Ep 286 | Is the Left Too WEIRD to Win the Midterms? | Miranda Devine | The Glenn Beck Podcast

Oct 10, 2026

Miranda Devine, an Australian-American journalist and New York Post columnist, joins the conversation on midterm momentum, affordability, and the alliance between Islamist and Marxist movements. They revisit the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, Trump’s strategy toward China and Iran, and America’s energy future. They also explore AI’s promise, Silicon Valley’s moral agenda, regulatory capture, and why young conservatives offer hope.

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INSIGHT

Trump’s Western Hemisphere Power Base

Trump’s long-term strategy seeks Western Hemisphere independence through domestic energy, manufacturing, and reduced Chinese influence.
Devine says Europe’s climate policies weakened its industrial position just as AI created enormous energy demand.

ANECDOTE

The Beijing Flight That Exposed Biden’s China Problem

Devine recalls Hunter Biden accompanying Joe Biden to Beijing in 2013 and securing a multimillion-dollar deal.
She presents the episode as evidence that private family business undermined official American objectives toward China.

ANECDOTE

How The Laptop Story Was Preemptively Buried

Devine says the New York Post verified Hunter Biden’s laptop through partners and the repair-shop owner.
She describes FBI warnings to social platforms that preemptively framed the coming report as Russian disinformation.

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What’s a bigger threat to America: Islamists or Marxists? With the midterms approaching, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, author of "The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America," argues the two are impossible to separate. Affordability is driving people into the arms of the Islamist-aligned Democratic Socialists of America. Can Republicans win them back on the economy in the middle of the Iran war, especially with the prices of gas and food so high? Glenn and Miranda dive into this as well as the positives that are often overlooked, including the record-low poverty rate and Trump's plan to secure American energy independence. But is the AI revolution that this energy will power more apocalyptic than utopian? And what is being done to prevent an AI takeover? Miranda breaks down “effective altruism,” the bizarre Silicon Valley moral system being embedded in AI models, and why it is the antithesis of Christianity. And she also explains how Trump is sweet-talking President Xi while kicking China out of the western hemisphere, undoing the access the Biden crime family spent years selling. She closes with hope that young conservatives are ready to rebuild and that America still stands.

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