Stu Smith: Inside the DSA's Private Meetings
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – 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 establishment can't replicate
52:00 – The Calla Walsh pipeline: from DSA delegate to Hezbollah apartment in Lebanon
01:00:00 – North Korea tourism, tanky influencers, and where the far left is trending
01:06:00 – The Weathermen are still active — Stu has been on Zoom calls with Bill Ayers
01:12:00 – DSA's Iran statements and members rooting for the Ayatollah
01:18:00 – What to watch: Mayday, upcoming primaries, and the Socialism Conference
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Stu Smith, an investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute who has spent months infiltrating DSA meetings, Zoom calls, and internal channels, joins Lou to talk about what most people get wrong about the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA's internal "right wing," and the Red Rabbits, its new armed security task force.
We also get into the Doctor Phil clip behind Black Redguard, DSA trips to Cuba, Colombia, and Brazil, the F-35 supply chain, salting operatives inside companies, Zohran Mamdani and the Overton window, the Calla Walsh pipeline to Lebanon, North Korea tourism and tankie influencers, Stu's Zoom calls with Bill Ayers, and what to watch next.