00:00:52.080Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's special edition of Human Events from AmFest.
00:00:58.200Now, one of the breakout panels that we did, probably one of the most interesting ones, I think, at AmFest was something where it didn't get broadcast publicly, but we recorded it, and we wanted to turn that into an episode for you.
00:01:11.900So it's myself, Rich Barris, the People's Pundit, Joshua Lysak, the greatest ghostwriter in the world, and towards the end, we get joined by Mark Mitchell, the honest pollster from Brasmussen Reports.
00:01:25.500And it's a panel about performative politics and whether or not performative politics is hurting or helping in the current moment and really talking about where the movement is, where the MAGA movement is, where the Trump administration is.
00:01:42.680So this one is going to cause some sparks and I think you're going to enjoy it.
00:04:46.240Oh, secondly, Jack, it is maybe a co-author. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Jack, it is real. I mean, I was right in 20. I was right in 20, 24, even 16 since the guy came down the golden escalator. I'm not wrong now.
00:04:59.080There is this, I don't want to call it malaise, but there is this frustration because to so many of Donald Trump's voters, these people, by the way, who I talked with Charlie over so much about, they are Trump or bust or Trump's vision or bust, and they want really not much at all to do with the Republican Party.
00:05:20.280And they have seen this first year, and in the first couple months, they loved it.
00:05:23.800That's why his approval rating was skyrocketing.
00:05:25.640Republicans on the generic ballot were leading for most of that year.
00:05:29.080It's only recently that the Democrats took over.
00:05:32.080And there's this feeling that towards the end of this first year,
00:05:35.200the administration got a little bit sidelined.
00:05:36.900They got distracted, and they didn't keep their eye on the ball.
00:05:40.060These voters were always going to be the Republican Party's number one goal,
00:05:45.620But you have to convince them that you're one of them and that you have to earn their vote, Jack.
00:05:52.140And so you say the Trump-robust voter.
00:05:54.360I remember when Charlie and I would talk about this all the time.
00:05:56.880We're talking about those low-prop voters.
00:05:59.440And a guy or a girl, a man or a woman, who's not going to come out for the generic Republican, the old-school Republican, the propositional nation Republican.
00:06:09.940They're going to come out for Donald Trump.
00:06:12.980They're going to come out for a populist.
00:06:14.840And they want to see that type of action. This is a working class. So so profile this type of voter for me, someone who doesn't normally get involved in politics, but gets so motivated to come out when Donald Trump's there.
00:06:26.400You know, it's interesting because before during the nomination process this past year, the DeSantis campaign made the argument that I'm going to win back suburban women and that will account for not getting these people out who everybody they know they exist.
00:14:49.260that we're seeing going on generationally.
00:14:51.360He mentioned, do you agree with what he said
00:14:53.000about the 40-45, the sort of like elder millennial Gen Y cohort, but then also I want to ask you
00:14:58.560about Gen Z. I want to ask you about these people coming online politically. Do you see that more
00:15:03.040of a split towards economic as well? Yeah, so I'm listening and I'm nodding in agreement because,
00:15:09.100I mean, we'll say under 50. That's a good baseline too. What's interesting is, and I mean,0.77
00:15:14.620we're calling this the demise of performative politics. These people feel like that the 50
00:15:18.800and overcrowd had it really good and squandered it all and they have it really bad and now they're
00:15:26.000going to have to work twice three times four times as hard to be able to have the standard of life
00:15:31.240that the people who came before them and oh by the way had the luxury of being happy losers and
00:15:36.260principled conservatives they had the luxury of that while these younger voters do not and when
00:15:43.340we were even before when we were talking about the difference in the moderate versus conservative
00:15:46.700These younger voters, they're much more populist. They don't even want to call themselves conservative. We're looking at 29% self-identification of conservatives. Mark, when he comes, talk to him about this. The attitudes with the 45 or 15 under crowd are vastly different from those principled conservatives.
00:32:00.980But, you know, I've noticed, though, did anyone see that the Black Friday shoppers, suddenly, well, all the sales, all the retail stores, they were extending the Black Friday days.
00:32:12.720So it was Black Friday, then Saturday, then Sunday, then Monday.
00:33:57.400That is the way he always spoke about it. That's the way you've got to do it.
00:34:00.160I will say, I think my absolute favorite part of that speech, well, there are two things.0.53
00:34:03.660One was, of course, the information operation that they ran, right, where they claimed, where they made everyone think that it was going to be like a Venezuela, you know, invasion and bombing and all the rest.
00:34:16.260They got all the broadcast TVs in America, all the broadcast networks, all those editors and every single ABC, NBC, CBS affiliate to say, oh, maybe we better tune in.
00:36:21.620Wow, warning, warning, warning, you see what I'm talking about?
00:36:28.420All right, let's go, I think there was, right there?
00:36:33.760Hi Jack, so I'm also a Catholic, and I think it's been shameful to see conferences and, sorry, dioceses and bishops like the USCCB speak out against Trump's immigration policies.
00:36:46.440despite them saving millions of children's lives.
00:36:49.340And I think that's something that really hit home for me
00:36:51.640after recently seeing Sound of Freedom for the first time.
00:37:40.880I think that's really a big part of the key to shifting on this issue.
00:37:43.520Yeah, turn the moral high ground around.
00:37:44.940Because the truth is they make those arguments thinking and pretending they have the moral high ground until they learn that human trafficking is big business.
00:37:54.340And it's being driven and fueled and allowed by these groups.
00:40:59.680I don't think Rich would consider himself a political activist either.
00:41:02.680I think the way to look at pollsters is that I've been to D.C., I've seen how it works.
00:41:07.120I think that a lot of people who are rich, a lot of foreign governments, a lot of people who are not you, have their interests represented.
00:41:13.980And I kind of see myself as really one of the few lobbyists for the American people.
00:41:18.660And what I'm going to tell you is that when I hear Republican officials talk, systematic change is not on the map.
00:41:26.240They think they have the right message.
00:41:27.700They think they just need to vote harder.
00:41:29.180They think they just need to raise a little bit more money
00:44:10.440So I've read it already, but how do I inform people that don't read books, don't pay attention to politics, that communism is here and is thriving?
00:44:19.920How do I get the uninformed people, the people that don't care,
00:44:23.020to care about the communism and how bad it truly is?
00:44:29.180Real quick here, we're getting the stop sign.
00:44:30.660But on that, rather than focus on the problem,
00:44:35.240the communism trying to convince them on that,
00:44:37.040rather show the anti-communist, the positive populist,