On today's episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec is joined by political commentator and social media sensation Dominique Strauss-Kahn to discuss the latest headlines from the world of politics, lawfare, and more.
00:20:23.000I mean, Gavin, just seriously, as we're waiting for Trump to come back up here, have you had a good experience with the pharmacy in the last 5 to 10 years at all?
00:20:33.080Look, I think big medicine, big food, you know, big pharma.
00:20:36.860I mean, they're trying to keep us all sick and dependent and, you know, a complete mess.
00:20:41.300I mean, we've had, you know, massive increases in chronic disease.
00:20:44.900We've had massive increases in obesity and all types of ailments, and we've never been more medicalized as a society.
00:20:52.340So I think we really need to review a lot of the, you know, innovations and advancements and changes over the last few generations and get back to our roots.
00:21:01.240I think there's a lot of, you know, conservatives and right-wingers who are embracing, you know, holistic forms of medicine, who are embracing holistic forms of treatment and are looking back to, you know, our diets or looking to what we used to cook with.
00:21:14.720You know, I could go on a whole tangent about seed oils, for example.
00:21:17.460But there's a whole lot of things that we are doing as a country, especially compared to other countries across the world, that's particularly unhealthy.
00:21:28.420And as a result, we've never had, you know, higher rates of obesity, higher rates of chronic illness.
00:21:33.160And I think it's something that we really need to look at, and it really should be a part of the talking points, the rhetoric, the policy, and the substance of the future of the GOP.
00:21:56.820And this is the – I mean, a year ago, you and I were there at the protest when Bragg – and this was the first indictment of President Trump, so his first arrest.
00:22:09.660I really feel like people just have tuned out.
00:22:12.720I think that it's gotten – it's been oversaturated, right?
00:22:15.640It's absolutely oversaturated, and Trump is using this oversaturation as a media strategy all unto himself because people who are in politics,
00:22:24.860these political consultants, these establishment careerists do not understand media strategy because they're only – they may have interned on some campaigns.
00:22:34.160They may have worked a little bit on a campaign.
00:22:35.480They don't understand general media strategy or brand management.
00:22:38.720There's some interesting, I would say, changes that are coming in, you know, through the new right on this.
00:22:45.800There's a certain race in Wisconsin that I'm keeping an eye on, a congressional race, as I'm sure you are as well.
00:22:54.240And there's this idea that a bad story is always a bad story.
00:23:00.060But what Trump has shown is that he has the ability to turn that story into part of his own brand because he's always been sort of the guy who's willing to break the rules to get the right thing done.
00:23:12.920The guy who comes in to fix the ice rink there in Central Park when Ivanka, his daughter, wants to go ice skating and cut the red tape.
00:23:22.460And so it really seems to me like liberals – and in a way that liberals were able to use COVID-19 as a way to scare the world and scare the country into compliance and subservience in 2020
00:23:35.740because they said, if you do this, you will save the world, you will save your grandparents, you'll save the children, et cetera.
00:23:41.680But now they're being told, put Donald Trump behind bars and it will save the world.
00:23:45.160And I'm sorry, I just don't think the average voter believes that.
00:23:48.680And I think it's going to have the opposite effect.
00:24:09.800They really can't define, you know, who the victim is, what the crime is yet again.
00:24:13.680You know, similar story with all of these, you know, sham indictments and charges and prosecutions.
00:24:19.560And it's really just not a sexy issue.
00:24:21.680And, you know, I think President Trump understands that.
00:24:24.600And you also bring up a great point that a lot of these, you know, conventional GOP conservative consultants and grifters and hacks,
00:24:31.240they just come from this very, you know, linear world of politics.
00:24:34.840Like you said, maybe they did an internship, maybe they worked in a campaign.
00:24:37.960President Trump, you know, everyone talks about his real estate background.
00:24:40.060But in many ways, he's also a media mogul, both for his own personal brands and for many of the companies he's run.
00:24:46.180You know, a big part of his business empire was brand building.
00:24:49.040And that involves a lot of media strategy.
00:24:52.060That involves a lot of, you know, captivating the media, building up a media presence.
00:24:56.140So he understands some of these, you know, again, extrajudicial, extra legal ways to sort of build positives off of these, you know, apparent negatives with these cases.
00:25:07.700And I think he's been framing it right.
00:25:09.820I think he's been framing it not just as an attack on him, but as an attack on his supporters and the American Constitution and our institutions and our republic writ large.
00:25:19.060And I think that messaging and that narrative has largely been successful.
00:25:23.080And I don't think these cases have hurt his support.
00:25:25.940I think they've only emboldened his support, expanded his support.
00:25:29.700And, you know, it doesn't it also certainly helps that most of these cases are ridiculous to begin with.
00:25:35.140The people prosecuting them are ridiculous to begin with.
00:25:38.080I mean, let's stick to Manhattan for a second with Alvin Bragg.
00:25:40.560I mean, this is a guy that's letting, you know, career criminals walk the streets.
00:25:44.680People with rap sheets that go back 10, 20 years with multiple violent, you know, felonies and other violent crimes on their records.
00:25:52.420They basically just let everyone walk free.
00:25:55.340You know, they don't care about the victims of crime in New York.
00:25:58.340Everyone gets to walk away with a desk appearance ticket.
00:26:04.840Crime is through the roof in most American cities under these types of similar ideologically motivated DAs.
00:26:11.780And he's in no position to be lecturing anyone about the rule of law and law and order and criminality when he is allowing criminality to run rampant in his own jurisdiction.
00:26:23.520I mean, we see a story almost every week, every month about, you know, some violent thug, you know, doing something ridiculous, something criminal in Manhattan, getting to walk away scot-free.
00:26:33.940So you go from that, you go to Fannie Willis and her joke of a case down there in Georgia with the RICO charges and her, you know, disaster of corruption and patronage and dealing and dealing.
00:26:50.080As dumb as we know these cases are, let me ask you about this question to the left, right?
00:26:56.360And I'm sure you talk to people who are Democrats or just people in your personal life who have this sort of get Trump attitude.
00:27:01.900They, it's not so much that they hate Trump.
00:27:03.840It's that they, I mean, they do in a sense, but they have TDS in the sense, what, what does TDS mean?
00:27:08.180It means they actually think that you will save the world by putting Trump behind bars or proving that he's a business cheat, even though they can't actually find, you know, anyone to, that he's done business with to say this other than someone who's like disgruntled.
00:27:20.880And so how much trouble are they going to have going to the average voter and saying, look, we know, look, we're not locking up criminals.
00:27:30.880Our cities are overflowing with migrants.
00:27:32.500They're attacking police officers all over New York City.
00:27:36.220But at the same time, and the economy is completely in the crapper, but, but if we put Trump behind bars, that will save the world.
00:27:43.380It's just not going to connect, is it?
00:27:47.580And I, it just goes to show that this is why President Trump has been performing consistently well in the polls with a large and sizable margin, not just a national polling, but a state level polling and battleground polling and polling of different, you know, demographic cohorts.
00:28:02.520And it just goes to show that President Biden has really been languishing around the 40 percent mark and his approval ratings are at all time lows, historic lows, low, you know, lower than President Trump is now.
00:28:14.400So in many ways, it's because of their messaging.
00:28:17.480They really have nothing to offer the American people, the electorate, you know, the country at large, besides attacking President Trump, you know, demonizing President Trump.
00:28:26.560That's not a, that's not a winning message.
00:28:30.560That's not fixing, you know, interest rates, mortgages.
00:28:33.060That's not fixing underemployment and unemployment.
00:28:35.500I mean, it's not fixing, you know, the chaos that's embroiling from Ukraine to Israel to the Red Sea to the China, the Sea of China with Taiwan.
00:28:45.520I mean, the entire world is on fire right now.
00:28:47.520And all the Democrats have to offer the American people are these phony sham prosecutions and, you know, attacking President Trump is the source of all their problems.
00:28:58.580And he's been out of office for how many years now?
00:29:00.820So it just goes to show they have no campaign.
00:29:25.960It dives into the history of the American body politic, and it uses that history and current trends to describe the future.
00:29:32.440And I believe, and my co-author Troy Olson, believe that the future of American politics, and in some cases the future of most politics in the Western world,
00:29:40.340is one of an ascendant and emerging populist majority, a majority of people that are completely discontent and disgruntled with these runaway, with these out-of-touch elites who are creating these problems,
00:29:53.380who are managing the decline of Western society, Western nations, and particularly the United States,
00:29:58.860who are advancing all of these concepts that we all know very dearly, whether it's globalization, open borders, forever wars,
00:30:06.040constant foreign military interventions, this cultural Marxist agenda, tearing down of traditional institutions, traditional cultural moors, all these types of things.
00:30:17.380I mean, we're facing an onslaught against, you know, all of Western civilization, and it's all coming from this sort of corrupt, rotten, out-of-touch elite.
00:30:25.360And the counter to a rotten, out-of-touch elite is an emerging populist majority.