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Onkar Ghate on The Meaning & Significance of the Midterm Blue Tsunami | Yaron Brook Show
📺 Season 12, Episode 177 | Streamed live November 9, 2026
▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/88hrsAwSn8o
*The GOP deserved to lose, and to lose big. But did the Democrats do anything to deserve the win?*
Republicans got crushed in the 2026 midterms. Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate argue the GOP earned every loss and the Democrats earned none of the win. 🌊
Yaron and Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute make the case that voters rejected Trump without voting for anything. They look at who will fight over the parties next. Nick Fuentes's groypers want the GOP, and the DSA wants the Democrats. They also cover how Social Security and Medicare turned young voters against old ones, how tariffs cost Republicans Michigan, and how abortion helped flip Texas. Their biggest point is that neither party has a serious plan for the economy.
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⏱️ Main Topics
0:00 Onkar Ghate joins the show
0:29 The GOP deserved to lose, and Democrats didn't deserve to win
3:38 Fuentes wants the GOP
9:26 Is it groypers vs. the DSA?
13:34 Are Mamdani's socialists the new Democratic Party?
18:25 The welfare state turns young against old
28:10 Trump softens on immigration, then picks Stephen Miller
32:55 Neither party has an economic plan
36:29 Trump drove the best people out of the GOP
🎤 Live Q&A
39:36 Is voting for the lesser evil moral?
45:36 Texas's abortion revolt
49:55 Did Ayn Rand make the West richer?
55:41 Will Democrats strangle AI?
57:44 Will the GOP follow Fuentes off a cliff?
1:05:07 Is a fascist dark age coming?
1:08:32 What's an anti-concept?
1:12:03 Why Yaron would run for president
1:19:35 Does Trump care that he lost?
1:20:55 Would you vote for Ben Shapiro?
1:24:58 Did Trump create the DSA?
1:26:48 How do ideas move history?
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