Megyn Kelly dropped a nuke on the Democratic Party when her guest, Young Turks co-host Ana Kasparian, delivered a blistering attack on her own party during a Thursday appearance on Kelly’s SiriusXM show.
Kasparian admitted the cultural left was “repulsive” and accused Dem party leaders of treating supporters like their “public servants” instead of serving them.
The far-Left host, who describes herself as trapped in political “no man’s land” since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost, didn’t hold back in criticizing Democratic Party “repulsive” behavior in recent years.
“I don’t fit in on the right. I have some pretty serious left-wing policy preferences, but culturally speaking, the left I find repulsive at times, and intentionally so,” Kasparian told Kelly. “They’re intentionally behaving that way. And it’s totally selfish because it’s more about how they feel and how they want to purge certain people out of the party.”
Kasparian’s brutal assessment comes as Democrats continue spiraling after Trump’s landslide victory, with party donors desperately throwing money at schemes to find their own Joe Rogan rather than addressing fundamental problems driving voters away.
“Part of the reason why I find myself in this terrible situation that I’m in, where I’m basically rejected by the left, but I don’t fit in with the right, so I’m kind of in no man’s land right now, and it’s not fun. It’s pretty awful,” she said.
The progressive commentator slammed Democrats for their inability to engage in basic self-reflection about why they keep losing elections.
“What I’ve noticed by the Democratic Party is that rather than self-reflect, they like to lash out. They see us as their public servants instead of them being our public servants. And that is a huge, huge problem,” Kasparian said.
Kelly pressed Kasparian about reports that Democratic donors are frantically trying to manufacture the next media star like Rogan by funding handpicked influencers and content creators, hoping to buy cultural relevance rather than earn it.
“Megyn, if I could be a mouthpiece and rake in the big bucks, I don’t know if I would do it, but I know that I’m not capable of doing it,” Kasparian responded, explaining that her commitment to authenticity has left her politically homeless.
“I have to be authentic. I have to be honest with my audience. It’s both selfish because I can’t help but just tell people how I actually feel about the issues we talk about, but it’s also because I respect my audience. I want my audience to know the truth.”
The conversation highlighted how Democrats have become the “party of scolds,” constantly policing language to make it “woke” and making Americans scared to say the wrong word.
“I think a lot of Americans are fatigued by constantly looking over their shoulder, worried that they might say the wrong thing. Worried that they might be cast off as some sort of bigot or racist because they accidentally used a word that’s no longer in vogue,” Kasparian explained.
She contrasted this with Republicans’ embrace of Free Speech and of being welcoming to different viewpoints.
“What I’m seeing on the right right now, there’s less judgment and more openness to absorbing people into their party. And that’s how you win.”
Kelly agreed, noting that Republicans are “much more accepting of different viewpoints and different political philosophies than I’ve seen over on Team Blue, who resemble North Korea to me in their efforts to make people toe the party line.”
“There are all sorts of people who have lost their jobs, who have been made targets by the left because of the fact that, hey, you know what? I wanted police reform. I didn’t want to abolish the police. Hey, you know what? I see a place for prisons in our society. I do want prison reform, but I don’t want to abolish prisons,” she said.
The Young Turks host also mocked Democratic efforts to manufacture viral content, explaining why Rogan and other conservative influencers’ success can’t be replicated through donor funding.
“Joe Rogan’s popularity is not manufactured. It was organic. And part of the reason why it’s organic growth, organic popularity is because he’s willing to sit down and have conversations with almost anyone,” she said. “If they think that they’re just going to throw money at a problem, the Democrats and manufacture the next Joe Rogan, that’s going to help them win elections, I think they’re just going to be wasting a lot of money.”
Recent polling shows Democrats hitting an all-time low favorability rating of 29 percent, down 20 points since January 2021, yet party leaders continue pushing the same failed strategies while lashing out at critics.