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00:00:00.000New calls emerge for Republicans to abandon their party, Tom Perez says the wave of the future is socialism, and Supreme Court talk gets even dumber.
00:00:44.000We have all sorts of fun and games planned for you, so check that out.
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00:02:39.000I think Brit Hume deleted the tweet because it was a little much as well.
00:02:42.000There's no question that the inherent patriotism of Democrats is very different from the inherent patriotism of Republicans.
00:02:47.000We discussed this a little bit earlier in the week.
00:02:49.000The idea that for Democrats, they're only proud of their country when their country is doing stuff that Democrats like.
00:02:54.000For Republicans, they are proud of their country because of the foundational principles upon which the country stands.
00:02:59.000And so the president can change, but those foundational principles never do.
00:03:03.000And that means that you're proud of your country, whether Obama is president or whether Donald Trump is president.
00:03:06.000And indeed, that's what the Gallup polls show.
00:03:08.000They show that over 70% of Republicans were proud of America when Obama was president, and over 70% of Republicans are proud of America when Trump is president.
00:03:16.000When Obama was president, by contrast, 56% of Democrats were proud of America.
00:03:20.000That has now dropped all the way down to the low 30s, like 32% of Democrats are proud of the United States.
00:03:26.000That means that it's time to virtue signal on July 4th.
00:03:29.000It's time to talk about why Donald Trump is ruining July 4th.
00:03:41.000The reason it's bad tactics is because they had to then evacuate all of Liberty Island.
00:03:46.000They actually had to evacuate the entire island because this dolt decided to go up there and protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:03:55.000There's certain irony to that, given the fact that the Statue of Liberty, right, is inherently tied with immigration, and that everyone who was legally going through the system was doing so by, you know, following the Statue of Liberty, and then going over to Ellis Island, where they would then be integrated into the American system legally.
00:04:12.000It was not that there was no ICE back in the day.
00:04:15.000There was ICE's equivalent, right, there were
00:04:17.000Actual law enforcement mechanisms in place to vet people who are entering the country when they were entering the country, particularly in the early 20th century.
00:04:59.000It's very important that Liberty Island had to be evacuated.
00:05:01.000People's entire Independence Day had to be ruined because one idiot decided that she was going to climb up there with some of her friends.
00:05:08.000She spent nearly two hours on the base of the statue.
00:05:10.000At times, she sat under Lady Liberty's foot.
00:05:12.000She claimed she refused to come down at all until all the children had been released.
00:05:16.000She failed because they have not been released and she is still in jail right now.
00:05:21.000She also waved a t-shirt reading, Trump makes us sick and rise and resist.
00:05:24.000And then finally after being nabbed by police, she relented and came down from her dangerous perch.
00:05:28.000The reason this is foolish is because anybody who's watching this thinks, I may agree with you, but why are you getting, you know, 3,000 people kicked off Liberty Island because you decided to pose?
00:05:39.000Why was that an important thing to do?
00:05:40.000Plus, the radicalism of Democrats who are now embracing the abolish ICE position is pretty insane.
00:05:44.000They're not actually suggesting a replacement.
00:05:46.000They're not suggesting that ICE should be reassessed and that it should be put again under the Department of Justice.
00:05:51.000Remember that Immigration Enforcement, Border Patrol, all this stuff was under the auspices of the Department of Justice, not under the Department of Homeland Security until after 9-11.
00:06:48.000Just because people don't like the policy of separating parents from children at the border does not mean that they don't want the border enforced at all.
00:06:55.000And it is so like the reactionary nature of the times that the left has decided this means that no border enforcement should be the replacement for border enforcement that they don't like.
00:07:03.000Also, the utter kind of asinine reactionary nature of some members of the left is coming out in spades now.
00:07:09.000Kamala Harris, who is the senator from my state of California and is a full-fledged adult, she tweeted out a reminder this 4th of July.
00:07:17.000It was eight immigrants who signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:07:32.000It was 48 people from the United States who were born in, you know, what existed prior to the United States, in the British colonies in America.
00:07:40.00048 of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were born here, and then 8 of them were born in Great Britain.
00:07:46.000I think it was 4 were born in England, and 2 were born in Wales, I believe, and 2 were born in Scotland, 1 was born in Wales, 1 was born in Northern Ireland, 2 were born in Ireland itself.
00:08:00.000So Kamala Harris, giant fail once again.
00:08:01.000But all of this is just about trying to pretend that America was built by quote-unquote immigrants or illegal immigrants.
00:08:05.000Like, listen, I'm a very pro-immigration person.
00:08:07.000America was built by British citizens.
00:08:22.000Okay, really, America was built by British citizens in the inception, and then over time, it was built by a lot of people, including many immigrants who came over across the centuries.
00:08:32.000If you consider American colonists to be immigrants, I suppose that America was built by immigrants, but all of the founders were British citizens.
00:08:38.000So there's a bit of an odd argument to be making.
00:08:41.000Meanwhile, the ire against the right has driven some people absolutely out of their mind.
00:09:37.000I've recommended some on the program, actually.
00:09:39.000But there's a certain cadre of people who consider themselves conservative who really have been driven mad by President Trump.
00:09:47.000I'm somebody who didn't vote for President Trump, but that didn't change the fact that when President Trump does conservative things, I cheer.
00:09:53.000And he's the President of the United States.
00:09:55.000And he's governed a lot more conservatively than anyone could possibly have expected.
00:09:58.000He's governed more conservatively than pretty much anybody in my lifetime.
00:10:02.000So the idea that President Trump is now representative of an evil, brutal, terrible Republican Party
00:10:30.000In what world is the Republican Party a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe?
00:10:34.000How exactly are you coming up with that as an answer?
00:10:39.000I mean, I talked about during the election cycle how I hated the fact that President Trump sort of winked and nodded at the alt-right.
00:10:44.000But now he's kicked out Steve Bannon, the alt-right are persona non grata inside the Trump administration, and the fact is that this is a conservatively governing party.
00:10:53.000Trump himself is actually a rather peripheral figure when it comes to the Republican Party itself.
00:10:58.000He's important in the sense that people have to negotiate with him, but to identify Donald Trump as the root and branch of the entire Republican Party is to ignore the fact that there are elected Republicans in majorities in the Senate, in the House, in a majority of state legislatures, in governor seats in a majority of states.
00:11:14.000I just don't understand this argument that this is now a white nationalist party.
00:11:21.000It's a conservative party, and if you want to say that there's a white nationalist fringe, I would say that even that is a little bit exaggerated.
00:11:29.000At least you can make the argument for that.
00:11:33.000He says veteran strategist Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, is the latest Republican to say no more.
00:11:39.000Recently, he issued an anguished Twitter post.
00:11:41.00029 years and nine months ago, I registered to vote and become a member of the Republican Party, which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life, he wrote.
00:11:49.000Today, I renounce my membership in the Republican Party.
00:11:53.000And he talks about how George Will, Gordon Humphrey, Joe Scarborough, Peter Wehner, and other Republicans have left the party and he says he is now re-registered as an independent.
00:12:02.000He says, I noticed that, he said, I noted that Trumpkins want to transform the GOP into a European-style nationalist party that opposes cuts in entitlement programs, believes in deportation of undocumented immigrants, white identity politics, protectionism and isolationism, backed by hyper-macho threats to bomb the living daylights out of anyone who messes with us.
00:12:18.000I still hope then that traditional conservatives might eventually prevail, but I wrote, I can no longer support a party that doesn't know what it stands for, and that in fact may stand for positions that I find repugnant.
00:12:27.000Now, many of the things Trump has said, I am not a fan of.
00:12:30.000When it comes to the transformation of the GOP into a European-style nationalist party, I've said the same thing, that this is a concern for me.
00:12:43.000The only evidence I'm seeing of a European-style quote-unquote nationalist party is with regard to Trump's tariff policy.
00:12:48.000But otherwise, Trump has not become an isolationist.
00:12:50.000Trump has not actually attempted to grow government radically in size and scope.
00:12:56.000The main policy agenda that he's driven, domestically speaking, has been regulation cutting and tax cuts.
00:13:01.000I'm not sure where you get all of this.
00:13:02.000I'm going to explain a little bit more why Max Boot is off the rails in just a second.
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00:14:08.000Okay, so Max Boot in the Washington Post.
00:14:28.000He says that Republicans ought to think about leaving the Republican Party, despite the fact that the Republican Party is currently more conservative than it has been any time in my lifetime in terms of its governance.
00:14:40.000I'm not supremely happy with all aspects of how the Republicans have governed.
00:14:43.000They haven't taken on entitlement reform.
00:14:45.000My understanding is they're going to take on welfare reform, which is something that is deeply necessary.
00:14:48.000But to pretend that this is a party of quote-unquote white nationalism, of deep immorality.
00:14:53.000Again, when Trump says stuff that's immoral, I'm happy to say that I think it's immoral.
00:14:57.000And when I say I'm happy to say, I mean, I'm willing to say that it's immoral.
00:14:59.000I think it is important to say that it is immoral when people do immoral things.
00:15:02.000But to pretend the entire party is immoral because of President Trump seems to me utterly asinine.
00:15:07.000To pretend everything Trump does is tainted by the touch of Trump is similarly asinine.
00:15:13.000Now, I guess the counter argument to this is that if you believe that Trump really is the death of the Republican Party, then everything good that he does contributes to his success, which contributes to the death of the Republican Party.
00:15:23.000I really don't think that that's accurate.
00:15:25.000I think that the good stuff that President Trump does is good stuff that President Trump does, but this is why it's necessary when President Trump commits heresies for us to sound out on that, for us to spout off and say, listen, that's wrong.
00:15:36.000Because if we don't, then it is true that Trump will have hijacked the Republican Party in every sense.
00:15:40.000But I don't think that we have to take the bad along with the good.
00:15:43.000I think that we can say this is really good and a lot of stuff has been really good.
00:15:47.000Max Boot says, I'm more convinced than ever I made the right decision.
00:15:50.000The transformation I feared has taken place.
00:15:52.000Just look at the reaction to President Trump's barbarous policy of taking children away from their parents as punishment for the misdemeanor offense of illegally entering the country.
00:16:03.000There was a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that mandates that when you arrest somebody at the border, you have to remove their children from them.
00:16:11.000But Max Boot suggests that he has thrown up his hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP.
00:16:16.000I don't want to be identified with the party of the child snatchers.
00:16:19.000And then he says that these people are political ostriches.
00:16:21.000He says, when I can't respect our head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.
00:16:28.000He says, like post-war Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.
00:16:32.000If this is your perspective on the Republican Party, I think that you are missing the fact that the left in this country is incredibly radical, and you are missing the fact that the Republican Party has not, in fact, been completely taken over by every element that has to do with President Trump.
00:16:45.000But this sort of crisis mentality isn't just on the right, it is also extending to the left as well, and it's driving everybody mad.
00:16:51.000Trump's election has driven nearly everybody up a wall.
00:16:54.000So, on the left, the Democrats have decided to move as radical, as humanly possible, as well.
00:17:01.000Well, let's take, for example, Michael Avenatti.
00:17:02.000Now, you may only know Michael Avenatti as the guy who represents porn star Stormy Daniels, who once had sex with Trump, and now is claiming that Trump threatened her in some way.
00:17:11.000Michael Avenatti is famous for being her lawyer.
00:17:16.000He now says he wants to run for president of the United States if Donald Trump runs for re-election.
00:17:21.000Michael Avenatti, who has set up a pup tent over at the CNN headquarters, he appears so often.
00:17:26.000He actually has set up a fax machine from the CNN green room just so he can do his minor legal work for Stormy Daniels between sending off press releases about immigrant children.
00:17:35.000He says he wants to run for president.
00:18:33.000That he's a lawyer who represents a porn star who stripped the president consensually and then is whining about it after signing a non-disclosure agreement that paid her $130,000, allegedly.
00:18:43.000So yeah, this guy's gonna run for president.
00:18:45.000The left may have lost its way a little bit here.
00:18:47.000Now, there's some folks who are suggesting that I'm giving the left short shrift.
00:18:51.000I'm not giving the left enough credit.
00:18:56.000It's not just that the left is about identity politics and reaction to Trump, although it seems that they're bases.
00:19:00.000It's not just that the left is ensconced in this view of the United States as deeply nasty and bigoted, and that it's a coalition of the dispossessed, the racially and sexually dispossessed, who are going to come together to swamp the system and destroy the hierarchy.
00:19:18.000The left is a party of ideas that they've hit upon a new way of doing things.
00:19:23.000And as evidence of this, they have now presented this woman, Ocasio-Cortez, who's first, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:19:29.000I always forget her name because it's kind of long.
00:19:31.000Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this minor candidate who beat Joe Crowley in New York.
00:19:37.000This is sort of like if the Republicans had suggested that Dave Brat, defeating Eric Cantor, Dave Brat was now going to run for president of the United States.
00:19:43.000That's basically what the Democrats have done.
00:19:45.000They're so desperate for direction that they now say that
00:19:47.000Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old former bartender with an econ degree, because apparently an econ degree comes along with the belief that everything is free, that she represents the future of the party.
00:20:00.000He says that she does, she indeed represents the future of their party.
00:20:04.000My daughters, they were both texting me about their excitement over Alexandria, because she really, she represents the future of our party.
00:20:32.000They've resulted in the destruction of economies all around the world, the destruction of hundreds of millions of lives, the ideas that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is proposing with her brains and her heart and her courage.
00:20:43.000are exactly the same policies that were proposed by Karl Marx 150, 200 years ago, 180 years ago.
00:20:50.000And those policies have resulted in the worst suffering in human history.
00:20:54.000So I'm not sure why I should be giving lengthened shrift just because a good-looking 28-year-old woman from the Bronx is now promulgating these ideas publicly.
00:21:04.000Well, why should they get any more shrift?
00:21:05.000In a second, I want to go through some of those ideas that are supposedly going to be earth shattering.
00:21:10.000These ideas that are going to cure how everyone thinks in the United States and going to make America a better place.
00:21:15.000Because I've been told that she is the future of the Democratic Party.
00:21:18.000I've been told that she is the future of America.
00:21:19.000Indeed, people very excited about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the same people who are excited about Bernie Sanders.
00:21:24.000I said before that the Democratic Party was split along three lines.
00:21:27.000There's the Hillary Clinton establishment, folks.
00:21:29.000There are the people who are the intersectional politicians.
00:21:31.000And then there was the Bernie Sanders wing.
00:21:33.000The intersectional politicians and the Bernie Sanders wing have been in a bit of a battle because the Bernie Sanders wing says socialism overcomes all and the intersectional politics wing says socialism doesn't overcome racism.
00:21:42.000But it seems like the socialistic wing is winning.
00:21:46.000And I'm going to talk about some of their brilliant ideas in just a second because there's an article that directly addresses this.
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00:23:12.000Okay, so, there's an article in a place that I'd never heard of, The American Interest, which I guess is a left-wing news magazine, I guess, online.
00:23:24.000It's an article by a guy named Ben Judah, and it says,
00:23:29.000One of the most exhausting tropes in American conservatism is that the left has no ideas.
00:23:33.000I've lost count of the amount of times I've been informed that all they have to offer is identity politics.
00:23:37.000It is all the more exhausting because it is simply not true.
00:23:39.000Rather than look, conservative think-fluencers have built themselves a straw leftist, an irate, dogmatic, anti-Semitic campus activist with a gender-fluid agenda railing against the patriarchy and campaigning against white privilege.
00:23:49.000But the right's straw left has become something of a comfort blanket, easy to beat up in op-eds and own in stand-up politics acts.
00:23:55.000Okay, so, first of all, that is how it is on campus.
00:23:58.000This irate, dogmatic, anti-Semitic campus activist with the gender-fluid agenda.
00:24:01.000That's basically what's happening on campus.
00:24:04.000And it is still a strong wing of the Democratic Party.
00:24:06.000But, I think that Ben Judah is right to point out that there is the socialist wing of the Democratic Party that has taken prominence when it comes to electoral politics.
00:24:14.000The shock win of 28-year-old socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be a wake-up call because, whilst the right was feeling smart watching the Ben Shapiro show,
00:24:23.000The left, the real left that is, not the confused democratic establishment, has been living through the most dramatic policy renaissance in decades.
00:24:30.000Hint, it has nothing to do with bathrooms.
00:24:32.000Not only is a populist policy platform coming together, but the left has increasingly found the persuasive policy wonks and the campaigners like the Democratic Socialists of America to exert real influence among the ranks of the Democrats.
00:24:47.000Like, this is their policy renaissance.
00:24:48.000Their policy renaissance is they're going to go back to FDR's policies during the Great Depression, which lengthened the Great Depression by somewhere around eight years, according to economists at UCLA.
00:24:57.000This is the policy renaissance they're talking about.
00:24:59.000We're going to reinstate policies and expand policies that have bankrupted half of Western Europe.
00:25:06.000Whoever ends up running, says Ben Judah, a federal jobs guarantee is the big idea already set to dominate the Democratic primaries in 2020.
00:25:13.000This simple idea would see the government guarantee a job to 13.1 million Americans who are currently unemployed or underemployed.
00:25:20.000The go-to report on the topic from the Center on Budget Policy Priorities suggests a guaranteed wage which would go with each one of these jobs to the tune of $32,500.
00:25:29.000Okay, well, let's talk a little bit about this.
00:25:31.000So, after reading Ben Judah's stunning piece on the brilliant ideas that I am ignoring, apparently, I actually went and I read the entire Center on Budget and Policy Priorities piece on why we need a federal job guarantee.
00:25:42.000The piece is by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr., and Derek Hamilton.
00:26:24.000Virtually every president talks about the need for infrastructure.
00:26:27.000Let's just hire a million people and go build some roads.
00:26:30.000It turns out those are temporary jobs.
00:26:32.000And then unless you have a plan to keep those people permanently on the government payroll, those people are going to end up doing make work projects.
00:26:38.000It's going to be a tax suck from people who work.
00:26:40.000Two people who are doing jobs that are more useless.
00:26:44.000It is digging a hole and filling that hole back in.
00:26:46.000That's what all these jobs end up being, or at least a lot of them.
00:26:48.000Okay, so here's what the report continues.
00:26:50.000It would eliminate poverty wages through the pay structure of the NIEC.
00:26:54.000The federal job guarantee would provide a job at a minimum annual wage of $24,600 for full-time workers, poverty line for a family of four, and a minimum hourly wage of $11.83.
00:27:05.000I thought Democrats were calling for a $15 minimum wage.
00:27:07.000I guess now it's only just $11.83 when it's the federal government doing it.
00:27:10.000So the federal government will pay you $12 an hour, but the private sector will have to pay you $15 an hour.
00:27:16.000Is it just me or does that make the private sector somewhat less competitive?
00:27:19.000Hmm, maybe there's another agenda here.
00:27:22.000They say workers would have the opportunity to advance within the program, rising from minimum wage in the program to an estimated mean salary of $32,500.
00:27:31.000The wage would be indexed to the inflation rate to ensure that the purchasing power of enrollees is maintained and the wage will vary to allow for some degree of regional variation.
00:27:39.000The minimum wage rate in the program will also rise to meet the national minimum wage if it were to exceed the wage rate recommended here.
00:27:44.000So that raise, that rate of wage would continue to rise paid for by the government as inflation increases.
00:27:51.000Well, there are a couple of problems with this, okay?
00:27:53.000One of the problems is that taking money and injecting it into the system via government spending immediately creates a certain level of price inflation, which means you're going to have to increase the minimum wage as well that you're paying the members of the government, right?
00:28:06.000If you increase prices and everything is indexed to price inflation, not to actual monetary inflation, to price inflation, then this wage will continue to rise and rise and rise, pushing up monetary, pushing up price inflation, and then pushing up
00:28:19.000And then pushing up the wage that has to be paid for by the federal government.
00:28:23.000This would also include fringe benefits.
00:28:25.000To provide a true non-poverty wage and meet the fundamental rights of American citizens, the policy would include health insurance for all full-time workers in the program.
00:28:31.000So it's not $32,500 a year, it's $43,000 a year that the federal government is going to pay all of these people for make-work programs.
00:28:39.000And then most of the report is a long rant about how great FDR was, even though FDR was basically garbage when it came to the economy.
00:28:47.000My favorite part of this is when they say this.
00:28:49.000They need a true floor in the labor market.
00:28:51.000While minimum and living wage laws have historically been implemented to place a floor in the labor market, they fail to provide viable pathways to employment or out of poverty for those looking for work but unable to obtain employment in the first place.
00:29:02.000The job guarantee would function as a de facto floor in the labor market, greatly increasing the bargaining position of workers throughout the economy.
00:29:09.000What they're saying is that if you can get 12 bucks an hour from the federal government,
00:29:13.000You're not going to work for $7 an hour or $8 an hour over at the local McDonald's, which is true.
00:29:17.000That also means that it's going to be an increased cost to businesses, private businesses.
00:29:21.000Those private businesses are then going to have to increase their prices to consumers, which is going to create exactly the price inflation that leads to that spiral I was talking about before.
00:29:30.000Beyond that, it is also going to lead to increased costs that is going to lead to layoff of workers.
00:29:40.000You're going to create a higher necessity for wages in the private sector by creating an artificial floor for wages.
00:29:46.000And then when people are laid off, they will then work for the federal government.
00:29:50.000And then when the federal government continues to increase its wages to deal with the price inflation that's happening thanks to its own regulations, then more workers will be laid off.
00:29:57.000Yeah, I can't see how this is going to go wrong in any way.
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00:32:47.000So there's a difference between this federal jobs guarantee that is being talked about and the universal basic income proposed by Milton Friedman.
00:32:53.000So there are a bunch of people who have proposed this.
00:32:55.000Charles Murray, who's a libertarian, has proposed this.
00:33:24.000Which means that you are redistributing income from people who are more vulnerable to people who are less vulnerable.
00:33:28.000Also, it increases government spending and the scope of government.
00:33:31.000Current government policy makes a distinction between elderly and disabled.
00:33:35.000Universal basic income does not actually distinguish between the elderly and the disabled who can't work and able-bodied non-elderly adults.
00:33:43.000It could also reduce work, increase recipient dependence, and it could increase pressure for greater redistribution to eliminate income inequality.
00:33:50.000So, you know, there are many problems with UBI.
00:33:53.000This federal jobs program seems to be more specifically problematic.
00:33:56.000The notion that you are just going to be able to pay people for make work programs and this is going to fix everything makes no sense.
00:34:25.000They say that this total annual program cost will be $543 billion, 3% of GDP.
00:34:32.000It will likely be a lot more than that.
00:34:33.000Any talk about how it's going to be less than that or how it's going to be that, anytime you say there's a government program, try doubling it and it's more along the lines of what it's actually going to cost.
00:34:42.000And then they say that, don't worry, we'll be able to cut in certain places.
00:34:45.000Yeah, I am sure that Democrats who are going to propose a federal jobs guarantee
00:34:49.000I'm sure that that's what's going to happen.
00:34:56.000They're not going to leave any of those things in place.
00:35:26.000According to Kelton, money doesn't grow on rich people.
00:35:28.000It is in fact a product produced by the government.
00:35:43.000The only limits on which is inflation.
00:35:45.000Kelton is a founding fellow at the Sanders Institute and the latest Bloomberg columnist.
00:35:49.000She's pushing the Democrats to embrace a fiscal revolution, immense deficit spending, because she argues this isn't an automatic trigger for inflation.
00:35:56.000And crucially, the government doesn't have to balance the books for a resource it creates.
00:36:00.000Okay, let me explain to you what this is saying.
00:36:03.000What this is actually saying here is that the government can spend any amount of money that it wants because the government does not have to make up its bonds, the government does not have to tax you, the government doesn't have to do anything, and so long as it doesn't inflate things out of control, it can continue to pour money into the economy in unlimited fashion.
00:36:31.000Not me, Paul Krugman, who's as left on econ as it comes.
00:36:33.000He says, I wish I could agree with this view.
00:36:35.000And it's not a fight I especially want, since the clear and present policy danger is from the deficit peacocks of the right.
00:36:39.000But for the record, this just isn't right.
00:36:50.000The key thing to remember is that current conditions, lots of excess capacity in the economy, a liquidity trap in which short-term government debt carries a roughly zero interest rate, won't always prevail.
00:36:59.000In other words, people are buying American bonds at exorbitant rates.
00:37:02.000Well, that doesn't mean that you actually are going to be able to just pump money into the economy endlessly.
00:37:06.000At a certain point, people are going to realize that we're not paying back their bonds or that we're going to pay back their bonds with inflated debt.
00:37:13.000Or, in the alternative, it is possible that we're going to have to raise taxes dramatically, because at a certain point, people are just going to realize that the money isn't worth anything.
00:37:22.000That if you just are printing out money, like literally going in the back room and just printing out dollars and throwing them into the economy, that those dollars aren't worth anything.
00:37:28.000People are going to start trading currencies in currencies that are not the U.S.'
00:37:38.000Well, if you got a credit card, how easy would it be for the credit card companies to start doing business in another currency, and you only convert the currency at point of transaction?
00:37:48.000It's not that hard for credit card companies to do this, since all money is basically electronic at this point.
00:37:53.000So, their big idea is that the federal government should hire everyone, and that won't hurt anybody.
00:37:59.000It won't drive up the cost of doing business, won't make business more uncompetitive, won't cripple us on the foreign markets, won't do any of those things.
00:38:06.000And it won't be a suck from tax dollars to other people to make work jobs.
00:38:12.000It won't be any of those things, it'll just be great.
00:38:14.000That's an idea that I apparently have not thought about enough, apparently.
00:38:17.000And then, there's also the idea that money is magical, and that the government can just throw it out there, and nothing will happen.
00:38:45.000In new report, Treasury veterans Morgan Ricks and Lev Menand argue that every American citizen should be given an account at the Federal Reserve.
00:38:51.000Currently a privilege only banks can enjoy, these Fed accounts would revolutionize banking, bringing in the 35.5 million Americans with little to no access inside the financial system and insulating American citizens from the too-big-to-fail curse.
00:39:02.000First of all, how many people actually lost their bank accounts in too-big-to-fail?
00:39:09.000Very few people in the United States lost actual bank accounts during the too-big-to-fail curse because the banks were bailed out by the government.
00:39:17.000Now, if you want to put your money with the federal government, and you want to have a low-interest bank account, right, you want to have a very low-interest bank account with a bank that basically just puts your money in a lockbox, you can find those banks, they exist.
00:39:27.000But, if you actually would like to earn a little bit of interest on your money, then you're going to put your money in a bank that actually invests that money.
00:39:33.000What they're really talking about here is sucking money out of, like, they're talking about guaranteeing a certain interest rate from the federal government, undercutting the entire banking system, and then preventing banks from actually having enough capital to go expend it on venture capital and investment.
00:39:47.000Yeah, none of this is going to be— It's all going to be great.
00:40:00.000I'm happy to consider them, but I'm going to need some better evidence that they will work.
00:40:04.000So, this guy concludes, he says, there are no killer owns on the Ben Shapiro show for this.
00:40:09.000He says, the right, by beating up a straw left, has not only missed the ferment among their opposites, it has missed how it has opened a door.
00:40:15.000Because by embracing everything about Donald Trump, it has embraced the idea that something is terribly wrong with America, and that the country needs big, beautiful solutions for terrible, awful problems.
00:40:23.000When the right becomes populist, embraces deficits, dunks on free trade, and rails against elites, it suddenly becomes a lot tougher for it to ridicule a populist left that is credibly offering more.
00:40:34.000That's why the United States and Republicans should not embrace big, beautiful solutions because they're really these quote-unquote terrible, awful problems are generally best solved by the free market.
00:40:47.000This is why I think it's dangerous to play in these waters.
00:40:49.000But when he says there are no killer owns on the Ben Shapiro show for this, we're going to have to have better economic proposals than spend endless amounts of money and then pretend that none of it matters.
00:40:58.000This is the brilliance that I'm apparently ignoring.
00:43:36.000We did not create a system with an oligarchy here.
00:43:40.000The idea that this is an oligarchic system where we should worship at the altar of the Supreme Court is a complete misread.
00:43:46.000Another thing that is a complete misread is the notion that if we leave democracy to the states, then somehow this will be something that will lead to a civil war.
00:43:53.000Jen Rubin, who's just been awful lately, she suggested that if Roe versus Wade were overturned, we would go to 50 civil wars.
00:44:01.000If they're not able to withstand this onslaught, not able to hold back a justice that would reverse Roe, what happens?
00:44:10.000In essence, we go to 50 civil wars in each of the states plus the District of Columbia.
00:44:24.000There won't be a civil war in each state because most of these states have pretty solid views on abortion.
00:44:29.000Ain't gonna be a civil war in Alabama or Texas over abortion.
00:44:31.000Ain't gonna be a civil war in California over abortion.
00:44:34.000Won't be a civil war in New York or Massachusetts over abortion.
00:44:36.000There are very few states where there is not a consolidated view on abortion.
00:44:40.000So actually what you'll end up with is a wide diversity with regard to abortion across the United States.
00:44:46.000So, again, this is an exaggeration, but the left view of the court as the greatest arbiter of liberty, as the great protector of left policy priorities, betrays the fact that they are an anti-democratic party in the end, that this is a party that doesn't care about legislatures and doesn't care about elections.
00:45:01.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things I hate, and then we'll do a Federalist paper.
00:45:13.000Is that there are two sides to our brain for a reason, that it exists in all mammalian species, this bifurcated brain, and that the brain function of the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere are not equivalent, that basically the right hemisphere is geared toward, if I'm not screwing this up, that the right hemisphere is geared toward coping with chaos and the left hemisphere is geared toward exaggerating chaos, if I'm not mistaken on this.
00:46:12.000Scarlett Johansson is evil because she has now been cast in a movie called Rub and Tug, a film based on the true story of transgender massage parlor owner Dante Tex Gill, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
00:46:42.000But the part of this that is hilarious is all of these people are very upset because they say that no woman should play a trans woman.
00:46:49.000Only a trans woman should play a trans woman, meaning only a man who believes he is a woman or who has had surgeries to prove the point, only that sort of person should play a trans woman on screen.
00:46:59.000Because it would be like having a white person play a black person on screen.
00:47:02.000Okay, there's only a couple of problems with this.
00:47:05.000Problem number one is that you should then presumably be okay with having a biological man play a trans woman on screen.
00:47:12.000So, like, Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Oscar for playing a trans woman on screen.
00:47:17.000And there were some similar screams about it.
00:47:19.000Like, Jeffrey Tambor has been nominated, I think he's won, a couple of Emmys for playing a transgender woman on screen.
00:47:25.000And there's been some screaming about that.
00:47:27.000Why can't we have a trans woman playing a trans woman?
00:47:29.000Well, either the trans woman is a biological man or a biological woman.
00:48:36.000From an objective level, if you were just an alien, you came down from outer space, and you looked at a trans woman, what you'd be seeing is a man dressing up as a woman, or having surgeries to more look like a woman.
00:48:46.000That's what Hollywood does all the time.
00:49:12.000But all these people on the left say, no, this is just terrible.
00:49:14.000Charlotte Clymer says, yeah, I'm going to avoid Scarlett Johansson movies moving forward after her response, even if this topic were complex.
00:49:37.000In other ridiculous stuff, Elizabeth Brunink, who is the socialist columnist for the Washington Post, or at least a big socialist advocate at the Washington Post.
00:49:50.000And she makes the case that we shouldn't pay attention to the fact that Bernie Sanders has three houses, or the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grew up in a relatively wealthy suburb of New York.
00:50:01.000It doesn't matter how comparatively humble your background is or how relatively modest your means in the context of a political class at large, it'll always be news if Bernie Sanders wears a $700 coat or buys a house by a lake because his political position on inequality is so obviously moral that the only way to impeach it is to make him seem dishonest about it.
00:50:45.000And by the way, the underlying argument that I'm making about Bernie Sanders' hypocrisy is that Bernie Sanders doesn't even want to live like that.
00:50:52.000Bernie Sanders' own standard does not meet the standard that he is espousing, not just in terms of, here's my standard and I admit I don't live up to it.
00:50:59.000Bernie Sanders will not admit that he doesn't live up to it.
00:51:37.000It is not hypocrisy to say that there is a standard you can't live up to that is the actual standard that you ought to meet.
00:51:42.000It is hypocrisy to say, this standard should apply to everyone else on earth, but it shouldn't apply to me because I am special and I am the chosen one.
00:51:50.000But that's exactly what Bernie Sanders does.
00:51:55.000So, Elizabeth Bernie concludes by saying,
00:51:58.000Conservatives will continue to skewer as hypocritical anyone who takes exception to the unfair anti-egalitarian system outlined above by fighting for equality, even if they come from inequality's better side.
00:52:08.000They will do this to the detriment of anyone on its worse side, and for that reason should be ignored.
00:52:12.000So we should just ignore everybody who points out that Bernie Sanders has three houses, or that Elizabeth Bruning pulls down a rich salary from the Washington Post, half of which she is not donating to the poor, I assume.
00:52:21.000You know, again, the question is not whether you are living up to the standard.
00:52:25.000The question is whether you are sad that you are not living up to the standard.
00:52:29.000If the standard is the standard, then presumably you should try to live up to it at the very least.
00:52:33.000You shouldn't walk around and be praised for not living up to the standard.
00:52:36.000Okay, time for a quick Federalist paper.
00:52:38.000So, earlier in the week we missed it, which is a bad week to miss it, because it's Independence Day weekend, week, so we really should have covered Federalist 35 earlier, but we'll do it today.
00:52:47.000So, Federalist 35, every week we go through a Federalist paper.
00:52:50.000Alexander Hamilton is still trying to make the cases saying that the federal government should not be explicitly limited in the kind of taxes that it can use.
00:52:58.000So everyone understood that the federal government could not charge direct income taxes.
00:53:01.000That's why there's an amendment to the Constitution allowing the income tax.
00:53:04.000But there are a variety of other taxes that they were allowed to use, and there are arguments that perhaps the federal government should be explicitly told what kind of taxes it could use.
00:53:11.000So, for example, they could only use tariffs.
00:53:13.000In the course of making the argument that the federal government should have access to a bunch of different kinds of taxes, Alexander Hamilton makes a really interesting case against tariffs.
00:53:22.000He says we shouldn't use tariffs only as tax-increasing instruments.
00:53:25.000He says, quote, and Donald Trump should read this, Exorbitant duties on imported articles would beget a general spirit of smuggling, which is always prejudicial to the fair trader and eventually to the revenue itself.
00:53:35.000They tend to render other classes of the community tributary an improper degree to the manufacturing classes, to whom they give a premature monopoly of the markets.
00:53:43.000So now he's made two arguments against tariffs.
00:53:55.000So he's saying in order to keep competitive, merchants still have to take the hit.
00:54:10.000Okay, so Alexander Hamilton, not a tariff fan, because Alexander Hamilton understood basic economics.
00:54:15.000Okay, and then he goes on in Federalist 35 to discuss a Marxist idea, this is actually a proto-Marxist idea, that instead of having a legislature that is represented by people at large, instead we should separate it by industry.
00:54:25.000We should have, like, the merchants' block, and then we should have the bankers' block, and we should have the property owners' block.
00:54:31.000And here is what Alexander Hamilton says about this silly idea.
00:54:34.000He says, the idea of an actual representation of all the classes of the people by persons of each class is altogether visionary.
00:54:40.000Unless it were expressly provided in the Constitution that each different occupation should send one or more members, the thing would never take place in practice.
00:54:46.000So you're saying you'd have to limit people to voting inside their industry because otherwise, people in manufacturing might want to vote for a priest.
00:54:54.000I mean, we want to vote for people who are not in our— I don't only want to vote for political pundits.
00:54:58.000It says, it is said to be necessary that all classes of citizens should have some of their own number in the representative body in order that their feelings and interests may be better understood and attended to.
00:55:06.000But we have seen that this will never happen under any arrangement that leaves the votes of the people free.
00:55:10.000So this is Alexander Hamilton directly responding to Elizabeth Bruning, who says that we have to make sure that Bernie Sanders stays in Congress because there are not enough poor people in Congress.
00:55:20.000Elizabeth Bruning says that we need to have more people who are poor, but since we won't get more people who are poor, we're going to have to get rich people who apparently are hypocrites.
00:55:27.000And Alexander Hamilton says, Well, actually, you should just elect people you like.
00:55:43.000But where is the danger that the interests and feelings of the different classes of citizens will not be understood or attended to by these three descriptions of men?
00:55:50.000So you're saying, listen, I understand it's mostly going to be property people who are in Congress.
00:55:54.000It's mostly going to be people who are in commerce, people who have actually studied things.
00:55:58.000But who's to say they won't represent a wide variety of interests?
00:56:01.000In other words, is Alexander Hamilton coming down against the idea of guild representation under Marxism and identity politics of the left?
00:56:09.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest as we draw ever closer to President Trump's big announcement on the Supreme Court.