The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 100 - Bernie Sanders Is The Democrats' Future. They Should Be Terrified.

00:00:00.000 Why in the world did you humor Donald Trump?

00:00:02.000 That's the question the left has been asking us for months over here, those of us on the right, who originally granted Trump an open hearing on his ideas.

00:00:10.000 And it's a fair question. 0.59

00:00:12.000 After all, Trump had a pretty long record of leftist support and a history of saying silly things.

00:00:16.000 But he also had 100% name recognition, an undeniable draw, a deep wallet, an aggressive streak with the media, and a willingness to say politically incorrect things.

00:00:25.000 Over the course of the campaign, Trump revealed more and more of himself, unpeeled himself like an onion, and it became clear that his positive qualities as a candidate were significantly outweighed by his personal authoritarianism, his narcissism, his lack of core conservative principles, and so the right sort of threw Trump over.

00:00:41.000 It's not establishment moderates driving the Never Trump movement.

00:00:44.000 By poll numbers, it's hardcore conservatives who don't trust Trump and think he's a leftist.

00:00:49.000 So I have a question for leftists now.

00:00:51.000 Here's the question for leftists.

00:00:52.000 Why in the world do you continue to humor Bernie Sanders? 1.00

00:00:57.000 Bernie Sanders' brand of socialism is not just evil, it's also super-duper ignorant. 0.99

00:01:01.000 On Tuesday, the New York Daily News released an interview with Sanders in which Sanders repeatedly beclowned himself. 1.00

00:01:07.000 I mean, made himself look just ridiculous.

00:01:10.000 Here is a direct quote of Bernie Sanders about how to break up the big banks. 0.93

00:01:23.000 Here is Sanders festooning himself with wreaths of assininity on whether Israel should be tried for war crimes.

00:01:29.000 No?

00:01:30.000 Well, look, why don't I support a million things in the world?

00:01:32.000 I'm just telling you that I happen to believe—anybody help me out here because I don't remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people killed in Gaza.

00:01:39.000 Does that sound right? 0.99

00:01:40.000 No, actually, it sounds really stupid. 0.99

00:01:43.000 Here's Bernie Sanders on why he thinks members of Wall Street should be prosecuted. 0.99

00:01:46.000 He said, quote, How's that for a start?

00:01:48.000 Well, it's not illegal.

00:01:49.000 Sanders said over and over he didn't understand basic policy, and the left just goes right along with him.

00:01:52.000 Here's the difference between Trump and Sanders.

00:02:09.000 74-year-old Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party. 0.99

00:02:13.000 Democrats suddenly figuring out that their thought leader is a bloviating moron without any knowledge of policy or any respect for rights. 0.95

00:02:19.000 They have to be asked, what exactly surprises you about Bernie Sanders? 0.99

00:02:22.000 He's been exactly the same guy for literally his entire career.

00:02:26.000 And why are your kids backing him anyway?

00:02:28.000 See, here's the thing.

00:02:29.000 Trump represents the past of the conservative movement.

00:02:31.000 The revenge of frustrated paleo-conservatives and out-of-work blue-collar workers who want protectionism and alt-right racists masquerading as free speech activists.

00:02:40.000 Bernie Sanders represents the future for Democrats.

00:02:43.000 He won 82% of voters aged 18 to 29 last night in Wisconsin.

00:02:48.000 Cruz, Ted Cruz, crushed Donald Trump 44% to 33% among that same age group.

00:02:54.000 So Sanders won 82% of voters aged 18 to 29 in Wisconsin.

00:02:57.000 Trump won 33%.

00:02:59.000 Sanders has consistently over-polled among young voters.

00:03:01.000 Trump consistently under-polls in virtually every state.

00:03:04.000 The Republican Party may be fragmenting, but the young conservative movement is vibrant and growing.

00:03:09.000 The left's part, however, is more and more extreme, and they are showing their allegiance every day to Bernie Sanders

00:03:16.000 And they're showing that their future is Hugo Chavez-style blundering fascism of Marxist redistributionism.

00:03:22.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:22.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:31.000 So here we are, it's Wednesday, and Ted Cruz is the big winner of the Wisconsin primaries on the Republican side.

00:03:36.000 On the other side, it is Bernie Sanders emerging with a big victory.

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00:04:29.000 Okay, so last night, obviously a big news night.

00:04:32.000 Ted Cruz emerges the big winner.

00:04:34.000 In Wisconsin, we'll talk about all of the lessons that we learned from Ted Cruz's big win.

00:04:38.000 Here's what Ted Cruz sounded like last night after what was a big victory for him.

00:04:43.000 He ended up winning, I think, 36 delegates to Trump's six.

00:04:46.000 He ends up winning nearly 50% of the vote.

00:04:48.000 We've now, by the way, run 51 states, and Donald Trump has not won one outright.

00:04:53.000 He hasn't won a majority in any of those states, which shows you that he does have a hard ceiling.

00:04:57.000 Here's Ted Cruz talking about how Wisconsin could be a turning point.

00:05:02.000 Tonight is a turning point.

00:05:05.000 It is a rallying cry.

00:05:07.000 It is a call from the hardworking men and women of Wisconsin to the people of America.

00:05:13.000 We have a choice.

00:05:15.000 A real choice.

00:05:17.000 The national political terrain began to change two weeks ago.

00:05:23.000 In the state of Utah, we won 69% of the vote, a landslide election.

00:05:35.000 Okay, and he's right.

00:05:36.000 It was a big election for him.

00:05:37.000 It mattered a lot.

00:05:38.000 And how he operated was smart.

00:05:40.000 I mean, it was a well-run election.

00:05:42.000 Trump's machine, by the way, is totally falling apart.

00:05:44.000 Trump, today it came out that his own data manager, the guy that he fired, took with him all of the data.

00:05:51.000 And so the next guy in line doesn't know how to access any of Trump's data.

00:05:55.000 Roger Stone, who's a Trump surrogate, came out and admitted that Trump really has no ground game whatsoever.

00:06:00.000 So there are a few lessons to take away from Cruz's big win in Wisconsin.

00:06:05.000 The first is that Trump does in fact have a ceiling, as we've said, in the three states since the field winnowed to three.

00:06:11.000 Trump has lost two, Utah and Wisconsin, while winning one, Arizona.

00:06:15.000 Now we're about to head into states that are better for Trump, including New York and Pennsylvania.

00:06:19.000 There's a Quinnipiac poll out today, however, that shows Cruz actually in striking distance of Trump in Pennsylvania.

00:06:25.000 He's only down 39 to 30, and we still have a couple of weeks to go.

00:06:28.000 Trump, by the way, if he drags below 50% in New York,

00:06:32.000 The delegates get all screwed up.

00:06:33.000 So Trump, instead of winning an overwhelming majority, could win just a slight majority.

00:06:37.000 Right now, the name of the game is not Cruz winning the nomination outright.

00:06:41.000 It's Cruz depriving Trump of the nomination by denying him the number of delegates that he needs.

00:06:46.000 And this is more and more likely to happen.

00:06:48.000 Not just because Cruz is winning more and more delegates, but also because it used to be that you might make at least the argument that if Trump goes into the convention with 1,100 delegates and the next highest guy is 800, that Trump ought to take the nomination.

00:07:00.000 No one is going to give it to him now.

00:07:02.000 No one is going to hand it to him on a silver platter.

00:07:04.000 The man to whom everything has been handed his entire life, he's not just going to have it handed to him.

00:07:09.000 And the reason for that

00:07:11.000 It's because he's alienated pretty much everybody.

00:07:13.000 If Trump had just gone away for the last two weeks, if he'd just gone on vacation, if he'd found another model to show up, if he'd just done something else with his life the last two weeks, he'd be walking away with the nomination right now.

00:07:22.000 Instead, Trump proceeded to just blow it out.

00:07:25.000 And we're talking about not just the Corey Lewandowski debacle, but the Heidi Cruz debacle, the abortion debacle, him accusing Ted Cruz of actually violating federal law.

00:07:35.000 And here's the thing.

00:07:36.000 Trump has no capacity to turn down, right?

00:07:39.000 He has now become

00:07:40.000 What's his name?

00:07:41.000 DJ Snake?

00:07:41.000 He's now turned down for what?

00:07:43.000 It's Trump down for what?

00:07:45.000 It's impossible.

00:07:46.000 He won't do it.

00:07:46.000 It's impossible for him to do what he needs to do and turn it down to a relative level.

00:07:51.000 So here's the way that Trump responded to losing.

00:07:55.000 Are you ready for this?

00:07:56.000 Here's Trump's response to losing.

00:07:57.000 This is the statement he put out.

00:07:59.000 Quote, Donald J. Trump withstood the onslaught of the establishment yet again.

00:08:03.000 This is his statement.

00:08:04.000 This is his real statement.

00:08:05.000 I'm not making this up.

00:08:23.000 Against Mr. Trump, but he was coordinating with his own super PACs, which is illegal, who totally control him.

00:08:29.000 By the way, that phrase, which is illegal, I'm not inserting that.

00:08:33.000 That's actually there.

00:08:34.000 Okay, that's in the statement.

00:08:35.000 He's accusing Cruz of violating federal law without evidence.

00:08:39.000 Well, since Trump doesn't own the nomination, it's difficult for it to be stolen.

00:09:08.000 There is no way that Donald Trump can turn it down.

00:09:10.000 It's just impossible.

00:09:11.000 He refuses to turn it down, and that's a problem.

00:09:14.000 And by the way, conservatives dislike Trump too.

00:09:16.000 Trump won independence in Wisconsin, 43% to 38%.

00:09:20.000 Cruz won 53% of the Republican vote to 34% for Trump.

00:09:24.000 This is an open primary.

00:09:25.000 So that means independents voted for Trump.

00:09:28.000 Cruz blew him out by 19 points among Republicans.

00:09:31.000 The California primary is closed.

00:09:34.000 This is not going to help Trump.

00:09:35.000 It's not going to help Trump.

00:09:37.000 If Trump doesn't pick up the pace, no way he gets to a majority.

00:09:40.000 Experts thought going into Wisconsin, Trump might finish behind the 1237 needed.

00:09:46.000 Now he's really slated to lose a lot of delegates.

00:09:49.000 And the schedule does not favor him, and he's going to get more and more frustrated, and it's a problem for him.

00:09:54.000 So who's actually going to take the nomination then?

00:09:57.000 If Trump is there and Cruz is there and Kasich is still hanging around for some odd reason, why John Kasich is still in the race?

00:10:03.000 He must be the most delusional man in American politics.

00:10:06.000 He continues to say that he's going to win the nomination.

00:10:09.000 Okay, Marco Rubio dropped out two and a half weeks ago.

00:10:12.000 John Kasich still has less delegates than Marco Rubio.

00:10:16.000 I have won.

00:10:17.000 I personally have won one less state than John Kasich in this race.

00:10:21.000 Marco Rubio won more states than John Kasich in this race.

00:10:25.000 It truly is amazing.

00:10:26.000 I think because Rubio won in Puerto Rico and Minnesota.

00:10:29.000 But Kasich is still sticking around.

00:10:31.000 So somebody is going to have to be the nominee.

00:10:32.000 Reince Priebus over at the RNC, he says the nominee will be someone still running.

00:10:36.000 It's not going to be a Paul Ryan type.

00:10:40.000 If there is an attempt to jump leapfrog over the two top vote getters, the two top state winners, the two top delegate winners,

00:10:49.000 Don't you think that those people that caucused and voted for those two top guys, if they don't get it, that they're gonna walk away and never come back?

00:10:59.000 Well, look, I mean, clearly there's a rule in place now that candidates need a majority of eight states, delegates, eight different states, a majority, to be even nominated.

00:11:10.000 So, I mean, this, and I've said it before, so it's not like I'm making news, I believe our nominee is going to be someone running.

00:11:18.000 And as far as this Paul Ryan talk, let me just say it again for the tenth time.

00:11:21.000 Number one, he's not running.

00:11:23.000 Number two, he doesn't want to.

00:11:25.000 Number three, he doesn't like this talk, he wants it to end.

00:11:28.000 But number four, he's not going to have a floor operation to do any of these things. 0.96

00:11:32.000 It's ridiculous.

00:11:33.000 Is it your opinion as the state chairman that the nominee of your party, are you confident tonight that it will be either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? 0.80

00:11:42.000 Are you confident?

00:11:43.000 I think, this is what I'll say, I think our nominee is going to be someone who's running, okay?

00:11:48.000 I'm not going to... I'm not... Well, there's three people running, I mean... Mathematically, John Kasich can't catch up to them.

00:11:56.000 You won't say for the record that it's either going to be Cruz or Trump?

00:12:00.000 No, I'm going to say it's going to be someone that's running, Sean.

00:12:03.000 Define running.

00:12:04.000 Is running meaning... Does running mean it's either going to be Cruz, Trump, or Kasich?

00:12:10.000 I think it's going to be one of the three people running is going to be our nominee.

00:12:13.000 And how does John Kasich get there without leapfrogging over people that have millions of more votes and hundreds of more delegates?

00:12:20.000 You're going to have to ask John Kasich, but I'm not going to do something.

00:12:24.000 But this is the bottom line, and this is exactly correct.

00:12:27.000 The previous theory is saying basically it's going to be either Trump or Cruz.

00:12:29.000 Kasich is not going to leapfrog.

00:12:32.000 It's most likely going to be Cruz.

00:12:33.000 It's most likely going to be Cruz.

00:12:34.000 If Trump is stopped short, it's going to be Cruz.

00:12:36.000 And the reason is because people have now consolidated around Cruz, and because Trump has made himself utterly unpalatable.

00:12:42.000 He's made himself unpalatable. 0.97

00:12:44.000 He's just too toxic. 0.98

00:12:46.000 He is.

00:12:47.000 And there's nothing particularly shocking about this.

00:12:49.000 His nomination is not being stolen.

00:12:52.000 This is the same sort of system that, as I've mentioned before, is used all over the country in gubernatorial runoffs, where you have two candidates, they run against each other, or three candidates, they run against each other, nobody gets a majority.

00:13:02.000 It'd have to be three.

00:13:03.000 They run against each other, nobody gets a majority.

00:13:06.000 And then there's a runoff election to determine between the two top vote-getters who actually takes it, right?

00:13:11.000 That's sort of the way that this is going to operate.

00:13:14.000 Basically, Trump stamps his ticket to the ball, but he doesn't actually win the king of the prom.

00:13:20.000 That's still up for debate.

00:13:22.000 One of the reasons Trump is having trouble is because Trump is just demonstrating over and over that he's delusional.

00:13:30.000 First of all, the media is not going to leave him alone.

00:13:32.000 The media is not going to allow him to get away with this stuff.

00:13:35.000 There's been this kind of lie put out by Trump fans.

00:13:39.000 That he's so good at handling the media, the media has been sort of cowed into submission.

00:13:45.000 I don't think that's right.

00:13:45.000 I mean, they're just starting to do their dig on Donald Trump right now because they would like for him to be the nominee.

00:13:50.000 Number one, it's good for ratings.

00:13:52.000 And number two, he'll probably lose to Hillary. 0.66

00:13:54.000 And when I say probably, I mean 98% shot he loses to Hillary Clinton.

00:13:58.000 And so now they're digging.

00:13:59.000 Trevor Noah over at... over at Daily Show on Comedy Central, the least funny man in America, he actually dug up this clip.

00:14:08.000 Here's a clip that he dug up of Donald Trump circa 1994.

00:14:10.000 You're gonna get this from now until the election day if Donald Trump is the actual nominee.

00:14:14.000 Here it is.

00:14:16.000 It's from a 1994 episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in which host Robin Leach asks Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples, an innocent question about their one-year-old daughter, Tiffany.

00:14:27.000 Now, Donald, what does Tiffany have of yours, and what does Tiffany have of Marla's?

00:14:32.000 Okay, now-now, take a second.

00:14:34.000 You guys are all human beings here, right?

00:14:36.000 Right?

00:14:37.000 Just take a moment to think about how you might answer this question about your baby.

00:14:42.000 Yes?

00:14:42.000 Uh, you guys have an answer in your head, maybe?

00:14:44.000 Yeah?

00:14:44.000 You got an answer?

00:14:45.000 Okay, okay.

00:14:46.000 Well, let's see how Donald Trump answered this question.

00:14:49.000 Now, Donald, what does Tiffany have of yours, and what does Tiffany have of Marla's?

00:14:53.000 Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla. 0.99

00:14:56.000 She's really a beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. 0.99

00:15:02.000 We don't know whether or not she's got this part yet, but time will tell.

00:15:06.000 Wow.

00:15:07.000 Wow.

00:15:08.000 So you'll see that kind of stuff all the way through, right? 0.99

00:15:10.000 Donald Trump talking about the breasts of his nemord, maybe, which just demonstrates that he is a weird dude. 0.99

00:15:15.000 I mean, that is one messed up weird dude. 0.97

00:15:17.000 And if you don't believe me, then why don't you fast forward about 12 years and here is Donald Trump talking about another one of his daughters.

00:15:24.000 This one would be Ivanka, circa 2006 from The View.

00:15:27.000 This one is slightly more famous, but you'll see this on a loop all the way until election day.

00:15:31.000 If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

00:15:33.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:15:34.000 Oh, it's so weird!

00:15:36.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:15:36.000 You know what, you are sick! 0.99

00:15:38.000 Is that terrible? 0.98

00:15:39.000 Is that terrible?

00:15:40.000 You're known for saying outrageous things.

00:15:42.000 Who are you, Woody Allen?

00:15:52.000 It's just, this kind of stuff will be playing on a loop.

00:15:55.000 And Trump will continue to claim that he's being cheated.

00:15:58.000 Trump isn't being cheated, just nothing is being handed to him.

00:16:01.000 But he'll continue to push the meme.

00:16:03.000 When you're somebody who campaigns on personal authoritarianism and the appeal of the great leader, then you can never admit that you lost.

00:16:10.000 So that's why after Wisconsin,

00:16:12.000 He says he's been cheated.

00:16:14.000 Trump now says he has been cheated seriously in nine different states.

00:16:17.000 He says that Cruz has cheated him in nine different states.

00:16:19.000 Every state where Trump has either lost delegates or where he has lost outright, he says that he has been cheated by Ted Cruz.

00:16:26.000 And that's, you know, that's how Trump operates.

00:16:29.000 OK, so over to the other side of the, oh, sorry, final note, just because this is sort of hilarious.

00:16:34.000 The former French first lady, Carla Bruni, was an Italian model.

00:16:38.000 She was linked in the early 90s with Trump.

00:16:40.000 And Trump apparently claimed that he had done some stuff with her.

00:16:47.000 On the morning of June 26, 1991, this is according to BuzzFeed, Donald Trump's picture was splashed across the front page of the New York Post.

00:16:55.000 Next to the photo, which featured then girlfriend Marla Maples, was the headline, quote, it's over.

00:17:00.000 Trump, according to the Post, was leaving Maples for Italian model Carla Bruni.

00:17:04.000 She was then the first lady of France.

00:17:05.000 That morning, NBC's Today ran with the report.

00:17:08.000 Trump confirmed to the Post the next day that Bruni was the new one in his life.

00:17:12.000 Bruni denied she was dating Trump, and according to one biography, Trump himself planted the story for publicity.

00:17:18.000 Apparently, Bruni was left aghast.

00:17:20.000 She said,

00:17:39.000 Apparently, Bruni even confronted Trump at one point about the rumors.

00:17:42.000 According to Trump's biographer, Harry Hurt, Bruni yelled at Trump, screaming, how dare you do this?

00:17:47.000 And it's not true.

00:17:49.000 So Trump even makes up his model lovers.

00:17:56.000 So all of this stuff will be dragged out, all of it.

00:17:58.000 Whether you think it's fair or whether you think it's unfair, it will all be dragged out of the woodwork.

00:18:02.000 All of the negatives of Hillary Clinton will be negated by the negatives of Donald Trump.

00:18:06.000 And we'll get to Bernie Sanders and Hillary in just a minute.

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00:18:42.000 OK, so on the other side of the aisle, so Trump is waning.

00:18:45.000 Trump is waning.

00:18:46.000 And the reason he's waning is because, again, he has no capacity to turn it down at all.

00:18:50.000 None.

00:18:51.000 He's always at an 11 on the spinal tap scale.

00:18:53.000 And the question becomes, when you hit crisis point and you're always at an 11, how do you increase from there?

00:18:58.000 What do you do?

00:18:59.000 How do you turn it up?

00:19:00.000 There's no way to turn it up.

00:19:02.000 I mean, you know this from people you've dealt with.

00:19:04.000 If somebody is always yelling at you, always yelling at you, there's no variation in their tone.

00:19:09.000 There's no humor.

00:19:10.000 There's no down.

00:19:11.000 There's no up.

00:19:11.000 It's just up all the time.

00:19:13.000 Very, very tiring.

00:19:14.000 And when things really get bad, you start to think, OK, well, how would I even know?

00:19:19.000 This is sort of my father's critique.

00:19:21.000 My dad writes musicals.

00:19:22.000 My dad's critique of Andrew Lloyd Webber is that if you're singing these big, virtuosic numbers, these loud, virtuosic numbers about tiny little topics, then how do you ever turn it up?

00:19:33.000 There's no way to turn it up.

00:19:34.000 You're already up, right?

00:19:35.000 I mean, this is the problem with most rock music.

00:19:37.000 It doesn't have any dynamics.

00:19:39.000 If you're already really, really loud, if you're already blowing out the speakers, what happens when you get more passionate?

00:19:43.000 There's no place to go.

00:19:45.000 That's Trump.

00:19:46.000 And so he's running into a wall.

00:19:47.000 There's no place for him to go here.

00:19:50.000 Maybe he holds on, maybe.

00:19:51.000 But if he does, it'll just be by the skin of his teeth.

00:19:53.000 Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, real firefight now breaking up between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. 0.98

00:19:58.000 Bernie won big in Wisconsin last night, blew out Hillary Clinton.

00:20:02.000 And they are very close when it comes to delegate count.

00:20:04.000 In the delegate count, they're pretty much even. 0.96

00:20:06.000 And this is scaring the living crap out of Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:20:10.000 It should scare the living crap out of the left. 0.97

00:20:12.000 I want to point one thing out before we get to the clips of Bernie and Hillary, and that is this particular comment from Bernie Sanders. 0.92

00:20:20.000 I mentioned at the very outset this interview that he did with the New York Daily News.

00:20:24.000 I think it's important to point out what the morality of Bernie Sanders and the left are, because they like to pretend that they are great moral arbiters, and they are not.

00:20:31.000 Here is Bernie Sanders explaining morality from the perspective of the left.

00:20:36.000 He gave this answer when he was asked why companies ought to be legally punished for outsourcing.

00:20:40.000 Here's what he said.

00:20:42.000 To me, what moral is, I've got to be concerned about you.

00:20:46.000 You've got to be concerned about my wife.

00:20:48.000 That's moral to me.

00:20:50.000 So, love thy neighbor as thyself, but as government policy.

00:20:55.000 Right, not as religious policy, not God telling you, not you should be caring about your fellow human being, but as government policy.

00:21:02.000 In other words, if I outsource jobs because it's cheap or somewhere else in order to create cheaper, better products for consumers, I'm not loving your wife properly.

00:21:11.000 First of all, Bill Clinton always took love thy neighbor's wife extremely seriously.

00:21:16.000 He rewrote the Bible to include that particular passage, love thy neighbor's wife.

00:21:19.000 But Bernie's morality is, it's morally vacuous.

00:21:23.000 And the problem is that his morality is based around the idea that free and voluntary activity that is not based around caring about his wife is immoral.

00:21:32.000 So if you and I have a transaction and his wife doesn't get a cut, that's us not caring sufficiently about his wife, and that has to be stopped by the government.

00:21:39.000 It's not just my job to care about his wife, according to Bernie Sanders.

00:21:42.000 It's my job to pay for her.

00:21:44.000 This is called totalitarianism.

00:21:46.000 But Bernie is winning, and he's winning among young people because he uses this guise of caring and fairness in order to cram down an authoritarian mindset.

00:21:54.000 So here is Bernie Sanders last night talking about how now that he's beating Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, he's going to beat Trump.

00:22:01.000 Here he is, Bernie Sanders.

00:22:04.000 Momentum is that when you look at national polls or you look at statewide polls, we are defeating Donald Trump by very significant numbers.

00:22:25.000 And in almost every instance, in national polls and in state polls, our margin over Trump is wider than is Secretary Clinton.

00:22:38.000 And there's a reason for this.

00:22:39.000 The reason that he's beating Donald Trump is because Trump actually thinks the same way that he does.

00:22:44.000 The only difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump is Bernie Sanders says, you have a duty to care about my wife, and I will use government to enforce that duty.

00:22:52.000 And Trump says, you have a duty to care about me personally, and I will use government to enforce that duty.

00:22:57.000 But otherwise, they're very much the same, particularly on trade and economic policy.

00:23:02.000 They both say they want to break up the big banks.

00:23:03.000 They both say that they want to restrict trade in significant ways.

00:23:08.000 There's a reason that Trump is successful and there's a reason Bernie is successful.

00:23:11.000 The difference is Trump is the past of conservatism and Bernie is the future of leftism.

00:23:16.000 And this is going to tear apart the Democratic Party in the same way that Trump has torn apart the Republican Party.

00:23:20.000 Trump is the last vestige of paleo-conservatism, grabbing the hem of conservatism, trying to rip it away.

00:23:27.000 Bernie Sanders is the future of leftism.

00:23:30.000 He's also the past.

00:23:31.000 I mean, all political movements go through cycles.

00:23:34.000 Bernie is paleo-leftism, right?

00:23:35.000 He's actual old-school Marxism, and he is coming—1930-style New York Marxism—he is coming to take it away from Hillary Clinton, and the young people are following him.

00:23:46.000 Here's Trevor Noah again, and you can see the ire from the actual left at the Democratic Party if they deprive Bernie Sanders of his nomination, if they steal his nomination.

00:23:57.000 Bernie came out on Twitter.

00:23:58.000 I don't know if you saw this weekend, this past week.

00:24:01.000 He's been going at Hillary quite hard.

00:24:03.000 And a lot of people feel that Bernie Sanders has been... I'm gonna paraphrase, or really quote Twitter, rather, that Bernie's being... blocked, um... by the DNC.

00:24:16.000 Is there any merit to this?

00:24:18.000 You know... I'm, uh...

00:24:25.000 As powerful as that makes me feel, I'm not doing a very good job of rigging the outcome or

00:24:35.000 Blocking anyone from being able to get their message out.

00:24:41.000 The reality is, is I have a job as a national party chair that is, one, that requires a thick skin.

00:24:48.000 It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

00:24:53.000 And, you know, if I have to take a few punches in order for them to be able to make sure they can get their message out, then so be it.

00:24:59.000 But I'm all about making sure that ultimately we can elect our party's nominee in the general election.

00:25:04.000 Okay, and she says that, but you can see Trevor Noah is very upset about this, and so is a lot of the left.

00:25:09.000 The reason is because Bernie Sanders is a purist.

00:25:11.000 He's a pure Marxist.

00:25:12.000 Hillary Clinton is not.

00:25:14.000 And now she's trying to ascribe her defeat like Donald Trump. 0.98

00:25:18.000 So Sanders is like Trump in terms of policy.

00:25:21.000 Hillary is like Trump very much in terms of personality.

00:25:24.000 Hillary and Trump are very close together in terms of personality.

00:25:27.000 They're both narcissists, they both can't deal with the idea of losing, and they ascribe their losses to anything but their own incapacity.

00:25:34.000 So if Trump loses, it's because he's being cheated.

00:25:36.000 If Hillary loses, it's because she's a woman. 1.00

00:25:38.000 Here is her I-am-woman-hear-me-lose routine again yesterday.

00:25:42.000 This is always her go-to.

00:25:44.000 Are you a better candidate now?

00:25:46.000 If you were to boil it down to one or two lessons that you've learned since 00, what would those have been?

00:25:52.000 I hope I'm a better candidate.

00:26:11.000 Break that down for me a little bit.

00:26:12.000 What about it do you find a little less natural and fun than other things?

00:26:17.000 Oh really?

00:26:36.000 When I did my announcement with Daniel Patrick Moynihan on his farm.

00:26:42.000 Pinders Corners.

00:26:42.000 Right?

00:26:45.000 It was incredibly hard for me to say the pronoun I instead of we.

00:26:52.000 Right.

00:26:53.000 I had been a strong supporter, not just of my husband, but other people who I tried to get elected.

00:26:58.000 Okay, so she goes on along in this thing with the idea that her weaknesses are gender-linked. 0.98

00:27:02.000 It's because she's a woman that she's having a tough time. 0.90

00:27:05.000 And then she goes into full Donald Trump delusion territory.

00:27:07.000 So you heard Trump earlier say, well, he didn't really lose, he was cheated.

00:27:11.000 Hillary lost 80% of the youth vote.

00:27:14.000 82% of the youth vote, actually, according to CNN.

00:27:16.000 And yet there she was yesterday saying that young voters really, really like her.

00:27:20.000 Here is Hillary explaining that even though she's losing 80% of young people, they love her.

00:27:24.000 They just love Hillary. 1.00

00:27:26.000 Look, I think it's exciting to be in effect protesting.

00:27:29.000 I remember I did that a long time ago when I was in my 20s, and I totally get the attraction of this.

00:27:38.000 And in all the research that I have seen about who is supporting Senator Sanders, a lot of the young people like both of us.

00:27:45.000 They really like me, they admire what I've done, what I stand for, and they really, really like him.

00:27:50.000 So I'm not as worried as the numbers might show about how he has attracted so many young people because I think that it is important to bring them into the process and I give him a lot of credit for doing that.

00:28:05.000 My argument basically is, look,

00:28:08.000 We are electing a president and a commander-in-chief.

00:28:11.000 We are electing the Democratic Party's standard bearer to go up against whoever the Republicans wind up nominating.

00:28:19.000 And we really need to be sure that we elect someone who can walk into that Oval Office on January 20th, 2017 and start making... Okay, and then she swivels back to her qualifications. 0.87

00:28:31.000 But the truth is that she doesn't have young voters behind her. 1.00

00:28:33.000 So again, in terms of personality, Trump and Hillary very similar.

00:28:37.000 In terms of policy, Trump and Sanders very similar.

00:28:39.000 Again, the difference is that Trump and Hillary and Sanders, they're all above the age of 1,000.

00:28:44.000 The difference is that the older Democrat is reflective of the future of the Democratic Party.

00:28:49.000 The older Republican, Trump will be 70 in about a month.

00:28:53.000 Or two months. 0.98

00:28:54.000 He is not reflective of the future of Republicanism, he's actually reflective of a past that's now coming back to bite Republicans right on the butt. 0.97

00:29:02.000 Well, okay, so.

00:29:04.000 It's time for a couple of things that I like, and then it's time for a couple of things that I don't.

00:29:08.000 So here's a thing that I like.

00:29:09.000 I'll do a couple of things that I like today, because we didn't have a show yesterday, and by the way, it's our 100th episode, everybody!

00:29:14.000 Yay! 0.99

00:29:15.000 A hundredth episode, which is very exciting.

00:29:17.000 If only you could see me, which you can't because our internet connection sucks.

00:29:21.000 But here are a couple of things that I like.

00:29:24.000 So in the pantheon of terrific scores, terrific musical scores for movies, one of my favorites is East of Eden.

00:29:34.000 East of Eden is a pretty good movie.

00:29:37.000 It's a great book.

00:29:38.000 If you're looking for a great book by Steinbeck, don't look to Grapes of Wrath, which is a mediocre book.

00:29:43.000 Look to East of Eden, which is a truly great book.

00:29:45.000 Leonard Rosenman wrote the score to East of Eden, and you can hear how great the score is in this trailer for East of Eden from Leonard Rosenman.

00:29:58.000 Half the stinking city hall would go there. 1.00

00:30:04.000 They sneak in at night, and I walk in this front door in the daytime, see? 0.85

00:30:11.000 Don't you ever touch her again. 0.99

00:30:15.000 You're no good. 0.95

00:30:16.000 And don't lie to me about my health!

00:30:18.000 I love you, Aaron.

00:30:36.000 He's watching us.

00:30:37.000 No, he isn't.

00:30:38.000 Yes, he is, too.

00:30:39.000 Let's move over here. 0.95

00:30:41.000 Yes, life in its every emotion leaps from the pages of John Steinbeck's best of all his best sellers.

00:30:48.000 And to bring new vitality to every explosive chapter, to capture for you the stark realism of people who love so deeply, hate so fiercely, live so recklessly,

00:31:00.000 Warner Brothers had to seek out vibrant new personalities, tap new sources of talent, create new stars.

00:31:09.000 It's a good movie.

00:31:10.000 It's a better book.

00:31:11.000 East of Eden by Steinbeck.

00:31:12.000 If you want to read another great book, Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, very underrated Mark Twain novel.

00:31:17.000 The reason that I recommend that is because I'm reading a book recommended by Andrew Klavin called The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

00:31:23.000 He recommended it on his podcast.

00:31:25.000 And I know Clavin is off this week, but as I'm reading it, it's very reminiscent of Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, which is all about a guy from the 19th century traveling back and being part of King Arthur's Court and bringing all these technological innovations.

00:31:39.000 Doomsday Book is basically an update of that.

00:31:42.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:31:44.000 So, Barack Obama announced yesterday, his administration announced yesterday, that they want you to rent your third bedroom to O.J.

00:31:51.000 Simpson or they are going to fine you.

00:31:53.000 Really, this is what they said.

00:31:54.000 The Housing and Urban Development Department issued new guidelines, and the guidelines say, quote,

00:32:10.000 Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S.

00:32:13.000 criminal justice system, criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing are likely, disproportionately, to burden African Americans and Hispanics.

00:32:21.000 In other words, if you keep criminals out of your house because the justice system is evil and racist and terrible, that means that you're actually being a racist.

00:32:30.000 This just demonstrates how racist the Obama administration is.

00:32:33.000 I want to keep criminals out of my third bedroom because I don't want O.J.

00:32:35.000 Simpson in my third bedroom. 0.99

00:32:37.000 Obama says that's because he's more likely to be black. 0.99

00:32:40.000 Well, if the criminal is more likely to be black, that's not my fault. 0.99

00:32:43.000 The criminal is 100% likely to have been a criminal, right? 0.90

00:32:46.000 I mean, turns out criminality is pretty well linked with, I'm not going to trust you to pay your rent.

00:32:52.000 But according to the Obama administration, that makes you a racist. 0.91

00:32:55.000 This demonstrates, as always, just how racist and immoral the Obama administration is. 0.94

00:33:00.000 And they really are, truly. 0.95

00:33:02.000 Immoral in every available way. 1.00

00:33:04.000 The justice system, by the way, is not biased against Black people or Hispanic people.

00:33:07.000 Read Barry Latzer's The Rise and Fall of American Crime, Violent Crime in America, and you will see there are statistics that he lists backing this up. 0.70

00:33:16.000 The actual racism here is that Blacks and Hispanics are incapable of avoiding criminal acts resulting in conviction. 1.00

00:33:23.000 Criminality is not a proxy for race because race isn't related to criminality. 0.99

00:33:27.000 Culture is related to criminality.

00:33:28.000 And some cultures are more prominent among certain people of certain races.

00:33:33.000 Individuals, not melanin levels, commit crimes.

00:33:35.000 But according to Obama's social justice regime, we have to be judged as members of our race rather than as individuals. 0.74

00:33:42.000 So if a criminal is black, he's black first and then a criminal. 1.00

00:33:45.000 So if you punish the criminal, you're punishing the black guy. 1.00

00:33:47.000 That's really, really gross. 0.99

00:33:49.000 OK, final thing that I hate today.

00:33:53.000 This is a picture... Well, you can't say... You know what?

00:33:56.000 We'll save this for when we actually have video.

00:33:57.000 This guy who's... We'll save the man identifying as a mythical beast for when I can actually show you the picture because it's quite gross. 0.72

00:34:04.000 Instead, we'll go to the virtual reality sex suit. 0.86

00:34:06.000 So, there's a report today... 0.86

00:34:09.000 That scientists have now created a virtual reality sex suit, which lets men experience sexual intercourse on their own.

00:34:19.000 Number one, I wasn't aware that this technology was necessary.

00:34:21.000 It turns out that men found ways.

00:34:23.000 But second of all, it just demonstrates that in our increasingly interconnected society, we're actually more isolated.

00:34:28.000 When we don't have values in common, we're more isolated.

00:34:31.000 And instead of finding love with compatible partners, instead, we're trying to love ourselves, you know, as Woody Allen

00:34:39.000 I'll paraphrase because it's off-color, but he says he was into self-pleasure because it's sex with a person that I love.

00:34:49.000 And increasingly in our society, that is the direction in which we're moving because we don't have anything in common anymore.

00:34:55.000 We're divided from one another on every level.

00:34:57.000 We don't have common values.

00:34:59.000 We're not looking to build lives together.

00:35:00.000 We're just looking for whatever gets our rocks off.

00:35:03.000 This is just the latest indicator of that.

00:35:04.000 We need to restore a culture of common values, and that involves common values that don't impinge on the freedoms of others, as Bernie Sanders would have you do, or as Donald Trump would say that we should do.

00:35:14.000 It's not about you creating a society that pleases you.

00:35:18.000 It's about you staying out of everybody else's business, because if we don't do that, we'll have a society that pleases no one.

00:35:24.000 Happy 100th episode, everybody!

00:35:25.000 We'll be back tomorrow, and I will actually, we hope, be on video.

00:35:28.000 You'll actually be able to see me for the subscribers.

00:35:30.000 You'll also have the mailbag tomorrow, and make sure that you send in your mail, because

00:35:34.000 There's plenty to talk about.

00:35:35.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:35:35.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 06, 2016

Ep. 100 - Bernie Sanders Is The Democrats' Future. They Should Be Terrified.

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