two cul de sac communities. And I was like the dad who, you know, coached baseball and took the kids to soccer practice and all that. And here I am l living in a one bedroom studio apartment with a spiral staircase and, you know, dating, I guess, a little bit. And then my first breakup kind of in like 35 years. It's just weird. It's just weird. What a weekend. Oh my God, what a weekend. And here's one of the reasons why I think so many people are leaving the Democrat Party. This is the Democrat Socialist of America co chair Megan Romer. Now, this is not going to win. Okay? This is not going to win. But you have to pay attention. I saw there was a piece, I think it was in the New York Times said that Republican voters are not motivated. They're not going to vote. You are full of crap. You are full of absolute crap. The New York Times and other news agencies are trying to convince you. Oh yeah. Republicans aren't motivated to vote. They are not motivated to vote. I hate to tell you this, but MAGA voters are still like 95% behind Donald Trump. The Democrat Party is absolutely broken. And this is what's coming to the Democrat Party.

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So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

True.

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Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them.

[Rob Carson]

Yep. Yeah, see, that's not going to friggin happen because we've all got relatives. Maybe even. Maybe even people who are alive today. Or maybe they're, they're buried under, you know, white cross was made of marble or granite. Who fought against this nonsense in the past. And we aren't going to let this. We aren't going to let this happen. You see, this is, this is so utterly ridiculous that it's laughable. But they actually believe that they're going to be able to do this.

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Abolish ice. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US Illegally. As a long term plan. Yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely.

[Rob Carson]

Get rid of the Department of Defense. Get rid of the. Okay, and what is she saying? She's saying an overthrow of the country and the fall of the United States of America. Now, the Democrat Party is going to have to start getting serious about this and saying that these DSA candidates cannot be a part of the Democrat Party. They have to run on their own or disappear into the dustbin of history because what they are espousing here is, is seditious. It's just, it's seditious. And the Democrat Party is going to have to go. We can't have this in our party or your party's gonna die.

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Abolish prisons. At least in large part.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Again, I would love to see a convicted rapist move in with Megan Romer. You know, maybe some murderers move into her building when the prison's closed.

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A long term program. Yeah. Okay. So no presence, government or public ownership of most large corporations.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. None of that's going to, going to win. None of that is going to happen. It is a pipe dream by a bunch of spoiled, entitled liberal academics. It's kind of interesting. I was reading a piece about who makes up these morons. These people who are part of the, the new dsa and they are basically college educated. They have degrees, many of them have graduates. Listen, this strongest backing comes from voters with postgraduate degrees. But lower to middle incomes of 30 to 60 thousand dollars a year. You can work at Ikea, like my son is doing temporarily and make $48,000 starting. All right, just $20 an hour is about $48,000 a year. So there's that. So they make 30 to $60,000 a year. 80% of members age 25 or older had bachelor degrees. 45% had household incomes below 60,000. This is unusual because education and income usually substantially, positively correlated. In the composite CES data, only 19% of Americans with bachelor's degrees or higher had incomes of below 60,000. So these people, what this is, this is the Liberal academics who have gotten these degrees that are woke and worthless and now they have no skills whatsoever and no ability to compete at all. Common occupations among DSA members include teachers, non profit workers, social workers, public sector employees. And what do they have in common? Lots of student debt. So guess what? It's all your problem that they failed. They say that America is a failed state. It is. The dreams are not possible to achieve here, all because they have crappy degrees, they have no skills whatsoever, and they owe a buttload of college debt. Listen to this. Per Educative Data Initiative, graduate student borrowers have an average outstanding debt of 164, $106,000. On 2025 data, this rises to $180,000 with those with doctorates. So this is a group of spoiled, entitled people who have failed at life, who have borrowed money for worthless degrees. They're unlikable, they're detestable, and they're indoctrinated and they want to overthrow the country. Good luck with that. It ain't gonna happen. It ain't going to happen. Here is. Oh, this is kind of interesting because this is a new poll out about who likes socialism. And they think this is going to win nationally. They think they're going to get rid of the presidency and the Senate and the border and they're going to get rid of the Department of Defense and the whole deal. Well, not so much. We've been seeing it in the primary season. Socialists winning Democratic primaries, candidates from the far left. And look at this here. Among Democrats, this is a Fox poll, a majority have a favorable view of socialism. Step outside the. Yeah, because most of the Democrats who are, you know, Democrats of good standing have no freaking clue about what's going on with this party, Democratic Party. It's a totally different world outside the Democrat Party. Completely different. Here it is. Look at independence. Socialism, deeply unpopular there. Yeah. 77% of independents do not think favorably of socialism. Then of course, people, Republicans love Donald Trump. Trump is still very popular with Republicans. Just take a look here.

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[Rob Carson]

21st century own party approval rating about at this point, the second term. We got Trump, we got Obama, we got Bush. Look, they're all fairly popular, but the one who is the most popular, and we have seen this time in and time out, no matter when you look, is Donald John Trump. He's the only one who's over 80%, 83% of Republicans still approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing. It's President. He still has that magic touch because they know he's the only person who could save the country. There you go. You've got the Democrat Party. As I said, they are doing a death spiral into hell. You've got the Democrat Socialists of America who espouse that nonsense that I just played for you. And the party is completely bankrupt. But there's more good news. There's more good news also. Donald Trump, the White House Correspondents Dinner got some audio from that. We've also got Zoran Mandami. They're having anti Zoran Mannami protests in New York. They want to remove him from office and they don't want him at the 911 memorial. And I don't blame him because he's an anti Semite and he hates Israel. So there's that. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Monday edition of the Rob Carson Show. The Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for details.

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So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. And I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

True.

[Rob Carson]

Oh yeah.

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Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Yep. Abolish ice. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US Illegally. Sure. As a long term plan. Yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons, at least in large part. Yeah. Again, as part of a long term program. Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

You guys are freaking nuts. That's the co chair of the Democrat Socialists of America. We found out that the people supporting these are intellectual elites with a lot of college debt who have worthless degrees and some of them only make 30 to 60 thousand dollars a year. Yeah, that's your. Good luck with that formula. Good luck with that formula. Mostly white people, by the way. Those who are the people who are supporting the Democrat Socialists of America who are overtaking the Democrat Party. This is kind of fun. This is a piece in the New York Times that and I normally don't read the New York Times. I don't, you know, please, really? No. Shane Goldmacher and Reed Epstein talking about. Could be Stein. Could be Stein. It's ei. It's Stein talking about the Democrat Party inside the phone, throwing drama at the troubled, broke Democrat Party. At the center is ken Martin, the 53 year old party chairman who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts. According to interviews of more than two dozen Democrats now the Republicans. Donald Trump controls a $400 million super PAC, and the Republican National Committee is sitting on $130 million. The DNC is $2 million in debt. Trusted Mr. Martin, among both donors and party officials, was sapped by his handling of the long promised autopsy of the 2024 election last year. He said he would not release the document, but criticism mounted and he released an incomplete draft. Now they think they're going to raise money with people who have postgraduate degrees and owe $160,000 to in federal student loans and are making between 30 and 60 thousand dollars. Good luck with that. None of the party's problems are more acute than money. For more than a decade, the DNC has transferred millions of dollars every election to sister committees responsible for winning the House and Senate. But the national party is now so short on cash, even after taking out a 15 million DOL loan last year, that officials have privately conveyed congressional leadership. There's, there is. There will be no such transfers in 2026. The DNC has paid more than $700,000 in interest on that loan, averaging more than $75,000 a year. Did they get their loan at Rent A Center? I mean, where the hell did they get their loan? Party officials now recognize reckoning with the fact that they must begin to repay 1.66 million of the loans principal per month starting in January. Otherwise, I guess, I don't know, Troy Jackson gets repossessed. I have no idea what the hell happens. Maybe they'll just take some of the money from Nancy Pelosi with all the insider trading she's at. And then, and then the Democrat Party has, has this to offer as well. For instance, you've got Abdul El Sayed, who is a radical Islamist socialist, wants to socialize medicine, calls the country of Israel a genocidal regime. Okay, so there's your anti Semitism right there. Wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. And he does. And he does. Okay, and, and, and then here is his competition. Here's the person running against him for the Democrat nomination.

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Okay, Some of you have seen, you know, there's those cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter.

[Rob Carson]

Some of them might be the coastal elites. This is Ailey Stevens making fun of how I talk. Not. Okay.

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Yeah, says my governor. But let's be real. Yeah, they're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, okay.

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And what they don't know is I am your voice. And their jokes and their criticism only makes Me fight harder.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. All right, so there's Haley David. You know, I think El CIA is going to get his butt kicked because he's just so completely out of his friggin mind. I've got some. Oh, here, here's a. Here is Al Abdul El Sayed saying he's going to get rid of medical debt by taking over health care. And we all know how well that works. And you know what I'd like to

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do in the us, Eddie?

[Rob Carson]

I'd like to abolish medical debt once and for all.

[James Rosen]

And you know how we do it?

[Rob Carson]

How do we do it?

[James Rosen]

We finally fulfill the unmet promise of

[Rob Carson]

guaranteed health care in this country through Medicare for all. There you go. So he says he's gonna get rid of medical debt by socializing medicine. Now Hillary Clinton started that back in about 1992. She was working with her husband Bill, and he was, you know, having sex with a lot of women outside of marriage. And she pushed kind of this national thing. And he lost both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years during his first term. Okay. And they've been pushing this crap ever since. And they finally got their Obamacare through against the will of the American people back in 2010. And now the Democrat party has decided to go further left than Kamala Harris. And Kamala Harris got destroyed in the 2024 election. That on top of that, the Democrat party is completely broke. It's completely broke. The best advice that I've heard from a Democrat this weekend. John Fetterman.

[James Rosen]

So for the 2026 midterms, what should

[Rob Carson]

your party's strategy and message be?

[James Rosen]

My.

[Rob Carson]

My strategy should be not be weird.

[James Rosen]

Don't be communist, don't be weirdo socialists. And don't praise Mao.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, and do crazy now.

[James Rosen]

Otherwise, I think it should be a pretty great midterm for us.

[Rob Carson]

You'll see. Stop saying so much crazy crap. Among other things. This is a Monday edition of the Rob Carson Show. Don't go anywhere. This isn't the end of a fight. It's the start of one. Lioness, the critically acclaimed original series from Taylor Sheridan, returns August 2nd only on Paramount. Plus it's the new season. Hidden networks, foreign operatives and personal betrayals collide while Joe walks the line between duty and family. Don't miss Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana, Michael Kelly. With Morgan Freeman and Nicole Kidman. Streaming August 2nd only on Paramount Plus. Hey, guys, it's Carson for Ghostbed. Do you really want another summer like last summer? Barely sleeping because you were too hot? All night. People blame summer heat for bad sleep when it really may be their mattress trapping heat. And if you already sleep, hot summer only makes it worse. That's why I switched to Ghostbed. Helps keep you cool all night. No waking up sweaty, tossing and turning or throwing the covers off at 2am Cooling tech is built into every mattress. It's not some expensive upgrade you have to pay extra for. Hot sleepers are some of Ghostbed's happiest customers. Read the reviews. You get incredible support. Less stiffness, deeper sleep, more rested mornings. I got my Ghostbed about six months ago and it changed my life. Ghostbed gives you one out of one nights to try it at home. You can sleep on it all summer long and feel the difference for yourself. How many more summers are you going to waste on bad sleep? Ghostbed is currently having their 4th of July sale offering my audience an extra 10% off. Go to ghostbed.comcarson use the promo code carson. That's ghostbed.comcarson promo code carson. We have a special guest. Can I be very special? Not because he's a special human being. I mean he is very special, I think to some people in his life. Maybe not so much here, but anyway, James Rosen is. Is our first guest in studio in the Newsmax studios. And this is the. The first time that we've actually had a studio, I guess. So go ahead and test the microphone real quick.

[James Rosen]

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[Rob Carson]

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[James Rosen]

A guest bedroom. This is a room the size of a tree house.

[Rob Carson]

Now, now the. I will tell you the. The microphones are a little bit wanky because this is the first time we've actually played your mic sounds actually better than mine.

[James Rosen]

Well, this is as should be.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, it is. But you're the first in studio guest we've had. I'm actually, I have two cameras because for you guys, who are you guys who are actually streaming? Let me bring down the audio here. We've got to work out a few bugs here.

[James Rosen]

Have you actually identified me for the listeners and the viewers yet? Have you actually said my name and title and all that kind of thing?

[Rob Carson]

Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Okay, there you go. Okay, I apologize, Dave. We got to work out some bugs here. Go ahead and say your question again.

[James Rosen]

Have you identified who I am and my Title for this is a James

[Rob Carson]

Rosen, chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax.

[James Rosen]

Is that okay?

[Rob Carson]

All right, all right. Okay, Brian, I'm going to ask you real quick because this is kind of a trial thing. Can you hear James when he talks on the microphone and see him on the screen? It sounds fine. There you go. And he's not looking at the screen. Okay, well, welcome.

[James Rosen]

Where is the camera even where this

[Rob Carson]

thing is right there.

[James Rosen]

Can't hide anything from ace reporter over here.

[Rob Carson]

Right there. Go ahead and wave and say hi to everybody.

[James Rosen]

Carsonians all.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, well, this is the first time that I've done a on camera live guest and I'm doing the switching and everything.

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Wow.

[James Rosen]

And let me tell you folks, you can't get a complete look at this. And we mentioned earlier that it's a very small space, but in this small space, my friend and colleague Rob Carson built the whole thing himself, down to even putting this foam padding on the back for soundproofing and hanging up his special sign and just getting all the electronics worked out. And honestly, he did such a good job, we were thinking of putting him to work in our other studios here at Newstead.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, well, I've had about enough of building for a while, but I want to talk to you a little, James, about what's going on in New York. You had a piece in the UK Daily Mail. I haven't a chance to dig into it because I don't have the membership. It's a Mail plus article. But you've been writing about what's going on in New York City with protests and finally, by the way, protests against Zohran Mandami and his, what I do believe is absolute anti Semitism.

[James Rosen]

So yeah, I published an article recently in Daily Mail us I will immediately after this segment on X on my feed on X. AmesroSentv. That's AmesroSentv. I gotta do my Rob Carson radio voice. I will post a non paywall link to that article. But in essence, I say that over the past 10 days or so, Mayor Mamdani removed the mask, if you will, previous generations of socialist leadership over in Europe. When the Soviet Union was was ruling much of Europe, they cast themselves as champions of what they called socialism with a happy face. And we might consider that Zoran Mamdani is the latest iteration of this with his youth, his good looks, his media savvy and so forth and his social media adaptability. But when he gave an interview to the New York Times about 10 days ago, he said that he was having an active conversation with his municipal attorneys, the lawyers for the City of New York, about whether he could order the NYPD to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his next visit to Gotham, which presumably will be in September, for the UN General assembly, which Mr. Netanyahu has attended some 15 times. He then took about three days before Mayor Mamdani posted a video, this was July 21 to X, in which he addressed the camera for about two minutes and stated glumly that he and the city lawyers had arrived at the determination that after reviewing every possible legal avenue for the arrest, for the slapping of handcuffs on the leader of over 8 million Jews, they had come to the determination that they lacked the legal authority to do so. And my article in the Daily Mail, in essence said that it remains a mystery as to why it would take Mayor Mamdani and his team of lawyers longer than 30 seconds to arrive at such a conclusion, let alone three days or longer. They didn't specify how long the active conversation had been ongoing because it is well known to students of international relations that the United States cannot arrest visiting heads of state or high ranking diplomats when they come here. For the un, the UN is sovereign soil, first of all in midtown Manhattan. But secondly, it really comes down to something called host country agreements. And I quoted in the article from an exchange at a State Department press briefing where the briefer at that time was Victoria Nuland. This was the Obama era. They had just slapped sanctions on Syria's foreign minister for crack, bloody crackdowns in the streets of Syria. And she was asked if this would impinge on the Syrian foreign minister's ability to attend UNGA, the UN General assembly in New York. And Ms. Nuland, again speaking for the Obama administration at that time, said, no, we have a host country agreement in place. And that's the same reason why someone, for example, such as the Iranian president at that time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was another bad actor, would not be barred from attending unga. Those were the words of an Obama era spokesperson. And so again, that it should have taken the mayor this long really shouldn't be surprising in the end because the entire socialist communist enterprise has been built at least since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, on what I call ahistoricism, which is a fancy William F. Buckley Jr. Style word, ahistoricism, which is to say a conscious turning of a blind eye, yes, to the irrefutable results of history. Every time and in every place that the so called workers paradise movement has been tried, we have seen a death toll attributed to socialist and communist governments around the world of 100 million people. And now finally, just not long after that video was posted to X by Mayor Mamdani, we saw a knife wielding assailant stab a Jewish man on his way out of a synagogue wearing a yarmulke. And one wonders if those kinds of incidents will be by future historians added to this tally of 100 million deaths and countless injuries, robberies and tortures and beatings and incarcerations, etc.

[Rob Carson]

Well, this is not a surprise. You know, when it comes to the use of language, we've heard the expression stochastic terror being used. Used. We've seen it being meted out with the murder of Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the demonization of the Jewish people. And you know, particularly in places like New York City where attacks on Jewish people nationwide have increased dramatically, we saw after October 7th an inorganic movement that actually made us try to forget October 7th ever happened. And by every measure, by every metric, by every thing that he has done with regard to Israel, particularly the fact that he targeted and made for some inane and insane reason, the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu one of his priorities. It should say everything you need to know about Zoran Mandami.

[James Rosen]

I just looked at Mayor Mamdani's inauguration address, which he delivered on the 1st of January. There he pledged to fight for to improve the lives of New Yorkers, as he put it, not the lies of Gazans or West bank residents. He pledged to act on behalf of all 8.5 million of his constituents, not just those who voted for him. And nowhere in that address did he mention Israel. And a recent report by the Success Academy network of charter schools found that some 400,000 students in New York City, which is approximately half the total of them, are attending failing schools. And what's a failing school? A failing school is one where more than half of the students did not pass reading English or math or both on the latest last year's state exams. So it seems to me Mamdani has more urgent imperatives, in fact those that are directly statutorily tied to his office, than to go meddling in foreign affairs and particularly with authority he does not have.

[Rob Carson]

Well, let's take a break and come back because we've got much more I want to talk about, including the anti Mandan protests. Also, there is a group of people signing a petition to ban him from the 911 memorial, the 25th anniversary, which I think is great by the way. Let's take a break and Come back. You are listening to the Rob Carson Show. Hey, guys, it's Carson for Relief factor. When it comes to supplements, two things matter most, that it works and that you can trust it. I trust Relief factor. We hear from people every single day whose lives have changed. And of course, we'd like you to hear a few of their stories. Mark, for instance, was in tears from his daily hand joint discomfort. But after a week on Relief factor, he felt 50% better. Now he barely even notices any pain. I can attest to this. It used to hurt getting up and out of chairs or even off the bench press at the gym. Not so much anymore. People like Mark make it easy to find out if you'll be the next person telling us a Relief Factor story and how it gave you your life back. Three weeks now for just $17.76, simply go to relieffactor.com or call 1-800-for relief. They'll do everything they can to help. We hope you'll be sharing your story to relieffactor.com or 800-for-religion. Joining me in the studio is James Rosen. He is the chief Washington correspondent. Despite what it says on the screen, by the way, when we it says, it says something like chief White House reporter or something. And no, that's an insult. That's an insult to the great James Rosen. It is an absolute insult. Shame on you. Shame on you, my producer, for doing that. But no, we've been talking about what's going on in New York City, the election of Zoran Mandami, which some are actually questioning the validity of the election. We won't do that. But obviously elected by a very small and vocal socialist movement, anti Semitic movement, and now he's the mayor of New York City. He has shown us in many ways that he is an anti Semite, his wife also, by the way, who literally cheered on October 7th, who disappeared July 4th and went over to a Muslim retreat on July 4th while we're celebrating our 250th year. I mean, there's a certain moment, you got to say it quacks like a duck. It is a duck, this guy. One of the main focuses of the last couple of weeks has been to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu without mentioning some of the other despots in the world. All of these things add up to me a very dangerous person. And then James Rosen, you also add this up with the Democrat Party going way socialist and leaning into anti Semitism. I think that happened in Germany a while back.

[James Rosen]

You know, particularly since we're talking about New York. What this brings to mind for me, and I am a New York native. I was born in Brooklyn and raised on Staten island. Attended public schools in New York City up through the end of high school. I worked very hard to lose my New York accent. But would you like to hear it?

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Would you like to hear?

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Sure.

[James Rosen]

What are yous Doing lady is. Is going dancing, huh? Y's looking to catch a beating, tough guy.

[Rob Carson]

I think you need to do that every once in a while. I think you need to do that every once in a while.

[James Rosen]

Oh, I heard Tommy's down on Father Capodanno Boulevard trolling out beach, huh? Say it again. Maybe I'm what? So anyway, insofar as we're talking about New York and we're talking about what, what appears to be a kind of a fringe kind of mentality that has literally taken power. Not just taking root, but taken power. It reminds me of what the great New Yorker Tom Wolf wrote so many years ago in the year 1970. He called it radical chic. It's the moment when that which is radical becomes chic, trendy, fashionable. And you combine this with anti Semitism, which the great historian Daniel Goldhagen has called the devil that never dies. And that's what we're witnessing right now.

[Rob Carson]

And I believe, wasn't it Lagerfeld who did the Nazi uniforms? So it's very chic, you know, very fashionable looking, you know, all of that stuff. So there is a petition going to ban Zoran Mandami, the mayor of New York city, from the 911 ceremony, the 25th anniversary. What do you suppose? Obviously, purely opinion. But what do you suppose? The possibility that will be successful or that the mayor would appear to do what. What I would consider to be the honorable thing and not attend.

[James Rosen]

I don't know who runs the 911 memorial. And that is where your answer resides. Who would have the authority to issue the invitations and likewise to withhold them? But it's inconceivable that the sitting mayor of New York City, whoever he or she would be, would be disinvited from a 911 event. But certainly all eyes would be on Zoran Mamdani at such an event. And to see how he threads that needle, one thinks of his biological and electoral ally in the lady from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar. Congresswoman Elon Omar, who famously once was asked about September 11th and who said, some people did some things.

[Rob Carson]

Things. Yes, yes, yes, of course. And then of course there are also this Chevalier character who is very anti

[James Rosen]

Semitic, a protege of Mayor Mom. Donnie.

[Rob Carson]

And literally has said that the United States deserved 9 11. And it is remarkable. I mean, you look at. They were very young people when it happened. But to say such a thing is. We cannot ever let that be acceptable. But it appears to be that way with some of these people.

[James Rosen]

Just by way of small correction, I would. The.

[Rob Carson]

The.

[James Rosen]

The lady we're talking about, Darieliza Chevalier. Well, I'm missing the middle name. Just like AOC Avila Chevalier. She has three names. She is, you know, the dsa, the Democratic Socialists of America, which powered Mamdani's rise to power and also was instrumental in aoc. And now with Chevalier and also Milad Kiros, who just defeated a longtime Democratic incumbent to represent Denver, they're creating a kind of a legion of mini AOC bots, if you will. And there's a playbook at hand here. But in the case of Milad Kiros, when she was asked if 911 was inevitable for the United States, an inevitable outcome, she said, insofar as the US was conducting certain activities in the Middle east, yes, that is different from saying it is deserved. But to say that something is. You know, it's reminiscent of when Malcolm X was asked about the assassination of President Kennedy, and he called it a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Even Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the radical Black Muslims at the time, sanctioned Malcolm X for that statement.

[Rob Carson]

Well, we will see what happens. I am optimistic that the. The Democrat Party's going to have to do something about the dsa. They're going to have to decide whether they want them to be part of the Democrat Party or not. If they remain part of the Democrat Party, they will take over the Democrat Party. They will own the Democrat Party, and they will destroy the Democrat Party.

[James Rosen]

And you saw what the California governor, Gavin Newsom, who is one of the frontrunners if he decides to run in 2028 for the presidential nomination, when asked about DSA, simply said that he wants a big tent party. So that would seem to indicate how the Democratic Party is heeding your call for some kind of reckoning. In short, by avoiding one.

[Rob Carson]

Well, this is what I like to say. Inviting the vampire in. What happens when you invite the vampire in? The vampire kills everybody in the House. You are.

[James Rosen]

You are. You offer him something to drink. Either a good host or you're not.

[Rob Carson]

Right here. James, thank you for being on the show. The first live guest. It will get better, but I think we did pretty well. It's great to have you on.

[James Rosen]

Honored to be here.

[Rob Carson]

All right. Very good. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[James Rosen]

So for the 2026 midterms, what should

[Rob Carson]

your party's strategy and message be? My, my strategy should be not be

[James Rosen]

weird, don't be communist, don't be weirdo socialists and don't praise ma and do crazy now. Otherwise I think it should be a pretty great midterms for us as long

[Rob Carson]

as we stop saying crazy or supporting kinds of things like well that isn't, that isn't going anywhere because they're doubling down on it. This is Victor Davis Hansen talking about the, the DSA takeover.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

This party is a Jacobin 1960s symbolize liberation, Weatherman, all that conglomeration of anti civilizational stuff. And they, when you see the agenda of the democratic socialists, I mean it's very funny to have these young kids start mouthing off. Well, we don't like the name president. We're going to get rid of that and you know the Senate, that's a wealthy person, that's not fair. We're just going to get rid of that and then we'll expand the house and that'll be just like a radical Athenian, whatever they say is the law. And of course we'll get rid of the Supreme Court, we'll get rid of the president. And they have all these ideas and you think, do you think that Hamilton and Jefferson and all these people died for you people?

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Do you think that we went 250 years and we fought everywhere from Iwo Jima all the way to Belleau Wood to Gettysburg so that you people could just walk in, many of them from first or second generation immigration lecturing us, oh, I think our system is no good. And I've decided that when we take power we're going to get rid of the Constitution and the founders are all racist and they're slightly. And we're just going to say okay, we see we got your. No, that's not going to happen.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That is Victor Davis hands. I get more from him on the after the top of the hour. It's not going to happen. I started saying in 2020, sooner or later we're going to have to spank these children. We're going to have to deliver a spanking to them. Homeboys, hillbillies, Hebrews. That's my expression. I came up with homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews. When, when we started seeing anti Semitic protests in New York City around ground Zero. And I said this, this has to stop. Homeboys, hillbillies, Hebrews are going to have to come together and end this nonsense. Zoran Mandami saying that he's asking people to go out and protest when Benjamin Netanyahu comes to New York City with the United Nations. He is fomenting stochastic terror. People have already started attacking Jews. The attacks have grown exponentially over the last couple of years. He is inviting violence by saying go out in protest when Benjamin Netanyahu comes to New York City. Homeboys, hillbillies, Hebrews veterans, police. We need to end this nonsense. The children are going to have to have a spanking not only at the ballot box. Our number two of the Rob Carson show, live from Washington, D.C. coming up next. Don't go anywhere.