Executive Summary
Dr. Bradley Thayer came on the show this week to explain something most of us were never taught: the revolution aimed at America is more than a century old, it was never called off, and by his read it is now entering its final stages.
He starts the clock in 1917. When the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, the plan was never to stop at the Russian border — the intent was to destroy Western civilization, Western democracy, the church, educational systems, government, and culture, then remake all of it. What they learned quickly is that they could not do that by coup d'état or by the Red Army.
So they changed the method. They called it "boring from within." Penetrate the organization. Never admit you are a communist. Take it over furtively and move it in your direction over a decade.
Labor unions. Hollywood. K-12 education. Colleges and universities. Media. Museums. Think tanks. Dr. Thayer calls that the ideas industry, and his assessment is that the strategy succeeded.
We walked the line from that history straight into this week's headlines — the 1991 strike at Harvard Law School that pushed critical legal theory and DEI into law, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers moving into academia after the FBI's botched Weather Underground investigations, George Soros quietly buying up district attorney races, Neville Roy Singham's layered front organizations, the Emerson Collective's fake local newspapers, the DSA tactic called salting, and the head of CAIR pointing people toward city council and school board seats.
Then the newest front. Dr. Thayer's worry about artificial intelligence is not robots — it is sourcing. Large language models are trained on the output of an ideas industry that changed hands decades ago, which means, in his words, Lenin is providing the content.
But we did not end in the dark, and I would never let us. Every single thing they targeted — the school board, the DA race, the PTA, the local paper — is a room We the People can walk into tomorrow morning.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
Boring From Within: A Method With a Name
Here is the piece that changes how you read everything else. "Boring from within" was not a label invented by critics — it was operational language.
Dr. Thayer's explanation was direct. They could not spread the revolution by coup d'état or by the Red Army. So they penetrated organizations and took them over from the inside, furtively, never admitting what they were, moving each institution in a communist direction across a decade.
They did it with labor unions. They did it with Hollywood. They did it with K-12 education, colleges, universities, and media. They did it with museums and think tanks.
His conclusion is that what we are watching now is not a new crisis — it is that strategy's success. They took the ideas industry. From there, he says, they took the Democratic Party, and they work alongside billionaires and the Chinese Communist Party, all of it aimed at undermining the United States as a constitutional republic.
And then there is the number. Dr. Thayer's count: communists have killed over 100 million people in about 100 years. Every attempt ends in totalitarianism, no matter what name is on the letterhead.
Which brings us to the naming problem — and this is one of the sharpest things he said. Communists are great at wordplay and they change their names constantly. If Leninism becomes unpopular, they become progressives. If progressivism becomes unpopular, tomorrow it will be something new. Why? Because they never want you looking at the ideas. They want you looking at the promised paradise on the other side of one more election.
One Generation, Kindergarten to College
I have never been able to let go of the interview G. Edward Griffin did with Yuri Bezmenov back in the 1980s.
Bezmenov said it would take one generation of American students — kindergarten through college — to be demoralized and turned against the United States. Not a war. Not an occupation. A school calendar.
Count forward. We are there.
Look at where the DSA has grown: on college campuses first, and now starting movements in high schools. To me that mirrors Mao's revolution and the Bolshevik revolution exactly — get the children to turn against the parents.
Dr. Thayer put a date on the academic turn. In 1991, when Barack Obama was at Harvard, he helped force a strike at Harvard Law School to impose critical legal theory and DEI into law. Most people have never heard that.
And the Weather Underground connection is not incidental. Because the FBI's investigations of the Weather Underground were botched — particularly of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers — many of those people went into academia, stayed there, and some are still there today.
Dr. Thayer explained why the classroom was worth the effort by quoting Orwell: if I control the present, I control the past. Teach a child that the founding was 1619 rather than 1776, that America is a racist state, that everyone here is evil, and that communism ends in paradise — and you own that child's adult assumptions. As he put it, we let the ideas industry slip, and we are paying for it now.
The Comintern Was Privatized
The Communist International was dissolved. The function was not.
Dr. Thayer's argument is that the mission got privatized. He named the network directly: George Soros and the Soros Foundation. Neville Roy Singham. The Emerson Collective, funded by Steve Jobs' widow. Gates.
Go down the list of so-called American billionaires, he said, and you find how many are playing for the other side — advancing communism in a privatized way through NGOs and front organizations.
He compared digging into Singham's operation to Schliemann at Troy. Layer after layer after layer before you get to the core. Front groups all operating together, supporting Tides and ActBlue, supporting Democrat voters, with the party's own donors and law firms at the end of the chain.
I brought up the Emerson Collective because I did a whole show on them about four years ago — specifically their news operation, the Courier Newsroom, which created free local papers all over the country with acronym in the mastheads.
Think about who picks those up. My dad, on the way out of the car wash. The person grabbing a free paper by the supermarket door, hunting the early bird special. They have no idea they are reading funded propaganda.
Add the radio stations Soros took over, all running organized messaging. Add the local-looking PeoriaNews-dot-com that shows up in your Facebook feed. That was a big part of the pre-2020 operation, and this is exactly where our government should be dismantling networks rather than shrugging.
The Races Nobody Watches
If you want to understand how a hundred-year plan wins, look at where it spends money.
Dr. Thayer's example is George Soros and district attorney races. Soros understood a DA seat was a pivot point — a center of power that draws almost no voter attention. Bring in neo-Leninist district attorneys and you have changed what the law means in a city without changing a word of the law. Look at what was done to President Trump for four years.
His line about these operators has stayed with me: they are the New York Yankees of destroying your society. So we have to start playing at that level.
The same patience shows up in the workplace. The DSA tactic is called salting — highly educated operatives, many with master's degrees and PhDs, taking jobs inside corporations and organizing the workers into unions from the inside. Starbucks. Amazon. They take credit publicly. And I keep pulling the thread that runs from American unions up to the International Labor Organization at the United Nations, because "worker" in those campaigns does not mean what most Americans think it means.
It shows up in local politics, too. One of the heads of CAIR — the imam from Epic City — has talked about using our local races, including city council and school boards. That is the hardest part to see. We are all watching Washington while the actual target is a mayor, a school board seat, a land management race nobody runs in. And they are always well funded.
Dr. Thayer also laid out the Red-Green Axis — Muslim Brotherhood-aligned jihadi groups turning up alongside DSA at events. It makes no sense on paper. One side is militantly atheistic and holds nothing but contempt for Islam. But both have totalitarian endgames, so it is enemy of my enemy. The red opens the borders and the green comes through, used as a battering ram into Texas, Michigan, and New York City.
You can see the same remaking in our calendar. On the Fourth of July, President Trump gave an address at Mount Rushmore about the evils of communism. That same day, New York City Mayor Zoran Mandami said Independence Day is whatever you want it to be. Strip a holiday of its meaning and you have stripped a country of its shared memory.
The AI Front — And Why We Still Hold the Cards
Dr. Thayer's concern about artificial intelligence is the most concrete I have heard. Large language models are vacuuming up everything, and if the ideas industry is already owned, what goes into those models is heavily weighted toward communism. The result is a permanently slanted history. The bias we already have does not get corrected by scale — it gets magnified.
That is a hard place to sit. So let me tell you where I land.
We are dealing with an addiction. Conflict and chaos are the drug. The suppliers are the funders and the ideologues. The dealers are the captured institutions — the newsrooms, the campuses, the funded NGOs, the fake local papers. And too many of us have been the consumers, taking the product every day and calling it staying informed. The bourbon cannot pour itself. Recovery starts the moment we admit we have been participating.
Dr. Thayer said we are always two or three steps behind because they are advancing a revolution, they are ruthless, and they do not care about the truth. That is real. But behind is not beaten.
Look again at where they aim: school boards, city councils, DA races, PTA meetings, land management seats, union drives. Every one of those rooms is empty. They did not pick them because they are strong. They picked them because we stopped showing up.
Ben Franklin said "a republic, if you can keep it," and he meant you. Literally you. Every citizen who values individual liberty and inalienable rights has to start acting like it, in behavior and action, in daily life.
Dr. Thayer framed the whole thing as one question: is Vladimir Lenin going to win, or is James Madison? He is right that this is a 1776 moment. And he was honest that President Trump, broad shoulders and all, cannot do it alone. No president can.
I believe with everything in me that if individual citizens simply started living their lives pushing back, it would set off a tsunami. We the People are the answer. We always have been — which is precisely why this entire operation had to be run behind our backs.
Key Takeaways
- "Boring from within" was the communists' own operational term after they realized coup d'état and the Red Army could not export the 1917 revolution.
- Dr. Thayer's count: communists have killed over 100 million people in roughly 100 years, ending in totalitarianism every time.
- In 1991, Barack Obama helped force a strike at Harvard Law School to impose critical legal theory and DEI into law.
- The FBI's botched Weather Underground investigations left Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, and others free to move into academia — where many stayed.
- Dr. Thayer argues the Comintern was privatized: Soros, Neville Roy Singham, Gates, the Emerson Collective, Tides, and ActBlue.
- Soros targeted district attorney races precisely because nobody watches them — low attention does not mean low power.
- Yuri Bezmenov told G. Edward Griffin in the 1980s that one generation, kindergarten to college, would be enough to demoralize American students.
- AI is the next front: models trained on a captured ideas industry inherit the slant and magnify it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Isn't calling this "communism" just an overheated label?
Dr. Thayer's point is that the label problem is the strategy. When Leninism became unpopular they became progressives, and tomorrow it will be a new word. The name change exists to keep you from examining the ideas. The method has a documented name of its own: boring from within.
Why does a district attorney race matter more than a presidential one?
A DA decides what gets charged and what gets ignored in your community, and almost nobody votes in those races. Soros understood that gap between power and attention and spent accordingly. Look at what was done to President Trump over four years.
What is "salting," and should I care if I don't work at Starbucks?
Salting is the DSA tactic of placing credentialed operatives inside corporations to organize the workforce from within. It ran at Starbucks and Amazon, and the organizers take public credit. American unions also connect upward to the International Labor Organization at the UN.
Is the AI concern realistic, or is that fear-mongering?
It is a sourcing argument, not science fiction. Models learn from what the ideas industry produced. If that industry was captured decades ago, the training data carries the capture and scale amplifies it. That is why Dr. Thayer says Lenin is providing the content.
What do I actually do on Monday morning?
Go to a PTA meeting. Read the textbook your child was assigned and ask your school board to buy from Texas rather than California — Julie Pickering and others there are fighting to keep those books pro-American. Serve as a poll watcher. Run for the seat nobody runs for. And stop calling this country a democracy when it is a constitutional republic.
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