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Mark interviews National Review columnist John Fund. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show Live from ther
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  Speaker 1: Life Back Studios. Well John Fund, the brilliant writer, columnist,
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, National Review, working that runs the Committee
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  Speaker 1: to Unleashed Prosperity. And he's written a book that came
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  Speaker 1: out a little while ago. But you got to read
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  Speaker 1: this book. It's called Our Broken Elections, really explains things
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  Speaker 1: to you. Very important book are broken elections, and it's
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  Speaker 1: good to have them back with us. John Fund, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing pleasure?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks? The Canadians or invasion has more or less gone away.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but it could start again. President Trump is right
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  Speaker 1: to get on them. They could do some forests maintenance.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure this doesn't happen again, can't They?
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  Speaker 2: Both Canada and the US don't allow controlled burns in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of their government land, and that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons that we have these fires.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's time to stop listening to these climate
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  Speaker 1: change nuts. They're wrong about some things and this is
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  Speaker 1: certainly one of them. Hey, before we get to the elections,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you something about Great Britain got a
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  Speaker 1: new prime minister today. What does that mean for us?
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  Speaker 1: It means, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think, sadly that the new labor Party Prime minister is
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  Speaker 2: going to have a honeymoon and Britain will, briefly until
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  Speaker 2: they get disappointed rally around him. This guy is trouble.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke to the Labor Party conference last week and
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  Speaker 2: said all of our problems are either because of Thatcher
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  Speaker 2: or the United States. We have to nationalize various industries.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, we need more socialism. The kind of
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  Speaker 2: democratic socialists we have in America are now actually in
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  Speaker 2: charge in Britain.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I asked, hey. The other problem is whatever happens.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, have a nice cup of tea.
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  Speaker 1: But often what happens in Britain is like the canary
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  Speaker 1: in the coal mine about what's going to happen here?
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  Speaker 1: Does that?
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  Speaker 2: Well? The good news is, you know, the Labor Party
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  Speaker 2: is extremely unpopular because they've done nothing to solve Britain's
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  Speaker 2: underlying economic or social or immigration problems. And as a result,
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  Speaker 2: Nigel Farage is still the favor to become the next
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  Speaker 2: British Prime minister. After this, we just have we just
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  Speaker 2: have to wait a couple of years for an election.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why they're doing so much to try to
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  Speaker 2: discredit Nigel Farage. And look, the real issue that we
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  Speaker 2: have to worry about is you know, Britain is seeing
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  Speaker 2: an upsurge in left wing political violence. We just had
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  Speaker 2: that former cabinet minister who was brutally murdered in her
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  Speaker 2: home at age seventy eight. Nigel Farage has been threatened
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  Speaker 2: by people who've been arrested for that. One of the
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  Speaker 2: people who is in jail for threatening Nigel Farage is
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  Speaker 2: sending out TikTok videos threatening other people. We have a
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  Speaker 2: left wing violence problem in this country. My colleague Noah
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  Speaker 2: Roffman at National Review has a new book out of
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  Speaker 2: this subject, and I have to tell you, you remember
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  Speaker 2: that medical executive from United Healthcare who was gone down
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  Speaker 2: on the streets of New York. Yeah, this is not
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  Speaker 2: This is not an isolated phenomenon. We are seeing Antifa
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  Speaker 2: and people who want to threaten and intimidate their opponents
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  Speaker 2: all over this country. Look, I'm not an apologist for
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  Speaker 2: the January sixth people. I think some of those people
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  Speaker 2: should have gone to jail, but they are dwarfed by
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  Speaker 2: the number of left wingers who are ignored by the media,
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  Speaker 2: who are constantly out there threatening people and have trumped
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  Speaker 2: arrangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: So this crazy move to the left, the Democrats, the
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  Speaker 1: socialist mom don all this the violence. How do you
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  Speaker 1: bring this to an end? Will it ever end? Will
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  Speaker 1: the cycle change?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first thing we have to do is make
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  Speaker 2: sure that people understand that if they act violently or
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  Speaker 2: threaten people, they will be prosecuted or they will be disciplined.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the most important thing. We need to
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  Speaker 2: keep political disagreements. Non So, what we have to do
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  Speaker 2: politically is I think the Democratic Party is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to burn out this themselves. They are going to
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  Speaker 2: have to start losing elections general elections. It's one thing
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  Speaker 2: to elect someone in Mandami. Like Mandami, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is a city where Donald Trump got twenty five percent
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  Speaker 2: of the vote. Denver, Colorado Kamala Harris Wong with eighty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the vote. They have to start losing
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  Speaker 2: elections in places like Michigan where I think this guy
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  Speaker 2: Abdul al said is going to be the Democratic candidate.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way that the Democratic Party is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to be convinced. You're going over the deep end
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  Speaker 2: and it's time to pull back. Listen to John Fetterman,
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  Speaker 2: don't primary John Fetterman.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Fetterman is bad, but you got too many Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer Keem Jeffrey types who are afraid to speak up,
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  Speaker 1: afraid to say anything.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if I were Chuck Schumer and I were have
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  Speaker 2: King Jeffries, I would be afraid too, because they could
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  Speaker 2: lose Democratic primaries in New York and so I understand
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  Speaker 2: their political hesitation. But remember, if you're trying to become
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  Speaker 2: a leader, you're supposed to lead. And these people have
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  Speaker 2: the courage of other people's convictions, namely the Democratic Socialists.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, now I've got midterms coming up. You're the expert
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  Speaker 1: on these election practices. Is it any better? Is the
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  Speaker 1: election any more secure in state by the state by state?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Oh good.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. We have about twenty eight states that have pretty
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  Speaker 2: solid voter ID laws. We have many states that are
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  Speaker 2: trying to also improve ballot security for mail in ballots.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to see four more efforts to
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  Speaker 2: try to require proof of citizenship in order to first
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  Speaker 2: register to vote. Our elections are better than they were
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, and certainly much better than they
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  Speaker 2: were in twenty twenty. However, I think that the real
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  Speaker 2: problem we have is there is an enthusiasm gap in
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  Speaker 2: this election. Democrats are far more enthusiastic about voting against
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump and his friends than Republicans are in supporting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the big beautiful tax bill or the other
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  Speaker 2: things that have been accomplished. I think Donald Trump hass
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  Speaker 2: to have a take a Hail Mary pass between now
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  Speaker 2: and the election. I think he should issue an executive
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  Speaker 2: order mark where he says, if you own a house,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a stock market portfolio, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: index that to capital gains, so you don't pay taxes
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  Speaker 2: on the illusionary inflationary gains. If you sell your house,
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  Speaker 2: you sell your stock portfolio. And I think that that
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  Speaker 2: would boost the economy. It would be fair. We index
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  Speaker 2: everything else in our economy, including the tax brackets that
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  Speaker 2: we pay money on. And I think that he can
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  Speaker 2: do that simply with a reinterpretation of the IRS codes
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  Speaker 2: using executive order.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brilliant and it would work, and it's great.
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  Speaker 1: But wouldn't that rile up Democrats media even more when
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  Speaker 1: they go even crazier.
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  Speaker 2: Well, already it's a a ten out of ten. Know
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  Speaker 2: what else could they could do? And the point is
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  Speaker 2: the point is even they, you know, would understand, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: my house which I bought for five hundred thousand and
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  Speaker 2: which is now worth a million, I wouldn't have to
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  Speaker 2: pay any money on the inflationary gains that I have,
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  Speaker 2: which you're illusory, and I would save money too. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it would be a win win for most people,
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  Speaker 2: and it would affect everyone, including the middle class, including
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  Speaker 2: people who just have you know, a small ira include
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  Speaker 2: it would help everyone. And as we've already learned, whenever
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  Speaker 2: we cut the capital gains tax, we end up with
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  Speaker 2: more revenue, not with less revenue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, John, fun this Save America Act? How important
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  Speaker 1: is this? Is it really important? Would it really get
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  Speaker 1: a lot done? Would it really do anything?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think it does have to be structured in
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  Speaker 2: such a way that it doesn't unduly interfere with the
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  Speaker 2: rights of the states to conduct their elections. Having said that, look,
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  Speaker 2: the federal government said money to the states to support
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  Speaker 2: their election systems. They have a right under current law
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  Speaker 2: to demand that the voter registration roles be cleaned up.
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  Speaker 2: They usually aren't in blue states. In New York City,
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  Speaker 2: no marketer or whatever use a voter registration is to
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  Speaker 2: try to sell anyone anything because twenty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: names are outdated, people who are dead, people who don't exist.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we do have to clean up the
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  Speaker 2: election roles. I think the federal government is probably not
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  Speaker 2: going to have the Save America Vote Act in place
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  Speaker 2: for this election, which is why in going forward, the
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  Speaker 2: federal government has to sue the states clean up your
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  Speaker 2: voter rolls or you're not going to get any federal money.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that we have to. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to go back and try for the Save America
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  Speaker 2: Vote Act next session of Congress because I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of the philibuster. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you feel about this market. I think the filibuster is
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  Speaker 2: a great guaranteur of minority rights and we should we
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it at our peril.
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  Speaker 1: No, Heyland got a minutso left Democrats so far to
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  Speaker 1: the left. Is this last time this happened? You have
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  Speaker 1: like a Bill Clinton rise up and lead them back
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  Speaker 1: to the middle. Is that going to happen again? Will
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  Speaker 1: it be a Fetterman or somebody that could do that?
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  Speaker 2: Good question? The answer is how many elections do they
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  Speaker 2: lose because they have the looney left and on their
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  Speaker 2: ticket as candidates, and I think that's the only solution
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  Speaker 2: for this. Politicians do not have ideas, they have ambitions,
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  Speaker 2: and if their ambitions are thwarted by the fact that
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  Speaker 2: their party has moved too far to the left, they
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  Speaker 2: will as both Bill Clinton or Tony Blair when the
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  Speaker 2: Labor Party lost three elections to Margaret Thatcher, they will adjust.
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  Speaker 2: We have to beat them in order for them to
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  Speaker 2: get common sense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, great stuff, John fun brilliant as always.
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  Speaker 1: Get his book Are Broken Elections. It's excellent. And what's
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  Speaker 1: the best place to read you National Review.
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  Speaker 2: Or well, I publish as an editor of the hotline
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  Speaker 1: dot com. John Fund great as always, thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark, good luck, take care.
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