Barstool Sports founder and President Dave Portnoy sounded in the embrace of socialism from young progressives and discussed his company that raised $ 650,000 for the murdered NYPD Didarul Islam officer.
Young progressives believe that politicians such as Alexandria Okasio-Cortez and Zhodi Mamdani are the future of the Democratic Party, but the founder of sports Barstool Dave Portnoy There is none of that.
The sports media tycoon joined Fox Business on Monday, where he withdrew against the thinking of two young Democrats, who announced on the camera that their party should “look at socialism” and described the growing recognition of cheats as “empowering” young voters.
“It makes me want to rush,” Portnoy told Stuart Varna.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy criticizes young Democrats who support socialist values. (Photo by Michael Hicky / Getty Images / Getty Images)
“These are college children. They probably have never had a job in their lives. They have probably grew up encoded, read books about how the world is, but they have never been in the real world. I do not like any government where (it has) a deterrent initiative (or) to work hard and that is what socialism does.”
By expanding his position, he described his opposition as a matter of basic function and experience in the real world.
“I am all that I take care of people and come back,” he said. “But do you know what entrepreneurs do? They create jobs, create lives, they create salaries. Just in general (I believe) socialism doesn’t work. There are many examples …”

Zhodi Mamdani, New York State Assembly and Candidate for Mayor of New York, spoke at an emergency rally conducted by the work families party to criticize the Trump administration after the Ice agents arrested Ras Baraka, News Mayor and New Jers (Reuters / Bing Guan / Reuters)
“And it’s just hard for me to be exported from the 19th or 20-year-old who has never had a day of experience in the real world …” he continued.
“I can’t have someone who’s alive for five seconds that tells me how the world works. I just can’t do it.”
Thehe Democratic Party In recent years, it has taken a sharp left, a move that has recently been proved by Mamdani, clutching the Democratic Party’s nomination for mayor in the big apple.
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New Yorkers.
The self -proclaimed democratic socialist has supported ideas such as free buses, freezing, grocery stores and more. He will face the Republican Curtis Sliva and the acting independent mayor Eric Adams in November.
At the same time Rep. Alexandria Okasio-Cortez, DN.Y., remains an rising star on the party on a national scale and has been sailed by some As a strong contender for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2028.
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