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The political world was shocked early Sunday morning by the sudden and completely unexpected passing of longtime South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. He was 71 years old.

According to an official statement released by his office, the senior Republican Senator passed away on Saturday evening, July 11, after a brief, rapid battle with an undisclosed illness.

The brief statement from his office read:

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.”

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). pic.twitter.com/CQ5yVvqTH1

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 12, 2026

More from NBC News:

Emergency personnel responded to a call for “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News.

Photographs reviewed by NBC News show that paramedics carried a person on a stretcher from Graham’s home to an awaiting ambulance. Police cars and fire trucks were also on site.

Graham was fresh off a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. He had been scheduled to appear on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

His death comes as fellow Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell remains in the hospital after paramedics responded to a call at a known residence last month for an individual experiencing cardiac arrest.

A McConnell spokesperson has said the former GOP majority leader is continuing to recover, but his team has not provided further details about his condition.

The loss of Senator Graham leaves a massive vacuum in the U.S. Senate and completely shakes up the political landscape in South Carolina, where he was currently running for reelection.

Under South Carolina law, Republican Governor Henry McMaster will be tasked with appointing a temporary replacement to fill the vacant seat until a special election can be held.

This is a developing story.

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Politics

Karoline Leavitt’s Zoomer-Bashing Is Bad for America

The right has a generational conflict on its hands.

(Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt isn’t thrilled with her generation. In a recent interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, she agreed that her fellow Zoomers are lazy and entitled. “This generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths,” she told the Fox News host. She added that they’ve been given everything and are completely ungrateful for those privileges. She even thinks some of them need to be sent to Cuba or Iran to straighten up.

The comments didn’t land well on social media. But Leavitt wasn’t bothered by the outrage. She doubled down in a lengthy X post. “I was asked by Jesse Watters why so many young people are buying the false promise of ‘free stuff’ being sold by communist politicians,” she wrote. “My answer: a combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long.”

It’s a strange message for the administration to blast out when President Donald Trump is underwater with young voters. A June poll from NBC found that 77 percent of voters under 30 disapprove of the president’s job performance. If accurate, those figures represent a complete wipeout of Trump’s gains among young voters in 2024. Leavitt’s comments risk reinforcing a negative impression of the administration among Zoomers.

But the message was likely well received among its target audience. Those who regularly watch Fox News aren’t Zoomers. The median age among Fox News’ regular TV audience is 69. For this demographic, youth-bashing is music to their ears. It’s been a common trope in conservative media for years to portray the young as lazy and entitled. Millennials were depicted the same way in their younger years. Conservative media loved to attack these “snowflakes” who couldn’t handle real life and were too liberal. Now it’s Gen Z’s turn to play this role for older conservatives.

Leavitt’s comments reflect the generational conflict within American politics. The young hate the Boomers and the Boomers hate the young. Older people make up the vast majority of Republican primary voters and the chief consumers of traditional conservative media, so most leaders on the right cater to their hostility. But the young make up much of the audience within the new media space; thus, Boomers are regularly savaged by the podcasters and streamers. 

Right-wing figures are torn between these two tendencies. Leavitt chose the youth-bashing.

Her statements fit the conservative Boomers’ conception of youth. In the picture presented by her and Watters, young people are good-for-nothing losers who can’t even offer a firm handshake. That’s why they vote for socialism. At the same time, these shiftless individuals could also be dangerous criminals. As Watters noted, if they misbehave, we may need to send them to the Army or even to a foreign country. 

This is a bizarre image of reality. It’s doubtful DSA activists are the ones committing all the crime in New York City and elsewhere. That’s another demographic misbehaving, one that likely didn’t pay much attention to the Bolshevik history taught in high school. But Boomers seemingly like to believe this image reflects reality.

It’s not hard to think that the true enemy for this class is young people. Rather than class war, generational conflict animates older conservatives. They don’t want to hear about the challenges young people face. They believe these problems are purely the result of laziness, entitlement, and misbehavior. Maybe that’s the case with some youngsters, but it doesn’t reflect the entire generation.

The fact is that things aren’t so rosy for Gen Z. Recent college grads are more likely to be unemployed than the average worker. This is a huge change from the past, when the unemployment rate among recent college grads was significantly lower than the national average. The young, if they are employed, face historically low income growth. While this demographic faces a grim labor market, recent college grads are also likely to have more student loan debt than their counterparts in past generations. Zoomers are also carrying more personal debt than any other generation at their age. It’s far harder to buy a house as a young person, with home ownership notably lower among those under 40.

The World Economic Forum warns of “financial nihilism” among Gen Z. Many within this generation no longer believe in the values of prudence and long-term planning. Instead, they favor an “apparently self-destructive relationship with money, which includes crypto bets, prediction markets and retirement accounts raided to pay off credit cards.”

This same mentality also animates the growing support for socialism among Zoomers. If they think the system is rigged against them, why shouldn’t they want to blow it up and redistribute the wealth of Boomers to the young? DSA candidates offer this promise, which is one reason they’re becoming more popular with Gen Z voters.

Leavitt’s response is essentially “Let them eat cake.” It mocks the young for feeling aggrieved and offers tone-deaf advice. It’s a message that will only appeal to old people. 

Generational conflict is stupid. We shouldn’t hate our parents and grandparents. At the same time, our parents and grandparents shouldn’t hate the future of our country. While both sides of the generational war are making waves in politics, animosity toward the young is a more powerful force. Property tax bans, which would defund services such as schools meant for the next generation, are pushed by older Americans—not the young. There is zero effort to reform the entitlements enjoyed by Boomers. Even some DSA candidates try to cater to the old. Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed wants to freeze property taxes, but only for homeowners over 65. New homeowners would not receive this benefit, even when buying a property that had its property taxes frozen under a previous owner.

This can all seem rather selfish, but it’s easy to justify if you believe the young fit the caricature painted by Karoline Leavitt. It’s a self-serving belief to subscribe to: You worked hard for what’s yours. These young people demanding more attention haven’t. They don’t want to work and just want the government to take care of them. They got a degree in Snowflakeology at a college that only taught them how to share their gender pronouns. So why should politicians offer to help out the Zoomers?

It’s a terrible way to think, but it is common. It’s not going to help Republicans win elections, that’s for sure.

If Republicans want a chance to win over the young, they’ll have to stop with Zoomer-bashing aimed for the old. What makes for good Fox News segments doesn’t make for effective political pitches. It doesn’t matter what the White House is doing for Gen Z if its spokeswoman calls this generation lazy and entitled. 

Young people aren’t the enemy. They’re the future of America. And if you want them to keep the nation great, it’s smart to get them on your side rather than propose sending them to Iran.

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Politics

AOC Knew Better Than to Back Platner

The bartender from the Bronx seems to have spotted the warning signs.

Wednesday night marked the end of Graham Platner. 

In a winding, 11-minute diatribe, the self-styled working-class oyster farmer running in Maine for the U.S. Senate denied sexual assault allegations, casting himself as the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy plot by Democratic Party operatives eager to supplant his progressive political campaign. Platner played the victim, claiming the damage done by the allegations was too much to overcome, both tactically and politically, and announcing he would suspend his campaign and withdraw from the November election.

And though the claims against Platner are still being litigated, on Capitol Hill one woman was quietly being proven right. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a likely 2028 presidential candidate and the face of America’s insurgent left, has been praised on social media for her canny decision to withhold an endorsement of Platner this spring despite overlapping ideological goals. The former bartender, who was initially chastised by some progressive allies for refusing to wade into the Platner swamp, turned up aces with a decision that could spell positive momentum should she elect to pursue the Oval Office in two years’ time.

Whether Platner assaulted Jenny Racicot, the 41-year-old Maine woman who came forward with the allegation, should be for prosecutors, not pundits, to sort out. But the allegation arrived on top of a pattern, documented by the New York Times and others, of “toxic” and “unsettling” behavior described by multiple former partners, which is precisely why Democratic support for Platner evaporated within 48 hours. AOC, however, was one of the few major Democratic Party players not scrambling to walk back an endorsement this week, because she’d never given one. 

“I haven’t waded into that primary,” AOC told reporters in early June, a full month before the allegations reported by POLITICO Monday upended Platner’s political ambitions. With that single non-answer, AOC accomplished what most politicians never manage: She said nothing and let everyone else’s mistake speak for her. In a business that is defined by falling in line, AOC’s refusal to endorse Platner looks remarkably prescient. With the Democratic Party on the precipice of a major ideological shift, this is exactly the sort of moment that lends credibility to a woman who is clearly eager to steer the ship.  

The Platner episode arrives at a moment when Ocasio-Cortez is attempting to expand her political identity beyond the issues that first made her famous. Her appearance at the Munich Security Conference in February showed where the 36-year-old still needs work. Though she struggled to project seriousness during the high-profile foreign policy meeting, the moment already feels distant and increasingly dwarfed by President Donald Trump’s own unraveling misadventure in the Middle East.

Though it’s difficult to envision now, there was a time not too long ago when Platner was viewed as presidential candidate material, especially by Morris Katz, a prominent political strategist. Following Platner’s decision to suspend his campaign, sources close to the effort told the New York Post that Katz, a 27-year-old wunderkind credited with helping engineer Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York, had spent the better part of a year building Platner up as a 2032 presidential prospect, in part because he didn’t believe a woman, namely AOC, could win the nomination.

Can a woman become president of the United States? Hillary Clinton came close in 2016. A full decade before tidal changes in the cultural environment of America, Clinton came within a whisker of achieving something no American woman before her ever had. Fast-forward 10 years and polling remains split over the proposition. An American University poll released in October 2025 found that four in 10 respondents “personally know someone who would not elect a woman to the White House.” One of the concerns cited in the poll is the key issue of national security. It’s why the Munich Security Conference represented an unusually high-profile opportunity for AOC to demonstrate her foreign policy credentials.

But much has changed since February. Most notably, Trump, who campaigned against endless wars in the Middle East, appears stuck in one of his own creation. And on the betting site Polymarket, the odds of AOC becoming the next president of the United States have nearly doubled in the past three months. Some of that can be attributed to the fact that several candidates with ties to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won congressional primaries in June, advancing the narrative that the progressive left is a real electoral threat in 2026 and beyond. 

Political careers are often defined as much by the alliances politicians avoid as the ones they embrace. Whether Ocasio-Cortez ultimately runs for president remains an open question. But at a moment when many Democrats are scrambling to explain their ties to Platner, she doesn’t have to explain anything at all. Sometimes the most consequential endorsement is the one never given.

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Culture

The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers

In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen.

As an inhabitant of one of the cities caught up in the nationwide heatwave earlier this month—Columbus, Ohio—I can confirm that the weather was stifling.

The heatwave has dropped out of the news—that will happen when a Democratic Senate candidate has ended his cataclysmically ill-advised candidacy and the Iran War peace deal has evidently failed to hold—but the temperatures remain persistently unpleasant. But, having learned from my upbringing in the reliably hot and humid suburbs of New Orleans that the solution when such weather arrives is to buy a ticket for as long a movie as possible in an air-conditioned movie theater, I did just that this past week.

So, on Wednesday night, I went to one of my usual haunts in downtown Columbus, a big performing-arts venue that honors its movie palace roots by showing classic flicks each summer, to see Jack Clayton’s 1974 film version of The Great Gatsby. This movie—whose admirable fidelity to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was confused for shallowness in its day— starred Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Gatsby’s longtime idée fixe Daisy Buchanan, Bruce Dern as her moneyed but ill-mannered husband Tom, Karen Black as Tom’s lover Myrtle, and Sam Waterston as the genteel narrator Nick Carraway. The screening was pitched as a tribute to Redford, who died last September at age 89.

As it happens, I have interviewed three-fifths of the principal cast—though none of them about Gatsby and all by telephone.

I interviewed Redford in 2017, about his experience with director Michael Ritchie on the movies Downhill Racer and The Candidate; Dern in 2019, about working with director Hal Ashby on Coming Home, and again in 2023, about his memories of director Peter Bogdanovich, whose distinguished career was preceded by a period of grunt work as Roger Corman’s assistant on The Wild Angels; and Waterston in 2009, about appearing in a play directed by my then-biographical subject James Bridges, and again in 2019, about James Thurber. (Look up my piece in The Christian Science Monitor—it’s good.)

But enough about me—really. Believe it or not, while watching The Great Gatsby, I was not thinking about my fleeting telephonic encounters with Redford, Dern, or Waterston (all of whom were exceedingly nice, incidentally). This is not a matter of false modesty but of how many things I can keep in my head at once: I can either tick off each person in a given movie that I might have had some long-ago conversation with, or I can watch the movie. I’m happy when I forget that I once interviewed this or that person. Really? I once interviewed Dustin Hoffman? About what? (I did, and it was about the great prison movie Papillon.)

Since I happen to love Clayton’s film—and admire the performances therein of Redford, Dern, Waterston, and the rest—the choice was simple. 

Yet my principles were put to the test upon exiting the theater the other night and overhearing a conversation among my fellow moviegoers. This experience is not unknown to me. Years ago, when I reviewed classical music and dance performances for my hometown paper, I often overheard the chitchat of departing attendees (who invariably liked the show more than I did). Back then, I kept quiet out of professional integrity: I was not about to divulge my views before they had appeared in print. 

This time, a few people just ahead of me were wondering among themselves whether or when Robert Redford had died—a simple matter that could have been cleared up by someone who hadn’t ever spoken to the man, though I will admit that, listening to them talk, it occurred to me I was uniquely qualified to share some insight into the star. I could have said that, yes, Redford sadly did die last year, and by the way, I interviewed him once, and he was really very nice. 

Instead, I kept with tradition and said nothing. Would they have believed me if I had said I had talked to Redford once? Would I have believed myself? I did not want to taint a memorable movie experience by trying to be the star pupil. I also wanted to get home, back into air conditioning. 

Yet it occurs to me, as I contemplate my own silence, what double lives we can lead. Politeness dictates that we seldom share the full breadth of our own experience. Just as no one at the theater could have guessed that among them was an interlocutor of several members of the cast of The Great Gatsby, I, by turn, would have had no way of knowing if some other ticket-buyer that night had some similarly unlikely impressive quality or story to tell. What if I had been sitting next to some distant descendant of F. Scott Fitzgerald? 

It’s nice to think that the person next to you in a movie theater or in a restaurant or on a plane has some hidden depths. Of course, it is not lost on me that I am sharing my own hidden depths in a column for the world to read. I have gone this long without mentioning that another movie I plan to see this summer is the original 1961 version of West Side Story—whose talented and kindly co-director, Robert Wise, I interviewed the year before he died. Well, I have to tell someone, don’t I?

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US Central Command released footage of strikes against Iranian military targets, following Saturday’s strikes against “approximately 140 Iranian military targets,” the military said. 

The attacks on Saturday were launched by “land- and sea-based fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels,” CENTCOM announced. “Targets included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations.”

CENCOM further notes that more than 300 targets were hit in total during the week.

Additional footage released by CENTCOM appears to show the various strikes executed throughout the week. The video’s description reads, “U.S. Central Command forces striking Iranian military targets after launching aircraft and cruise missiles in response to Iran’s attack on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz during the week of July 6-11, 2026.”

WATCH:

CENTCOM said in a press release,

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed a third round of strikes this week against Iran, July 11, holding Iranian forces accountable for attacking another commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. forces hit approximately 140 Iranian military targets with precision munitions launched by land- and sea-based fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels. Targets included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations.

During three nights of strikes this week, CENTCOM has struck more than 300 targets at the direction of the Commander in Chief to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels freely transiting the strait. Commercial vessel transits through the vital international maritime corridor continue.

Since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the successful transit of more than 800 commercial vessels and 400 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

https://t.co/PdIteJBLkN

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 12, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, US forces launched a third wave of attacks against Iran since Tuesday, when US forces hit more than 80 Iranian targets in response to Iran targeting several ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump then declared the ceasefire was “over” on Wednesday. “I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum,” Trump told reporters before ordering a second round of strikes on Wednesday evening.

Iran continued hostilities against ships in the Strait of Hormuz, hitting a Cyprus-flagged container ship, and declared the Strait is closed again on Saturday, leading to the new US strikes.

MORE:

DEVELOPING: US Launches Strikes Against Iran After Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz and Attacks Ship

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Here we go again.

A man at Yellowstone National Park was lifted about eight feet into the air by an obviously agitated bison. The animal launched him into space with a simple headbutt.

If you watch the video, you can see that the man was trying to keep a distance from the animal, it just wasn’t enough.

Cowboy State Daily has details on the incident:

A man was seriously injured Friday evening after being thrown 8 feet into the air by an angry bull bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Mike MacLeod, a professional photographer from Bozeman, Montana, said the incident happened at the Bridge Bay Campground, south of Fishing Bridge.

MacLeod said the man was walking with his grandson when the agitated bison made them the targets of its aggression.

“I was just trying to get some dramatic footage of that bison having a fit,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “It’s changed my idea of what to expect from these guys at this time of year, because I would not have predicted that happening.”

The National Park Service has not released any information on the incident.

MacLeod said the bison kept running through the campground, while people occupants yelled and screamed at each other to alert one another to the threat. After a while, the bison found a patch of dirt to wallow in.

Then, the victim appeared. He had no idea what was about to happen.

“They weren’t even in that camping loop,” McLeod said. “They were walking along the road, quite a ways away from the bison, and it started running at them.”

The video is only about a minute long and there’s no audio. Stay with it to the end:

This seems to happen a few times a year, no matter how many times park officials warn people to stay far away from these animals.

They’re wild animals, they’re unpredictable, and they weigh almost as much as your car. Stay away from them.

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As the Gateway Pundit has reported, Graham Platner did not just decide to run for U.S. Senate, he was recruited by a pair of Ivy League educated DSA activists who were looking specifically for someone with a blue collar image.

Now that Platner has dropped out of the race over allegations of sexual assault and rape, it is comiing to light that one of the activists who recruited him has also faced complaints about sexual misconduct. You couldn’t make this up.

Daniel Moraff is the grandson of the founder of Toys R Us. In 2022, he was barred from the campaign of Summer Lee after other volunteers and staffers complained about unwanted sexual advances.

NEWS: Daniel Moraff, the socialist grandson of the founder of Toys R Us, who recruited Graham Platner to run for Senate and only lightly vetted him, was barred from Rep Summer Lee’s campaign following at least 3 complaints of sexual misconduct.

PITTSBURGH, PA. – Yesterday,… pic.twitter.com/UvMkny14BK

— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) July 10, 2026

The New York Post reports:

Graham Platner strategist who recruited disgraced Senate candidate also an accused sex pest

One half of the champagne socialist duo who recruited and failed to properly vet accused rapist Graham Platner was reportedly booted from a previous congressional campaign due to sexual misconduct accusations from at least three women.

Yale Law-educated Daniel Moraff, 31, the grandson of one of the Toys “R” Us founders, worked on the campaign to elect far-left “Squad” Rep. Summer Lee to Congress in Pennsylvania in 2022, after leading efforts to recruit her a few years before to run in state politics in Pittsburgh.

But he was quickly barred from campaign events and speaking to staffers after Lee received multiple sexual harassment complaints against him, according to labor publication Payday Report.

“Birds of a feather flock together and Moraff and Platner were predators,” said one of the unnamed women who claims she was sexually harassed by Moraff during Lee’s 2022 campaign.

“He doesn’t have boundaries with women, nor much of an ethical code,” said one woman who complained of his sexual misconduct in Pittsburgh, adding she wasn’t surprised Moraff backed Platner, who dropped out of the Maine Senate race this week after a woman accused him of raping her while he was drunk.

Between this and the utter implosion of Graham Platner as a candidate, it is probably safe to assume that Daniel Moraff’s future as a political operative is pretty much over.

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Actress Ellen Page, who now identifies as male and goes by the name Elliot Page, recently lashed out at critics of transgenderism, saying that they can’t accept themselves.

That sounds just a little bit like projection.

After all, it was Ellen Page who rejected the identity she was born with and transformed into someone else.

From Twitchy:

With Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited (for one reason or another) adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey debuting in less than two weeks, now is the time when movie studio publicists are driven to drink…

So far, no one has quite torpedoed the movie as much as Rachel Zegler did with Snow White. Or Anthony Mackie with his Captain America sequel. Or, most recently, as Milly Alcock tried to do just ahead of Supergirl’s release.

But we’ve still got two weeks to go.

If we were gamblers, we’d put out money on Ellen Page (who calls herself Elliot) being the one most likely to anger potential moviegoers. Contrary to early rumors, Page is not playing Achilles in the film, but she is playing a Greek soldier, which is enough of an affront to biology and reality by itself.

In her most recent interview about the movie with Democracy Now (conducted at the end of June), Page did try to insult moviegoers as ‘vile losers’ if they didn’t accept her ‘identity’ as a man. She also broke every irony meter in existence by claiming that such people are ‘profoundly uncomfortable with themselves.’

Here’s the video:

Transgender ‘The Odyssey’ actress Elliot Page says trans critical people are “absolute vile losers” who “must just be so profoundly uncomfortable with themselves.” pic.twitter.com/SqjV67Ntcr

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 11, 2026

Self awareness doesn’t seem to be her thing.

Nailed it pic.twitter.com/pY3CtiJItq

— SkoolTeecher (@skoolteecher1) July 11, 2026

Every time she speaks, she sounds like she’s on the verge of an existential crisis. https://t.co/Mn1gyUCYXj

— 5 Solas (@5Solas) July 11, 2026

So profoundly uncomfortable with themselves says Page. Classic cult tactic to project their own insecurities and lies on to others. We see it every day. Every single interview I see of this woman is her about to burst into tears. https://t.co/olbuMPYWC9

— Heretic Sal (@blake_sara64710) July 11, 2026

She doesn’t seem like a very happy person, does she?

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Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville recently went on a tirade about the candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who are trying to take over his party.

Carville may be a Democrat but he does know a thing or two about winning elections. He was part of the machine that helped Bill Clinton win two terms in the White House.

In this rant, the ‘Ragin Cajun’ blasts DSA members for running against Democrats instead of Republicans. He can’t stand the fact that these folks are targeting other Dems.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

There’s no difference between the establishment Democrats and the establishment Republicans. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?

At the turn of the century, when this country was running surpluses, was running staggering economic growth, and everybody’s incomes were going up, and we’re going around the world, and then they saw the war, they saw the recession. Then we come to the massive criminality, we come to trillions of dollars in added debts, we have a jacka** war to run. But it’s the Democrats’ fault.

It’s the corporate Democrats. It’s all because the Democrats listened to Al Gore or some sh*t like that. These people are so f*cking stupid, I don’t know what to say about them.

So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats, and what is their solution? Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No, their solution is to beat Democrats.

They’re part of the problem. No, you are part of the problem, because you’re a f*cking idiot. You just believe that pablum nonsense that drifts around the left wing, I don’t know, whatever sphere, block of sphere, atmosphere, thought sphere, or whatever sphere they got.

Here’s a short clip:

James Carville’s freakout over Democrat Socialists is reaching fever pitch.

“These people are so fcking stupid, I don’t know what to say.”

James is not at all enjoying the monster his party has been busy creating. pic.twitter.com/c0q57rIHdW

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 11, 2026

You can watch the full version below if you like.

Officials from the DSA have gone on record saying that they’re just using the infrastructure of the Democrat Party to get elected, so Carville does have a point here.

Unfortunately for him, the Democrats are allowing this to happen. They’re not rejecting these radicals even though they could do a lot of harm to the party in the long term.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan has delivered a strong message to Senate Republicans, arguing that they need to get tough and eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act while they still have the chance.

Jordan warned that Democrats will not hesitate to scrap the filibuster if they regain power, making it essential for Republicans to act decisively now to secure election integrity measures before the 2026 midterms.

Speaking to Fox News’ The Big Weekend Show, Jordan discussed President Trump’s push for the GOP to prioritize the SAVE America Act, a key election integrity bill that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and implement other safeguards against fraud.

The legislation passed the House but has stalled in the Senate.

Jordan did not hold back in criticizing colleagues who refuse to consider ending the filibuster.

“It looks like Republican senators who will not vote to ever get rid of the filibuster. I think we know what’s going to happen!” he stated.

Jordan followed up by pointing out the likely outcome if Democrats take control.

“If Democrats ever get control, they’re going to do it,” he said.

He continued, “So it seems like if that’s going to happen or if that might happen, we should probably get to stop it now and put in place these safeguards to make sure our elections are fair, our elections are honest, our elections are the way they’re supposed to be.”

The SAVE America Act has become a top priority for conservatives, including President Trump, who has repeatedly urged Senate Republicans to pass it.

The bill aims to make it “easy to vote, hard to cheat” by addressing vulnerabilities in voter registration and ballot processes.

With the Senate set to return to session soon, Republicans face a narrowing window to enact the legislation in time for it to impact the 2026 midterms.

The deadline to have it done in time is August 8, less than one month from now.

WATCH:

JUST IN: Rep. Jim Jordan GOES OFF and says Senate Republicans should GET TOUGH and NUKE THE FILIBUSTER because the Democrats will be doing it anyway

And then pass the SAVE America Act so they can’t cheat their way into power. TIME IS RUNNING LOW.

“It looks like Republican… pic.twitter.com/e3sBXY1NrR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 11, 2026

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