Lions Of Liberty

Lou is joined by Stu Smith, investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute, who has spent months going deep inside the DSA — Democratic Socialists of America. What he's found is far more radical than the "point of personal privilege" memes would suggest.  TOPICS COVERED: 00:00 — Intro: Who is Stu Smith and what is the Manhattan Institute?03:00 — What most people get wrong about the DSA 07:00 — The DSA's internal "right wing" — people who just believe in elections 11:00 — The Red Rabbits: DSA's new armed security task force 16:00 — The Doctor Phil clip: Black Redguard's origin story 20:00 — DSA's global travel: Cuba, Colombia, Sweden, Brazil, and beyond 26:00 — The F-35 supply chain and DSA's quasi-national security threat 31:00 — Salting: how DSA plants operatives inside companies to organize 36:00 — Zoran Mamdani, the Overton window, and how DSA took NYC 42:00 — DSA's youth wing: getting a Cornell student on Ithaca City Council 47:00 — DSA's social media machine and what the political establishm