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Legal expert warns of rise in political violence · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, America. You know, Jonathan Turley is becoming the
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  Speaker 1: number one expert on this movement of these radicals, of
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  Speaker 1: the DSA, which is a communist movement. And now there
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  Speaker 1: are plans for violence and so forth. And it kind
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  Speaker 1: of relates back to your book, Jonathan Turley, your bestselling book.
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  Speaker 1: Explain to us what these people are planning and plotting here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Mark. And I do talk
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  Speaker 2: about enrage in the republic. We have a very similar
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  Speaker 2: movement that is developing now on the 250th anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: what I call the New Jacobins, named after the French
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  Speaker 2: revolutionaries when this country was first formed. And their revolution
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  Speaker 2: became known as the terror. And our revolution became the
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  Speaker 2: most successful democracy in history. But we are hearing some
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  Speaker 2: of those same voices now. And there's a conditioning going
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  Speaker 2: on to get people used to the idea of political violence.
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  Speaker 2: New surveys show that young people are embracing political violence
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  Speaker 2: in numbers that we haven't seen before. And on my
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  Speaker 2: campus and other campuses, you have young people who are
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  Speaker 2: rationalizing the murder of figures like Charlie Kirk. And it's
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  Speaker 2: all part of this growing trend towards political violence. And
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  Speaker 2: we can't ignore it any further.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I played on my radio program a professor
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  Speaker 1: from one of the West Coast schools who was out
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  Speaker 1: there preaching for people to get armed, prepare for violence.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have a revolution without violence, particularly in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Is this growing among the professoriate in the country, too,
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  Speaker 1: do you think?
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  Speaker 2: It is. You know, we just had another professor suggesting
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  Speaker 2: that it might be really funny to have another conservative
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  Speaker 2: assassinated on the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's murder. And in
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  Speaker 2: this case, suggesting Shirley is a good possible candidate for that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the most disturbing fact is not that some academic is
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  Speaker 2: making such a sick joke, but that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people find it uproariously funny. I mean, this is part
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  Speaker 2: of the dehumanization that comes with rage. Rage allows us
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  Speaker 2: to say and do things we would not ordinarily say
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  Speaker 2: or do. And it's addictive. And it is contagious. And
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  Speaker 2: what people won't admit is that they like it. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we're seeing are all of these politicians who
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  Speaker 2: are playing to this mob under the delusion that it
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  Speaker 2: will destroy their enemies, but not themselves. That's not what
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  Speaker 2: history shows. My Rage in the Republic talks about that.
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  Speaker 2: That is, the people that started the French Revolution were
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  Speaker 2: ultimately devoured by it. You know, they first killed the aristocrats,
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  Speaker 2: then they killed the clergy, and then they killed themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And so all of these figures like Chuck Schumer and
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  Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries, who think that they can harness the power
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  Speaker 2: of this mob and that they can use it to
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  Speaker 2: retake power are truly deluding themselves. But we're now seeing
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  Speaker 2: this added dangerous element where people are beginning to accept
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  Speaker 2: political violence as a form of political expression.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would strongly encourage people to get your book,
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  Speaker 1: Rage in the Republic, because you do lay this out
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  Speaker 1: and it's very prescient and you tie it to history
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  Speaker 1: and Explain a little bit more about this French Revolution,
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  Speaker 1: because I doubt a lot of people have been taught
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  Speaker 1: about it. Maybe they've learned about the American Revolution and
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  Speaker 1: really why they were so distinct, the American Revolution and
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  Speaker 1: the French Revolution.
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  Speaker 2: But what was fascinating, Mark, is that this was the
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  Speaker 2: sister revolution to our revolution. It occurred not long after
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  Speaker 2: the American Revolution. But what people don't understand is that
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  Speaker 2: those Jacobins, those radicals, weren't peasants. They were aristocrats. They
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  Speaker 2: were intellectuals. They were reporters. They were lawyers. You know, Robespierre,
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  Speaker 2: who came out with such sayings as terror is virtue.
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  Speaker 2: was a lawyer. And at the beginning of his time
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  Speaker 2: as a Jackman, if you read what he wrote, you'd
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  Speaker 2: think he was an ACLU lawyer. It only took a
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  Speaker 2: few years before he embraced terror. Thousands were guillotined. And
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  Speaker 2: it was because they had a system that couldn't handle
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  Speaker 2: those pressures. And that's why we're living in such dangerous times.
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  Speaker 2: When you see people trying to pack the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the Senate and the presidency, those are
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  Speaker 2: coming directly out of the French Revolution. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: argued for, was unicameralism and all those measures. And so, ironically,
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  Speaker 2: we are fighting the same fight we did 250 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You make a great point there, Pol Pot. came out
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  Speaker 1: of a wealthy family, slaughtered 25% of the Cambodians. Mao
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  Speaker 1: became a teacher and he studied in libraries and became
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  Speaker 1: a quasi-intellectual self-taught. Of course, he killed 60 million people.
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  Speaker 1: Lenin was another one. Castro was a lawyer. These people
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  Speaker 1: are not coming out of the streets, are they? They're
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the universities. I want to follow up
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  Speaker 1: that with you. They're coming out of the elites and
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  Speaker 1: the universities and the faculties and so forth and so on.
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