After a jury cleared a Marine veteran who placed a chokehold that led to the death of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway, Daniel Penney was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says that a woman has died after getting into a car wreck with a police officer who was responding to a reported bomb threat in Rome.
00:25:41.100I happen to think that that is the correct approach.
00:25:44.300I somewhat lament the expiration of the GEC, because while it is much better than what it has been in its previous pernicious form,
00:25:55.260imagine if the GEC were commandeered by somebody who thinks along our lines, who repurposes it for a free speech orientation.
00:26:05.360That could be very powerful, and I think it's something to take very seriously when viewing this kind of censorship architecture generally,
00:26:15.700that this can and probably should be repurposed if somebody with the appropriate energy and insight and knowledge and capability
00:26:26.480could be put at the helm of these respective institutions.
00:26:29.860Well, I think that's exactly right, because you've got a situation now where you can actually take that and spin it back on itself.
00:26:37.620Plus, by the way, and this is where Benz came in, because of the nature of these organizations, like CISA,
00:26:44.200they operate in this public-private space.
00:26:48.000So the first thing you've got to do, of course, is pull the funding from the public to the private,
00:26:54.560so get rid of any of that, and we called it, we were talking about severing the umbilical cord between the federal government and academia.
00:27:04.200By the way, something I support completely across the board, but also, we need to find out just how closely were these organizations
00:27:14.600operating with elements of the federal government.
00:27:18.680We need to also look at the receipts of, okay, so they were listening to our podcast and they made some quotes and some reports.
00:27:29.280But then the question is, did the federal government then go and take that report and send it to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
00:27:39.360or any other, Google, YouTube, and others, and say, hey, these are Kremlin narratives, and we need to be de-ranking them.
00:27:48.300Here is a private report that was written, and you can see where this all goes forward.
00:27:53.480This is how the censorship industry actually works.
00:27:57.280So we need to find out where the tentacles lead before we can actually get this done.
00:28:04.100Now, that by the same token, though, Darren, I guess, as you say, if true information were able to actually be supported by this type of organization,
00:28:14.780wouldn't it make sense then to say, I don't know, reward people who are actually speaking the truth?
00:28:21.480I would go even further, and I would say that just in the same way as these organizations,
00:28:27.540keep in mind that GEC was primarily, it really by its foundational purpose, given its position in the State Department,
00:28:37.220supposed to be focused toward outward communications, not domestic.
00:28:41.300And they're incubating civil society organizations across Europe and overseas to fulfill various foreign policy objectives.
00:28:51.060So I think there could be a repurposing opportunity for these types of groups to actually incubate a civil society architecture that is pro-free speech.
00:29:05.620Because, you know, for instance, some organization like GEC, there are some legitimate functions to,
00:29:12.540we do need to have some position of messaging in relation to overseas, the overseas domain.
00:29:19.780But what we don't have to do is, the groups that we're funding for legitimate national security or foreign policy functions,
00:29:26.860we can make sure that their ancillary activity or their other activity is very much in line with America First and American values,
00:29:35.920rather than subverting the First Amendment, as was the case before.
00:29:39.840So there's a real opportunity to incubate an entire civil society architecture that is not in promotion of this disinformation censorship scam,
00:29:51.800but quite the contrary, is in promotion of free speech objectives.
00:29:56.980And so I think that's one of the several opportunities that could be seized upon if, again, the appropriate person who's energetic,
00:30:06.540has the right vision, has the right knowledge, were to take over these institutions.
00:30:12.180So I think that's the most preferable outcome.
00:30:17.580The worst outcome is what we've had under Biden, which is these were very much hostile and actuated against the constitutional liberties of the American people.
00:31:50.920You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:31:52.320We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who'll be getting Pulisic.
00:31:59.740All right, Jack, so we're back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:32:04.380So massive victory from President Trump one month ago.
00:32:09.600And so many people are focused on the transition.
00:32:13.600I know we certainly are here that it's almost like we haven't stepped back and really started analyzing not just the overall arc of how President Trump won,
00:32:24.420but the specific groups that were key to this victory, groups, by the way, that hadn't voted in some cases for a Republican in years or other cases ever.
00:32:35.640And Ryan Gerdusky has written this incredible piece over at the American Conservative.
00:32:41.640It's a long piece, but it's well worth your time because it does go through the full story of the election, really from about 2022, early 2023 to the election itself,
00:32:55.240and walks through the ups and downs, but specifically gets into that coalition of supporters that President Trump was able to put together
00:33:03.980and then offers at the end a sort of message to Republicans that goes with the title,
00:33:09.960a governing majority if you can keep it, playing off the old Ben Franklin quote.
00:33:21.240I mean, for the very first time in two decades, Republicans actually have a governing majority.
00:33:26.460It's something that we're not used to playing for, you know, a minority of the national votes.
00:33:32.140Republicans had it in the House and they had it in the presidential election,
00:33:35.580and they would have had it in the Senate if the states were a little different or if there was a national one where every state was competitive in.
00:33:42.440But that being said, I looked back when writing this piece of the American Conservative magazine,
00:33:46.960and thank you for reading it and talking about it, I looked back at the last two years,
00:33:52.600because in the afterglow of such a big election victory, it's almost unfounding how much of a comeback this election was.
00:34:03.000Two years ago, 20 months ago, actually 24 months ago now, Trump was in the worst place he was in since 2016.
00:34:11.200I mean, things were not really going fantastic for him.
00:34:14.920And he he had a Nixonian style comeback, one that you don't see in real life ever.
00:34:22.680And Nixon is the only person within anyone's living memory that we've seen such a comeback.
00:34:27.020And not only to defeat his Republican primary opponents, but then to defeat two Democrats, which is really what he did.
00:34:34.100I looked back and saw one by one how he reassembled both his party base, which was very fragile back in 2023,
00:34:42.020and then a national majority to give him the presidency, win every swing state and put some blue states within within, you know, an inch of flipping and had Joe Biden still been the nominee.
00:34:53.600I believe they all would have flipped.
00:34:58.000And this really is the big piece of it, because one of the flips that I saw, and I've been talking about it for a while,
00:35:05.500but I haven't really dug into it as much was and it's, you know, it's kind of our generation, man.
00:35:32.520It's so hard to explain to you if you don't remember 2008 and how much of a movement Barack Obama was.
00:35:41.140And I would hear millennials talk about him like he was the second coming of Jesus.
00:35:46.860And this whole thing was media instituted.
00:35:50.460And something incredible has happened that 2024 really was the end of a certain era of politics.
00:35:59.120And certainly, I think the end of the Obama era, the end of the neoliberal era, and really just kind of the end of him really having a major influence in our national conversation.
00:36:11.120And you you kind of see that reflected in the way that so many millennials, which were his coalition,
00:36:17.620have now moved over to Trump and Vance and others who are actually going to do something about this.
00:36:25.000And oh, by the way, you can you can even kind of see that reflected in Trump's Trump's nominees,
00:36:30.980because Hegseth and J.D. Vance himself and Tulsi, not only are they veterans, they're the GWAT, you know,
00:36:37.300global war and terror veterans who believed so much of the stuff that was going around back then and then have moved off.
00:36:43.160But but not to get into the nominees, but Gerdusky, talk to me about millennials moving away from Obama.
00:36:48.920Right. I think that if you look back, I mean, remember what years we came into adulthood and came into our formative years,
00:36:57.200which was the Bush years and the second term of Bush.
00:37:00.240I mean, the first term he was very well respected because of 9-11.
00:37:03.400But the second term of Bush, it was really a horrific presidency.
00:37:08.320The second term of Bush, I mean, it was awful.
00:37:10.620There was very little positives you could say about it from the gutting and manufacturing to the endless war on terror that was drilled,
00:37:17.500you know, that put thousands of people either in body bags or came back with horrible PTSD and the inflation and the the stock market crash.
00:37:27.460All of those things culminated at the end of the Bush presidency.
00:37:30.600So to still want to be a Republican post George W. Bush was like announcing that you were a leper.
00:37:37.120It was very, very, very strange if you were a millennial.
00:37:39.740There was a genuine groundswell of support for Barack Obama that that did feel like a movement, a youth movement.
00:37:48.500It's taken 20 years or nearly 20 years to really come out of that.
00:37:53.620You know, cultural fights like gay marriage was put a lot of millennials into the Democratic quarter.
00:37:58.460They're not. It's not an issue anymore.
00:38:00.900Abortion wasn't an issue for millennials the way that many people thought that it would be.
00:38:05.380It's not like many 35 year olds are, you know, a lot of them are a married or be never planning to marry or have full control of their body autonomy.
00:38:15.360So it's not all the cultural flashpoints that the left has been using and banking on for nearly 20 years really have gone by the wayside.
00:38:24.000The economic standpoint for millennials who are looking for their first home or their second home or whatever the case are trying to afford maybe private school for their children.
00:38:33.180It's become economically unavailable to them, things that were in within reach a couple of years ago.
00:38:41.640And I spoke to someone who I remember they were they voted Republican for the very first time ever for the governor of the Connecticut governor's race.
00:38:49.960And that was in 2022. And they're like, I feel weird about it, but this is not working.
00:38:54.760And there was these slow moving things throughout the years where I think by 2024 they were like, this is this what I have believed in, what I have done is clearly not working.
00:39:05.480And the issues of like Ukraine or democracy or whatnot or abortion, they care about them to a certain extent, but not more than their pocketbook, not more than than the price of groceries, not more than their personal safety, not more than their ability to buy a home.
00:39:19.760And Donald Trump did something very, very specific in this election cycle since the Bush administration to be a Republican meant you had to really whisper about it in most corners of the country.
00:39:34.160Donald Trump made himself and thus Republicans as a whole, a bigger, I want to say, for lack of a term, more socially appropriate thing.
00:39:44.940You know, Trump's Trump going to UFC fights was an event within itself who would stop by and say hello to him with Trump going on a million podcasts was super, super important for people who consume that, not just like 18 year old, 20 year olds, most 30 year olds is how they get their news from.
00:40:00.620And people who are intellectually curious, you want to hear, I wrote this in the American conservative piece, you want to hear, you know, Trump talk about Jeffrey Epstein, there's a podcast episode, or how about aliens, it's a podcast episode, inflation, there's a podcast episode, immigration, whatever the case is.
00:40:15.220He became more relatable through these events, while Kamala Harris, through her celebrity endorsements like Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce became less, less relatable.
00:40:30.800You know, the average person cannot relate to Oprah Winfrey or Taylor Swift or Beyonce, but Andrew Schultz is much more relatable or Joe Rogan is relatable to a lot of people, despite being super wealthy, because that's how they've made their their money.
00:40:43.100That's how they made their fortune is by being a relatable personality who doesn't come across as untouchable because they're so famous.
00:40:50.340And Donald Trump, as a man who's been wealthy his whole life and famous, most of his life, most longer than most people alive, the average American's life has been more famous than became an approachable person.
00:41:03.140The ability in the last 22 months to change a public image by somebody who is universally known is almost unheard of.
00:41:13.280And I think that that came through his the way he approached media and also I think by his indictments, he went from being a quote unquote bully to a martyr for a lot of people and all that I think really worked, especially within the 30 to 45 age range.
00:41:30.160No, I think that's exactly right. And I love the piece there that you put together.
00:41:34.220We have a quick break here, but this is huge. In the next segment, though, I want to talk about your contention that this is a coalition.
00:41:43.280That potentially has legs for future and more and more elections going forward.
00:41:48.280Stay tuned. Ryan Grodowski, the MAGA governing majority. Stay tuned.
00:42:00.580Jack is a great guy. He's written that fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it.
00:42:06.100And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:42:09.600And we're going to turn it around and make sure it's actually quite a good day. Amen.
00:42:13.640Okay. Jack Postobiec back. Human events daily. Here we are. We're on with Ryan Grodowski.
00:42:22.660So, Grodowski, walk me through this. Look, President Trump, he can't run again.
00:42:28.040We have a constitution that says so and no real chance of, you know, I don't think any real discussion of that being changed anytime soon.
00:42:36.560So, what's MAGA to do with this governing majority that's been put together here?
00:42:43.900Right. And as I wrote in, it's in the American conservative magazine, amconmag.com.
00:42:48.380It's called The Governing Majority, if you can keep it, is the article.
00:42:53.180So, what I write about is specifically coalitions of new people and the same that Nixon brought evangelicals and white southerners and neoconservatives and ethnic whites into the party in 1968 to build his first governing majority, which won five of the next six presidential elections.
00:43:09.800Trump has brought a lot of minorities, inner city minorities, especially Asians and Latinos, suburban and ex-urban minorities, which are a specifically large amount in some cities, suburbs.
00:43:25.600We think suburbs are all white. They're very, very diverse now.
00:43:28.280And young men, especially. How you continue this is very, very important going into the future, because when someone casts a vote for a Republican presidential candidate for the very first time, they have not signed up yet to be a Republican.
00:43:45.580And it is very common, as it was with Nixon and with Reagan and George H.W. Bush and even George W. Bush, a lot of people with long traditional history of voting Democrat would vote Republican at the top of the ballot and Democrat down.
00:43:59.980That's why the South remains solidly Democrat all throughout the Nixon and Reagan area, even though they were voting for Reagan.
00:44:06.040There were still Southern Democrats, Southern white Democrats going to George W. Bush.
00:44:10.720States like West Virginia didn't flip till like 2012, 2014.
00:44:13.920So these things take a long time in some cases.
00:44:17.840I think with right now with the left being so insane and we're seeing this a lot right now with the with a penny case over in New York where they're defending criminality, homelessness, all the worst elements of urban plight and saying, no, this is normative.
00:44:34.700And this should this this this is the real problem was a white guy protecting people, not a black person who had mental health issues, criminality and homelessness, or they call it the unhoused now.
00:44:46.040Their need to root for societal breakdown, I think, really pushes a lot of people to question long held political alliances.
00:44:58.680If Republicans really double down on this effort to make life healthier, more affordable, more secure, protect our borders and really reach into MAGA issues that were a step further away from, let's say, the Reagan issues.
00:45:17.0801980 is not bashing Ronald Reagan. It's just a completely different time. It's been half a century for older viewers who get, you know, very, very, you know, angry when you say anything negative Reagan.
00:45:26.780If you lean into these new issues, I think you will create a pattern where you'll see the suburbs of New York City, which includes New Jersey and parts of Connecticut, moving, moving further Republican, New Jersey becoming a Republican state, young people rather than breaking 70, 30 or 75, 25, breaking 55, 45 and then eventually become a majority Republican.
00:45:51.800All of these things, young black men, young black men, young white men, which were moving more Democratic up till this last election, young white men were also being beaten down by it, really sitting there and saying that the left's support for anarchy and rooting against civilization is antithetical to American values.
00:46:13.260By the way, I would even throw, I would throw New Hampshire in that bucket as well. I think New Hampshire is right for those demographics. Oh, yeah.
00:46:21.020Yeah. Yeah. I know a lot of people haven't mentioned it, but that's I think New Hampshire is right there.
00:46:26.800Yeah. I mean, listen, New Hampshire was considered. Why even bother going there when JD went to campaign there? It was a two point state. Minnesota was a two point state. This is not that far away from getting there.
00:46:37.760Maine was only, I think, seven points and New Mexico was five. This is this is very, very, very winnable. This is very easily to get. And I think that we can get there.
00:46:49.740It doesn't have to be a situation where we are always dependent upon, you know, three Midwestern states as much as you love Pennsylvania, but that we're always dependent upon them.
00:46:59.900I think we can grow the map and I think we can grow the map based upon this new coalition.
00:47:04.520Trump got within six of New Jersey. There's no reason why we can't win the governorship and make it a one point, two point state.
00:47:11.840Remember, Jersey was Republican from 1968 to 1988. Every election is going to say New Jersey is a former Republican state anyway.
00:47:18.640So it already generally has the demographics that you would expect. Now, immigration has obviously played a huge role in that.
00:47:24.980But there are ways through this path to be able to get back to it.
00:47:27.640And in right, you know, in addition to that, you know, you you're looking at so many of these states going forward that it it it just makes sense.
00:47:36.860It just makes so much sense to try to expand the map. And I'll throw out that, you know, if we get the census figured out, then we'll already be able to to.
00:47:44.440I mean, you get the census figured out that you're you are probably going to win more electoral votes just in terms of internal migration in the country than like the state of Wisconsin is worth in terms.
00:47:57.460Well, do you want to hear the craziest thing since 2020 is the last presidential election cycle based on current trends where we will need a single Midwestern state?
00:48:07.060Republicans could win winning every single state that Trump won outside of Michigan, Wisconsin.
00:48:12.580And Ryan, before we before we sign off, I hear there's a special announcement that you wanted to make regarding place where people can go to find all these fantastic insights that you have.
00:48:23.960Yes. Thank you so much, Jack. I am launching a new podcast on the Buck and Clay Network for iHeartRadio.
00:48:29.720It's called It's a Numbers Game with Ryan Gerdusky, where I will be breaking down statistics and data.
00:48:35.100Very, very important once a week and describing why you should learn about it and what you should know about it.
00:48:39.960So thank you for giving me that shout out.
00:48:42.580Well, that's absolutely incredible. Congratulations, by the way, hugely earned, fantastic book that you wrote a while back on populism.
00:48:51.880Now a huge podcast coming forward. And of course, we all love Ryan Gerdusky's his run on CNN, his epic run where he flew straight into the sun, straight into the face of the sun.
00:49:05.680And just just like, I'm going for broke. I know they're going to fire me anyway. So we'll have to your first episode should be all the all the greatest hits.
00:49:17.260Thanks. Right. Guys, go give Ryan a follow. Go follow his new podcast. Make sure you check that out when it comes and go watch the C&E clips because they're just some of the greatest things you'll ever see.
00:49:26.600Scott Jennings does all right. But Ryan went absolutely into the paint. Folks, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a great week.
00:49:33.380And as always, you have my permission to lay it short.