Are the RADICAL Democrats about to REVOLT against their own party?

What this episode is about

The discussion explores the potential internal conflict among radical Democrats regarding their strategy in response to the Trump administration and the shift towards a more revolutionary approach. It questions whether this rapid transformation toward socialist policies, particularly in light of recent electoral setbacks, might alienate mainstream voters and lead to a revolt within the party.

Key takeaways

• Democrats once loved tariffs, now they're confused about Trump—embrace opportunities instead of enemy lists.
• Fast movements towards socialism alienate moderates—democracy thrives on patience, not chaos.
• Historically, progressives prefer gradual change; jumping to revolution risks losing the game altogether.
• Distrust in leadership breeds chaos; voters turned to Trump to wreck the old, not to rebuild.
• Socialist dreams clash with reality—incremental progress keeps the peace while radical dreams ignite conflict.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 9 min speaking
• Stu (Guest) · 4 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Donald Trump, Socialism, Barack Obama, Communism
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Joe Biden, Socialism, Communism, Hillary Clinton
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Donald Trump, Socialism, Joe Biden, Barack Obama

Notable quotes from "Are the RADICAL Democrats about to REVOLT against their own party?"

• You know did the Democrats are they moving too fast on this strategy? If they want to eventually admit take the masks off and say they are socialists we're all socialists now.…

  about Socialism · at 1:24

• They believed in socialism. They believed in communism. Remember, this is before communism had been tried and failed over and over again. So, but they believed in that and they.

  about Communism · at 3:27

• Uhhuh. And when that was over, what did we do? We hired the world's largest wrecking ball, Donald Trump. Okay, we're we're done with that. We don't believe you anymore. We're done with that. Correct. Now, imagine that you've.

  about Donald Trump · at 4:43

• Then after that one, you get Joe Biden and what does he do? He engages or allows all the chaos to happen. Okay? So it works to their advantage. He the socialists want all of this chaos. They want all of this control. But so do the.

  about Joe Biden · at 6:27

• But the Chuck Schumers of the world, they're afraid.

  about Chuck Schumer · at 11:16

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure / foil in argument · 2 mentions · first at 4:46
  Used as the disruptive counterforce to incremental progressive politics and as the focal point for how Democrats should strategically respond; also cited as having 'fixed' economic damage quickly in 2016.
• Joe Biden — Person · Referenced political figure / example in argument · 3 mentions · first at 6:27
  Presented as enabling or allowing 'chaos' and as aligned with global governance/public-private partnership framing; contrasted with 'socialists' and other Democrats in the speaker's taxonomy.
• Barack Obama — Person · Referenced political figure / historical pivot point · 2 mentions · first at 5:30
  Characterized as a 2008-era figure who made 'progressive' (not revolutionary) changes; used to explain disillusionment among 'diehard socialists' in the narrative.
  Little bit closer. Then finally in 2008, it's your shot. You have a guy who, is a Marxist, okay? He was steeped in all of this stuff and the Democrats are going to run this guy.
• Chuck Schumer — Person · Referenced political figure / establishment Democrat exemplar · 2 mentions · first at 2:40
  Cited as representative of non-revolutionary Democrats still present but allegedly losing control within the party; used to illustrate internal party power dynamics.
• Hillary Clinton — Person · Referenced political figure / contrast case · 1 mention · first at 6:09
  Used as an example of a Democratic standard-bearer framed as non-revolutionary; contrasted with 'communist' or revolutionary aims in the speaker's dichotomy.
  She's not a she's not a communist. She doesn't want revolution. She wants authoritarianism. She wants globalism.
• Bernie Sanders — Person · Referenced political figure / symbol of socialist/progressive politics · 1 mention · first at 1:36
  Grouped with AOC as emblematic of the party's leftward/revolutionary energy in the speaker's framing; used to support the 'moved too fast' thesis.
  They want to eventually admit take the masks off and say they are socialists we're all socialists now. We're getting that with mom Donnie and AOC and Bernie Sanders and the…

Concepts & topics

• Socialism — Concept · Core topic · 3 mentions · first at 3:27
  Central theme of the episode, discussing the shift in Democratic strategy towards socialism and its implications.
• Communism — Concept · Key argument · 2 mentions · first at 3:27
  Discussed as a failed ideology that influenced early progressive movements and contrasts with current socialist strategies.

Places & events

• Great Depression — Event · Framework · 1 mention · first at 5:12
  Referenced as a historical period where socialist and progressive movements saw opportunities to advance their agendas.
  Socialist and you've been moving the ball incrementally, but there's been times where during the Great Depression, during the 1960s, you could we could take it now. We could take it now.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 So Stu, restate your question again so I I fully understand and I can I can answer it clearly here.

0:07 Well, I think thinking about taking out the fact of who we would want to win in this sort of eternal battle uh for a moment just speaking strategically as to how you would approach it if you were a Democrat.

0:20 I initially kind of proposed the question as to how you might deal with the Trump administration. Would you maybe look for the gains that you can get while he's in power that maybe common ground? He's talking about getting rid of the filibuster, for example. Um, you know, I every day that I was alive up until a certain gentleman came down a very nice escalator, Democrats loved tariffs and were arguing for them constantly. And like if you have an ally with that on that one issue in the White House, why wouldn't you sit here and try to go as far as you could down that road and help him along on that instead of just making him into an enemy and calling him Hitler all the time? And that led to us talking about well you mentioned that you know because this the strategy has changed. It's no longer a progressive strategy where you're trying to move policy a specific direction. It's about a revolution and

1:10 you know go changing this into a socialist uh place where uh you now need you you now want the chaos on the streets. You now want uh people to be at odds like that. Uh and so we led that to um you know did the Democrats are they moving too fast on this strategy? If they want to eventually admit take the masks off and say they are socialists we're all socialists now. We're getting that with mom Donnie and AOC and and and Bernie Sanders and the like. Uh to me, part of the reason they lost in 2024 is they went really far really fast with things like gender uh and the like things that people kind of just like crinkled their brow and said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't want that."

1:54 So, did they move too fast? And is this the right strategy for them? Okay, so let me let me start with that. that I believe is a strategy of chaos. And so it was accepted uh because it is just this deconstruction kind of idea that has been um preached now from the universities and the intellectuals and the you know the democrats many of them by this you know this garbage from the universities but it it was all started really by socialist revolutionaries. Okay. As as a product of chaos, would you agree with me that there are at least two different kinds of Democrats?

2:38 Democrats that, you know, might vote for Schumer and don't think that they, you know, they don't believe that there's, you know, this great change coming and there they want the same kind of America the, you know, that we want. There's that Democrat and then there's the socialist, the revolutionary democrat.

2:57 Yeah. Probably not the same America we want, but one that's reminiscent of what we remember about, right? Yeah.

3:02 Correct. Correct. Correct. Okay. [snorts] So, that has been since early 1900s, that's been the progressive way. Forget Democrats. It's a progressive. Democrats became progressive in the early uh 20th century. And when they became progressives, they did it because the democrats did not want a revolution. They believed in socialism. They believed in communism. Remember, this is before communism had been tried and failed over and over and over again. So, but they believed in that and they really thought it was the right thing to do and that science was going to be able to control society and everything else.

3:43 Uh, and so it would have all the answers and we have to go that because this is this is the scientific way. Okay. And it's also the right way to do it. You know, spiritually it's the right way. They were making this case. Those were progressives. Socialists were like, "Yeah, it is the right way. So, let's do it." Now, progressives said, "No, we'll get to your socialist utopia, but we'll do it one step at a time." You think you can relate to this because how many times do we have to be Charlie Brown and our and our own side is Lucy with the football?

4:23 Oh, okay. Mhm. That's exactly what I was thinking about as you were laying that out.

4:27 Correct. And what was the response from our side? Our side always said, "Look, we just need to win that next election. If we win that next election, we'll move the ball down. Don't worry, I'll hold the ball right here so you can kick it. We just have to win that next election first.

4:43 Uhhuh. And when that was over, what did we do? We hired the world's largest wrecking ball, Donald Trump. Okay, we're like, we're done with that. We don't believe you anymore. We're done with that. Correct. Now, imagine that you've been playing this game since the early 20th century and you are a diehard socialist and you've been moving the ball incrementally, but there's been times where during the Great Depression, during the 1960s, you could like, we could take it now. We could take it now. Okay. During Jimmy Carter, we can take it now. But it's always just moving a little bit closer. Then finally in 2008, it's your shot. You have a guy who, you know, is a Marxist, okay? He he was steeped in all of this stuff and the Democrats are going to run this guy.

5:40 And you're like, "Yeah, they're running him and and he's a Marxist. They I don't know if they believe in that, but this guy's going to get it done. This guy believes this stuff." They get all excited and what happens? He makes big changes, but it's progressive change. and he becomes uh a guy that they no longer trust. Wait a minute. You were just part of the system. You got rich. You did all the things that you said you were against when you were a young Marxist. And look at you. Then what do the Democrats do? The next person they run is Hillary Clinton.

6:15 She's not a she's not a communist. She doesn't want revolution. She wants authoritarianism. She wants globalism. There's a very big difference between those two. Okay. Then after that one, you get Joe Biden and what does he do? He engages or allows all the chaos to happen. Okay? So it works to their advantage. He the socialists want all of this chaos. They want all of this control. But so do the Democrats, the new kind of Democrat. They want control. They just want global control. They they want they're much more fascistic. And I say that literally fascistic because Joe Biden talked about it all the time. These public private partnerships.

7:04 What do socialists want? They want to control schools. Socialist communists. They want to control schools, but so do the authoritarians. They want to control schools. They want a uh a communist system where all the means of production are owned by the people through the state. Um but the authoritarians on the left, they want they will never call it this, but a fascistic system. Okay? It's it's it's a globalist system where all of these giant corporations work with the government and do what the government says and they'll allow you to be successful as long as you do exactly what the government says to do.

7:45 The communists, they don't want the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Socialists don't want that. They want a bill of responsibilities, what the government must do. Our bill of rights is what the government cannot ever do. That's an impedment to socialism. You got to discredit and get rid of that. The the Democrats don't want to lose that. They just want to weaken it. They just want to confuse it. But they don't want to get re rid of it because they still need the illusion of America. And they're and they're for some of the stuff because it's been transformed by them over a hundred, you know, a hundred years.

8:26 They want the Fed. Do you think the socialists want the Fed? No. They don't want the the socialists don't want the WF. They don't want just a restructured uh social order. They want a completely restructured so social order. The Democrats, the authoritarians, they want friends in the media. They want friends at tech. Do you think the socialists want friends in the media? They'll drag those people out in the streets and beat them to death so fast. And they'll do the same with all the people in tech. Okay, that's what will happen.

9:02 That's the different. You have revolutionaries and then you have politicians. Now you get you get Barack Obama in and then you get Joe Biden in and they see they see what's happening with Joe Biden. He is building a global government. That's what's happen. He's he's in bed with the WF. That's a global government. That's even That's even worse than what we have right now. Well, we can take advantage of the instability when the Democrats blow it. I really believe the the socialists have said enough is enough. You know, guys, we just need one more election and then you'll get what you want. Enough is enough. You're never going to give us this socialist utopia. You're not for those things. And we have danced with you at this party forever. And you know what? You didn't notice how strong we were getting. Now you brought us to the dance. But is it still that way? Now we're in charge of the dance and we're

10:03 shaking you. Get out. That's what's happening. And it's because they're so sick and tired. So there's no the the actual socialists don't have the same strategy as the Democrat the uh the Democrats do because they don't have the same end goals. And I think that's what makes the socialists so dangerous. That's why we're seeing the uptick in violence because Democrats and it's hard to say this because so many Democrats I think are really confused because I think they've just been herded into the SCOP operation. Scops have happened to them over and over again. And so they're just convinced that everybody else is Hitler and they don't see what's happening in their own party. They think that the socialist is the Democrat. It's not. And socialists do believe ends justify the means. Socialists do believe kill them. If they get in your way, kill them.

11:02 That's why you're seeing the uptick of that is because it's the socialists now that are in control of the party. Almost completely in control. They're not completely in control because you still have the Chuck Schumers hanging around. But the Chuck Schumers of the world, they're afraid. They know they're no longer the lead at the dance. They know they're about to be eaten if they don't just do what they what they're told to do. just you are going to stand against this. You're going to shut down the government cuz that works to the advantage of the socialists, not the Democrats, to the socialists. The socialists need the economic chaos. They need the poverty.

11:44 They need all of those things so they can dramatically change. You can only weaken a government so much. You can only weaken an economy so much before it's not in your advantage anymore because you won't be able to fix it. Look how fast uh uh Donald Trump fixed in 2016 what Obama had done. There was so much damage done to the economy in 20 by 2020 to 2024. You look how long it's taking him to fix things. It's not easy anymore. Democrats know that you you we can't completely destroy everything unless you have the framework and you're going to drop it into a new world order.

12:26 It's just the time now to fight for them. Are we a globalist new world order that loves all these corporations or are we a socialist new world order that does not get into bed with all of these corporations and everything? That's that's the real rift here. That's what's actually we're watching this play out and nobody seems to be talking about it, but that's the real game that is being played out.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Are the RADICAL Democrats about to REVOLT against their own party?"?

Glenn Beck (Guest), Stu (Guest).

What is "Are the RADICAL Democrats about to REVOLT against their own party?" about?

The discussion explores the potential internal conflict among radical Democrats regarding their strategy in response to the Trump administration and the shift towards a more revolutionary approach. It questions whether this rapid transformation toward socialist policies, particularly in light of recent electoral setbacks, might alienate mainstream voters and lead to a revolt within the party.

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Socialism, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Communism, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Are the RADICAL Democrats about to REVOLT against their own party?"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,139 words in 22 timestamped sections.

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