The Auron MacIntyre Show - August 05, 2024


Immigration Chaos Rages in the UK | Guest: David Azerrad | 8⧸5⧸2024


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1 hour and 11 minutes

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165.5877

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11,766

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669

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

57


Summary

David Azrad joins me to discuss the riots in the United Kingdom, and why the over-35s are the most likely to be involved in these kinds of protests. He also talks about the new program, Job Stacking, which is designed to help you stack multiple paycheques from different jobs without burning out or getting caught by employers.


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00:00:38.020 Hard to ignore the news coming out of the United Kingdom.
00:00:42.140 There have been large-scale riots across the country.
00:00:45.700 Over 35 protests in response to a stabbing spree
00:00:50.000 that occurred there at a young girl's dance school.
00:00:53.220 This has sent the entire country into quite a fight
00:00:57.100 with different protests and counter-protests,
00:00:59.860 Native Britons versus many Islamic gangs marching around fighting each other.
00:01:04.480 Buildings have been set on fire.
00:01:06.360 Unfortunately, this is part of a larger trend of many Western nations
00:01:10.820 who seem more than willing to continue to leave their borders open
00:01:14.480 in defiance of the will of their people.
00:01:16.500 And this is having predictable effects on their native populations.
00:01:20.420 Joining me to discuss that today is David Azrad.
00:01:23.500 Thanks for joining me, man.
00:01:25.020 Thanks for having me, Oren.
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00:03:43.840 So for those that are unfamiliar, what happened, the reason that we saw this violence in the U.K.
00:03:51.200 right now is that a 17-year-old who is apparently a second-generation migrant, he was born in Britain,
00:03:58.420 but there has been many different instances of terrorism, knife crime, other immigration-driven
00:04:05.320 crime inside of the U.K.
00:04:07.680 And when the 17-year-old decided to go to this dance camp for children, for young girls,
00:04:13.780 I guess it was some Taylor Swift-themed event, he ended up stabbing three children to death
00:04:20.080 and eight others were injured.
00:04:22.080 This created, as you might imagine, quite the outcry.
00:04:25.380 And that's why we ended up with this wide-ranging protest movement.
00:04:28.760 Over 35 cities were involved.
00:04:31.480 35 separate protests were involved.
00:04:33.480 Many of them did turn into violent riots, even though some of them obviously remained peaceful.
00:04:41.200 And in response to that, we saw many Muslim groups then come into the streets, start bringing
00:04:46.400 their own protests and violence into those situations.
00:04:50.840 The government, for their part, has freaked out, as you might imagine.
00:04:55.600 Keir Starmer, who's the new labor head of the British government, has basically said,
00:05:01.620 we're going to crack down, not on immigrants or knife crime or any of these things, really,
00:05:07.140 but it is the native population.
00:05:09.160 He's labeled everyone who is protesting out there far right.
00:05:12.740 He's made it clear that people attending these events will have very, very serious punishment.
00:05:16.800 In fact, he's even said that he's going to have a standing army of agents ready to break
00:05:21.820 this up at any moment, which has rubbed a lot of people who have been waiting for something
00:05:26.300 like a standing army to repel many of the immigrants coming into the country quite the wrong way,
00:05:32.580 as they realize that there is plenty of available force to push back against riots or protests
00:05:41.720 when they happen to be native-born Britons, but not so much when it's immigrant crime inside
00:05:46.340 the country.
00:05:46.860 So, David, my question for you is, this is a trend we see across many different Western nations,
00:05:55.380 especially Ireland not that long ago had their own violent outbursts due to a migrant crime,
00:06:01.920 another knife attack targeting children in their country.
00:06:05.180 Why do we see this obsession with open borders, basically, at any cost with so many European
00:06:10.860 nations and no interest from their leadership about pushing back,
00:06:14.980 as obviously the immigrants that enter often don't integrate well and bring violence in
00:06:21.820 many instances?
00:06:23.840 I think it's a convergence of two distinct worldviews.
00:06:28.980 You have the worldview of the ruling class and the elites, which I broadly define as neoliberal,
00:06:35.820 and then you have the worldview of the left, and I would distinguish the two, meaning there
00:06:41.000 are a lot of establishment powerful people who will, in their heart of hearts, are more committed
00:06:45.980 to profits than they are to leftist ideology.
00:06:49.460 They may mount the platitude, but the justification is different.
00:06:52.540 So, you know, one of the core tenets of the post-Cold War neoliberal order is something approaching
00:06:59.840 open borders and touting the economic benefits of immigration.
00:07:03.800 You know, immigrants are doing jobs.
00:07:06.440 I mean, you know, you've heard these arguments, right?
00:07:07.980 They're doing jobs that Americans won't do.
00:07:09.720 And look, I should say, there is some truth to that in the sense of, you know, a lot of
00:07:15.860 these immigrants are hungrier and harder working than some segments of the working class in
00:07:22.800 the West who have grown, you know, a bit lazy, and we think some jobs are beneath us.
00:07:26.840 Now, we may be willing to do these jobs, but at a much higher wage, maybe, than the immigrants
00:07:31.440 are.
00:07:32.320 But so one reason for the incessant influx of immigration is the interest of big business.
00:07:40.560 And look, to some extent, you know, the elites outside of big business who want the nannies,
00:07:47.400 who want the golf caddies, you know, fill in the list of jobs that they want done cheaply.
00:07:52.700 But then you have the left.
00:07:55.060 You know, the center hold of the left is obviously the academy.
00:07:57.980 And from there, the ideas radiate out into the broader society.
00:08:02.240 And there, the justification is, basically, they still have the trauma of the Holocaust.
00:08:08.560 And the lesson they took from the Holocaust is not that anti-Semitism is bad or that German
00:08:13.540 fascism is bad, is that white people are dangerous and that white hate is dangerous.
00:08:19.500 And I think in their minds, the only safeguard against another Holocaust or a variation thereof,
00:08:24.060 i.e. slavery, Jim Crow, is to reduce whites to a minority within their own country.
00:08:30.220 And so for them, it's a moral imperative because, as Susan Sontag said in the 60s, white people
00:08:37.280 are a race of, you know, no, race of devils as Malcolm X.
00:08:41.780 Susan Sontag said white people are the cancer of humanity.
00:08:45.600 These sentiments are, you know, they're not going to be expressed by the CEO of a Fortune 500
00:08:51.320 company, but they're quite common in the academy.
00:08:54.420 And so basically, these two very powerful interest groups that have some overlap, the elites and
00:08:59.500 the left, agree that we need a lot of immigration, preferably from the third world.
00:09:06.320 And then even if people in the elites might have some reservations, like you may say, well,
00:09:11.780 it's not good for business to have life.
00:09:14.580 It's not good for business to have the kind of, you know, Northern African underclass that
00:09:19.980 exists in France that are collecting welfare.
00:09:22.700 This is where the moral power of the left to come in.
00:09:25.960 Everyone's afraid of being called a racist.
00:09:28.280 So if you were to have the temerity, I mean, you know this.
00:09:31.500 You can't say, I want to maintain the current demographic composition of the country.
00:09:37.240 That is literally Nazism.
00:09:39.620 And who wants to put up with that?
00:09:41.360 So it basically falls on the right to try to have to oppose that.
00:09:46.060 But the right to is compromised because a large part of the right has bought into the neoliberal
00:09:51.280 ideology that immigrants are great.
00:09:53.220 We're a nation of immigrants.
00:09:54.820 And then another part lives in traumatizing fear of being called racist by the left.
00:09:59.940 And so it's the perfect storm.
00:10:02.440 It continues incessantly.
00:10:04.160 You say, why are there protests?
00:10:05.560 Because the people have consistently made clear that the levels of immigration are too
00:10:11.700 high and that they're not happy.
00:10:13.420 And then they're dismissed as racists who cling to their guns and their religion.
00:10:17.360 And the elites double down.
00:10:18.940 And so if you deny the legitimate sentiments of the people, a normal democratic outlet, like
00:10:25.480 voting for someone who will reduce immigration, then it explodes periodically.
00:10:30.480 Because the people are not happy with this.
00:10:32.460 They suffer the price much more than people who can afford to insulate themselves from
00:10:38.180 the immigration and live in the swanky neighborhoods.
00:10:41.080 And so it erupts.
00:10:42.160 I mean, I'm not making excuses for the rioting, but, you know, I suspect they probably feel that
00:10:49.180 no one listens to them.
00:10:50.340 And so they take to the streets.
00:10:51.420 And it seems to me it would be perfectly reasonable and compatible with democracy, liberalism to
00:10:59.040 say we should curtail, if not end mass immigration, give ourselves the time to digest and try to
00:11:06.280 assimilate this weight of immigration and then reassess in a few decades, assuming, you know,
00:11:11.680 we can even succeed in assimilating immigrants, which I think is an open question.
00:11:16.260 But that would not be Nazism, fascism.
00:11:19.660 It would be a perfectly normal democratic sentiment, but you're not allowed to express
00:11:23.040 it because that means you're trying to, I don't know, to keep America white.
00:11:26.580 It means you hate Muslims, none of which is true.
00:11:29.580 And so these legitimate concerns of the people are silenced and demonized.
00:11:34.280 And so they explode periodically.
00:11:35.520 I wonder, you know, you say this should be something that's completely compatible with
00:11:41.500 democracy and liberalism.
00:11:43.980 And ideologically, that probably makes some level of sense.
00:11:47.520 But in practice, it seems that's not the case.
00:11:49.960 And so I guess the question is, when did this diverge?
00:11:53.540 It would seem, as you say, that the, you know, kind of the ruling, the managerial elite
00:11:57.520 have a particular desire to continue this open borders policy.
00:12:03.100 Then the left have their own moral justifications for this.
00:12:07.060 The right, I think, is often complicit in many ways, especially, I think, particularly because
00:12:12.720 the idea that all Western nations are propositional nations has become so dominant.
00:12:18.520 Even, you know, you might have some, I still disagree with it, but you might have some argument
00:12:22.400 with that in something like the United States.
00:12:24.420 But obviously, in a place like the United Kingdom, there are white people native to that
00:12:29.780 island.
00:12:30.040 There is no argument about how they came over and conquered the island and oppressed the
00:12:34.880 people there.
00:12:35.700 Just this entire narrative doesn't apply.
00:12:38.300 And yet somehow, you know, you still get guys like Starmer saying, oh, well, it's about
00:12:42.300 British values.
00:12:43.400 It's really, or even, you know, the British right are largely talking about, it's got to
00:12:47.620 be about British values.
00:12:48.880 And so, you know, there's no opposition in that area.
00:12:53.380 And it seems like even though the ability to shut these borders should, again, be compatible
00:12:59.420 with the ruling ideology that, you know, that they claim to value, the defense of democracy,
00:13:05.840 we continually see that in fact, they keep betraying this.
00:13:11.000 They keep saying, no, this is off the table, completely unaccessible to us, and often leaning
00:13:16.240 on that idea of the propositional nature of the nations.
00:13:18.900 And it just reveals to me that ultimately, they don't believe in democracy, or rather
00:13:23.940 that they have, you know, a very strange definition of democracy, which is basically what the people
00:13:29.640 would vote for if they were smart enough to know what's good for them, and they weren't
00:13:33.140 so bigoted and didn't have their minds so corrupted by nationalism, chauvinism, and Christianity.
00:13:38.860 So I would say this reveals that they are the ones who are illiberal and ultimately anti-democratic.
00:13:45.600 But I think it's an eminently defensible position to claim the mantle of democracy, as I would,
00:13:51.340 or of liberalism.
00:13:52.460 I mean, admittedly, the term is open to some, you know, disagreements, but broadly speaking,
00:13:57.140 the idea of separation of church and state, government by consent, the rule of law and equal
00:14:01.300 rights for all.
00:14:02.440 I mean, look at the founders.
00:14:04.580 I mean, the founders didn't use the label liberal, but they believed in government by consent,
00:14:08.860 in the rights of man, in the separation of church and state, and the rule of law.
00:14:13.160 And look at the immigration policies they enacted, you know, the 1790, 1792, and 1795
00:14:19.160 Immigration and Naturalization Acts, restrict immigration to free whites of good character.
00:14:25.420 Now, you can disagree with that as a matter of policy, but it would take quite the level
00:14:30.820 of temerity to claim that, I don't know, you know, you understood American republicanism better
00:14:36.080 than the founders did.
00:14:36.940 And, you know, when they did things that were in contradiction with their principles,
00:14:41.240 like slavery, they all knew it and admitted it.
00:14:43.700 Like, you're never going to find Jefferson defending slavery as a matter of principle.
00:14:47.500 He knew full well that all men means all men and that, therefore, slavery is in contradiction.
00:14:51.640 Whereas, when it comes to these immigration policies, where do you find any remorse from
00:14:57.280 the founders saying, oh, this is incompatible with our principles?
00:14:59.660 It isn't.
00:15:01.020 So I think it's important to do that because, well, the main advantage they have morally is
00:15:08.640 browbeating us into submission by calling us racist, by calling us fascist.
00:15:13.460 I mean, I don't, we don't need to go over this, especially not with you and with your audience.
00:15:18.180 But I refuse to give up the mantle of, I don't know, America, democracy, republicanism, liberalism,
00:15:26.160 whatever you want to call it, in opposing immigration.
00:15:28.640 It is most emphatically not incompatible with, you know, whatever the professed ideals of
00:15:36.760 democracy are.
00:15:37.520 And they are the ones who distort them.
00:15:40.440 And, but by the way, they do that on everything.
00:15:42.020 Like, when the people don't vote the right way on gay marriage, you stuff it down their
00:15:46.420 throats.
00:15:47.000 When the people don't accept affirmative action, the people have not been happy with affirmative
00:15:51.620 action for decades.
00:15:53.140 Well, you continue to stuff it down their throats.
00:15:55.680 And, you know, now that the courts are pushing back on something, suddenly watch the Democratic
00:16:00.700 Party and the left become anti-court.
00:16:02.620 So, you really see that they have redefined democracy to basically mean, I don't know how
00:16:10.580 cynical you want to be.
00:16:11.600 It could either be whatever the hell we want and what we think is right and we'll call it
00:16:15.660 democracy.
00:16:16.320 Or if you want to be slightly more generous is, well, what the people would actually want
00:16:21.060 if they didn't have their mind distorted by Fox News and UKIP and Donald Trump and then,
00:16:26.340 you know, the prejudices they have.
00:16:27.900 Like, if we could get them to be as enlightened as we are, then they would see it the way
00:16:32.620 we do.
00:16:33.880 So, we're going to drag them to democracy, kicking and screaming, and one day they may
00:16:37.820 thank us for this.
00:16:39.040 Well, you know, if that's what you think, that ain't democracy.
00:16:41.520 That's what you do to children.
00:16:43.140 It's not what you do to free citizens of a free country who have the right to vote.
00:16:47.040 I think in their minds, democracy is more of a global phenomenon, right?
00:16:51.320 It's kind of like the Schmittian, you know, he who invokes humanity is planning to cheat
00:16:59.000 a little bit there.
00:16:59.760 But, you know, you are an enemy of democracy.
00:17:02.260 You are outside the democracy because there's a global understanding of how we should be
00:17:07.000 as people.
00:17:07.920 And that's what democracy really means.
00:17:10.220 If the rest of the world had a say in this moment, they would vote with us.
00:17:14.260 And so, really, we're just bringing you to the table of what democracy absolutely has
00:17:18.280 to be at the end.
00:17:19.040 Yeah, with, of course, the important caveat that you'll notice that they're not pushing
00:17:23.960 these policies on non-Western nations.
00:17:29.380 I mean, no one is calling for, I don't know, massive, I mean, Africa has none of the diversity
00:17:35.340 that is supposedly our strength.
00:17:38.880 Where is the widespread effort, I don't know, to resettle Asians and whites there?
00:17:43.020 I mean, to even raise this is ludicrous, right?
00:17:45.460 I mean, who in the left would say we need to send more people to live in Africa?
00:17:50.520 I mean, that's colonialism.
00:17:51.720 That's evil for them.
00:17:52.740 So it is global, except it's only, only the joys of diversity are only ever imposed on
00:18:01.600 one set of countries and not on others.
00:18:05.720 So one issue that I think that I always wonder about is, you know, as you pointed out, there's
00:18:12.240 the, you know, you kind of have the ruling class, neoliberal, managerial, however you'd
00:18:15.740 like to identify it.
00:18:17.440 And then you have more the ideological true believers of the left.
00:18:20.700 And, you know, Sam Francis, uh, when he was in Leviathan, his enemies was talking about
00:18:26.180 how basically, uh, you know, at some point you had like the new left and it had to catch
00:18:30.200 up with the managerial regime.
00:18:31.640 And they, they had a similar, uh, goal.
00:18:34.040 They were, they were heading a similar direction, but basically the managers realized they had
00:18:37.480 to boil the frog slowly as where the, the radical ideological left wanted to happen now.
00:18:42.880 And this is why they appeared to be enemies.
00:18:44.580 The establishment and the left appeared to be enemies early on, but now they seem to
00:18:48.760 be approaching, approaching this, uh, this horizon where they kind of merge together.
00:18:53.480 But as the application of radical leftism has seeped into, I think kind of the managerial
00:19:00.480 formulas, more and more of the established managers have become true believers.
00:19:05.960 It seems to be that we're losing the brakes for this train that they can no longer figure
00:19:10.360 out where the, uh, the application of ideology for, uh, the app for the acquirement or for
00:19:17.020 acquiring power starts and where the, uh, you know, the actual benefits of it end.
00:19:22.100 And so we ended up the scenario where they buy into policies that seem to doom their society,
00:19:27.920 even though they're supposed to be kind of these cold reasoning, uh, managers who, who are
00:19:32.460 really only interested in operating this global empire.
00:19:35.100 Yeah.
00:19:36.100 And in making money, um, you know, the, the, there's a poem I love by Alexander Pope.
00:19:42.680 It opens by saying, search thou the ruling passion.
00:19:45.860 There, the wild are constant and the cunning known, uh, to me, the ruling passion of the
00:19:50.980 managerial elite would be greed and the ruling passion of the left would be, um, I think
00:19:59.340 resentment.
00:19:59.880 Um, this is something where I think Nietzsche is right.
00:20:03.600 Uh, resentment primarily directed at the success of the West and a hatred of the West, even
00:20:10.160 though they belong to it.
00:20:11.400 Now, I think the managerial elite, you said, many of them have become true believers, meaning
00:20:16.720 there are elements of the left that is now embedded in the corporations.
00:20:20.160 I think those who are not, how do they justify their actions?
00:20:25.720 I think it has to be a combination of either they partially believe their own lies, meaning
00:20:33.360 not the left's lies that we're a nation of immigrants.
00:20:35.980 This is no different than when the Irish came to America and the immigrants built this country,
00:20:41.600 uh, coupled with, uh, short termism.
00:20:46.220 Um, like there's a lot of money to be made and, you know, let's be honest, America is an
00:20:52.720 obscenely wealthy country.
00:20:54.240 I mean, I mean, if there's so much money here, life is so comfortable, at least at the top,
00:21:01.560 if you can insulate yourself from some of the bad aspects of it.
00:21:04.500 So they probably don't feel it that much.
00:21:08.460 Um, and then, like I said, I think the fear, like say you are, you know, the head of a major
00:21:15.760 corporation and you're starting to have second doubts about this mass immigration, what are
00:21:20.700 you going to do about it?
00:21:22.780 Like basically get crucified in the public square, uh, be socially ostracized in the big blue cities
00:21:30.520 where you live.
00:21:31.240 Like, you know, in America, it's much easier to come out of the closet as a homosexual than
00:21:36.340 it is as a Trump supporter.
00:21:38.200 You know, one side will, you'll get honor and pride and love.
00:21:41.600 If you come out as a, you know, you know, that, uh, curb your enthusiasm episode where
00:21:45.000 Larry starts wearing a MAGA cap because he wants to be left alone in public.
00:21:48.740 He doesn't want people to talk with him.
00:21:50.800 I mean, that might not work, you know, in many parts of America, but in Beverly Hills, of
00:21:55.720 course it'll work.
00:21:56.380 So the incentives are such that, I mean, occasionally you get some like these traders to their class.
00:22:05.280 You know, I mean, Tucker, I think is a great example.
00:22:07.320 And although, you know, he paid a price, like he lost the show and he's been pushed into the
00:22:12.240 internet.
00:22:12.480 Now I read recently that he has the most listened to podcast.
00:22:16.960 He, he beat out Joe Rogan.
00:22:18.600 So you've got, you've got to work a little bit harder to get there.
00:22:22.800 So there are still traders to their class.
00:22:25.120 I don't know if you, I mean, actually this is something I don't know.
00:22:27.500 Has Elon Musk said anything about immigration?
00:22:30.680 Do you know?
00:22:31.880 Yes.
00:22:32.120 He's been very clear that he's anti-illegal immigration, but pro large amounts of legal
00:22:37.240 immigration.
00:22:37.500 Okay.
00:22:37.760 So there you go.
00:22:38.520 Okay.
00:22:38.680 So he, yeah.
00:22:39.240 So he hasn't gone.
00:22:40.540 Then again, he's kind of libertarian ish.
00:22:42.600 Right.
00:22:42.820 I think in a lot of his sensibilities, but, um, all this to say is.
00:22:47.660 You know, the right is going to have to step up and, um, you know, almost all Western countries
00:22:56.140 have a significant populist movement.
00:23:00.360 One exception is my native land of Canada, which is, I think shows how cooked Canada is.
00:23:05.460 It kind of is astounding with the immigration and the problems that Canada has, that there
00:23:10.600 really is no Trump, Zemmour, Pierre Wilders, Victor Orban, forgetting power.
00:23:17.400 I mean, even in parliament, um, and if the right doesn't succeed, then there's no way
00:23:25.020 this ends well.
00:23:26.280 I mean, I don't know how it ends, but this is clearly not sustainable.
00:23:31.600 But, you know, I look, when I go home to Montreal, I feel it.
00:23:36.600 It's a marketplace.
00:23:37.880 It's a souk.
00:23:39.080 It's not a country.
00:23:40.640 I don't feel that there's any genuine coherence.
00:23:43.640 There's no large scale violence.
00:23:45.520 People generally get along.
00:23:47.940 But, you know, it's a bunch of people doing business with one another, living side by side.
00:23:51.800 You don't feel that there is a coherence.
00:23:54.640 And I think it's only going to get worse as there's more and more diversity.
00:23:59.320 And then how it all ends, I don't know.
00:24:01.140 But, yeah, I'm not counting on the managerial elite to one day decide.
00:24:07.460 I think they probably think we'll just get the hell out of Dodge one day.
00:24:11.560 And I don't know, relocate to Singapore or to Hong Kong.
00:24:14.520 Actually, I don't know.
00:24:15.500 I mean, I don't know what they're thinking.
00:24:17.600 I'm a lowly professor.
00:24:19.040 I'm not in contact with the bigwigs at Goldman Sachs.
00:24:22.620 But, you know, capital is mobile.
00:24:24.240 Well, China's rising, so maybe they think that, you know, if it gets really bad, we'll
00:24:29.100 just pack up and go.
00:24:31.080 Yeah, there's a reason you actually want your elites tied to the well-being of the places
00:24:35.620 they govern.
00:24:36.620 You don't want that.
00:24:37.480 You don't actually want your human capital to be that fluid.
00:24:41.020 Yeah.
00:24:41.740 Yeah.
00:24:42.080 So one of the issues that I think a lot of people look at and wonder about when we see
00:24:48.900 the, you know, like Starmer saying, I've got a, you know, I've got a standing army
00:24:53.260 I'm going to bring against these people.
00:24:54.680 We're going to go ahead and put an end to this right now.
00:24:57.780 Obviously, Canada had the trucker protests and, you know, there was a lot of manipulation.
00:25:02.140 There's a lot of Fox-style manipulation of financial systems, shutting people down, controlling
00:25:08.020 the media, making sure that your bank account got drained.
00:25:11.100 But at the end of the day, they still ended up, you know, taking a billy club and knocking,
00:25:15.560 you know, some heads and dragging truckers off of a bridge to end the protest.
00:25:19.920 I think one of the problems with a lot of these modern governments is that they have
00:25:25.360 swapped out a large amount of their security forces from being something that is competent
00:25:30.520 to being something that is ideologically aligned.
00:25:32.720 And to do that, they've had to enlist the, you know, a lot of women, a lot of people who,
00:25:37.560 you know, a lot of foot soldiers who probably aren't that great at being soldiers, but are
00:25:40.800 really good at absorbing propaganda.
00:25:42.980 And so I think they're in this strange scenario where they want to be intimidating.
00:25:46.760 They want to shut down these protests.
00:25:48.080 They recognize the danger.
00:25:49.520 I think this is why you see, for instance, the obscene overreaction to January 6th when
00:25:54.500 it came to the American ruling class, because for the first time in a long time, even though
00:25:58.820 the protests were relatively not violent compared to anything we saw in BLM, it still felt like
00:26:04.420 they might actually test the waters of what it meant to go up against lions instead of
00:26:09.180 foxes.
00:26:10.140 And so we ended up in this scenario where, you know, they're freaking out and they're, you
00:26:14.040 know, throwing every grandma who was in a hundred, a hundred miles of the Capitol during
00:26:18.760 that day into prison as long as possible.
00:26:21.460 But at some point you wonder, can these managerial types who are so bad at violence and have replaced
00:26:28.000 their security forces with a lot of people who aren't very good at applying it, can they
00:26:33.020 ultimately keep control of these nations should things turn south for them?
00:26:37.220 So you've always been picky about your produce, but now you find yourself checking every label
00:26:43.400 to make sure it's Canadian.
00:26:45.480 So be it.
00:26:46.560 At Sobeez, we always pick guaranteed fresh Canadian produce first.
00:26:50.820 Restrictions apply.
00:26:51.780 See in-store or online for details.
00:26:55.860 I gotta tell you, I never thought of it that way, but that would be a delicious irony if,
00:27:00.980 you know, basically, you know, I worry about wokeness getting into engineering.
00:27:05.220 I mean, bridges collapsing, getting into medicine, people dying on the operating table.
00:27:10.260 You're saying, what if it basically undermined the regime forces used to crack down on dissent?
00:27:21.520 Look, I think you've thought about this more than I have, but my initial reaction is no,
00:27:27.880 because you still have overwhelming force.
00:27:30.800 You have numbers.
00:27:33.740 You still have a lot of competent people.
00:27:36.360 Like, look at January 6th.
00:27:37.940 I mean, the Capitol Hill police seems to me to be not just morbidly obese elderly women.
00:27:45.320 And then you have the law.
00:27:48.180 Like, okay, maybe you don't, you know, beat out the 22-year-old in a fistfight,
00:27:53.680 but that's not what you need to do.
00:27:54.880 You just need to handcuff him and hand him over to the authorities,
00:27:58.100 and then the system takes care of it.
00:28:00.800 So, to me, I don't, I don't know, that'd be too cute by half,
00:28:06.560 or maybe it's wishful thinking to think that it'll collapse on its own that way when it's turned against us.
00:28:12.380 I think they have the ability to do a lot of harm to people,
00:28:16.180 which they are doing little by little.
00:28:18.040 I mean, look, we still, you know, look, you're still on the air, right?
00:28:22.300 So, I think our side has a tendency to get a bit too hysterical with America as an illegitimate tyranny.
00:28:29.080 I mean, come on, let's not get carried away, right?
00:28:32.320 There's, I think we live in a golden age of dissent.
00:28:35.920 I think it is easier today to access dissenting information than it ever has been.
00:28:41.400 Musk buying Twitter has definitely helped, but even independently of that,
00:28:44.980 you know, I was at Mount Holyoke last week, and of course, their bookstore is claiming to sell banned books.
00:28:51.140 I'm like, come on.
00:28:52.080 If they were banned books, you wouldn't be selling them.
00:28:53.840 These are not banned books.
00:28:54.800 This is like some public library in Wichita that said, we won't carry it.
00:28:58.400 You can get any book you want shipped to your house within 24 hours.
00:29:01.360 So, we still have a long way to go, but what worries me more than the police crackdown on mobs,
00:29:12.360 because part of it is, I don't know, I don't support mob violence on our side.
00:29:17.620 I mean, especially not on their side, but I don't think it's the solution is for us to start rioting.
00:29:23.160 I do think we should start protesting, and I think there's a lot that could be done within the bounds of the law
00:29:27.800 without beating up civilians and setting fire to cities.
00:29:32.720 I also don't see what good will come from that.
00:29:36.420 What worries me more is the lawfare.
00:29:38.880 It's like the Doug Mackeys of the world.
00:29:42.460 And there, I guess, yeah, there also, you know,
00:29:44.700 wokeness is going to erode the competence of the prosecutors, of the judges,
00:29:49.940 but ultimately, this is still, the regime has a lot of power.
00:29:55.120 And what these episodes reveal is that,
00:29:57.800 they don't secure the border or stop the George Floyd riots,
00:30:01.760 it's not because they can't, but it's because they won't.
00:30:04.500 Because when they decide to do something, they're actually somewhat capable.
00:30:09.700 Not as capable as they maybe once were.
00:30:12.660 Look at the pier in Gaza, what a farce that was.
00:30:15.440 The U.S. military, $300 million pissed out into the ocean.
00:30:19.760 And what a farce this shows.
00:30:22.180 Of course, we are in some regards.
00:30:24.860 But I still fear, I think we should still fear the regime.
00:30:29.540 And I think the one thing I want to make clear is I said we're not a tyranny.
00:30:32.980 I don't think we will be in the short future,
00:30:35.300 but things are definitely trending in that direction.
00:30:37.980 In terms of more and more dissent, more and more repression, more and more censorship.
00:30:44.760 That I'm not at all blind to it.
00:30:46.420 So mine is not, oh, it's okay, there's nothing to worry about, you know, Amazon will ship you books.
00:30:50.780 But it's also, I don't think, good to be hysterical to the point where you start making drastic measures
00:30:56.940 that may not be warranted because you don't see that maybe more, less radical measures may prove to be fruitful.
00:31:05.640 Yeah, I think it really depends on the status of the country.
00:31:08.980 So, for instance, a place like the U.K. or Canada might be in a very different situation than perhaps America or France
00:31:16.620 because of the level of actual pushback that exists somewhere inside the political system.
00:31:23.880 You know, the problem with mass immigration is that it's really a problem.
00:31:30.580 There's a collapsing decision space issue here, right?
00:31:33.500 Like, over time, the longer your borders are open,
00:31:37.820 the more difficult it is to solve the problem of open borders through the democratic mechanism.
00:31:42.900 And so if you're in the situation where the United States is,
00:31:45.620 where you have perhaps a viable opposition that is willing to take action relatively soon,
00:31:52.300 then perhaps the need for doing anything outside of the formal political process is much different
00:31:59.280 as opposed to, like, where Canada or somebody, even by the time they recognize they need a real opposition party,
00:32:05.900 will not have time to raise and create a significant pushback before basically their fate is sealed.
00:32:12.040 Yeah, and let me maybe go counter to what I said.
00:32:15.420 You know, I'm maybe at my most blackpailed, and I'm a generally optimistic person about this country,
00:32:25.100 maybe because I'm from Canada.
00:32:26.720 And so I can, you know, where Canada just really has no real conservative movement,
00:32:31.140 no real opposition, no magazines, no.
00:32:33.200 So I see a lot of good things in the U.S. that don't exist in Canada,
00:32:38.760 and that tends to make me a bit more optimistic.
00:32:40.880 But I am completely blackpailed about us ever deporting the illegals.
00:32:47.100 I pray to God that I'm wrong.
00:32:50.140 Nothing would make me happier.
00:32:52.840 I don't know, you re-invite me a few years from now, I don't know,
00:32:55.660 after the second J.D. Vance term on the back of the first Trump term,
00:32:59.480 and you say, David, I'm going to play the clip.
00:33:01.840 You said they're never going to deport the illegals, and they did.
00:33:04.120 Hold on, that would make me so happy.
00:33:07.000 I don't think we have the stomach.
00:33:09.660 And if we somehow mustered the stomach,
00:33:12.820 the hysteria of the media and of the left,
00:33:17.240 I don't see how we could get it done.
00:33:19.220 I mean, you remember the so-called Muslim ban, right?
00:33:22.340 A 90-day temporary hiatus on immigration
00:33:26.440 from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
00:33:29.740 About as insignificant a policy as it gets in the grand scheme of things.
00:33:34.800 They reacted like we had, I mean, the Third Reich,
00:33:38.200 like they were, I don't know, rounding up Jews
00:33:39.700 and sending them to the camps.
00:33:41.480 They completely freaked out.
00:33:43.500 Lawfare, national injunctions by judges.
00:33:46.840 Imagine the media coverage if we started deporting the illegals.
00:33:54.340 That is when my morale is, because they're here.
00:33:57.740 If, heaven forbid, Harris is elected, more will come in.
00:34:01.620 In theory, we could get rid of them.
00:34:03.780 I mean, again, without violating any democratic norms.
00:34:07.940 They're here illegally.
00:34:08.880 You should be removed.
00:34:10.520 And if we're not going to forcibly remove everyone,
00:34:12.700 we could really remove the incentives of being here.
00:34:16.840 You know, making it harder to work, tax remittances, you name it.
00:34:20.940 But I don't know what you think.
00:34:23.120 I mean, I'd love to be cheered up,
00:34:24.640 but I have just a hard, hard time seeing.
00:34:27.980 Maybe there's like a symbolic 10,000
00:34:30.580 so that Trump can do a victory lap and say, I did it.
00:34:33.540 But mass deportations of illegal immigrants,
00:34:37.580 I don't see how it happens.
00:34:41.120 Am I wrong?
00:34:41.460 I think it's one of those things that has to become possible,
00:34:44.700 but isn't possible yet.
00:34:46.100 I think any actual solution is not currently politically tenable.
00:34:53.080 And that's actually what makes it a solution at all.
00:34:55.800 All real solutions exist outside of the current ability of politicians to enact them.
00:35:02.360 But I don't know.
00:35:03.400 I wonder, as a notorious democracy disrespecter,
00:35:09.320 I think that that is a real problem,
00:35:12.260 that you kind of can't solve this issue
00:35:14.600 with a media that is manipulating people in the way you're talking about
00:35:18.560 and an open border mechanism
00:35:20.080 along with birthright citizenship and everything else
00:35:22.500 that basically guarantees generational victories to the left
00:35:25.980 as long as they can keep the border open long enough.
00:35:28.740 I think that does create a problem.
00:35:30.900 As somebody who seems to be a little more pro that solution
00:35:33.480 and not willing to surrender that ground to people,
00:35:36.520 does that shake your faith
00:35:38.260 that the very mechanism you would need to control this
00:35:41.380 is basically subject to the problem
00:35:43.640 that is ravaging the validity of the voter base?
00:35:50.340 In part, yes.
00:35:52.520 But I'm also,
00:35:54.300 if you had to force me to put a label on myself,
00:35:58.180 which, you know, it's a very pretentious thing to say,
00:36:01.220 oh, I don't do labels.
00:36:02.580 Like every New York intellectual says that.
00:36:04.860 I really don't mean it with any pretension.
00:36:07.740 I probably feel most comfortable with Tocqueville,
00:36:11.100 although even there I have reservations with Tocqueville.
00:36:13.640 In the sense of the basic premise
00:36:15.680 that we're kind of stuck with democracy broadly defined.
00:36:20.740 So I know the founders drew a distinction
00:36:22.540 between a republic and a democracy.
00:36:25.320 It has a lot of savage tendencies, as he puts it.
00:36:30.900 Bad predispositions.
00:36:33.480 But I don't really see any alternatives.
00:36:38.160 I don't believe in the...
00:36:42.000 I'm not a Nietzschean.
00:36:43.580 I don't believe in the new aristocratic age
00:36:46.540 and reintroducing rank subordination
00:36:48.860 and inequality of man.
00:36:51.520 I think it's not possible.
00:36:53.040 I also don't think it's desirable.
00:36:55.100 So I'm of the view that we're kind of stuck with...
00:36:59.760 Democracy defined broadly as the idea
00:37:02.480 that, you know, the people are equal
00:37:03.980 and they should vote.
00:37:05.840 And then we need to find mechanisms
00:37:08.520 like to tame the savage passions of democracy.
00:37:13.000 And yeah, look, I don't...
00:37:17.120 I mean, it doesn't seem to me beyond the pale
00:37:21.860 to maybe have a progressive,
00:37:26.520 not towards the left,
00:37:29.040 but step-by-step radicalization of the electorate
00:37:32.220 that leads to the election of people
00:37:36.020 who decide to govern more aggressively.
00:37:39.300 I think it's harder to see at the national level,
00:37:41.720 but at the state level in America,
00:37:44.040 there's a lot more that could be done
00:37:46.960 that has not been done.
00:37:48.760 You know, DeSantis, I think,
00:37:49.960 gives us a little glimpse into what is possible.
00:37:53.580 And even there,
00:37:54.300 I don't think he's done anything radical,
00:37:57.560 but in the best sense of the term.
00:37:59.840 So, I don't know,
00:38:01.060 maybe to contradict what I just said,
00:38:02.880 maybe if the right were to radicalize
00:38:05.860 in the best sense of the term
00:38:07.320 and wake up a little bit,
00:38:12.900 I mean, you know,
00:38:14.100 we could start by weakening the media,
00:38:16.320 changing the way we do libel laws,
00:38:17.980 making it easier to sue the press.
00:38:21.040 I mean, Trump did a great job
00:38:22.340 of humiliating the media.
00:38:24.240 You know, one,
00:38:24.960 this is not a solution to the problem,
00:38:26.640 but it's a small thing.
00:38:28.000 Why the hell do we allow journalists
00:38:29.800 to host the presidential debates?
00:38:32.740 Why are we teaching American citizens
00:38:34.800 that the press stands above the presidency,
00:38:37.820 saying, you speak, now you keep quiet?
00:38:40.620 It shouldn't be journalists.
00:38:42.540 I don't know, pick whoever you want.
00:38:43.860 Pick a member of Congress,
00:38:44.920 pick a citizen, pick an academic,
00:38:46.960 pick, I don't know.
00:38:48.240 Why should it be journalists?
00:38:50.500 There's a lot more we could do
00:38:52.100 to humiliate them and weaken them.
00:38:55.820 But I don't have a good answer.
00:38:58.320 I mean, I don't know.
00:38:58.840 What do you think is the alternative
00:39:00.440 to democracy in our age?
00:39:03.340 Well, I think ultimately,
00:39:04.620 the problem is one of scale.
00:39:06.120 I think that as long as kind of
00:39:08.000 we have a rule by quantity,
00:39:10.360 then yeah, you will see
00:39:12.100 kind of the democratic impulse
00:39:13.440 be that which justifies
00:39:15.080 additional power
00:39:17.260 to be consolidated under the state.
00:39:19.000 But I don't think it's really sustainable.
00:39:20.840 At least that's my thesis
00:39:22.200 is that I think at some point
00:39:24.580 the amount of social cohesion
00:39:27.300 sacrificed to scale society up
00:39:29.840 necessarily erodes the things
00:39:31.760 that kind of bind it together.
00:39:33.540 Like you said,
00:39:34.160 we can't really continue
00:39:35.180 to operate as economic zones.
00:39:37.480 That only really works
00:39:39.100 because you're running
00:39:39.640 on the fumes of Christendom.
00:39:41.940 And once that's gone,
00:39:43.560 then the kind of idea
00:39:45.180 that you can sustain
00:39:46.840 this mercantile empire
00:39:48.020 across the globe
00:39:49.020 is going to, I think, fade away.
00:39:51.560 And at that point,
00:39:52.200 you'll probably see
00:39:53.120 several different applications
00:39:54.620 of illiberal governments.
00:39:57.660 But, you know,
00:39:58.480 that's all, of course,
00:39:59.920 long distance speculation.
00:40:01.140 It doesn't do anything for us.
00:40:02.440 Yeah, but why is it
00:40:04.980 that what could replace
00:40:06.280 the current governments
00:40:07.600 would be, you know,
00:40:08.940 I mean, liberal governments
00:40:10.800 in the best sense of the term?
00:40:13.220 Meaning, I return to my proposition
00:40:15.980 that agreeing that the current setup
00:40:17.840 is not tenable
00:40:18.700 is the alternative
00:40:21.540 really to get rid of democracy,
00:40:24.300 especially when the people who,
00:40:26.380 the only people who agree with this
00:40:27.840 are the people.
00:40:29.420 Meaning, in a sense,
00:40:30.700 what we have today
00:40:31.900 is not the result
00:40:33.280 of too much democracy,
00:40:35.040 like on the immigration issue.
00:40:37.280 The people were regularly consulted
00:40:39.160 and they said no.
00:40:40.580 So it's in spite of democracy.
00:40:43.860 And would the solution
00:40:45.400 really be to set up a system
00:40:47.040 in which the ordinary citizen
00:40:49.100 doesn't have a voice?
00:40:52.100 That doesn't make sense to me.
00:40:53.800 I mean, I,
00:40:55.320 what I see a lot in the West today
00:40:57.560 is illiberalism
00:40:59.240 and anti-democratic forces.
00:41:03.920 I do not think
00:41:05.880 that we're suffering
00:41:06.780 from an excess
00:41:07.960 of liberalism
00:41:09.500 and of democracy.
00:41:10.960 I suspect I know
00:41:12.020 what you mean by liberalism.
00:41:13.300 You mean the anthropology
00:41:14.380 of liberalism,
00:41:15.480 the idea that individuals
00:41:16.440 have rights
00:41:17.140 and this leads to the erosion
00:41:18.400 of community and family.
00:41:19.680 That's an old critique
00:41:21.540 and I agree that we could,
00:41:23.300 you know,
00:41:23.460 this is where Tocqueville,
00:41:24.460 again, is helpful
00:41:25.160 is that he defends
00:41:26.660 the proposition
00:41:27.340 that people are equal
00:41:28.560 and that the people
00:41:29.180 should have a say
00:41:29.780 in their government,
00:41:30.320 but he doesn't put
00:41:31.880 as much emphasis
00:41:33.240 on the idea
00:41:34.040 that individuals have rights.
00:41:36.000 I think they do,
00:41:37.160 but yeah, rhetorically,
00:41:38.280 it might be good these days
00:41:39.560 to remind people
00:41:40.400 that they have duties.
00:41:42.120 But I don't think duties
00:41:42.960 and rights are mutually incompatible
00:41:44.560 with one another.
00:41:45.300 Again, I return to the founders
00:41:46.680 who, to me,
00:41:47.800 seem to have no difficulty
00:41:48.980 in squaring the circle
00:41:50.700 of saying that people
00:41:51.520 have rights and duties.
00:41:53.500 And I don't see why
00:41:54.540 I would need to change.
00:41:56.280 But anyways,
00:41:56.560 look, these are kind
00:41:58.140 of high order
00:41:59.280 academic debates.
00:42:01.120 For all practical purposes,
00:42:02.900 if there is a future
00:42:04.680 for Western countries,
00:42:06.620 it will come,
00:42:07.740 it seems to me,
00:42:08.500 from giving a voice
00:42:11.360 to those
00:42:12.560 who have been silenced.
00:42:14.940 I.e., you know,
00:42:16.540 in the case of America,
00:42:17.800 the people who cling
00:42:18.620 to their guns
00:42:19.160 and their religion.
00:42:19.900 I mean,
00:42:20.080 I actually quite like
00:42:21.360 Obama's formulation
00:42:22.880 in this regard.
00:42:23.840 It is quite helpful.
00:42:24.740 not in saying
00:42:28.100 democracy is the bad thing,
00:42:30.040 you should never have to vote,
00:42:31.080 it's more,
00:42:31.760 and they don't listen to you.
00:42:34.200 Your vote is nullified.
00:42:35.960 Like, look,
00:42:36.340 I think we agree
00:42:37.400 that if we had,
00:42:39.080 on many issues,
00:42:40.940 a more level playing field
00:42:42.600 with less oligarchic,
00:42:45.960 illiberal tendencies,
00:42:47.340 media concentration,
00:42:48.960 the results would be better.
00:42:50.380 Yeah,
00:42:53.380 I think the,
00:42:54.780 you know,
00:42:55.200 the mechanism
00:42:55.960 that is always used
00:42:57.220 to displace
00:42:58.100 kind of a,
00:42:59.640 an aristocracy
00:43:01.700 or an oligarchy
00:43:02.960 is the high and low
00:43:04.540 versus middle mechanism.
00:43:06.400 It is something
00:43:07.640 from the top.
00:43:08.520 It is a,
00:43:09.080 you know,
00:43:09.280 some new sovereign
00:43:10.800 motivating the people,
00:43:12.620 bringing them to,
00:43:13.340 to kind of break down
00:43:14.280 those that are currently
00:43:15.240 enfranchised in the system.
00:43:16.620 This is the classic way
00:43:17.480 this is done.
00:43:18.000 You could do that
00:43:19.540 through a democratic,
00:43:20.300 you know,
00:43:21.260 roll call.
00:43:22.300 You can do this
00:43:23.160 through the way
00:43:23.820 it's been done
00:43:24.480 in many,
00:43:25.120 many other situations,
00:43:26.160 which is simply the,
00:43:27.920 you know,
00:43:28.200 the new sovereign
00:43:29.220 mobilizing the people
00:43:30.280 against those
00:43:30.900 that hold
00:43:31.440 the current system in power.
00:43:33.220 I'm not sure
00:43:33.900 that democracy
00:43:34.700 is the necessary,
00:43:37.000 I'm not sure
00:43:37.760 if many,
00:43:39.040 many,
00:43:39.560 many a sovereign
00:43:40.380 has operated
00:43:41.680 with a popular mandate
00:43:42.660 without a democratic mechanism
00:43:44.420 in order to displace
00:43:45.860 an oppressive oligarchy.
00:43:47.640 That's not a new phenomenon
00:43:49.700 to,
00:43:50.220 I think,
00:43:50.500 the democratic era.
00:43:52.180 Well,
00:43:52.340 look,
00:43:52.640 then that might be
00:43:53.680 a,
00:43:54.040 you know,
00:43:54.680 a cas de force majeure,
00:43:55.900 like an extreme mechanism
00:43:57.260 when the order breaks down.
00:43:59.100 But if you think of,
00:44:00.660 say the current regime
00:44:01.520 is unsustainable,
00:44:03.300 say it breaks down eventually
00:44:05.080 as all things
00:44:05.960 that are unsustainable do,
00:44:07.060 the question becomes
00:44:08.000 on what basis
00:44:09.980 do you want to rebuild?
00:44:11.880 Do you want to rebuild
00:44:13.400 on the idea
00:44:14.260 that
00:44:15.280 there are,
00:44:17.420 there is a natural
00:44:18.700 born aristocratic class
00:44:20.840 that through their blood
00:44:22.080 and that is tied
00:44:22.880 to the land
00:44:23.520 and has titles,
00:44:25.520 inherits the right
00:44:26.460 to rule everyone else
00:44:27.680 against their consent?
00:44:29.600 There is something
00:44:30.660 to be said
00:44:31.300 on behalf of aristocracy.
00:44:32.680 I mean,
00:44:33.040 Tocqueville is actually
00:44:34.080 ultimately quite sympathetic
00:44:37.180 to the Ancien Regime.
00:44:39.080 When you read
00:44:39.700 Democracy in America,
00:44:40.800 he does not have,
00:44:43.480 he's,
00:44:44.280 he criticizes it,
00:44:46.160 but it's not scathing criticism.
00:44:49.060 If anything,
00:44:49.960 you get the sense
00:44:50.700 that I think he thinks
00:44:51.640 it was produced
00:44:53.200 more genuine human greatness
00:44:55.760 than a democratic age.
00:44:58.300 But anyways,
00:44:59.140 he thinks that we can't
00:45:00.140 go back to it
00:45:00.700 and it's finished.
00:45:01.260 I would say,
00:45:02.140 would you not need
00:45:03.180 to rebuild
00:45:03.880 on the broad idea
00:45:05.140 that the people
00:45:06.460 have a say
00:45:07.080 in their government,
00:45:07.720 that there is
00:45:09.380 no division,
00:45:11.320 permanent division
00:45:12.060 between rulers
00:45:12.800 and ruled,
00:45:13.920 that your lot
00:45:16.440 in life
00:45:16.980 is determined
00:45:17.720 at birth?
00:45:20.620 I don't see
00:45:21.700 how these ideas
00:45:22.700 could take hold
00:45:23.740 in the American soil,
00:45:25.160 even if you envisage
00:45:26.360 kind of a scenario
00:45:27.480 of things breaking down,
00:45:28.860 the country breaking up.
00:45:30.500 It seems to me
00:45:31.660 we really have no choice
00:45:32.900 but to rebuild on
00:45:33.980 democracy
00:45:35.120 in the broadest possible.
00:45:36.600 I'm using it
00:45:37.100 in the way
00:45:37.400 that Tocqueville
00:45:37.940 understands it.
00:45:38.660 Basically the idea
00:45:39.580 that there is no
00:45:41.500 fundamental division
00:45:43.360 of rank
00:45:44.520 between human beings.
00:45:46.860 I don't see
00:45:48.100 how you get around
00:45:48.900 that in America.
00:45:49.900 I think you can get
00:45:50.760 around that in Russia
00:45:51.700 and in China
00:45:52.460 without great difficulty.
00:45:54.580 But in America,
00:45:56.260 I don't see
00:45:57.460 a scenario
00:45:59.180 around that.
00:46:00.700 It's too much
00:46:01.600 in our world.
00:46:02.820 I guess I just think
00:46:03.640 of Rome,
00:46:04.460 you know,
00:46:05.260 did Octavian,
00:46:06.860 declare himself
00:46:08.480 emperor?
00:46:09.580 Well, no,
00:46:10.120 he's the first among
00:46:11.000 equal.
00:46:11.920 He's the first citizen,
00:46:12.720 right?
00:46:13.580 And, you know,
00:46:14.140 does he abolish
00:46:14.960 the Senate?
00:46:15.520 No, it's around.
00:46:16.500 You know,
00:46:16.860 are all democratic
00:46:18.740 elements vacated?
00:46:20.240 Well, kind of,
00:46:21.340 slowly over time,
00:46:22.540 but, you know,
00:46:23.320 people slowly
00:46:23.980 get used to this idea.
00:46:25.460 I think you're right
00:46:26.180 that you're not
00:46:27.100 going to get,
00:46:27.540 you know,
00:46:28.020 the restoration
00:46:28.580 of the Stuarts
00:46:29.440 or something.
00:46:29.920 Like, that's not
00:46:30.760 what's going to,
00:46:31.460 you know,
00:46:31.680 happen in the United States.
00:46:33.000 But I don't think
00:46:34.440 it's anywhere
00:46:35.020 outside of
00:46:36.240 historical examples
00:46:37.280 to see a people
00:46:38.140 who, you know,
00:46:39.600 bound themselves
00:46:40.300 under the idea
00:46:40.920 of republican government
00:46:42.080 shift, you know,
00:46:42.940 shift from, you know,
00:46:44.200 from having a king
00:46:45.620 to being republicans
00:46:47.000 to having an emperor.
00:46:48.120 You know,
00:46:48.380 this is not a new phenomenon.
00:46:50.840 So you're absolutely
00:46:51.580 right about that.
00:46:52.620 But, again,
00:46:53.640 I return to Tocqueville.
00:46:56.420 He would say
00:46:57.440 these,
00:46:59.000 in the ancient world,
00:47:00.420 they didn't really,
00:47:01.080 these republics
00:47:01.880 were actually aristocracies.
00:47:04.360 He was,
00:47:05.420 he says,
00:47:05.960 Athens was not
00:47:07.460 a democracy.
00:47:09.420 The number of people
00:47:10.540 who were actual citizens
00:47:11.580 was like 20,000.
00:47:12.900 There were 350,000
00:47:14.200 medics or foreigners
00:47:15.060 or slaves.
00:47:16.740 America's different.
00:47:18.900 It is
00:47:19.860 in the DNA
00:47:20.980 of America
00:47:21.740 to believe
00:47:23.260 in
00:47:23.720 like
00:47:25.560 your lot
00:47:26.500 in life
00:47:27.340 is not fixed
00:47:28.340 at birth.
00:47:29.820 That,
00:47:30.320 I mean,
00:47:32.320 what it would take
00:47:33.480 to change that.
00:47:35.180 So to me,
00:47:35.600 I would say
00:47:35.920 the Roman analogies
00:47:37.020 are not perfect
00:47:37.780 because they never
00:47:38.500 really were democratic.
00:47:40.080 Whereas we have been
00:47:41.440 since the get-go,
00:47:42.860 with the big exception,
00:47:43.940 of course,
00:47:44.260 in the South
00:47:44.740 and the question of slavery.
00:47:46.180 That goes without saying.
00:47:48.300 I,
00:47:49.700 look,
00:47:50.200 we're speculating here.
00:47:51.580 You know,
00:47:51.780 we're entering the realm
00:47:52.720 of what would happen
00:47:53.620 if the regime collapses.
00:47:55.840 All the usual
00:47:56.880 disclaimers apply.
00:47:58.320 I will maybe say this
00:47:59.720 since we can't really
00:48:00.460 resolve this.
00:48:01.800 I don't see it
00:48:03.220 happening anytime soon
00:48:04.680 and I am opposed
00:48:05.740 to accelerationism.
00:48:09.240 I don't think
00:48:10.920 the job
00:48:11.480 of the right
00:48:12.100 is to hasten
00:48:13.020 the collapse
00:48:13.520 of America
00:48:14.100 because what comes
00:48:15.680 afterwards
00:48:16.180 could be much worse
00:48:17.160 and in all likelihood
00:48:18.040 would be.
00:48:19.320 I think the job
00:48:20.120 is to slow down
00:48:21.400 the collapse
00:48:22.680 as much as possible
00:48:23.820 and this is why
00:48:25.600 for all of the limitations
00:48:26.860 of, you know,
00:48:28.140 electoral politics
00:48:28.920 at the national level,
00:48:30.180 it still matters
00:48:31.400 who's in place.
00:48:33.540 I just think
00:48:34.280 it's hard to believe
00:48:35.380 that, you know,
00:48:36.300 an election,
00:48:37.180 like if our guys win,
00:48:38.960 wins an election,
00:48:39.840 that everything's
00:48:40.620 going to be fine.
00:48:41.160 Look, if some people
00:48:43.320 need to believe this
00:48:44.180 to go vote
00:48:44.800 and wait in line,
00:48:45.680 good for them.
00:48:46.200 I have a hard time
00:48:47.200 seeing how you could
00:48:47.860 still believe this
00:48:48.560 at this point
00:48:49.140 that, you know,
00:48:50.360 if we just elect
00:48:51.000 our guy in November,
00:48:51.940 all will be well.
00:48:54.260 So I would say
00:48:55.740 that it would not
00:48:56.720 be prudent
00:48:57.320 to think that
00:48:58.520 America is finished
00:48:59.640 and our job
00:49:00.680 is to hasten
00:49:01.280 the collapse.
00:49:03.060 There's a lot
00:49:03.720 of life left
00:49:04.300 in America
00:49:04.740 and, you know,
00:49:05.080 one place you see it
00:49:06.160 is it still seems
00:49:07.180 to be the preferred
00:49:07.980 destination of choice
00:49:09.160 for everyone in the world.
00:49:11.160 That poses
00:49:12.620 all sorts of problems
00:49:13.640 for us,
00:49:14.060 but I don't think
00:49:14.680 everyone would be
00:49:15.420 coming here
00:49:15.940 if it were
00:49:16.480 the hellhole
00:49:17.600 that some people
00:49:18.380 on the online right
00:49:19.440 describe it to be.
00:49:21.720 People, you know,
00:49:22.720 in East Germany
00:49:23.340 had to be prevented
00:49:24.320 from fleeing.
00:49:26.400 In America,
00:49:27.580 ideally,
00:49:28.300 we would want
00:49:28.900 to prevent them
00:49:29.440 from entering.
00:49:30.320 That's a different
00:49:31.100 problem that
00:49:32.400 reveals a difference
00:49:33.600 with the nature
00:49:34.120 of the regime.
00:49:35.960 Sure.
00:49:36.180 I think
00:49:36.740 the performance
00:49:39.740 often of
00:49:40.920 the online right
00:49:42.080 of which
00:49:42.560 I'm most definitely
00:49:43.840 a part of,
00:49:44.360 I suppose,
00:49:45.220 is also one
00:49:46.840 of anchoring.
00:49:47.960 People need to remember
00:49:48.840 that when you have
00:49:50.020 an integrative dialectic,
00:49:51.800 the starting points
00:49:53.080 determine the place
00:49:54.560 in which you arrive.
00:49:55.900 And so
00:49:56.380 the main problem
00:49:57.760 for the conservative
00:49:58.620 movement
00:49:59.100 has been
00:50:00.100 the fact
00:50:01.140 that it has been
00:50:02.060 so deeply invested
00:50:03.220 in the idea
00:50:03.640 that we are
00:50:04.140 just one election
00:50:05.220 away from victory.
00:50:06.860 And so
00:50:08.100 the online right
00:50:09.300 is certainly
00:50:10.580 going over
00:50:11.520 the top
00:50:12.780 when it
00:50:13.360 tries to explain
00:50:14.420 kind of
00:50:15.240 how late
00:50:16.820 the hour is
00:50:17.660 to be sure.
00:50:18.900 But that
00:50:19.460 to me
00:50:20.000 seems necessary
00:50:20.960 to counterbalance
00:50:21.980 overcorrect
00:50:22.800 the conservative
00:50:23.200 movement
00:50:23.440 that has been
00:50:23.860 well under
00:50:24.320 the curve
00:50:24.660 for a very
00:50:25.060 long time.
00:50:25.920 Yeah.
00:50:26.340 Oran,
00:50:26.680 I'll say this.
00:50:27.240 Your point
00:50:27.660 is very well
00:50:28.260 taken.
00:50:29.120 I am
00:50:29.800 quite,
00:50:31.100 I mean,
00:50:31.360 I'd say I'm
00:50:31.820 generally sympathetic
00:50:32.880 to the online
00:50:33.620 right.
00:50:34.920 And I think
00:50:35.780 it has done
00:50:36.300 more good
00:50:36.980 than harm.
00:50:38.780 And that
00:50:39.500 if anything
00:50:40.100 its existence
00:50:41.160 is a testimony
00:50:43.060 to how stale
00:50:45.260 and lame
00:50:45.960 the mainstream
00:50:46.520 right had
00:50:47.100 become
00:50:47.820 that,
00:50:49.120 you know,
00:50:49.600 why did you
00:50:51.120 need
00:50:51.660 anonymous dudes
00:50:53.680 online to talk
00:50:54.780 about masculinity?
00:50:56.660 Why couldn't
00:50:57.500 that have been
00:50:58.060 a topic
00:50:58.560 that was
00:50:59.000 discussed
00:50:59.440 at the
00:50:59.780 Heritage
00:51:00.040 Foundation
00:51:00.620 or the
00:51:01.960 Hoover
00:51:02.200 Institute?
00:51:02.880 Like,
00:51:03.480 this should
00:51:03.840 not be
00:51:04.300 the exclusive
00:51:05.040 prerogative
00:51:05.800 of the
00:51:06.940 online
00:51:07.240 right.
00:51:07.540 It should
00:51:07.760 be a
00:51:08.040 perfectly
00:51:08.320 mainstream
00:51:08.860 topic,
00:51:09.700 you know,
00:51:10.960 several decades
00:51:11.880 into second
00:51:12.540 wave feminism,
00:51:13.420 and yet it
00:51:13.840 wasn't.
00:51:15.340 So,
00:51:15.840 I give them
00:51:16.960 credit for
00:51:17.700 introducing
00:51:18.500 these subjects.
00:51:19.720 I think that
00:51:20.280 the way they
00:51:20.920 frame them
00:51:21.300 sometimes is
00:51:21.880 not helpful,
00:51:23.300 but I would
00:51:24.980 say then to
00:51:25.560 the mainstream
00:51:26.100 right is then
00:51:26.740 why don't
00:51:27.540 you do a
00:51:27.940 better job?
00:51:29.100 Like,
00:51:29.320 if I have
00:51:29.940 to choose
00:51:30.480 between
00:51:31.020 deafening
00:51:32.020 silence
00:51:32.760 on the
00:51:33.180 gynecocracy
00:51:33.940 and the
00:51:36.160 pathologization
00:51:38.100 of masculinity
00:51:39.140 or a
00:51:41.660 more savage,
00:51:43.580 barbaric
00:51:44.140 conception of
00:51:45.000 masculinity
00:51:45.600 that reduces
00:51:46.400 it to
00:51:46.880 push-ups
00:51:48.000 and picking
00:51:48.400 up chicks,
00:51:49.860 if these
00:51:50.300 are really
00:51:50.660 the two
00:51:51.020 options,
00:51:51.500 then I
00:51:52.540 think the
00:51:52.920 latter is
00:51:53.520 better,
00:51:54.160 even though I
00:51:54.720 have reservations
00:51:55.420 about it and
00:51:56.120 that there's
00:51:56.440 more to
00:51:56.800 masculinity than
00:51:57.600 these things.
00:51:58.140 But then I
00:51:59.080 would say,
00:51:59.600 and I
00:52:00.040 think at
00:52:02.360 its best,
00:52:02.980 the online
00:52:03.460 right has
00:52:04.180 jolted the
00:52:05.040 mainstream
00:52:05.400 right out
00:52:06.060 of some
00:52:06.380 of its
00:52:06.640 platitudes.
00:52:07.440 And look,
00:52:08.060 everything is
00:52:08.720 in the
00:52:09.000 process of
00:52:09.660 changing right
00:52:10.300 now.
00:52:10.580 I just
00:52:10.900 find that
00:52:11.400 the one
00:52:11.980 kind of
00:52:12.420 friendly
00:52:13.120 criticism I
00:52:13.980 would have
00:52:14.420 is it's
00:52:16.320 one thing to
00:52:17.040 hide under
00:52:17.760 the cover of
00:52:18.520 anonymity on
00:52:19.340 Twitter.
00:52:20.880 You have a
00:52:21.540 certain role to
00:52:22.140 play there and
00:52:22.580 you can say
00:52:22.920 certain things.
00:52:23.560 You should
00:52:23.860 understand that
00:52:24.480 other people
00:52:24.960 have jobs
00:52:25.640 and they
00:52:26.640 can't just,
00:52:27.240 you know,
00:52:27.380 Michael Anton,
00:52:28.260 my friend and
00:52:28.880 colleagues love
00:52:29.520 to say like
00:52:30.080 they get upset
00:52:30.880 if you're not
00:52:32.020 dousing yourself
00:52:32.900 in gasoline
00:52:33.580 and setting
00:52:34.060 yourself on
00:52:34.620 fire by
00:52:35.540 saying the
00:52:35.880 most outrageous
00:52:36.560 things in the
00:52:37.200 public square.
00:52:37.780 It's like,
00:52:37.980 come on,
00:52:38.320 be a little
00:52:38.700 bit smarter.
00:52:39.220 At the end
00:52:40.460 of the day,
00:52:41.560 I think we
00:52:42.360 should be
00:52:42.740 working together
00:52:43.580 because we
00:52:44.140 have a common
00:52:44.660 enemy.
00:52:46.200 And,
00:52:46.380 you know,
00:52:46.900 if we were
00:52:47.580 to topple
00:52:48.460 neoliberal
00:52:51.660 managerial woke
00:52:52.800 elite,
00:52:53.520 I'd love to
00:52:54.480 have the
00:52:54.880 debate of
00:52:55.540 should we
00:52:55.960 have
00:52:56.180 integralism,
00:52:58.200 you know,
00:52:58.460 back with
00:52:58.900 his pirates,
00:53:00.440 illiberal
00:53:00.840 democracy.
00:53:01.700 Let's then
00:53:02.320 have this
00:53:02.860 debate on
00:53:03.920 the right
00:53:04.320 as to what
00:53:04.840 we should
00:53:05.220 do.
00:53:06.140 But I
00:53:07.840 think we
00:53:08.380 should
00:53:08.580 concentrate
00:53:09.120 more of
00:53:10.000 our fire
00:53:10.460 not on
00:53:10.980 one another.
00:53:11.700 But,
00:53:11.980 yeah,
00:53:12.520 like I
00:53:14.380 said,
00:53:14.620 I think
00:53:14.900 the online
00:53:15.380 right has
00:53:15.840 done more
00:53:16.320 good than
00:53:16.680 harm.
00:53:17.560 Yeah.
00:53:18.000 Win first,
00:53:18.580 argue later
00:53:19.140 is a pretty
00:53:20.000 good shortcut.
00:53:22.280 So I want
00:53:22.940 to ask you
00:53:23.240 one more
00:53:23.540 thing before
00:53:24.560 we got a
00:53:24.980 few questions
00:53:25.500 from the
00:53:25.960 audience if
00:53:26.540 you would
00:53:27.000 like to
00:53:27.280 take them.
00:53:27.820 But one
00:53:28.620 more question
00:53:29.640 for me before
00:53:30.300 we do that.
00:53:31.300 I know one
00:53:31.860 of your
00:53:32.060 main focuses
00:53:33.720 of research
00:53:34.820 is identity
00:53:37.640 politics.
00:53:38.980 And one
00:53:40.280 of the
00:53:40.480 problems I
00:53:40.900 think we're
00:53:41.280 obviously
00:53:41.780 running into
00:53:42.580 in this
00:53:43.040 scenario is
00:53:43.740 again to
00:53:44.400 reference that
00:53:44.880 high and
00:53:45.260 low versus
00:53:45.820 middle
00:53:46.220 mechanism.
00:53:47.720 A large
00:53:48.180 amount of
00:53:48.500 the ruling
00:53:49.220 elite is
00:53:49.840 bringing in a
00:53:50.560 large amount
00:53:51.080 of mass
00:53:51.640 immigrants in
00:53:52.580 the attempt
00:53:53.580 to basically
00:53:54.120 squeeze out
00:53:54.640 the middle,
00:53:55.060 destroy the
00:53:55.520 middle class,
00:53:56.700 destroy the
00:53:57.100 kulaks,
00:53:57.680 get rid of
00:53:58.040 anybody who
00:53:58.500 can operate
00:53:59.100 outside of
00:53:59.860 the regime
00:54:00.320 systems,
00:54:01.800 expropriate their
00:54:02.920 wealth and
00:54:03.480 distribute it to
00:54:04.240 their client
00:54:04.820 classes.
00:54:05.720 This is something
00:54:06.260 that we see
00:54:06.900 over and over
00:54:07.640 and over again
00:54:08.280 across several
00:54:09.360 of the countries
00:54:09.820 that we've
00:54:10.200 discussed.
00:54:11.660 Since we're
00:54:12.320 looking at
00:54:13.100 democracies,
00:54:14.100 do you think,
00:54:15.180 as somebody
00:54:15.600 who's looked
00:54:16.420 into this
00:54:16.780 quite a bit,
00:54:17.260 do you
00:54:17.520 think that
00:54:17.900 ultimately
00:54:18.420 you can
00:54:18.960 operate
00:54:19.700 multi-ethnic
00:54:21.460 societies with
00:54:22.400 a democratic
00:54:22.860 mechanism and
00:54:23.580 not have it
00:54:24.300 turn into
00:54:25.100 this racial
00:54:26.800 spoils system,
00:54:27.860 this ability
00:54:28.340 to coordinate
00:54:28.880 voting blocks
00:54:29.800 of different
00:54:30.340 ethnicities?
00:54:36.180 I mean,
00:54:37.240 as a general
00:54:38.940 rule of thumb,
00:54:40.100 no.
00:54:41.800 I mean,
00:54:42.440 you know,
00:54:42.900 all the
00:54:43.660 examples that
00:54:44.540 rush to my
00:54:45.220 mind,
00:54:45.660 where I'm
00:54:47.040 from,
00:54:47.420 Canada.
00:54:48.580 Look at
00:54:48.980 Quebec.
00:54:50.340 Canada's
00:54:50.900 been not
00:54:52.120 working from
00:54:52.920 the start
00:54:53.440 or has had
00:54:54.020 its national
00:54:54.760 politics
00:54:55.360 completely
00:54:56.000 distorted
00:54:56.540 because of
00:54:57.860 the presence
00:54:58.300 of the
00:54:58.620 French.
00:54:59.720 Look at
00:55:00.260 the Spaniards
00:55:01.020 with the
00:55:01.460 Basque and
00:55:02.120 Catalan
00:55:02.660 movements.
00:55:05.220 Look at,
00:55:06.020 I mean,
00:55:06.280 Rwanda is a
00:55:07.160 fantastic
00:55:07.620 example.
00:55:09.500 They're all
00:55:10.260 Bantu
00:55:10.600 Africans,
00:55:11.240 they speak
00:55:11.660 the same
00:55:12.060 language,
00:55:12.580 share the
00:55:12.920 same
00:55:13.240 religion,
00:55:14.620 and a
00:55:15.940 horrendous
00:55:16.480 genocide
00:55:16.940 occurred
00:55:17.460 because of
00:55:18.260 differences
00:55:19.220 in
00:55:19.620 ethnicities.
00:55:22.120 Look at
00:55:22.940 Lebanon,
00:55:23.660 look at
00:55:24.000 Belgium.
00:55:26.280 I mean,
00:55:26.540 where does
00:55:27.000 it work?
00:55:27.620 I guess
00:55:27.960 Switzerland
00:55:28.740 seems to
00:55:29.480 work,
00:55:30.820 but Switzerland
00:55:31.760 is a really
00:55:32.340 special case,
00:55:33.300 right?
00:55:33.480 They have the
00:55:33.960 mountains that
00:55:34.680 protect them
00:55:35.220 from outside
00:55:35.700 enemies,
00:55:36.360 it is heavily
00:55:37.000 decentralized,
00:55:38.300 federalized,
00:55:39.360 they don't
00:55:40.940 fight wars
00:55:41.720 or haven't
00:55:42.700 in a long
00:55:43.100 time.
00:55:44.360 So I'm
00:55:46.700 highly,
00:55:47.400 highly skeptical
00:55:48.160 of it,
00:55:48.700 that pretty
00:55:49.200 much every
00:55:50.820 country you
00:55:51.420 look at,
00:55:51.960 when there
00:55:52.280 is diversity
00:55:53.360 of language,
00:55:55.240 religion,
00:55:56.480 skin color,
00:55:57.720 culture,
00:55:58.560 it's a
00:55:59.260 source of
00:55:59.680 conflict.
00:56:03.960 So,
00:56:04.820 you know,
00:56:05.180 diversity is
00:56:05.960 not a
00:56:06.480 strength.
00:56:06.840 I think
00:56:07.320 it's a
00:56:08.400 problem to
00:56:09.920 be managed.
00:56:11.820 I think
00:56:12.520 in some
00:56:13.020 cases,
00:56:14.400 it can be
00:56:15.040 managed
00:56:15.600 in a way
00:56:18.880 that the
00:56:19.220 country
00:56:19.480 functions,
00:56:21.500 but that
00:56:22.580 requires,
00:56:24.120 like,
00:56:24.360 Israel is an
00:56:24.980 interesting
00:56:25.340 example,
00:56:26.920 right?
00:56:28.080 So they
00:56:28.820 have two
00:56:29.360 main sources
00:56:30.140 of diversity,
00:56:31.080 about 20%
00:56:32.000 of the
00:56:32.280 population
00:56:32.820 that are
00:56:33.300 Arab-Israeli
00:56:34.340 citizens,
00:56:34.780 so not
00:56:35.100 people living
00:56:35.640 in Gaza
00:56:36.080 or Judea
00:56:36.540 or Samaria,
00:56:37.720 and then
00:56:38.340 they have
00:56:38.820 a large
00:56:39.380 portion of
00:56:40.060 the very
00:56:40.580 ultra-Orthodox
00:56:41.700 Haredi Jews
00:56:42.540 who are
00:56:43.540 Israeli citizens
00:56:44.480 but don't
00:56:45.060 serve in the
00:56:45.500 military,
00:56:46.400 you know,
00:56:46.580 many of them
00:56:47.020 speak Yiddish
00:56:47.640 together,
00:56:48.140 not Hebrew,
00:56:48.760 like,
00:56:48.940 they don't
00:56:49.180 think that
00:56:49.640 a Jewish
00:56:50.140 state should
00:56:50.620 exist
00:56:51.000 absent the
00:56:51.600 Messiah.
00:56:53.340 And yet
00:56:53.700 the country
00:56:54.240 kind of
00:56:54.740 functions
00:56:55.220 because the
00:56:55.860 majority
00:56:56.300 has the
00:56:56.980 courage of
00:56:57.640 its convictions,
00:56:59.280 has the
00:56:59.760 courage to
00:57:00.400 say,
00:57:00.860 this is
00:57:01.220 Israel,
00:57:01.720 it's a
00:57:02.100 secular
00:57:02.540 Jewish
00:57:03.100 democracy,
00:57:04.280 and we're
00:57:05.080 going to
00:57:05.280 keep it
00:57:05.620 this way.
00:57:06.540 the problem
00:57:10.120 in most,
00:57:10.920 in all other
00:57:11.440 Western countries
00:57:12.220 is that the
00:57:12.960 people running
00:57:13.980 the country,
00:57:14.640 the majorities,
00:57:15.360 have no
00:57:15.880 self-confidence.
00:57:17.220 They have
00:57:17.960 nagging feelings
00:57:18.960 of guilt,
00:57:19.580 they have a
00:57:20.000 bad democratic
00:57:20.720 conscience,
00:57:21.460 they have
00:57:21.920 trauma over
00:57:22.720 the Holocaust,
00:57:23.220 lost.
00:57:24.480 So, you
00:57:25.980 could have
00:57:26.600 some,
00:57:27.440 you know,
00:57:27.860 we did,
00:57:28.640 you know,
00:57:28.940 we did a
00:57:29.500 pretty amazing
00:57:30.360 job of
00:57:32.020 assimilating the
00:57:33.080 Ellis Island
00:57:33.760 wave.
00:57:34.600 I don't want
00:57:35.340 to romanticize
00:57:36.320 it because it
00:57:36.880 changed America.
00:57:38.300 It seems to
00:57:39.260 me that the
00:57:39.760 New Deal
00:57:40.220 would not
00:57:40.740 have passed
00:57:41.400 had it not
00:57:41.960 been for the
00:57:42.380 Ellis Island
00:57:42.860 wave.
00:57:43.120 I love
00:57:44.900 Italians,
00:57:45.600 but we did
00:57:46.020 not have
00:57:46.400 organized crime
00:57:47.440 before Southern
00:57:49.420 Italians came.
00:57:50.460 But at the
00:57:51.480 end of the
00:57:51.800 day, we
00:57:52.860 made them
00:57:53.360 into Americans.
00:57:54.440 I have yet
00:57:55.200 to meet
00:57:55.740 someone with
00:57:56.320 an Italian
00:57:56.780 last name in
00:57:57.440 America who
00:57:57.960 speaks Italian.
00:57:59.200 Whereas in
00:57:59.760 Montreal, where I'm
00:58:00.540 from, they came
00:58:01.160 at the same
00:58:01.600 time, I've yet
00:58:02.360 to meet a
00:58:02.780 single Italian
00:58:03.400 who doesn't
00:58:03.960 speak Italian.
00:58:05.400 Meaning,
00:58:06.500 America's done
00:58:07.320 a pretty good
00:58:08.400 job.
00:58:08.620 Now, admittedly,
00:58:09.380 these were
00:58:09.900 immigrants from
00:58:10.480 Europe, not
00:58:11.720 from Asia,
00:58:12.660 Africa, and
00:58:13.160 South America.
00:58:13.920 It's easier to
00:58:14.820 assimilate them.
00:58:15.560 But I think
00:58:16.900 you can manage
00:58:17.900 some diversity
00:58:19.180 if it's not
00:58:20.580 too much, not
00:58:21.780 too far from
00:58:22.700 where you are,
00:58:23.320 and if you
00:58:23.700 have the real
00:58:24.680 confidence to
00:58:26.540 demand and
00:58:27.740 expect and
00:58:28.700 enforce a
00:58:29.440 hard assimilation.
00:58:31.240 You change
00:58:32.000 your name at
00:58:32.460 Ellis Island, you
00:58:33.100 become one of
00:58:33.740 us.
00:58:34.840 And then it's
00:58:35.660 manageable.
00:58:36.100 Yeah, I
00:58:38.940 guess you
00:58:39.260 have examples
00:58:40.200 like Singapore,
00:58:41.160 but they do
00:58:41.680 it by removing
00:58:42.240 the democratic
00:58:43.340 mechanism.
00:58:44.220 Correct.
00:58:44.780 Yes, obviously,
00:58:45.440 look, without
00:58:45.820 freedom, you
00:58:46.740 can do whatever
00:58:47.180 you want.
00:58:51.020 But, yeah.
00:58:52.960 All right, well,
00:58:53.620 we'll go ahead
00:58:54.640 and move over to
00:58:55.420 the questions of
00:58:55.920 the people.
00:58:56.340 But before we
00:58:56.940 do, David, is
00:58:57.760 there anything
00:58:58.100 where you'd like
00:58:58.720 people to look
00:58:59.420 for your work?
00:59:02.020 I mean, they
00:59:02.420 can Google my
00:59:03.600 name or go on
00:59:04.300 YouTube and see
00:59:05.120 some of my
00:59:05.560 talks and some
00:59:06.080 the stuff I've
00:59:06.500 written, but I
00:59:07.280 have, I am, I'm
00:59:08.280 not on Twitter.
00:59:09.440 I take a look
00:59:10.480 occasionally, but
00:59:11.300 I'm not very
00:59:13.860 online.
00:59:15.280 Well, you gave a
00:59:15.760 great speech at
00:59:16.380 NatCon 4, so
00:59:17.320 people should
00:59:17.920 definitely check
00:59:18.860 that one out if
00:59:19.500 people have not
00:59:20.080 had the chance
00:59:20.640 to do that.
00:59:21.700 Thank you.
00:59:23.980 Let's see here.
00:59:24.840 Thuggo says,
00:59:25.580 the regime is
00:59:26.360 scared to call
00:59:27.060 out the military
00:59:27.720 because the
00:59:28.180 military has a
00:59:29.260 sizable number
00:59:29.920 of native
00:59:30.840 sympathizers.
00:59:32.080 That is
00:59:32.620 something that
00:59:33.020 they've been
00:59:33.320 trying to change
00:59:34.220 over the last
00:59:35.760 decade or so,
00:59:36.740 but yeah, I
00:59:37.420 think that's a
00:59:38.420 good point, that
00:59:38.980 that's still
00:59:39.500 something that
00:59:40.020 they're scared.
00:59:40.500 They don't want
00:59:41.180 to call on that
00:59:41.760 power because
00:59:42.360 they're not sure
00:59:42.920 exactly where
00:59:43.580 that falls.
00:59:45.280 But to your
00:59:45.660 point, they
00:59:46.160 have been
00:59:46.680 purging.
00:59:47.460 I don't know if
00:59:48.100 you know Will
00:59:48.660 Thibault, who's
00:59:49.920 at the Clermont
00:59:50.580 Institute and has
00:59:51.620 been tracking the
00:59:52.820 wokeification of
00:59:53.800 the military.
00:59:54.380 so, but I
00:59:57.700 think for the
00:59:58.480 point of your
00:59:59.220 reader's comment
01:00:00.400 for now stands
01:00:01.380 that if push
01:00:03.620 came to shove
01:00:04.620 right now, I'd
01:00:06.720 like to believe
01:00:07.420 that they
01:00:07.820 wouldn't pull
01:00:08.260 the trigger on
01:00:09.500 patriotic
01:00:10.060 Americans.
01:00:11.880 Yeah, I think
01:00:12.500 that's something
01:00:13.960 that's true now,
01:00:15.040 but not true
01:00:15.840 forever.
01:00:18.400 I've got a
01:00:19.120 number of
01:00:19.500 friends who,
01:00:20.260 you know,
01:00:20.900 either are or
01:00:21.700 were in the
01:00:22.320 military and
01:00:23.660 they all have
01:00:24.140 pretty much the
01:00:24.660 same story that
01:00:25.440 they're drumming
01:00:26.000 out, you know,
01:00:26.640 kind of boys from
01:00:27.680 Appalachia and
01:00:28.400 Texas as fast as
01:00:29.400 possible.
01:00:30.480 Obviously, they've
01:00:31.200 had some recruiting
01:00:31.800 problems, so they
01:00:32.720 rolled a little bit
01:00:33.380 of that back.
01:00:34.360 You know, we're
01:00:34.720 seeing a few more
01:00:35.660 white guys in
01:00:36.400 recruiting commercials
01:00:37.400 these days, but
01:00:39.140 ultimately that still
01:00:40.280 seems to be the
01:00:40.880 trajectory of the
01:00:41.780 force.
01:00:42.100 I mean, we just
01:00:42.500 had the DOD
01:00:43.680 doing a seminar on
01:00:45.580 how pro-life
01:00:46.560 groups are a
01:00:47.240 terrorist threat.
01:00:48.400 So, you know, I
01:00:49.220 would expect that
01:00:50.080 to be the trend.
01:00:52.320 Let's see.
01:00:55.040 Gabby of
01:00:55.800 Lindbergh says,
01:00:56.760 flashing my
01:00:57.440 J card to ask
01:00:58.380 David, how much
01:00:59.360 of this is the
01:01:00.280 quote-unquote
01:01:00.780 Talmudic network,
01:01:02.160 U.S. and
01:01:02.640 Canada, U.S.
01:01:03.680 and France,
01:01:04.120 maybe, Belgium,
01:01:04.860 Sweden, I
01:01:05.780 don't see it.
01:01:08.620 I mean, look, I
01:01:09.420 think the JQ is
01:01:11.340 the ultimate
01:01:12.020 cope.
01:01:13.600 It's basically,
01:01:14.600 why does my
01:01:15.280 country suck?
01:01:17.240 I mean, let me
01:01:17.800 put it very
01:01:18.440 flippantly, like,
01:01:19.660 because Larry
01:01:20.440 David took down
01:01:21.500 America along
01:01:22.280 with Woody
01:01:22.680 Allen, to
01:01:23.480 which I say,
01:01:24.180 if that's
01:01:24.620 true, well,
01:01:25.220 what does it
01:01:25.640 say about your
01:01:26.120 country in the
01:01:26.680 first place?
01:01:27.920 Do you think
01:01:28.180 that Larry David
01:01:28.800 would take down
01:01:29.360 Sparta or Rome?
01:01:31.700 I think it's a
01:01:33.240 tendency on the
01:01:34.160 right to always
01:01:34.960 want to look
01:01:36.700 for a foreign
01:01:37.500 contagion to your
01:01:38.640 problems.
01:01:39.220 Like, there's
01:01:39.500 nothing wrong
01:01:40.020 with America.
01:01:40.940 It's the German
01:01:42.080 philosophy, it's
01:01:42.900 the Jews, it's
01:01:43.960 never our fault.
01:01:45.120 And again, I
01:01:45.900 return to
01:01:46.420 Tocqueville.
01:01:47.860 It's not a
01:01:48.600 Bible.
01:01:49.420 The book has
01:01:49.920 limitations, but
01:01:50.860 he wrote, I
01:01:53.040 think, without a
01:01:53.660 doubt, what
01:01:54.040 remains to this
01:01:54.780 day, the best
01:01:55.380 book ever
01:01:55.800 written about
01:01:56.300 America.
01:01:57.200 It's 674
01:01:58.820 pages long in
01:01:59.620 the English
01:01:59.900 translation.
01:02:01.840 He pretty
01:02:02.880 much anticipates
01:02:05.360 almost everything
01:02:07.180 that's going to
01:02:07.900 happen.
01:02:08.460 I mean, the
01:02:09.220 bad tendencies,
01:02:10.120 he sees them.
01:02:11.760 And there
01:02:12.380 isn't a single
01:02:13.040 reference to the
01:02:13.880 Talmud, to
01:02:14.520 rabbis, or to
01:02:15.400 Jews, anywhere
01:02:16.120 in that book.
01:02:16.700 Meaning, the
01:02:18.940 problem is the
01:02:21.280 bad genetic
01:02:22.540 predispositions of
01:02:23.880 democracy.
01:02:25.320 But again, where
01:02:26.180 I'm with Tocqueville
01:02:27.080 is none of this
01:02:28.380 is faded.
01:02:29.640 I mean, if he
01:02:30.180 thought it was
01:02:30.700 faded, I mean, he
01:02:31.320 would not have
01:02:31.700 written the book
01:02:32.160 and said, I
01:02:32.720 give up, there's
01:02:33.380 no point.
01:02:34.560 So, I think we
01:02:36.400 need to be more
01:02:37.280 honest with
01:02:37.720 ourselves that
01:02:38.320 there is
01:02:38.740 something in the
01:02:39.860 American DNA
01:02:40.800 that tends in a
01:02:43.280 certain direction.
01:02:43.860 I mean, the way
01:02:44.800 Tocqueville puts
01:02:45.420 it is that we
01:02:46.080 love equality
01:02:46.800 more than
01:02:47.260 freedom.
01:02:48.240 The story we
01:02:49.020 tell ourselves as
01:02:49.860 Americans is that
01:02:50.720 this is the land
01:02:51.400 of liberty, and
01:02:52.620 he sees a certain
01:02:53.580 love of freedom
01:02:54.160 in Americans, but
01:02:55.540 he also sees
01:02:56.420 something in the
01:02:57.240 soul, which is
01:02:58.580 if you have to
01:02:59.680 choose between
01:03:00.220 more liberty or
01:03:01.000 more equality, we
01:03:01.900 pick more
01:03:02.300 equality.
01:03:03.020 And in a sense,
01:03:03.560 that's the left,
01:03:04.440 right?
01:03:04.600 That's the whole
01:03:05.220 story of the
01:03:05.960 left, is
01:03:07.280 sacrificing liberty
01:03:08.880 for more equal
01:03:10.140 outcomes, for the
01:03:11.440 leveling tendencies
01:03:12.360 of democracy.
01:03:13.860 And so, it's
01:03:15.140 in our DNA, but
01:03:16.820 I would say
01:03:17.620 it's not
01:03:18.920 fated.
01:03:19.820 It's, for lack
01:03:21.660 of a better
01:03:22.120 term of phrase, a
01:03:23.240 genetic
01:03:23.680 predisposition.
01:03:24.980 It's a tendency
01:03:26.060 that can be
01:03:26.800 reined in, but
01:03:27.980 I think it is
01:03:29.620 a cope to
01:03:30.920 just constantly
01:03:31.760 blame, point
01:03:32.740 the finger at
01:03:33.440 all sorts of
01:03:34.100 foreigners, whether
01:03:34.800 it be some of
01:03:35.440 my friends who
01:03:36.020 want to blame
01:03:36.500 Woodrow Wilson
01:03:37.200 for the influence
01:03:38.480 of German
01:03:38.880 philosophy.
01:03:40.040 To me, that
01:03:40.560 merely begs the
01:03:41.280 question of,
01:03:41.880 well, why did
01:03:42.320 it catch on so
01:03:43.140 easily?
01:03:43.860 Why was the
01:03:44.960 soil receptive
01:03:46.040 to this?
01:03:47.380 I'd leave it at
01:03:48.260 that.
01:03:49.900 So, go back
01:03:50.800 here again, says
01:03:51.680 the old purpose
01:03:52.540 of asylum was
01:03:53.440 giving the safe
01:03:54.160 haven to the
01:03:54.680 enemy of your
01:03:55.220 enemy.
01:03:55.720 Now, Marx is
01:03:56.540 subverted to
01:03:57.140 mean open
01:03:57.900 immigration.
01:03:59.200 Well, I think
01:03:59.820 it's just very
01:04:00.360 clear that
01:04:01.160 asylum law is
01:04:02.300 a hole in
01:04:03.560 any given
01:04:04.300 immigration scheme
01:04:05.260 and it's just
01:04:05.780 the easiest
01:04:06.160 thing to
01:04:06.540 exploit.
01:04:07.400 Every nation
01:04:08.600 outside of the
01:04:09.840 first world has
01:04:10.840 significant problems,
01:04:12.120 things that people
01:04:12.860 in the first
01:04:13.300 world think
01:04:14.160 would be
01:04:14.600 worthy of
01:04:15.280 fleeing for
01:04:16.080 your safety.
01:04:17.100 And so,
01:04:17.320 therefore,
01:04:17.920 basically,
01:04:18.360 everyone is a
01:04:19.000 potential American
01:04:19.880 or Englishman
01:04:20.880 or whatever
01:04:21.520 country they're
01:04:22.960 seeking asylum
01:04:23.760 to because
01:04:24.460 ultimately they
01:04:25.420 all have the
01:04:26.180 same problem,
01:04:26.880 which is their
01:04:27.420 country is not
01:04:28.180 part of the
01:04:28.600 first world.
01:04:31.240 Couldn't have
01:04:31.900 said it better.
01:04:32.400 Let's see.
01:04:34.040 Here we've got
01:04:34.820 a question from
01:04:37.220 Death, very
01:04:37.720 auspicious.
01:04:38.280 He says,
01:04:38.680 how Russia
01:04:39.880 gained control
01:04:40.640 is Putin
01:04:41.760 warned and
01:04:42.340 arrested
01:04:42.680 oligarchs that
01:04:43.860 they were
01:04:44.840 destabilizing
01:04:45.700 Russia.
01:04:46.520 Also,
01:04:46.820 conservatives
01:04:47.160 need to have
01:04:47.840 their own
01:04:48.280 false flags
01:04:49.060 psyops.
01:04:50.720 I wouldn't
01:04:52.560 bet too much
01:04:53.400 on the
01:04:54.000 Republicans being
01:04:54.900 super cagey
01:04:55.920 and laying a
01:04:56.840 bunch of traps
01:04:57.340 for Democrats.
01:04:58.540 I spend most
01:04:58.980 of my time just
01:04:59.560 begging them not
01:05:00.240 to fall for
01:05:00.740 the ones that
01:05:01.280 are very
01:05:01.600 obviously laying
01:05:02.360 on the ground
01:05:02.800 right now.
01:05:05.020 I'd just be
01:05:05.840 happy if we
01:05:06.300 stopped stepping
01:05:06.900 on rakes.
01:05:07.540 I'm not looking
01:05:08.260 for a rake
01:05:08.720 distribution system
01:05:10.220 at this point.
01:05:11.500 But yeah,
01:05:12.200 maybe if we
01:05:12.840 finally gain the
01:05:13.720 ability to have
01:05:14.440 even the smallest
01:05:15.920 amount of media
01:05:16.920 discipline,
01:05:17.760 if the dog
01:05:18.920 isn't chasing
01:05:19.480 every single
01:05:20.040 squirrel,
01:05:20.540 then maybe we'll
01:05:21.100 think about
01:05:21.480 setting those
01:05:21.980 traps.
01:05:24.800 And then
01:05:25.620 Robert
01:05:26.340 Weisfield
01:05:26.860 says,
01:05:27.360 David and
01:05:28.240 me to
01:05:28.740 Europeans,
01:05:29.460 get over
01:05:29.800 World War
01:05:30.220 II,
01:05:30.880 you too
01:05:31.360 can be
01:05:31.740 an ethnostate.
01:05:32.700 Again,
01:05:32.980 please see
01:05:34.280 Israel as
01:05:35.100 a reference.
01:05:37.120 What do you
01:05:37.780 think about
01:05:38.100 that possibility?
01:05:39.500 I mean,
01:05:39.660 you do have
01:05:40.280 a scenario
01:05:40.840 where,
01:05:41.740 like you
01:05:42.040 said,
01:05:42.340 Israel is
01:05:43.040 cohesive
01:05:43.480 because it
01:05:44.800 is allowed
01:05:45.320 to invest
01:05:45.900 in a
01:05:46.220 particular
01:05:46.580 identity.
01:05:48.360 You know,
01:05:48.540 European
01:05:48.860 nations,
01:05:50.540 however people
01:05:51.600 feel about
01:05:52.200 their current
01:05:52.720 consideration,
01:05:54.360 obviously are
01:05:55.220 nations in
01:05:56.220 which European
01:05:56.820 peoples are
01:05:57.560 native.
01:05:58.180 is there
01:05:59.200 any chance
01:05:59.780 that these
01:06:00.160 nations could
01:06:00.800 return to
01:06:01.600 an identity
01:06:02.300 that allows
01:06:02.760 them to
01:06:03.080 bond in
01:06:03.500 the way
01:06:03.760 that Israel
01:06:04.340 does?
01:06:05.660 You know,
01:06:05.980 there are
01:06:06.640 many reasons
01:06:07.300 to hate
01:06:07.840 Hitler.
01:06:09.540 One that
01:06:10.340 maybe doesn't
01:06:11.080 get discussed
01:06:13.400 enough is
01:06:14.120 his legacy.
01:06:15.500 I mean,
01:06:15.720 it is,
01:06:16.300 I think,
01:06:16.500 the ultimate
01:06:16.980 revenge of
01:06:17.880 history that
01:06:18.540 the man who
01:06:19.320 devoted his
01:06:20.480 life to
01:06:21.180 championing the
01:06:22.780 interests of
01:06:23.380 the Aryan
01:06:23.960 race,
01:06:26.000 his curse
01:06:28.080 that he
01:06:28.480 laid on
01:06:29.080 Europe is
01:06:29.820 all these
01:06:31.760 nations
01:06:32.300 flooding
01:06:32.800 themselves
01:06:33.300 with
01:06:33.520 immigrants
01:06:33.880 and being
01:06:34.360 traumatized
01:06:35.080 of defending
01:06:35.740 their ethnic
01:06:37.240 cohesion on
01:06:37.980 the grounds
01:06:38.340 that that's
01:06:38.720 what the
01:06:38.960 Nazis did.
01:06:39.940 It makes
01:06:40.220 it impossible
01:06:40.740 to have
01:06:41.200 any conversation,
01:06:44.000 any sane
01:06:45.240 discussion of
01:06:45.840 these issues
01:06:46.220 because the
01:06:47.560 ghost of
01:06:50.120 Hitler and
01:06:50.740 of the
01:06:51.000 Holocaust
01:06:51.340 looms over
01:06:52.100 everything.
01:06:55.080 So I
01:06:55.920 think we
01:06:56.360 would need
01:06:56.900 to,
01:06:58.180 you know,
01:06:58.380 and one
01:06:59.000 overcorrection
01:06:59.940 to that,
01:07:00.480 what you find
01:07:01.000 among some
01:07:01.460 on the
01:07:01.680 online right
01:07:02.140 is to
01:07:02.440 deny the
01:07:02.880 Holocaust.
01:07:03.520 Oh,
01:07:03.700 well,
01:07:03.760 it never
01:07:04.060 happened.
01:07:05.760 I think
01:07:06.260 that's so
01:07:06.920 silly as to
01:07:07.580 not even
01:07:07.940 warrant a
01:07:08.440 response.
01:07:09.640 I think
01:07:10.020 what might
01:07:10.980 be helpful
01:07:11.500 is to
01:07:12.160 start telling
01:07:13.620 the history
01:07:14.440 of the
01:07:14.860 West
01:07:15.140 differently,
01:07:16.080 to not
01:07:17.040 make the
01:07:17.540 Holocaust
01:07:17.940 the defining
01:07:19.240 event of
01:07:20.080 Western history
01:07:20.840 and of
01:07:21.120 European
01:07:21.400 history.
01:07:22.820 In the
01:07:23.360 same way
01:07:23.700 that,
01:07:23.900 you know,
01:07:24.020 in America,
01:07:24.460 we don't
01:07:24.860 need to
01:07:25.140 make the
01:07:25.460 civil rights
01:07:25.960 movement the
01:07:26.600 defining moment
01:07:27.720 of American
01:07:28.220 history and
01:07:28.760 everything points
01:07:29.560 to it.
01:07:30.280 It's a part
01:07:30.880 of our
01:07:31.120 history.
01:07:31.940 We should
01:07:32.320 know about
01:07:32.860 it,
01:07:33.760 but this
01:07:35.500 constant
01:07:36.200 flagellation
01:07:37.120 of the
01:07:37.460 nation,
01:07:38.620 the perpetual
01:07:39.440 atonement over
01:07:41.240 what was done
01:07:41.840 in the past
01:07:42.460 is leading to
01:07:43.560 the destruction
01:07:44.080 of these
01:07:44.480 nations.
01:07:45.780 And so,
01:07:46.160 you know,
01:07:46.520 there was a
01:07:47.500 few years ago,
01:07:48.140 I remember
01:07:48.580 IFD in
01:07:49.880 Germany got
01:07:50.640 into some
01:07:51.160 trouble because
01:07:53.180 they said
01:07:53.840 that, I
01:07:54.920 forget how
01:07:55.380 they phrased
01:07:55.880 it, and I
01:07:56.220 don't speak
01:07:56.600 German, but
01:07:57.280 basically that
01:07:58.020 Germany needs
01:07:59.200 to get over
01:07:59.700 the Holocaust.
01:08:01.240 And everyone
01:08:01.680 freaked out, but
01:08:02.580 I thought that
01:08:03.080 their point was
01:08:03.780 sound, is
01:08:04.220 basically they're
01:08:05.200 using memory of
01:08:06.180 the Holocaust to
01:08:07.060 destroy Germany
01:08:07.920 and to justify
01:08:10.680 these insane
01:08:11.960 immigration policies.
01:08:13.720 We need to
01:08:14.500 stop doing this
01:08:15.180 to ourselves.
01:08:15.680 So I think
01:08:16.420 the way to
01:08:16.780 do this is
01:08:17.260 not to deny
01:08:18.080 the Holocaust
01:08:18.620 or to
01:08:19.140 celebrate
01:08:19.500 Hitler, but
01:08:20.840 is to
01:08:21.380 realize that
01:08:22.700 the main
01:08:23.160 threat to
01:08:23.680 the West
01:08:24.100 right now
01:08:24.680 is not
01:08:25.140 white supremacy
01:08:25.820 or fascism.
01:08:28.200 It is, I
01:08:29.280 mean, the
01:08:29.700 immigration and
01:08:30.480 demographic
01:08:30.900 threat.
01:08:32.000 That's, I
01:08:32.880 think, at
01:08:33.280 the macro
01:08:33.720 level.
01:08:34.420 There are
01:08:34.640 other threats.
01:08:35.660 The financial
01:08:36.100 situation of
01:08:37.280 these Western
01:08:37.760 countries is not
01:08:38.400 inspiring, but
01:08:39.820 to me the
01:08:40.240 immigration and
01:08:40.900 the demographic
01:08:41.380 question is
01:08:42.000 paramount, and
01:08:42.960 we should
01:08:43.260 focus on
01:08:43.780 that.
01:08:44.020 I agree,
01:08:45.760 though I
01:08:45.980 would say
01:08:46.360 this.
01:08:46.880 I don't
01:08:47.300 think that
01:08:47.660 focus on
01:08:49.060 the Holocaust
01:08:49.600 as a singular
01:08:50.180 event is
01:08:50.840 exactly an
01:08:51.540 accident, right?
01:08:52.160 Like, you
01:08:52.440 don't have a
01:08:53.920 large swath
01:08:55.860 of the world
01:08:57.700 that is haunted
01:08:58.520 by the specter
01:08:59.240 of the Armenian
01:08:59.760 genocide.
01:09:00.820 It's something
01:09:01.240 that happened,
01:09:02.060 but it hasn't
01:09:02.880 radically transformed
01:09:04.420 the way that
01:09:05.320 people in that
01:09:06.120 area lead.
01:09:07.160 Because it was
01:09:07.800 committed by
01:09:09.560 Turks and
01:09:10.920 not by
01:09:11.600 Westerners.
01:09:12.300 look, we
01:09:17.360 also have
01:09:17.960 no, we're
01:09:18.400 not haunted
01:09:18.900 by the
01:09:19.320 specter of
01:09:19.800 communism.
01:09:21.280 I mean,
01:09:21.680 communism killed
01:09:22.400 100 million
01:09:23.060 people in
01:09:23.620 the 20th
01:09:24.120 century.
01:09:25.120 Where is
01:09:25.620 the trauma
01:09:26.280 in the
01:09:26.760 West around
01:09:27.840 we should
01:09:28.280 be careful
01:09:28.840 about excessive
01:09:29.580 egalitarianism?
01:09:32.120 Because our
01:09:33.560 God is
01:09:34.180 equality, and
01:09:35.140 communism, for
01:09:36.000 all of its
01:09:36.380 horrors, affirmed
01:09:37.440 our God.
01:09:38.260 And what the
01:09:38.820 Nazis did for
01:09:40.180 all of their,
01:09:40.900 in spite of
01:09:41.400 all their, on
01:09:42.020 top of all
01:09:42.540 their horrors,
01:09:43.280 is to deny
01:09:44.760 the God of
01:09:45.980 equality.
01:09:46.500 They affirmed
01:09:47.080 inequality.
01:09:48.160 And this is
01:09:48.920 what I think
01:09:49.440 has so rattled
01:09:50.360 the Western
01:09:50.860 consciousness.
01:09:52.400 It kind of, I
01:09:53.020 think, ultimately
01:09:53.580 vindicates
01:09:54.380 Tocqueville's
01:09:54.940 point about
01:09:55.440 the centrality
01:09:56.180 of equality
01:09:56.840 in the age
01:09:57.800 we live in.
01:09:58.400 Yeah, I do
01:10:03.700 wonder if
01:10:04.140 there's a little
01:10:04.880 more to that
01:10:05.700 narrative being
01:10:06.380 continuously a
01:10:07.740 part of the
01:10:08.420 post-war
01:10:09.980 consensus in
01:10:10.840 perhaps a way
01:10:11.520 that other
01:10:12.740 mass killings
01:10:14.660 that have been
01:10:15.460 carried out by
01:10:16.380 governments are
01:10:16.880 not.
01:10:17.340 But I do
01:10:18.340 agree that
01:10:18.760 ultimately the
01:10:19.320 solution is to
01:10:20.300 move beyond
01:10:20.780 this as some
01:10:21.300 kind of defining
01:10:21.940 feature, some
01:10:22.640 boogeyman to be
01:10:23.900 waved in front of
01:10:24.660 people.
01:10:25.200 So I think
01:10:26.720 there you're
01:10:27.120 absolutely correct.
01:10:27.960 All right, guys.
01:10:28.440 Well, we're going
01:10:28.820 to go ahead and
01:10:29.340 wrap this up.
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01:10:30.760 David for coming
01:10:31.440 on.
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