00:02:34.900So he doesn't have to wait for any actual orders.
00:02:37.380So it's our job as folks in the media and the folks that care about these kinds of things to watch and pay attention because I think it's going to get a lot worse.
00:02:44.760So the two things that we're famous for is our commitment to a program and our hatred of the United States Constitution.
00:02:56.900And what the program does is it gives us a roadmap to revolution, and it gives us the obstacle that we finally will have to get over to have a revolution, which is the United States Constitution, the basis of the United States government.
00:03:10.120And what the minimum maximum program specifically, what that format specifically gives us is that roadmap.
00:03:19.220It gives us the minimum circumstances under which we would be able to take power and govern.
00:03:25.760And it gives us the maximum program, which is the goals that we're actually aiming for.
00:03:29.920It also clarifies democracy as both the end goal and as part of the process to get there ensures the internal party democracy that we want to see in DSA.
00:03:41.440So it really wraps up the revolutionary tradition of democracy that I think socialism and abolitionism in the United States have always been a part of and aims it at a future that we can live in as a human species.
00:03:57.220Because I think absent a revolutionary Democratic Socialist Republic in North America, we may not have a livable future.
00:04:07.460Tuesday, 18 August, Year of Alert 2026. I want to thank Natalie Winters for getting that last clip.
00:04:13.700We played in the morning show. I asked the vice board to join us, Mike Davis.
00:04:17.100I want to get into the Todd Blanchett and what they're saying there, but I've got to get your because this guy is Cliff Connolly.
00:04:24.100He's the senior policy guy, strategist for DSA.
00:04:28.620They're not shy about what their objectives are right there.
00:04:32.300Mike Davis, I think I could say you've kind of dedicated your life to the defense of the Constitution.
00:04:39.380And right there, the DSA guys are telling you, hey, it's the number one obstacle in front of them for seizing power and changing this to the Democratic Socialist Republic of North America.
00:05:22.480It's not a conspiracy theory. You just saw the clip. It's coming right out of their mouths.
00:05:28.520They think that our United States Constitution, which is a shield to protect us from government tyranny and government anarchy, is their greatest obstacle.
00:05:42.040and they're saying it explicitly. And they're attacking people like Todd Blanche. Todd is
00:05:49.080Trump's all-star attorney general of the United States. And they see Todd Blanche as the leading
00:05:56.180warrior for the Constitution. So they hate Todd Blanche because they hate the Constitution,
00:06:01.720because they hate America. And they're not hiding this. It's pretty illuminating that
00:06:09.280they're saying this very publicly. So that is the contrast that we see between Trump Republicans
00:06:15.820and today's communist Democrats as we go into November. Okay. So, and by the way, this guy's
00:06:23.960a senior guy. He's not some hoplite. He's not a grundoon. Okay. This is a senior guy. And this
00:06:28.740is one of those Zoom calls they have strategizing. The question gets to be, that sounds like to me,
00:06:36.300sedition. We love Todd Blanche. We worked with Todd Blanche for years in the trenches against
00:06:41.560long odds when he had the courage to step in and actually defend President Trump. But you're seeing
00:06:46.420like on Meet the Press, even where he's saying, hey, look, you know, you can have you can have
00:06:51.400ice at the at the at the polling places because the only people are going to get nervous are
00:06:57.840people that shouldn't be there to vote. And we want them nervous because they're not going to
00:07:00.940be allowed to vote but isn't it time that the justice department has to pivot there is a
00:07:07.020revolution going on in this country and it's the dsa which is just the happy clappy veneer
00:07:12.940of mandani but right below that as we have documented now day after day after day they
00:07:19.000want a revolution in this country and they want the overthrow of the constitution they couldn't
00:07:23.480be clear on that isn't it time that we started to really give them some hardball tactics
00:07:28.600I mean, yes, absolutely. This is a seditious conspiracy. This is insurrection. When you are advocating for the violent overthrow of our government, that is a seditious conspiracy. When you actually attempt to carry that out, that is insurrection.
00:07:48.900There are so many crimes when you're funding this, when you're advocating for it. This is not free speech. You do not have a First Amendment right to organize the violence overthrow of our government. You do not have a First Amendment right to carry out or attempt to carry out violence to overthrow the government.
00:08:12.400And so they should absolutely start investigating, and I think they are, if you believe the news reports, that they're looking at their funding, they're looking at these meetings, and these people who are advocating for violence against the United States need to be thrown in prison.
00:08:33.780i want to go back to the first part of that because this is going to be a relentless drum
00:08:40.200beat it's all day long and it's in the a block for two days in a row actually for three if you
00:08:46.320count the sunday morning shows they are absolutely apoplectic that todd has shifted this kind of
00:08:52.740paradigm back to pre-wardgate just walk our audience through what does that mean and why
00:08:59.700is this the basics of the Article 2 power of the president, sir? Yeah, so under Article 2 of the
00:09:08.780U.S. Constitution, the president has the executive power, all executive power, and that means that
00:09:16.800all of his cabinet officials, every executive branch employee reports to the president of the
00:09:23.460United States. That includes the Attorney General of the United States, especially the Attorney
00:09:29.260General of the United States, because the Attorney General has so much power to arrest people, to
00:09:37.140disrupt our lives, to sue, to arrest, to imprison. Of course, we want the Attorney General to be
00:09:43.640accountable to the duly elected President of the United States. That's why we have a republic. We
00:09:51.720elect our leaders and we have Democrat accountability. The Democrats only want the
00:09:58.680Attorney General to report to the President of the United States when there's a Democrat President
00:10:04.480like Obama and Biden, who politicized and weaponized our intel agency's injustice system
00:10:12.060to go after their political enemies, like Trump, his top aides and allies, his supporters on January
00:10:18.680There were six parents, Christians, you, Steve Bannon, who went to the clink, Peter Navarro.
00:10:23.780They're trying to go after Jeff Clark.
00:10:25.240Democrats only believe the Justice Department is independent when there's a Democrat president.
00:10:31.020Todd Blanch correctly knows that there is not an independent Justice Department.
00:10:37.060The Justice Department reports to the president.
00:10:40.060Every federal officer, every federal law enforcement officer, every federal agent, every federal prosecutor reports to the deputy attorney general who reports to the attorney general who reports to the president of the United States who was elected by all Americans.
00:11:00.660If you're arguing for a different system than that, you're arguing for a deep state.
00:11:07.180The Democrats pretend the deep state is a conspiracy theory, but we know it's not because these law enforcement officers who don't think they report to the attorney general who reports to the president, who reports to all Americans through elections, is confirming that there is a deep state.
00:11:26.120let me ask you before i let you go is uh you've got this you got a grand jury and you got joe
00:11:35.560de genova uh and the in the u.s attorney down there working this grand jury in south florida
00:11:42.080but that is for the the the conspiracy against president trump and the mega movement all that
00:11:46.740over many many many years you also have this rise of dsa and its foreign uh backers do you think we
00:11:55.340need a special prosecutor just for that so they can get on top of where this money's coming from.
00:12:01.160And I realize there may be some investigations coming on, but don't you need to take a U.S.
00:12:05.320attorney that's already been confirmed and actually wrap it around that so then you have
00:12:09.400a driving force and staff it up with people and do it quickly, sir? The U.S. attorneys across
00:12:15.840America need to step up. They need to do their jobs. They need to start investigating. They need
00:12:21.360to start indicting. They need to start imprisoning these violent agitators who are calling for the
00:12:28.280overthrow of our government. That is a seditious conspiracy. That is insurrection. There are many
00:12:35.640other federal crimes that go along with it besides insurrection and seditious conspiracy.
00:12:41.720There's general conspiracy. There's assault on federal law enforcement. There's wire fraud.
00:12:47.920There's money laundering. There are so many RICO violations. There are so many potential crimes.
00:12:53.720These U.S. attorneys need to step up and start investigating, indicting, and imprisoning these violent agitators who are calling for the overthrow of our government.
00:13:07.600As my mom used to say, I'm going to give you something to whine about when you start crying and doing the boo-hoo.
00:13:12.880These guys are going to call us fascists every day. They're going to call us every name in the book.
00:13:16.880It's now time to show them what the steel rod means, because this is getting out of control and they're not hiding it.
00:13:24.120Vice Roy, where do they go to Article 3 to become part of the fight back on this revolution, sir?
00:21:27.060By the way, even among Democrats, even among Democrats in Michigan, 47 percent, nearly a majority, say they are less likely to vote for El-Sayed when they are informed of his campaigning in Michigan with Piker and informed that Piker said that America deserved 9-11.
00:21:42.520I further found that among just independents and Democrats, so people who either did vote in the Democrat primary or were at least inclined to vote in the Democrat primary in Michigan, because there was no serious primary on the Republican side, 29% said they are not satisfied with al-Sayed as the nominee.
00:21:59.60037% of seniors, independent and Democrat seniors, not Republicans, independent and Democrat seniors, 37% said they are not satisfied with Sayed as the nominee.
00:22:09.640So my belief and my expectation is the more we frame who he is, the more we expose who he is, we're going to win this race.
00:22:16.580But I also think, particularly those of us on the outside, not people who actually work for Mike Rogers, but people on the outside are going to be involved in this race, we need to go even further than that.
00:22:24.740I told you a few weeks back about the toll I took in Michigan, which is a state that has experienced this Muslim migration like no other state in America, where they have completely taken over communities like Dearborn and Hamtramck.
00:22:35.660And we asked if there was too much Muslim migration versus too few.
00:22:38.820By a 6-1 margin, 6-1, the good citizens of Michigan said too much versus too few.
00:22:46.160Even among Kamala Harris voters, by a 2-1 margin, they said too much.
00:22:50.980Among Kamala Harris voters in Michigan, by a 2-1 margin, too much Muslim migration versus too few.
00:22:56.360So this time, Steve, I just went back and I asked again.
00:22:58.880We just finished this poll. It's not even public yet.
00:23:01.060I just asked again, and I asked this in a sort of more clinical way this time.
00:23:04.940instead of just saying, hey, too much, too little, is Michigan better off or worse off for Muslim
00:23:09.860migration? And we asked about Christian migration, because we're trying to be scientific here. So
00:23:14.360we're trying to isolate what's the Muslim part specifically. And so when we ask, for example,
00:23:18.680seniors, is Michigan better off or worse off for Christian migration? Only 3% said worse off. That's
00:23:25.700it, okay, among seniors in Michigan. 36% said worse off for Muslim migration. So 12 times the level,
00:23:33.980Only 3% for Christian migration. So that shows us that they're not generally anti-migrant.
00:23:38.860And then 36% say that Michigan is worse off because of Muslim migration.
00:23:43.820And Steve, here's the thing, too. I think these numbers are actually quite low.
00:23:47.160I think a lot of people are probably reticent to tell a pollster what they really think.
00:23:50.120But even these numbers, I think, are very revealing, that there's something brewing in this country,
00:23:55.020but particularly in places like Michigan, where people are starting to get honest and are saying,
00:23:58.920we have third world migration to this country. They're not even pretending to try to assimilate.
00:24:03.980They don't live in a way that is consistent with Western values.
00:24:06.460They don't believe in or love our country.
00:24:08.260And in many cases, particularly in places like Minneapolis, they are systemically scamming the system.
00:24:14.240I'm exposing that in Maine as well, in Lewiston, Maine.
00:24:16.880So when you put all of those factors together, Americans, including the good patriots of Michigan, are starting to get honest about this topic.
00:24:23.340And I think this is a place where those of us on the right, Steve, can't be afraid to go.
00:24:27.540As a matter of fact, I think people are almost begging us to go there, to go there with leadership and say, hey, mass Muslim migration.
00:24:33.980is not consistent with our values, and it will not lead to the success of the United States.
00:24:40.020All we need to do is look at the terrible examples of Europe and say that we in the United States are going to go a different route.
00:24:45.940We still believe in Western civilization.
00:24:48.660Unfortunately, the cradle of Western civilization, Europe itself, does not any longer, but we do here.
00:24:53.600And we are not going to follow their tragic example.
00:24:56.460The rest of the country shouldn't be following the example of Michigan, which now even the citizens of Michigan are being honest about rejecting.
00:25:03.980The cradle of our victory, besides the courage and the valor of the American fighting man in World War II, which was unbelievable, the railhead of the victory, the arsenal of democracy is in Detroit.
00:25:22.140The beating heart of America's rise to an industrial superpower.
00:25:27.580How do folks in Detroit, and when I say folks in Detroit, I'm talking about black working class and middle class, and how do folks in Macomb County, the heart of Reagan Democrats, what is your sense of what they think about Abdul El Saeed, sir?
00:25:45.280Yeah. Well, I think we have good evidence to what they think. And that was the primary, of course, which Abdul barely won. He would not have won without the overwhelming Muslim support he got in the Muslim enclaves, again, particularly Dearborn and Hamtramck, because his margin of victory was so razor thin, and particularly in black areas. He did terribly in those areas of Michigan.
00:26:06.740And I think what it tells us, Steve, is, and this is, I think, an important lesson for us to know on the right, is that, look, at the decision-maker level, the Democrat Party is totally radicalized.
00:26:16.920All of their elected officials, all the party operatives are completely radicalized.
00:26:21.460This whole nonsense of there's a DSA versus establishment battle, that's BS, not at the decision-maker level.
00:26:27.440However, at the voter level, what that primary shows us, I think, is there are still people who vote Democrat just because of a legacy bias,
00:26:34.520just because that's the way their parents voted, because they belong to a union, they were told
00:26:38.040to vote Democrat. But they're pretty sensible, patriotic people. And they rejected Al-Sayed.
00:26:43.340He barely squeaked through the primary. And I think some of those people can be encouraged to
00:26:47.140either not vote in this election or come over to Mike Rogers, obviously, preferably the latter.
00:26:52.420But I also think, again, Steve, it's imperative that those of us with guts who get involved in
00:26:57.620races, and we don't have to speak in the name of the candidate. I certainly won't be. We have to
00:27:01.780dive into the issues that are considered to be sort of third rails, like, oh, well, we're not
00:27:04.880supposed to talk about that. Are we really supposed to reject Muslim mass migration? Hell, yes, we are
00:27:09.780supposed to, because it's terrible for this country. It's been horrendous for Europe, worse
00:27:15.620than terrible for Europe. It has a foothold here in the United States, particularly in the state
00:27:20.220of Michigan. And it is totally consistent for us to say that we need to talk about a system of
00:27:26.140beliefs. And I think it's more a political system than a religious one, but to some degree, it's
00:27:29.840both, but a system of beliefs that is antithetical to the American way of life, and especially
00:27:34.780when the strongest adherents of this belief itself are telegraphing it to us. They're not mincing
00:27:40.240words that they are telling us, as that cretin did in that video you showed, that he doesn't want
00:27:45.420the United States of America. He wants some sort of North American confederation, which I guess
00:27:49.520would probably involve the globalists from Canada. I guess the whole Trudeau-Carney crowd would be
00:27:54.520welcomed into this grand country that they somehow envision once they jettison the United States
00:27:58.780constitution no we need to push back and say absolutely not and probably mexico also anyway
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00:31:25.440ahead and play this clip i think a lot of these people would do well to read the gospels and take
00:31:31.680those parts of the gospel and actually apply them literally but they don't yeah they never
00:31:38.840ever talk about jesus's words because if they did they couldn't support the policies they are
00:31:45.360pushing yeah the least among us jesus says to look out for and indeed the hypocrisy here from so many
00:31:51.240of these people is readily apparent so congressman um the title of the book is you know the fight to
00:31:57.280save democracy from Christian nationalism. You've just diagnosed the problem. So if there is a fight,
00:32:02.060how is it won? What are a few things that can be done to send the tide?
00:32:07.060Yeah, it starts by understanding what we're up against. One of the challenges in this country,
00:32:12.720we're not very good at talking about the intersection of religion and politics. We show
00:32:16.840a lot of deference. Religious liberty is obviously a core value in this country, but
00:32:21.980it leaves us potentially vulnerable. There's that apocryphal quote that is attributed to Sinclair
00:32:28.620Lewis. When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
00:32:34.160And that is exactly why I wanted to write this book. We need a wake up call. We've got to
00:32:39.720understand not just the political agenda, but the actual religious beliefs that animate this
00:32:46.020movement. And then we've got to come together, whether you're a Christian, a non-Christian or
00:32:50.040a non-believer and defend our democracy. There's still time. We can still do it. But this project
00:32:55.700is much further along than most people realize. And I wanted folks to see what I see and to
00:33:01.440understand that. Okay, Steve, when you talk about informed and uninformed ballot, informed is kind
00:33:11.900of consultant speak for when people actually know who the candidate is and it's been defined. It's
00:33:17.780to find enough in the mind that people can make this.
00:33:20.280And so it's a kind of a horse race, maybe two, three,
00:33:39.320Aren't you just, when you say, and you're saying,
00:33:41.160hey, group's not working on the campaign,
00:33:42.800it is our obligation to get on that work now and define it.
00:33:46.040But aren't you just playing into that you're nothing more than a Christian nationalist, that you are, in fact, wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross to drive out the evil Muslims from the New Jerusalem, sir?
00:34:00.180Well, if you are going to accuse me, Steve, of loving the cross and loving the American flag, guilty on both counts, that's for sure.
00:34:07.980And I believe that one supports the other.
00:34:10.180You know, it's interesting there to watch that clip of these pretend theologians, right?
00:34:15.140You know, all of a sudden we're supposed to listen to Father Joe Scarborough and Lemire and that backbench congressman, whoever the heck he is.
00:34:21.180You know what I would suggest to them that they read, because I doubt they have ever studied real theology.
00:34:27.320I would say get into Thomas Aquinas, who is arguably the greatest theologian in Christian history, certainly in the top five.
00:34:33.580I think anybody would put him there. Not easy reading, by the way, to read Aquinas.
00:34:37.420I mean, it's just it's pure intellect. There is no fluff in there.
00:34:40.080But if you study Aquinas, for example, specifically on the issue of immigration, Steve, Thomas Aquinas makes Bannon and Cortez look like complete softies on immigration.
00:34:51.400For example, he says that immigrants can never become citizens because they will, throughout, they can be allowed to stay under certain circumstances but can't get citizenship because they will have too much allegiance to their former country.
00:35:01.880He even goes further, and he posits that perhaps the second and even third generations should not become citizens of that country.
00:35:09.460He also says, by the way, and this is getting back to the Michigan race specifically, he says there are certain cultures that can never intermingle, that he just says it's unworkable.
00:35:18.000They cannot intermesh. Their worldviews are two separate.
00:35:21.600And I would suggest to you that that's Western civilization and Islam, particularly this Islamist Marxist combination, this toxic marriage that we now see in the United States.
00:35:31.460It's completely incompatible with who we are as a country, who we aspire to be as a society, and who we are acting like when we're being our best.
00:35:39.860So, look, I will dismiss that troika of pretend theologians who want to use Christianity when it's convenient to them, even though they advocate for abortion until the moment of birth,
00:35:49.520and remind them that if you want to read serious theology, if you want to understand what's real historic Christian doctrine on a very contentious subject like immigration, guess what?
00:36:00.800It's going to come out much more in favor of those of us who favor real patriotic populist nationalism than it is going to be for you globalists.
00:36:11.740And part of that nationalism, let's talk about that.
00:36:14.200You're saying not only do you seal the border, which the president has done, there's always some gaps every now and again, but he's done that.
00:36:21.960But it's also you've got to do the mass deportations.
00:36:25.120In your case, you're saying, hey, not just the illegal aliens that come here, but the scam immigration programs, including we've had the temporary status reversed, yet I don't see Haitians by the plane load leaving here, sir.
00:36:39.600So how do we solve this problem in Michigan and how do we make this the top of mind in this election?
00:36:46.620Yes, well, I think that the quickest way, and you don't need congressional action to do this, is really accelerate internal enforcement.
00:36:52.840You're exactly right. President Trump deserves enormous credit. Save the country by closing that open border. But now the very hard work, and it's going to obviously take time, but it's got to accelerate the hard work of internal enforcement needs to accelerate to prove to the American people we have your back in terms of your economic security, your street safety, and the national security of this nation.
00:37:13.540And I would point, Steve, specifically to manufacturing, where we see protectionism working.
00:37:18.460We as Republicans shouldn't be afraid of that term of protection, okay?
00:37:24.260It exists to protect public order, to protect borders, to protect American industries, American jobs from predatory trade practices.
00:37:31.320We see it working right now in manufacturing.
00:37:33.880There's a quiet manufacturing boom unfolding in this country.
00:37:36.900I wrote an article penned exactly that.
00:37:39.240That is the title of it at Daily Signal about the quiet manufacturing boom.
00:37:42.940Well, let's stop being quiet about it, number one. Let's tell this story because we have factory activity exploding to new four-year highs, factory employment exploding to new four-year highs. That's fantastic. But what does it show us? It shows that when we prioritize our people, our industries, our factories, that these policies produce real, tangible returns for the American people.
00:38:06.200And that can only accelerate the more we get the illegal laborers who don't belong in the workforce competing against American labor in this country, the more we get them out of the United States, the more we see real wage gains gallop higher.
00:38:18.660And the reality is right now, Steve, because prices are elevated because of the war, and we obviously hope that's temporary and going to end soon, but because of that, the American consumer, the sentiment among the American consumers right now is poor, despite this manufacturing boom.
00:38:31.680But once we end this war, which, again, I think will be soon, once we do and once we get prices headed back to a more reasonable place where sentiment starts to improve and people then can really appreciate what's happening in the manufacturing boom, and again, I'm connecting this back to border issues, then we have the beginnings and I think the building blocks for a sustainable prosperity, Main Street prosperity that's very real.
00:38:54.440We can start to get back to that place that we were in in 2019, which was perhaps the greatest year in all of American history for American workers, when the Trump boom 1.0 was accelerating pre-CCP virus being unleashed upon the world, and we saw the biggest gains of all going to the people who needed it most, blue-collar American workers.
00:39:14.240We have right now the kindling to get back there.
00:39:17.440We have the green shoots growing out of the ground in terms of manufacturing.
00:39:21.640I give all the statistics there in my piece.
00:39:24.120For example, I'll give you a tangible one that I think is fantastic news.
00:39:27.240Trump inherited a factory construction rate in the first quarter that he was president of 9,300 jobs.
00:39:34.800This quarter, and counting, because of course we're still in the quarter, but this current quarter, 93,000 construction jobs to build new factories.
00:39:43.800Ten times the rate that he inherited of construction jobs to build factories.
00:39:49.380What does that tell us? Onshoring works, that protectionism works, that we need both incentives as well as punishments, carrot and stick, to make sure that manufacturing production happens here on our shores, 10 times the construction jobs.
00:40:04.140Steve, those are quality, family-sustaining, high-paying jobs that Americans need to fill.
00:40:12.960But again, to bring it back to the border issue, it means let's make sure that they don't have to compete unjustly, illegally, unfairly against foreigners who have broken our laws and trespassed into the United States to try to take some of those very 93,000 positions.
00:40:26.100in the convergence of all the positive policies of president trump in the first term it was that
00:40:33.640uh really fall and christmas season of 2019 before the before the bioweapon was let loose on us
00:40:40.900that it all converged together blue collar wages rising higher than uh than white collar
00:40:46.400non-college graduates higher than college graduates i mean it was nirvana because it
00:40:50.400showed you the convergence. I might note to people that when the deep state found the laptop
00:40:57.220from hell and had it in there, they did not release it when they got it in November of 2019.
00:41:02.980Now, why was that? Because the selected candidate to take on Trump was going to be Joe Biden.
00:41:08.340There was no DSA. In fact, Bernie Sanders and Focahontas, Elizabeth Warren, who are DSA light,
00:41:14.240right we're we're blown out that's why they never released it there was no real dsa back then why
00:41:20.920was that these policies were working this whole marxist jihadist this is the way you've got to
00:41:26.600confront the trump mega movement of populist nationalism steve cortez they're quite smart
00:41:31.780about how they go after this and this is why your story is so important because you can't take a
00:41:38.240copy of milton freeman and wave it in front of these uh in front of these dsa people and think
00:41:43.740you're going to beat them. You have to show it with action, and it has to manifest in people's
00:41:48.360lives. Steve Cortez. 100%. And especially for young Americans. Look, anybody who knows
00:41:53.200recent college graduates, whether from undergrad or graduate school, knows this is a terrible job
00:41:58.300market right now. And we cannot sugarcoat that reality. A lot of young people, even ones who
00:42:03.440went to good schools and tried to get solid degrees, even STEM degrees, they're having a
00:42:07.340really hard time in the job market. So it is understandable that they are susceptible to some
00:42:12.980of the seduction of socialism. Hey, we'll give you a bunch of free crap. Okay, well, that sounds
00:42:16.720okay to me, right? So what's our answer? It can't just be, oh, they're Marxists, and that's enough.
00:42:22.600Now, we should label them. They are Marxists, but you're exactly correct. We can't throw a Milton
00:42:26.380Friedman, you know, free-to-choose tome in front of them and think that that's going to change
00:42:30.500things. No, we need to make their life better. We need to show them that they have tangible,
00:42:34.800real opportunity. This manufacturing boom is part of that. It's part of the equation. It's not the
00:42:40.020only answer, of course, but it's part of it. I think an even bigger part for young people
00:42:43.440is getting rid of these worker visas, because worker visas overwhelmingly bring in foreign
00:42:47.920young people. They generally don't bring in people my age in their 50s or in their 60s. No,
00:42:52.340they're bringing in young people. OPT, for example, were foreigners who go to school here,
00:42:56.540and I don't even think they should be in school here in the first place, Steve, but putting that
00:42:59.060aside, when they go to school here, they get to stay for at least a year, in most cases three years,
00:43:03.760as illegal workers in the United States. Get rid of OPT. Get rid of it right now. We can do it by
00:43:09.280executive order. Just say, okay, you got your degree. Good luck. Go home and make your country
00:43:13.780great again. But you're not working here. You're not going to take a job away from a 24-year-old
00:43:18.360who graduated from college, has college debt to pay, and is living with their parents and is
00:43:21.780ticked off. Hang on one second. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going to continue
00:43:26.880with Brother Cortez. Just a moment. It feels like our country
00:43:39.280The country finally has momentum again, with our leaders fighting to restore common sense in America first.
00:47:02.380This one today, people got to read on this manufacturing because it talks about the specific details of what we need to turn this around.
00:47:09.360And you've got to give people an alternative.
00:47:11.620If you're going to sit there on Fox and talk about, oh, they're going to raise taxes on the wealthy and read Milton Friedman, it ain't going to work.
00:47:17.460You're going to have a Marxist-Jihadist take over this nation, sir.
00:47:21.400Now, listen, what I have found, working class people throughout the Americas, right, and I find this across Latin America where great things are going on and certainly all across this great land, which, of course, is my first priority, even though I care about the hemisphere, first and foremost, of course, United States citizen, is that people are really, they are yearning for two things.
00:47:39.720They want cultural conservatism, meaning they want normalcy, right?
00:47:43.020They reject the lunacy of the left on things like gender issues and transitioning children.
00:48:11.320I mean, work to do on both scores, of course.
00:48:12.840But I find that that is, to me, Steve, the killer combination, and it is the answer to the left, is we are going to espouse cultural conservatism plus populist nationalist economics.
00:48:26.200And when we do that, it is a winning formula.
00:48:31.000And that's how we build a coalition, a coalition like we built in 2024, where we didn't just win every swing state, but also the national popular vote.
00:48:38.340And to get really tangible about this, by the way, to connect the Argentina thing with manufacturing, Steve, part of us being a manufacturing powerhouse in this modern age is we need critical materials, far too many of which we're getting from China right now, which is problematic, of course, in so many ways, getting it from our existential enemy.
00:48:52.560Well, guess who else has them in abundance?
00:48:56.080So we should be getting them from the Americas, from our own hemisphere.
00:48:59.040That will make American manufacturing stronger, what we do here at home.
00:49:03.420So, you know, it is a holistic approach. But Steve, that is overarchingly what I hear, what I learn when I'm on the ground. I'm going next week back to Wisconsin again. Key battleground state, of course, always. We're going to talk illegal alien crime that far from the U.S.-Mexico border. Illegal alien crime has been a scourge on Wisconsin. I'm going to Fond du Lac, a wonderful American community that you would never believe had such horrific, violent illegal alien crime.
00:49:26.580we're going to make sure that the victims of the cops that the people on the ground have a voice
00:49:29.780and a platform to talk about it but that's what they're what they're yearning for more than
00:49:33.380anything steve is they want they want cultural normalcy and they want opportunity through
00:49:38.580populist nationalist economics cortez you're 100 correct um we're going to have to go and expose
00:49:47.380this and talk about what policies and this is not the campaign's responsibility these are outside
00:49:52.820Folks like yourself, the War Room, and others are going to have to do it.
00:49:55.860We're going to have to do the hard work of this,
00:49:58.440and the Warren Posse is going to have to help us drive this.
00:50:02.640It's ironic that in the arsenal of democracy,
00:50:07.420which is Detroit and the great state of Michigan,
00:50:09.940hardworking, working-class people up there have done so much
00:50:12.560to make the United States a manufacturing superpower.