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00:00:14.000First of all, happy Veterans Day to everybody.
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00:02:05.000But I want to start today by talking about President Trump overseas.
00:02:08.000So, President Trump went over to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice, and it came complete with the usual amount of controversy.
00:02:18.000President Trump goes over there, and it's very rainy in France, and apparently he was supposed to go to a particular military cemetery on Saturday.
00:02:41.000And when he did, he actually went out there without an umbrella, I think specifically to prove the idea that he was not super afraid that his hair was going to fall off as the rain hit it.
00:02:50.000But the real controversy emerged when French President Emmanuel Macron And the narrative about European politics goes something like this.
00:03:06.000Europe is the great bulwark now against world war because they are for internationalism and the European system.
00:03:13.000And the people who are the real threats are folks like President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
00:03:17.000And some of the sort of nationalist leaders in Europe.
00:03:20.000Now, lumping all those folks together is ridiculous.
00:03:22.000President Trump and Vladimir Putin are not on the same page on virtually anything.
00:03:27.000President Trump, well, he likes to talk a good nationalist game.
00:03:29.000The truth is that his version of nationalism is still tied to American constitutional principle because it has to be.
00:03:35.000American nationalism is not the same as French nationalism or Russian nationalism or German nationalism.
00:03:40.000In any case, This did not stop Emmanuel Macron from suggesting that he knew better than anybody else how to prevent the unimaginable hell of war in the future.
00:03:48.000And he said that nationalism is the real problem.
00:03:51.000And this does get to a root issue with regard to how President Trump talks and what the future of the Western world is.
00:03:57.000So Macron spoke bluntly, according to the Reuters, of the threat from nationalism.
00:04:03.000He called it a betrayal of moral values.
00:04:05.000He said patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.
00:04:08.000Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.
00:04:16.000For those who don't speak French like me, what he says is patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.
00:04:35.000Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.
00:04:37.000When we say our interests come first, those of others don't matter, we erase the very thing that a nation holds most precious, that which gives it life and makes it great, its moral values.
00:04:46.000Now, this is a very bizarre statement.
00:04:49.000It's a very bizarre statement for a number of reasons.
00:04:50.000First of all, patriotism and nationalism are not in direct conflict.
00:04:53.000And to suggest that patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism is to misunderstand both patriotism and nationalism.
00:05:00.000Because the exact opposite of nationalism would be, just by nature, anti-nationalism.
00:05:05.000For erasing of borders, it would be internationalism and globalism.
00:05:08.000That would be the exact opposite of nationalism.
00:05:11.000Patriotism is not the exact opposite of nationalism.
00:05:13.000Patriotism says there is something specifically great about our country.
00:05:16.000Now, there's overlap between patriotism and nationalism, but they're not identical.
00:05:20.000So, nationalism can be used in a variety of ways.
00:05:23.000You've seen blood-and-soil nationalism in Germany during World War II.
00:05:26.000You've seen blood-and-soil nationalism in Italy in Mussolini's era.
00:05:29.000You see blood-and-soil nationalism in North Korea right now.
00:05:32.000You see blood-and-soil nationalism to a certain extent in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
00:05:35.000Patriotism is the idea that there are certain fundamental principles to a society that are so important that it makes the society better.
00:05:43.000This is why I think that Americans like to call ourselves patriots rather than nationalists, but to suggest that our patriotism is universal, that the principles that we hold true, that those are universally applicable to anyone inside and outside America's borders is to ignore the fact that Various principles can take various forms all over the world.
00:06:02.000The Founding Fathers were very much aware of this.
00:06:04.000If you read the Federalist Papers, the Founding Fathers specifically talk about how America was built in a specific way because of our unique history and because of our unique geography and because of our unique breakdown in terms of religion.
00:06:16.000All of that meant that these fundamental human rights principles broke down in a different way here than they might in other places.
00:06:21.000So for example, just to take an anodyne example, The United States' version of nationalism treasures the idea of a bicameral legislature.
00:06:31.000We have two houses of the legislature.
00:06:32.000Well, there are plenty of places that don't, right?
00:06:35.000It has one house of the legislature, the Knesset.
00:06:37.000Does that mean that Israel is worse than the United States?
00:06:40.000Well, it means that it's different than the United States in how it runs.
00:06:43.000Now, I would say that America runs better because of our bicameral legislature, but that is an element where nationalism does not necessarily mean
00:06:52.000Opposition to other nations and Macron is doing something that I think is actually ethically dubious He's setting up a straw man when he says that Trump says our interests come first those of others don't matter Trump has never said that what Trump has said is our interests come first Specifically because the interests of others matter if America is weak we can't actually do good things for other nations if America is weak if we can't Maintain our own values.
00:07:20.000If we can't maintain our own borders and our own culture, how exactly are we supposed to offer opportunity for people who want to come to the country?
00:07:26.000If America were not America, if we put everybody else's interests first, we could not survive as a country.
00:07:32.000And placing nationalism in direct opposition to patriotism means that you are going to sacrifice the interests of your own country for supposedly the values of people of other countries.
00:07:42.000And you can actually see Europe doing this, which is why Europe is dying and the United States is not.
00:07:47.000Europe's border policies have been specifically designated toward the idea that Europe owes other parts of the world its fealty, that Europe is supposed to open its borders, that all problems on Earth are the problems of the Europeans, and that means open immigration from some places in the world where there are a lot of folks who don't share European values.
00:08:03.000Well, that's very nice as far as it goes, but what it actually leads to is a breakdown of exactly the principles that Emmanuel Macron wants.
00:08:10.000So Emmanuel Macron, many of the folks in Europe on the left, they like to talk about, our principles are open borders, free flow of capital, free flow of people.
00:08:18.000Because we are not for nationalism, we are for patriotism.
00:08:21.000And that means letting in as many people as possible.
00:08:23.000Well, the result of that is a massive blowback all across Europe.
00:08:27.000What you're seeing is precisely the opposite of what Macron and his friends actually want in Europe.
00:08:32.000What you're seeing is right-wing governments elected in places like Sweden, in places like Norway.
00:08:37.000You're seeing all the Nordic countries move to the right specifically because of immigration issues.
00:08:41.000Because it turns out that Emmanuel Macron's version of values is not actually the same thing as the Swedish version of values or the Nordic version of values or the Italian version of values.
00:08:50.000What you're seeing is a blowback from Emmanuel Macron's sort of universalism toward the idea that folks are saying, listen, we got to protect ourselves first.
00:08:57.000Yes, we have universal principles, but we can't help other people.
00:09:01.000We can't give charity to other people if we just leave our front door unlocked.
00:09:04.000If we allow people to raid our safe, there's no way for us to give charity or to hire people or to be strong on behalf of others.
00:09:11.000I mean, the first rule in a moral system is that you have to be able to defend yourself specifically so that you can help other people.
00:09:17.000And I think that by trying to draw this distinction between patriotism and nationalism, Macron is actually demonstrating why Europe is falling apart.
00:09:25.000Because again, if Europe's central principle is that nationalism is bad, then what you end up with is internationalism.
00:09:30.000Well, internationalism can be done in a number of ways, but most commonly it's done with multiculturalism.
00:09:35.000And when multiculturalism eats a continent, you see the continent fall apart from within.
00:09:40.000And that's what you're seeing in Europe as birthrights plummet, as importation of foreign labor becomes a way of life, as much of that labor is coming from places where people don't actually share European values.
00:09:50.000When those values collapse, there's nothing left.
00:09:53.000What Veterans Day is really about, and what Macron is missing, is that it was nationalism that led people to sign up and go fight the Hun.
00:10:02.000It was nationalism that led people to stand up and say, our nation is special.
00:10:43.000If you look at how the left critiques the wars in which America has fought, typically they say that America's wars that have been justified are only justified when they are not in America's interest.
00:10:55.000When we have no connection to the outcome of those wars.
00:11:17.000It was an attempt to hem in the Russian and Chinese influence in the Far East in a way that wasn't going to have massive impact at home, at least for a long time.
00:11:26.000The left hates it, though, because they say that it was just evidence of American imperialism.
00:12:08.000He appeared to be a guy who really cared very little about American priorities and saw America as a dark force in the world.
00:12:14.000And Americans responded to that by saying, okay, well, this Trump guy's weird and all, but at least he likes the country.
00:12:19.000At least that guy is fond of the country and thinks America has done good things all over the world.
00:12:24.000So I don't know what Macron thinks that he is doing here.
00:12:27.000I don't know whether he believes that the bulwark against the breakdown of Western civilization is going to be ripping into people who want their country's interests pursued.
00:12:37.000He'd be better off making the case that America's interest is in the international interest, and France's interest is in the international interest, and Germany's interest is in the international interest.
00:12:51.000We don't have to get rid of what makes America strong, or France strong, or Germany strong, but we share interests.
00:12:56.000And as sovereign nations sharing interests, that's where we are strongest, which has historically been the truth.
00:13:01.000Now, the rest of the weekend was kind of weird.
00:13:03.000Apparently, there were a bunch of topless women who charged President Trump's motorcade.
00:13:07.000In Paris, according to the Washington Examiner, at least three topless women jumped a barricade to confront President Trump's motorcade Sunday as he traveled to a ceremony.
00:13:16.000I don't know whose barricade they think they're jumping or why that would be a dissuasion for President Trump.
00:13:23.000So feminists, the feminist group that has staged similar topless protests, they claimed responsibility, saying on Twitter that the women were protesting the hypocrisy of the event.
00:13:32.000The words fake and peace were written on one woman's body as she ran within feet of the presidential limo.
00:13:37.000President Trump did his best to open the car door, but Secret Service prevented him from doing so.
00:13:44.000You do have to admire the complete lack of being in touch with reality that some folks on the left have when it comes to President Trump, so much so, again, that they think that it's going to be... What is the logic there?
00:13:59.000President Trump is really going to be upset if we run up to him with our boobs hanging.
00:14:05.000Again, one of the reasons that I go back to this nationalism-patriotism point is because it is very obvious that the left believes that people all over the world share interests.
00:14:14.000People all over the world have the same interests.
00:14:16.000Because the only way you can make the case that nationalism is bad and is directly opposed to patriotism is if you believe that people all over the world have basically at root the same interests.
00:14:25.000And this is a sort of point that was pushed By politicians on both sides of the aisle, from Woodrow Wilson all the way to George W. Bush.
00:14:32.000George W. Bush was fond of saying that there was a yearning in every human heart for freedom.
00:14:38.000There is a yearning in every human heart for freedom that is very often overcome by other forces, including a need to feel part of a community, including a need for sanctity.
00:14:47.000Jonathan Haidt talks in his book, The Righteous Mind, about all of the different values that we hold dear in our everyday lives.
00:14:52.000In the United States, we believe that liberty is at the top of the pyramid when it comes to values.
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00:17:00.000OK, so look at this video from Pakistan and what you will see is exactly what I'm talking about in terms of People not sharing values across the world.
00:17:09.000This is a video from Karachi, Pakistan.
00:17:13.000Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Christian woman.
00:17:15.000She spent eight years on death row for blasphemy.
00:17:19.000She was recently acquitted and thousands and thousands and thousands of people showed up in the streets of Karachi to suggest that instead she should be given the death penalty.
00:17:27.000This is what it actually looks like in Pakistan over the weekend.
00:17:44.000These are not folks who share values, right?
00:17:47.000These are not folks who you want invading your country or coming into your country as refugees if they don't share your values.
00:17:52.000Again, this idea that nationalism has to be forcibly stopped so we can make room for patriotism is the death of the West.
00:17:59.000The West can only stand on its own two feet when the West knows its own values.
00:18:02.000And those values are specific outgrowth of a set of cultural and historical circumstances unique to the West.
00:18:08.000These values are not held by everyone on earth.
00:18:10.000The values that we have in the United States, the freedoms we enjoy, From freedom of speech to freedom in economics, these things are the outgrowth of 3,000 years of Judeo-Christian development capped by an Enlightenment that is rooted again in those same values.
00:18:23.000They did not spring up in the Far East.
00:18:24.000They did not spring up in South America.
00:18:28.000They sprang up at one particular time, in one particular place, because of a certain set of historical circumstances that were driven by a bunch of moral values.
00:18:37.000And when we abandon those moral values in the name of everyone has the same values, we're all the same, right?
00:18:41.000All religions are the same, and all cultures are the same, and we ought to treat everybody as exactly equivalent.
00:18:48.000What you are doing instead is you are bringing the threat in-house.
00:18:51.000And you've seen this, particularly in Europe.
00:18:53.000In the United States, you haven't seen it quite as much because our immigration policy hasn't been quite so welcoming with regard to, and thanks to proximity, we're not quite as close to Places like you're seeing here, but you've obviously seen the impact in crime rates in places like France and Sweden.
00:19:07.000You've seen enclaves that have been formed of radical Muslims from places like this who believe in the same things that these folks believe in.
00:19:14.000There's a reason that Asia Bibi is going to have to require some sort of amnesty, some sort of Some sort of sanctuary from this country.
00:19:24.000She's going to have to take refuge in Europe.
00:19:26.000She's going to have to take refuge in the United States.
00:19:28.000Because again, values are not always shared.
00:19:31.000And pretending that values are always shared, which seems to be a unique privilege of Europe in the aftermath of two world wars, is astonishing.
00:19:38.000Also, hearing the Europeans lecture us on preventing world war is really galling.
00:19:43.000Like, these are the folks who brought us two world wars in the course of a century, the two deadliest wars in human history, and then they're going to teach us all about what they've learned from those wars at the same time that their continent is falling apart.
00:19:54.000And it's not just falling apart on cultural grounds, it's falling apart on economic grounds, too.
00:19:59.000And the fact is that the Euro is in serious trouble, that the idea of a confederation of European states was good insofar as creating a bulwark against Soviet oppression, but it was not good economically speaking, because it turns out there are a bunch of states in Europe that aren't going to pull their weight.
00:20:14.000And this is what you've seen from Greece, from Spain.
00:20:17.000You've seen certain countries in the EU who are supposed to be doing bailouts.
00:20:20.000You've seen certain other countries in the EU who are not going to pay for those bailouts.
00:20:48.000And abandoning nationalism in favor of the international global governance regime is foolish.
00:20:53.000And it's why President Trump, when he says globalist and the left hears anti-Semitism, what he's really saying is we don't want international bodies governing for the United States how we ought to do our business.
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00:22:31.000Okay, well, speaking of doing the things that America needs to do to keep itself safe, We are not going to do one crucial thing and it's going to be a serious problem for us.
00:22:38.000That crucial thing is we are not going to pay down our national debt nor are we going to take the measures necessary to pay down our national debt.
00:22:44.000The reason I discuss this is because today the Wall Street Journal is reporting on a development that people who have actually studied American governance have known about for years.
00:23:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The Congressional Budget Office estimates interest spending is going to rise to $915 billion by 2028, or 13% of all outlays and 3.1% of gross domestic product.
00:23:24.000Along that path, the government is expected to pass the following milestones.
00:23:27.000We'll spend more on interest than we spend on Medicaid in 2020.
00:23:30.000By 2023, more than we spend on national defense.
00:23:33.000By 2025, more than we spend on all non-defense discretionary programs combined, from funding for national parks to scientific research.
00:23:40.000In other words, we are spending ourselves into oblivion, and neither party has an interest in curbing this.
00:23:44.000Democrats don't have an interest in curbing this because they like the spending.
00:23:47.000Eventually it's going to lead us to Nordic Tax rates, which is exactly what they want.
00:23:51.000This is why they're talking about blowing out the debt even further.
00:24:36.000They are deeply afraid that if they touch any of these third rails, then their political support will collapse, which is why President Trump has made it a point never to talk about entitlement reform.
00:24:46.000He doesn't want to touch entitlement reform.
00:24:49.000Paul Ryan will leave office without having touched entitlement reform.
00:24:52.000And all this means is that we are going to run this car right over the cliff, and then we'll have two parties that are either, that are having arguments about cutting around the edges, right, austerity programs around the edges, or raising taxes dramatically.
00:25:04.000And that's because Right now, we don't have a principled enough American people.
00:25:08.000In the end, it's up to the voters to actually do the right thing here.
00:25:12.000The American people are not calling for the sort of structural changes that are necessary because they don't see the crisis until the crisis actually materializes.
00:25:27.000President Trump is blowing out the debt.
00:25:29.000Right now, the debt is rising at faster rates than it was under Barack Obama, largely because of the tax cuts, but also because Trump has not slowed spending in any serious way.
00:25:37.000Republicans are so deeply afraid of touching this issue that they are going to leave office without ever having touched the issue, which is going to lead to economic chaos.
00:25:45.000Because the other thing to remember is all the other countries that have been able to blow out their debt to GDP ratio, they've always been able to rely on the economic growth provided by the United States.
00:25:55.000What happens when the United States is no longer providing that economic growth because we've had to undergo these massive tax increases or because we've had to undergo massive austerity?
00:26:04.000Things could get very ugly very quickly if we don't start to take a look at these issues and bad things are going to happen.
00:26:09.000Unfortunately, we're instead going to focus on the 2020 election and the and the Rock'em Sock'em Robots of the next presidential election.
00:26:18.000So according to Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, both Democratic operatives, they think Hillary Clinton is going to run again.
00:26:36.000So I'm hoping that Hillary Clinton 4.0, the upgrade, is actually slightly less robotic.
00:26:41.000She definitely lives in the Uncanny Valley for folks who are fans of sort of computer-generated films.
00:26:47.000There's something in computer-generated films called the Uncanny Valley, where if you put a human face on a computer, it looks slightly creepy to you.
00:26:56.000It's famous for this because it lives in the Uncanny Valley.
00:26:58.000The characters look too much like humans for you to think that they're animated, but they don't look enough like humans to actually feel comfortable with them.
00:27:07.000She's been there for her entire career.
00:27:09.000According to Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, she is going to run again.
00:27:14.000They say that she is going to come back stronger than ever.
00:27:18.000She has a 75% approval rating among Democrats, an unfinished mission to be the first female president, and a personal grievance against Mr. Trump, whose supporters pilloried her with chants of lock her up, this must be avenged.
00:27:29.000They say expect Hillary 4.0 to come out swinging.
00:27:33.000She has decisively to win those Iowa caucus goers who have never warmed up to her.
00:27:37.000They will now see her as a strong, partisan, left-leaning, and all-Democrat.
00:27:41.000The one with the guts, experience, and steely-eyed determination to defeat Mr. Trump.
00:27:46.000Mrs. Clinton knows both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama declared they weren't running until they ran.
00:27:50.000She may even skip Iowa and enter the race later.
00:27:51.000But rest assured, Hillary 4.0 is on the way.
00:27:54.000Well, you know, those of us on the right who recall President Trump beating her, we say, oh, this would be the worst idea Democrats ever had.
00:28:26.000Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, not merely because President Trump successfully dragged her down into the mud.
00:28:33.000But also because no Democrat cared about her.
00:28:36.000Her actual unpopularity ratings among Democrats were not good.
00:28:38.000A lot of Democrats didn't show up to vote for her.
00:28:40.000The reason that she lost is because no one showed up to vote for her in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
00:28:45.000If you look at the actual percentage vote that Trump won, In those three swing states that he won, they're directly in line with the percentages that were won by George W. Bush and Mitt Romney in those states.
00:28:59.000Because people turned out to vote for John Kerry.
00:29:01.000People turned out to vote for Barack Obama.
00:29:03.000Nobody turned out to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:29:05.000Does anyone on the right really think that that is going to repeat itself in 2020?
00:29:08.000That Democrats aren't going to show up to vote?
00:29:10.000The turnout was unbelievably large for 2018.
00:29:12.000This midterm election, the turnout was significantly higher than 2014.
00:29:18.000In many areas, it surpassed the turnout in a presidential year in 2016.
00:29:22.000Democrats are extraordinarily motivated, and one of the reasons they're extraordinarily motivated is because President Trump is a very polarizing figure.
00:29:29.000And those of us on the right are happy with that.
00:29:31.000Those of us on the right are enjoying a lot of that.
00:29:33.000We're enjoying watching him battle the Democrats and battle the media.
00:29:36.000But what we saw in this last election cycle is that there was, in fact, a slow-rolling blue wave.
00:29:41.000There's a lot of talk, oh, it wasn't a blue wave.
00:30:17.000Democrats also swamped Republicans in state legislatures across the country.
00:30:23.000They picked up something like 4.6% of state houses.
00:30:28.000They reclaimed more than 250 of the many seats lost during Barack Obama's presidency, and they gained enough seats to deprive Republicans of super majorities in Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
00:30:37.000They've been making serious ground in all of the areas in which President Trump actually needs to win.
00:30:42.000And this has led to a bit of a crisis for Republicans who are willing to see it.
00:30:57.000Democrats have a habit of blowing winnable elections, although the margin for error is getting very slim.
00:31:02.000Kyrsten Sinema is going to be the next senator in Arizona, which is insane.
00:31:05.000Okay, Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona is an actual muck case, right?
00:31:08.000She said in 2003 she didn't mind if Americans joined the Taliban.
00:31:11.000She's going to be the senator from Arizona.
00:31:14.000And Kyrsten Sinema is a person who went around the United States Legitimately shouting at people that Arizona was a terrible state.
00:31:20.000She's going to be the senator from Arizona.
00:31:21.000That's how bad things were in this election cycle for Republicans.
00:31:25.000She beat Martha McSally, the first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat in that race.
00:31:30.000Things are not looking good for Republicans.
00:31:32.000So even if the Democrats were to run somebody completely nutty, which is sort of your hope in 2020, Republicans are going to have to come up with a better message.
00:31:40.000In a second, I want to talk about what that better message looks like and also why we may still be able to count on Democrats being completely out of their minds.
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00:34:00.000Number one, as I say, they can count on Democrats being insane.
00:34:04.000They can count on Maxine Waters being the head of the Financial Services Committee.
00:34:07.000So Maxine Waters, who apparently is going to take up that chairmanship, she says that what Republicans are truly scared of is strong black women like Maxine Waters.
00:34:15.000No, I'm just scared of Maxine Waters herself.
00:34:18.000Like, strong black women, totally fine.
00:34:40.000That's the opposition talking about what would happen if this strong black woman, Maxine Waters, is the chair of the Financial Services Committee.
00:34:49.000They've never seen anybody like me before.
00:34:52.000There's never been a woman in the history of this country that's been the chairperson of the Financial Services Committee, and certainly never never a black woman.
00:35:00.000And so they send out these dog whistles to their constituents to get them fired up about the possibility of what Maxine Waters might do.
00:35:10.000Well, I'm more scared about the possibility that Maxine Waters may, in fact, use the Financial Services Committee to commit financial impropriety, because it turns out that her relatives by 2004 had made more than a million bucks during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped.
00:35:27.000She was named one of the most corrupt members of Congress in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 by the leftist watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
00:35:37.000When she worked on the Financial Services Committee during the downturn, she arranged meetings between U.S.
00:35:42.000Treasury Department officials in one United Bank Where her husband was an executive so that the bank could plead for federal cash.
00:35:47.000So yeah, I'm more afraid of her being just a corrupt, terrible human being than I am of her race.
00:35:52.000But this is going to be the pitch that Democrats run, then Republicans have a shot.
00:35:56.000Republicans have been able to count on the intersectional politics of the Democrats for a very long time.
00:36:00.000Hopefully they can continue to count on that.
00:36:02.000And Democrats are taking the wrong lessons from the 2018 elections, which is good.
00:36:06.000The overwhelming victory, including the victory of Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, It could have a silver lining.
00:36:11.000Kyrsten Sinema is so nuts that Democrats may think, oh, you know what?
00:36:30.000Michelle Goldberg, who's an expert at deceiving herself, an opinion columnist over the New York Times, the worst editorial page in America, she says, it took a while for the conventional wisdom of the American political class, accustomed to treating Democrats as hapless and disorganized, to catch up to what the resistance had accomplished all over the country.
00:36:47.000Three of the marquee candidates progressives were most excited about, Andrew Gillum in Florida, Stacey Abrams in Georgia, Beto O'Rourke in Texas, seemed to fall short.
00:36:54.000But by the end of the night, it was clear that the Democrats had won the House, and in the following days, new races kept being called.
00:36:59.000There are a bunch of progressives who have won, and this means that progressivism is triumphant all over the country.
00:37:05.000Well, maybe we can somehow deceive Democrats into continuing to believe this.
00:37:08.000Progressivism was not, in fact, triumphant all over the country.
00:37:12.000Of the eight candidates who were the most progressive, as labeled by the nation, all eight of them lost.
00:37:18.000Andrew Gillum, if he had lost his primary, Ron DeSantis would not be the future governor of Florida.
00:37:23.000Stacey Abrams, if she had been slightly more moderate, would have won in Georgia.
00:37:26.000Democrats were, like, this close to a full-out sweep if they had not been completely nuts.
00:37:31.000So maybe it'll be the same thing in 2020.
00:37:41.000I mean, there's a really bad story over the weekend.
00:37:43.000Tucker Carlson was accused of supposedly assaulting a guy, and Tucker Carlson put out a statement where he said, um, that's not what happened.
00:37:50.000Apparently what happened is he was eating dinner at a place with his family, and his daughter, who's 19, went to the bathroom, and this guy went up to her and called her a whore.
00:37:59.000And so Tucker Carlson was already outside of the restaurant by this point.
00:38:01.000His son went back in, threw wine on the guy.
00:39:34.000And Pete Davidson had made some sort of offhand, nasty remark about how he looked like a James Bond villain and who cares whether he lost his eye in a war or something.
00:39:44.000And there was a lot of blowback for it.
00:39:46.000Well, Dan Crenshaw handled this about as well as it is possible to handle anything.
00:39:49.000He came out and said, listen, I'm not going to pretend I'm a victim of Pete Davidson.
00:40:37.000When you say never forget to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them, not separated by some imaginary barrier between civilians and veterans, but connected together as grateful fellow Americans, who will never forget the sacrifices made by veterans past and present, and never forget those we lost on 9-11, heroes like Pete's father.
00:42:25.000He's only up for election every four years.
00:42:27.000But we did feel it in suburban districts across the country.
00:42:30.000So what would you rather be the kind of Republicanism that is making waves across the country?
00:42:35.000Dan Crenshaw or President Trump tweeting about fires?
00:42:38.000The fires in California, where I live, are really quite awful.
00:42:41.000They've now expanded all the way from Thousand Oaks out to the coast.
00:42:44.000They've burned all the way down to the water, taking a bunch of houses where they burned out Malibu.
00:42:48.000They're moving toward Woodland Hills right now.
00:42:50.000There are 40 mile per hour winds that have really been kicking.
00:42:53.000I mean, like you can see, it looks like a mushroom cloud.
00:42:56.000I mean, you can actually see the clouds from my house, like Russia from Sarah Palin's house.
00:42:59.000But you can actually see the clouds in the sky and the ashes falling from the sky.
00:43:03.000In the midst of that, President Trump tweeted out, there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California, except that forest management is so poor.
00:43:12.000Billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagements of the forest.
00:43:23.000Of course that's not useful in any conceivable way.
00:43:25.000If he wants to change federal forest management policies, he's the President of the United States, he certainly can do that.
00:43:30.000If he wants to negotiate behind the scenes with Jerry Brown in California, and try to structure how exactly California handles its wildlife management, he can do that too.
00:43:38.000But the reality of the situation is that two-thirds of the lands, of the public lands in California, are run by the federal government directly, and another two-thirds, after that, are run by private foundations.
00:43:48.000So, it's not just that the state of California was incompetent, and therefore President Trump can do this sort of stuff.
00:43:53.000If President Trump put down the phone, honest to God, if he put down the phone, if somehow we found a way to drain his battery, or if we constructed, as I've suggested to the White House, a separate Twitter app that allows him to tweet out, but it's actually a closed app, so it doesn't actually go anywhere, it just feeds him back statistics about retweets, and a bunch of things like, Maga, you're doing great, and he's all happy all day.
00:44:13.000Like, that would be the best way to do it, because When he punches publicly, sometimes it's very good.
00:44:17.000But as I've said, literally since the day he announced, the man is a hammer in search of a nail.
00:44:21.000Sometimes he gets a nail, sometimes he gets a baby.
00:44:22.000And if you get a baby too often, it turns out people don't like it.
00:44:25.000And people are going to make people who are allied with you pay the price for it.
00:44:28.000We are a very polarized country right now.
00:44:31.00096% of all seats that Hillary Clinton won by more than seven went Democrat in the last election.
00:44:35.000More than 96% of all seats Trump won by more than seven went Republican in the last election.
00:44:39.000There are no more swing districts, or at least very, very few swing districts.
00:44:42.000That means Republicans don't have A lot of room for error.
00:44:45.000Okay, time for a thing I like and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:47:03.000I would imagine most people buy this out of ironic love for it because the commercial is so over the top.
00:47:08.000But there are a certain number of people who, if you buy that, if you bought Trumpy Bear out of irony, out of not irony, if you bought it sincerely, Please, re-examine your life.
00:47:19.000Hey, if you bought Trumpy Bear because you were sincere about your love for Trumpy Bear, and because you think that, like, there are firemen who drive around with Trumpy Bear in the back of the fire truck, in all sincerity, please.
00:47:32.000We can make money off anything in this country.
00:47:34.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:47:40.000Okay, so thing number one, Sam Donaldson, who apparently he put on a toupee in 1985 and now it's too late to make the change.
00:47:48.000Sam Donaldson was talking about President Trump's base and he says Trumpism will never be a majority.
00:47:54.000He's on CNN talking about all of this and it was not great.
00:48:00.000His small base, and I think they're a minority, who believe if the Nazis and the protesters are on both sides, there are good people on both sides, his small base is not going to run this country.
00:48:20.000He was then doing an opinion show for ABC News Radio.
00:48:24.000And I walked up to him and I said to him, so do you hold the same opinions now that you did back in the 1980s when you were being a reporter, Sam Donaldson?
00:48:41.000Those eyebrows started coming at me out of the dark.
00:48:43.000And he said, and I'm not a man who can rip another man's eyebrows usually, but Sam Donaldson has me trumped.
00:48:50.000And Sam Donaldson, he says, so do you think that you're better than I am?
00:48:53.000You think you're more honest than I am?
00:48:54.000I said, well, yeah, I do actually, because I'm pretty upfront about where I stand on these issues.
00:48:58.000And you lied about it for 20, 30 years of your career while covering President Trump.
00:49:03.000The fact that Sam Donaldson is being brought on as an analyst on mainstream media networks is evidence of all of this.
00:49:09.000And it is demonstrative, again, of why President Trump does still have an enormous amount of appeal, specifically to his base.
00:49:16.000President Trump's number one opposition is not the Democrats.
00:49:19.000His number one opposition is not even foreign adversaries in many ways.
00:49:22.000His number one opposition is the media, and that's because the media are constantly shifting the narrative about him.
00:49:27.000Now, I don't believe in the language, enemy of the people, that he uses, because I just don't like that language.
00:49:31.000It has bad historical antecedents, but When President Trump talks about the remarkable unity of goal and rhetoric from the members of the press, he is not wrong about any of that.
00:49:42.000He is exactly right, in fact, about all of it.
00:49:44.000And Sam Donaldson, who was the most championed reporter of the 1980s, he was the guy.
00:49:57.000Meanwhile, on CNN, speaking of people who look like inanimate objects, Chris Cuomo, who is a block of wood, Because that's what you do when you offer thoughts and prayers.
00:50:07.000You mock those who lost loved ones because if you gave it any thought at all, you would never walk away from any of these without figuring out a better way to deal with them.
00:50:13.000Because that's what you do when you offer thoughts and prayers.
00:50:17.000You mock those who lost loved ones because if you gave it any thought at all, you would never walk away from any of these without figuring out a better way to deal with them.
00:50:57.000Yes, it is ridiculous suggesting that things would radically change if there were a stadium full of five-year-olds holding teddy bears who were shot, that this would suddenly change everything.
00:51:05.000Number one, because that's not going to happen.
00:51:07.000And number two, because the insanity of Chris Cuomo sitting there and suggesting that there's a whole group of people in the United States who don't care if children get killed because we want to keep our guns is disgusting.
00:51:16.000You want to know where the passion for Trump comes from?
00:51:18.000You want to know where the passion from the right comes from?
00:51:20.000It comes from watching people like Chris Cuomo more than anything else.
00:51:23.000When people like Chris Cuomo sit there and lecture us about how we don't care enough about dead kids, and so thoughts and prayers are useless, he has not yet named a single policy that he could promulgate that would stop the mass shooting that happened in California.
00:51:34.000It was done not with an AR-15, but with a handgun.
00:51:36.000There are already laws on the books in California that would have allowed the shooter's mother to go to the police and try to have his guns removed from him.
00:51:43.000Laws were already present in the state of California for universal background checks, for 10-day waiting periods.
00:51:48.000It's a may-grant state in terms of concealed carry licenses.
00:51:53.000California is the number one gun-controlled state in America.
00:51:55.000There was a mass shooting there and Chris Cuomo says, this is obviously due to lack of will.
00:51:59.000The NRA is not even operative in the state of California.
00:52:01.000Gun owners have a minority viewpoint in the state of California.
00:52:04.000It doesn't matter one iota when it comes to mass shootings.
00:52:06.000We've had five serious mass shootings in the last six years in the state of California.
00:52:10.000When Chris Cuomo tries to suggest that everybody Okay, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
00:52:20.000When they say thoughts and prayers, it is deeply, deeply insulting to religious people who actually believe in prayer and is deeply insulting to everybody who disagrees with him on policy, who may not believe that his preferred solutions are either effective at stopping mass shootings or at minimizing the extent of those shootings when the damage becomes known.
00:52:37.000Okay, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.