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Welcome back to Ami’s House and welcome back to Michael Weber, my longtime co-host who’s been away writing a TV pilot he sold to Apple TV. The reunion episode.
We’re doing a full post-midterms breakdown together and arriving at something neither of us could get to alone.
The post-WWII American Jewish political moment is officially over. Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan by fully rejecting the Jewish vote and some Jews voted for him anyway. We unpack what that actually means and where it goes from here.
The DSA vs. centrist Democrats fight is coming, and the Democrats don’t even realize it yet. Mamdani is already launching a PAC to block moderates from running for president. The wolf is inside the door. Meanwhile centrists like Jon Ossoff are winning by bigger margins in places Democrats never expected so which way does the party go?
On the right: Fuentes, Tucker, and Dave Smith as deliberate demoralizing agents who broke MAGA’s coalition from within. Fuentes explicitly told people to vote Democrat. It worked. And now they’re trying to claim credit and take the wheel. We’re not letting that go unaddressed.
Is woke 2.0 coming? The left won and they’re going to run with it. The red-green alliance, DSA meets Muslim Brotherhood meets far-left progressivism, has a very intentional, very long game. And neither party has the internal mechanisms to restrain their own extremes.
We also react to the Ross Douthat 60 Minutes Trump interview, specifically the moment Trump said “I hate my enemies and I always will.” And the Norman Finkelstein clip where he accidentally disproves his own communist ideology by kvetching about welfare recipients buying salmon.
Plus Michael’s story: how selling a pilot to Apple TV changed his entire mindset on creative persistence, what’s changed on the show since he left, and your live questions.
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Welcome back to Ami’s House. It’s Election Day, and there’s a lot to unpack this week.
We start with the 2026 midterms, focusing on the heated Michigan Senate race between Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers. I react to Haley Stevens breaking with her own party, Abdul’s controversial 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat, and why his answers on Israel and Palestinian statehood leave me unconvinced. Plus, some thoughts on where American politics is heading and why winning an election doesn't necessarily mean winning the bigger battle.
Then we get into Israeli politics, Netanyahu’s latest election drama, and why political charisma often matters more than policy. I also break down Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial campaign ad targeting Amy Acton, why I think it backfired, and what he could have done differently.
And of course, impressions on request: Haley Stevens, Abdul El Sayed, Obama, AOC, Netanyahu, Harrison Ford, Nicki Minaj, Ben Shapiro, and more.
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Welcome back to Ami’s House. Lots to cover this week.
We start with Cenk Uygur’s ad making the rounds, a couple in a grocery store who can’t afford eggs and bananas because of Israel. I break down why this isn’t just bad economics, it’s the oldest trick in the book: swap out the word “Jew” for “Zionist” and you’ve got yourself a progressive permission structure to channel pure anti-Semitism. Anti-Zionism isn’t a political position — it’s a linguistic infrastructure.

Then we react to a Pod Save America clip arguing that Jews in Michigan have a “moral obligation” to vote for Abdul El-Sayed to protect themselves from the right. My take: that’s making the case against homicide by recommending suicide. The left-wing anti-Semitism is harder to fight precisely because it comes wrapped in the language of social justice. Mamdani will dip apples in honey at a synagogue. Fuentes won’t. One of those is more dangerous, not less.

Plus, impressions on request: Professor Yang, Obama word salad, Kamala word salad, Gavin Newsom doing Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me,” Tucker on horseback, Bernie Sanders on Israel, and Jordan Peterson on icebergs.

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Back at it, delayed episode this week because I was on the West Coast doing shows with Distant Cousins. Thanks for your patience. Weekly wrap up, keeping it casual.
Haviv Rettig Gur went on The Breakfast Club and our community immediately started piling on. Stop. Being in the hot seat on a mainstream platform is not easy. The fact that he was given the floor and was able to offer a real counter-perspective to an audience that never hears it, that’s a win. Credit where it’s due.
Then we get into the settler violence narrative and how manipulated the numbers actually are. 5,000 Arab attacks on Jews in Judea and Samaria last year alone, but when a Jew shoots back after being shot at, that’s what gets counted as settler violence. Don’t be fooled by the framing.
France is falling apart and Western Europe is blaming itself. Douglas Murray called this years ago in The Strange Death of Europe. Here we are.
Abdul El-Sayed is an evasion artist. The reason the questions keep coming up is because he won’t answer them. And Ilhan Omar doing the same thing when asked about her brother. Classic projection from both of them.
Plus impressions: Yosef Mizrahi, Sebastian Gorka, Tucker Carlson converting to Judaism, and I take your questions live and Abdul El-Sayed them in real time.
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Will Chamberlain is the VP of the Edmund Burke Foundation and host of the Counterweight Podcast. He came on fresh off the National Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem, and this was a conversation I’d been wanting to have for a while.
We started with the conference itself, who was actually in that room, what the speeches were designed to do, and how the clips that made it online stripped out all the context. The audience was almost entirely Israeli right-wing. Americans flew in to engage with that audience directly. That matters for how you read everything that came out of it.
From there we got into the real unresolved fight on the right: what do you do with Tucker Carlson? Will and I are in complete agreement that Tucker has gone off the deep end. Where I pushed back is whether the people around him — including the vice president are being honest enough about that, or whether old loyalty is buying Tucker cover he no longer deserves. Will’s explanation for why Vance hasn’t fully repudiated him is the most charitable framing I’ve heard. I still don’t think it’s enough.
We also got into James Lindsay and what he’s actually doing with the “woke right” label. Will’s argument is that Lindsay is using anti-Semitism concerns as a rhetorical lever in an internal right-wing fight, lumping serious pro-Israel national conservatives in with Tucker and Candace to win a debate about what the right should look like. I pushed back, because I think there are actors that clearly belong in that category and the reluctance to name them is its own problem.
We ended where I think it matters most: why Jews keep sounding the alarm, why it keeps getting misread as shaming or victimhood politics, and why the patterns we’re pointing to aren’t hysteria, they’re history. The canary in the coal mine isn’t complaining. It’s trying to tell you something.
I came out of this optimistic. Tucker and Candace are self-immolating. The project of building a real, values-based coalition on the right that doesn’t run from its relationship with Israel is alive. This conversation is part of that.
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