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00:00:01.000We'll tell you everything you need to know about what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia and violence breaking out all over the country.
00:00:15.000Okay, so we have just an enormous amount to get to today.
00:00:17.000I want to explain to you the roots of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.
00:00:20.000I want to explain to you the violence of Antifa.
00:00:22.000I want to explain to you the violence of the alt-right and what the alt-right is and why people on the right are misperceiving what the alt-right is.
00:00:29.000We're going to go through all of that, so it's going to be a very difficult show.
00:00:32.000I mean, I don't want to, you know, pitch this badly, but the fact is that we're going to go through a lot of very difficult and nasty material today because, unfortunately, what we saw in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend
00:00:42.000Is the apotheosis of the nastiness that's been building in our country for the last several years and it came to a head on Saturday in Charlottesville.
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00:02:07.000Okay, so I first want to go through what exactly happened in Charlottesville and then President Trump's response, who the various players are.
00:02:14.000By the end of today's show, you're going to need to know, you're going to know everything that you need to know about the current status of relations between the social justice warrior left and the alt-right.
00:02:22.000You're going to know everything you need to know about the Trump administration and their relationship with the alt-right.
00:02:26.000You're going to know what the alt-right is by the end of today's show.
00:02:29.000So today's a very information-driven show.
00:02:31.000And also, I have to say that there are just so many garbage people who refuse to acknowledge evil on any side.
00:02:39.000You have the left refusing to acknowledge the evil of Antifa.
00:02:41.000You have the right, many on the right, refusing to acknowledge the evils of the alt-right or trying to blame the evils of the alt-right on the SJWs.
00:02:48.000It is possible to hold two thoughts in your mind at the same time.
00:02:52.000The social justice warrior left, the Antifa, race politics, intersectionality left, is vile, and Antifa is getting violent, and all of this has been true for months, and the alt-right is a vile, disgusting, repulsive, utterly morally inconceivable movement.
00:03:22.000On Saturday, there was something called Unite the Right.
00:03:23.000Unite the Right was an event organized by people like Richard Spencer, a bunch of white supremacists decide that they are going to, white separatists, white nationalists, decide they're going to put together this march in Charlottesville, Virginia.
00:03:36.000I guess about a thousand people to show up on Friday night.
00:03:38.000They have a torchlight parade holding tiki torches and it's a bunch of nerdy losers who have never been laid in their lives showing up to to talk about how black people are awful and they think this makes them cool.
00:03:50.000They did that on Friday night and then in Charlottesville the next day they're doing a march and things take a turn for the worse.
00:03:56.000Antifa shows up and some of the protesters I'm sure are people who are not Antifa.
00:04:00.000They just want to protest the white supremacy
00:04:02.000White supremacism that they're seeing on display.
00:04:05.000And some of the people definitely are Antifa.
00:05:36.000The alt-right is disgusting, awful, okay?
00:05:38.000I've been spending a year- I was the number one target of the alt-right last year in the journalistic community.
00:05:42.000I received over 8,000 nasty, anti-semitic, racist tweets directed at me in the middle of last year's election cycle, specifically because I was anti-alt-right.
00:06:51.000You know, they can be hate-filled too.
00:06:53.000And that is a New York Times reporter saying all that.
00:06:55.000Okay, so you can see some of the violence it looks like was launched by Antifa, but some of the violence obviously was coming from the white supremacists too.
00:07:01.000Here's some of the white supremacists getting violent.
00:07:02.000I guess this is another point during this during this march.
00:07:09.000You can see the white supremacist guy charging into the crowd.
00:08:33.000Okay, so you can't really see much there, but the woman who's holding the camera is a reporter, and she's socked in the head by one of the Antifa, presumably, counter-protesters.
00:08:42.000Okay, so to pretend that the left is not violent in these situations is just, it's just dishonest.
00:08:46.000Okay, so you can see that the Charlottesville organizer, right, people were celebrating this, but the organizer of this Charlottesville march, he was doing a press conference on Saturday after all of this, and he was punched in the face and chased off the grounds.
00:09:33.000Okay, so, again, the violence... So, again, the violence was happening from both the left and the right here.
00:09:40.000And, by the way, it's happening across the country from the left, okay?
00:09:43.000So, in Richmond, there was a photojournalist who was covering another one of these rallies, and the photojournalist was hit by a member of Antifa.
00:10:58.000Okay, when I say right-wing, I mean alt-right, because there is a difference between constitutional conservatism, as I'll explain, and the alt-right.
00:11:04.000The alt-right is anti-SJW, but they are not
00:11:08.000In any marked way, in any real way, they oppose the Declaration of Independence.
00:11:12.000They oppose the Constitution of the United States.
00:11:14.000They're not in favor of individual liberty.
00:11:15.000They're not in favor of equality before God.
00:11:18.000They're not in favor of any of those things.
00:11:19.000We'll explain what the alt-right is in just a second.
00:11:21.000So to call it right-wing violence is, even there, a bit of a misnomer.
00:11:24.000But, of course, the most important and horrifying thing that happened on Saturday was the tape we've not yet shown, and this is an actual tape of a murder taking place.
00:11:33.000This is a 20-year-old piece-of-crap alt-righter from Ohio who takes his car and rams it into a bunch of the protesters against the alt-right in Charlottesville.
00:11:54.000And then, people crowd around behind the car.
00:11:58.000And the guy reverses and comes back at 40 miles an hour down the street.
00:12:08.000In a second, I'm going to explain to you what exactly the alt-right is, where it came from, why it's important, and why it is that everyone of good conscience has an obligation to call out the alt-right for what it is, how it got prominent.
00:12:30.000Because I think the difference here, what we're seeing now, and this is the problem,
00:12:34.000There have been white supremacists my entire life.
00:12:37.000There's a guy named Buford Furrow, who when I was probably 11 years old, let's see, it was 97 I think, so maybe I was a little younger, maybe it was 95 or something.
00:12:45.000Buford Furrow was a white supremacist who came in to Los Angeles.
00:12:49.000He scoped out the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
00:12:51.000I went to high school next to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
00:13:24.000The point is that there are a group of white supremacists who do commit violence, and they were always a fringe group.
00:13:29.000But now you're seeing white supremacists, people who hold that ideology, marching openly in the streets, celebrating, and something has changed.
00:13:36.000And we're going to talk about what has changed in just a second, but first,
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00:15:20.000Okay, the alt-right is its own movement.
00:15:22.000The alt-right is a group of white supremacists who believe, essentially, that Western civilization is an outgrowth of white race, and that threats to white race are a threat to Western civilization.
00:15:48.000The alt-right has a basic root philosophy.
00:15:50.000What happened over time is that the alt-right was mainstreamed by a group of people who decided to broaden the definition to include people who liked frog memes.
00:15:58.000Okay, they decided to broaden the definition, and then they used that broadened definition in order to make the claim, basically, that they were a big movement that had a lot of support.
00:16:06.000And then you saw people like Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, yes, the President of the United States, yes, his chief strategist, give legitimacy to the alt-right and refused to condemn them in the middle of the campaign, which gave them added impetus.
00:16:17.000And now you see them marching openly in the streets.
00:16:19.000So, was Charlottesville Trump's fault?
00:16:21.000No, of course Charlottesville wasn't Trump's fault, any more than what happened in Dallas a year ago.
00:16:25.000It was Barack Obama's fault where a guy who believed a lot of the slogans of Black Lives Matter went out and shot a bunch of cops.
00:16:31.000You're only responsible for violence if you are rhetorically calling for violence.
00:16:36.000What he is responsible for, in some degree, is mainstreaming the alt-right and not treating them as a cancer to be excised from the conservative movement that they really are.
00:16:46.000And again, I'm talking about what the alt-right actually means.
00:17:00.000And then there are a bunch of people in the alt-right who have a drive to call people alt-right who aren't because that way they get to claim that they're a bigger movement than they are.
00:17:08.000But here's what the alt-right actually is.
00:18:36.000It's an identity politics for white people in North America and really around the world.
00:18:42.000So that's what the alt-right is, just in one sentence or a bumper sticker.
00:18:46.000Okay, okay, and he's not the only one either.
00:18:48.000Vox Dei, who's another member of the alt-right, again one of the alt-right thought leaders.
00:18:51.000All these guys are very active online.
00:18:53.000All these guys are very active in promoting their perspective.
00:18:56.000They have a lot of followers on places like 4chan and Reddit, and they latched onto Trump for a reason I'll explain in a second.
00:19:01.000Here's Vox Dei making the same exact description as Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer.
00:19:06.000People tend to look at our Richard Spencer, who is the head of the National Policy Institute, and also some guys like Ramsey Paul,
00:19:17.000Some people even look at Mencius Moldbug and Nick Lan, but they're really more nail reactionaries than alt-right proper.
00:19:27.000And some folks have even looked at me, I think probably because Milo called me an alt-right figurehead a few months ago.
00:19:34.000Okay, so this should be a fringe movement, right?
00:19:37.000A bunch of people who believe that equality before law is not a thing, that racial equality is not a thing, that even the concept of people being equal as individuals is not a thing because we are all characterized by our race.
00:20:04.000And so a lot of white people, people like Vox Day and Spencer and Taylor, they say in response, okay, well, you have your identity politics, we'll have our identity politics, we'll have white identity politics.
00:20:12.000We will be a group of people who stands up for white pride because white people are awesome.
00:20:19.000And that has come along with a lot of anti-SJW stuff.
00:20:22.000So a lot of people who are just anti-SJW, anti-social justice warrior, but who aren't believers in racial inequality and racial disparity, who aren't advocates of racism and anti-Semitism, a lot of those people
00:20:35.000They fell into the trap of thinking that they are allies of people like Vox Day and Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor.
00:20:41.000And there have been a couple of figures who have been very prominent in helping to mainstream the alt-right.
00:20:44.000One of these, unfortunately, is a guy who directed a lot of his sort of alt-right followers at me on Twitter and became very popular, Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:20:53.000He's very popular because a lot of the stuff
00:20:56.000That he said on campus a year ago about feminism.
00:21:00.000A lot of it is irreverent and some of it is funny and all of it is crazy and out of the box and he says inflammatory things deliberately and all of this, okay?
00:21:08.000But Milo was very, very instrumental in mainstreaming the alt-right and treating the alt-right as an intellectual movement that ought to be respected and given its fair hearing.
00:21:17.000His shtick was he was going to pander to the alt-right.
00:21:19.000He later came out and said, I separate off from the alt-right, they're not me.
00:21:23.000I have problems with the alt-right, but that didn't stop him from going on national television and talking up the alt-right and saying he just wanted to give them a fair hearing.
00:21:28.000Here he is on CNBC last year doing exactly this.
00:21:32.000No, I mean, I've never identified as the alt-right.
00:21:34.000The press seems determined to crown me the queen of it.
00:21:37.000All I've done is give them a fair hearing in the press.
00:21:39.000I think that white identity and white nationalism is a little misleading.
00:21:42.000I think it's more accurate to say that the alt-right cares about Western supremacy rather than white supremacy.
00:23:18.000The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer during his editorship of Takis Magazine.
00:23:24.000In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
00:23:30.000Alongside other nodes of Steve Saylor's blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, Alternative Right became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or other.
00:23:43.000Do you see how evil what's happening here is?
00:23:45.000Taking the philosophy, the evil philosophy, of people like Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer and Vox Day.
00:23:49.000Milo wrote the foreword to Vox Day's book, okay?
00:23:52.000They're taking the political philosophy that Milo knows well and then broadening it out to suggest that it applies to everyone who wants to defend Western civilization.
00:23:59.000I want to defend Western Civilization.
00:24:01.000I've spent my entire career defending Western Civilization.
00:24:03.000I've spent my entire career defending the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:24:07.000My original break with Milo online actually came over, not over the Michelle Field stuff or the Trump stuff or any of that stuff, they deleted his account so you should be able to look it up, but it came originally over Milo suggesting that constitutional conservatism was dead and ought to be replaced by the alternative right.
00:24:23.000That's where the break came, on Twitter.
00:25:27.000I mean, I don't know, did he endorse me, or what's going on?
00:25:30.000Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke, I know nothing about white supremacists, and so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.
00:25:41.000But, I guess the question from the Anti-Defamation League is,
00:25:45.000Even if you don't know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you, would you just say unequivocally you condemn them and you don't want their support?
00:26:03.000If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them, and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.
00:26:09.000But you may have groups in there that are totally fine, and it would be very unfair.
00:26:13.000So give me a list of the groups, and I'll let you know.
00:26:16.000Okay, and then Tapper kept repeating, Ku Klux Klan and Trump wouldn't go there.
00:26:20.000Okay, that was not the only time Trump did this.
00:26:21.000Trump was asked on national television by Wolf Blitzer on CNN about denouncing anti-Semitic attacks on a journalist named Julia Jaffe.
00:26:28.000I haven't read the article, but I heard it was a very inaccurate article.
00:27:41.000Okay, so again, there's another incident where Trump did this.
00:27:44.000And again, Steve Bannon at the same time talking about how his website is the meeting place for the alt-right.
00:27:49.000And so what happens is that the alt-right believes that because Trump is anti-political correctness and because he's anti-SJW and because he keeps
00:27:56.000refusing to denounce the alt-right in any sort of vigorous terms, and Trump never has a problem denouncing his enemies in vigorous terms, they begin to latch on to him.
00:28:04.000And that's not entirely Trump's fault, but it's at least partially Trump's fault.
00:28:08.000And so that's why in Charlottesville you see David Duke marching around talking about how Charlottesville is really about Trump.
00:28:38.000The fact is, okay, and these are unpopular things to say, I know, I know a lot of the people who listen to the show voted for Trump.
00:28:44.000I'm not blaming you for voting for Trump.
00:28:45.000I never blamed anyone for voting for Trump to stop Hillary Clinton.
00:28:48.000But to pretend that Donald Trump didn't have to do with looking the other way with a lot of this stuff during the campaign would be just factually untrue.
00:29:32.000And this idea that we went for a year without denouncing it, or making excuses for it, or patting it on the head because we thought it was an important movement, an important constituency.
00:30:14.000When it comes to the left, who won't denounce Antifa.
00:30:16.000When it comes to the left, that won't denounce the Marxist intersectionality philosophy that they've been promulgating.
00:30:22.000When the left won't announce riots in Ferguson or Baltimore.
00:30:24.000When the left continues to pretend that violence in places like- in places like Berkeley and Sacramento and Seattle and Richmond and Charlottesville, coming from the left, when they pretend all of that is no problem at all, the only problem is that of the right?
00:30:36.000All they're doing is pushing people into the arms of the alt-right.
00:30:40.000You have two vile movements pushing more and more people into each other's arms.
00:31:06.000That's starting at, I think, 12.30 today.
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00:32:24.000Anybody who's been warm to him gets warm treatment from Trump.
00:32:27.000And anybody who's mean to him gets nasty treatment from Trump.
00:32:30.000Alright, the proof and point is we'll hear Trump's statement in just a second.
00:32:34.000But, this morning, the head of Merck, the Merck CEO, a guy named Kenneth Frazier, who's a black guy, the only member of President Trump's commission, I think it's his panel on American manufacturing, or his council on American manufacturing, he resigned this morning because of Trump's comments, which he felt didn't go far enough, and Trump promptly went on Twitter and denounced him and suggested that he was involved in price fixing.
00:32:55.000We condemn in the strongest possible terms
00:33:24.000This egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.
00:34:14.000He was specifically asked about white supremacism and he just walked away from the podium apparently.
00:34:18.000Here he is talking about how hate and division have to stop.
00:34:21.000I just got off the phone with the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, and we agreed that the hate and the division must stop, and must stop right now.
00:34:34.000We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation, and true affection, really, and I say this so strongly, true affection
00:35:20.000And use of violence is unjustified in any civilized country.
00:35:26.000And he could say the same thing, or something similar, with regard to the Antifa Marxist group that seems to believe that everybody who they disagree with ought to be protested, not only protested, who cares about protests, that's fine, but punched.
00:36:49.000I will have more to say about this as the facts become more clear.
00:36:52.000For now, let me just say that even as yesterday I spoke about our need to be concerned as all Americans about racial disparities in our criminal justice system,
00:37:07.000I also said yesterday that our police have an extraordinarily difficult job, and the vast majority of them do their job in outstanding fashion.
00:37:22.000I also indicated the degree to which we need to be supportive
00:37:28.000Okay, at no point in here did Obama ever even come close to condemning the ideology that police are the bad guys.
00:37:34.000At no point did he come out and say that.
00:37:36.000In fact, at the funeral for the Dallas Slane, he came out and reiterated that police officers were what was driving the entire conflict.
00:37:43.000At the time, I said, this is disgusting what Obama's doing.
00:38:01.000Okay, so the media, of course, have gone over, have gone insane over all of this, like beyond even what is necessary.
00:38:07.000I think this is a critical moment for the country.
00:38:10.000Apparently President Trump is going to speak momentarily about Charlottesville, probably try to put a band-aid, some ointment on the boo-boo.
00:38:19.000Okay, the White House came out later and they made some sort of statement suggesting, well, he really meant that he condemned the alt-right when he said his statement.
00:38:26.000Why doesn't he just come out and say that?
00:38:27.000Why didn't he just come out and say that?
00:38:42.000Cucked means people like me, who don't like racism and anti-Semitism.
00:38:46.000We are cucks, according to the alt-right slang.
00:38:49.000Again, not to bring Milo up again, Milo sent me a picture of a black baby on the day of my son's birth because I was a cuck.
00:38:54.000Because I didn't sufficiently support the alt-right agenda or President Trump.
00:38:57.000The idea behind the alt-right word cuck is that people like me are for race mixing and therefore are fine with my wife having sex with a black man.
00:39:12.000He refused to even mention anything to do with us.
00:39:15.000When reporters were screaming at him about white nationalism, he just walked out of the room.
00:39:19.000Okay, that may be unfair to Trump, but that's what the white nationalists are seeing.
00:39:22.000That's what the white supremacists are seeing, which is why it is important for good leaders, powerful leaders, to come out and condemn evil when they see it.
00:39:39.000Again, I think Trump shares responsibility for the growth of the alt-right.
00:39:43.000I think that Obama shared responsibility for the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement and for the intersectional SJW movement.
00:39:49.000But to suggest that Trump shares responsibility for the violence, again, Trump has not espoused violence, so that's just a left-wing talking point.
00:39:55.000Here's Koki Roberts making that point, though.
00:40:00.000It's not only the man, it's not only the movement, but anybody that points their fingers at Mexicans and Muslims shares responsibility as well.
00:40:07.000The president has to share responsibility.
00:40:09.000The fact is, is that through that campaign, he blew all kinds of whistles that those of us who grew up in the Jim Crow South, like I did, recognized immediately.
00:40:18.000It was just calling out to these white supremacists who then felt empowered by it.
00:40:23.000And the president now not calling them out.
00:40:25.000You know, he should listen to Nikki Haley, his now UN ambassador.
00:40:29.000She's the person who started bringing down Confederate monuments.
00:40:33.000And she did it so graciously in exactly the right tone.
00:40:37.000Here she is talking about confederate monuments as though it's confederate monuments that are really driving all of this.
00:40:43.000The confederate monuments have been around for a long time.
00:40:45.000It's not the confederate monuments that are driving all of this.
00:40:48.000I think there's good arguments to be made on both sides of the confederate monument issue, but I don't think that the argument is that Trump created the violence in Charlottesville because that's not right.
00:40:56.000By the same token, you have people from the right defending Trump's response.
00:40:59.000Tom Bossert is one of Trump's aides and he gives an absurd explanation for Trump's comments.
00:41:04.000The President not only condemned the violence, and stood up at a time and a moment when calm was necessary, and didn't dignify the names of these groups and people, but rather addressed the fundamental issue.
00:41:16.000And so Jake, what you need to focus on is the rest of his statement.
00:41:20.000The President didn't just call for human beings to respect one another, which is his pragmatist core fundamental bare minimum, but he called for ideally Americans to love one another, for all God's children to love one another.
00:41:31.000Okay, that idea that he didn't want to dignify the alt-right by naming them?
00:42:33.000Newt Gingrich said Trump should have been stronger on this.
00:42:35.000And then the mooch came out and said that Trump should have been stronger on this.
00:42:37.000When you've lost the mooch and Gingrich, that's a pretty good indicator you didn't do a good job with this.
00:42:41.000I think you needed to be much harsher as it related to the white supremacist and the nature of that.
00:42:46.000I applaud General McMaster for calling it out for what it is.
00:42:49.000It's actually terrorism, and whether it's domestic or international terrorism, with the moral authority of the presidency, you have to call that stuff out.
00:42:57.000Okay, so, I think that in the end, what we're watching in the United States, and this is the scary part, what we're watching right now, and this is why strong, powerful, moral leadership is necessary,
00:43:08.000If we don't, if we're not careful, we're going to end up with a red versus brown shirt situation in the United States.
00:43:13.000That's what you're watching on the streets in Charlottesville.
00:43:16.000It's what you're watching, not in Seattle so much.
00:43:18.000They're just seeing reds, not even brown shirts.
00:43:20.000But it's what you've been seeing in places including Berkeley or Sacramento.
00:43:26.000You're seeing an alt-right movement that is racist in nature, fighting a red movement that is violent in nature, and they're going right at each other.
00:43:33.000And all that happens is that people play off one another for power.
00:43:36.000To understand the rise of the Nazis, and we're not in that moment, I hope.
00:43:41.000But to understand the rise of the Nazis, you have to understand most Germans did not believe in the Nazi Party.
00:43:45.000Most Germans just hated the Reds for taking over towns and threatening the country.
00:43:49.000And so they thought that the Nazis would stop them.
00:43:52.000This is some tape of Joseph Goebbels making exactly the same sorts of points that Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor and Vox Dei like to make.
00:43:59.000Here is Joseph Goebbels talking about how he and the Nazis are going to end the Red Terror.
00:44:04.000It was called the Red Terror in 1931, 1932.
00:44:06.000Hundreds of people were killed in street battles between the SA, which was Hitler's stormtroopers, and the Reds, which were the communists.
00:44:13.000Here is Joseph Goebbels, one of the most evil men in history, talking about this.
00:44:17.000He says, the end of the Red Terror is closer than you think.
00:44:25.000Communists expect to get the worst drubbing you've ever had.
00:45:22.000Call out the ideology, because if you don't do that, people are going to label conservatives alt-right, people are going to label liberals SJW left, and we're all going to just polarize into these two opposite camps that are the worst of the worst.
00:45:33.000Okay, so very quickly, time for some things I like and then some things I hate.
00:45:39.000If you don't know anything about the history of the Third Reich and how it rose, and why this is all very, very dangerous, you need to read William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany.
00:45:49.000It's, I would say, the second best book on the history of Nazi Germany that I've read.
00:45:54.000The best is this three-part series by Richard Evans, but this is a very deep, detailed book by a guy who was present in Nazi Germany during the rise of the Nazi Party.
00:46:03.000Again, the book is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
00:46:07.000But when you finish, you'll be more scared for civilization when you finish than you are now.
00:46:12.000As well you should be because civilization is a fragile thing and what we are watching is the greatest civilization in history and tension simmering under the surface that threaten to tear it apart.
00:46:38.000I thought he would crash the stock market, and I still think he will.
00:46:43.000I'm hoping, actually, because that's one thing that would maybe lose him a lot of support in the Republican Party.
00:46:50.000But I thought and predicted, and I was wrong, that the stock market hates volatility and uncertainty, and who is more volatile than Donald Trump?
00:47:01.000But I guess I underestimated their greed, because they still want their tax cut.
00:47:06.000Okay, so again, one of the big problems here is that the left is so focused on taking down President Trump, they don't actually want what's good for the country.
00:47:14.000And I would say that there are people on the right who sometimes are so focused on protecting President Trump that they don't want what's good for the country either.
00:47:20.000How about we all want what's good for the country and we all want policies from our politicians and moral stances from our politicians that are good for the country.
00:47:27.000And if people don't uphold those moral stances on either side, we call them out.
00:47:37.000But if we can't share values of decency, if we can't share values of freedom and liberty to say what we want, if we can't share values where we hope for prosperity for the country, then we're just doing it wrong.