The Auron MacIntyre Show - Left in Shambles After Its Media Monopoly Crumbles ｜ 11⧸14⧸24

Donald Trump has delivered an earthshattering loss to the American left. The reality television star not only secured a convincing win in the Electoral College, but also secured the popular vote and maintained down-ticket momentum. This kind of definitive mandate for the opposition would usually cause a political party to reflect on the policies or rhetorical strategies which led them to this devastating loss. But the Democrats are having none of that. From MSNBC to CNN to HBO, liberal pundits and politicians have been engaging in election postmortems and have come to the conclusion that the problem is not their failed platform, but a general hostility towards the American people.

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00:00:30.200 Donald Trump has delivered an earth-shattering loss to the American left.

00:00:35.000 The reality television star didn't just achieve a convincing win in the Electoral College,

00:00:39.800 but also secured the popular vote and maintained down-ticket momentum,

00:00:44.120 with Republicans capturing the Senate and possibly retaining the House as well.

00:00:48.620 This kind of definitive mandate for the opposition would usually cause a political party to reflect

00:00:53.500 on the policies or rhetorical strategies which led them to this devastating loss.

00:00:58.440 But the Democrats are having none of that.

00:01:01.860 From MSNBC to CNN to HBO, liberal pundits and politicians have been engaging in election postmortems

00:01:09.360 and have come to the conclusion that the problem is not their failed platform,

00:01:14.200 general hostility towards the American people, or abuse of power.

00:01:18.140 No, no, no.

00:01:19.060 Instead, the Liberal Brain Trust has come to the amazing conclusion that the American people have too much free speech.

00:01:27.700 A few thoughtful voices on the left have suggested that opening the border,

00:01:32.740 demonizing men, ignoring the economic plight of the average American,

00:01:36.660 and pushing radical gender politics onto children may have had a deleterious effect

00:01:42.400 on the electoral chances of the Democratic Party.

00:01:45.480 Those moderating voices have been shouted down as racist and sexist.

00:01:50.620 Progressives are deeply bought into their own radical ideology

00:01:54.220 and have instead laid the blame for their loss at the feet of alternative media.

00:02:00.100 The left have been desperately warning about the dangers of misinformation and disinformation for years.

00:02:05.740 For many decades, progressives held a near-total monopoly on the elite institutions

00:02:10.760 that manufacture ideological consensus in the United States.

00:02:15.660 In a world where individuals are increasingly isolated from real people or events,

00:02:20.580 the popular narrative delivered by news and entertainment has the ability to define reality.

00:02:27.240 That's how you convince an entire nation to treat a nasty flu like the Black Death. 0.83

00:02:32.760 Democrats have lived inside this reality of their own making for so long

00:02:37.740 that they've forgotten that it's artificial.

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00:02:43.040 Progressives truly believe that Americans are a collection of racists, sexists, and homophobes, 0.95

00:02:48.920 and if they're not fed a tightly controlled diet of carefully curated information, 0.99

00:02:53.860 they'll revert to their brutal nature and start throwing Nazi salutes

00:02:57.340 in honor of the eternal Trumpenreich.

00:02:59.880 Leftist operatives don't see themselves as propagandists

00:03:02.740 because their own reality is defined by the narrative

00:03:05.440 filtered through a network of credentialed institutions.

00:03:08.640 When progressives say,

00:03:09.780 our democracy,

00:03:11.000 they really mean the consensus manufactured by

00:03:14.040 quote-unquote experts

00:03:15.520 that have demonstrated loyalty to their ideology.

00:03:19.640 Any information that contradicts this narrative must be misinformation,

00:03:24.400 not due to any conflict with reality, mind you,

00:03:27.380 but because it stands in opposition to their carefully curated narrative ecosystem.

00:03:33.260 In their moment of utter defeat,

00:03:35.860 the Democrats have blamed podcasters like Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn,

00:03:40.500 lamenting their ability to reach so many young men.

00:03:44.120 Leftist pundits have expressed their need to invent their own Joe Rogan

00:03:47.540 or create their own influence networks,

00:03:49.780 but this is delusional on several levels.

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00:04:22.940 First, the left already has a vast influence network

00:04:26.820 that involves the entire mainstream media,

00:04:29.420 Hollywood, corporate America, academia,

00:04:32.460 and unelected federal bureaucracies.

00:04:35.100 But the left doesn't see this as an influence network.

00:04:38.440 They see it as the baseline institutional reality.

00:04:42.040 They've managed to convince themselves

00:04:43.560 that the shadows they cast on the wall are reality,

00:04:47.060 and anything beyond them is somehow nefarious and artificial.

00:04:51.880 Second, progressives have plenty of relatively young male influencers

00:04:55.720 like David Pakman and Hassan Piker.

00:04:58.780 These voices have huge institutional advantages,

00:05:01.840 including major funding

00:05:03.240 and the simple fact that they can speak

00:05:05.360 with little to no fear of censorship from big tech.

00:05:08.620 But it's exactly this obvious alliance with the status quo

00:05:13.240 that dooms their efforts.

00:05:14.820 Liberal commentators aren't rebels speaking truth to power.

00:05:18.980 They're pushing on an open door.

00:05:21.060 They seem deeply disingenuous,

00:05:23.160 and their audiences can feel it.

00:05:25.140 Which is why Pakman had to make a video recently

00:05:27.560 about him losing his audience in droves.

00:05:31.200 The problem the left faces

00:05:33.060 isn't that it lacks media reach.

00:05:35.300 Despite ominous cracks appearing in the foundation,

00:05:38.420 progressives still have a definitive hold

00:05:40.540 on the legacy media, education, and government bureaucracies

00:05:44.700 that inform opinion inside the United States.

00:05:48.160 The real problem facing Democrats

00:05:49.740 is that each one of those institutions

00:05:51.800 has sacrificed its credibility

00:05:53.840 in the name of advancing ideology and tightening control.

00:05:58.240 Soft power is always a delicate game.

00:06:01.180 It requires disciplined actors

00:06:02.900 to extract just enough advantage

00:06:05.080 from their institutional control

00:06:07.280 without embracing the temptation

00:06:09.200 to nakedly advance their own interests.

00:06:12.700 Progressives have lost all such discipline

00:06:14.960 and burned the precious currency

00:06:17.160 of institutional legitimacy

00:06:18.940 for short-term gain.

00:06:21.040 Now they reap the whirlwind.

00:06:23.280 The left have plenty of media representation.

00:06:27.180 What they no longer have is a media monopoly.

00:06:30.060 Despite wielding a giant advantage

00:06:33.120 in funding, prestige, and infrastructure,

00:06:36.220 audiences are abandoning traditional media in droves

00:06:39.460 because they simply get everything wrong.

00:06:43.300 They lied about the border.

00:06:44.860 They lied about the pandemic.

00:06:46.580 They lied about Trump.

00:06:48.120 They lied about the polls.

00:06:49.540 And they even managed to delude themselves

00:06:51.880 into believing Kamala Harris

00:06:53.940 could win a presidential election.

00:06:56.540 And even in this moment of defeat,

00:07:00.680 progressive commentators sit oblivious

00:07:03.260 to the reality that they've worked so passionately

00:07:06.080 to wall themselves off from.

00:07:08.600 Leftists are now watching the success

00:07:11.160 of podcasters like Joe Rogan

00:07:13.340 or platforms like Twitter and saying,

00:07:15.660 oh wow, media can shape reality.

00:07:18.280 I gotta get me some of that media

00:07:20.040 as they chat on HBO panels

00:07:22.380 and write in the New York Times.

00:07:24.460 The lack of self-awareness is just amazing.

00:07:28.440 It's an incredible thing to behold.

00:07:30.800 But Democrats can't produce a candidate

00:07:33.180 capable of going on Joe Rogan,

00:07:35.660 much less create an alternative

00:07:37.440 to his brand of podcasting

00:07:39.400 because they're so wildly out of touch

00:07:41.540 and inauthentic.

00:07:43.360 Rogan is far from ordinary,

00:07:45.580 but he exudes an open, everyman quality

00:07:48.860 that's difficult to manufacture.

00:07:51.360 A podcaster is not a natural conservative,

00:07:53.660 but he also doesn't hate Americans

00:07:56.320 and disregard their concerns.

00:07:58.920 A Democratic Party that demonizes young men 0.99

00:08:01.740 and calls middle Americans trash 0.98

00:08:03.720 is gonna have a difficult time 0.96

00:08:05.160 speaking to those demographics.

00:08:07.760 And several Democratic Party operatives

00:08:09.760 are starting to understand this.

00:08:11.580 They're attempting to reposition in some way

00:08:14.620 where they keep all their ideological commitments,

00:08:17.440 but change their tone slightly.

00:08:19.380 That's simply not going to work.

00:08:21.480 The problem is the toxic message

00:08:24.880 and a willingness to just completely dismiss

00:08:27.820 the concerns of average Americans,

00:08:30.080 not the fact that a couple of comedians

00:08:32.560 have podcasts where they don't vomit

00:08:34.840 the Democratic Party line at every opportunity.

00:08:38.060 Democrats had manufactured a reality

00:08:40.560 where their ideology was unassailable

00:08:43.220 and victory was certain.

00:08:45.260 Only archaic institutions like the Electoral College

00:08:48.700 and voter identification stood between progressives

00:08:51.960 and the end of history.

00:08:54.160 A resounding defeat in the popular vote

00:08:57.020 has left Democrats baffled,

00:08:59.140 wandering in the wilderness

00:09:00.260 and seeking someone to blame.

00:09:02.620 There will be no introspection,

00:09:04.440 no lessons can be learned.

00:09:06.620 Instead, leftists have doubled down

00:09:08.500 on their radical policies

00:09:09.960 and cynical hatred of Americans.

00:09:12.260 This serves as a great reminder

00:09:13.660 that no matter how smart or capable

00:09:15.940 that you think you are,

00:09:17.640 decadence will make you weak

00:09:19.180 and insularity will make you delusional.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - November 14, 2024

Left in Shambles After Its Media Monopoly Crumbles ｜ 11⧸14⧸24

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