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How the Democrats Won: Seizing 'Economic Populism' from GOP · The Alex Marlow Show

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Speaker 1: Extra bonus solo podcast today. I spent the live show,
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Speaker 1: which is in the podcast feed. So I do recommend
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Speaker 1: checking that out. Going through what I thought were the
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Speaker 1: key takeaways from the election. Who's to blame?
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Speaker 2: What does it mean?
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Speaker 1: What are some silver linings? I'll get to more of
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Speaker 1: those on the show as well. But a lot of
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Speaker 1: audio that I thought was very revealing. They did not
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Speaker 1: get to on the live show that I do want
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Speaker 1: to share with you here and react to some of
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Speaker 1: that for you. If you missed that show, it's fine.
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Speaker 1: Catch up later on the show. It can stand alone.
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Speaker 1: But I do go through who's to blame on the
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Speaker 1: Republican side, and it's pretty much everyone. There was bad messaging,
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Speaker 1: there were bad candidates, and there was imperfect policy, namely
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Speaker 1: the Iran war, which those of you who've been with
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Speaker 1: me for a while know that I was skeptically positive
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Speaker 1: on it because Trump, I don't think, is doing this
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Speaker 1: stuff as a joke. I think he genuinely believed that
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Speaker 1: Iran was an eminent nuclear threat. And because of that,
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Speaker 1: he thought that it was imperative to take the mandate
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Speaker 1: that he had and to spend some of that political
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Speaker 1: capital on trying to take out Iran. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: war dragged on for a long time. Iran was clear
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Speaker 1: they wanted it to drag out because they knew it
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Speaker 1: would be devastating to President Trump's electoral prospects in maintaining
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Speaker 1: the House in the midterm and even the Senate. And
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what played out. I was loosely supportive at
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Speaker 1: the start, I admit, but I did say that the
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Speaker 1: goal has got to be to wrap it up before
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Speaker 1: the summer, before the summer, then come home, celebrate America
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Speaker 1: 250 with a nice victory. And instead, we've got this
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Speaker 1: thing that's going to drag out indefinitely in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: And will it age well historically? I'm optimistic that it will.
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Speaker 1: And when we look back on Trump's presidency, we'll see
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Speaker 1: this as maybe the right decision. But he spent a
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Speaker 1: ton of political capital on it. And that's the nature
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Speaker 1: of being in a democracy, being in a republic, which
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Speaker 1: we are in every state, aside from, of course, Alaska,
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Speaker 1: which is no longer part of the democratic process, as
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Speaker 1: there's just such blatant cheating that for whatever reason is
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Speaker 1: become a second tier story that the real Dan Sullivan,
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Speaker 1: who is the senator, who is the incumbent as of now,
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Speaker 1: is losing by within the margin of fake Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 1: So fake Dan Sullivan getting just over 1% of the vote.
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Speaker 1: And that is enough to seal the deal, likely for
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Speaker 1: Democrat Mary Peltola. The most obvious cheating is, of course,
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Speaker 1: cheating all the time in every race to some degree.
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Speaker 1: But this is the most obvious cheating we've seen in
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Speaker 1: modern times. And people are glancing over it very quickly
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Speaker 1: because they want to air other grievances they got. A
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Speaker 1: lot of them around the Iran war. And there's many
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Speaker 1: other things as well. Republicans assembled a pretty weak field
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Speaker 1: of candidates. I went through some of that on the
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Speaker 1: live show, so I will reiterate that. But what does
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Speaker 1: it mean? What does it mean? What is interesting is
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Speaker 1: that a lot of what we're going to see is
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Speaker 1: we're going to see socialist experiments in places that we
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Speaker 1: never would have seen it possible. And I want to
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Speaker 1: start with the state of Texas. And now Texas is
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest states in the union. It is
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Speaker 1: the biggest red state in terms of electoral votes, in
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Speaker 1: terms of dependably red voters. And they rejected not only
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, who, of course, I think would have been
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Speaker 1: a terrific senator, but was a horrific candidate given his
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Speaker 1: scandalous past and his just sort of lack of charisma.
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Speaker 1: I understand that. And it was a reality. It was
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Speaker 1: a risk because John Cornyn and people behind the Texas
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Speaker 1: Republican establishment were so anti-MAGA. I'm thinking of the Bush family.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of people like Neil Bush, who worked to
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Speaker 1: get James Tallarico elected. all of that made it so
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Speaker 1: it was going to be difficult for Paxton to for
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Speaker 1: sure cakewalk in that race. But it did turn out
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Speaker 1: to be pretty much a blowout for James Tallarico, despite
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Speaker 1: the obvious blasphemies that he would deliver on a routine
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Speaker 1: basis and interviews on the stump, despite the fact that
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Speaker 1: he holds positions that are completely anathema to what we
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Speaker 1: think of as the state of Texas. And so why
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Speaker 1: is it? Why did things go that way? Is it
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Speaker 1: just because Paxton was a bad candidate? Well, how do
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Speaker 1: you explain the fact that the entire rest of the
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Speaker 1: Democrat ticket I'm sorry, the entire rest of the down
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Speaker 1: ticket races from governor on down, all went blue, all
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Speaker 1: went Democrat. And one thing that's obvious is demographics. The
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Speaker 1: state does not look the way it once did. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's a big thing, especially because we've had
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Speaker 1: open borders for so long. That's a big part of it.
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Speaker 1: We've also rushed to import people from overseas, but also
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Speaker 1: importing people from blue states. A point I've made, and
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Speaker 1: I will make it again, is that if a billionaire
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Speaker 1: who may be apolitical or even Trump-curious moves their company
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Speaker 1: from California to Texas, they might be voting and donating red,
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Speaker 1: but their employees aren't necessarily doing that. And they might
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Speaker 1: not necessarily want to give up a nice tech job
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Speaker 1: with benefits and with good hours and with the sense
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Speaker 1: that they're part of progress to miss out on living
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Speaker 1: in Texas where the cost of living is lower than California.
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Speaker 1: So a bunch of people who are voting blue got
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Speaker 1: imported to Texas. And this was inevitable with combined with
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Speaker 1: the demographic changes when it comes to immigration, that this
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Speaker 1: state was going to go purple, if not blue. And
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Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. And if you guys have been
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Speaker 1: Breitbart readers for 10, 12 years, I don't think you're
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Speaker 1: entirely shocked. I don't think you're entirely shocked that a
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Speaker 1: so-so candidate like Paxton lost, but the entire slate going blue,
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Speaker 1: that is very interesting. That's very interesting and worth contemplating
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Speaker 1: because it shows that this race goes beyond just not
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Speaker 1: great candidates. A lot of it really is those demographics.
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Speaker 1: And it's the fact that our culture is changing and
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Speaker 1: our personnel are changing. And one thing that I think
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Speaker 1: is really noteworthy is the woman, Hina Hossa, who is
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Speaker 1: going to be the next governor of the state, had
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Speaker 1: a really interesting campaign that I've gotten, I've dug into,
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Speaker 1: I've sunk my teeth into this a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: it is, she's someone who ran, on a, Gina Hinojosa,
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Speaker 1: to be specific, ran on a populist platform, economic populism,
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Speaker 1: and emphasized this. And so I've got a cut from
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Speaker 1: an interview from the New York Times podcast that I
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Speaker 1: think really illustrates an important, a lot of important takeaways
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Speaker 1: from this election. So I'm going to start here, and
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Speaker 1: here we go.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to pivot a little bit to something
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Speaker 3: that you've talked about, which is seeing yourself as a
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Speaker 3: populist and not a liberal or a progressive. Your voting
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Speaker 3: record in the state house is, by all accounts.
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Speaker 1: Pretty liberal.
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Speaker 3: You were, in 2019, ranked the most liberal member of
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Speaker 3: the Texas House, and it was a title that you
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Speaker 3: sort of openly embraced. And I'm just curious— how you
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Speaker 3: define the difference between populist and progressive. And tell me
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Speaker 3: why you've landed on populist as a label for yourself now.
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Speaker 4: I think populist meets the moment of our time. Again,
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Speaker 4: the one fight, the one fight in this country. And
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Speaker 4: it is about economic power. And populism is about economic power.
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Speaker 4: And whereas I do think In the past, we evaluated
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Speaker 4: politics as right versus left. I just don't think those
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Speaker 4: labels apply at this moment in history.
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Speaker 1: So this is just A-plus messaging, just terrific messaging, is
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Speaker 1: that she's talking about giving economic power back to the people.
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Speaker 1: And she knows that in a state like Texas, running
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Speaker 1: as being a progressive, being as a leftist is not
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Speaker 1: going to be advantageous to her politically. And she's saying
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Speaker 1: that she is returning the power to the people when
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Speaker 1: it comes to economics. And that's what this election was
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Speaker 1: all about in a lot of ways. That's the obvious
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Speaker 1: elephant in the room. And that's why people get so
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Speaker 1: worked up over the Iran war. The Iran war, in particular,
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Speaker 1: Trump promised no new foreign wars. I think that if
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Speaker 1: you paid close attention to him, as I've articulated to
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Speaker 1: my audience over and over again, I think that he
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Speaker 1: had drawn a lot of red lines for Iran. They
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Speaker 1: crossed all of them. He said that you cannot pursue
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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, you cannot do state-sponsored terrorism, and you cannot
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Speaker 1: continue to try to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. Iran did
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Speaker 1: all of those things. They did all those things. And
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Speaker 1: so I think that there is a possibility that Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump was going to do this war, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a total shock. I think people, if it
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Speaker 1: wrapped up quicker, I think people would have perhaps forgiven
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Speaker 1: him for it a little more quickly than they did.
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Speaker 1: But overall, the reason why I think people are bummed
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Speaker 1: out is because the agenda shifted from domestic to international.
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Speaker 1: When the agenda was focused solely on domestic stuff for
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Speaker 1: the first year. And then the second year has been
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Speaker 1: almost all international stuff because partially the Republican Congress is
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Speaker 1: incapable of doing anything. They couldn't pass the Save America Act.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't lock in any of the president's border reforms
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Speaker 1: that he's done, which have been fantastic, have saved the
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Speaker 1: country in a lot of ways. But he can't even
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Speaker 1: lock those into legislation with both houses of Congress. So
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Speaker 1: now all we're doing is we're talking about a war
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Speaker 1: that's been unpopular from the start and couldn't wrap up
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Speaker 1: as quickly as I'm sure the president would have wanted.
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Speaker 1: And that's where we're at right now. And so running
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Speaker 1: on economic populist message, that is the main vulnerability that
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Speaker 1: Trump had and the Republicans had, because not only does
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Speaker 1: it remind people that things are more expensive than we want,
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Speaker 1: but they're more expensive because of a broken promise. And
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Speaker 1: so that's how people feel about it. And whether or
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Speaker 1: not there's justification for it, there's many justifications. For people
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Speaker 1: who are, the type of person who's probably listening to
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Speaker 1: a podcast like this, paying attention to my show every day,
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Speaker 1: going to Breitbart.com, downloading our app, getting their news from Breitbart.
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Speaker 1: You can handle this level of detail. You can handle
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Speaker 1: this level of nuance. But a lot of people who
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Speaker 1: are much more passive, much more low civic engagement voters,
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Speaker 1: they hear a simple message like this. We're returning the
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Speaker 1: economic power to the people, and you can't trust the
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Speaker 1: Republicans to do that right now. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: stick with me. You could see how that message would work.
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Speaker 1: Let's play some more. Not in this moment in political history.
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Speaker 1: We see that things are so.
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Speaker 4: stacked against working people in this country. And so listen,
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Speaker 4: it's just a label. But if I were to pick
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Speaker 4: a label to describe what are my politics, it is
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Speaker 4: economic populism. It happens to be a type of politics
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Speaker 4: that is rooted in our Texas history. It was LBJ's grandfather,
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Speaker 4: who was part of the Farmers Alliance, that organized farmers
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Speaker 4: against big railroads that were taking advantage of them in
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Speaker 4: much the same way. We have working Texans who are
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Speaker 4: up against, again, tech giants, big tech. And so I
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Speaker 4: chose this title to define what is my politics, because
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Speaker 4: I do think that this has to be the politics
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Speaker 4: of the moment to meet the challenges of the moment.
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Speaker 1: And just note how she's villainizing, demonizing big tech who
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Speaker 1: are overwhelmingly Democrat donors. And as I also mentioned on
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Speaker 1: the live show today, so the most recent podcast in
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Speaker 1: your feed. I said that when Anthropic and also OpenAI,
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Speaker 1: but especially Anthropic, when they IPO, you're going to create
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Speaker 1: new billionaires who aren't only political. These are the effective altruists.
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Speaker 1: These are the people who live to donate to far
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Speaker 1: left causes who want to use their power specifically to
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Speaker 1: create a new moral schema to use. And they're going
11:17
Speaker 1: to be the ones in charge of it. And it's
11:18
Speaker 1: all going to emanate from their AIs. So that's the
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Speaker 1: world we're in. So you've got these leftists who are
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Speaker 1: somehow campaigning against big tech who's going to be bankrolling
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Speaker 1: their campaigns. And they're all in on this stuff. So
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Speaker 1: here's what's really noteworthy about Gina Hinojosa is that she is,
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Speaker 1: as was alluded to in this New York Times podcast,
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Speaker 1: she is maybe the most left person in the Texas House.
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Speaker 1: So she's got the rhetoric dialed. We're doing economic populism.
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Speaker 1: That sounds good to me even as a lifelong Republican conservative.
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Speaker 1: That's the right language to use. But she's a person
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Speaker 1: who voted Democrat Party line about 95% of the time
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Speaker 1: and consistently ranks among the most liberal members of the
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Speaker 1: Texas House and the most progressive, which I, of course,
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Speaker 1: reject that word. I think a lot of what they
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Speaker 1: stand for is regressive. But the rest of the stuff
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Speaker 1: that she stands for is especially opposition to school choice.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't. Texas has a vast voucher program where you
12:16
Speaker 1: could take money that would be applied elsewhere and apply
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Speaker 1: it towards schools. They want that money reallocated towards public schools.
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Speaker 1: Randy Weingarten, the leader of the Biggest Teachers Union, is
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Speaker 1: a big donor to her campaign to other Democrat causes.
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Speaker 1: So she voted against bills that define spaces and facilities
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Speaker 1: by biological sex. She voted against displaying the Ten Commandments.
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Speaker 1: She's voted against various Republican-backed measures on abortion-related drugs, not
12:47
Speaker 1: to mention election procedures to try to secure our elections.
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Speaker 1: So she's always voting Democrats on all sorts of issues
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Speaker 1: that are social issues, but she's not campaigning on social issues.
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Speaker 1: She's campaigning on economic populism. But so you campaign economic populism.
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Speaker 1: And what we're going to get is we're going to
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Speaker 1: get someone whose version of that does include an opposition
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Speaker 1: to a voter approved cap on city and county property taxes,
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Speaker 1: thus higher taxes. She voted against tightening caps, debt related workarounds,
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Speaker 1: certain relief measures. That would allow for people to save
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Speaker 1: some money on taxes. There is about 40 votes. This
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Speaker 1: was highlighted by the Abbott campaign. So clearly didn't get through.
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Speaker 1: That she had. Where she voted against measures limiting property taxes.
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Speaker 1: She likes hiking taxes. That's her version of economic populism.
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Speaker 1: Is you take the people who have it and then
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Speaker 1: redistribute it. Is not trying to do things to make
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Speaker 1: sure that corporations aren't taking advantage of people. Making sure
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Speaker 1: that we don't have some sort of, you know, my
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Speaker 1: version of economic populism starts with immigration. that we don't
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Speaker 1: have a immigration system that serves the corporate overlords, the
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Speaker 1: people in the C-suite, serves the American worker. If she's
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Speaker 1: a person, immediately we know that when she comes into office,
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Speaker 1: she's going to do everything she can to make sure
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Speaker 1: that President Trump and whatever Republican apparatus has already been
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Speaker 1: put in place can operate to secure our borders. So
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Speaker 1: this is the thing where if there is another surge
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Speaker 1: on the border, if there is another caravan, if there
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Speaker 1: is tens of thousands of illegal aliens that come to
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Speaker 1: the border, she's made it very clear that she's going
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Speaker 1: to end Governor Abbott's state and local cooperation with ICE
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Speaker 1: on day one. She, in fact, even called on, I think,
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Speaker 1: since the election last night. Yeah, she did. She called on,
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Speaker 1: according to Bill Mellugian at Fox, she's called on Abbott
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Speaker 1: to end state and local cooperation with ICE, which she's
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Speaker 1: going to do on day one if the cooperation is
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Speaker 1: still in place. So this is economic populism. The hurry
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Speaker 1: is let's open up the border and make sure that
14:47
Speaker 1: you send a signal to south of our border that
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Speaker 1: if you come up here, it's game on again. But
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Speaker 1: framed in the correct way, if you want to win elections,
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Speaker 1: economic populism.
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Speaker 3: Is part of it also that this sort of progressive
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Speaker 3: liberal label could be perceived as pretty toxic by certain
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Speaker 3: members of the state that you're trying to get to
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Speaker 3: vote for you?
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Speaker 1: No, it is not that. Because I think.
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Speaker 4: But what I think it is, is that those labels
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Speaker 4: have been associated with culture wars. And I just don't
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Speaker 4: think that the culture wars are the fight of 2026.
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Speaker 4: This is proven true. She's totally right about this. This
15:26
Speaker 4: is really good political instincts. What side do you think
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Speaker 4: she's going to come down? We know what side she's
15:31
Speaker 4: going to come down on. She's going to be for
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Speaker 4: all the trans stuff.
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Speaker 1: But those of us who wanted to focus on some
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Speaker 1: of the radical things that have been, some of the
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Speaker 1: racial politics the Democrats have, some of the anti-white nature
15:47
Speaker 1: to a lot of their rhetoric, who want to talk
15:50
Speaker 1: about the men and women's bathrooms. Those cultural issues, which
15:54
Speaker 1: are imperative, they're important, super important. Those weren't the ones
15:58
Speaker 1: that were going to deliver us this election. It wasn't, clearly.
16:03
Speaker 1: There's other things, namely affordability, number one. That was going
16:07
Speaker 1: to be the main thing. So even the fact that
16:11
Speaker 1: Democrats won the messaging on the AI data center is
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Speaker 1: another huge one, considering all the AI companies are left aligned.
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Speaker 1: The deportation messaging, which has been essential to Trump's agenda,
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Speaker 1: I think it was carried out in a way that
16:25
Speaker 1: was not optimal for political messaging. The Epstein files, way
16:31
Speaker 1: more Democrats are going to be in Epstein files, but
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Speaker 1: the messaging on that, we lost that messaging war as well.
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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to sit with it. I'm not trying
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Speaker 3: to be difficult. I'm just trying to understand a little bit.
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Speaker 3: So you're a populist progressive? It's not an either or thing?
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Speaker 4: Well, look, I just think that progressive politics is associated
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Speaker 4: with culture wars, and I have no interest in that.
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Speaker 4: in fighting culture wars at this time. Fighting culture wars
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Speaker 4: at this time is not a winnable fight. It is
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Speaker 4: the fight that divides us because it is the fight
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Speaker 4: about who we are and our lived experiences. And that
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Speaker 4: is not the fight of 2026.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that that's true. I mean... And
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Speaker 1: we absolutely are going to get the culture wars. And
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Speaker 1: this is the trick, the difference between governing and winning.
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Speaker 1: And you've got to be able to do both, is
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Speaker 1: that this is the exact perfect rhetoric... to win elections,
17:30
Speaker 1: but it also means we are going to get a
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Speaker 1: hefty dosage of culture war. You know it. You know
17:38
Speaker 1: we're going to get tons of culture war setbacks because
17:41
Speaker 1: we lost the message on economic populism. We lost the
17:44
Speaker 1: message on America first. She's talking like she's America first,
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Speaker 1: even though the result is going to be running as
17:51
Speaker 1: fast as humanly possible away from any sort of conservative
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Speaker 1: culture war message. plan. We're going to run straight backwards
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Speaker 1: towards wokeness if we're not already there. So let me
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Speaker 1: give you some examples of what's going on here. This
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Speaker 1: is some Texas home builders were noting that one of
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Speaker 1: the problems with what's going on in Texas is actually
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Speaker 1: the immigration crackdown made it harder for them to do
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Speaker 1: their jobs. This is fascinating. Check this out.
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Speaker 3: He says ICE raids have had a devastating impact on
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Speaker 3: his bottom line.
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Speaker 5: It's been a one, two, three uppercut type of punch, right?
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Speaker 5: Ever since the administration came in, we had to deal
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Speaker 5: with tariffs. And that put a big blow in our
18:41
Speaker 5: system or in the industry. And then right after that,
18:44
Speaker 5: we had ICE raids where officials were actually going on
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Speaker 5: site and tapping guys on the shoulder while pouring concrete
18:51
Speaker 5: and picking them up. And then if they were still legal,
18:54
Speaker 5: they'd bring them back or let them go. If not,
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Speaker 5: they'd deport them. And I think we all know that
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Speaker 5: the construction industry is immigrant.
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Speaker 3: Heavy.
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Speaker 1: Could you replace these workers?
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Speaker 5: No. We need people to actually do the work. We
19:08
Speaker 5: need manual labor. We need labor hands. And there is
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Speaker 5: nobody prepared to do that.
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Speaker 1: So, so far, first of all, he's complaining about the tariffs,
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Speaker 1: which is a– this is a talking point for anti-tariff people.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs did not cause any inflation. It caused less than the–
19:25
Speaker 1: I predict it would cause almost none, and it did
19:27
Speaker 1: cause almost none. And there's a lot of people who
19:31
Speaker 1: want to take advantage of this opportunity, the fact that
19:33
Speaker 1: the republic is not doing well, to rail against tariffs.
19:38
Speaker 1: But overall, the issue is the Iran war made stuff
19:41
Speaker 1: more expensive. That's what made stuff more expensive. And there
19:44
Speaker 1: really wasn't a big positive economic agenda that was put forward.
19:47
Speaker 1: But what's most really important, what's really important here is
19:51
Speaker 1: the pro-flooding the country with immigrants people see the fact
19:56
Speaker 1: that ICE cracked down on illegal aliens is a problem
19:59
Speaker 1: because they had built their businesses around using essentially indentured servants,
20:04
Speaker 1: which is illegal alien labor, who are willing to work
20:07
Speaker 1: at a lower rate than what Americans would be willing
20:09
Speaker 1: to work for. And now the complaint is they don't
20:12
Speaker 1: have the skills. There actually aren't Americans who are willing
20:14
Speaker 1: to do this stuff. In some cases, that's true. I
20:16
Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, Finnish carpentry, I think there's
20:19
Speaker 1: probably tons of Americans who are able to do that stuff.
20:22
Speaker 1: But some of the manual labor, picking up garbage at
20:24
Speaker 1: construction sites, until we create some sort of a culture
20:27
Speaker 1: where younger people are accustomed to doing jobs like that.
20:31
Speaker 1: You know, I worked at a batting cage in a
20:33
Speaker 1: warehouse for money under the table when I was growing up.
20:36
Speaker 1: Is that our culture now? I don't know. My kids
20:38
Speaker 1: are a little younger and I'm a little older, so
20:39
Speaker 1: I don't know. But those were good experiences. And a
20:42
Speaker 1: lot of my friends and people, contemporaries with me had
20:44
Speaker 1: those experiences. And I think it made them stronger for
20:47
Speaker 1: getting into the real working world. But this is what
20:50
Speaker 1: is fascinating here is that we set the culture for decades.
20:54
Speaker 1: Illegal aliens are coming. They're going to do a lot
20:56
Speaker 1: of these, this manual labor jobs. And then when ICE
20:58
Speaker 1: comes around and they have to self-deport or they have
21:01
Speaker 1: to go into the shadows, so to speak. then that's
21:04
Speaker 1: going to make people who relied on that cheap illegal
21:07
Speaker 1: labor to do their business. That's going to make their
21:09
Speaker 1: lives a lot more difficult. So this is a, if
21:13
Speaker 1: this guy, I don't know if this guy's a Republican
21:14
Speaker 1: or a Democrat certainly talks like a Democrat, but, but
21:17
Speaker 1: this is the George Bush, Paul Ryan party that they wanted.
21:21
Speaker 1: This is it. This is the people who they were
21:23
Speaker 1: looking out for this type of business guy. I'm not
21:25
Speaker 1: trying to pick on him. ABC news already highlighted him.
21:28
Speaker 1: So he's put his hand up, but this is a
21:30
Speaker 1: reality that these businesses, people are became accustomed to take
21:33
Speaker 1: advantage of that illegal alien labor okay so here's what
21:36
Speaker 1: i mean that we're electing democrats or the country did
21:40
Speaker 1: based off of economic populism but we're still going to
21:44
Speaker 1: get a healthy dosage of culture wars this is a
21:47
Speaker 1: little snippet of a video that is allegedly from the
21:49
Speaker 1: james talarico victory party that's what uh grok has told
21:53
Speaker 1: me it is this is being falsely claimed as part
21:56
Speaker 1: of the keisha lance bottoms victory party in georgia but
21:59
Speaker 1: Grok says this is from Tallarico's Victory Party, but I'm
22:01
Speaker 1: going to play this clip. It's emblematic of what's ahead.
22:04
Speaker 1: Check this out. Abortion is so back, baby. Those of
22:09
Speaker 1: you who are missing it, it's six younger millennial or
22:12
Speaker 1: older Gen Z young women, all look decent looking and
22:16
Speaker 1: happy and excited that they could allow for a bunch
22:20
Speaker 1: of strange men to shoot their sperm inside of them
22:23
Speaker 1: and get them pregnant, I guess. Right? Like, I don't understand.
22:27
Speaker 1: Do you even understand what it takes to get to
22:30
Speaker 1: necessitate an abortion? You have to engage in behavior you
22:34
Speaker 1: shouldn't be engaging in and then still have it get
22:37
Speaker 1: worse from there. And then you have to make a
22:39
Speaker 1: conclusion that you're going to then slaughter the child in
22:43
Speaker 1: the womb that you created unintentionally. And this is cause
22:47
Speaker 1: for celebration. They're really excited about this. They could take
22:51
Speaker 1: on all the guys now. Here we go. One more time.
22:54
Speaker 1: Abortion is so bad!
22:56
Speaker 6: Baby!
22:57
Speaker 1: It's just the thought that there's no consideration that maybe
23:01
Speaker 1: even if you are pro-abortion, that a lot of the
23:03
Speaker 1: country considers it murder. And what goes into having an abortion,
23:06
Speaker 1: terminating a life that is growing inside of a human being,
23:11
Speaker 1: is maybe not the sort of thing you make TikTok
23:13
Speaker 1: jokes about. I noticed on the live show as well, TikTok,
23:16
Speaker 1: a huge factor here. Another one, which is going to
23:19
Speaker 1: be kind of a sleeper, but I think missing out
23:21
Speaker 1: on the TikTok ban, I do think that was a mistake.
23:24
Speaker 1: I think the TikTok ban was Important. That was something
23:27
Speaker 1: we should have done. So you wonder about how much
23:33
Speaker 1: of what lessons are going to come through. This video
23:37
Speaker 1: blew my mind because this is Dan Sullivan, the real
23:40
Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan, the incumbent Dan Sullivan, who was watching in
23:42
Speaker 1: real time as his Senate seat is going to be
23:46
Speaker 1: stolen from him. Literally, it should be illegal. Let me
23:49
Speaker 1: play this for you. We've been hearing about all kinds
23:52
Speaker 1: of people who are confused.
23:53
Speaker 6: I've heard from people who think they voted for the
23:56
Speaker 6: wrong guy and have apologized to me.
23:59
Speaker 1: It's like I said, the scheme is working. So he's
24:04
Speaker 1: saying people came up to him and apologized for voting
24:07
Speaker 1: for the wrong Dan Sullivan. The wrong Dan Sullivan got
24:09
Speaker 1: 3,000 plus votes, a guy who didn't campaign, who was
24:13
Speaker 1: a Democrat, and then... only got on the ballot as
24:19
Speaker 1: a hoax to deceive the voters of Alaska, got over 1%
24:23
Speaker 1: of the vote, 3% of the vote. And as of now,
24:25
Speaker 1: that is more than enough of a difference for Mary
24:28
Speaker 1: Peltola to win that race. And so are we just
24:30
Speaker 1: going to let this slide by? Maybe we are. We
24:34
Speaker 1: still need to understand that there are, even though this
24:37
Speaker 1: is a wave election, and I don't know if even
24:39
Speaker 1: great candidates would have done well it's imperative for Republicans
24:44
Speaker 1: to start drafting a better bench. I was also struck
24:47
Speaker 1: by this cut of Ashley Hinson, who lost a race
24:50
Speaker 1: in Iowa for the Senate. This was the Joni Ernst seat.
24:53
Speaker 1: I made reference to this on the live show as well,
24:54
Speaker 1: where Joni Ernst, who is a very good woman and
24:58
Speaker 1: was a great member of the Senate, did a lot
25:00
Speaker 1: of stuff to police waste, and was someone who was
25:03
Speaker 1: not sufficiently MAGA for MAGA and probably just didn't have
25:06
Speaker 1: the stomach to deal with all the MAGA hatred for
25:09
Speaker 1: too long that she was getting, even though she was
25:11
Speaker 1: mostly conservative person and mostly did good work in the Senate,
25:14
Speaker 1: but she did like to work across the aisle, which
25:16
Speaker 1: is okay. We can have a few senators like that.
25:18
Speaker 1: I mean, we'd all like to have a Susan Collins
25:20
Speaker 1: today instead of the guy who knocked up his cousin.
25:23
Speaker 1: So here's Ashley Hinson's messaging on Fox News. Check this out.
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Speaker 7: Of course, I want our benefit programs to be there
25:30
Speaker 7: for people who need them. But if you're a 29-year-old
25:32
Speaker 7: guy sitting in your mom's basement playing video games, you
25:35
Speaker 7: shouldn't be mooching off the federal government. And I think
25:36
Speaker 7: most Iowans are working really, really hard. I will continue
25:40
Speaker 7: to respect taxpayers. I'm the minivan driving mom. I will
25:43
Speaker 7: continue to drive that common sense.
25:44
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see what gives today.
25:46
Speaker 4: Thank you for your time and your opponent again.
25:49
Speaker 1: Ragging on 29-year-old males who've been completely abandoned by both
25:53
Speaker 1: political parties is so tone deaf. And if you look
25:57
Speaker 1: at the demographics that shifted from Trump fans to voting
26:01
Speaker 1: Democrats or to staying home, young males is the group.
26:05
Speaker 1: They felt very excited about the Trump fans ticket. They
26:08
Speaker 1: did not feel excited about what's happened the last two
26:10
Speaker 1: years and who they were offered up this time around.
26:13
Speaker 1: I do think a lot of that blame does go
26:15
Speaker 1: to the sort of Manosphere podcast space, which was constantly
26:19
Speaker 1: badgering them to say that Trump is doing a horrible job.
26:22
Speaker 1: Trump is really bad. Things are terrible in this country.
26:25
Speaker 1: And to be in denial of some of the positive
26:27
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening, and there is quite a bit of it.
26:30
Speaker 1: I mean, there's many, many things that are taking place
26:31
Speaker 1: in this country that are quite good. And there is
26:37
Speaker 1: a lot of prospects for people in this country. But overall,
26:40
Speaker 1: this is an unsympathetic approach to people who are have
26:45
Speaker 1: lost a lot of their youth to the coronavirus they
26:48
Speaker 1: are being deprived of a lot of interactions because of
26:52
Speaker 1: our hyper online era that we're in and they do
26:56
Speaker 1: feel like things are very bleak for them the prospects
26:58
Speaker 1: of them fulfilling the american dream of starting a family
27:01
Speaker 1: and buying a home and this isn't a this is
27:03
Speaker 1: the priority it's not just one of the priorities this
27:05
Speaker 1: should be the priority and to take another swipe at
27:08
Speaker 1: them it is i think emblematic of a tone deaf
27:12
Speaker 1: ruling class within the gop and trump gets this and
27:16
Speaker 1: it sporadically comes up but very few other effective republicans
27:21
Speaker 1: are able to articulate on this issue and to show
27:24
Speaker 1: some empathy to these young men particularly white who grew
27:28
Speaker 1: up being promised that if you just do the right
27:29
Speaker 1: thing and you stay in school and you get a
27:31
Speaker 1: degree then you're going to be on the path the
27:33
Speaker 1: american dream instead they're going out in their 20s with
27:37
Speaker 1: very lame job prospects ai's replacing a lot of jobs
27:40
Speaker 1: A lot of companies aren't hiring it the way they
27:42
Speaker 1: were because they're cautious about AI. They might be saddled
27:44
Speaker 1: with debt. And the prospect of buying a house is
27:46
Speaker 1: almost impossible unless they live at home, maybe in their parents'
27:49
Speaker 1: basement until they're 30. And for the record, I'm fully
27:53
Speaker 1: expecting that my children will achieve and be successful, but
27:56
Speaker 1: they're welcome to live in my basement for as long
27:58
Speaker 1: as they want. That's what family is all about. Like,
28:02
Speaker 1: why are you making fun of them, swiping at them?
28:05
Speaker 1: And who is it that you're trying to convince with
28:06
Speaker 1: this type of messaging? And that's when you see something
28:10
Speaker 1: like this and you think, oh, she's not going to win.
28:12
Speaker 1: And then she doesn't, even in a red state. So
28:16
Speaker 1: what kind of person is happy after this election? One
28:21
Speaker 1: guy is Hasan Piker, who is the big day for him,
28:25
Speaker 1: is someone who took the most heat online of anyone,
28:28
Speaker 1: partially because he hates this country. And he is very
28:31
Speaker 1: closely associated with Zoram Mamdani and now Abdul El-Sayed. And
28:35
Speaker 1: so let's hear what was on his mind on election night.
28:38
Speaker 6: I think this might truly be the end of MAGA tonight.
28:41
Speaker 6: I said that earlier in the day. There were a
28:43
Speaker 6: lot of people before the results came out. A lot
28:46
Speaker 6: of people said that this was an overestimation, but it
28:49
Speaker 6: turns out it is here.
28:51
Speaker 1: It is real.
28:53
Speaker 6: As you also pointed out, Donald Trump already has conceded,
28:56
Speaker 6: saying he's going to power share with the Democratic Party.
28:58
Speaker 6: And I don't think there is a spiritual successor that
29:01
Speaker 6: will be able to rebuild that base of support that
29:06
Speaker 6: Donald Trump was capable of building. We saw that fall
29:10
Speaker 6: apart tonight. American voters voted against racism, against some of
29:17
Speaker 6: the worst campaigning I've ever seen, all the way from
29:20
Speaker 6: Vivek Ramaswamy attacking Amy Acton for being a victim of
29:25
Speaker 6: abuse as a child by her estranged mother's boyfriend at
29:31
Speaker 6: the time to the barrage of Islamophobia that Abdul al
29:37
Speaker 6: sayyed received uh it feels pretty good tonight to see
29:41
Speaker 6: that america rejected this kind of toxic politicking and america's
29:47
Speaker 6: ready for a new type of politics one that centers
29:51
Speaker 6: the interest of the working class and i will do
29:53
Speaker 6: everything in my power to ensure that we hold the
29:56
Speaker 6: democratic party to account to push forth this agenda.
30:01
Speaker 1: So announcing MAGA dead is a thing that'll be, keep
30:06
Speaker 1: an eye on it. Keep an eye on it because,
30:08
Speaker 1: you know, MAGA has been counted out a number of
30:10
Speaker 1: times before. We've had bad elections. Donald Trump lost in 2020.
30:13
Speaker 1: And then they tried to lawfare him to death and
30:15
Speaker 1: they even shot him in the ear and they attempted
30:17
Speaker 1: to kill him a bunch of other times and he
30:19
Speaker 1: came back. So let's see what happens. But is there
30:23
Speaker 1: a spiritual successor? And this is where there's got to
30:25
Speaker 1: be a collective effort. People have got to stand up.
30:28
Speaker 1: And this is where I put in a sincere request
30:34
Speaker 1: to the audience. If there's any emotional unsubscription, some pullback
30:39
Speaker 1: from engagement, we need to be vigilant here because we
30:43
Speaker 1: are really on the precipice of turning the country over
30:45
Speaker 1: to some true radicals. And if we don't amend our
30:48
Speaker 1: messaging very quickly and get squared away very quickly in
30:51
Speaker 1: this regard, and not some significant victories on the political front,
30:56
Speaker 1: and they're all going to come by the executive branch now,
30:59
Speaker 1: then 2028 is going to go very badly. And at
31:02
Speaker 1: this rate, you're going to get a pro-Hamas, pro-Marxist Democrat
31:06
Speaker 1: who is going to win at this rate. There's other options.
31:10
Speaker 1: They've got other options. They've got ways to hedge. We'll
31:13
Speaker 1: explore those in later shows. But who is the spiritual
31:16
Speaker 1: successor to Magna? I mean, J.D. 's the most obvious
31:20
Speaker 1: answer that comes to mind. And I think a lot
31:22
Speaker 1: of people acting like he had a bad night yesterday.
31:24
Speaker 1: I don't think it was as bad for him as
31:25
Speaker 1: some of the others. Because remember, he opposed the Iran war,
31:27
Speaker 1: which was the elephant in the room. So, but there's
31:31
Speaker 1: a long way to go now. And I want everyone
31:33
Speaker 1: to hear this warning as a sincere warning. And there's
31:37
Speaker 1: points about, you know, Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign was, it was
31:40
Speaker 1: a terrible campaign. It was a terrible campaign. What can
31:43
Speaker 1: I say? He's a guy who was for the lax
31:47
Speaker 1: immigration policies that were the exact sort of thing that
31:50
Speaker 1: the MAGA movement was designed to combat and then the
31:54
Speaker 1: ad i i didn't know if it was going to
31:55
Speaker 1: make a big difference and maybe it didn't i don't
31:57
Speaker 1: really know but the ad where he was using amy
32:00
Speaker 1: acton's mom to pick out amy acton i mean it
32:02
Speaker 1: made her the victim it just made her the victim
32:04
Speaker 1: in the end which is just it just that's a
32:08
Speaker 1: dirty thing to do and i don't know if he
32:09
Speaker 1: was behind it or just consultants but he certainly didn't
32:11
Speaker 1: stop it and we got to get lessons from this
32:15
Speaker 1: is amy acton is a a She's had seven Spressi
32:19
Speaker 1: martinis every night. Seven Spressi martinis a night and will
32:24
Speaker 1: be the governor of Ohio beating a guy who is
32:28
Speaker 1: so smart and so high energy. Why is that? Clearly
32:31
Speaker 1: mistakes were made on the campaign trail for that to
32:34
Speaker 1: have been the case. In the state of Ohio, that
32:36
Speaker 1: is Trump winning by double digits. So I don't think
32:42
Speaker 1: you count MAGA out, but we have to get engaged.
32:45
Speaker 1: And you have to understand that if we don't get engaged,
32:48
Speaker 1: then we are turning the world over to the Hassan
32:50
Speaker 1: Piker caucus and the Democrat Party. One other thing that
32:55
Speaker 1: I'm keeping an eye on is who is the most emboldened.
32:59
Speaker 1: And this is something that I'm excited about in the
33:01
Speaker 1: sense that there is going to be a Democrat civil
33:03
Speaker 1: war that will take place because the Hassan Piker wing
33:07
Speaker 1: is not compatible with the Democrat establishment wing. That's a
33:12
Speaker 1: wing that is more favorable to Israel. as people who
33:15
Speaker 1: have accumulated a lot of power over a long period
33:18
Speaker 1: of time, and they're not going to want to relinquish it.
33:21
Speaker 1: And they're not necessarily into all the trans stuff, and
33:24
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily into quite the level of Marxism all
33:27
Speaker 1: at once. And so we're going to see in the
33:30
Speaker 1: embrace of Islam, which a lot of the Democrats will
33:32
Speaker 1: pay lip service to it, but in all honesty, they're
33:34
Speaker 1: not moving to those communities. So let's see what happens,
33:38
Speaker 1: because a lot of them do feel like that this
33:40
Speaker 1: could be the moment where the Democrat Party really pivots
33:43
Speaker 1: towards that pro-Hamas Marxist angle all the time. Here's a
33:49
Speaker 1: cut of Jamal Bowman, who you might recall was the
33:51
Speaker 1: male member of the squad back in the day, and
33:53
Speaker 1: he was on the Zateo platform, which is Mehdi Hassan's
33:56
Speaker 1: far-left pro-Islam platform. Let me play this for you.
34:01
Speaker 2: When I lost in 2024, that was tough, man. You know,
34:04
Speaker 2: it was tough for all of us. It was tough
34:06
Speaker 2: for me personally. And I needed time to, like, heal
34:08
Speaker 2: and recover. But a year later, Zoran. Two years later,
34:13
Speaker 2: Gary Aliza, Claire.
34:15
Speaker 1: Donovan, Chris. We're killing it right now. I feel like
34:18
Speaker 1: you and Corey tonight.
34:20
Speaker 2: If Abdul El-Sayed pulls this off, it's a real slap
34:23
Speaker 2: to APAC.
34:24
Speaker 1: The APAC who came for you and won, they came
34:26
Speaker 1: for him and they may not win.
34:27
Speaker 2: It's the reckoning, right?
34:28
Speaker 1: Like him and Tallarico.
34:30
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm heartbroken for Angie Nixon, but shit, man,
34:34
Speaker 2: she was right there, right?
34:35
Speaker 1: So close.
34:36
Speaker 2: And so I think personally, this is a reckoning and
34:39
Speaker 2: this is our 1776 moment. This is our 1776 moment.
34:47
Speaker 2: What is our new vision for America? How are we
34:50
Speaker 2: going to articulate it? How are we going to imagine it?
34:53
Speaker 2: How are we going to make it a reality? I
34:55
Speaker 2: think for us as progressives, champions for human rights, champions
34:59
Speaker 2: for Palestine, champions for Medicare for all, and all the
35:02
Speaker 2: stuff we're fighting for, this is our 1776 moment.
35:05
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be a part of that one
35:07
Speaker 1: way or the other. I'm feeling hopeful. I'm getting some hope.
35:10
Speaker 1: This is what we like. This is why we love
35:11
Speaker 1: talking to you. Jamal Bowman, always a pleasure. This is
35:14
Speaker 1: about Palestine. This is about Medicare for all, which we
35:17
Speaker 1: can't do. Think about how expensive, you know, Obamacare is
35:21
Speaker 1: set to have their premiums go up. So medical care
35:24
Speaker 1: is already unaffordable in the country. And people are going
35:27
Speaker 1: to have to get on board if you're going to
35:28
Speaker 1: do Medicare for all. Then that means the end of
35:31
Speaker 1: private insurance. Aside from maybe the ultra, ultra, ultra rich.
35:35
Speaker 1: There's going to be no private insurance. That's what it's
35:37
Speaker 1: going to be. People are going to be forced to
35:39
Speaker 1: opt into it. And then Palestine is like, oh, I
35:43
Speaker 1: thought we were talking too much. I thought we were
35:44
Speaker 1: going to do America first. No, actually, Palestine is really important,
35:47
Speaker 1: which is not a real place. And recall, it is
35:50
Speaker 1: run by Hamas. And Hamas does not want a two-state
35:53
Speaker 1: solution because they don't think Israel has a right to
35:55
Speaker 1: exist at all. So that's the agenda. It's their 1776 moment.
36:00
Speaker 1: You don't feel somewhat fearful hearing that. Anything you've ever
36:04
Speaker 1: liked about this country, be it its people, be it
36:07
Speaker 1: its history, be it our values, be it their national myth,
36:10
Speaker 1: be it this wonderful combination of e pluribus unum, in
36:14
Speaker 1: God we trust, liberty, First Amendment, Second Amendment, back-to-back World
36:18
Speaker 1: War II champs, inventors of baseball, pioneers in the cinema,
36:22
Speaker 1: whatever's your favorite part about America. No, 1776 is right
36:26
Speaker 1: now for the far left. This is where it all begins.
36:28
Speaker 1: We're doing it all again. We are throwing out the
36:31
Speaker 1: America of old and we're replacing it with what Daria
36:34
Speaker 1: Leza Chevalier and Jamal Bowman and Abdul El-Sayed and James
36:37
Speaker 1: Tallarico are going to do. Now, I don't believe that's
36:40
Speaker 1: all true. A lot of that's just hype. But the
36:43
Speaker 1: goal is not what Trump said, and Assam Piker brought
36:46
Speaker 1: this up, that he wants to work with Democrats. Don't
36:48
Speaker 1: take Trump literally, but that's the right thing to say
36:50
Speaker 1: if you're president, to say that I'm willing to work
36:52
Speaker 1: with whoever, willing to work with the other side. I
36:55
Speaker 1: would rather pass legislation than not. And so let's see
36:58
Speaker 1: if we can work together. That's the right thing to
37:00
Speaker 1: say if you're Trump. And I don't know how it's
37:04
Speaker 1: all going to play out. But their approach is that
37:07
Speaker 1: we're going to subpoena. Hassan tweeting, put your ass in jail, everyone.
37:12
Speaker 1: Get more woke right now. Meaning we're going to be
37:15
Speaker 1: jailing people. We're going to get more woke. We're going
37:18
Speaker 1: to subpoena, subpoena, subpoena. Every other senator is saying we're
37:20
Speaker 1: going to do subpoenas. What do they want to do?
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Speaker 1: They want to harass people associated with the MAGA movement.
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Speaker 1: So Republicans, where do we go from here? Well, first
37:31
Speaker 1: of all, first of all, I do think there is
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Speaker 1: going to be some silver linings with the Democrats and
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Speaker 1: the civil war is going to take place. Because how
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Speaker 1: is their party going to reconcile the old guard and
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Speaker 1: the new guard, considering how radical the new guard is?
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Speaker 1: And in a national election, who knows how well they're
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Speaker 1: going to do? Who are they going to put at
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Speaker 1: the top of the ticket? They're going to have a
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Speaker 1: total free-for-all in 2028, which could be very bloody. It
37:55
Speaker 1: could be very brutal. And I'm eager to see it.
37:57
Speaker 1: I'm eager to see what's going to happen. So that's
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Speaker 1: something that's a definite positive for me, is that they're
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Speaker 1: going to have to go through a civil war. They're
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Speaker 1: also not going to get anything done in the Congress,
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Speaker 1: other than if they feel like the people care about impeachments. Well,
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Speaker 1: if Gina Hinojosa is an example, she's not talking about impeachment.
38:13
Speaker 1: She's talking about America first economic policy. So they get
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Speaker 1: wrapped up in investigation, impeachment, nothing else. Are the voters
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Speaker 1: going to like that? I don't know if they are.
38:22
Speaker 1: And what if they got an impeachment and then maybe
38:24
Speaker 1: even a conviction? And then you get Vice President Vance,
38:26
Speaker 1: which probably would even... he'd become the president and then
38:29
Speaker 1: he'd probably have a stronger case in 2028 to stay
38:32
Speaker 1: in the office. So they're going to have to deliver
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Speaker 1: on something. What is that something going to be? Is
38:38
Speaker 1: it going to be making things more affordable? Well, how
38:41
Speaker 1: are they going to do that? They're against energy expansion.
38:43
Speaker 1: They're against deregulation. Are they going to crack down on fraud? Well,
38:48
Speaker 1: how has that gone in California and Minnesota where they've
38:50
Speaker 1: had deep blue monopolies? They don't really care about fraud.
38:54
Speaker 1: They care about policing the Trump family and they'll do that.
38:56
Speaker 1: They'll find every which way to do it. But is
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Speaker 1: that a agenda that is over the next two years?
39:02
Speaker 1: Is that going to be a big positive for the Democrats?
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Speaker 1: Or are they just going to be exposed as all
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Speaker 1: talk and no action? And when they do action, it
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Speaker 1: is not anything close to the sort of America first
39:12
Speaker 1: rhetoric I was highlighting at the top of the show.
39:14
Speaker 1: That action is going to be retribution. It's going to
39:16
Speaker 1: be lawfare. And it's going to be those exact social issues,
39:20
Speaker 1: those culture war issues that that I don't really know
39:24
Speaker 1: if that's where America is most focused right now. Seems
39:27
Speaker 1: like they're most focused on the issues like affordability. and
39:30
Speaker 1: Republicans have a chance we can take back the messaging
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Speaker 1: and some of these things and we should we can't
39:35
Speaker 1: give up and there's some reason for optimism places like
39:39
Speaker 1: Tennessee Florida there are bright spots not like there's no
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Speaker 1: bright spots but it's important we start getting these lessons
39:44
Speaker 1: digested and we started turning it into meaningful change And
39:49
Speaker 1: for me as a news person, these characters, these far
39:52
Speaker 1: left Democrat characters, they're going to provide a lot of
39:54
Speaker 1: content for the content space. And I am looking forward
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Speaker 1: to that a lot. So, all right. More to come
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Speaker 1: later in the week. This won't be my last words
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Speaker 1: on this, but I think that is good for now.
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Speaker 1: So thank you for hanging with me on the show.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for Misty for putting this together. Go in peace
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Speaker 1: to love and serve the Lord.