Old Fashioned Democrat

Quentin Campbell is a veteran of the Bobby Kennedy campaign from 2024. He is studying to become a K-12 teacher. Quentin and José know each other from political book clubs so they had a lot to share on the topic of American universities. Their conversation was prompted at first by  this article.  From high tuitions to suppression of free speech and complicity with dictatorships overseas, higher ed...

In this episode, José and Gaijingirl break down the current events and breaking news with an eye to the state of US democracy: the BRICS response to dollar imperialism, the Epstein cover up, antidemocratic university trends, loss of faith in US checks & balances, and the decline of Israel. Make sure you follow Maverick Broadcasting Network on the following platforms Pickax: https://pickax.com/...

In this episode, José is joined by Susanne Scholz, a professor of theology who became active in the Bobby Kennedy campaign and continues to fight for the health and medical liberty agenda. A native of Germany, she shares her perspective on why the country submitted to medical tyranny so easily, what happened in the Kennedy campaign, and the current state of Europe. A must read! Make sure you follo...

In this episode of Old Fashioned Democrat, José is joined by psychiatrist Anne Redelfs, who has studied brainwashing and traumatic mind control for years. José and Anne discuss the Epstein scandal and how it connects their mutual work on psychological trauma, child abuse, and covert operations. Anne was partly inspired by José's recent article on Substack: https://oldfashioneddemocrat.substack.com...

In this episode of Old-Fashioned Democrat, José is joined by Danny K, an Armenian-Arab political scientist currently living in Florida. We discuss the Iran-Israel war by focusing on the major changes that will be caused by it: the fracturing of the MAGA base, the breaking up of the new left, the shift to a post-Israel global south, and the drift toward a BRICS-dominated landscape. This packs a lot...

In this next installment in his series on RFK supporters, Jose interviews Mark, mid 60s, son of a Baptist minister, father of two liberals including a female Lutheran pastor, and lifelong veteran of the sales profession, on why he jumped from Trump to Kennedy for this voting season. His parents were old-school Southern Democrats, when the Democrats had values that would prompt many to lean Republi...

"If Joe Biden wins, I am certain I will be sent away to die in another country." In the Old-Fashioned Democrat episode, Jose interviews Ben, a young Texan from a Republican family who has come over to join the RFK campaign. He speaks from the heart about what it was like growing up hearing "angry white men" on the radio all the time, then surviving COVID as a high-school student and waking up to t...

In this episode of Old-Fashioned Democrat, Jose Vasco pivots to the election and what's happening on the Kennedy campaign. He interviews Jeff Dornik, fellow Kennedy supporter, about several important issues facing Americans in 2024. First, they discuss the Kennedy campaign itself and why this campaign has captured the affections and imagination of such a cross-section of independent-minded America...

In this episode of Old-Fashioned Democrat, Jose is joined by Gaijingirl to interview Foxy Jazzabelle, a Bronx antiwar activist, about the tendency of Zionists to send hate messages filled with sick and violent sexual perversions to pro-Palestinian women. We talk about the seemingly higher level of filth sent to Black women during these types of online political fights. The cases of Briahna Joy Gra...

In part 2 of Jose's interview with Gustavo E., they reflect on the lessons of Puerto Rican history, Pedro Albizu Campos, and 19th century colonialism; which can help people understand what is happening in Gaza. Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://freedomfirst.tv Protect your financial future with precious metals! Get your FREE Gold and Silver guide...

Harvard guest "Gustavo" joins the show here to discuss the inner workings of Harvard and the elite university's role in the horrors of the Middle East going back decades. Jose and Gustavo are linked through their common inspirer, Pedro Albizu Campos. Here they consider the role of prestigious institutions and their responsibilities to answer for the impact of the policies they cultivate. At the ve...

In this interview with Jory Micah, we discuss the conundrum of the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” which has essentially rendered references to Jews killing Jesus a kind of unlawful discriminatory speech in educational settings. I had written the essay below remarking on how the LGBT movement was cast, for a long time, as a threat to “religious liberty” but the main proponents of religious liberty a...

In this episode of OLD FASHIONED DEMOCRAT, José brings on Gaijing Girl for another discussion. The recent news about protesters at Columbia getting rounded up and arrested has been bad enough, without the more recent updates that people such as Shai Davadai, a Columbia professor, are actually pushing to have even the National Guard come in and clear out people protesting against Israel's campaign...

José Vasco and Jory Micah combine insights to diagnose the problem with Christian Zionists and why they can never seem to get their Bible interpretation on point. As Vasco and Micah detail here, many scriptures point to the reality that Christ ended the centrality of ethnicity in God’s plan for humanity. The idea of a Jewish ethnostate is far afield from anything Jesus Christ preached, never mind...

In this episode. José invites special guest Gaijingirl, an activist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, to discuss the ridiculous overuse of World War II narratives in the discussion of contemporary events. The fascination with World War II has long exceeded rational limits, but lately it's gotten insane. If we are going to discuss World War II, let's actually analyze all the complexities in it....

Join Jose Vasco on another captivating episode of "Old-Fashioned Democrat" as he explores the transformative dynamics among Dallas youth, aged 13–23, challenging both the conservative youth movement and Zionism. In this thought-provoking discussion, Jose highlights the stark disparity between the seemingly shallow conservatism embodied by figures like Allie Beth Stuckey and the profound analyses o...

As Israel’s violent conflict in Gaza dominates the news, the term “Zionism” has become a commonplace in discussion. Most recently, for instance, the United States House of Representatives passed measures by wide margins affirming Zionist principles and denouncing anti-Zionism as antisemitism. In this episode of Old-Fashioned Democrat, I sat down with Jory Micah, a controversial pro-Palestinian pod...

In this thought-provoking episode of Old Fashioned Democrat, the Jose Vasco challenges the commonly used term "antisemitism" and argues for a more nuanced understanding of prejudice against the Jewish people. Drawing from historical and biblical perspectives, the Vasco contends that the term perpetuates a sense of Jewish exceptionalism, both internally and externally. The concept of Jewish excepti...

This is your host, José Vargas Vasco, and you’re listening to Old-Fashioned Democrat on the Freedom First Network. Today we’re going to talk about all the Bible-thumping we hear around us in the heated conflict between Israel and Gaza.

The statistic has been shared broadly: half of Gaza's Palestinians are children. For the vast majority of the world, this should compel a retaliatory army like Israel's to take humanitarian peecautions. Israel's Mossad is the best military intel in the world, so there are plenty of alternatives available to Israel other than amassing a massive civilian death toll including thousands of children. T...

In this episode, Old-Fashioned Democrat looks at the whirling debates about Israel. Radioactive, heated, and usually irrational, the public conversation about Israel and her endless conflicts with neighbors has been half tragedy and half farce. As José points out, many of the people (on both sides of the political spectrum) who have built careers on being rational and objective lose all common sen...