The Hugh Hewitt Show

Right now, the eastern half of the state of Washington is ablaze in a scene eerily reminiscent of the Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025 . These coastal states, California and Washington, share in common very liberal politics dominated by Democrats. Democrats so focused on creating equity, and other quite tempting sounding liberal ideals, that they have forgotten to do things like maintain their ability to prevent and fight fire. Then, as LA is demonstrating rather dramatically, they become so focused on their ideals, and the bureaucracies they create to enforce them, that they simply cannot rebuild from such a disaster. It is as if they are graduate students in literature that cannot spell.

Vice President J.D. Vance joined me on the program today to talk about his new book “Communion.” The audio is over at my YouTube Channel, but the transcript is here:

VP Vance joined Hugh to discuss his new book, his conversion, and the U.S.-Israel relationship

With the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan things just turned existential. Yes, candidates like El-Sayed and his apparent brother-in-arms Hasan Piker are a direct threat to our constitutional government. When two commentators like the host and Jim Geraghty agree that more than a mere Senate seat is in the dock in Michigan this November that simply must be the case. I personally think there is more than merely our constitutional order at stake.

Ben Domenech reacts to the Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker-led takeover of Democratic politics

Corrosives are funny things. In some circumstances they can simply melt an entire structure. In others they attack only a few molecules in the structural matrix, weakening the structure just enough to let other forces destroy it, even though the structure looks quite healthy from the outside. We talked about hatred as a corrosive for our culture and our souls yesterday . Watching this corrosive work its way through us right now is both fascinating and horrifying. Let's look at the latest.

I find myself deeply worried this Sunday morning. As I discussed on Friday, the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for Senator in Michigan is a very clear sign that much in this nation is currently motivated by hatred . Hatred that rots the soul and the body politic. Hatred that opens the door to all sorts of personal corruption and makes this nation less than it ought to be.

This'll be quick – I have to head to the airport in about 20 minutes. It's been 25 years since Instapundit made blogging “a thing. ” I started about the same time. And it has me wondering…

Sometimes, geek world can be quite instructive. I recently ran into a discussion of the new Spidey Flick, Spider-Man: Brand New Day that is chock full of spoilers, a full reading of which requires a very broad knowledge of both the movie based MCU and countless comic book series and loses itself in all this nerdy minutiae – hiding what is the very serious point . The point is a moral one and it is vitally important.

Previewing the GOP’s looming battle to succeed President Trump & how to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in MI