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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

The Revolution Will Be Staffed by PhDs (w/co-host Peter Meijer) - #564

Jul 2, 2026 · 1h 26m

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-The Fifth Column whiskey racket begins -Matt moves during a heat wave… Peter Meijer reports for duty -Meijer, class traitor, explains the pied-à-terre tax -Mayor Mamdani balances the budget, if you ignore the bailout -Kmele gets Hayek’d -Machine politics was bad, but graduate student politics is worse. -Bannon’s old Leninist fantasy, now available in DSA packaging -Kamala Harris genuflects toward Mamdani-world -MAGA wants the factories back. The robots have other ideas. -Ro Khanna’s children: landed gentry -Midterm Madness, Rocky Mountain High -Melat Kiros justifies 9/11 -Scott Wiener gets yelled at for insufficient revolutionary fervor -Stalinism, but make it customer-facing -The…