The Michael Smerconish Program

Democratic Civil War? Felix Frisch on the Party’s Future

Guest host Elie Honig speaks with Felix Frisch, director of Promise to America, about the growing battle between centrist Democrats and the party’s progressive, democratic-socialist wing. They debate Mamdani, the DSA, policing, immigration, capitalism, electability and whether Democrats must move toward the center to defeat Republicans—while callers deliver passionate arguments from both sides of the party’s divide. The Michael Smerconish Program 07/24/26.