A Pennsylvania Democrat running for Congress showed up on Fox News and made the worst mistake of his life.
It went downhill from there.
And what Hannity uncovered about this openly Marxist candidate’s platform should alarm every working American who still believes in the constitutional republic.
The DSA’s Latest Candidate Walks Into the Lion’s Den
Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania state Representative and member of the openly Marxist Democratic Socialists of America, recently appeared on Hannity to discuss his congressional run in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, a Philadelphia-area seat he won in the Democrat primary in May.
The DSA endorsed his campaign, along with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). That’s quite a squad of socialist standard-bearers throwing their weight behind a guy who apparently couldn’t be bothered to learn his host’s name before going on national television.
Hannity introduced him, said he appreciated Rabb coming on, and Rabb replied, “My pleasure, thank you Scott.” Hannity’s response was immediate: “My name is not Scott. My name is Sean.”
“My name is Sean, but that’s okay,” Hannity continued. Raising his eyebrows, Rabb quickly corrected himself, replying, “Apologies.” “Nah, no worries, no worries,” allowed Hannity.
It’s a small thing, sure. But when a man is auditioning to represent Philadelphia in the United States Congress, showing up unprepared to correctly name the person interviewing him doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Government Grocery Stores, Abolish the Senate, No More Oil and Gas
Before letting his guest speak, Hannity made sure to list Rabb’s “radical positions,” including “Medicare for all, universal basic income, federal jobs guarantees,” and more.
The full list is something else. Hannity read it aloud: “Among them, he advocates for Medicare for all and universal basic income. Federal jobs guarantees. Guaranteed housing. Universal childcare. Government-run grocery stores. A civil climate corps. No more oil and gas. Green New Deal. Reparations. An end to the war on drugs. An end to the death penalty. An end to what he calls death by incarceration. Abolishing ICE. Dismantling immigration detention centers. Ending the embargo on Cuba.”
Government-run grocery stores. Let that one sink in. Every country that has tried central planning of food distribution has produced the same result: empty shelves and hungry people. Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union. The historical record on this is not ambiguous.
“Um, that’s not really what I ran on,” said Rabb when Hannity pressed him on whether he wanted to eliminate the US Senate. “That’s the DSA national platform. I’m the Democratic nominee for the 3rd Congressional District.” But Rabb has publicly described himself as deeply aligned with the DSA’s goals. In his own words: “I feel deeply aligned with DSA and its big-tent socialist vision of working together to plant the seeds for a socialist future.” So the Senate abolition is fine as a “seed” but inconvenient to own in a Fox News interview.
The DSA’s own platform openly calls for government seizure of major corporations, the abolition of the Senate, replacement of the Presidency and Supreme Court with bodies subordinate to Congress, and the creation of a classless society. These aren’t fringe interpretations of what the organization believes. They are the stated goals. Rabb earned that endorsement. He can own the platform.
When Hannity Asked About Illegal Aliens, Rabb Lost the Thread Entirely
“Do you want amnesty for illegals and to abolish borders?” Hannity asked. “Illegal immigrants,” Hannity stressed. “People that didn’t respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty, and entered the country without permission.” “Yeah, I don’t accept the premise of that question,” said Rabb. “These are not criminal acts.”
“Excuse me,” snapped Hannity. “If you enter our country illegally, uh, by definition, that is a criminal act.”
Rabb’s response wasn’t a policy disagreement. It was a rejection of the English language. Crossing the border without authorization is, in fact, a federal crime. Pretending otherwise doesn’t change the statute. It just tells you something about how Rabb intends to govern.
Rabb made it clear he wants to abolish ICE, defund the Department of War and Pentagon, eliminate cash bail, and establish a wealth tax. And when Hannity turned to the question of policing, things got genuinely strange.
Rabb responded to the question about abolishing police by saying, “Long before there was any notion of policing, we had founders that did not even understand that term. Policing is something that’s evolved over time. Ultimately, what we want is to have communities that are safe. And 99% of what police do [is] not going after the bad guys, all of that can be done in different ways by professionals who are trained to do so.”
And then Rabb went further. “Listen, my people are from the South,” Rabb said. “We couldn’t trust the police because they were largely part of the Klan.” That’s a serious charge to level at American law enforcement broadly, and Rabb offered it as a reason to reimagine policing entirely rather than as a historical injustice that the country has spent generations working to correct.
The tax exchange was revealing too. Hannity asked how much of every dollar Americans earn they should be allowed to keep. “Let’s just go back to the Reagan era,” Rabb said. “How bout those tax rates?” “Well, he dropped the top marginal rate from 70 to 28 percent,” Hannity shot back. “What I’m saying is there was time under Democratic and Republican presidency where the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans was much higher than it is now … go back to that,” Rabb replied. He invoked Reagan to argue for higher taxes, which is a creative reading of the Reagan legacy.
What It Means When Philadelphia Sends the DSA to Washington
Rabb is the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District and is currently unopposed in the general election. That means a man who wants government-run grocery stores, no oil and gas, a wealth tax, no cash bail, the abolition of ICE, and a fundamental reimagining of policing is almost certainly headed to Congress. Not maybe. Almost certainly.
Philadelphia’s 3rd District is among the bluest in the country. Republicans did not field a candidate. So the interview Hannity conducted wasn’t really about whether Rabb wins. He wins. The question is what he does when he gets there, and what it signals about where the Democrat Party is heading at the national level.
The DSA’s platform calls for abolishing the Senate, replacing the Presidency and Supreme Court with bodies subordinate to Congress, seizing the largest corporations through government ownership, and building a classless society. Rabb publicly celebrated earning the DSA’s endorsement and described their vetting process as rigorous and meaningful. But on Hannity’s show, he tried to distance himself from the Senate abolition plank by saying it wasn’t what he “ran on.” That’s a distinction without a difference when you’ve spent months telling DSA members you’re aligned with their big-tent socialist vision.
Government-run healthcare is already a fiscal catastrophe in every country that has tried it at scale. Canada’s patients wait months for procedures Americans get in days. Britain’s National Health Service rations care and routinely denies treatments available in the private market. Rabb wants to bring that model here, wrap it in the language of equity, and call it Medicare for All. The people who actually need medical care quickly are the ones who pay the price for that kind of thinking.
And the grocery store proposal deserves its own moment of scrutiny. The DSA frames government-run stores as a solution to “food deserts.” What they actually produce, historically, is food scarcity. When the government controls distribution, political priorities replace market signals. The shelves reflect what bureaucrats decide to stock, not what communities actually need. Americans who lived through the Soviet era or who fled socialist regimes in Latin America do not find this proposal charming or novel. They find it familiar.
The broader pattern here is that the Democrat Party is not moderating. It is accelerating. Rabb beat the Philadelphia Democrat establishment’s preferred candidate in the primary. He did it by running further left, not toward the center. And he did it with the backing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and the full weight of the DSA’s national electoral operation. The mainstream of the party didn’t stop this. In Philadelphia, the mainstream of the party lost to it.
But the name mix-up at the top of the interview is worth revisiting one more time. A man running to represent 700,000 Americans in the United States House of Representatives showed up to a national television interview and called his host by the wrong name. He didn’t know who he was talking to. That’s not a gaffe. That’s a preview.
Sources: Mediaite; Fox News; hannity.com; Gateway Pundit; Townhall; Breitbart; WHYY; Spotlight PA; Jacobin; Wikipedia