Barstool Sports activities founder and President Dave Portnoy sounds off on the embrace of socialism from younger progressives and discusses his firm elevating $650,000 for the slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam.
Younger progressives imagine that politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani are the way forward for the Democratic Social gathering, however Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy is having none of it.
The sports activities media mogul joined FOX Enterprise on Monday the place he pushed again in opposition to the mindset of two younger Democrats who proclaimed on-camera that their celebration ought to “look in direction of socialism” and described Mamdani’s rising recognition as “empowering” for younger voters.
“It makes me wish to puke,” Portnoy informed Stuart Varney.
Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy criticized younger Democrats who’re espousing socialist values. (Picture by Michael Hickey/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
“These are school children. They’ve by no means had in all probability had a job of their lives. They’ve grown up in all probability coddled, studying books about how the world is, however they’ve by no means been in the true world. I do not like all authorities the place [it has] disincentivized initiative [or] working exhausting, and that is what socialism does.”
Increasing on his stance, he framed his opposition as a matter of primary perform and real-world expertise.
“I’m all for caring for individuals and giving again,” he mentioned. “However what entrepreneurs do? They create jobs, they create livings, they create wages. I simply basically [believe] socialism doesn’t work. There are many examples…”
Zohran Mamdani, New York state assemblyman and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate, speaks at an emergency rally held by the Working Households Social gathering to criticize the Trump administration, after ICE brokers arrested Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark and New Jerse (Reuters/Bing Guan / Reuters)
“And I simply have a tough time being lectured by a 19- or 20-year-old who’s by no means had a day of real-world expertise…” he continued.
“I can’t have somebody who’s been alive for 5 seconds telling me how the world works. I simply can’t do it.”
The Democratic Social gathering has taken a pointy left flip in recent times, a transfer just lately evidenced by Mamdani clenching the Democratic Social gathering’s nomination for mayor within the Large Apple.
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Former NYC mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo argues New Yorkers don’t need socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on ‘Varney & Co.’
The self-proclaimed democratic socialist has espoused concepts like free buses, lease freezes, city-owned grocery shops and extra. He’ll face off in opposition to Republican Curtis Sliwa and incumbent Impartial Mayor Eric Adams in November.
On the identical time, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stays a rising star throughout the celebration on a nationwide scale, and has been floated by some as a robust contender for the Democratic Social gathering’s presidential nomination in 2028.
