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MORNING GLORY: We're living through the Summer of the DSA (and Hasan Piker)

Few people saw the hard-left turn of the Democrats coming, but it is surely here

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published September 1, 2026 5:00am EDT

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With a week left in this summer, the touchpoints seem likely to be the rise of Democratic Socialists of America ("DSA") and the meteoric rise in awareness among the general public of Hasan Piker, an online Twitch streamer whose toxic combination of radical politics, profanity, vulgarity, anti-Israel and hate-filled rhetoric merged with the DSA’s march through the Democratic primaries to make it appear to "normal" Americans from the center-left to the center-right as though the Democratic Party had become unhinged and taken over by a cult-like group of crazed anti-American extremists.

The "Summer of the DSA and Hasan Piker" is unwieldy, but accurate. Shorthand will........

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