Ep. 468 - Scorched Earth 2020
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Summary
The Democrats have the votes to impeach President Trump. He will be the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, and the first to be removed from office without any reason whatsoever for having committed an impeachable offense.
Transcript
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On second thought, I might not be the right person to tell you.
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Democrats are officially impeaching President Trump,
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escalating to unprecedented and historic heights
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their three-year crusade to overturn a presidential election
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and force taxpayers to fund the wholesale slaughter of infants,
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We will examine the political merits of scorched earth.
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A New Jersey Democrat politician defends the murder of Jews.
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And Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch comes under fire for wishing someone a Merry Christmas.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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They've been trying to do it for three years now.
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President Trump will be only the third president in American history to be impeached.
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He will be the first president to be impeached without any reason whatsoever.
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Without even the pretense of having committed an impeachable offense.
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So, it's just about removing a guy that they don't like from office.
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Trump will be acquitted just as soon as Cocaine Mitch can snap his powdery fingers.
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We will forget about this possibly within weeks.
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Historically, we are in a position now where the constitutional order, the separation of powers, might be fundamentally broken.
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Historically, we might now be in a position where rather than having three co-equal branches of government, the president, the legislature, and the judiciary,
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we may now be in a situation in which the legislature, the Congress, reigns supreme over the executive.
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And the executive is basically just serving at the pleasure of the Congress, a fundamental perversion of our constitutional order.
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The problem with impeachment here is not a problem in the here and now.
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That's why Democrats think they can get away with this and that it doesn't matter and they can give a little bit of red meat to their base.
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He just sent a letter to members of Congress, of course, to Nancy Pelosi in the Senate, but also a letter to history.
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The whole thing is a highlight, but I will give you just the top highlights.
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I don't, he never had a silence about this issue, but he hasn't been as public in his opposition to the impeachment as you might expect from a guy who tweets all the time.
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He sent a six-page letter for historians, even though the letter is addressed to Nancy Pelosi.
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Dear Madam Speaker, I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
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This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat lawmakers unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.
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By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American democracy.
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You dare to invoke the founding fathers in pursuit of this election nullification scheme, yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America's founding, and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our founders pledged their very lives to build.
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You are the ones interfering in America's elections.
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You are the ones subverting America's democracy.
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You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish, personal, political, and partisan gain.
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He backs up this claim about Democrats subverting the constitutional order and just trying to get their own political agenda across with no regard for the Constitution.
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He backs this up by citing many examples of Democrats over the past few years, simply pledging that they're going to get this guy out of office regardless of whether he commits an impeachable offense or not.
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Here is a quick cut of this that the RNC then put into an advertisement to come out at the same time as the letter.
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This is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.
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I am not running for anything except the impeachment of Trump.
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We cannot accept a second term for Donald Trump.
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If we don't impeach this president, he will get reelected.
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Trump is not trying to convince Democrats not to be utter partisans to the detriment of the country.
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What he's trying to do in this letter is show historians how wrong this whole process was.
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And that's what you get in his final paragraph.
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I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record.
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100 years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it and learn from it so that it can never happen to another president again.
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I think in 100 years, people will look back on this impeachment as a truly shameful period of American history.
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Either when our constitutional order was sort of irreparably sent down this broken path or this path of no return.
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Or it will be a moment when we all reflect and say, hmm, we'd rather preserve our constitutional order than push our own partisan interests.
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And a process begun for Richard Nixon before he resigned.
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The difference here is there's really not even a pretense of having committed an impeachable offense.
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That poses a fundamental risk to the way that our government is structured.
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You might say that history won't look kindly on Trump because of all the terrible, awful, no good, rotten things he did.
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It's very difficult to figure out how history will look in the heat of the moment because we all have our partisan political passions.
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If you can just kind of cool down your emotions about this, I know, I'm preaching to the choir here, but I know that if the left could cool down their emotions and historians look back on the Trump era, what are they going to see?
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They're going to see, in terms of domestic policy, a sort of moderate Republican president.
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They're going to see a guy pulling back on our wars overseas.
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They're going to see a guy getting tough on trade with some of our trading partners or trading adversaries.
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They're going to see a guy who was impeached without having committed an impeachable offense.
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It's going to look pretty bad for the Democrats.
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George W. Bush, who had a fine couple terms in office at the time, everyone said he was Hitler.
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He was the worst president in American history.
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Now, with the hindsight of 10 years, people look back on him and say, oh, yeah, he was fine.
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Even Democrats look back and say, yeah, he was fine.
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Imagine what history will say about President Trump with this truly unprecedented impeachment.
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I love the letter because it shows you the stakes.
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The left is pushing open borders, full-on property confiscation, taxpayer-funded abortion,
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the redefinition of biological sex, literally the redefinition of our own nature, and now
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the complete undermining of our constitutional order.
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When you look at that, when you look at the stakes of that, and you consider any opposition
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you might still have to President Trump as a conservative or a centrist or a moderate or
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a libertarian or any of those philosophies, you've got to ask yourself, who cares about
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You've got the American left posing a fundamental danger to our constitutional order, and you've
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got a loudmouth reality TV host who's actually been a pretty good president.
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That's not a tough choice for me, and I don't think that's a tough choice for a lot of Americans.
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Where some people see only risk, only threat, only danger in this impeachment, I got to tell
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In this impeachment, where some people are seeing only risk, only danger, I'm seeing
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Never let a crisis go to waste, as Rahm Emanuel says.
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So for the past few weeks, few months, we've been debating what is conservatism?
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The libertarians and the traditionalists and the religious right and the neoconservatives
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They say the only thing that unites all the disparate factions among the conservative movement
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Maybe opposing the left is actually enough to unite all the disparate factions on the right.
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People forget this because we look back at history through rose-colored glasses.
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Because nostalgia is history after a few drinks.
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We think that the conservative movement from World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall,
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that that was some pure, amazing movement that had no problems with it.
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And I love Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan as much as the next guy.
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But that entire conservative movement that persisted for the second half of the 20th century,
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That's how you united the national security guys and the libertarians and the traditionalist types.
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The religious right, too, is by saying we oppose communism.
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The libertarians opposed communism because it was collectivistic.
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The social conservatives opposed communism because it was atheistic.
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We all came together, even though those groups didn't have a whole lot in common.
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And now that same impulse is bringing us together.
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The same impulse that gave us fusionism and the post-war conservative movement
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is keeping this Trump-era conservative movement together.
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The left accidentally has given conservatives a reason to unite.
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Nowhere do we see this more clearly than impeachment.
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We stand for not letting men into the little girl's room.
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We stand for not killing a million babies a year.
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We stand for not completely shredding our constitution.
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Maybe it doesn't fit beautifully on some manifesto somewhere.
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Maybe you can't sum it up in a one-sentence log line.
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I want to conserve our American traditions, our American republic.
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And if the only way that I'm going to unite all the various groups that have interests here
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Nancy Pelosi is a good enough reason for us all to come together.
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If they are going to throw out a president because they don't like how the election went,
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they're not willing to play fair and square in an election year, no less.
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We're, what, 15 days from an election, from entering into an election year now?
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But they can't wait for that because they know if they don't impeach Trump, he might very likely
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There are still some Republicans who haven't gotten the message.
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There are still like four never, ever, ever Trump conservatives out there.
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There was an op-ed published in the New York Times just yesterday.
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Of course, it was in the New York Times called,
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Even the Republicans are breaking rank with Trump.
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This was written by George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's overgrown child.
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Steve Schmidt, he's an old McCain, Romney type.
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John Weaver, who I actually worked with on a presidential campaign a number of years ago.
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But he's also a very moderate Republican who's worked for Democrats.
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I mean, four Republicans who aren't that kind of Republican.
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Four Republicans who never want to be identified as such.
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They write this piece in the New York Times, which is the mouthpiece for the left.
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And they say, We need the president to be defeated.
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The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.
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They've replaced that glorious ideology with pretty much the same thing.
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They replaced the conservative movement that opposed international communism
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with a conservative movement that opposes leftism more broadly.
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Then they write a bunch of nonsense and they talk about why they're not going to vote for Trump.
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I mention this not to give this terrible op-ed any airtime.
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I mention it because the Times and the left and these never-Trump Republicans want to make it seem as though
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I remember back all the way to Barry Goldwater in the 60s, you had some squishy fake Republican going on TV for Democrats
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and saying, Look, I'm a Republican, but I could never vote for Barry Goldwater.
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I think it's a commercial called Confessions of a Republican.
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I don't know just why they wanted to call this a confession.
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I certainly don't feel guilty about being a Republican.
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I voted for Dwight Eisenhower the first time I ever voted.
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But when we come to Senator Goldwater, now it seems to me we're up against a very different kind of a man.
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Well, a friend of mine has said to me, Listen, just because a man sounds a little irresponsible during a campaign
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You know that theory that the White House makes the man.
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You know what I think makes a president, I mean, aside from his judgment, his experience,
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are the men behind him, his advisors, the cabinet.
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And so many men with strange ideas are working for Goldwater.
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I mean, you could replace that guy with George Conway.
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You could replace the word Goldwater with Trump.
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Every year there are some squish defectors who,
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like being a conservative or a Republican in theory,
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but they're so afraid of contradicting the prevailing liberal leftist culture.
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And they don't want to lose friends at their parties in Washington, D.C., in New York and L.A.
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And they don't actually care about affecting the country all that much.
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They just, you know, they want to be respectable.
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And they say, I'm a Republican, but not that kind of Republican.
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I mean, it's interesting to note that this sort of phenomenon in the modern era
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began with Barry Goldwater because Barry Goldwater was pushed as a conservative candidate explicitly.
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This was right at the beginning of the conservative movement,
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the Bill Buckley National Review post-war conservative movement.
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And you had all these liberal Republicans like John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller and Dwight Eisenhower.
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And then you finally had some conservatives who stood for a different view,
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what Phyllis Schlafly called a choice, not an echo.
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It wasn't just Democrat and Democrat-like, but you had Democrat and conservative Republican.
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You're seeing Republicans like these guys, George Conway, Steve Schmidt,
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Republicans nominally who work for squishy Republicans,
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who work for Republican, but not that kind of Republican,
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who work for Republicans who are no more than Democrat-like.
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And you get this guy Trump, and for some reason, Trump in particular really seems to irk them.
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It tells us that despite all of the commentary, to the contrary,
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despite everything we've heard from the former gatekeepers of the Republican Party
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Much more conservative than any of the guys who wrote that op-ed.
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Much more willing to fight for the things that once, at least, united the conservative movement
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All those other conversations are academic, okay?
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I'm channeling my inner Cato the Elder, the Roman Republic politician who said,
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First, our opponents oppose everything we stand for.
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I'm not saying we should be angry and furious at these guys.
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If they succeed, we don't have our country anymore.
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But it's not something that I'm eager to live in, that I'm eager to possess.
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I want to conserve our country, our constitution, our dignity of life, not killing a million babies a year,
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our own human nature, the very definition of sex itself, our property.
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I don't want people to come in and steal my property willy-nilly.
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Our separation of powers, our federal government.
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And if you're upset because orange man said a mean tweet or he one time made fun of Rosie O'Donnell or John McCain
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or he, I don't know, used tariffs as a tool in a trade war and that's too much for you.
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Then you should really rethink your priorities.
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If you say, well, Trump doesn't stand for anything.
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It is simply enough for, if I've got a choice of two candidates, one candidate has a completely
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internally consistent leftist worldview and they want to undermine everything that I want
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And then you've got a candidate who has this kind of hodgepodge of a political ideology
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and maybe some of it doesn't make sense together.
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But I know that at least he's going to try to stop the other guy from doing the things
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Politics is not some abstract concept where it's just floating in midair and we can have
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philosophical purity and everything works out great and we can't get our hands dirty.
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It is a practical science and it is the art of inclusion as the New Jersey governor Tom
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Bill Buckley did this incredibly effectively in the post-war conservative movement.
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And they didn't whine and complain and moan and say, oh, what do we all really stand for?
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Why can't we have a perfect doctrinaire manifesto of the five bullet points of conservatism that
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Why do we have to have Ronald Reagan leading this?
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He's a divorced kind of former liberal governor who didn't even go to the right schools or work
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And he doesn't even necessarily wear the right ties.
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You know, it's sort of ironic because all these guys who are coming after Trump and the people
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who support Trump, guys like that in that New York Times op-ed, they're saying that we're
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somehow betraying the conservative movement of Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan.
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Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, these are practical guys.
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They did something that many thought was not possible.
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And they did it by bringing people together who didn't exactly agree with each other ideologically,
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but they knew they had a common foe that needed to be defeated.
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And the ones who don't have the stomach for it, the ones that don't have thick enough skin
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for it, the ones who don't have the vision for it, whine and complain.
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But they are not the heirs to the great successes of conservatives in American history.
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We are and we have to keep pushing that victory.
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Our opponents so oppose what we believe as American conservatives, they refuse even to speak English.
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Our opponents so oppose what we believe that they refuse even to speak in English.
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Just a little reminder to take you down memory lane.
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Necesitamos la representación y cada voz necesitamos escuchar.
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Es de presidente ha atacado, ha demonetado los inmigrantes.
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Oh, congresista O'Rourke, ¿qué harÃa usted en el primer dÃa si usted es presidente sobre esta realidad que está ocurriendo?
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What would you do, congressman, day one at the White House?
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Vamos a tratar cada persona con el respeto y dignidad que merecen como humanos.
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Me llamo Julián Castro y estoy postulando por presidente de los Estados Unidos.
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This wasn't just at the debates that this is going on.
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Pete Buttigieg, who is ostensibly the moderate guy in the race, is jumping on this train, too.
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Which means the people united will never be defeated.
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Even Chuck Schumer yesterday was tweeting out in Spanish for just no reason at all.
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Because politics is just how we all live together and persuade one another to live in society.
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If you don't speak the same language, that becomes impossible.
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And even now, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, is encouraging this sort of division in the country.
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We're not seeing this radicalism only at the federal level.
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Seattle has this horrific homeless crisis going on right now.
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So, the crisis of homelessness in Seattle is not getting any better.
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And an agency, which has the job of tackling this homeless issue, just recently spent taxpayer dollars on a strip show.
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The transgender performer, Beyonce Black St. James.
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So, this is a guy who now identifies as a woman.
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Recently stripped at the All Home Conference in South Seattle for a group of homeless advocates.
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You know what's really been keeping them on the streets and keeping them down on their luck?
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They haven't seen enough transsexual strip shows.
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And so, the taxpayer money from Seattle is now being spent to give them this important form of entertainment.
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I think it's just what they need to lift their spirits.
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Lift their lot in this world and get off the streets.
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Just unfortunately, for some reason, we actually have video of this.
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So, now what we're seeing, I don't even want to describe it.
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I don't want, if you are just listening to this right now, I think you're probably better off.
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Whatever you're imagining is definitely better than what I am looking at.
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It's just simply a fact that taxpayer money being sent on transsexual strip shows would be unfathomable five years ago.
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Okay, I don't care your specific views on tariffs.
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I don't care for this political question whether you go to church every week.
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I don't care if you think the government should do this or that or the other thing on some other question.
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That's pretty much the message of the conservative movement today.
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And by the way, it was the message of the conservative movement even 40 years ago.
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At the level of East Coast local politics, a New Jersey school board member, Democrat, just recently came out to defend the assailants who murdered a number of Jews at a kosher supermarket last week.
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Joan Terrell Page is a New Jersey school board member.
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Where was all this faith and hope when black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by, I want to buy your house, brutes of the Jewish community?
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They brazenly came on the property of war-deafed black homeowners and waved bags of money.
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Resistance was met with more threats of, we will bring drug dealers and prostitutes to live next door to you.
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Mr. and Ms., and these are the names of the people who went and shot up this market.
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I believe they knew they would come out in body bags.
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Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message?
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Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the black communities of America?
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My people deserve respect and deserve to live in peace in this city.
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That is as clear a defense of these two cold-blooded killers, one of whom, at least, was a black Hebrew Israelite.
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One of them was a black supremacist member who went into this kosher supermarket, killed a bunch of Jews.
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If you pay attention to conservative media, you've probably heard about it.
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If you're watching the networks, if you're watching CNN, MSNBC, probably you haven't heard a whole lot about that.
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Because they won't deal with that kind of radicalism.
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You know, at least the right, when we've got these really obvious, bigoted, awful people, we deal with them ourselves.
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To put the little cherry on top of this radical Sunday, in the media, the left can't even tolerate that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wished someone a Merry Christmas on television.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, good morning to you.
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Here's the response from the left, from Sean Kent, who's a blue checkmark leftist on Twitter.
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On Fox News, Neil Gorsuch made a point to say, Merry Christmas, like he just gained the freedom to say it under Trump.
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This guy is such a worst case scenario of a stolen Supreme Court seat.
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Christmas is the worst case scenario for this leftist.
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You know who else considered Christmas to be the worst case scenario?
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Another leftist on Twitter has hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Amy Vanderpool tweeted out, quote, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch just appeared on Fox and Friends this morning, making a point to parrot the Merry Christmas talking point of the GOP.
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Merry Christmas is now a GOP talking point, according to mainstream leftists.
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If he's willing to go on Fox and throw a shout out to Republican narratives, what else is he willing to do?
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That used to be kind of the basic thing that would unite us all, okay?
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Even if we disagreed over tax rates or something, at least you could all wish each other a Merry Christmas.
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Now, Merry Christmas, total right-wing talking point.
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Now, the logical conclusion of that, by the way, is that if conservatives lose, if the left gets their way, there's no more Merry Christmas.
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It's funny because this woman, Amy Vanderpool, is actually legitimating the war on Christmas narrative.
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So often, the left says, there's no such thing as a war on Christmas, even though obviously there is.
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Corporate America bans the word Christmas from their Christmas sales and their Christmas marketing.
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Starbucks gets rid of anything that he might in any way invoke Christmas on their coffee cups a few years ago.
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Amy Vanderpool is saying, yeah, Merry Christmas is a Republican talking point.
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I hate that a Supreme Court justice said Merry Christmas on television.
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This is a worst-case scenario, and Merry Christmas is a Republican narrative.
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All right, I guess there is a war on Christmas.
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The thing is, the best part, the silver lining, if there is a war on Christmas, we're winning it.
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And we can see the celebrations of that when Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, went on Janine Pirro's show on Fox News.
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They all kind of laughed and enjoyed the fact that, in terms of the war on Christmas, Christmas is winning.
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Eric and I were talking about what's going on with impeachment and the FISA and all that.
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But will you guys be able to just forget about all of it and really enjoy the fact that you really are part of the first family?
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I mean, you've done wonderful things for this country.
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We now don't have the political correctness that we used to.
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When people are actually saying Merry Christmas.
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I mean, you know, how do you feel that your father has done all of that, Eric?
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Municipalities, cities were actually renaming Christmas trees to be holiday trees.
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There's only one holiday that you have a tree for around December 25th.
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But Christmas became the holiday that must not be named for a long time.
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And then so much of the reason Trump was elected is because people were fed up with political correctness.
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We're forgetting that now, over the past couple years, Christmas won the war on Christmas.
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We forgot that the majority of Americans oppose impeachment and removal from office.
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We win on not letting men into the girls' changing room.
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Not letting men beat women at high school track meets.
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Despite the mainstream media's insistence otherwise.
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Despite the constant negative press covfefe, to quote the president.
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And there's so much hand-wringing over how we unite again.
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How do conservatives unite again like we used to in the good old days?
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It's the same answer as how we united back in the 20th century.
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We have to unite because we can't afford to lose.
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And it's pretty motivating as we look into the future at the 2020 election.
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