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Erick Erickson discusses the theological implications of socialism and various political figures' actions regarding wealth and governance.

Erick Erickson builds the hour around a theological indictment of socialism: the Democratic Socialists have taken the one commandment that lives entirely in the heart, thou shalt not covet, and organized it into a governing philosophy, citing Nate Silver's data showing the most liberal Americans are high education, low income kids from wealthy families. He walks through Abdul El-Sayed's defund the police reversal after Manu Raju confronted him with the audio, James Talarico's border flip, Zohran Mamdani's rent freeze war on New York landlords, and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's careers built on tearing down the rich. Then Mamdani's threat to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, Elie Honig's takedown of that claim on CNN, Mark Warner dodging on Israel, anti-Semitism festering on both the left and the online right including the vice president, plus new ICE deportation numbers, the New Jersey motor voter error, and a raw closing monologue on itching ears, the Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, "The Odyssey" review wars, and why Erick believes we are in the end times. TOPICS The tenth commandment as the seed of every other sin, and socialism as covetousness organized into a governing…

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