Daily Wire host says that voting for a presidential ticket of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders “would be metaphorically its own form of terrorism”
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From the May 27, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now to be clear, as I've said repeatedly, like all sane people — like, shouldn't need to be said, but it does — I oppose murder. This has become something of a controversial take, particularly after the United Healthcare CEO was shot to death on his way to work. But it shouldn't be controversial because, you know, even putting aside, like, basic morality and human decency for a second — which we can't put that aside — it's the end of civilization if we accept the idea that murdering civilians is somehow an acceptable response to policy disagreements. Even if, in your estimation, more people will suffer and die unless your particular policy is adopted, which for the left basically amounts to making everything free and putting conservatives in prison, if not the morgue. Once you settle your debates with violence, you lose the moral right and certainly credibility to object when your political opponents take away your vote and your property and ultimately your life. What we need to recognize, though, is that some level of violent backlash, even terrorism, becomes sadly predictable when people are pushed far enough. That doesn't mean those terrorists are morally justified. Of course, they're not. But it does mean that people in power, leaders, oligarchs, executives, and so on, run a significant risk when they start antagonizing millions of Americans for no good reason.
It's the same reason I think it's a bad idea when CEOs get massive golden parachutes after destroying a company. Boeing CEO got something like $30 million after overseeing multiple major airline crashes to just give one example. Now, did the board have the right to award that money? Yes, they did. I can even understand why the board might have made a deal like that, but when people see enough of these golden parachutes for incompetent executives while they're struggling to send their kids to school and to buy groceries and get gas in their car, it's hard to blame those people for drifting towards, say, President AOC and Vice President Bernie Sanders. Now voting for that deranged ticket would be metaphorically its own form of terrorism, but people do insane things and destructive things and self-destructive things when they're pushed too far. That's the point. If you provoke angry, desperate people enough, even if what you're doing is completely legal and even if in some cases it's rational, then you are inviting consequences that are much more far reaching than you probably realize, and everybody will feel the ramifications of it.