The Democrat Party is being taken over by its radical left wing.

Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt can’t seem to look away.

And what Hewitt said on Hannity about Hasan Piker is going to have a lot of establishment Democrats losing sleep.

Hewitt Admits the Piker Obsession Out Loud

Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt sat down recently on Hannity alongside Kellyanne Conway, who was filling in for Sean Hannity, and the conversation turned quickly to what both of them see as a fundamental transformation happening inside the Democrat Party.

The topic was the surge of Democratic socialist candidates in this midterm cycle. But one name kept surfacing no matter where the conversation went.

Hewitt eventually just said it himself: “I can’t stop talking about him” — referring to progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.

That’s a remarkable thing for a Fox News contributor to admit on live television. But Hewitt wasn’t embarrassed about it. He was making a point.

His argument was that Piker isn’t just some internet personality with a large following. Hewitt called Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “the stalking horse for Hasan Piker,” and went further: “The election is gonna be between who’s gonna run the Senate — [Majority Leader] John Thune [R-SD] or Hasan Piker. The Democrats have become the party of Hasan Piker.”

That’s a sharp framing. And it’s one the Democrat establishment is going to have a very hard time shaking.

Who Is the DSA Wave and Why Does It Matter

Hewitt rattled off a list of Democrat Senate candidates he described as part of this leftward lurch: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, Democratic Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, and Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Hewitt claimed they are all “DSA.”

That’s a significant charge. The Democratic Socialists of America openly call for government seizure of major corporations, the abolition of the Senate, and the creation of what their own platform describes as a classless society. That’s not a rebranding of progressivism. That’s textbook Marxism dressed up in primary-voter language.

And the DSA wave is real, even if the membership cards aren’t always in order. Florida State Representative Angie Nixon, who is an actual member of the Democratic Socialists of America, pulled off a surprise win in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary. El-Sayed knocked off Representative Haley Stevens in Michigan despite facing a nearly $65 million onslaught of outside spending from the Democratic establishment.

These aren’t flukes. They’re a pattern.

Hewitt put it plainly: “I think Democrats are scared. They’re talking a good game. They don’t have much money. They’ve got terrible candidates, and they’ve got the burden of Hasan Piker, and I can’t stop talking about him.”

He went on to note that El-Sayed “put on this Hasan Piker suit, had him come in the night before [the primary election], stuck around the day after. Now, he’s stuck with him the whole election.”

That’s not just a political liability. That’s an anchor around the neck of every Democrat running in a competitive state this fall.

The 9/11 Problem Nobody in the Democrat Party Can Explain Away

Kellyanne Conway brought up Piker’s infamous 2019 comment that “America deserved 9/11.” That remark came during a Twitch livestream where Piker said, “America deserved 9/11, dude.” He later walked it back and called the phrasing “inappropriate,” writing in an email to Reuters that he “used imprecise language in 2019 and immediately apologized for using the word ‘deserved’ when talking about the concept of blowback,” adding, “No one deserves to be a victim to a terror attack.”

El-Sayed, for his part, eventually called it “a dumb statement” in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. But El-Sayed also complained that scrutiny of his relationship with Piker was “gotcha politics” and invoked “cancel culture” in the same breath.

You can’t call something dumb and then turn around and accuse people of bad faith for noticing it. That’s not a political defense. That’s a dodge.

And the dodge is exactly what Hewitt was pointing to. The Democrat establishment spent tens of millions of dollars trying to stop El-Sayed. Haley Stevens had the backing of the party’s top names. None of it worked. El-Sayed won anyway, and now he’s the nominee in a must-win Senate race carrying the weight of a Twitch streamer who once told his audience that America deserved the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history.

The DSA’s openly Marxist agenda — government seizure of corporations, abolition of the Senate, open borders, and the pursuit of a classless society — isn’t some fringe footnote anymore. It’s winning primaries. And the candidates who are winning with it are tied, directly or indirectly, to a content creator who said what he said in 2019 and whose explanations have never quite settled the question.

Hewitt’s fixation makes sense when you look at it that way. This isn’t about one streamer. It’s about what that streamer represents: a Democrat Party whose base has moved so far left that the old guard can’t stop it, can’t outspend it, and apparently can’t stop talking about it either.

The establishment types at the top of the Democrat Party — the “octogenarians and septuagenarians,” as Hewitt put it — are watching their party get run out by a generation of candidates whose politics would have been considered fringe a decade ago. And the face of that movement, at least on Fox News lately, is a Twitch streamer with a 2019 sound bite that won’t go away.

But the bigger story isn’t Hasan Piker. It’s that the Democrat Party’s institutional leadership poured enormous resources into stopping this wave and lost anyway. That tells you something about where the energy in that party actually lives — and it isn’t with the old guard trying to hold the line.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Republicans would be wise to pay attention. If the Democrat Party nominates candidates who openly embrace socialist policies, who campaign with figures who have made statements like Piker’s, and who win despite the establishment’s best efforts to stop them, that’s not a one-cycle aberration. That’s a realignment. And realignments don’t reverse themselves just because one side finds them inconvenient.

Hewitt can’t stop talking about Hasan Piker. Come November, a lot of voters in swing states are going to be thinking about him too.

Source: Mediaite, “Fox’s Hugh Hewitt Admits, ‘Hasan Piker… I Can’t Stop Talking About Him'”