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MORNING GLORY: Hasan Piker’s radical rhetoric is becoming Democrats’ 2026 brand

Hasan Piker is from the extreme left, and the record is full of his inanities and his outrages

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published August 27, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Democrats have become the party of Hasan Piker, Hugh Hewitt says

Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt criticizes the rhetoric of leftist streamer Hasan Piker and DSA-backed candidates running in the midterm elections on ‘Hannity.’

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At least Marx, Lenin and Mao were well-read.

Social media influencer Hasan Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes that do not betray any evidence that Rutgers University obliged him to read even a book or two of serious history before he graduated in 2013. Rutgers is a fine school and anyone can get a great education there, but Piker’s "body of work" shows us that serious study there is quite obviously not obligatory.

Piker uses social media to monetize the worst impulses of the extremes in American politics. In the course of doing so, he has become the face of the Democratic Party in the 2026 midterms and has personally carried the most radical major-party candidate in memory — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — to his party’s nomination for United States Senate.

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Piker has now gone so "supernova radical" that some Democratic leaders and elected officials have had to rebuke him without naming him — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Elissa Slotkin — and others, like New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, have slapped Piker down by name.

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker lives everywhere these days, and he’s taken over the emerging wing of the Democratic Party. Voters have noticed. And they will remember through November. (Florencia Tan Jun/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images)

This past weekend, Piker exploited the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10 of last year — to the great disgust of the........

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