KSEV Mornings · November 2, 2026 · Hour 2
Craig’s point-by-point comparison of the Democratic Socialists of America and the early Nazi party, Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores, Alaska’s two Dan Sullivans, Craig’s election predictions and President Trump on the Afghan evacuees.
The Democratic Socialists of America and the early Nazi party’s platform led the second hour of KSEV Mornings on election eve. Craig Coglianese laid out, point by point, how the DSA’s pitch echoes the National Socialist German Workers Party before it took power, called the two-Dan-Sullivans scheme in Alaska an obvious attempt to cheat, and predicted Ken Paxton wins the Texas Senate race.
A genuine comparison
Craig said he wanted to do something different from the extreme takes that he calls one of the flaws of conservative media: “a genuine deeper dive” into the differences and similarities between the National Socialist German Workers Party, “the party that gave rise to Nazis in Germany,” and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was clear he isn’t talking about the regime that ran Germany during World War II, but about the pitch the party made before it rose to power.
Mamdani’s grocery stores are nothing like liquor stores or commissaries
Craig took on the argument that Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores are no big deal because some states already control alcohol sales and the military runs grocery stores on its bases. States run liquor stores to make alcohol harder to buy, Craig said, which is “actually an example of why a publicly owned, or in this case government-owned, grocery store would be bad, because it would be worse.” Liquor doesn’t go bad on the shelf, he added, but groceries do, and the military runs its stores to keep its bases safe.
Point by point
Craig went through the list. The Nazi party sold Germans on a broken economy and said the fix was to give the government more control over who has what; the DSA says capitalism itself makes living costs unbearable and calls the system a capitalist oligarchy. Both target the wealthy and the financial elites. The DSA wants health care to be a public service run by the government, and “the Nazis love that too.” A 1932 Nazi election program proposed high-income surtaxes, and the DSA wants a wealth tax on the richest people. The Nazis thought land should be taken back by the government, and so does the DSA.
Then the darkest parallel: the bad guys are also the Jews. “The Democratic Socialists of America say that the Zionists are the problem,” Craig said. The Nazis wanted to outlaw Jewish people from being citizens; the DSA, he said, wants to keep any politician who supports Israel from getting its backing.
Caller Bart brought up the Babylon Bee sketch in which a time traveler goes back to stop Hitler, only to find they agree on a whole lot. “It’s crazy, and it’s true, by the way,” Craig said. The reason to do this the day before the election, he said, is to tell you honestly what’s at stake.
Alaska’s two Dan Sullivans
Craig played CNN discussing the New York Times report that people tied to Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign worked to put a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. “This is so stupid, so illegal, so ridiculous, and so obviously trying to cheat,” Craig said. The Times story is full of text messages between the people behind it, and Craig said even the Times “couldn’t skirt the truth enough to hide it.” He tied it to the push in places like California to let people without legal status vote.
Rapid fire, and Reagan’s warning
Before the break, Craig rapid-fired more parallels: banks get rescued while workers pay, big business exploits workers, put major corporations under public control, use government to guarantee jobs, and essentially have the government own the land. People who are struggling get sold the same bill of goods, he said: your life is broken, let the government fix it. Craig pointed to Ronald Reagan’s warning about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” and said, “We need people like Ken Paxton” to say no to the craziness of the left.
Why Ken Paxton should win
Craig played Paxton’s record again and said the entire campaign should have been about it. “Ken Paxton is incredibly effective behind the scenes,” he said, and Texas suing to stop liberal policies is what liberals most want to see go away. Paxton has his own baggage, Craig said, “but Talarico is antithetical to what Texans believe.” If Democrats get what they want, Craig said, voters will learn the same lesson they learned under Joe Biden, the one that put President Trump back in office in 2024.
Craig’s predictions
“I think Election Day will turn the tide,” Craig said, but he urged anyone who hasn’t voted to go vote: “The game’s not over. We’re in the fourth quarter.” His two predictions for the week: “Ken Paxton will win the Senate seat in Texas. Notre Dame will beat Miami on Saturday.” He also expects Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott to win, though he said the race being closer than it should be is a wake-up call.
President Trump on the Afghan evacuees
Craig played President Trump answering Miranda Devine on the Afghans who came in after Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal, many of whom now have green cards. Trump called the evacuation “bedlam” and said “a lot of those people shouldn’t be here.” Craig said the people who helped the United States were the ones who should have been taken care of, and that we know far too little about many of the people who were let in.
Also in this hour
- Craig said he could publish his whole conversation with the AI, which he pushed past its bias until it admitted the similarities.
- Craig closed with eight health myths people still believe, from blue blood in your veins to drinking eight glasses of water a day.
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