Adam Carolla didn’t hold back when asked about Democrats suddenly trying to rebrand themselves as centrist or “independent.”
In a segment of The Ingraham Angle, Carolla dismissed the so-called transformations from party insiders like Karine Jean-Pierre as just another con. “They lied for years, and now they’re lying to cover up the lie they told,” he said bluntly.
According to Carolla, the party has no genuine connection with the American public. “They think, how can we fool people into voting for us?” he added. “We can pretend like we like guy stuff—MMA, fixing trucks, football. But what people actually want is authenticity, warts and all.”
He compared the effort to a think tank trying to “synthesize a candidate” instead of offering a real one.
Newsom, the Left, and a Math Problem
When Laura asked Carolla about Gavin Newsom and the party’s direction, he explained the left is stuck trying to appeal to voters without standing for anything real. “They have a fundamental math problem,” he said.
“They were over on the left, and in order to get votes, they’re gonna have to pretend like they’re closer to the right.” But those values—strong borders, school choice, tough on crime—already exist on the right. “You have to pretend you’re something that already exists.”
Carolla also mocked California’s disastrous high-speed rail project, calling it a “perfect metaphor” for the state. “Spend all the money there is.
Nothing ever comes out the other end,” he said. Despite decades of promises and billions spent, not one mile of high-speed rail has been built. “We are not a first-world nation if we cannot build a train line in 2025,” he added. “We’re corrupt, overregulated, and inept.”
He ended with a sharp critique of California’s housing crisis, pointing out that it costs a million dollars to build a single unit of homeless housing. “We’ve thrown spike strips in front of our own car,” he said. “We can’t do anything anymore.”
Laura closed the segment with a laugh and a thank-you, but Carolla’s words hung in the air—an unfiltered warning about where big government, fake authenticity, and overregulation lead.
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