Scott Pressler is a conservative political activist who is openly gay and has been a member of the Republican Party of Virginia since 2016. He is also a volunteer for the anti-Muslim advocacy group Act For America and the Gay Coalition of America. He has been involved in many conservative causes and is a supporter of President Trump.
00:00:00.000Today, we are going to be telling the story of the gay man who convinced the Amish to vote for Trump and likely won him this election cycle.
00:00:11.180You're like, oh, no, he couldn't have possibly won the election for Trump.
00:00:15.020Trump won Pennsylvania by 200,000 votes.
00:01:08.800It's that this is a two-way love story between real gays, not fake gays, not this fake BS bullshit where it's like, oh, I can identify as whatever I feel like.
00:01:25.220People who didn't have a choice of who they were attracted to.
00:01:28.700And again, I'm not saying I don't think it's anti-biblical.
00:01:31.840I'm just thinking it's not particularly more anti-biblical than something like, you know, prostitution or masturbating to women other than your wife or any number of things that are fairly normal in our world today.
00:01:48.340Scott Pressler has been a conservative political activist since 2016 when he served as a regional field director for the Republican Party of Virginia.
00:01:57.380He is openly gay and co-founded the LGBT coalition Gays for Trump the same year.
00:02:03.280He also became a volunteer for Act for America, an anti-Muslim advocacy group, the following year.
00:02:09.720He organized March Against Sharia events.
00:02:12.240Additionally, he has been organized being cleanup events of Baltimore and Los Angeles, where as far as a volunteer, removed trash from the streets.
00:02:30.060Today was inspired by the tweets we saw on social media from our president.
00:02:33.620And we were just tired of people doing so much talking, but not enough actually rolling up your sleeves, putting on your boots and getting dirty.
00:02:52.460He said, the next time you go out here in the community, you let us know.
00:02:55.140And if you're looking at what the RNC co-chair said about this individual, he said, quote, Scott Pressler has single-handedly registered more voters for the Republican Party than any other human being alive today.
00:03:54.200You can't even do laundry and shower on the same day.
00:03:57.580While Nancy Pelosi is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, robbing our pockets, not doing anything for our people, not passing legislation, passing out pens like they're candy.
00:04:09.300Meanwhile, President Trump is signing United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.
00:05:30.580Specifically, he did similar efforts in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Portland.
00:06:41.300He – when Democrats were like, no, these cities aren't disgusting, he's like, oh, yeah, America's major cities have fallen into being wrecks.
00:07:07.020And he did it in an attempt to try to get people to vote.
00:07:11.320And one of the core communities he targeted were the Amish, because Amish historically don't vote.
00:07:16.240So, he did door-to-door canvassing using public records to identify likely Amish households.
00:07:21.360He set up a stall at the Green Dragon Market, an Amish fair in Lancaster County, to interact with the community regularly.
00:07:28.740He offered rides to polling stations and assistance with absentee ballot registration.
00:07:33.880And I also will note here that a lot of people don't know this, but actually Kennedy was really close with the Amish community.
00:07:40.600He had been campaigning in the community here for ages, apparently.
00:07:44.900And when the Democrats stabbed Kennedy in the back, not letting him really run as a real third-party candidate in any of the important states, Kennedy then went with Trump.
00:07:56.040Right now, by the way, he is involved with Trump's transition team.
00:07:59.540He's one of the people we're going to be reaching out to in terms of trying to get transition spots.
00:08:03.700And Kennedy, you know, when he moved to the Trump team, a lot of the Amish people, in addition with Scott Pressler's work...
00:08:11.620By the way, gay men, people think that, like, so many Republicans are like, oh, you're gay, I hate you.
00:08:17.620Even the Amish, who are like, you could not be possibly more heterosexually normative than the Amish.
00:08:23.560They're like, yeah, but if you're telling us, like, reasonable things, let's listen and talk through this, right?
00:08:29.160I've been thinking more about Kamala Harris's loss recently, and I think it's going to be uniquely hard for Democrats to win these individuals back because it's no longer become a fight over policy.
00:08:39.760When I look at the, like, rpolitics subreddit right now or on Twitter right now and the lefties that are freaking out, they're all like, oh, you know, if you're black, Republicans are going to enslave you.
00:08:50.700If you're gay, Republicans are going to kill you.
00:08:53.100If you're woman, Republicans are going to forcibly impregnate you.
00:08:56.620And these things just, like, factually aren't true.
00:09:00.880And the key thing that I think moves people from the left to the right is breaking out of this illusion.
00:09:07.120Just, like, looking at reality and being like, oh, a gay person was one of the key players in getting Trump elected.
00:09:12.940A polyamorous guy was one of Trump's key funders, Elon.
00:09:16.520His VP was found for him by another gay man, Peter Thiel.
00:09:21.660Like, this obviously isn't a party that is either antagonistic to or on bad terms with the gay community.
00:09:27.980And how do you win one of these people back when they found out that you lied to them about somebody, convinced them to unjustly attack and dehumanize this other group, and then they learn that everything that you told them about this other group was a lie?
00:09:42.840Like, they go to a Trump rally as an out openly gay person, and they realize everyone is nicer to them than at a Kamala rally, or as a black person, or as a—you just can't win them back once the veil is revealed.
00:09:56.700So, now that the orange turd has won, we should now rename America hell, because it is going to be hell on Earth once they strip everyone's rights away that is no straight white cis man.
00:10:13.220So, buckle up. Hope you frickin' Republicans are happy. I'm outta here.
00:10:18.880Because you have turned this from a policy battle into a what-is-true-about-reality battle.
00:10:28.360Will Republicans go and try to take away their rights? Will Republicans try to enslave them or kill them?
00:10:35.060And when the answer is not just no, but so emphatically no, it's almost comical, and that Republicans are actually maybe their only real allies left who will protect them, you know, like lesbians, for example, from cis men pretending to be trans and getting on dating apps and aggressively harassing them,
00:10:52.860or beating them up at bars, or associating the gay movement with the ridiculousness of things like trans women in sports, which obviously makes the gay movement look bad.
00:11:04.380And so, the Democrats are like, oh, this is an LGBT issue. And the Republicans are saying rightly, no, it's not. It's a weird sex pest issue, and it should not negatively reflect on the gay community.
00:11:15.960And let's call them the normal gays, because there are normal gays. And normal gays—and I know a lot of normal gays. I know a lot of weird gays.
00:11:21.900The normal gays are, like, overwhelmingly Republican, I'd also point out. They'd almost sort of be these—for me, the modern stereotype of the wholesome dad Republican meme, which I think might surprise people who don't have that many friends in the gay community.
00:11:39.540So, how do Dems win, given that this is the case? Well, it's not about running a non-woke candidate, even though wokeism is the problem, because Kamala was a non-woke candidate, and Biden was a non-woke candidate.
00:11:51.120They need to run an anti-woke candidate, a candidate who calls out woke bullshit on the regular and demeans it.
00:12:00.340And I'd say, how do we as Republicans keep up this win? Well, you need to call out the individuals who would besmirch our new and growing set of allies, like the normal gay males.
00:12:16.460And so, when an individual is out there in a Republican circle calling out them for—I don't know whether it's sinful for the Bible's perspective, be like, are they actually living a sinless life? No.
00:12:27.660Are they doing more to help the Republican Party than people like Scott Pressler? No.
00:12:31.840Well, then they can fuck right off. You get to make these sorts of accusations when you live that way.
00:12:38.620When you aren't living that way, this is for you and yourself to deal with.
00:12:43.780And because of this, Republicans are going to keep winning, because I know that Republicans can do this.
00:12:49.640They can actually police the extremists within their own community, and they have been.
00:12:56.640You will not have a mod on our politics banning someone for some ridiculous, oh, I don't feel safe because I'm gay in Republicans' rant post.
00:13:06.640But you will get people on conservative message boards banning people for aggressively homophobic rhetoric.
00:13:14.140And that's why Republicans are going to win, because we deal with our own extremism while the left is too cowardly to do it.
00:13:20.700And you also see this from Trump in his support of the gay community.
00:13:23.680And I actually think you can see the success of this just by looking online at YouTube videos and stuff like that.
00:13:29.100You look at someone like Leather Apron Club's channel, and he did a video saying, don't vote for Trump.
00:13:33.680Don't vote for the Republicans. This party no longer stands for us.
00:13:37.760I feel ostracized when I say anti-Semitic things. I feel ostracized when I say anti-gay things.
00:13:44.300I don't like the word homophobic. It's stupid. But anti-gay things, basically.
00:13:47.820He's like, when I say that being gay isn't right, I feel ostracized in this community.
00:13:52.100And the community, and he acted as if this is going to, you know, keep Trump from winning.
00:13:57.540This is going to keep Republicans from winning.
00:13:59.280When the truth is, is we don't want people like that in our community anymore.
00:14:03.960This is America. We don't outlaw something just because it's a sin.
00:14:12.420We don't want to live under your version of Sharia law.
00:14:15.600We are winning because we have ostracized people like that.
00:14:19.600And if Democrats are going to win ever again, is they need to ostracize their own people who are equally exclusionary.
00:14:30.400When somebody goes online or at an event and says something like, I promoted someone because they're black.
00:14:37.660I promoted someone because they're a woman.
00:14:40.660They shouldn't feel safe at that event.
00:14:42.940If somebody goes around as a non-passing individual and is using women's restrooms and otherwise intimidating women just so that they can feel validated, they should be treated like somebody walking around with a swastika tattooed on their forehead.
00:14:56.460You need to treat this stuff for what it is.
00:15:00.700When somebody who obviously has the body of a man and is competing in women's sports, they need to be treated like somebody with a swastika tattooed on their head.
00:15:08.700Because they are a symbol of oppression, hatred, and bigotry.
00:15:13.520They are utilizing a systemically unfair system that allows them to compete against individuals they obviously shouldn't be competing against to beat up on people who are weaker than themselves.
00:15:23.940When somebody goes around and says something like, black people can't be racist, they need to be treated like somebody who just said the n-word, would-be at a Trump rally, which is very harshly.
00:15:36.720But the woke are just not willing to do that yet.
00:15:40.480And until they get to that point, they're going to keep losing.
00:15:43.720Obviously not this next primary and the primary after an election cycle.
00:15:48.260And just to understand what you guys are going to be fighting long term, next election cycle, it's J.D. Vance.
00:15:54.520You're going to need to bring real big guns to beat him.
00:15:57.820This guy is cogent, young, intelligent, and appeals to half your audience.
00:16:03.760And I also think what was really interesting is the way he got the Amish on board.
00:16:07.540So he emphasized a recent incident where straight authorities bring it on Amish farmers' dairy for selling raw milk without a permit, framing it as government overreach.
00:16:19.040And Susie Weiss, friend of the show, one of my favorite human beings alive, has written on this extensively.
00:16:24.800He stressed Trump's stamps on religious liberty, which aligns with Amish values.
00:16:28.920And he emphasized protection of agricultural practices, traditional lifestyles, and educational choice.
00:16:33.720All of those are things that we care about and Amish care about.
00:16:36.060But the urban model culture, because they have no kids, could only survive by taking children from demographically healthy cultural groups.
00:16:42.760And they have begun to overreach into the Amish community.
00:16:46.400And the Amish are like, do not touch my children.
00:16:50.380And what was said to the Amish, and I actually believe this really strongly, and I love that the Amish got this message, which is, if you're not voting, then nobody's going to care about you, politically speaking.
00:17:03.440They're not going to care about overreaching.
00:17:04.840They're not going to care about shutting down your farms.
00:18:50.940And, yeah, I think anyone also, it's very easy for people who only read mainstream media to think that people who are on the ground seeing real things happen are conspiracy theorists.
00:19:02.400But those are the people who are actually, I trust what he sees on the road so much more than I would trust what someone is reading in the media.
00:19:09.840And the things that you see out door knocking, the things that you see out talking with people, really can change, like, a lot.
00:19:17.720It is pretty crazy what's actually going on on the ground.
00:20:08.060I thought it was fun to study this subject, and I wanted to share what I liked with other people.
00:20:12.640And so many people, they like something or they care about something, and they're like, oh, but actually, like, starting something, come on, I'm not going to do that.
00:20:23.440That is what makes America great, when you're like, oh, yeah, Baltimore is a f***ing dumpster right now.
00:20:29.800Maybe I should try to clean it up because no one else is going to do it.
00:20:33.120Well, America was formed by people who didn't like what they had, so they came here, and they built something better.
00:20:40.200And that happened in over a series of decades and now centuries, and I think it's produced a really great country.
00:20:48.640And the only way that we are going to stave off complete and terrible civilizational collapse is if we manage to maintain that spirit and don't lean into the indolence that we're starting to grow.
00:21:01.660Well, and I think here also, another thing is, you know, the Republican movement is right now, I think, the only real friend the gay and the lesbian movements have.
00:21:11.420And when I say the gay and the lesbian movements, I mean the real gay and lesbian people.
00:21:14.520The lesbian people who are like, I like the female form.
00:21:18.680And so if you have, like, a penis and are, like, 6'2", and are on a lesbian dating app and look nothing like a woman, like, that's a problem for me.
00:21:25.740Or one of the things that always got to me was the woman who was beaten at a gay bar for suggesting, not to a trans individual, but to another lesbian woman that she wasn't interested in dating trans women.
00:21:42.280And on, like, Reddit, people were cheering this.
00:21:46.940In the lesbian form, people were cheering this.
00:21:48.560And I think what it shows is that, well, Reddit's an overwhelmingly male site, and what we were actually seeing here was trans women, you know, who considered themselves lesbians, like some of the people in these posts who want to arm themselves and attack people.
00:22:04.260That's who makes up the majority of these sorts of communities now and has excluded real women who prefer female bodies.
00:22:12.780And with gay men, like, why would you want to associate yourself with this obviously predatory group?
00:22:17.720And when you talk about obvious predators, you know, I was talking about recently, PDA files being part of what is causing a lot of young people to become trans.
00:22:30.320And the reporter I was talking to was like, oh, that can't possibly be the case.
00:22:34.320And I'm like, she's like, that sounds like a conspiracy.
00:22:36.660And I was like, okay, do you agree that some gay men are PDA files just in the same way some trait men are?
00:22:43.440I mean, look at the Catholic Church, right?
00:22:49.640And I was like, well, with that being the case, do you not agree that if you can convince somebody to start taking puberty blockers at the age of 15, that when they reach legally the age of consent, that they are going to look a certain way?
00:23:07.280And she had this moment of realization where she's like, oh, shit.
00:23:16.340And this is what somebody is like, with Republican support non-gay men.
00:23:21.900And keep in mind that Scott Pressler, he came out at the same time he joined the Republican movement.
00:23:28.440It's not like he was a Republican and then he came out.
00:23:32.720He did these two things at the same time and received so much support that he was like, yes, I want to continue to support these individuals.
00:23:40.720And I think that this just goes so against progressive narratives, which just gaslight people into believing that the Republican movement is anti-gay or anti-lesbian.
00:23:50.720When in truce, it's the only real friend they have left.
00:23:55.940But do you have further thoughts, Simone?
00:24:02.380And I think it's telling how much violence actually is coming from the progressive movement, both in threats and in action.
00:24:13.720I'm not saying that conservatives don't also commit violent acts, but the assumption is that progressives never do.
00:24:21.540And I think they are doing so at an equal, if not higher level.
00:24:24.980Yeah, well, and I think that the other thing I take away from this is just a level of like, just if you care about something in the world, go and do it.
00:25:19.260He also focused a lot on like various other categories that he knew would likely vote Republican.
00:25:23.800So basically just low propensity people in Pennsylvania, the key swing state.
00:25:29.060Well, it's not just that you see lots of things of him preaching on the street when he's doing street cleanups.
00:25:33.860When I say preaching, I mean preaching the Republican message where he's like Democrats just don't care anymore.
00:25:39.800Like they're putting us in jail when Nancy Pelosi is like earning hundreds of thousands a year.
00:25:45.140Like it is a party that is holistically in support of the oligarchs now.
00:25:50.780Yeah, well, and again, it's understated just how much any person can do.
00:25:57.360And I think a lot of people look at, we point to Elon Musk as an example of someone who sees a problem and fixes it.
00:26:04.120And it's very easy for someone to say, well, yeah, if I were a billionaire, I would just fix problems too.
00:26:09.680But here is a guy who is not a billionaire who made a very, very, very significant difference in the trajectory of, and keep in mind, like Elon Musk had a lot of efforts in Pennsylvania, so did this guy.
00:26:22.080And he made a huge difference without giving away, you know, millions of dollars, without making big efforts like that, without giving big rallies that could draw out, you know, tons of people.
00:26:32.180And I really think that if you don't make the change that you want to see in the world, it's on you.
00:26:37.200Like you don't get to have nice things if you don't fight for those nice things.
00:26:41.340And this, I think, ties in a lot with the American dream, how there's this complete misunderstanding where people now are like, the American dream is dead.
00:26:52.840Because they somehow think the American dream is, oh, I'm entitled to a house and a car and all these other luxuries in life without basically working for them.
00:27:02.380Whereas the American dream has always been about merely having the option to do that if you're lucky.
00:27:10.180It was never guaranteed if you work hard.
00:27:13.020It was never even guaranteed if you don't work.
00:27:15.600It was just like, this is a place where it's possible.
00:27:18.360And people were coming from many places where it simply wasn't.
00:27:21.560And there are still many places in the world where the American dream is impossible.
00:27:24.900The American dream remains alive and well.
00:27:27.620And people like this guy represent that, which is cool.
00:27:52.340So Joe Rittenhouse is, he was the local Trump operative in our county, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a key swing district in a key swing state.
00:28:02.560And yeah, no one in the news is talking about him.
00:28:05.920But he is a local dude, a parent, a husband, and someone beloved in our community who just went out there and relentlessly worked.
00:28:14.580Really hard, used data-driven methods.
00:28:17.840The local Republican, like the GOP, the RNC, did nothing to help him.
00:28:24.560Completely abandoned his part of the campaign.
00:28:27.160And when he's talking to us, he's like, look, I need to build all of this from scratch.
00:28:31.220Because everything that's here right now is corrupt, and it's in service of this dead ROC that doesn't actually care about getting Trump elected.
00:28:42.720And I need to build this up from scratch.
00:29:19.740And, I mean, broadly, I just wanted to test out the efficacy that I had on Republican voter turnout.
00:29:25.640And especially low propensity that voter Republican can turn out.
00:29:28.780But, yeah, I mean, they're also, again, like there are so many people who go unnamed.
00:29:32.560Another person that I really respect in this election cycle who worked in our area is Fletcher Carper, who is, has been kind of like Scott.
00:29:42.280Someone who, for many, many elections, has just been out there on the ground.
00:29:46.640I mean, when I was, when I had my first longer conversation with him, he talked about how, you know, he's been driving at night in snowstorms while door knocking and then wrecked his car, you know, because it's just so dangerous.
00:29:57.360But he was out there door knocking anyway.
00:29:59.000He would do anything it takes to just try to get out the vote.
00:30:06.360He helped me with petitioning collection before he started doing general door knocking for the Republican, for Republican voter turnout in Pennsylvania.
00:30:13.540And I could not believe how many signatures he got in a short period of time.
00:30:17.900Somehow he just, like, managed to close people.
00:30:21.140And, I mean, you know, as a, as a, as a male knocking on people's doors, it is not easy.
00:30:57.960I really, I think that going forwards, what's going to determine if we save this country, it's the people who are staffing Trump's administration.
00:31:35.640No, there are a lot of really great people who work for think tanks.
00:31:38.340And I mean, think tanks exist because there is so much deep state now.
00:31:41.760I mean, there's only so much deep state that you can eliminate.
00:31:45.040So you have to figure out, even if you're going through the process of dismantling it, you have to have people who know how to dismantle it.
00:31:51.300And people within think tanks are the only ones who know that.
00:31:54.220So there are people in think tanks that we know.
00:31:57.760I'd love to connect Heritage Foundation with the Department of Efficiency.
00:32:01.180And I know that the Heritage Foundation did some naughty things with Project 2025.
00:32:04.880I don't agree with everything they said there.
00:32:06.620But their lawyers are the only people.
00:32:07.640Project 2025 was also pretty misrepresented in many ways.
00:32:11.520Yeah, but they are the only people with the lawyer team that's needed to protect competent individuals firing people.
00:32:21.360It is very hard to fire people within the national government.
00:32:24.560And Project 2025 has what we need to handle those firings.
00:32:29.140Yeah, I think going forward, it's about getting the right mix of DC insiders who know how to dismantle the machine and then get it done operators who are really good at getting things executed.
00:32:43.260And if you combine those two groups with sort of the dismantling experts and then the redesign experts, you could see immensely positive change just in terms of eliminating entirely redundant and unnecessary bureaucratic bloat that is eating up tax dollars.
00:33:09.360And I really hope, you know, actually, like, okay, here's what I'd love.
00:33:14.540And we might do another episode on this.
00:33:16.660If you personally know an individual where you have some information on them that has done a lot to make this country a better place and isn't getting a proper shutout, I want to do those shutouts.
00:33:28.660I want people like Rittenhouse and Fletcher to have the air that they need because it's not – I mean, look, Scott caught the tailwinds, right?
00:33:39.940And he did a lot, and I appreciate that.
00:33:41.900But I don't think he's the only person like him out there right now.
00:33:45.700I think he'd be the first person to say that.
00:33:48.140You know, the media has caught on his story because it's a great story, and he did make a very material and real difference.
00:33:57.600And we need to be – and I think everyone, like, locally Republican, they know the guy who's like, oh, my God, this guy was, like, way above and beyond of what anyone would expect.
00:34:39.120It is no longer – the base, the foot soldiers of the Republican Party is no longer, you know, extremist, pre-er-peacehood, peter-priesthood types.
00:34:53.300It is now your average sane, like, base camp watcher.
00:35:00.280That's who's carrying the elections for our party now.
00:35:02.880It makes me feel good about the future of the United States.
00:35:05.720It's – yeah, it makes me feel good as well.
00:35:08.860And it does better at telling those – and this is very different than the average person who's carrying it for the Democrats.
00:35:14.480These people actually are woke extremists.
00:35:17.360And I think that when we accept this, when we accept how extreme the Democrats have gone, how extreme the people leading their party have gone,
00:35:27.560and how non-extreme and mainstream and accepting the Republican Party is now,
00:35:34.480I think that we have a possibility of entering an era of one-party leadership in a way that could be good.
00:35:45.260What would be the coolest is if essentially the Republican Party becomes one party of leadership?
00:35:52.720Because the Republican Party now basically is both the old, like, sort of conservative values lifestyle party,
00:36:01.360and also this super socially progressive, like, libertarian party.
00:36:06.960Okay, so I feel like what we're seeing is the new right could eventually just become everything and then split into factions which then compete.
00:39:09.200And somehow he made it through this entire election cycle, not knowing which political party was the conservative one, which is impressive.
00:39:18.540And I kind of want to live in his world, because wherever that is, it's different.