DSA Candidate Slams "Proximity To Whiteness," and Tennis Star SUPPORTS Women, with Matt Taibbi, Plus Roland Orzabal of "Tears For Fears" | Ep. 1373

August 4, 2026

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DSA Candidates, Plagiarism Scandals, and Trans Athlete Debate: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Matt Taibbi and Roland Orzabal

The Democratic Socialists of America are gaining ground in Democratic primaries, and the candidates they're fielding come with increasingly radical platforms—and personal histories that would have been disqualifying in any previous political era. On the same episode, a Cambridge professor's biography continues to unravel under scrutiny, a congressman's divorce spills into public view, and a tennis star takes a clear stand on women's sports. The throughline connecting these stories is a political and cultural landscape where institutional guardrails have weakened, and the question of who gets believed—and why—has become central to public life.

The DSA's Rising Influence and Unconventional Candidates

In Wisconsin, Francesca Hong is leading the Democratic primary for governor by 22 points, according to a Marquette poll. Hong is a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a group whose official platform includes abolishing the Senate, replacing the presidency and Supreme Court with bodies subordinate to the House, eliminating prisons and police, and defunding the Pentagon. "They want to fundamentally reform the entire political system and make it so that it's effectively mob rule," Matt Taibbi observed.

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1 (03:00) **Maine Senate Race and Troy Jackson’s Second-Cousin Marriage** - Megyn and Matt Taibbi discuss the bizarre personal scandal plaguing the new Democrat candidate.
2 (09:35) **DSA Candidate Francesca Hong in Wisconsin** - A radical progressive leads the governor primary with a platform of defunding the police and canceling Thanksgiving.
3 (15:56) **The DSA’s Broader Threat and Ignorance of History** - The DSA platform seeks to eliminate checks and balances entirely, and its rise is fueled by anti-Israel sentiment and economic naivete.
4 (19:58) **Francesca Hong’s “Proximity to Whiteness” Comments** - The candidate uses her own biracial son to denounce whiteness, sparking outrage from the hosts.
5 (23:12) **Bernie Moreno vs. Max Miller: Ugly Custody Battle in Ohio** - A Republican Senate candidate attacks a House member, his ex-son-in-law, with leaked audio of a domestic dispute.
6 (32:34) **The Collapsing Credibility of Cambridge Professor Jason Arday** - A massive plagiarism and fabrication scandal unravels as charities and universities deny his claims.
7 (40:00) **The “Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” on Display** - Taibbi and Megyn detail the blatant plagiarism and nonsensical writing in Arday’s published work.

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Show Notes

Megyn Kelly is joined by Matt Taibbi, editor of Racket News, to discuss the allegations that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson is in a relationship with his second cousin, the political mess in Maine, DSA Wisconsin Dem Francesca Hong's remarks about her own "proximity to whiteness" because of her half-white son, her past comments calling for Thanksgiving to be canceled because of America's history, the shocking newly-released audio from GOP Rep. Max Miller, the ugly divorce battle spilling into the public involving Miller and his former father-in-law Sen. Bernie Moreno, shocking new developments in the Cambridge University professor plagiarism scandal involving, the left's attempts to blame the controversy on racism as more questions of lies in the professor's past emerge, and more. Then Megyn discusses the left and media trying to downplay the harms of males playing in female sports, receipts of various girls who have been hurt by boys playing sports, the truth about biological reality, tennis star Aryna Sabalenka coming out in support of protecting women's sports, Rep. Seth Moulton cowering over the "trans" issues after he once spoke out on it, and more. Then Roland Orzabal, author of “Welcome to Your Life,” joins to discuss the story behind his iconic band Tears for Fears, why he's writing his memoir now, how the band came together, the inspiration behind "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," the band's breakup and how it came back together, and more.

Taibbi- https://www.racket.news/

Orzabal- https://www.harpercollins.com/products/welcome-to-your-life-roland-orzabal?

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