Jesse Kelly is the host of Radio and TV show "First Take" and host of the show "The Tucker Carlson Show" on Fox News. He is also the author of the new book, "Why the Right Doesn't Fight," which is out now. In this episode, Jesse talks about how he got started in radio and politics and how he became a radio and TV host.
00:00:50.420So we're going to get into all kinds of stuff with Jesse.
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00:01:59.760So, Jesse, you know, I've seen you everywhere, you know, everyone's seen you on Tucker Carlson.
00:02:06.720You are blowing up because I think you speak to an important aspect of the right, something about the right that a lot of people are super frustrated with, that they simply will not fight.
00:02:17.440They don't know how to address issues.
00:05:04.520They actually like if we're talking about the Washington elite, they actually feel worse about the GOP base.
00:05:11.020They look down on the GOP base more than the communists actually do.
00:05:14.580Mitch McConnell and those types, the Lindsey Grahams.
00:05:17.320These people, the way they speak about people like you, Aaron, and your audience and me behind doors, it would make you'd march on Washington with pitchforks the way they speak about us.
00:05:25.800They really genuinely just think you're a bunch of ignorant rubes.
00:05:29.660You want to you want you want to secure your own border.
00:05:34.660But for the GOP in general, they don't they haven't understood that there has been a massive sea change on the other side.
00:05:44.160And they're acting like that's not the case.
00:05:46.540They act like we are just in some kind of a I mean, heated, of course, but it's a political game.
00:05:52.520Look, we'll give a little and they'll give a little and that's just kind of how we're going to do things here.
00:05:57.180They act like we live in a world that everyone actually wants to live in instead of the world we actually live in, where every single major entity has been taken over by a cultural Marxist trying to burn America to ash.
00:06:22.040So if you can't if you can't decipher whether or not the person you live with is just has different ideas on how to improve the house or is actively trying to burn it down, you're in a bit of trouble.
00:06:34.080Yeah, I think that's a really important distinction, that GOP establishment versus maybe the average conservative understanding, because I think you're right that that GOP establishment, they know they're safe.
00:07:33.800A lot of people get kind of worked up when people talk about the opposition as communist.
00:07:39.380Right. Because they say very specifically, I think there's some some fairness to this.
00:07:42.960Marxism is a very is a particular economic ideology.
00:07:46.480Right. And so how can these people be Marxists when Apple and Google and BlackRock and, you know, Goldman Sachs are on their side?
00:07:56.620But I think I've heard you talk about this.
00:07:59.240And I think it's a good frame for people to understand because I've heard it echoed by others that really communism is kind of when the when the when the spiteful mutants, the resentful,
00:08:09.160the people who want to destroy what is happening, try to bend and twist things so that they can dismantle kind of America as we see it now.
00:08:19.800And the kind of the economics part was just kind of a useful thing at the moment for people who have a general interest in attacking America as it stands.
00:08:28.720Yeah, that's because people don't understand history.
00:08:31.200Those are the people who get upset about using the word communist.
00:08:34.540One, I just want to say this before I go into my explanation.
00:08:37.140And this is another reason the right loses and another reason that I admire the communists somewhat.
00:11:09.600They just need victory so that they can impose their will on others.
00:11:12.460And I think there's a lot of people in conservatives who are super uncomfortable with understanding that that's how it works both ways.
00:11:20.400Like there is no freedom without victory.
00:11:23.100These people are not going to leave you alone.
00:11:25.020They're not going to let you section off and run things your own way.
00:11:29.720Either you take these institutions back from these people or build alternative institutions that completely discredit and undermine their power,
00:11:54.560You won't ever see victory unless some of those people go to prison.
00:11:57.620Like the right doesn't understand that.
00:11:59.040You know people have to go to prison, right?
00:12:00.400You have to take people, arrest them, have public trials, and throw people, including journalists, into prison if you want to save this country.
00:12:06.880Like if you said that to the right, they would instantly recoil in horror.
00:12:11.400But the left understands, the communist understands, that we're only talking about power.
00:13:23.820You know, Walter Littman, a good liberal back in the 1920s, wrote a book about public opinion saying, look, as liberals, as good progressives, it's our job to manufacture the truth.
00:13:54.560They don't worry about what's popular.
00:13:57.040They worry about making it popular once they have control of institutions.
00:14:00.620They understand that delivering the narrative and coding their understanding as kind of the null hypothesis of law gives them power over everyone below them and will eventually make things popular.
00:14:12.800You look at stuff like, you know, the redefinition of marriage.
00:14:16.640This is something that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton came out against in 2008.
00:14:21.180Now it's something that Republicans are pushing in the Senate, right?
00:16:32.420So I wonder what you think about this.
00:16:34.400I think one of the big things that keeps conservatives from being able to fight back effectively is kind of this worship of the public-private distinction, right?
00:16:42.820A lot of conservatives look at corporations and they say, oh, well, that's a private company.
00:16:48.820They can do whatever they want, right?
00:16:50.720Or they look at a university and they say, well, that should be independent.
00:16:55.100It shouldn't have any kind of political influence.
00:16:57.780And then you even see guys like Chris Ruffo who push back against this political indoctrination in these university departments.
00:17:05.200And all of a sudden, you know, guys like Jordan Peterson even are saying, whoa, whoa, we can't go, you know, stopping the teaching of radical ideas.
00:17:13.960It's like there's this barrier that conservatives believe that they have to always honor and that will always safeguard them from this.
00:17:22.780Even though it's very clear that these ideas, like you said, filter up through education, through entertainment.
00:17:27.740They move in from public and private organizations and they completely take over your society.
00:17:33.960How are conservatives ever going to fight back if they don't understand that this ideology moves very easily between these public and private spheres?
00:18:27.060And then when we talk about banning, like you were just talking about banning in public and private, again, we go back to this world we want to live in.
00:18:33.500No, corporations should be apolitical.
00:18:37.020OK, yeah, they should be, but they're not.
00:18:43.380Instead, these corporations take their massive, massive monetary power, oftentimes in conjunction with the government, using taxpayer money because they almost all get bailed out now.
00:18:54.660And they use all that money and power and influence to make billboards and TV commercials and everything else, pushing this cultural Marxist filth all over everything.