Trump taps Tom Homan as his new border czar. Homan is the former acting ICE chief and former New York City Police Department detective. He served as the NYPD's top immigration enforcement officer from 2006-2009. He is now the new head of ICE's Homeland Security unit tasked with protecting the borders and securing the nation's southern border. He has a long history of fighting for immigration reform and has long been a fierce opponent of mass deportation of illegal immigrants. He also served as a prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s and has been a member of the Democratic National Committee, serving as a key witness against the Ocasio-Cortez campaign in the House of Representatives. He was a key figure in the fight against immigration reform in the early days of the Obama administration and is now a key member of President Trump's inner circle. Trump has also tapped Elise Stefanik to be his UN ambassador, which was not announced over the weekend. We'll get to all the details on that in this episode of Daily Wire Plus, streaming only on the Daily Wire PLUS. Subscribe today using the promo code "UPLEVEL" to receive 47% off a new annual membership. Use code DONALWORDER to get 47% OFF a new year-long membership! Today's episode is brought to you by Dailywireplus, the world's largest online news and information resource for breaking stories on the happenings in the world of politics, culture, entertainment, sports, and politics. Subscribe to Dailywire Plus to stay up to date on all things politics, business, politics, and everything else going on in our world. - including our social medias, social media, social meds, business and culture. and social media. Subscribe to our new social media platforms! Subscribe, tweet us your thoughts on what's trending and business news, and what s going on everywhere else on the web! We'll be giving you the inside scoop on everything you need to know on the latest in politics, sports and entertainment! - Tom and sports! Tweet us what you're listening to be sure you'll be heard on the next episode of The Daily Wire + your most authentic, up to your most influential source on the world on what s trending right now! Timest authentic and influential podcast on the most influential podcast in the past 24/7 sports podcast? and we'll get a chance to be featured on the show next week on the pod!
00:00:00.000Well, folks, before we jump into the news, just want to say happy Veterans Day and thank you, obviously, to everyone who has served in uniform in the United States military.
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00:00:40.000Alrighty, so we have two big Trump wins right off the bat.
00:00:43.000So Trump has now tapped Tom Homan as his new border czar.
00:00:46.000Tom Homan is, of course, the former acting ICE chief.
00:00:50.000In a social media post late on Sunday, Trump said that Tom Homan would be, quote, in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.
00:00:57.000He said, I've known Tom for a long time.
00:00:59.000There's nobody better at policing and controlling our borders.
00:01:01.000Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.
00:01:54.000Okay, so if you thought that Trump was not serious about deporting a large number of people, he's serious about deporting a large number of people.
00:02:01.000Tom Homan is the most serious person for Borders Are that we've seen in generations in the United States.
00:02:07.000Here, for example, is Tom Homan facing down the venerable intellect Alexander Ocasio-Cortez in Congress just a few years back.
00:04:02.000I mean, honestly, if you have to pick any job in American government, UN ambassador is a fantastic job, because that is a job where you have a very nice apartment in New York City, and then you go over to the UN, which is a repository of all human scum, and you yell at dictators all day.
00:04:14.000Elise Stefanik happens to be an excellent candidate for this position.
00:04:18.000You'll recall her standing up to anti-Semitism on college campuses just a few months ago.
00:04:23.000Here she was versus a bunch of university heads asking them whether it in fact was anti-Semitic to allow chants like from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free calling for the elimination of the state of Israel.
00:04:33.000Here was Stefanik just a few months back.
00:04:50.000Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.
00:05:01.000So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct.
00:05:15.000The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
00:05:19.000These are unacceptable answers across the board.
00:05:22.000Clouding Gate of Harvard, who was the person on the other side of that clip, she ended up losing her job over it, also thanks to the intervention of Chris Ruffo, who uncovered a bunch of plagiarism, which gave Harvard the excuse to boot her out the door.
00:05:35.000Now, Trump did come out, and he said that Mike Pompeo, who was his former Secretary of State, and Nikki Haley, his former UN ambassador, would not be part of the administration.
00:05:43.000There's a lot of speculation this means a sea change from Trump foreign policy won.
00:06:06.000Nikki Haley ran against Donald Trump and proceeded to say a bunch of very not nice things about Donald Trump.
00:06:11.000And so Trump wasn't going to have her in the administration anyway.
00:06:13.000Mike Pompeo, of course, had been questioned after January 6th, and he had said some things that presumably Donald Trump did not like very much after January 6th.
00:06:20.000And then he also suggested after the Mar-a-Lago raid that that might have been legally appropriate.
00:06:24.000And so there are some serious questions about sort of the personal relationship between Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump.
00:06:30.000But anybody who is seeking to shift that into Donald Trump is now going to pursue, say, Pat Buchanan's foreign policy.
00:06:36.000I'm not seeing the indicators of that from any of the people who are currently being talked about for high positions in the administration.
00:06:43.000In fact, Bill Hagerty, who is being discussed as the possible Secretary of Defense or possible Secretary of State, he was on the national TV shows.
00:06:51.000Hagerty is, I would say, more conciliatory on the Ukraine issue than some people who are more hawkish like I am.
00:06:58.000But Hagerty points out that when it comes even to issues like Ukraine, Trump will find a way to get that done because Trump does not want the United States or its allies to lose in that exchange.
00:07:07.000Here was Bill Hagerty talking about Trump and Ukraine.
00:07:11.000So Hungary's Prime Minister has said that Donald Trump has told him he will cut off support to Ukraine.
00:07:18.000You are saying here, I think, in the new Congress, there will be no more aid to Ukraine.
00:07:22.000I've certainly not voted for any aid to Ukraine.
00:07:39.000Again, that's a very Trumpy foreign policy, right?
00:07:41.000He's going to move toward stopping this.
00:07:43.000He's going to do so without increasing the amount of aid to Ukraine in any marked way.
00:07:47.000But it's also true that both J.D. Vance and President Trump have suggested that in the absence of any sort of agreement, the United States can't just let Vladimir Putin walk into Kiev.
00:07:55.000Hagerty also pointed out that we are seeing sea changes in the Middle East as soon as Trump was elected.
00:08:00.000As soon as Trump was elected, Qatar decided that they were going to expel Hamas terrorists from their country.
00:08:06.000Now, those Hamas terrorists are probably going to end up in Turkey, and it would behoove the United States and its allies in Europe to make Turkey pick whether it likes Hamas or whether it likes being a member of NATO.
00:08:13.000But here was Bill Haggerty talking about the environment in the Middle East shifting because Donald Trump is president, which is clearly and obviously true.
00:08:19.000I think what we've seen just break out again in the past 70 plus hours since President Trump Hamas is now looking for total peace.
00:08:29.000So I think the environment has totally changed.
00:08:31.000They've announced that they'd like to see peace.
00:08:59.000Peace through strength is Trump's byword.
00:09:01.000I mean, he was on this show a couple of weeks before the election, and he rejected the sort of neo-isolationism in favor of peace through strength.
00:09:07.000That is what 75 million people voted for.
00:09:10.000By the way, even on Ukraine, the Washington Post is reporting President-elect Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election during the call, which Trump took From Mar-a-Lago, he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington's sizable military presence in Europe.
00:09:33.000Pretending that he hasn't is really, really silly.
00:09:36.000The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent.
00:09:38.000Trump expressed an interest in follow-up conversations to discuss the resolution of Ukraine's war soon.
00:09:45.000The call which had not been previously reported comes amid general uncertainty about how Trump will reset the world's diplomatic chessboard.
00:09:51.000Trump is going to use the credible threat of force in order to ramp down conflict around the world.
00:09:55.000That is the thing that is going to happen.
00:09:57.000Okay, so just get ready for it because that's precisely what is going to happen.
00:10:02.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, Trump's former National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, who has also been discussed as a possible Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor or Secretary of State, Since it's going to be a return to peace through strength, deterrence is going to be restored.
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00:12:51.000Those promises are going to be fulfilled.
00:12:53.000And those promises involve, for example, actual peace breaking out throughout the world because of the credible threat of the use of military force and because President Trump is willing to build a big, beautiful military and because Donald Trump is not shy about leveraging those credible threats in order to achieve peace in the world.
00:13:45.000The entire mainstream media picked up on it and then basically plagiarized the story.
00:13:48.000This originally came from Leif over at Daily Wire.
00:13:52.000He says, quote, a federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump's supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by the Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees.
00:14:06.000FEMA officials told workers not to help people who had Donald Trump's signs on their front lawn, basically, if their homes were damaged by Hurricane Milton in Florida.
00:14:18.000A female supervisor told workers in a message to, quote, avoid Holmes advertising Trump as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid.
00:14:27.000That supervisor's name is Marnie Washington.
00:14:31.000The supervisor relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told the Daily Wire.
00:14:37.000Apparently, the government employees told Daily Wire at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.
00:14:48.000Images shared with the Daily Wire show houses were skipped over by workers who wrote in the government system messages such as, Trump sign no entry per leadership.
00:14:57.000That's absurd, insane, and un-American.
00:15:14.000So the fact that FEMA officials were telling their lower downs to avoid going to houses with, say, a Trump sign or a Trump flag to allow people to apply for FEMA aid if their home had been damaged is the most un-American trash I've heard of in recent memory.
00:15:29.000According to the Daily Wire, it is unclear whether the same guidance was issued elsewhere in the country.
00:15:33.000The employees were part of a Department of Homeland Security's Surge Capacity Forest Team, meaning they volunteered from other DHS agencies to help an understaffed FEMA as it dealt with a second major hurricane in a span of just a few weeks.
00:15:43.000One of the employees said, quote, Now, again, this also came amidst complaints about the response to Hurricane Helene in rural areas across the country, in Tennessee, in North Carolina.
00:16:12.000According to the Daily Wire, the FEMA agents ordered not to help houses with Trump signs were operating in Highlands County, a deep red area located in South Central Florida that backed Trump 70 to 30 on Tuesday.
00:16:22.000It was hit with tornadoes, torrential wind and rain and flooding when Hurricane Milton hit back in October.
00:16:27.000In the chat, this particular FEMA employee said it would be, quote, best practice to avoid homes advertising Trump.
00:16:33.000No explanation was given for the guidance.
00:16:36.000That also included recommendations like telling workers to, quote, practice de-escalation and preventative measures and to avoid high-salt diets and coffee.
00:16:46.000Apparently, the chat was just filled with pictures of homes with Trump flags saying, quote, per leadership, no-stop Trump flag.
00:16:53.000One team member wrote in a complaint filed to DHS about the guidance, quote, if they had damage or lost power for over 36 hours, it was my duty to inform them of benefits to which they are entitled through FEMA. Washington is the disaster survivor assistance crew leader for Highland County.
00:17:06.000Should not respond to multiple phone calls or an email seeking comments on the guidance.
00:17:11.000FEMA, by the way, did acknowledge that this happened.
00:17:13.000Chad Hershey, Washington's FEMA supervisor, told Daily Wire the agency is looking into the situation.
00:17:19.000We are taking proper action in this situation currently.
00:17:22.000After publication of the story, a FEMA spokesperson told the Daily Wire it was, quote, deeply disturbed and horrified by the employee's actions and that it has, quote, taken extreme actions to correct the situation.
00:17:31.000While we believe this is an isolated incident, the spokesperson said, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again.
00:17:39.000The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes, and we are reaching out to the people who may not have been reached as a result of this incident.
00:17:48.000It's a matter that we take extremely seriously.
00:17:50.000We are doing everything we can to make sure all survivors receive support from FEMA.
00:17:53.000To date, we've helped over 365,000 households impacted by both Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the state of Florida.
00:18:06.000By about October 30th, apparently, Washington had started walking back the instructions about skipping Trump supporters' homes, according to one of the federal employees.
00:18:13.000The relief workers said Washington denied homes were being skipped after a meeting with other FEMA administrators.
00:18:18.000So this person also lied about all of this.
00:18:23.000Here, for example, is one hurricane worker named Adam Smith blasting the culture of fears in salvage operations in Florida with FEMA. Blasting the culture of fear at FEMA. I want first to get your reaction when you heard this news about FEMA and avoiding what appears to be some 20 homes in Florida.
00:18:45.000Well, to say that I was surprised would be a lie.
00:18:50.000I don't necessarily want to demean or demonize every FEMA employee or worker that's out there.
00:18:56.000I think there are a lot of them that have a good heart that want to help people.
00:19:00.000The question that it leads me to is to ask the question of what sort of culture has been established in order for FEMA personnel on the ground, or leadership for that matter, to provide this sort of instruction to FEMA personnel that want to provide help.
00:19:14.000And more so, you know, I had an interaction with local FEMA officials as well, and they wanted to help people help people.
00:19:21.000And what was the interesting thing was is it was stated that, hey, we can't have our fingerprints on this, which I think it leads back to the actual question, which is what sort of culture and what sort of fear is there in place at some of the lower levels of FEMA personnel where they're afraid they're going to lose their job if they don't speak up against actions that are blatantly not aligned with what the organization is supposed to be doing?
00:19:42.000When we talk about the deep state here, that is what we were talking about.
00:19:45.000You're talking about low-level and mid-level employees who are changing the policies of the United States government in order to benefit particular sides of the aisle.
00:19:54.000The Oversight Committee is going to be grilling the FEMA chief over the directive to skip Trump homes.
00:19:59.000That's what the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability announced on Saturday.
00:20:02.000They'll be holding a hearing to investigate FEMA after our Daily Wire report.
00:20:06.000Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell asking she'd show up to testify before lawmakers November 19th.
00:20:13.000Comer wrote, Governor Ron DeSantis, for his part, this happened in his state.
00:20:28.000He put out a tweet saying, quote, At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government's targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.
00:20:44.000New leadership is on the way in D.C. I'm optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.
00:20:49.000Again, one of them already has been fired, but this is just another example of how a gigantic, huge, enormous centralized bureaucracy in the United States leads to the possibility of serious sin.
00:21:02.000Meanwhile, the media, demonstrating what they are, So, this story is quite insane.
00:21:09.000After our Daily Wire story went viral, NBC News reporter Mirna Al-Sharif, formerly of CNN, completely ripped off the report and then completely effed up the report as well.
00:21:22.000Because apparently, according to Brent Schur, who is one of our editors over here, He points out, this story for NBC News is painfully lazy and bad.
00:21:32.000Notes that a FEMA employee was fired, but then acts like it's a complete mystery what actually happened.
00:21:38.000Only mainstream outlet not to link to the actual story.
00:21:41.000And then Myrna Al-Sharif texted back, tweeted back, quote, sorry Brent Scher, are your feelings hurt because I didn't link to the DW story?
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00:25:35.000on the left side of the aisle, they're still coming to grips with the fact that President Donald Trump will be re-entering office in January.
00:25:41.000The panic is palpable among a certain class of people on the left.
00:25:45.000CNN Bill Weir, who is one of the alarmists with regard to climate change.
00:25:49.000He's written entire books about how basically he has changed his life and he's not sure he could have babies in this terrible world in which climate change is going to be.
00:25:57.000So Bill Weir was on CNN claiming basically the earth is going to burn to a crisp because of Donald Trump.
00:26:04.000Take a look at this temperature chart, Sarah.
00:26:07.000This year, 2024, according to Copernicus, the European Space Union, will shatter all records, being the warmest ever.
00:26:14.000And it's the first year where we've blown past the 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 3 degrees Fahrenheit limit of the Paris Climate Accords.
00:26:21.000Every country in the world says we're going to try to hold the line at 1.5.
00:26:25.000And now we're here, just as maybe the most notorious climate denier in history takes power once again.
00:27:03.000I mean, I hate to break it to you, ladies, but you might not have had a choice in the matter, depending on exactly who you are anyway.
00:27:09.000But according to this opinion staff editor for the New York Times, quote, No dating men, no sex with men, no heterosexual marriage, and no childbirth.
00:27:17.000These are the four principles of South Korea's 4B movement, a radical feminist movement that gained popularity in 2019 in response to sexism, hidden camera pornography, and intimate partner violence.
00:27:25.000After Donald Trump's victory, some American women have sought out the movement.
00:27:28.000But it would be a mistake for women in the United States to adopt its principles, which risk alienating those who would be our allies while ensuring little actually changes about our reality.
00:27:36.000Some American women are already devising plans to apply used menstrual pads to trucks with MAGA stickers and undergo voluntary hysterectomy surgery.
00:27:44.000TikTok and Instagram reels related to the 4B movement gained millions of views this week.
00:27:50.000Google searches spiked in the US on Wednesday, most notably in Democratic states.
00:28:21.000Or you can continue to pretend that you're acting out Lissa Strada or something.
00:28:25.000Meanwhile, over at the DOJ, they're freaking out, according to Politico, a collective sense of dread.
00:28:31.000Again, the leftist here is they're just overflowing here.
00:28:34.000A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.
00:28:54.000Just putting it out there, maybe it's that the DOJ kept targeting him over absolute nonsense with cases that certainly did not meet legal scrutiny.
00:29:03.000I love it when they declare that Donald Trump just sort of, he's like random Hulk.
00:29:06.000He just randomly goes Hulk on the DOJ. Maybe if you hadn't targeted him over, say, classified documents, maybe if you haven't targeted him over January 6th and all of the rest of it, maybe then he wouldn't be so mad at you.
00:29:17.000But now he's mad at you and you kind of deserve it.
00:29:20.000Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster.
00:29:28.000Those threats range from mass firings of deep state lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.
00:29:34.000Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds, said one DOJ attorney.
00:29:38.000The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they're going to be driven out.
00:29:47.000So again, it is amazing to watch people freak out.
00:29:50.000Like, they're basically saying, our ability to watchdog the person we work for is going to be hampered if he comes into office.
00:30:00.000So, there's a lot of speculation about who precisely is going to be heading up the DOJ, who will be the Attorney General pick.
00:30:06.000Remember, this is a Senate-approved position.
00:30:09.000It is worth noting at this point, by the way, that in the Senate, because Republicans are likely to end with 53 votes in the Senate, there are three senators in particular who may not greenlight everything that Trump does in terms of cabinet picks.
00:30:51.000And we got a lot of this pre-election.
00:30:53.000People saying, well, now that Donald Trump has alienated all of his former staff and colleagues, it'll only be the dregs who will staff up.
00:31:30.000The fact is, she did a great job with the time constraint that she had.
00:31:35.000Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.
00:31:41.000Kamala, I think, still would have won, but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public room.
00:31:48.000Should there have been an open primary, though?
00:31:51.000Well, see, we thought that there would be—you know, the anticipation was that if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.
00:32:01.000And as I say, Kamala may have—I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward, but— We don't know that.
00:32:12.000And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time.
00:32:23.000So Pelosi is not just blaming Biden for not leaving soon enough.
00:32:26.000She's now blaming Biden for endorsing Kamala Harris, which is something large swaths of the Democratic Party upper echelon wanted because it meant that the Democratic Party snapped into place with a billion dollars behind her.
00:32:37.000By the way, speaking of blowing through money, there is a report from Fox News that Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions a million dollars on October 15th.
00:32:47.000Winfrey appeared throughout the campaign.
00:32:50.000She did a star-studded town hall for the vice president in September.
00:32:53.000She also appeared at Harris' final rally in Philadelphia.
00:32:56.000And apparently, again, a million dollars was paid.
00:32:59.000Not only that, the Washington Examiner, which is actually, they do amazing reporting, the Washington Examiner.
00:33:04.000They're revealing that the campaign spent big on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
00:33:08.000That's supposed to be the big winner for Kamala, where she went and she sat with the oral sex lady to talk about all of her views on politics.
00:33:15.000Apparently, the campaign spent money on that.
00:33:19.000They spent six figures building a set for Harris's appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast.
00:34:20.000I'm going to tell her I love her, I value her, I appreciate her, and whatever she plans to do moving forward, I'm going to always support her, and I'm going to say what I've been saying on the radio and on my podcast, that she has nothing to be ashamed about.
00:34:33.000She ran a great campaign and only had 100 days to do it.
00:34:38.000Nobody thought she could even do anything.
00:34:55.000Yeah, so she inspired so many people that she ended up losing pretty much everywhere and winning fewer votes than Joe Biden pretty much everywhere.
00:35:03.000My favorite part of this particular interview on ABC News with John Carl is where Charlemagne, the god, again, his appellation, the god, ought to be removed because apparently his omniscience is clearly in question here.
00:35:15.000He's told that Donald Trump won one third of minority votes and he can't believe it.
00:35:19.000His head basically explodes live on camera.
00:35:22.000What do you make of the demographics here?
00:35:25.000I mean, Trump got one out of every three voters of color.
00:35:39.000Well, I think that, you know, people have different issues that they care about, and I think that there's nobody out there that's a single-issue voter.
00:35:46.000I think some of this is a backlash to race and gender and identity politics, but man, most people, they just care about Oh, man.
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00:36:48.000Well, folks, reality may be settling in certain parts of the Democratic Party, and it's interesting to see the Democratic Party go through these sort of spasms.
00:36:57.000They're sort of the more reasonable half of the party, and then there are the identity politics nutjobs, and they're all in a big scrum with one another right now.
00:37:04.000Donna Brazile, who used to be a member of Team Clinton, she says, listen, we need some introspection here.
00:38:00.000By the way, that would be good for the country.
00:38:02.000Now, as somebody who wants to see Republicans continue to win, because I have not yet tired of the winning, it would be good for there to be another party that's not insane in the country.
00:38:11.000Lawfare turned Trump from being a loser into a victim.
00:38:15.000And as his indictments grew, his campaign contributions surged and his poll numbers solidified.
00:38:23.000The final error is a more diffuse one, the dominance of identity politics on the left, which made it push for all kinds of DEI policies that largely came out of the urban academic bubble, but alienated many mainstream voters.
00:38:37.000There's an irony in claiming to be pro-Latino by insisting that people use the term Latinx only to discover that Latinos themselves think the word is weird.
00:38:48.000This kind of obsession made Democrats view people too much through their ethnic or racial or gender identity, and it made them miss, for example, that working-class Latinos were moving toward Trump perhaps because they were socially conservative, or liked his macho rhetoric, or even agreed with his hardline stance on immigration.
00:39:07.000One of Trump's most effective ads on trans issues had a tagline.
00:39:12.000The problem is much deeper than simply one about nouns and pronouns.
00:39:20.000The entire focus on identity has morphed into something deeply illiberal, judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
00:39:30.000I mean, that is Fareed Zakaria speaking actual common sense.
00:39:33.000Now, there are some other members of the Democratic Party who are pushing this as well.
00:39:36.000They're saying they need to stop focusing on the racial issues and start focusing on the economic issues.
00:39:40.000Obviously, Bernie Sanders is the one who's leading the way on this.
00:39:43.000He believes that if you just toss out some warmed-over socialism, that that will win the next election.
00:39:47.000Again, the reality is that if Democrats wish to win, what they need to do is go back to Bill Clinton's 1992 playbook.
00:39:53.000Bill Clinton is the last sort of traditional Democratic politician to win.
00:39:57.000Barack Obama was not a traditional Democratic politician.
00:40:02.000And then he somehow was able to draw a victory out in 2012 despite being fairly widely unpopular.
00:40:09.000And Democrats have been trying to duplicate 2012 ever since to their own great failure.
00:40:15.000What they really should be trying to do is re-embrace the sort of principles of Bill Clinton, which is centrism on economics, centrism on the border, centrism on foreign policy.
00:40:24.000If Bill Clinton was famous for triangulating, that's the thing they should be pursuing.
00:40:27.000They shouldn't be going all the way to the Bernie Sanders progressive left when it comes to economics.
00:40:31.000That is not a substitute for the sort of race centrism of the modern democratic left.
00:40:36.000Here is Bernie, though, trying to push the idea that if you run as a communist, you'll win.
00:40:40.000Bottom line, if you're an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the max, taking on powerful special interests and fighting for you?
00:40:50.000I think the overwhelming answer is no.
00:40:54.000But by the way, Nancy Pelosi is not wrong when she then comes back at Bernie Sanders and she roasts him saying, listen, you say that we abandoned the working class.
00:41:18.000Let me, with all due respect, and I have a great deal of respect for him, for what he stands for, but I don't respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class families.
00:41:36.000I think that because the underlying sort of tension of economic populism for the left is that you are being victimized by a greater system and that thus government must step into the breach and fill every gap, I don't think most Americans are up with that.
00:42:19.000What's certainly not going to work is doubling down on identity politics.
00:42:22.000And again, you can see the sort of radical break that's happening inside the Democratic Party right now.
00:42:27.000Mehdi Hassan, who when he's not spending time over the weekend justifying pogroms in Amsterdam, he was tweeting out, good job white men and women, pointing out that white men and women voted overwhelmingly for President Trump.
00:42:39.000He apparently seems to ignore the fact that Latino men voted 50-47 for Harris, which is an astonishing statistic, by the way.
00:43:19.000They are now in sort of a death grip, sort of a death embrace with the intersectional racial left.
00:43:26.000So Bernie Sanders, who was out there one second ago saying, we need to re-embrace economic populism, also can't just disown the wokeness.
00:43:33.000The Democratic Party must continue to stand up against all forms of bigotry.
00:43:40.000And Democrats should hold their head high in saying, we led the fight for women's rights and to protect the women's constitutional right for abortion.
00:43:49.000We led the fight for civil rights, for gay rights.
00:43:52.000That is something we should be proud of.
00:43:54.000But it's not either or, Chris, and this is the problem.
00:44:14.000It's going forward in both directions.
00:44:16.000Again, he's doubling down on the wokeness, too.
00:44:19.000This, by the way, was the kiss of death for Bernie.
00:44:21.000Bernie tried to run as a woke candidate in 2020 against Joe Biden, and it didn't work because he couldn't outwoke Joe Biden on the racial side.
00:44:30.000And Democrats are still finding this out.
00:44:32.000So Seth Moulton, who's one of the few reasonable Democrats in Congress, Seth Moulton, he had said publicly that, you know, maybe boys shouldn't be playing against girls in sports.
00:44:42.000In an interview with the New York Times, he said Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face.
00:44:50.000I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.
00:44:53.000But as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that.
00:44:56.000And then he said, I stand firmly in my belief for the need for competitive women's sports to put limits on the participation of those with the unfair physical advantages that come with being born male.
00:45:03.000I'm also a strong supporter of the civil rights of all Americans, including transgender rights.
00:45:07.000Okay, but this led to a massive, a massive blowback.
00:45:14.000Salem City Councilor Kyle Davis called for Moulton to resign.
00:45:18.000Meanwhile, Massachusetts State Representative Manny Cruz suggested that Moulton's stance was, quote, a betrayal.
00:45:25.000Massachusetts State Senator Jamie Eldridge condemned the post and said, quote, do not abandon our values.
00:45:31.000So you're starting to see, again, this battle does not happen without some pain.
00:45:35.000Here is Seth Moulton saying, listen, the fact that there's Democrats who are fighting me on this underscores exactly why we got shellacked.
00:45:41.000The point is that the backlash I've received proves my point that we can't even have these discussions as a party.
00:45:49.000I mean, the chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party wouldn't even return my phone call.
00:45:53.000And we've got to be able to have these debates.
00:45:55.000But instead, we have a wing of our party that shames us, that tries to cancel people who even bring up these difficult topics, and frankly, shames voters.
00:46:04.000This is the same group of people who told us to defund the police, I mean, that is exactly right.