The Auron MacIntyre Show - December 13, 2023


Is a Trump Dictatorship Inevitable？ ｜ 12⧸13⧸23


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718

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The Washington Post asks the question, Would you be a dictator if Donald Trump were elected president? and the answer is, Yes. And it s a question that has been asked repeatedly since Trump was elected president.

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00:00:30.000 Hey everybody, how's it going?
00:00:31.500 Thanks for joining me.
00:00:32.480 I'm Oren McIntyre.
00:00:34.220 So, something is happening.
00:00:37.340 There's something in the air.
00:00:39.580 I like to pay attention to rhetorical trends.
00:00:43.200 A lot of times we get lost in the day-to-day news grind.
00:00:46.960 We tend to look at every new thing that gets shoved in front of us.
00:00:50.960 But I like to think about the way that language is building.
00:00:54.500 The way that ideas are being shaped by that language.
00:00:58.480 Because a lot of times, the ins and outs, the day-to-day grind of the news is not really as important to what is going on as the language that is entering the public conversation.
00:01:12.040 Once people have words for something, once people have been given a vocabulary for something, that starts to shape the way they think about things.
00:01:21.700 That actually starts to fill in certain events for them, make certain events possible or desirable or terrible.
00:01:28.880 But just their presence changes the conversation, changes the landscape of ideas.
00:01:36.720 And I think something like that is starting to happen around Donald Trump.
00:01:40.880 The Washington Post has been doing a series of, oh my gosh, the sky is falling.
00:01:46.760 Trump is the devil Nazi dictator of doom.
00:01:50.960 They've been doing these kind of articles for a while.
00:01:54.380 They've been kind of building a series of these, all the terrible things that could happen if Donald Trump becomes president.
00:02:02.100 Now, obviously, this is a scare tactic.
00:02:04.500 It's meant to hype up their base.
00:02:07.040 It's meant to terrify and shock.
00:02:09.400 But it's also embracing a certain frame of reference.
00:02:13.420 They're starting to talk about Trump as a dictatorship.
00:02:16.100 Not just as something that could happen or might happen, but now they're talking about it as if something about it is inevitable.
00:02:23.900 And that's kind of interesting because that has changed the way, I think, that some on the left are approaching this.
00:02:30.340 But it has also changed the way that some people on the right have approached this.
00:02:34.880 Donald Trump himself has been asked repeatedly now, because that was the whole point of the article.
00:02:40.180 It's to set the frame.
00:02:41.480 It's to set the language.
00:02:42.740 He's been asked, would you be a dictator?
00:02:44.960 This is kind of the beauty of the media, right?
00:02:47.720 The hegemony that the media gets to enforce on our national conversation.
00:02:52.860 I'm going to talk to you a little bit about Trump's answer.
00:02:55.240 I want to read to you some of the article because it's always fun to just dive into these left-wing fever dreams.
00:03:01.880 But I also want to look at the way this is going to carry the conversation because memes are real.
00:03:09.040 And once you start a conversation, sometimes it goes in places you don't expect.
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00:04:52.700 So like I said, Trump responded to this framing by the media.
00:04:57.560 Again, that was the purpose of these articles.
00:04:59.660 Remember, when journalists choose language, they are doing so for a reason.
00:05:04.480 That's one of the reasons you need to be careful about the way that you approach the news media.
00:05:09.960 When someone puts a piece of media in front of you, when they frame something for you, you always want to ask why.
00:05:16.960 Why are they saying it this way?
00:05:19.260 Why are they presenting the question in this manner?
00:05:21.820 You don't want to come directly at the thing as if it's in good faith because it pretty much never is.
00:05:27.280 However, Donald Trump is, of course, a bull in a china shop.
00:05:30.760 And so he was asked by, I believe, Sean Hannity repeatedly whether or not he would be a dictator.
00:05:37.400 Would he be a dictator?
00:05:38.820 And he said only on day one.
00:05:41.260 He said, to be clear, I think you're going to have to be a dictator to close the border and get us to drill more oil. 0.63
00:05:48.920 And they said after that, I'll go back to being normal.
00:05:51.740 Now, that's obviously him kind of making a joke, but he's also stating to his base that these are my priorities.
00:05:57.900 I'm willing to take these seriously.
00:05:59.820 I'm willing to act with a real fervor on these priorities, which is good.
00:06:05.420 That's something that his base certainly wants to hear.
00:06:07.400 But, of course, the language that it's wrapped around is dictated by the left.
00:06:12.020 However, like I said, that starts to take us to some interesting places.
00:06:15.500 I want to read a little bit of the article in question that set up this frame.
00:06:20.100 I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's extremely long and we just don't have time to delve through all of those delusions.
00:06:26.100 But I want us to get an idea of the way that this is being set up by the media.
00:06:31.720 And then I want to talk a little bit about Trump's response, talk about the general zeitgeist on both the left and the right when it comes to looking at executive power.
00:06:41.500 And also talk a little bit about the power of memes and rhetorical momentum and the way that those things can carry us forward into situations we might not predict.
00:06:52.220 So let's go ahead and take a look at the piece in question real quick.
00:06:58.940 So the piece is called Trump.
00:07:03.040 A Trump dictatorship is inevitable.
00:07:05.860 We should stop pretending.
00:07:07.540 Let me make this a little larger for everybody.
00:07:09.940 So the piece is by Robert Kagan here.
00:07:13.640 And he says, let's stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality.
00:07:19.180 There's a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it's getting shorter every day.
00:07:25.060 OK, sounds pretty dire.
00:07:26.840 Let's see what that path looks like.
00:07:29.640 In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will will have locked up the Republican nomination in the real clear politics poll average.
00:07:36.580 Trump leads his nearest competitor by 47 points and leads the rest of the field by a combined 27 points.
00:07:42.520 And this has actually only gotten more to be the case.
00:07:46.040 You know, Megyn Kelly pointed out in the most recent Republican debate the fact that, you know, basically everyone, everyone on stage is kind of living in a fantasy land that Trump is crushing everybody in his primary by quite a bit.
00:07:59.900 Even people like Ron DeSantis are losing in his home state.
00:08:03.920 Ron DeSantis, well-loved in Florida, but still losing to Trump by a good 30 points or so in his home state.
00:08:09.480 The only way that anyone on that stage is going to be the Republican nominee is if something happens to Trump, God forbid, or if there's some kind of legal machinations that force him to not be able to run.
00:08:23.300 Again, there's a reason that the media immediately started using the word insurrection, even though they had never used that before January 6th.
00:08:32.160 And the reason was that there is a clause in the 14th Amendment because it was written after the Civil War stating that those who have been involved in an insurrection against the United States cannot stand for office.
00:08:44.060 Because remember, the only requirements to run for office that are actually in the Constitution when it comes to president is you have to be at least 35 years old.
00:08:53.920 You have to have been a natural-born citizen.
00:08:56.440 You cannot be an immigrant. 1.00
00:08:58.300 And you must have lived in the United States for 14 years.
00:09:02.300 You can't, like, live in Germany for 30 years of your life and then move back in, like, two years and run for president.
00:09:10.440 You have to have been a resident of the United States for a long time, even if you're a natural-born citizen.
00:09:15.420 And so those are the only constitutional requirements to run for president.
00:09:19.120 And the left is desperately looking for a way to legally bar Trump from running for president.
00:09:25.480 They're already trying to remove him from different ballots across the nation, that kind of thing.
00:09:29.260 They're hoping if they could put him in jail or indict him, that that would create this barrier to him being the president.
00:09:37.680 However, that's not the case.
00:09:39.700 There isn't any kind of legal restriction.
00:09:42.340 There's no constitutional restriction.
00:09:43.540 You can run for a president from jail if you want to.
00:09:48.560 And there's nothing that the government can do about it, at least in theory.
00:09:52.440 Now, I know a lot of people think that there's, like, a conspiracy and that they charged Trump hoping that he would become the nominee.
00:09:58.900 And that the indictment is going to keep him from becoming president in that sense.
00:10:04.520 I don't think that's the case.
00:10:05.940 I think that the left are just out of control.
00:10:08.260 I think they're just rabid.
00:10:09.640 I don't think they're playing that level of 40 chess when it comes to the reasons that they indicted Trump.
00:10:14.640 Though I'm sure some of them thought that that would be advantageous to them.
00:10:17.640 The point is, outside of some legal chicanery or something that, you know, Trump just being an old man and being physically unable to run, those would be the only reasons he would not be the GOP nominee.
00:10:31.200 He's crushing in the polls.
00:10:33.220 So he's right about this part.
00:10:35.000 That's just going to be a reality.
00:10:36.380 The idea that he's unelectable in the general election is nonsense.
00:10:40.980 He's tied or ahead of President Biden in all the latest polls, stripping other Republican challenges of their own stated reasons for their existence.
00:10:48.780 And again, that's entirely right.
00:10:50.540 The argument was always for guys like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy was that Trump is currently unelectable due to some percentage of hatred by the other side or his legal problems, something like that.
00:11:05.120 And that's the reason that he has to be replaced by one of these people running in the primary.
00:11:11.040 It was just never going to be the case.
00:11:13.100 It was never true.
00:11:13.960 It's not true now.
00:11:15.360 Biden is incredibly unpopular.
00:11:17.940 He's an absolute disaster of a president.
00:11:20.620 Everything has gone wrong under him.
00:11:22.340 He started wars.
00:11:24.140 He's gotten us involved in wars.
00:11:25.840 We spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this kind of stuff.
00:11:29.640 Inflation is out of control.
00:11:31.480 People can't afford to live and have homes.
00:11:34.860 And all kinds of stuff.
00:11:36.840 He's a disaster.
00:11:38.460 Along with just obviously being a laughingstock and an embarrassment as a doddering old man who has no hope of finding where his shoes are in the morning.
00:11:47.360 Trump is old.
00:11:48.080 Don't get me wrong.
00:11:48.740 Trump is too old to be president.
00:11:50.880 I don't think anyone at this age should be running for president.
00:11:54.000 But, you know, between the two very old men, it's very clear that Biden is just completely out to lunch.
00:12:01.600 And Trump, while he is certainly old, you know, he's still got some gas left in the tank.
00:12:06.300 And back to the article here.
00:12:08.600 The fact that many Americans might prefer other candidates much ballyhooed by such political stages as Karl Rove will soon become irrelevant when millions of Republican voters turn out to choose the person whom no one allegedly wants.
00:12:22.540 And, again, this is a really good point.
00:12:25.300 He's being pretty truthful about the fact that half a country wants Donald Trump.
00:12:31.460 All right.
00:12:31.700 A lot of establishment people in the Republican Party, a lot of people who were disappointed in the way that Trump governed in his first time in office were hoping that there would be an alternative to Trump.
00:12:43.900 I get that.
00:12:45.180 I understand Trump's shortcomings.
00:12:46.620 Anyone who criticizes Trump as a failure on certain policies, as a failure of a personal character in many areas, will be totally right.
00:12:54.960 I'm not here to advocate Trump's effectiveness or any of those things.
00:12:59.720 But there is a political reality.
00:13:01.420 And the political reality is whether or not Donald Trump is worthy of the movement that is attached to him, the movement is attached to him.
00:13:09.420 And the energy is not attached to the Republican Party or the conservative cause.
00:13:14.160 It is attached to Trump.
00:13:15.700 That terrifies a lot of people, this author included, because we are not used to a politics of personal loyalty.
00:13:22.200 We are used to an ideological politics.
00:13:24.920 And we get very uncomfortable when people are loyal to a man instead of loyal to some set of ideology, some creed, something like this.
00:13:34.900 But the truth is that politics is much more about the person.
00:13:38.540 It is much more about being attached to an individual, to an identity, to a group, than it is to being attached to an ideology, an abstract party, something like this.
00:13:50.860 What we've seen in the United States is an aberration.
00:13:53.960 It's not real human behavior.
00:13:55.520 It's not even really democratic behavior.
00:13:58.100 It's not the way democracies actually run.
00:14:01.700 What we're seeing is a return to a more normal form of politics.
00:14:05.400 You might say, well, that's not American.
00:14:07.260 You might find yourself uncomfortable with that.
00:14:09.620 All of that's fine.
00:14:10.740 It's also true.
00:14:12.160 And one of the reasons people listen to me is I deal in political realities here.
00:14:17.500 The political reality is that the movement is attached to Donald Trump.
00:14:21.720 It is not attached to the Republican Party.
00:14:23.560 That's why Trumpism without Trump is always doomed.
00:14:26.220 It's why it's not going to happen.
00:14:28.200 That's why the GOP has found it impossible to transfer the energy from Trump to other candidates.
00:14:32.760 This is a phenomenon that is around Trump.
00:14:35.920 Whether he deserves it, whether he's worthy of it, that's a different discussion.
00:14:39.700 I can easily agree with people who say he's not, but it's immaterial to where we're at.
00:14:45.260 People sense something about Donald Trump.
00:14:47.700 They lashed their futures to Donald Trump, and they are going to see him run for president again, whether you like it or not.
00:14:57.100 No matter how many consultants you pour in to it, no matter how many defense contractors donate, Donald Trump is going to be this nominee unless something quite terrible happens.
00:15:08.940 All right.
00:15:09.160 For many months now, we have been living in a world of self-delusion, rich with imagined possibilities.
00:15:15.840 Maybe it'll be Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley.
00:15:18.080 Maybe the myriad of indictments against Trump will doom him with Republican suburbanites.
00:15:22.440 Such hopeful speculations allowed us to drift along passively, conducting business as usual, taking no dramatic action to change course in the hope and expectation that something will happen.
00:15:33.420 I love this.
00:15:34.520 I love this idea that Democrats have just been really chill about this, right?
00:15:37.900 They've been really calm.
00:15:39.340 No big deal.
00:15:40.660 We've been, you know, taking it easy.
00:15:43.240 No, they've been screaming bloody murder about Trump at every step.
00:15:47.200 But they've also been screaming about, say, Ron DeSantis and the evils of Ron DeSantis.
00:15:51.180 This is, of course, the problem.
00:15:52.860 There's, you know, when you're screaming, when the volume's always 11 at all times, no one can tell the difference.
00:15:57.780 Is Ron DeSantis more of a threat than Donald Trump?
00:16:00.160 Is he less of a threat than Donald Trump?
00:16:01.700 How would you know?
00:16:02.480 It doesn't matter if it's Mitt Romney, if it's John McCain.
00:16:05.200 It doesn't matter who gets put forward.
00:16:07.360 Jeb Bush, you're going to scream about him anyway.
00:16:09.520 So is Donald Trump the most evil man in history or is he just the next Republican?
00:16:13.460 Nobody knows.
00:16:14.640 However, they have clearly been afraid of Donald Trump.
00:16:17.800 The idea that they have just been sitting around and taking it easy is laughable.
00:16:21.640 Back to the article here.
00:16:24.480 Like people on a riverboat, we have long known that there is a waterfall ahead, but assume they will somehow find our way to shore before we go over the edge.
00:16:32.400 But now the actions required to get us to shore are looking harder and harder, and it's, if not downright, impossible.
00:16:38.520 Of course, this is, again, delusional.
00:16:40.480 They have literally gone after the most significant political opponent of the sitting president.
00:16:46.520 They have leveled BS charges at him on purpose in order to try to rig the election.
00:16:53.300 It's funny, the real delusion, the delusion that really occurred, was for people who thought that Donald Trump's election was some kind of, again, just this once-in-a-lifetime thing.
00:17:05.600 He drove the left into some particular crazy due to his crazy personality and his ability to just fly off the handle.
00:17:12.900 And so if we got rid of Trump, then all of the fervor would die down.
00:17:19.000 The craziness would die down.
00:17:20.880 Once Trump's out of the picture, that was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
00:17:24.120 The way that the left involved themselves in the election, the way that government agencies involved themselves in the election, this was a one-time thing, and it's never going to happen again.
00:17:32.660 That was the delusion.
00:17:34.520 Obviously, that's not true.
00:17:35.860 The left immediately came back and actually took the extrajudicial step of going after sitting president, raiding his home for things that then we found out that the current president had also had in his home.
00:17:51.120 Remember all those nuclear secret documents that we found in Mar-a-Lago?
00:17:54.840 Whatever happened to that?
00:17:55.820 Oh, well, whatever.
00:17:57.260 We just wanted to intimidate the president right before midterm elections and influence those.
00:18:03.080 But whatever, that's just what the government does now.
00:18:05.560 The FBI, the DOJ, their job is just to rig elections.
00:18:10.140 That's what their job is now.
00:18:11.760 That's just the way we do things.
00:18:12.920 But, of course, to the left, these are legitimate judicial proceedings.
00:18:16.860 They don't care.
00:18:17.680 It's fine.
00:18:18.580 So they're fine with that happening.
00:18:21.080 In fact, they haven't gone far enough.
00:18:22.560 They haven't taken any real serious action to stop the imminent Trump dictatorship that's coming upon us.
00:18:28.160 This magical thinking phase is ending.
00:18:30.600 Bearing some miracle, Trump will soon be the presumptive Republican nominee.
00:18:35.200 When that happens, there'll be swift and dramatic shift in political power dynamic in his favor.
00:18:40.660 That's true, actually.
00:18:42.360 Interestingly, again, there is some truth here.
00:18:46.020 There will be a shift once this is no longer called into question.
00:18:50.200 Once Donald Trump is no longer possibly having to vie with any of these other candidates,
00:18:55.940 there will most likely be a solidification of support behind him.
00:18:59.220 I don't think we're going to get another second wave of never-Trumpers.
00:19:03.980 If we do, that's just the death of the right as a political movement.
00:19:07.820 If half the Republican Party, again, jumps ship because Trump gets nominated, that's the end.
00:19:15.520 And GOP, may it rot.
00:19:18.640 No great loss there.
00:19:20.740 But that really would be kind of the end of it.
00:19:22.780 I don't think that's going to happen.
00:19:23.820 I think all the people who have been screaming about the dangers of Trump and how we have to vote for somebody else will find a way to come back and be like,
00:19:31.780 well, I always supported a rigorous primary process.
00:19:35.680 And actually, you know, now I think we'll probably see a lot of that.
00:19:39.160 But who knows?
00:19:39.640 So, you know, maybe you will get another wave of never-Trumpers.
00:19:42.200 It's entirely possible.
00:19:43.760 Until now, Republicans and conservatives have enjoyed relative freedom to express anti-Trump citizens or sentiments,
00:19:50.520 to speak openly and positively about alternative candidates, to vent criticism of Trump's behavior passed in president.
00:19:57.120 Donors who find Trump distasteful have been free to spread their money around, and boy, have they, to help his competitors.
00:20:02.880 Establishing Republicans have made no secret of their hope that Trump will be convicted
00:20:07.460 and thus removed from the equation without their having to take a stand against him.
00:20:13.160 I love how the left loves establishment Republicans now, right?
00:20:17.300 Mitch McConnell.
00:20:18.400 These people are heroes of the left now.
00:20:20.480 The strange new respect of these guys, you know, love the fact that they hate Donald Trump.
00:20:24.480 So now you have a delusional leftist saying, man, you know, the good old mainstream establishment conservatives.
00:20:31.780 Yeah, I've been talking about these people like they drank the blood of children, and maybe they do.
00:20:36.000 You know, my entire life.
00:20:37.960 But, you know, really, you know, they're fine because they're against Trump now.
00:20:43.220 Good old against Trump, you know, Republicans.
00:20:45.600 That's all I care about.
00:20:47.040 Maybe their souls are redeemed.
00:20:49.240 Yeah, we're going to continue to dive into this fever dream a little more, guys.
00:20:52.880 There's plenty more to talk about.
00:20:54.680 But then, like I said, I want to go ahead and get into where this rhetoric is taking us.
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00:22:13.480 All right, so back to our article here.
00:22:16.300 Of course, he talks a little more about how Trump's going to win the nomination, but he goes on it for, like, seven paragraphs.
00:22:22.380 It gets boring.
00:22:23.220 I do appreciate the Napoleon graphic here.
00:22:26.120 You know, they make one movie.
00:22:27.740 I haven't seen it yet.
00:22:28.660 I've heard it's terrible.
00:22:29.760 I've heard it's cucked Napoleon the movie.
00:22:32.220 I don't know, but that's disappointing.
00:22:35.000 Ridley Scott has this nasty habit of picking subjects I love and then making, like, terrible revisionist epics about them.
00:22:42.100 Of course, he's got great movies.
00:22:43.840 He's got Aliens.
00:22:45.520 He's got, or rather, he's got Alien.
00:22:47.960 He's got Gladiator.
00:22:49.020 He has some true classics.
00:22:50.580 But, of course, then we also get things like, you know, Kingdom of Heaven, which I like because I just like that period of history.
00:22:58.040 But very obviously, he was trying to do the multicultural, the Christians are probably the bad guys version of that. 1.00
00:23:03.280 But it still ends up kind of being a cool movie despite his attempts.
00:23:06.180 Anyway, sorry.
00:23:07.180 Back to our topic here.
00:23:09.280 I just love historical epics.
00:23:10.760 So, our article.
00:23:13.080 But Trump will not only dominate his party, he will again become the central focus of everyone's attention.
00:23:19.280 Even today, the news media can scarcely resist following Trump's every word in action.
00:23:24.700 Once he secures the nomination, he will loom over the country like a colossus.
00:23:28.880 His every word and gesture chronicled endlessly.
00:23:31.740 I got to say, they make Trump sound epic, man.
00:23:34.500 Even today, the mainstream news media, including The Post, NBC News, et cetera, joined forces with Trump's lawyers to seek televised coverage of his federal criminal trial.
00:23:45.500 Look, and again, there's a lot of truth to this, right?
00:23:49.280 A big part of what made Trump so powerful when he first ran was all the free media he got for just being him, for just being a celebrity, for being a novelty.
00:23:59.980 He ended up getting all kinds of free media coverage that catapulted him into the public consciousness.
00:24:05.420 And that's kind of the interesting thing, again, about Trump is that the media can't help but cover him.
00:24:10.940 That's the strength of Trump.
00:24:13.160 He dictates the cycle, right?
00:24:14.860 He dictates the media cycle.
00:24:17.140 They feel compelled to cover him.
00:24:18.680 They know it's good for ratings, but they're also just rabid, you know, they're just rabid haters, and they have to involve themselves constantly in everything Trump does.
00:24:28.660 They don't know how to constrain themselves.
00:24:30.080 And every time one of these guys gets up and yells in some unhished manner about how Trump is Satan, he just ends up getting more and more support from the base.
00:24:39.360 And that's, of course, the thing about him.
00:24:40.900 He's incredibly polarizing.
00:24:41.680 But, you know, the way that Joe Biden is going, it's easier to steal a little more of that middle ground than maybe it was previously once Joe Biden was an unknown quantity.
00:24:52.980 You know, blank check Joe Biden.
00:24:54.860 You know, maybe he's good.
00:24:56.000 Maybe he's bad.
00:24:56.820 I mean, he was Barack Obama's vice president.
00:24:58.720 We like Barack, right?
00:24:59.780 And so I think that, you know, it was a little easier to delude yourself that he would be okay.
00:25:04.080 But having lived under this kind of presidency, I don't think most people want it.
00:25:10.020 They're just hoping to maybe on the left or someone besides Trump.
00:25:13.120 But, you know, even if it is Trump, I think some of these people will be willing to vote over there.
00:25:19.360 Trump will thus enter the general election campaign early next year with momentum backed by growing political and financial resources and increasingly unified.
00:25:27.960 Can the same be said about Biden?
00:25:29.760 So he just kind of whines here about how Trump is probably going to get elected because of all this coverage and that kind of thing.
00:25:36.700 I think eventually he's actually right about this.
00:25:40.920 But the more interesting thing will be him talking about him actually taking power.
00:25:47.960 So Trump, here we go.
00:25:51.220 Trump will not be contained by the courts or rule of law.
00:25:54.660 On the contrary, he's going to use the trials to display his power.
00:25:58.180 And that's why they wanted them.
00:25:59.720 He wants to televise.
00:26:00.620 Trump's power comes from his followers, not from the institutions of America, American government and his devoted and his devoted voters love him precisely because he crosses lines and ignores all boundaries.
00:26:11.960 Yet again, this is true, right?
00:26:13.740 That you again.
00:26:15.680 Everything he's saying is things he's terrified about as where I'm like, excellent.
00:26:20.120 But all these things are true, right?
00:26:22.340 That the power of Trump comes from the fact that he is not reliant on the institutions of the United States.
00:26:28.620 That's what allows him to say things no one else will say.
00:26:30.860 That's what allows him to do things other people won't do.
00:26:33.120 And most importantly, that's what gives him credibility with his voters.
00:26:37.820 That's why they vest him with their faith because they feel like he's not beholden to this.
00:26:42.720 Now, again, is Trump worthy of this?
00:26:44.560 Will he take these actions?
00:26:46.040 Is he actually capable of this stuff?
00:26:48.280 Honestly, I'll spoil you again.
00:26:50.360 Probably not.
00:26:51.200 Like Trump has shown himself to be very suggestible.
00:26:55.560 It's shown that he's bad at staffing.
00:26:57.900 It's shown that he's very malleable when it comes to media attention.
00:27:01.460 And it's shown that, you know, kind of in crucial moments, Trump is not really willing to commit himself.
00:27:06.640 So is he willing to take all these terrible actions that they're probably going to ascribe to him?
00:27:12.240 Probably not.
00:27:13.100 But the point is, they do understand a certain critical dynamic.
00:27:17.820 And when Trump is up in front of these court cases, he probably will get a lot of positive coverage.
00:27:23.140 It probably will endear him, not just to his voters, but many people who might have been in the middle and see him as somebody who's now being punished, who's now being, you know, put upon because of the hatred of the system.
00:27:33.780 They're going to identify with that, and that's going to be a problem for them.
00:27:36.960 So votes come pouring in.
00:27:38.560 Oh, no, Trump's going to get elected.
00:27:40.620 It's the worst thing that could ever happen.
00:27:43.040 All right.
00:27:43.360 I mentioned all this to only answer one question.
00:27:46.900 Can Trump win the election?
00:27:48.760 The answer is, yeah, they obviously think that he can.
00:27:51.640 So they're really worried about Trump, you know, getting in here, winning the election, being in charge here.
00:28:00.660 Let me get to where he complains about, you know, all the ways he's not going to be blocked.
00:28:06.000 Sure.
00:28:06.300 Is it worth getting inside Trump's head a bit and imagining his mood following the election victory?
00:28:13.520 He will have spent the previous year and more fighting to stay out of jail, plagued by myriad prosecutions, and helpless to do what he likes to do best, exact revenge.
00:28:21.860 Think of the fury that will have built up inside of him, a fury from his point of view he has worked hard to contain.
00:28:28.540 As he once put it, I think I have been toned down.
00:28:31.820 If you want to know the truth, I really, I could really tone it up.
00:28:35.440 Indeed, he could and will.
00:28:37.460 He caught a glimpse of his deep thirst for vengeance in his Veterans Day promise to root out communist, Marxist, fascist, and radical thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.
00:28:51.660 Lie, steal, cheat on elections, and do anything possible, whether legally or legally, destroy America and the American dream.
00:28:59.340 I mean, yes, all of that incredibly accurate.
00:29:02.740 But, of course, if you are one of these communists and Marxists and radical leftists, then you are worried about that, right?
00:29:09.380 You don't want anyone calling those things out.
00:29:11.080 Yeah, where is the lie, right?
00:29:12.340 Yeah, exactly.
00:29:13.420 And, yeah, if you're one of these people, you don't want him saying the obvious truth about those things.
00:29:18.220 And what's really interesting is this level of projection.
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00:29:54.440 The left have been going after Trump with a vengeance.
00:29:58.160 It has been vengeance, right?
00:29:59.520 That's what the left have been looking to extract.
00:30:01.920 You can tell that they've gone after everything possible, right?
00:30:05.220 They've gone after Trump's administration.
00:30:07.560 They've punished people who are willing to join his administration.
00:30:10.340 That's a direct threat, right?
00:30:12.140 When you go after the people who were in the administration legally, when you're making
00:30:18.440 them bankrupt, when you're bringing charges against them, when you're using the false
00:30:22.140 Russia narrative to persecute people, even if they end up being found innocent or they 0.80
00:30:28.820 end up not having to go to trial, they have to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of
00:30:32.580 dollars defending themselves along with all the time and everything.
00:30:36.440 This is the kind of thing that makes people not want to serve the presidency.
00:30:39.960 So they've gone after him in that way, making sure that it's going to be difficult for him
00:30:43.820 to staff up because they have made it clear that they will legally destroy people who
00:30:48.720 joined Trump.
00:30:49.560 They've also exacted revenge against Trump when it comes to going after, obviously, his
00:30:56.480 supporters.
00:30:57.280 The reason they're going after people with a January 6th connection is because they want
00:31:03.080 to make it clear that no one is allowed to act in support of Trump.
00:31:06.220 That yes, they're allowed to unleash street violence for months when it came to BLM and 0.67
00:31:11.720 Black Lives Matter.
00:31:13.080 Antifa can lay siege to government buildings.
00:31:15.820 They can burn things down.
00:31:17.400 They can assault everyone.
00:31:19.540 They can literally just destroy everything they want.
00:31:22.860 And there will not be any serious repercussions.
00:31:25.640 You can burn down a Wendy's and get a slap on the wrist as long as you are a Democratic supporter.
00:31:30.060 The Democrats can go out and raise money to pay the bail of all of these people who are
00:31:35.620 doing violence in their name.
00:31:37.980 The Democratic Party funds street violence.
00:31:40.960 Let's be really clear about what the Democratic Party is.
00:31:43.560 The Democratic Party is a criminal organization with the explicit intention of funding violent
00:31:51.580 action against their enemy.
00:31:53.960 OK, the person Kamala Harris, who would become vice president, went out of her way to raise 0.94
00:32:00.960 money to pay for the bail of people who had gone out and destroyed cities in the United
00:32:08.460 States, had illegally assaulted people, had burned things down in the middle of what was
00:32:12.420 supposed to be the most dangerous pandemic of all time.
00:32:14.900 Right.
00:32:15.400 They do all this stuff.
00:32:17.340 That's who the Democrats are.
00:32:18.680 And they're going out of their way to make it clear, Republicans, you better not think
00:32:23.060 that this is something you can do.
00:32:24.680 This is only for our our supporters.
00:32:26.980 Our supporters get away with violence in the streets.
00:32:29.580 Our supporters can break the law.
00:32:31.680 Our supporters can go and loot and burn.
00:32:34.700 They can do what they want and face little to no punishment.
00:32:37.280 That's for us because this is about hierarchy.
00:32:41.380 Now, it's not hypocrisy.
00:32:42.740 It's hierarchy.
00:32:43.420 Right.
00:32:43.940 And so this is a message to everybody who showed up the Capitol.
00:32:48.180 Even if you committed no crime, if you're just standing outside, you could still have
00:32:52.160 your life destroyed just for publicly showing your support for Donald Trump.
00:32:56.520 Right.
00:32:56.860 So they have been exacting revenge on on Trump's staff, on Trump's supporters.
00:33:02.640 And now, obviously, they have exacted their revenge on Trump himself.
00:33:05.860 They have raided his home.
00:33:07.280 They have thrown all these charges at him.
00:33:10.440 They're putting him in front of all of these judges.
00:33:14.200 He's being prosecuted on all of these charges on state, federal level, everything else in
00:33:19.740 a massive.
00:33:20.980 I mean, it's not it's a conspiracy.
00:33:23.320 Right.
00:33:23.560 It's not a conspiracy theory.
00:33:25.020 It's just a conspiracy.
00:33:26.000 It's an obvious open air conspiracy to attempt to keep Donald Trump from being able to run
00:33:31.540 for office.
00:33:32.020 So they are projecting all of the actions they are taking against Donald Trump's staff, against
00:33:37.820 Donald Trump's supporters and against Donald Trump himself.
00:33:40.820 They are saying, well, if we did this, obviously, Trump will want to do the same thing.
00:33:45.240 And well.
00:33:46.840 Yeah, probably.
00:33:48.220 Right.
00:33:48.840 This is the problem.
00:33:50.100 You worry.
00:33:50.800 This is why you don't go down this road.
00:33:53.380 This is why you don't go down this road, because once you open these doors, once you pursue
00:33:59.740 these paths, then other people who end up in the same position and don't pursue them.
00:34:06.380 They're fools.
00:34:07.420 Right.
00:34:08.560 They're idiots, because when you wielded power, when you had power, you wielded it in a corrupt
00:34:14.880 and destructive manner that permanently injured and destroyed the lives of people.
00:34:19.880 And if everyone just stands around, if someone's punching you in the face over and over again,
00:34:24.040 and you're like, you're not allowed to punch somebody in the face and they just keep punching
00:34:27.560 you and punching you and punching you and you keep quoting the Constitution or something 0.95
00:34:30.740 and saying that the Constitution says you can't punch me in the face and they just keep
00:34:33.840 punching you.
00:34:34.620 Eventually, if you get the opportunity to defend yourself, you have to.
00:34:38.180 Right.
00:34:38.620 And they're terrified because the Democrats understand what they did.
00:34:42.060 The left understands what they did.
00:34:43.200 Even if they're having to do it all through projection, they realize what they have accelerated
00:34:48.220 things into.
00:34:49.540 Right.
00:34:49.740 And they're terrified of handing power back to their political enemies.
00:34:53.100 Again, this is why you don't do this in a system, in theory, where power can change
00:34:58.700 hands during elections.
00:35:00.120 Because if you do that thing, then when the power changes hands, you get payback.
00:35:07.080 Right.
00:35:07.280 That's the terrified part.
00:35:08.780 That's why you don't act like this.
00:35:11.160 Now, oftentimes and most of the time in our history, when it comes to the conservative movement,
00:35:16.440 conservatives never do anything.
00:35:17.600 Right.
00:35:17.700 They get power and they're like, oh, well, I mean, you guys, you know, you went after us
00:35:21.620 with the IRS or, you know, you passed all these laws that destroyed our ability to worship
00:35:26.440 or raise our children or, you know, whatever.
00:35:29.300 But when we get in power, we're just going to be, you know, we're going to say we're going
00:35:32.800 to wave it all off.
00:35:33.600 Right.
00:35:33.840 No big, no big deal.
00:35:34.900 We're not going to do anything about it.
00:35:36.880 That's been the conservative attitude for a very long time.
00:35:39.440 But it's very clear that Trump himself is somebody who, you know, doesn't have any
00:35:44.500 problem saying, yeah, I might, I might, there might be some kind of revenge here.
00:35:48.440 And more importantly, and this is what they're really worried about is Trump supporters are
00:35:52.120 tired of Trump supporters are tired of it.
00:35:54.940 Maga types, the people who are diehard Trump fans, they're done. 1.00
00:35:58.360 They've learned this lesson.
00:36:00.000 The, you know, all of the, all of the pontification about the need to restrain yourself and limited
00:36:06.160 government and, you know, not to, you know, no tit for tat, blah, blah, blah, all of that
00:36:11.020 stuff.
00:36:11.760 That's out the window for these people.
00:36:13.620 They've seen what's been done to them.
00:36:15.800 They've watched what's been done to their president, what's been done to their neighbors.
00:36:20.360 They watched what's been done to themselves in many cases.
00:36:22.820 And they said, yeah, no, we're done.
00:36:25.160 Like we're, we're, we are, we don't want to live in a world where the left has carte blanche
00:36:29.860 to do whatever it wants to us.
00:36:31.740 And we're not going to do anything.
00:36:33.540 And so the left is terrified because they have put themselves in a position where, you
00:36:39.520 know, people are going to want, you know, to see some kind of retribution for what's
00:36:45.340 happened.
00:36:45.580 And that's what Trump said.
00:36:46.440 I'm your retribution.
00:36:47.500 Right.
00:36:48.040 And that's, that's the kind of rhetoric that terrifies them.
00:36:50.180 And it should, because they know the way that they've treated people.
00:36:53.700 You know, if Trump started locking people up the way the Democrats had, they're going
00:36:58.200 to yell dictator.
00:36:59.060 Of course they are.
00:37:00.200 Right.
00:37:01.600 What else would they do?
00:37:02.900 And, and, and so, you know, they're terrified of what could happen.
00:37:06.300 Back to our article here.
00:37:08.180 But that's just the start.
00:37:09.420 After all, Trump will only, will not be the only person seeking revenge.
00:37:13.500 His administration will be filled with people with enemy lists of their own, a determined
00:37:18.060 cadre of vetted officials.
00:37:19.620 I like the vetted in scare quotes there, uh, who will see it as their role, uh, their sole
00:37:24.960 role, presidentially authorized mission to root out those in the government who cannot
00:37:29.800 be trusted.
00:37:30.740 Many will simply be fired, but others will be subjected to career destroying investigations.
00:37:35.340 Oh, can you imagine, can you imagine, you know, uh, subjecting your, uh, your political
00:37:41.760 enemies to career destroying investigation?
00:37:44.940 What would that be like to, to, to serve a president, to serve in a white house, to serve
00:37:50.780 as part of administration.
00:37:51.840 And then simply because of the political motives of your enemies, have your career destroyed
00:37:56.420 through an investigation.
00:37:57.320 Oh, wait, that's, that's what the Democrats have spent the last four years doing.
00:38:00.640 And again, this is just projection.
00:38:02.340 The article, this is everything that the left.
00:38:04.660 has been doing.
00:38:06.040 It's everything that they wanted to do.
00:38:07.440 It's what they've gone out of their way to do.
00:38:08.760 They've explicitly destroyed things like the United States military purge anybody who
00:38:14.940 could be a Trump supporter out of there.
00:38:16.300 They've gone after all of these people who are in the Trump administration.
00:38:19.680 They've, they've purged every organization that Trump might have staffed up.
00:38:23.380 They've been looking to root out anyone they think is a political enemy.
00:38:26.520 They've done all of these things, right?
00:38:28.080 This is all the left's playbook.
00:38:29.960 And what they're terrified of is the right might've learned the lessons.
00:38:34.660 What they're really terrified of is we went too far.
00:38:38.200 See, this whole article is about Trump passing the Rubicon.
00:38:41.720 It's all, this whole article is about Trump crossing the Rubicon.
00:38:45.800 But the truth is that the left trust, the left crossed the Rubicon long ago.
00:38:52.520 They're the ones who decided to violate all of these norms.
00:38:56.440 They're the ones that decided to take power and punish their enemies with it because they
00:39:00.500 know that politics is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends.
00:39:05.680 And so they are the ones that crossed the Rubicon.
00:39:07.820 They are the ones who violated the norms.
00:39:10.840 They are the ones who punish their enemies.
00:39:13.060 And they are terrified, absolutely 100% terrified that justice will be done.
00:39:18.900 They're terrified that someone on the right will have learned a lesson and understood what
00:39:24.860 works, understood what these people are trying to do, and will take that lesson to heart.
00:39:30.880 They're terrified of that.
00:39:32.640 And you can see it right here, right?
00:39:34.340 Now they're going to, they're, of course, they're, they're going to invoke, you know,
00:39:37.240 evil mustache, man, because of course they will.
00:39:39.700 So, uh, uh, the Trump administration will be filled with people who will not need explicit
00:39:45.280 instructions from Trump any more than Hitler's local, uh, guilleteers needed instruction.
00:39:51.400 In such circumstances, people work towards, uh, work toward the fewer, fewer, which is to
00:39:57.420 say they anticipated desires and seek favor through acts that they think will make him happy,
00:40:02.180 thereby enhancing their own influence and power in the process.
00:40:04.880 Again, exactly what the left does all the time to ingratiate themselves.
00:40:08.180 Uh, but what are you going to do here?
00:40:10.280 All right.
00:40:10.700 So, uh, there, there's a lot more of this quaking in the boots.
00:40:15.280 There's a lot more of this speculation, right?
00:40:18.120 Uh, but, but you get the general idea.
00:40:20.480 I don't, I don't need to go into this any further.
00:40:22.980 It's, it's a whole lot of projection.
00:40:24.780 It's a whole lot of, uh, I'm terrified that Donald Trump may behave the way that we behave,
00:40:30.740 that Donald Trump might get power and do the things that we did.
00:40:34.760 And that could be horrific because yeah, that's not how you should run the country, right?
00:40:40.460 If you think that democracy is possible, if you think that the peace will transfer of
00:40:44.540 power as possible, you don't do these things to your enemies because at some point you will
00:40:48.780 have to transfer power to them and then you will have handed them power.
00:40:52.800 And that's kind of the hilarious thing is that the Democrats went out of their way to
00:40:57.920 make sure that they'd never have to transfer power to someone like Trump again.
00:41:00.640 That's why they've done everything they've done right is to, is to ensure that after
00:41:05.320 they crossed the Rubicon, after they crossed the line, after they exploited all the power 0.90
00:41:10.780 and punished all of their enemies and committed all the violations and did all the things that
00:41:15.060 are unconstitutional in order to take power and put their enemies in their place.
00:41:19.540 When you do that, when you break the rules, when you cross the Rubicon, you better make sure
00:41:23.540 you never have to hand power over again, because if you do everyone who watched you do the things
00:41:29.800 you do, everyone who watched you violate the rules, you violated, they're going to want
00:41:34.680 revenge on you.
00:41:36.000 They're going to say, well, if we don't do what they did, then they're just going to do
00:41:40.340 it again and they'll be right.
00:41:42.880 And so the left is terrified because they took all of these powers, abused all of these powers.
00:41:47.820 And now they're just worried that Trump might do the same thing.
00:41:52.080 And that's what really scares them.
00:41:54.100 That's what really terrifies them.
00:41:55.500 Trump acting the way that the Biden administration acted is the worst possible thing they could
00:42:00.240 imagine.
00:42:01.240 And it makes sense, right?
00:42:03.160 So here's the real question.
00:42:06.980 What does this article do, right?
00:42:09.520 We've read the craziness.
00:42:10.560 We know it's in there, but what does this article actually do?
00:42:13.280 Like I said, I wanted to look at the rhythms of language, the patterns of language, the
00:42:18.820 way that it moves us towards certain things, how rhetoric advances certain ideas, because
00:42:23.980 I think that's really important.
00:42:25.300 So what does this do?
00:42:26.480 It's a couple of things.
00:42:27.400 First, I think it's Sean Davis over at the Federalist.
00:42:31.000 He has said repeatedly, and I think he's right about this, that the first purpose of these
00:42:35.860 pieces is to green light violence against Donald Trump.
00:42:40.300 These are calls for assassination.
00:42:42.160 And I think he's right about that.
00:42:44.120 I don't think that's too extreme to say.
00:42:45.780 I don't think that this is some kind of joke.
00:42:49.240 I think that that is the left's intention.
00:42:52.320 I think the left is trying to paint a scenario in which it would be okay for one of their
00:42:58.320 supporters to take violent action against Donald Trump.
00:43:01.420 And to be clear, there have already been assassination attempts against Donald Trump.
00:43:04.820 That is something that the left has already attempted to do.
00:43:07.900 It's something that the rhetoric has already moved people towards.
00:43:12.160 That's the beauty of this kind of rhetoric, right?
00:43:14.240 Is it can create lone wolves, and then the left doesn't have to take responsibility for
00:43:18.200 it.
00:43:18.540 But it's very clear that they're talking about Trump like this because they want people
00:43:23.260 to understand that this is an extraordinary moment and that you can take extraordinary
00:43:28.280 measures in your own hands.
00:43:29.840 They said so in the article, right?
00:43:31.760 That we have to stop thinking about this as some ordinary thing.
00:43:34.920 We have to shake off our complacency and treat this with the extraordinary urgency that it
00:43:41.940 requires.
00:43:42.980 And I think they're using this language because they want to make it okay, right?
00:43:46.300 We've seen this continuously.
00:43:48.380 The left has been advancing their language against conservatives in general because they want to
00:43:54.480 normalize violence against the right.
00:43:56.600 They've said that it's okay.
00:43:58.200 Oh, yeah, of course you should be able to punt a Nazi. 0.89
00:44:00.880 Oh, and by the way, it turns out that everyone who disagrees with the left is a fascist.
00:44:05.640 Joe Biden got up in front of the entire nation with a blood red background projected on him and
00:44:14.220 with two armed Marines flanking him and declared his enemies fascist.
00:44:19.100 That's not a mistake.
00:44:20.300 That's an intentional move, right?
00:44:23.260 The left has been accelerating his messaging from racist or sexist or bigot.
00:44:30.120 They have accelerated that to now fascist for a reason because they want to normalize violence
00:44:35.920 against the right.
00:44:37.480 And they want to make it clear that they think Donald Trump is someone they can normalize the
00:44:41.620 same response.
00:44:42.300 And so I think this rhetoric of dictatorship and fascism, I think it's specifically designed
00:44:49.360 to accelerate the left's justification for action against Trump.
00:44:55.220 I think that's a real concern.
00:44:56.720 I think he's right about that.
00:44:58.260 And I don't know if that's action that's going to get taken.
00:45:00.340 I really hope not.
00:45:01.280 I hope that's not where anyone's at.
00:45:03.460 That's horrific.
00:45:04.980 But I think the left is using that language for a reason.
00:45:08.140 I think they understand what they're doing.
00:45:09.980 I don't think that's a mistake.
00:45:11.000 So that's one aspect of it.
00:45:12.780 Another aspect of it is that that then sets a frame of normalizing talk of Trump as a
00:45:19.660 dictator in every one of these news conversations.
00:45:24.020 Obviously, we've already seen this, right?
00:45:25.640 The article is run.
00:45:27.900 All the cable news outlets, MSNBC, CNN, they echo it over and over again.
00:45:32.100 Well, is Trump a dictator?
00:45:34.280 Is it inevitable?
00:45:35.680 Could he become one?
00:45:36.760 Is that thing?
00:45:37.320 And then that filters down.
00:45:38.500 And even conservative media repeats that, you know, Sean Hannity asked the question and
00:45:42.700 then Trump ends up saying, yeah, so some some actions I'm going to take are going to need
00:45:47.540 to be direct.
00:45:49.400 Now, this also sets an interesting frame for Trump because there are multiple truths contained
00:45:54.760 here.
00:45:55.120 One, in order for him to do certain things like close the border, as he said, he will
00:45:59.540 need to take a imperial view of the executive branch.
00:46:06.140 He's going to need to wield power.
00:46:08.480 He's going to need the imperial presidency.
00:46:09.940 Now, the imperial presidency is nothing new in the United States.
00:46:13.820 We see it from people like like Abraham Lincoln.
00:46:17.820 We see it from people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, right?
00:46:20.740 These are people who wielded massive amounts of authority through the executive branch authority
00:46:26.060 that today, when you look at the way they wielded it, that would most certainly be treated
00:46:29.560 as overbearing, dictatorial, possibly unconstitutional, right?
00:46:34.080 These are people who have wielded power through the executive branch in this way.
00:46:38.320 And because the institutions of the United States are so dead set against Donald Trump
00:46:43.480 and specifically anything that is right wing, because the institutions of the United States
00:46:47.400 have almost become entirely infected by progressivism.
00:46:50.580 He will need to wield a executive power that is confident.
00:46:55.800 He will need to make promises and keep them by making sure that the people he is talking
00:47:00.540 to follow his orders.
00:47:01.420 And how does he do that?
00:47:02.200 Well, as they mentioned here, he needs to clean house because we all know that Donald
00:47:05.760 Trump was buried by the swamp, that his own staff or people inside his own executive
00:47:10.860 organizations simply ignored him or actively worked against him when he attempted to implement
00:47:15.820 his agenda.
00:47:16.700 The entire presidency of Donald Trump was basically stolen in the first place.
00:47:20.580 By the fact that the executive agencies under him colluded with places like the media
00:47:26.300 who push Russian collusion stories and other things to completely derail his presidency and
00:47:31.560 keep his agenda from being implemented.
00:47:33.300 Now, I've already talked to people like Andrew Kloster on the show who are part of the Trump
00:47:37.860 staffing organization.
00:47:38.800 They understand the problem with this.
00:47:40.500 They already have the I believe it's the Schedule F initiative that allows them to move many
00:47:47.640 of these bureaucrats, fire many of these bureaucrats who are supposed to be objective, but are actually
00:47:52.600 just career progressives who are built in to the system to keep any Republican, any real
00:47:58.600 conservative, any true right winger from taking action.
00:48:03.020 They've already got plans on how to move those people out of there. 0.98
00:48:05.800 And again, that's what the article was terrified about, right?
00:48:09.520 That Trump might actually have a plan this time, that there might actually be a way forward for
00:48:13.400 him to do the things he said he was going to do.
00:48:15.160 That'd be really clear.
00:48:16.720 I don't think Trump will be a dictator if he gets elected.
00:48:19.680 I don't think Trump has got that in him.
00:48:22.400 I don't think that he's really going to do that.
00:48:25.460 And he's like 80 years old at this point.
00:48:27.540 He's super old, right?
00:48:29.000 He's not going to start a dictatorship at 80 years old.
00:48:31.520 What's going to happen?
00:48:32.520 You know, it's just not it's probably not a real thing.
00:48:35.440 However, the way this is now being framed, any effective Republican administration will
00:48:42.040 be treated as a dictatorship.
00:48:45.420 That's the way they've set it up.
00:48:47.000 If Trump manages to implement the strategies he's talking about, if he cleans house, if
00:48:52.800 he's able to take direct executive action on critical issues and for the things that
00:48:59.160 his supporters want done immediately without getting entangled in all kinds of red tape and
00:49:04.540 all kinds of bureaucratic lag, they're going to call him a dictator.
00:49:08.560 I mean, they're going to call him a dictator anyway, but they're going to they're going
00:49:11.420 to have set the frame for any effective action on the right to be framed as a dictatorship.
00:49:16.860 And this is a really interesting thing because both sides are now memeing this thing about
00:49:23.640 dictatorship, right?
00:49:25.060 Now, again, I don't think Trump is this guy.
00:49:26.900 I don't I don't think it's going to happen this way.
00:49:29.540 But the fact that this discussion is being normalized and that effective government
00:49:34.540 is being framed in this way means that eventually people start shifting their viewpoint on what
00:49:41.240 that even means.
00:49:42.600 That means they start embracing language like that.
00:49:44.820 Oh, well, you think effective leadership is dictatorship?
00:49:49.000 OK, well.
00:49:51.220 People start shifting the way that they look at these things, and that's something that's
00:49:55.060 very interesting.
00:49:55.680 Again, people are carried away by forces of history.
00:49:59.540 Many decisions that we think of as monumental aren't really made because the people in charge
00:50:06.640 wanted something or saw themselves in that role or wanted to make a sweeping change in
00:50:12.200 history or ideology or forms of government or anything.
00:50:15.560 Many of these things occur because people are carried on the currents and the tides of the
00:50:21.260 kind of the zeitgeist of the language that's being used, the rhetoric that's being used, the
00:50:26.120 ideas that are being normalized, the frames that are being set.
00:50:29.540 And so the left can't seem to help themselves.
00:50:31.800 But in one sense, they are attempting to set this idea of Trump as the most terrible thing
00:50:38.780 that could ever happen, a dictator that controls America. 1.00
00:50:41.800 And they're doing that because they want to keep it from happening.
00:50:45.320 But at the same time, because they're feeding into their own fever dream, they're feeding into
00:50:50.160 their own how scared they are.
00:50:55.260 I don't know why I suddenly can't remember the word for being.
00:50:58.100 Anyway, their own paranoia.
00:50:59.480 There we go.
00:51:00.260 Because they're feeding into their own paranoia on this, they're using language that makes
00:51:04.680 it inevitable.
00:51:05.760 They're saying, oh, his dictatorship is inevitable.
00:51:08.540 Even though they're trying to prevent that, they're actually accelerating it because what
00:51:11.860 they're doing is leaving Trump with very few moves.
00:51:14.720 Well, anything I do, you're going to call it a dictatorship, right?
00:51:17.140 Any action I take is a dictatorship.
00:51:18.980 Even before I get in office, before I take any action, even if I just do things that are
00:51:22.420 totally constitutional, you're just going to call it dictatorial anyway.
00:51:24.620 Anyway, well, okay, right?
00:51:27.120 Like that's a rhetorical box that they try to put people in.
00:51:30.620 Now, that works as long as they're scared of those terms, as long as they're scared of
00:51:35.300 those actions.
00:51:36.100 But when you box people in like that, crazy things happen.
00:51:39.360 Again, I don't think that's going to happen with Trump, but it's something to watch because,
00:51:43.120 like I said, they're memeing things into reality that they don't entirely control.
00:51:48.020 The left think they're using this to slander Trump.
00:51:49.820 They think you're using this to box Trump.
00:51:51.320 They think they're using this to prevent Trump from taking certain actions.
00:51:55.580 Maybe they will.
00:51:56.160 Maybe all this will be successful.
00:51:57.640 Maybe they'll be right about that.
00:51:58.980 But when you create this, you know, this kind of expectation, there's almost like a
00:52:07.960 hyperstitious moment where this thing creates itself because it keeps coming back and being
00:52:14.620 interjected into the discussion.
00:52:17.520 And I think that, you know, in these times of difficulty, you want to be careful about
00:52:24.720 the way that you approach framing your enemies, because when you do, you might only leave them
00:52:30.280 certain routes out of certain problems.
00:52:32.900 And maybe that will win you the day, but maybe it won't.
00:52:35.780 And if you lose, that loss could come with some consequences that you would not enjoy.
00:52:41.860 All right, guys.
00:52:42.380 So I wanted to talk to you about that.
00:52:43.600 Like I said, interesting the way that this is being advanced is interesting the way that
00:52:47.820 that rhetoric is bouncing back and forth from one side to the other inside the United States.
00:52:52.560 I wanted to explore that possibility and the way that people are approaching it.
00:52:57.700 Let's go over to a question here real quick.
00:53:00.080 We have from Florida Henry.
00:53:02.420 Good afternoon.
00:53:03.460 As a history nerd, Trump slash Biden is a weird parallel to the Romans, Marius Sulla,
00:53:08.980 bloodshed and dictatorship.
00:53:10.600 Yeah.
00:53:10.980 A lot of people have said this.
00:53:12.600 Some people have said that Trump is kind of Sulla, is the guy that comes before Caesar.
00:53:20.280 He's not Caesar, but the guy that becomes before Caesar.
00:53:22.060 I've seen people make that.
00:53:23.460 For people who are unfamiliar, so Marius was more of a populist.
00:53:29.060 He did the Marian reforms in the Roman military.
00:53:32.720 And then Sulla was kind of more of the backer of the Senate.
00:53:38.000 The Senate is more of the old aristocracy.
00:53:41.120 There ended up being these massive civil wars.
00:53:44.040 Most people focus on the wars between Caesar and Pompey, or they look at the wars between
00:53:50.800 Augustus Caesar, Octavian, and Mark Anthony as the big civil wars.
00:53:56.600 But all of those were actually preceded by the Marius and Sulla civil wars.
00:53:59.660 And it is interesting, yeah, the way that you're looking at that, both of these people fighting for what could be the future of Rome, right, and ended up putting themselves in very, very dangerous places that ended up with a lot of bloodshed for Rome.
00:54:16.700 I certainly hope that that is nothing that is in our future, but history is a teacher.
00:54:23.660 We should pay attention because, again, there's a reason you don't go down these roads.
00:54:28.000 And Democrats have wanted to go down them.
00:54:31.080 They think that there's no cost to be paid.
00:54:33.460 And that's very stupid and dangerous steps to take.
00:54:35.920 But thank you for your history reference, sir.
00:54:38.560 I appreciate that.
00:54:39.600 All right, guys.
00:54:40.200 So I know last week Dave Smith was supposed to be gone, and then he had a family emergency, but he is supposed to be back on tomorrow.
00:54:49.300 So barring another emergency, Dave Smith should be on tomorrow.
00:54:52.700 That'll be fun.
00:54:53.620 Dave's an interesting guy.
00:54:54.640 I had a good time talking to him last time on his show.
00:54:57.680 Looking forward to getting to talk to him again on my show tomorrow.
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