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00:00:00.000A new Gallup poll shows fewer Americans than ever are proud to be American, the celebrity world shows its ugliest side while pushing abortion, and a mass shooting rocks Highland Park in Chicago.
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00:01:51.000Inherent in the title United States is the idea that there are separate polities inside the United States with very different views about what happiness looks like and what life should look like and what Government should be constructed like we were the United States.
00:02:04.000These preceded the federal government.
00:02:05.000The federal government was an outgrowth of those states.
00:02:08.000And this has always been a struggle in American life because literally at the time that the Declaration of Independence was being created, the Articles of Confederacy, the original Articles of Confederacy was also being discussed.
00:02:20.000How exactly were Americans supposed to come together?
00:02:23.000If you had said in, say, 1777, what is the most important document that's happening right now?
00:02:29.000Presumably it would be all of the legislation coming out from the Second Continental Congress.
00:02:34.000It would be things like, how do we form up in a confederacy?
00:02:36.000It would not have been the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:38.000The reason we celebrate the Declaration of Independence is because it is supposed to Signal that these are the things that we all share.
00:02:45.000California and Florida, New York and Texas.
00:02:47.000These are the things that we all share.
00:02:48.000And over time, as the United States' federal government has grown more and more powerful, and as the states have lost more and more power to the federal government, as that has happened, that should have required more unity at the national level.
00:02:59.000Unfortunately, what has happened in the United States is that the states have retained their independent characters.
00:03:06.000But the federal government has moved further and further away from the states.
00:03:09.000It's moved further and further away from the citizens.
00:03:12.000And so ironically, as the federal government has used more and more compulsion, as it's grown, as its tentacles have now entered every area of American life, Americans feel less secure.
00:03:22.000They feel less unified by the federal government.
00:03:25.000And it's very easy to celebrate together on July 4th when we agree to disagree on most things.
00:03:29.000And there are a few core ideas that we come together.
00:03:32.000Over when it comes to the national government.
00:03:35.000Then you can celebrate July 4th when the thing that actually unifies us is the statements of the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:39.000You can say these are the things that we all have in common at the very least.
00:03:42.000But over time as the federal government gains more and more power and as it has less and less tolerance for people living different choices of life in places like Florida and California and New York and Texas.
00:03:53.000As that happens, there's more and more disunity and we stop looking like an actual national government and we start looking again like the original United States, a sort of confederacy of states that have some common interests with regard to say tariff policy or foreign policy.
00:04:07.000We start to look a lot more like the EU, Greece and the UK.
00:04:10.000Why are they in the same body politic?
00:04:11.000And the answer is they sort of are and they sort of aren't.
00:04:14.000Why exactly are we supposed to believe that France has the same interests as Germany all across the line?
00:04:19.000So why are we supposed to believe that Florida and, say, Massachusetts have the same exact unity of vision?
00:04:27.000Now again, the Declaration was supposed to spell out that unity of vision.
00:04:30.000The United States was supposed to be a different place.
00:04:31.000The idea was that to prevent conflict on the continent itself, you had to have some sort of federal government that was going to prevent that conflict and also to bring us together.
00:04:40.000This is described fully in the Federalist Papers.
00:04:42.000Alexander Hamilton talks about the idea that over time there'd be more and more allegiance that would be placed to the national government as opposed to, say, the state government.
00:04:50.000And the very least, that our unity in the national body politic would trump whatever conflicts we had between the states.
00:04:56.000But now it seems that that is all coming apart because the common vision for the United States has been actively attacked by one side of the political aisle over the course of the last 50 years.
00:05:04.000And now the country seems to be coming apart at the seams.
00:05:08.000And you can see it in nearly every issue.
00:05:10.000You can see it in the way that issues themselves are described.
00:05:13.000So, for example, there's a fascinating article today in the Associated Press talking about this horrific shooting in Highland Park.
00:05:21.000It's a mass shooting in Highland Park at an Independence Day parade.
00:05:25.000And we'll get to a lot more coverage of that a little bit later, because first of all, I think that it's rather suspicious.
00:05:29.000The media only seem to care when a bunch of white people get shot in Highland Park, as opposed to when a bunch of black people get shot every single weekend in the south side of Chicago.
00:05:35.000If you want to talk about endemic racism in the media, that would be it.
00:05:38.000The fact that there are 30 people get shot every weekend in Chicago and the media do not give one good damn about that.
00:05:43.000But then there's a mass shooting, a bunch of white people in Highland Park.
00:05:46.000That suggests that there's a bit of a double standard as to just how much the media care about the deaths of people of minority status in the United States.
00:05:55.000That is not to downplay what happened in Highland Park.
00:05:56.000It's to say we should be using the same kind of coverage when it comes to mass shootings that happen literally every weekend in the rest of the city of Chicago.
00:06:04.000This article in the Associated Press, I think, spells out the conflicts that have now broken out across the country.
00:06:10.000And the reason that I'm mentioning this is because really the events of the weekend, in a wide variety of ways, should theoretically unify the country.
00:06:18.000When there is an evil person, a person who appears to have serious mental issues.
00:06:25.000I mean, there's just no way to describe the shooter in this Highland Park scenario without saying that.
00:06:28.000This person looks like a crazy person.
00:06:31.000When you see that, instead of the country coming together to mourn and to try to find solutions and to try and talk with one another, instead we immediately revert to who do we blame?
00:06:40.000Who on the other side is to blame for all of this?
00:06:42.000There's no way to have unity over issues like that when you can't even identify common threat without seeing your neighbor in it.
00:06:48.000That's a real problem in the United States because the common principles that held together the polity have been completely fraying.
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00:08:10.000So here's what the Associated Press says, and it really is telling.
00:08:12.000Quote, a shooting that left at least six people dead at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rattled Monday celebrations across the United States and further rocked a country.
00:08:20.000Already a wash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns, as well as hearings on the January 6th insurrection.
00:08:26.000So you're saying to yourself, wait a second, what does a mass shooting have to do with the rest of these things?
00:08:30.000And the answer is that every single thing in American life has now broken down along political lines.
00:08:38.000Whether you live in a blue state or a red state, mass shootings, everything now breaks down along these political lines because all common interest seems to be gone.
00:08:47.000It seems like the things that unified us at the federal level, again, those principles laid down by the founders that were supposed to be the chief areas of unity for all of us nationally, those seem to be completely exploding.
00:08:57.000And the reason they're completely exploding is because, frankly, they've been under assault for five decades in the United States.
00:09:01.000We've now reached the apex of that moment when every single issue that we discuss is supposed to be a guise for power relationships.
00:09:11.000The latest mass shooting, says the AP, came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold us together.
00:09:17.000Well, I mean, honestly, this should be an easy one, right?
00:09:23.000How about the fact that the United States is the most powerful force in world history?
00:09:26.000How about the fact the United States is still the most powerful country on planet Earth?
00:09:29.000By a long shot, China does not compare.
00:09:31.000How about the fact that the United States is still the world driver of the economy?
00:09:36.000That the United States' values with regard to, say, free speech and freedom of religion are still the envy of the world?
00:09:42.000How about the fact that the United States has historically freed more people than any other country in the history of the world?
00:09:48.000How about the fact that the Declaration of Independence spells out timeless principles that virtually every other Western country has now imitated?
00:09:55.000And the answer, for the Associated Press, is apparently no.
00:09:58.000Because we have domestic problems and those domestic problems can be laid at the feet of those principles.
00:10:03.000That the conflicts that we're seeing are all up at the top of the iceberg.
00:10:06.000Conflicts over gun control or abortion or even January 6th.
00:10:09.000Those are all at the top of the iceberg.
00:10:11.000What undergirds a lot of this is a feeling that you cannot trust your neighbor because they don't believe the same things that you believe and the things that you are supposed to believe together.
00:10:20.000Say, for example, the values of equality before law.
00:10:24.000The value of virtue via Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:10:50.000When they have a boo-boo, the first thing that you try to figure out is whether this is a symptom of a deeper malady or whether the boo-boo is just a pinprick.
00:10:57.000When you have kids, when a kid scrapes and they fall and they scrape their knee, you grab a band-aid, you slap it on, you put some antiseptic on there, you put some neosporin, you put a band-aid, you're done.
00:11:07.000But, sometimes your kid has a malady that runs a little deeper.
00:11:11.000And right now it feels like every wound in the body politic in the United States runs a little deeper.
00:11:16.000Because maybe instead, we're not treating these things as scratches and cuts and bruises that are endemic to living in a very chaotic democracy.
00:11:25.000And I'm not talking about acts of evil, right?
00:11:27.000But even acts of evil didn't go to the heart of the United States in our national character.
00:11:32.000But now it seems like every single thing that happens goes to the heart of the United States and its national character, which is to say how you view your neighbors.
00:11:41.000So, this is all reflected in the polling data.
00:11:45.000And the Associated Press is not wrong when they say that it feels like things are coming apart.
00:11:48.000But the whole point is, it shouldn't feel like that.
00:11:49.000It should feel like we still have some unifying principles.
00:11:51.000The declaration was supposed to be about that.
00:11:54.000The polling data shows that fewer Americans than ever are extremely proud to be American.
00:13:08.00026% of Democrats say that they are proud to be American.
00:13:12.000It was at its low ebb, by the way, in 2019, when only 22% of Democrats said they were extremely proud to be American.
00:13:19.000Among Republicans, 58% say that they are extremely proud to be American.
00:13:24.000Now, overall, this is the lowest point for Republicans in the history of the poll.
00:13:28.000Not a great shock, because Democrats control all of the branches of government at this point.
00:13:31.000But, even when Democrats control the government, Republicans are still more than twice as proud, twice as extremely proud of the country as Democrats.
00:13:40.000Independents, only 34% say they're extremely proud of the country, right now.
00:13:45.000So, Republicans, again, by and large, what Republicans believe, what conservatives believe, is that the country is worth being proud about.
00:13:55.000Democrats historically actually have not believed by a majority that the country is worth being extremely proud of since like 2015.
00:14:07.000That partisan split is very telling because what that says is that conservatives and Republicans inherently what they believe is that the Declaration of Independence is good.
00:14:46.000So that means overall, some 69% of not college graduated Americans say they are extremely or very proud to be American.
00:14:54.000Of the college graduates, Only about 33% say they're extremely proud.
00:14:59.000Another 26% say they are very proud to be American.
00:15:04.000So these partisan splits are, again, reflective of deeper ideological rifts.
00:15:08.000So Americans feel we have less and less in common at the top level.
00:15:10.000Maybe the only thing that we have in common at this point is that nobody thinks that the Fed has anything under control because these experts, you know, real experts out there, these are the ones who said that everything would be fine.
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00:17:16.000It's not been true, really, since about 2010, 2011.
00:17:19.000There is no consensus as to America being a good country with flaws.
00:17:25.000And so why should we be surprised that an emissary from the past like Joe Biden is still speaking this language, but it's falling upon deaf ears?
00:17:31.000Here's President Biden talking about unity.
00:17:34.000All of you are reminders that we're a great nation because we're a good people.
00:17:40.000It's because of you I've never been more optimistic about America than I am today.
00:17:47.000An optimism that digs deep, never gives up.
00:18:39.000Well, fortunately, we have a document that says exactly what we are supposed to hold in common.
00:18:44.000We had a whole celebration of it over the weekend.
00:18:48.000That Declaration of Independence says specifically what exactly we are supposed to hold in common.
00:18:55.000They say that the causes that impel them to the separation, these are truths to be held self-evident, that all men are created equal by rights, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government
00:19:19.000Laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them, shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
00:19:28.000Those would be the common principles, would they not?
00:19:31.000Those would be the things that we hold in common.
00:19:34.000And that would have to be backed by a polity that lives in virtue, as John Adams suggested.
00:19:40.000The Constitution, the Declaration, written for a people of morality and virtue, by which he meant Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:19:47.000It does not mean you have to be a Jew or a Christian in order to live in this country.
00:19:51.000It does not mean that you have to be a believing Jew or a Christian in order to live out those principles.
00:19:54.000But the principles of virtue that have been handed down over the course of millennia culminating in the creation of the United States and then further moving on to the abolition of slavery and equal treatment according to race, etc.
00:20:08.000All of that is the outgrowth of a several thousand year tradition in which we are just links in a chain.
00:20:13.000These are the things that we held in common.
00:20:24.000And the reason we have to ask the question is because there's a whole group of people who believe that we shouldn't celebrate July 4th based on any of that.
00:20:30.000So for example, Paul Waldman has a piece of the Washington Post.
00:20:33.000This came out on July 4th, quote, this July 4th, let's declare our independence from the founding fathers.
00:20:40.000246 years ago, Americans did something extraordinary.
00:20:43.000Declaring their independence from a colonial rule enforced from a great distance with the cruel and arbitrary hand of oppression, now it's time for us to declare our own independence from founding father fetishism.
00:20:52.000We need to liberate ourselves from the toxic belief that those men were perfect in all things, vessels of sacred wisdom that must bind our society today, no matter how much damage it might cause.
00:21:01.000As we've seen recently, the American right has found in the framers an extraordinarily effective tool with which they can roll back social progress and undermine our democracy.
00:21:10.000It may have found its most ridiculous manifestation in the Tea Party movement that emerged when Barack Obama was president, when people started prancing around in tricorn hats, and every Republican was supposed to have a favorite founding father.
00:21:20.000But today, it has gone from an affectation to a weapon, and a brutally effective one.
00:21:25.000See, it's the founding principles that are tearing apart the country, says Paul Waldman.
00:21:28.000We saw it in the recent Supreme Court decision that supercharged the legal philosophy of originalism on abortion and guns.
00:21:35.000The Constitution of the United States.
00:21:36.000These are things that tear apart the country.
00:21:38.000The founding principles of the United States.
00:21:40.000You know, that we should make laws about guns in the states.
00:21:43.000You know, things like abortion law was not regulated by the federal government in 1789 or thereafter, and was left to the states all the way up until Roe vs. Wade.
00:21:52.000The America of 1789 becomes a prison that conservative justices can lock us all in whenever it suits them, says Paul Waldman of the Washington Post.
00:22:02.000The outcome is always the ones Republicans seek.
00:22:04.000Anyone who disagrees, who shows how absurd the right's historical analysis is, even on its own terms, simply isn't respecting the divine will of the framers.
00:22:21.000There's a piece on the front page of ESPN on July 4th by Howard Bryant, an ESPN senior writer, titled, Baseball, Barbecue, and Losing Freedom this Fourth of July.
00:22:30.000And by freedom, they don't mean the things guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence.
00:22:34.000They don't mean the very complex worldview espoused by Thomas Jefferson or John Adams, who were in conflict with one another fairly often, and they literally ran for president against one another.
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00:24:20.000So, to take that ESPN columnist, for example, again, Howard Bryant writing for ESPN.
00:24:24.000He says, He says, last month, Major League Baseball and its partners again released Independence Day-themed baseball hats that each of the 30 teams will wear.
00:24:32.000This year's version features a flush of stars across the front, against a blue and white backdrop offset with a shaggy shock of red.
00:24:39.000The Toronto Blue Jays, located in a country that doesn't celebrate American independence, were also issued the caps.
00:24:44.000Next is USA-themed socks, the marketing, the freedom-inspired spikes, gloves, wristbands, the inevitable pains to the armed forces.
00:24:49.000By now, we're all numb to the spectacle.
00:24:52.000At least publicly, the emphasis on the 4th of July shifted from family to symbols years ago.
00:25:32.000Because it was in the 1960s and 70s that the American left completely rewrote the American bargain, utterly and completely, from the Supreme Court through the legislature to LBJ.
00:25:41.000They completely rewrote the bargain of the Declaration of Independence.
00:25:43.000And now they're angry that people actually are reading the Declaration of Independence.
00:25:47.000Because all the things that were supposed to unify us actually divide us.
00:25:53.000You talk about why all the unity in American life is gone.
00:25:55.000This sport is now a front and center issue.
00:25:59.000You can't watch a sporting event with an American flag flying without hearing a lecture from ESPN about how American principles are bad.
00:26:05.000You cannot go to a movie made by mainstream Hollywood with the one exception of Top Gun, which is why it's doing unbelievable business, without hearing Hollywood lecture you on why America is bad and why progressive politics are good.
00:26:18.000You cannot go to the store without seeing the American flag replaced by other flags.
00:26:22.000We had an entire month of this last month.
00:26:24.000You'll get one day of the American flag up for Independence Day.
00:26:26.000We'll get an entire month of the gay pride, pride, progress flag over a Target.
00:26:30.000And it's very important that Judeo-Christian traditionalism be thrown out completely.
00:26:34.000And if you oppose that, if you think Judeo-Christian traditionalism is a good thing and that it provides the virtuous basis for a free government, this means that you are the divisive one in the United States of America.
00:26:57.000Because all of the things that we used to... Freedom of speech is now seen by the hardcore left as a guise for power, which is why they're in favor of things like hate speech laws.
00:27:05.000It's why they suggest there has to be heavy regulation on what you can say and do via big tech.
00:27:10.000It is the left that believes that freedom of religion should be ground under the, you should not, as a coach of a football team and a high school, you should not be allowed to say an independent prayer on the 50-yard line that is according to three justices on the United States Supreme Court.
00:27:22.00015 years ago, I probably would have been a majority of the Supreme Court.
00:27:26.000It's, it's, there's a reason why NPR, National Public Radio, funded by you, On July 4th, they announced they were breaking with tradition.
00:27:35.000Instead of a reading of the Declaration of Independence, NPR examines what equality means and has meant in the document.
00:27:40.000Important segment about our past and future, according to Leila Fadel, the host of Morning Edition and Up First.
00:27:46.000You can't even read the Declaration of Independence on NPR, national public radio.
00:27:52.000And these conflicts of vision become front and center when you have the conflict that you see, for example, between California and Florida.
00:27:58.000Now, as I say, When the country was founded, there were pretty significant disagreements on massive issues, like the biggest being slavery.
00:28:04.000Massive, massive disagreement, which actually culminated in a huge debate at the Declaration of Independence Convention.
00:28:10.000There was a portion of the original Declaration of Independence.
00:28:14.000He was a slaveholder at the time and remained so until the end of his life.
00:28:17.000Thomas Jefferson is one of the most shaded and difficult figures in American history.
00:28:22.000Thomas Jefferson had a line in the Declaration of Independence.
00:28:25.000It's titled, The He Has Waged Cruel War Line, and it was about how George and the British government had effectuated slavery in the American colonies.
00:28:34.000He has waged cruel war on a people from a faraway land, right?
00:28:38.000It was in the Declaration, and the Southern states insisted it be struck in order for there to actually be a full-scale alliance between the states for purposes of resisting the British government.
00:28:50.000But there were other principles that were at least held in common, and then would be increasingly expanded to more and more human beings over time, which was the vision of people like John Adams, who was from the North, where slavery was not, in fact, a thing.
00:29:03.000But now, when you have the states ripping on one another, they are ripping on one another about fundamental basic principles.
00:29:09.000I mean, you have California saying to Florida that boys are girls and girls are boys.
00:29:13.000It's hard to get much more fundamental than that.
00:29:15.000So now Gavin Newsom, who desperately wants to replace Joe Biden atop the 2024 Democratic ticket should Joe Biden keel over and actually not be alive anymore.
00:29:33.000I literally took my company and we moved it to Tennessee.
00:29:35.000And I and my family moved to Florida to escape the rule of morons like this.
00:29:41.000The androgynous Ken doll that is Gavin Newsom.
00:29:44.000So he started running July 4th ads in Florida, urging people to come back to California, which is hilarious because we all ran away from you.
00:30:40.000You couldn't take your kids to the beach.
00:30:42.000Meanwhile, it was Rhonda Sands who was getting ripped up and down for keeping the beaches in Jacksonville open during COVID in June of 2020.
00:30:50.000Gavin Newsom says that they're banning books.
00:30:52.000You know how many books are banned in California?
00:31:10.000Abortion on demand and marry whomever you please?
00:31:13.000That is his vision of liberty over there.
00:31:15.000And in Florida, by the way, it turns out same-sex marriage is legal because it has been legal across the country, thanks to the Supreme Court in Obergefell.
00:31:22.000All we're saying is, in Florida, don't cram that down on kids until the age of 8 in public schools.
00:31:27.000And Gavin Newsom's like, that's a violation of freedom?
00:31:29.000I promise you, people are living free in Florida, much freer than in Gavin Newsom's world.
00:31:34.000And by the way, generally more in line with virtuous values of raising children than in places like California.
00:31:41.000The freedom to trans your kids is what Gavin Newsom is talking about in California.
00:31:48.000How do you celebrate a country that has... What are we supposed to believe Gavin Newsom and Rhonda Sanchez have in common?
00:31:55.000And if the answer is nothing, then there's only one solution to that, which is that the original vision of the country, the United States, is going to come apart.
00:32:01.000You'll end up with this sort of Articles of Confederation.
00:32:04.000Again, we will be an agglomeration of states with a wide variety of policies, and we share very few things, fewer even than we did at the beginning of the republic.
00:32:13.000And those things will be like foreign policy and tariffs, just so we don't go to war with one another.
00:32:18.000That seems like the direction the country is going, and so the transition Over time that Alexander Hamilton foretold in the Federalist Papers from a group of people who believed in allegiance to their states foremost to a group of people who over time would feel serious allegiance to both their states and the federal government now it's beginning to recede again and people are beginning to believe in themselves as states as opposed to members of the body politic that is the United States because you just don't have enough in common with people who live in the country at large.
00:32:43.000Again, exacerbated by the vision of freedom that so many people on the left seem to have, which runs directly counter.
00:32:48.000That Paul Waldman column is really telling that.
00:32:50.000That Washington Post column cited earlier.
00:32:52.000Because in that one, he basically says, you know, it turns out that the right wing, they keep mirroring these principles from 1789 and 1776.
00:33:20.000At least they recognize that in order for their left-wing agenda to prevail, the founding era notions of both virtue and liberty have to die or change radically.
00:33:31.000Which is presumably why you have Jessica Chastain, who I believe lives in New York and is 45 years old, flipping off America on July 4th.
00:33:41.000Right, this very attractive and extraordinarily wealthy actress.
00:33:46.000She is flipping off America on July 4th.
00:33:48.000Quote, happy Independence Day from me and my reproductive rights.
00:33:53.000So you live in a state where abortion is available on demand forever.
00:33:58.000And you are flipping off America because people in Florida want a 15-week ban on abortion and people in Texas do not want abortion at all?
00:34:07.000This is why you're flipping off America?
00:34:08.000Maybe you don't understand how any of this works.
00:34:10.000Maybe we don't have anything in common because you believe that what you want ought to rule over the entire country on every single issue.
00:34:18.000And you don't even want to use constitutional auspices to do it.
00:34:20.000You just want a bunch of judges to do it for you.
00:34:24.000You have Samantha Bee doing the same thing.
00:34:27.000The celebrity left's attachment to abortion is so extraordinary.
00:34:30.000I don't know what I have in common with people like Samantha Bee anymore.
00:34:33.000I don't know what I have in common with people like Mark Hamill.
00:34:35.000What are we supposed to have in common as Americans?
00:34:37.000It's a serious question because if we have very little in common as Americans, even an allegiance to the system by which we govern differently, then how does the country survive?
00:34:47.000Here is Samantha- Remember that time Samantha Bee was supposed to be funny?
00:34:50.000I don't- I don't know who thought that was a thing.
00:34:52.000Samantha Bee, the least funny human being on planet Earth, less funny than colon cancer, Samantha Bee.
00:34:57.000Here she is, trying to explain that she is going to raise hell by which she is going to make- She means she will make a show that has a viewership that amounts to her immediate family and three hangers-on who get drunk with her at cocktail parties afterward.
00:35:11.000I can't describe how painful it is to be here now in a place where the Supreme Court has the power to erase 50 years of constitutional law.
00:35:19.000Make no mistake, this is not where it ends.
00:35:21.000Conservatives will not rest until they have come for all of our rights.
00:35:24.000Everything we have fought for could be lost unless we take it back.
00:35:28.000It's not just about voting in November.
00:35:31.000It's about doing everything in our power to protect and help vulnerable people access abortion across state lines.
00:35:37.000And we have to raise hell in our cities, in Washington, in every restaurant Justice Alito eats at for the rest of his life.
00:35:45.000Because if Republicans have made our lives hell, it's time to return the favor.
00:35:51.000Okay, so her life is hell because she lives in New York City and is extremely wealthy for being the least funny human being on planet Earth.
00:35:56.000It's like running gun battle between bubonic plague and Samantha Bee for least funny thing on planet Earth.
00:36:03.000Like Ebola is more funny than Samantha Bee by a long shot.
00:36:07.000Put aside her lack of humor, the fact that she is whining about living in the United States where she is unbelievably free.
00:36:13.000And where even the freedoms, which by the way, are not anywhere written into the constitution of the United States or into the moral code of the West, by the way.
00:36:21.000It's hysterical that the things that they consider the most core freedoms, the core freedoms for the left are things like contraceptive availability for people who are not married, abortion on demand, and same sex marriage.
00:36:31.000You know, things that have not historically been written into the virtue code of the West.
00:36:35.000You can make the case for any of them or all of them, but to pretend that they have any sort of history or tradition in the West, Older than about five minutes ago, historically speaking, is ridiculous.
00:36:44.000But these are the core freedoms, not freedom of speech, not freedom of religion, not freedom to bear arms.
00:38:01.000What exactly are the things we have in common?
00:38:02.000And you can see how this breaks down, how everything breaks down when it comes to those blemishes and wounds on the body politic that crop up from time to time and are immediately politicized.
00:38:10.000Well, it feels like the country is breaking down, but here's the thing.
00:38:12.000You cannot allow your car to break down right now, because the truth is your used car is probably worth more than your house at this point in time, thanks to Joe Biden's supply chain crisis and his bad economy.
00:38:22.000Well, with the ever-increasing numbers of car makes and models, it's now impossible to stock all the parts you need in a traditional chain storefront.
00:38:27.000Why endure the often pointless or seemingly intimidating questions about the specifications of your vehicle, only to have the counterman order the parts on his computer anyway?
00:38:34.000Well, you also have a computer and you also have access to the internet, which means you have rockauto.com at home and in your pocket.
00:38:41.000Why would you choose to spend 30%, 50%, 100% more for the exact same auto parts at a chain store or new car dealership?
00:38:47.000Rockauto.com is a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
00:38:51.000Go to rockauto.com, shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.
00:38:54.000They have everything from engine control modules and brake parts to tail lamps, motor oil, even new carpet.
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00:41:29.000So, the fact is that because we hold nothing in common, it now seems as though every blemish on the body politic, every wound is not just a scratch or a scrape on an underlying healthy body.
00:41:45.000Instead, they're all symptomatic of something that can kill us, which is an underlying conflict.
00:41:49.000So, for example, there shouldn't be anything in America more unifying than the grief we all feel and share when a crazy person, when a person who clearly is mentally ill, seriously mentally ill, murders innocent people.
00:42:00.000Like, that is one where that should be pretty unifying, right?
00:42:03.000We should be all on the same page about this.
00:42:09.000Instead, now every time there's a mass shooting, we first determine the politics of the mass shooting, and then we determine how we feel about the mass shooting.
00:42:16.000So, according to the media, if it's a mass shooting in downtown Chicago on the South Side like every single weekend, we don't even cover it because that's not news.
00:42:23.000Because to cover it, especially if it includes black people, and really only if it includes black people, because this is how the media treat it, to cover it would sustain bad notions about race in the United States.
00:42:36.000If, however, white people get shot in Highland Park in Chicago, the news media will cover that because that's indicative, of course, of a graver American evil, which is, of course, the presence of guns.
00:42:45.000You can't have that conversation about the South Side of Chicago, you can't have that conversation about Highland Park.
00:42:49.000Because every single wound on the body politic has to immediately polarize, immediately.
00:42:54.000So, this example from Chicago is just an amazing example.
00:42:58.000So, here on this show, because we actually still believe in unity over things like evil people are evil and we shouldn't give them the time of day, we don't mention the names of mass shooters.
00:43:06.000The entire media not only mentions the names of mass shooters, we show their faces.
00:43:10.000Every other media outlet I know of, every other major media outlet I know of, reports the names, the agendas, the manifestos, everything they can about these mass shooters, which of course drives other mass shooters to want to get famous and then do it again.
00:43:20.000And then the media, why is this happening?
00:43:23.000Well, maybe you guys ought to take a look in the mirror sometime.
00:43:25.000We are so meticulous about this that if I accidentally mention the name of a mass shooter from 10 years ago on this program, my editors will go back and cut it at my behest.
00:43:48.000I want them to be obscure and rotten hell where they belong as a general rule.
00:43:53.000So, in this particular case, the person who is responsible for this horrible mass shooting in Highland Park that killed six people and wounded 38 others, This person is obviously an insane person.
00:44:04.000The reason I say obviously an insane person is because I know that we're not allowed to say this, but if you act like an insane person in society, we can generally assume you're an insane person.
00:46:34.000There must have been red flags galore.
00:46:36.000So the big failure here, if we're going to talk about bipartisan failure, where are the people around this person reporting them to the police?
00:46:42.000Apparently, this person was known to the police.
00:46:45.000This person performed as a rapper and whose recent music videos included depictions of mass murder.
00:46:51.000This person's most recent video posted to YouTube showed him in the aftermath of a school shooting.
00:46:55.000It ended with this person draping himself in an American flag.
00:46:58.000Another music video showed a cartoon depiction of a man wearing a shirt with his YouTube channel's logo on it, holding a long gun, being shot by the police.
00:47:07.000This is, um, not a shock when people like this do evil and terrible things.
00:47:14.000Apparently, the father had described this person as having emotional issues.
00:47:21.000Apparently, he used to, like, ride up and down the block on a motorized scooter playing extremely loud music for attention.
00:47:27.000And again, WGN is reporting this person was known to police.
00:47:30.000So, immediately, immediately, this breaks down into the person was a Trump supporter.
00:47:34.000The evidence that this person was a Trump supporter, supposedly, is that this person took a video of themselves at some sort of Trump rally.
00:47:41.000And at the Trump rally, the person is wearing a Where's Waldo outfit.
00:47:44.000So, is the person just a troll or a joker?
00:47:49.000Because this is what crazy online people do.
00:47:51.000They're wearing a Where's Waldo outfit and so the entire left went Trump supporter.
00:47:55.000Well that means that Trump's bad and the right is bad and therefore we can blame our neighbor for the evil of an insane person.
00:48:02.000That's a symptom of a country that's breaking down when your first move is how do I blame my fellow American for this sort of stuff.
00:48:07.000And again, every one of these stories breaks down this way.
00:48:09.000So this is why, for the left, this immediately breaks down into talk over gun control.
00:48:13.000Because on gun control, you can blame your neighbor for something that your neighbor had nothing to do with.
00:48:17.000This is why the left will say things like, the NRA is to blame for mass shootings.
00:48:20.000Or your neighbor, who is a law-abiding citizen, who owns a long gun, is responsible for a school shooting.
00:48:25.000So Joe Biden immediately released a statement, of course, calling for more gun control because he has a hammer in search of a nail when it comes to gun control.
00:48:32.000The statement says, Jill and I are shocked by the senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day.
00:48:38.000As always, we are grateful for the first responders and law enforcement on the scene.
00:48:42.000I recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in almost 30 years into law, which includes actions that will save lives.
00:48:48.000But there's much more work to do, and I'm not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence.
00:48:51.000Again, he only releases statements like this when a bunch of white people get shot, or unless a white supremacist shoots a bunch of black people.
00:48:57.000That is the only time that Joe Biden ever sounds off on issues like this.
00:48:59.000Meanwhile, the Illinois governor, J.B.
00:49:00.000Pritzker, he says it's time to talk gun control, because it's always time to talk gun control.
00:49:07.000I'm furious that children and their families have been traumatized.
00:49:13.000I'm furious that this is happening in communities all across Illinois and America.
00:49:19.000I'm furious because it does not have to be this way.
00:49:22.000And yet we as a nation, well, we continue to allow this to happen.
00:49:29.000While we celebrate the 4th of July just once a year, mass shootings have become our weekly Yes, weekly American tradition.
00:49:40.000There are going to be people who say that today is not the day.
00:49:44.000That now is not the time to talk about guns.
00:49:48.000I'm telling you, there is no better day and no better time than right here and right now.
00:49:56.000Really, there's no better day and no better time to talk about it than like immediately while the bodies are still in the streets.
00:50:02.000That's that's like the very best time of all the times to talk about this sort of stuff is the time to talk about guns.
00:50:07.000By the way, Illinois has extraordinarily heavy gun control laws.
00:50:09.000Chicago has extremely, extremely heavy gun control laws.
00:50:12.000Tammy Duckworth, the senator from Illinois, she's doing the same thing.
00:50:14.000She is talking about how we have to get rid of assault weapons.
00:50:18.000I was just on the phone with Senator Durbin who is driving here as quickly as he possibly can to come to Highland Park and he also sends his condolences and his thoughts and you know he and I recently in the Senate last month proved that bipartisan compromise on gun safety is possible.
00:50:39.000Today, we have seen that we can't just stop there.
00:50:43.000We have to do more to keep our communities safe.
00:50:45.000We have to get rid of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and so many other additional common-sense reforms that wide majorities of Americans are crying out for.
00:50:56.000It's always a blemish on the body politic, graver cancer in the body politic.
00:51:20.000There's a right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution of the United States, which was designed to prevent the federal government from getting involved in these issues.
00:51:27.000The left wants the federal government.
00:51:28.000Joe Biden wants to be involved in these issues.
00:51:30.000That is no longer a principle that we hold in common.
00:51:33.000And other stories are supposed to be just completely ignored.
00:51:36.000So, for example, this is a massive national news story.
00:51:39.000A significantly less national news story is that two police officers were shot on July 4th at the Ben Franklin Parkway.
00:51:45.000According to WPVI, two police officers on security detail were wounded during a shooting at Fourth of July festivities in Philadelphia on Monday night.
00:51:53.000The shooting happened just after 9.45 p.m.
00:51:55.000as the fireworks display was still underway.
00:51:58.000Apparently the gunfire erupted from a location in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but behind the main stage on Eakins Oval.
00:52:06.000Again, this is not going to be a national news story in the same sort of way as the mass shooting.
00:52:11.000Number one, not as much death, but number two, when police officers are shot by criminals, it's not nearly as much of a national story.
00:52:18.000Because every single thing is supposed to be an indictment of precisely the values that we were supposed to hold in common.
00:52:23.000The Second Amendment was a value we used to hold in common.
00:52:25.000At the very least, even if you were pro-gun control, you would suggest that this was not the Supreme Court's business.
00:52:31.000And there was, in fact, a right to keep and bear arms that was guaranteed in the Second Amendment to the Constitution that was fundamental, including in the states.
00:52:39.000None of this was particularly controversial five minutes ago.
00:52:58.000Now we have to decide based on the race of the suspect and the race of the people who shot the suspect, whether or not this was indicative of graver American racism, which is what was happening, for example, in Akron over the weekend.
00:53:08.000So a state of emergency was declared in Akron, Ohio.
00:53:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a curfew started at 9 p.m.
00:53:17.000on July 4th after protesters damaged property amid protests over the fatal police shooting of a 25-year-old black man.
00:53:24.000The protests came after the release on Sunday of body cam videos that appear to show multiple police officers firing dozens of times at Jalyn Walker, who was unarmed.
00:53:31.000Akron Police Chief Stephen Maillet said a lot of rounds were fired and investigators are trying to determine exactly how many.
00:53:37.000So, the mayor said he issued curfew after protesters broke windows in downtown Akron and caused significant property damage.
00:53:45.000Now, the way that this is described by the media, right, this is the Wall Street Journal.
00:53:48.000Now, I should note here that the, quote-unquote, objective news side of the Wall Street Journal is actually to the left of the New York Times, by available data.
00:53:55.000It's the editorial page that's different.
00:53:56.000But, according to the Wall Street Journal, a medical examiner's report found at least 60 wounds to Walker's body.
00:54:01.000Chief Mylett said Sunday, it was unclear how many of those wounds account for bullet entry and exit wounds, All eight officers who fired their guns were placed on paid administrative leave.
00:54:15.000They have it on video exactly what happened.
00:54:18.000According to the Wall Street Journal, buried low down in this story, the June 27th incident started, according to the police, when Walker fled an attempting stop for an undisclosed traffic and equipment violation.
00:54:27.000Video shows an officer reporting Mr. Walker's silver Buick sped away from police.
00:54:31.000A few minutes later, the officer reported a suspected gunshot coming from the driver's side window of Walker's car.
00:54:52.000He was unarmed when he was shot, but there was a gun and loaded mag found on the driver's seat of the vehicle and a spent shell casing found near the scene where the initial gunshot was fired.
00:55:00.000So this guy was driving away from the cops.
00:55:05.000They have every reason to assume he's still armed and dangerous.
00:55:07.000So if he reaches into his waistband or reaches down toward his waistband, of course they're going to shoot him.
00:55:12.000This used to be a fairly fundamentally held idea in the United States, that if you shoot at a cop and then they have reason to believe you have a weapon on you and they shoot you, that one's on you.
00:55:21.000But instead, we have full-scale riots in Akron that require a curfew on July 4th for it.
00:55:28.000And then you have commentators on MSNBC doing what they do, talking about systemic American racism.
00:55:33.000There are so many different things about the situation that don't make sense.
00:55:36.000One of them being that if they believed that he posed a deadly threat, or they believed that he was capable of posing a deadly threat, then that undercuts the notion of them using the tasers to begin with.
00:55:46.000They used the tasers, they missed with the tasers, and then it was when they decided To actually use their firearms as a means of trying to subdue the suspect.
00:55:54.000In addition to that, the notion that one man, who ultimately was actually unarmed, posed a dangerous threat to any one of those eight not only armed but also bodily armored officers is absolutely absurd.
00:56:11.000And they had reason to believe that he had a gun because there was one in his car with the spent shell casing on the street where he shot the gun.
00:56:17.000But we're supposed to believe that he posed no threat.
00:56:20.000Because again, every wound in the body politic is indicative of a deeper cancer.
00:56:24.000And the deeper cancer here is systemic American racism.
00:56:27.000When the Supreme Court says that you now have the right as a state to regulate abortion, that is a deeper wound on the body politic because the cancer is the American Judeo-Christian ideal and that has to be fought.
00:56:44.000And then, there's a rather large segment of the country that is not proud of those founding principles, and believe that those founding principles need to go away.
00:56:51.000And that's why Mitt Romney has a piece today, over at the Atlantic, talking about the lack of American unity.
00:57:02.000I think that the 2012 election may have turned the country dramatically in the wrong direction for at least a decade.
00:57:07.000I think it was the most important election of my lifetime, 2012.
00:57:09.000More than 2016 even, more than 2020 in many ways.
00:57:12.000I think that the 2012 election in which Barack Obama basically polarized the country along racial lines in order to win re-election and then got away with it.
00:57:19.000I think that was a dramatic moment in American history and you can see the inflection point in race relations in the United States by polling data around 2011, 2012, 2013.
00:57:29.000Mitt Romney's very surface approach to politics, which seems to be if we're nice to everybody, then we'll all come back together, as opposed to what are the fundamental principles we hold in common?
00:57:38.000This is why the Republic is in real trouble here.
00:57:42.000Because if you cannot state the foundational principles we're supposed to hold in common, how do you fight for them exactly?
00:57:48.000So here's what Mitt Romney writes in the Atlantic, and it's getting all sorts of traffic today because he's mean to Trump.
00:57:52.000And of course, anytime a Republican says bad things about Trump, that means that they're a good Republican, at least for the moment, or until they run for president when we decide that they are evil, terrible people who forcibly cut the hair of gay kids and strap dogs to the top of their car and might want to put y'all back in chains, as Joe Biden once said about Mitt Romney.
00:58:06.000Here's what Mitt Romney writes in the Atlanta quote, even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses and growing water thirsty crops.
00:58:15.000Wait, this is this is the one this is where the, as inflation mounts and the national debt balloons, progressive politicians vote for every more spending.
00:58:22.000As the ice caps melt and record temperatures make the evening news, we figure that buying a Prius and recycling the boxes from our daily Amazon deliveries will suffice.
00:58:30.000When TV news outlets broadcast video after video of people illegally crossing the nation's southern border, many of us change the channel.
00:58:36.000And when a renowned conservative former federal appellate judge testifies we are already in a war for our democracy and that January 6th was a genuine constitutional crisis, mag a loyalist snicker that he speaks slowly and celebrate that most people aren't watching.
00:58:47.000What accounts for the blithe dismissal of potentially cataclysmic threats?
00:58:52.000The left thinks the right is at fault for ignoring climate change and the attacks on our political system.
00:58:55.000The right thinks the left is the problem for ignoring illegal immigration and the national debt.
00:58:59.000But wishful thinking happens across the political spectrum.
00:59:01.000More and more, we are a nation in denial, says Mitt Romney.
00:59:05.000I have witnessed time and again, in myself and in others, a powerful impulse to believe what we hope to be the case.
00:59:10.000We don't need to cut back on watering because the drought is part of a cycle that will reverse.
00:59:13.000With economic growth, the debt will take care of itself.
00:59:15.000January 6th was a false flag operation.
00:59:18.000A classic example of denial, says Mitt Romney, comes from Donald Trump.
00:59:56.000A crisis can shake the public consciousness, but a crisis may come too late for a course correction that can prevent tragedy.
01:00:01.000The only cure for wishful thinking is leadership, says Mitt Romney.
01:00:07.000And then he cites, as examples of leadership, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Lake Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr., and Vladimir Zelensky.
01:00:14.000And then he says this, President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit and distrust.
01:00:22.000A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.
01:00:25.000So first of all, just a point here, Joe Biden literally said that Mitt Romney wanted to enslave black people.
01:00:29.000So he seems like a very nice person, a very good man, a genuinely good man.
01:00:33.000And the idea that Trump is what renders America's national sickness incurable?
01:00:39.000It seems like the national sickness goes deeper than Trump.
01:00:41.000Again, he wants to play here on the surface.
01:00:42.000That is not where this battle is going on.
01:00:46.000Too often, Washington demonstrates the maxim that for evil to thrive only requires good men to do nothing.
01:00:50.000I hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth.
01:00:53.000Several contenders with experience and smarts stand in the wings.
01:00:57.000We intently watch to see if they also possess the requisite character and ability to bring the nation together in confronting our common reality.
01:01:03.000While we wait, leadership must come from fathers and mothers, teachers and nurses, priests and rabbis, businessmen and businesswomen, journalists and pundits.
01:01:09.000That will require us all to rise above ourselves, above our grievances and resentments, and grasp the mantle of leadership our country so badly needs.
01:01:15.000I'm not sure I've read a more platitudinous column in my life.
01:01:23.000Can you explain what the left and right hold in common anymore?
01:01:26.000And if not, how do they come together again?
01:01:29.000Mitt Romney has no answers for that, because here is the reality.
01:01:32.000The polarization in our country is not about just issues like abortion.
01:01:35.000It is not about just issues like uncontrol.
01:01:37.000It is about the very vision of what the country is, whether the promises of the Declaration and the Constitution are correct, whether the basic idea of localism before statism before federalism is right.
01:01:46.000It is about the idea of checks and balances that prevent the government from being overweening on the federal level, but the ability to form communities of like interest with your friends and neighbors.
01:01:58.000And the question is to whether California can agree to that when Florida is still in the nation or whether Texas can agree to that when New York is still, that's going to decide whether the United States returns to an Articles of Confederation model or whether we are actually a United States.
01:02:14.000That the only way to celebrate July 4th is if we actually think July 4th is a good, if a body politic that includes all of these things is a good thing.
01:02:22.000And there's open question right now in the United States as to whether that is the case.
01:02:25.000And there's one side much more than another, by polling data and by reality, that believes that it is not such a good thing.
01:02:30.000That the fundamental principles upon which the country were founded are deeply flawed and need to be completely revamped or destroyed entirely.
01:02:35.000Until that ideological question is answered, America will continue to fray.
01:02:40.000All right, we'll be back here later today with additional content.
01:02:42.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Molls show that's available right now.
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