Hugh Hewitt: Who Really Leads the Democratic Party
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Social media influencer Hasan Piker is now the face of the Democratic party.
Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes. Piker uses social media to monetize the worst impulses of the extremes in American politics. In the course of doing so, he personally carried the most radical major-party candidate in memory — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed—to that party’s nomination for the United States Senate.
Piker has now gone so “supernova radical” that some Democratic leaders have tried to rebuke him without even naming him—including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
It’s not going to work.
Piker—and the socialist fever he represents—is repelling the moderate Americans who love the country especially in the Democratic party.
It should not be difficult to say: voters ought to reject Hasan Piker, Abdul-El Sayed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and I could go on—by name.
They also ought to be rejected at the ballot box.
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