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00:00:05.000We'll also get to Trump vs. Cruz, plus an extra heaping helping of The Ben Shapiro Show's second week mailbag, and it is really, really chock-full, so we'll save some extra time for that.
00:00:37.000Nate Silver, who is a very, very, very good statistical analyst for FiveThirtyEight.com, he has a piece today about how Donald Trump is favored by the establishment.
00:00:50.000I mean, it's not like I've been saying this for a week now, that in a fight between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the establishment favors Donald Trump.
00:00:56.000But Nate Silver, who used to write for the New York Times and now runs FiveThirtyEight, he says, in the last election, he called all 50 states correctly.
00:01:03.000As far as Obama vs. Romney, he said, quote,
00:01:31.000So far, the party isn't doing much to stop Trump.
00:01:33.000Instead, it's making such an effort against Ted Cruz.
00:01:45.000Trump is... All that Trump is about, all Donald Trump is about is Donald Trump.
00:01:49.000And all I have to do is read you some headlines from today.
00:01:53.000Donald Trump today said... You remember a couple of days ago, Donald Trump was speaking at Liberty University, and he tried to quote the Bible, and instead of saying second Corinthians, he said two Corinthians.
00:04:01.000He said Trump could probably work with Congress because he's got the right kind of personality and he's a deal maker.
00:04:07.000Right, so in the end, they support Trump over Cruz, as I have been saying.
00:04:11.000And by the way, Donald Trump is now making the perfectly establishment case.
00:04:14.000So for all the Trump supporters, I'm gonna get to the Trump can win argument in a minute and why I think that that's flawed and problematic in terms of the general election.
00:04:22.000But there are two arguments for supporting Donald Trump.
00:04:25.000One of them is at least passable, and one of them is deeply stupid.
00:04:28.000The passable one is Donald Trump's a better fighter, he has more blue-collar appeal, he's more electable than Ted Cruz.
00:04:34.000I actually think there's a case for this, although his unpopular numbers are very high.
00:04:39.000The other argument is that Donald Trump is more conservative than Ted Cruz.
00:04:43.000Then you are, as Sarah Palin might put it, on opium.
00:04:46.000If you believe this, you are out of your damn mind.
00:04:48.000There is no measure by which Donald Trump is more conservative than Ted Cruz, and even Trump is basically admitting this now.
00:04:55.000Donald Trump, yesterday, he came out and he said, the problem with Washington is that we don't make enough deals.
00:05:01.000I thought that Trump's whole pitch is that he was tough and he was going to stand up to people, but now the problem in Washington, they don't make enough deals, says Donald Trump.
00:05:08.000Well, I've been making deals all my life, and that's why I'm worth many billions of dollars, more than $10 billion, because that's what I do.
00:06:04.000Number two, if you want to say that somebody is beholden to the bank because they have a loan from that bank, every person in America has a mortgage.
00:06:11.000You know, everyone has taken student loans.
00:06:13.000This idea that this makes you enthrall to the bank from which you have the loan is idiocy.
00:06:17.000I mean, Donald Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from various entities.
00:06:22.000Does that mean that he's beholden to those various banks?
00:07:05.000And his criticism of me is he said, I went to Washington and actually stood up and fought in Washington and Donald has said, well, the problem he has with me is that I won't go along to get along in Washington.
00:07:26.000I got to tell you, Sean, you know the conservatives across this country.
00:07:29.000I don't think the problem with Washington
00:07:31.000Is that we haven't had enough Republicans willing to cut deals with the Democrats.
00:07:35.000The problem is Republican leadership cuts deals every day with the Democrats like this horrible omnibus bill that funded a trillion dollars funded all of Obama's big government priorities and and the establishment seems to have made a determination Donald Trump's a guy they can make a deal with who will continue the cronyism and corporate welfare and bailouts for big banks and and and I think that we're seeing conservatives
00:08:05.000Now, what's amazing about all of this is that, meanwhile, at Jeb Bush, there's a big article in Politico today that Jeb Bush's campaign is toast.
00:08:21.000Jeb Bush announced on June 15th, if you remember, the very next day Donald Trump announced for the presidency and name-checked Bush three separate times in his announcement ramblings and at that point said the establishment supports Jeb Bush, that's who's behind Jeb Bush,
00:08:37.000And then Jeb's people, not content to boost Trump that way, decided to have Jeb attack Trump in the debates, at which point Trump stomped him repeatedly, as we've covered on the podcast, which boosted Trump in the polls.
00:08:48.000And then still not content, the Jeb people have now spent tens of millions of dollars knocking down Marco Rubio to try and clear the establishment lane for Jeb Bush, came out today.
00:08:57.000$22 million have been spent in the last month against Marco Rubio in attack ads.
00:09:01.000$20 million of those dollars came from Jeb Bush's super PAC.
00:09:04.000So, we've had Jeb Bush clear the field, basically, for Donald Trump.
00:09:31.000He doesn't believe that he can take me on.
00:09:34.000And while I'm doing worse than him in the polls, the simple fact is, why would he spend his time tearing down someone who's so low compared to him?
00:12:04.000So the Prince of Light and Hope over here.
00:12:06.000By the way, the Prince of Light and Hope is now running second in New Hampshire according to a couple of polls, which means the end of the road for Marco Rubio.
00:12:12.000Okay, I want to get to the real point of what I want to talk about today, which is really not reiterating how right I was about Trump versus Cruz.
00:12:49.000And he, like a lot of conservatives, understands the anti-establishment appeal of Trump, but is concerned that Trump is not actually conservative.
00:12:57.000And so he's trying to explain why Trump is so surefire popular, why he's so all-fired popular, and here is what Rush Limbaugh had to say about it.
00:13:14.000have overtaken conservatism in terms of appeal.
00:13:18.000When this has happened and when it exposes what people in Washington are afraid of, and that is, you know, all this money we've asked people to send us and all these donations people have made, this movement, promote that, well, where is conservatism in Washington?
00:13:48.000So, the case Rush is making is at least partially right.
00:13:52.000What he's saying is that conservatism has been outflanked by populism and nationalism.
00:13:57.000That because conservatives in Congress, people who pledged to be conservative, were not, it waned in popularity and now it's being replaced by Donald Trump's brand of nationalism and populism.
00:14:06.000Now, I think it's important to define terms for a second because these are words that get thrown around a lot.
00:14:10.000Nationalism and populism are not actual coherent ideologies.
00:14:14.000Nationalism just says, I want whatever is best for the country, but it doesn't define what's best for the country.
00:14:19.000So you could be a nationalist like Hugo Chavez, right?
00:14:21.000And you could be thinking that leftism is the best thing for your country, and you're a nationalist, right?
00:14:32.000And populism also doesn't imply right-wing.
00:14:35.000Populism just means that you're anti an ensconced group of elites who you think control things, and so you're fighting against those people.
00:14:46.000And there are leftist populists like Bernie Sanders, and there are right-wing populists like Donald Trump.
00:14:50.000What's been happening is because conservatism has become a notion of the elite, or it's at least perceived to be a notion of the elite, it's falling away in popularity.
00:15:00.000And there are a couple of reasons for this.
00:15:02.000One is that all the people who have campaigned as conservatives were basically lying.
00:15:06.000And then they got to Washington, and they didn't do any of the things they said they were going to do.
00:15:09.000They didn't stand up for the little guy.
00:15:23.000I want to talk a little bit about something I talked a little bit about yesterday, and I think it's problematic.
00:15:29.000Andrew Klavan and I, just before the show, were having this conversation.
00:15:32.000Drew has been putting a heavy, heavy emphasis on his podcast on the fact that Trump supporters are blue-collar people who may be losing their jobs to China or may at least feel they're losing their jobs to China in free trade or technological advancement.
00:15:46.000That there's a group of people out there who feel like they're being left behind in the economy and that the Republican Party, that conservatism more specifically, isn't doing enough for these people.
00:15:55.000And so these people are embracing Trump because Trump says he'll do something for them.
00:15:59.000David French at National Review says the same thing.
00:16:01.000He says that nationalism, you know, the reason that Trump's putting together this coalition is because there is a sort of three-legged stool for Trump supporters.
00:16:10.000That is, nationalism, they don't feel like they want to be in second place anymore, right?
00:16:50.000The Republican Party was, basically from the end of the Civil War all the way until FDR, a protectionist, isolationist, anti-immigrant party.
00:17:00.000The Republican Party voted- I mean, Calvin Coolidge had the single greatest immigration shutdown of the 20th century.
00:17:06.000He shut down basically all immigration in the 1920s because he was afraid of the rabble coming in.
00:17:20.000It was a bunch of people who are now considered white in the United States, right?
00:17:23.000They're now considered part of the white majority.
00:17:25.000And if you look back at the economic policies of the time, Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, everybody was pushing this idea that the government has to get in there and bust up the big businesses.
00:17:34.000They have to break up the big businesses.
00:17:36.000So regulations on banks, going after the big guy in favor of the little guy.
00:17:41.000These were people who were in favor of protectionism, higher tariffs on foreign goods.
00:17:46.000The United States gradually integrated into the world economy, but we had pretty significant tariffs all the way through FDR, which is why the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were a thing.
00:17:54.000That's why Herbert Hoover, who was a Republican, infamously pushed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs as a response to the drop in the stock market, which helped create the Great Depression.
00:18:04.000So, populism, the draw of protectionism, has always been great.
00:18:09.000Here's the problem with politics in general.
00:18:10.000Here's the problem with politics in general.
00:18:12.000The problem with politics in general is that things that you get from the government typically are things people don't want to give up.
00:18:18.000Even conservatives, or people who consider themselves conservatives.
00:18:21.000Most people, and when you look at a government program like social security,
00:18:46.000That means I get 7% more on my paychecks.
00:18:48.000And it also means that I may have a shot at keeping some of my money.
00:18:53.000But then you go to somebody like my grandmother, right, who's actually living off of Social Security, and you say to her, we're taking away from you 90% of your monthly income.
00:19:07.000The reason why is because Social Security, like every other government program, has a very specific set of beneficiaries, and a very diffuse set of people who are harmed by it.
00:19:17.000So I pay a little bit of money into Social Security every month, but my grandmother takes a lot of money out of Social Security every month, which is, of course, why it's bankrupt.
00:19:24.000But that means it's politically unpopular to go after Social Security, because, honestly, Social Security is not number one on my list of priorities, but for my grandma, it is number one on her list of priorities.
00:19:35.000And the same thing is true of Medicare.
00:19:36.000This is why Donald Trump says, I'm not gonna touch Social Security, I'm not gonna touch Medicare.
00:19:44.000Legal immigration is very good for the economy.
00:19:47.000Legal immigration is good for the economy so long as people aren't taking welfare, obviously, because if you have a skilled set of people coming in and bringing their skill sets to bear, they're bringing better work for cheaper.
00:19:58.000Better for cheaper is always good for the consumer.
00:20:00.000Now, you come to me and you say, okay, is legal immigration good?
00:20:12.000Now you go to the person who's just let out of a job because of the legal immigrant who was brought in.
00:20:18.000So for me, I may have gotten a slightly better iPhone, but for that guy, he lost his job.
00:20:23.000So when Donald Trump campaigns against legal immigration, what he's really saying is, I'm campaigning for the guy whose number one priority is keeping his job as against that legal immigrant,
00:20:33.000And, you know, all of the diffuse benefits, nobody's voting, that's not their number one issue.
00:20:37.000In other words, everyone is basically a single-issue voter and their single issue is, what's good for me?
00:20:42.000And what's good for me is almost invariably something that is not good for society as a whole.
00:21:15.000Because if we were to get rid of, if we were to get rid of a lot of the policies that hurt the country, we're hurting a specific group of people and helping a broad group of people, but we're helping that broad group of people this much, and we're hurting that specific group of people this much.
00:22:11.000And Donald Trump is making sort of the same pitch.
00:22:14.000So what Andrew Klavan has suggested is if you want to appeal to those blue-collar voters, the reason Donald Trump is getting people jazzed up is because he may be wrong on legal immigration.
00:22:25.000He may be wrong on government crony capitalism, but he's appealing to that group of people.
00:22:30.000So what Klavan says is, well, instead of arguing sort of the Donald Trump protectionism spiel, what if we start to argue for job training programs?
00:22:39.000And I said to Klavan, well, there's only one problem.
00:22:42.000There's not a government job training program in the world that actually works.
00:23:19.000The government is not capable of helping individuals without stealing money from other individuals.
00:23:26.000And when it does steal money from other individuals, that's immoral.
00:23:29.000So, what compromises are you willing to make in order to get elected?
00:23:34.000This is a serious question, and it's a serious moral question that we should all consider.
00:23:38.000Now, my way of dealing with this, I think, in political terms,
00:23:42.000is that Republicans ought to single out, they should understand how elections actually work.
00:23:47.000Elections don't take place on the basis of policy, they take place on the basis of story.
00:23:54.000And so, it's not about the story of the guy who's blue collar living in Ohio, it's whether you are better for that guy than Hillary Clinton.
00:24:03.000And that guy's priorities are not only the priorities of, I need to keep my job.
00:24:07.000That guy's priorities include, I don't want my kid indoctrinated by the government to believe in gay marriage.
00:24:11.000I don't want Hillary Clinton coming in here and mandating that a man go into my daughter's restroom.
00:24:15.000I don't want Hillary Clinton coming in here and forcing her priorities and values down on me.
00:24:21.000In other words, you don't have to bribe people with government.
00:24:23.000You just have to focus on the fact that the Democrats want to oppress.
00:24:31.000I don't think that the way Republicans end up winning blue-collar voters back is to lie to them about the glories of protectionism.
00:24:37.000A lot of people on the right seem to think it is.
00:24:39.000I think the problem is that once you give people the go-ahead on the premise, once you give people the go-ahead on the premise that you can steal other people's money in order to enrich yourself, then you're basically a Democrat.
00:24:51.000It's just a matter of time until you get there.
00:24:53.000It may take longer, but it's only a matter of time until you get there.
00:25:31.000Just like it would be a mistake to go into Iowa and make your central pitch how you're going to get rid of ethanol subsidies.
00:25:36.000But, you can go into Iowa and you can say, Hillary Clinton wants to take your money, and she wants to spend it on stupid garbage, and she wants to restrict your religious practice, and she wants to destroy your livelihood.
00:25:46.000In other words, you have to campaign on all the things that the establishment doesn't want you to campaign on.
00:25:52.000The reason we're in the situation we're in, the reason blue-collar workers have been left aside, is because the establishment insists that Republicans not talk about social policy.
00:26:03.000Basic issues of religious freedom, for example.
00:26:06.000That Republicans not talk too much about foreign policy and national security.
00:26:10.000The reality is, the only reason America went free trade in the first place is because after World War II, we had to be free trade for national security reasons with all of the other countries the Soviet Union was trying to woo.
00:26:22.000Our idea was that if we trade with them, they'll become rich, they'll become democratic, and they won't want to deal with the Soviet Union.
00:26:27.000But that was a pitch on foreign policy grounds, not on prosperity grounds.
00:26:39.000And so, you know, compromising with populism is just a recognition that you don't emphasize the parts of the economic conservative agenda that are actually problematic for people who are in that small minority of people who are hurt by good economic policy.
00:27:03.000One of the great questions in drama is what's the difference between a tragedy and a comedy?
00:27:06.000What's the difference between a tragedy and a comedy?
00:27:09.000Because what makes you laugh and what makes you cry are very often very similar things.
00:27:14.000Walter Kerr's theory in a great book called Tragedy and Comedy is basically that life is both tragedy and comedy, and the reason is because tragedy is Hamlet aiming for the stars, but understanding that he's going to end up like Yorick, right?
00:27:26.000It's the fact that we are capable of reaching out to God and reaching out to the stars, but that we're always going to fall short, that we're always going to die.
00:27:34.000And comedy is, we reach out to the stars, but we fart.
00:27:38.000Right, and so it's the same argument, it's just that one sees it as, okay, it's kind of hilarious that we've got this immortal spirit trapped in this ridiculous body, and tragedy is, isn't it horrible that we have this immortal spirit and it's trapped in this ridiculous body?
00:27:54.000So it's just two ways of viewing the same coin.
00:28:29.000So, a couple of questions about Bernie Sanders.
00:28:31.000One, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, how do you think that affects the GOP chances?
00:28:37.000Also, I think we're seeing Bernie swing the Democratic Party further to the left, but if he wins the election, that will move Democrats further to the left.
00:28:48.000Let some areas swing to red because they can't go that far left.
00:28:51.000Okay, number one, I think Bernie Sanders is actually a more dangerous candidate than Hillary Clinton because Hillary is gravity-bound, right?
00:29:52.000So he says, Some friends and I were talking about one of the black kids at our school.
00:29:55.000He's well known for being a white black kid.
00:29:57.000By this I mean he does things that are typically associated with what white people do.
00:30:01.000The kid has a gold membership to Starbucks, for God's sakes.
00:30:04.000Anyway, he's proud to say he's a white black kid, so by calling him, it's not a negative connotation.
00:30:09.000We were talking about we said he's the whitest black kid you'll ever seen, you've ever met, and at this comment, one of the black girls who sits at my table snapped at me and started calling me a racist.
00:30:18.000The girl is a wild advocate, to say the least, for the rights of black people.
00:30:21.000Did she have a right to be upset with me?
00:30:58.000So saying somebody is a white black kid is really just a way of saying they're a rich black kid, and it goes to a pathetic thing that's happened in our society, which is the assumption, really not even by white people, but by black people largely, that it is not black to be prosperous and successful in American society.
00:31:15.000For all the evil things that Bill Cosby has done personally, one of the nice things about The Cosby Show is it actually set out the vision that black people can be middle class, they can be doctors, they can be lawyers, they can be dentists, they can do all sorts of wonderful things.
00:31:28.000And I think it's a mistake to say that somebody is a white black kid because he goes to Starbucks.
00:31:32.000He's just a black guy who goes to Starbucks.
00:31:34.000I know white people who are, you know, who don't go to Starbucks.
00:31:39.000Race has nothing to do with behavior, and this is one of the things we have to explode.
00:32:17.000I'm looking for a softer way to argue the facts with them, but it's difficult since they're close to me.
00:32:21.000Okay, so there's my preliminary answer, and then there's my actual answer.
00:32:27.000My preliminary answer is you should not associate with people on the left because they're generally terrible.
00:32:32.000And what I mean by this is not... Look, I have family members who are on the left.
00:32:37.000I have acquaintances who are on the left.
00:32:39.000I don't like to surround myself with people with whom I have wildly differing values, and this doesn't mean people who just happen to be on the left.
00:32:46.000I'm talking about ardent leftists, people who really believe this stuff.
00:32:49.000Most people on the left are just sort of there by pro- they're just there by habit.
00:32:56.000So if you're talking to those people, the number one thing you have to do is you have to make clear that you understand their position.
00:33:01.000Even if you don't and their position is really stupid.
00:33:03.000You have to make clear that you understand their position.
00:33:06.000That you understand where they're coming from.
00:33:08.000They just don't have their facts straight.
00:33:10.000You have to get into the wrestling circle with them.
00:33:12.000I understand where you're coming from, but have you considered that this may not actually benefit this person, or that may not actually be a moral point of view?
00:33:19.000You have to gauge your level of argument to the level of argument on the other side.
00:33:22.000So if they come in and they say, you know, I've been having real trouble understanding Ted Cruz's tax proposal.
00:33:27.000Isn't it more beneficial for the wealthy?
00:33:30.000That's a different question than, Ted Cruz hates poor people.
00:33:34.000Right, if the person comes in at level 3, you can come in at level 3 and you can say, well, you know, I think that you're misconstruing Cruz's tax proposal, and I think that, you know, we should really talk about how the economy works for you on a personal level.
00:34:31.000It's good that that debate didn't go forward.
00:34:34.000Two, the RNC really canceled, they didn't just cancel the NBC debate, they also canceled the second debate, and this is why I don't trust the RNC.
00:34:42.000The RNC canceled the second debate that was supposed to be moderated by Sean Hannity, and it was supposed to be a conservatives-only debate.
00:34:48.000We were gonna have a bunch of conservatives asking questions to these candidates, and they canceled it.
00:35:05.000I got a lot of blowback on comics, because earlier this week I critiqued comics and I said that backstory is overemphasized in the comic books and that most backstories of comics are crappy.
00:35:15.000And I made the audacious statement that the only two good backstories in comics are Superman and Batman.
00:35:21.000And Batman, because his angst is an interior part of him, that's who he is, and so you have to explain where the angst comes from.
00:35:28.000And Superman, because he's legitimately an alien.
00:35:31.000So you have to explain, you know, how he got here, and what makes him want to be a representative of the American way while he has unlimited powers, right?
00:35:39.000Okay, so... Someone says that they want me to marry them, and not like actually marry to them, like perform their marriage ceremony, but secondly,
00:35:51.000He says Spider-Man and its origins are pretty lame.
00:35:56.000A lot of people saying they like the Daredevil backstory.
00:35:59.000So, let me talk about the Daredevil backstory for a second.
00:36:02.000So, the Daredevil backstory... First of all, how he got his powers is a completely ridiculous, again, just... It's a ridiculous intervention by the author, right?
00:36:14.000He gets hit by toxic waste, which is, like, the easiest way to get superpowers ever.
00:36:20.000In the comic books, you end up with superpowers that are not cancerous.
00:36:23.000So, the real Daredevil backstory, the part that's fun, is that he had a dad who was killed because his dad was a boxer and didn't give in to the mob, right?
00:37:14.000And he is constantly saying that he's very overweight and not healthy, and he's constantly saying that he doesn't understand why anyone would want to live forever.
00:37:45.000It's my favorite thing in the entire, reading is my favorite thing to the point where my wife has to make sure that she has my attention when she's talking to me.
00:37:52.000You know, she's, she's, I have a book everywhere.
00:37:55.000I don't think, like, right now I have two books in my backpack.
00:38:42.000And the question is, what rhetorical bombshell should I have dropped when somebody said in class, members of groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda have little to no understanding of Islam.
00:38:51.000If they understood Islam, they wouldn't be terrorists.
00:38:54.000The rhetorical bombshell you should have dropped is, okay, who knows more about the Quran, you or Bin Laden?
00:38:59.000Right, that's the rhetorical bombshell you should have dropped.
00:39:00.000Who knows more about the Quran, you or al-Baghdadi?
00:39:37.000When it comes to your political stances, and one often found on the right, you're arguing from a set of morals from a Judeo-Christian thought.
00:39:43.000When you talk about abortion, you refer to it as baby killing, which I agree with you on, but what about defending marriage?
00:39:48.000Politicians like Ted Cruz believe in defining traditional marriage on a federal level, but isn't that discrimination to the gay community?
00:39:54.000How would you go about the marriage issue?
00:39:56.000Well, as I've said on the program, I don't think government should be involved in marriage at all.
00:40:00.000No, I think actually that there is a... I believe in traditional marriage not because of Judeo-Christian values, but because I'm a sane and rational human being.
00:40:08.000You know, the fact is that heterosexual marriage has benefits for society.
00:40:12.000Homosexual marriage has no benefits for society.
00:40:14.000It has benefits for the people involved, but how does anybody else benefit from two dudes schtuping each other?
00:40:22.000Right, the fact is that marriage benefits a male-female schtuping each other, because if they schtup each other and they happen to get pregnant, which up until birth control became prevalent was the way things were done, right, if that happened, if people happened to get pregnant, it was good that the kid be raised in a stable two-parent family where the people were bound to each other.
00:40:40.000That was the purpose of marriage and it was good for society, and the breakdown of marriage has destroyed society.
00:40:44.000Single motherhood has been an absolute disaster area for both the black and the white community, for every community, non-racially speaking.
00:40:53.000So, you know, I don't think you have to be a Judeo-Christian advocate to be in favor of traditional marriage.
00:40:59.000Alrighty, let's see what else we have here.
00:41:57.000At least, not as much as he is in the comics.
00:41:59.000As far as Superman being a Moses rip, not a Jesus rip...
00:42:02.000So, obviously the idea of the parents being under assault and then having to put their kid into a basket and float him down the river, right?
00:42:09.000That is the beginning of the Superman origin story.