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00:00:00.000Democrats worry about how to cancel Republicans while Republicans worry about being canceled, Amazon engages in digital book burning, and Andrew Cuomo's career falls apart.
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00:01:39.000With a poll that came out via our friends over at Echelon Insights.
00:01:42.000That's Kristen Soltis Anderson, the pollster.
00:01:44.000And this is kind of a fascinating poll because it asks Republicans and Democrats what they think are the biggest problems facing the United States.
00:01:53.000What are the biggest problems of all the problems facing the United States?
00:01:59.000where the future of the culture war is going.
00:02:02.000Because the reality is that we cannot have a country together if half of the country would like for the other half of the country to just go away.
00:02:09.000Or if half of the country sees the other half of the country as a true and ever-present threat to their liberties.
00:02:14.000Or if it turns out that some people actually are a true and ever-present threat to their liberties.
00:02:18.000So, let's look at the differences between how Republicans and Democrats view the world when it comes to the biggest threats to the country.
00:02:25.000So, we begin with our friends on the left.
00:02:27.000So the question was, how concerned are you, if at all, that the following are a problem for the country?
00:02:33.000And this was asked of Democrats and leaning Democratic voters.
00:03:08.000According to this poll, 82% of Democrats and lean Democrats say that they are extremely concerned or very concerned about Donald Trump supporters.
00:03:18.000It is the single most popular view among Democrats in terms of what is your big concern with the country.
00:03:51.000The actual number of white nationalists in America is very, very small.
00:03:55.000White nationalism is the belief that America should be a whites-only country, that it should be an ethnostate, and that there is no place for minorities in American life.
00:04:02.000The number of those people in American society is exceedingly low.
00:04:06.000I mean, we are talking maybe tens of thousands of people, maybe, at the upper end.
00:04:10.000We are not talking hundreds of thousands of people.
00:04:11.000We are certainly not talking millions of people.
00:04:13.000We're certainly not talking tens of millions of people.
00:04:15.000That is the number two worry of Democrats, according to this Echelon Insights poll.
00:04:21.00079% of Democrats say they're extremely or very concerned about white nationalism.
00:04:25.000Another 11% say they are somewhat concerned about white nationalism.
00:04:30.000So the top two priorities are Trump supporters and white nationalism.
00:04:32.000So this tells you a couple of things right off the bat.
00:04:34.000One, the media narrative is exceedingly strong with these folks.
00:04:37.000People at CNN and MSNBC who keep saying over and over and over that Donald Trump is evil and that his supporters are also evil.
00:04:45.000And who keep saying that white nationalism is a true threat to American democracy, which by the way, It is ideologically a threat because everything can be ideologically a threat, but practically speaking, suggesting that maybe, maybe 10,000 people are a true threat to American democracy across the land is just an exaggeration of the nature of the threat.
00:05:05.000If you want to say that you're worried about people committing acts of violence and people committing acts of terror in the name of white supremacy, I would say that that is a fear that is not entirely unjustified because we have seen those sorts of acts of terror we've seen against the Jewish community.
00:05:18.000I've personally, the FBI has personally arrested a white supremacist for targeting my family.
00:05:32.000Which is a term that most people can't even define.
00:05:34.000They don't even know what systemic racism means.
00:05:36.000They just think systemic racism means racism.
00:05:39.000So they are asked in a poll, is racism a concern?
00:05:42.000And they know that the answer is supposed to be yes.
00:05:44.000Because if you say no, then Democrats immediately say, and members of the media immediately say, well, that's because you don't take racism seriously.
00:05:49.000So the way that you show the pollsters that you take racism seriously is to say that systemic racism is a serious problem for the country.
00:05:56.000But most people don't understand that when they say systemic racism, the people who They mean that the institutions of American life are rife with racism, that they are built in order to achieve racism, and that if you stand in favor of any of those systems, then you are part of the problem.
00:06:14.000The way you can tell people don't understand this, by the way, is that, according to this poll, some 77% of Democrats and lean Democrats say that they are extremely or very concerned about systemic racism, but only 39% say they are extremely or very concerned about capitalism.
00:06:29.000People on the left, who actually understand what the term systemic racism means, 100% of them believe that capitalism and systemic racism are intertwined.
00:06:36.000So you can see, because most Democrats don't actually believe that, that they don't even understand what they're saying when they say that they believe that systemic racism is a serious problem for the country.
00:06:46.000Okay, here are their other top priorities.
00:07:02.000Okay, so the good news here is that even among Democrats, they're not super concerned about capitalism.
00:07:06.000So sort of the Bernie Sanders take, which is that we are all socialists now, is not true.
00:07:10.000Most Democrats are not deeply worried about capitalism.
00:07:13.000What most Democrats really are worried about is castigation of their neighbors as white nationalist evildoers.
00:07:19.000And that is the narrative that is promoted.
00:07:20.000It has been promoted for years now, which is that if people disagree with Democrats, it is probably because they are quote unquote Donald Trump supporters or white nationalists.
00:07:29.000So, those are the top concerns for Democrats.
00:07:31.000Now we get to the top concerns for Republicans.
00:07:34.000And what you'll see is that Democrats' top concerns have to do with how much they hate fellow Americans who don't vote like they do, and how they castigate many of those people with terms that do not apply, and how they castigate a system with a term they don't even understand.
00:07:49.000Here are the top concerns for Republicans.
00:07:51.000Okay, illegal immigration is the top concern for Republicans.
00:07:56.00081% of Republicans say that they are extremely or very concerned about illegal immigration.
00:08:02.00079% say they are extremely or very concerned about lack of support for the police.
00:08:07.00077% say that they are very concerned about high taxes.
00:08:18.000Go back to the Democrat side for a second.
00:08:20.000If you go back to the Democrat side, what you will see is that the Democrat side Their top three are castigation of people on the other side of the aisle.
00:08:29.000Donald Trump supporters, white nationalism, which again, people don't understand that white nationalism is an actual specific ideology, not just a term that you throw at people you don't like.
00:08:37.000And systemic racism, which is an attempt to label people on the other side advocates of racism.
00:08:43.000The top three are really one on the Democratic side, which is people I don't like are Donald Trump supporters slash white nationalists slash advocates for systemic racism.
00:08:51.000The top things that Republicans are worried about are actual policies, like illegal immigration, or lack of support for the police, or high taxes.
00:08:57.000Liberal bias in the mainstream media, 75%.
00:08:59.00075% of Republicans say that they are deeply concerned about that.
00:09:04.000General moral decline of the country, 74%.
00:09:34.000And one of the things that's kind of fascinating about the poll is that the poll also shows how concerned Republicans are about cancel culture.
00:09:42.000Okay, when it comes to the number of Republicans who are concerned about cancel culture, there's a vast gap between Democrats and Republicans.
00:09:48.000So according to this polling data, Republicans, about 48% of Republicans say that they are extremely or very concerned about cancel culture.
00:09:56.000They're very concerned that they're going to be canceled, that people are going to come after them.
00:10:00.000This is why liberal bias in the mainstream media clocks in at number four on that Republican worries chart, right?
00:10:05.00075% of Republicans say they are deeply worried about liberal bias in the mainstream media.
00:10:10.000How many Democrats are worried about cancel culture?
00:10:40.000And it's not just insanity, it's dangerous.
00:10:43.000Because once you start to see the people who vote differently from you as the actual problem, I don't know how you see those people as friends and neighbors anymore.
00:10:51.000As we break down in terms of community and as we see the people next door, not as people who may differ with us on some important fundamental policy considerations, but people who are utterly unlike you in any way because they support a different candidate.
00:11:04.000How do you share a church with those people?
00:11:11.000How do you share society with people that you actually believe are the worst of the worst?
00:11:16.000That poll stat showing that Democrats are of all the priorities, the one that unifies the most is hatred for Donald Trump supporters and fear of Donald Trump supporters is insanity.
00:11:28.000But it is promulgated by a media that is firmly fixed on trying to get rid of people that they disagree with.
00:11:36.000What we have right now is an advocacy media that exists on the left masquerading as an objective media.
00:11:40.000And we have millions and millions and millions of people who watch that and take it seriously.
00:11:43.000And it has an impact on a wide variety of behaviors.
00:11:47.000And when you change the moral code of a country, when you renormalize an entire moral code of a country, you end up with some pretty wild behaviors.
00:11:56.000And the media continue to foster this every single day.
00:11:58.000Republicans are correctly fearful of cancel culture because the left does want them canceled.
00:12:02.000They are worried that they even exist.
00:12:06.000Notice something that is not on the GOP list at all, at all, Joe Biden supporters.
00:12:21.000Also, a tiny percentage of the population.
00:12:25.000The reason that the people on the left believe that white nationalism is a deep and abiding threat to the nature of the country is because they conflate the first two.
00:12:31.000They think that Donald Trump supporters are white nationalists, and they think that because every single time the Democrat media complex has mentioned the January 6th riots, they have said a white nationalist uprising at the behest of Donald Trump.
00:12:45.000That has an impact on how people think.
00:12:48.000The polarization that is happening in this country right now, and it is happening with extraordinary rapidity.
00:12:53.000That polarization is almost entirely the creation of a media elite who believe themselves to be part of a new ruling class who get to dictate to you how to live.
00:13:02.000They know better than you how to live.
00:13:03.000And if you agree with them, then you are one of the elect.
00:13:05.000And if you disagree with them, then you are a member of the damned.
00:13:09.000This starts, by the way, at our universities.
00:13:12.000There's an article in the New York Times called Inside a Battle Over Race, Class, and Power at Smith College.
00:13:16.000And this is just indicative of how our society really works.
00:13:20.000Because colleges are basically just a microcosm, a slightly more extreme microcosm of what's happening in corporate America, of what is happening even in the scientific community, the shutdown of science that is currently happening in the publishing community.
00:13:34.000The war on openness of ideas is ongoing and dangerous.
00:13:38.000So, according to the New York Times, in mid-summer of 2018, Oumou Kanout, a black student at Smith College, and I apologize if I'm mispronouncing the name, recounted a distressing American tale.
00:13:47.000She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her what she was doing there.
00:13:53.000The officer, who could have been carrying a lethal weapon, left her near meltdown, Ms.
00:13:56.000Knute wrote on Facebook, saying that this encounter continued a year-long pattern of harassment at Smith.
00:14:15.000This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy of racism and bias, the president wrote, in which people of color are targeted simply while going about the business of their ordinary lives.
00:14:24.000The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN picked up the story of a young female student harassed by white workers.
00:14:29.000The ACLU, which took the student's case, said she was profiled for eating while black.
00:14:34.000Less attention was paid three months later, when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias.
00:15:03.000No, because they are dedicated to the narrative that America is a place of deep and abiding racism.
00:15:08.000And that anybody who opposes that narrative is in fact, opposing the narrative is itself a sign that you are racist.
00:15:15.000Opposing the narrative, suggesting that America is not systemically racist, that America is a land of liberty, filled with decent people, that that is a sign that you are a bigot.
00:15:23.000You're probably one of those Trump supporters.
00:15:26.000According to the New York Times, less attention was paid three months later when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias.
00:15:34.000Miss Canute was determined to have eaten in a deserted dorm that had been closed for the summer.
00:15:39.000The janitor had been encouraged to notify security if he saw unauthorized people there.
00:15:42.000The officer, like all campus police, was unarmed.
00:15:45.000So every single element of the story was a lie.
00:16:09.000Smith College officials emphasized reconciliation and healing after the incident.
00:16:13.000In the months to come, they announced a raft of anti-bias training for all staff, a revamped and more sensitive campus police force, and the creation of dormitories, as demanded by Ms.
00:16:21.000Canute and her ACLU lawyer, set aside for black students and other students of color.
00:16:25.000By the way, if you want just a case study in the perversion of liberalism into hardcore leftists, just take a look at the ACLU.
00:16:32.000Who suggested that, yes, we hate the KKK, but they have a right to march through the Jewish areas of Skokie.
00:16:38.000Now the ACLU are the people who are like, you know what?
00:16:40.000We should separate dorm rooms for the sensitivity of black students and make sure that we have segregated dorm facilities.
00:16:46.000The ACLU are the people who say that they will not defend, they literally say this, they will not defend civil liberties if those civil liberties come into conflict with higher priorities of sensitivity.
00:16:55.000They're literally the opposite of a civil liberties union at this point.
00:16:58.000It demonstrates the shift from liberalism to leftism and how you leave behind all of the priorities you used to hold so long as you are in the search for utopia.
00:17:07.000According to the New York Times, they did not offer any public apology or amends to the workers whose lives were gravely disrupted by the student's accusation.
00:17:14.000This is a tale of how race, class, and power collided at the elite 145-year-old Liberal Arts College, where tuition, room, and board top $78,000 a year, and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class enclaves beyond the school's elegant wrought-iron gates.
00:17:27.000The story highlights the tensions between a student's deeply felt sense of personal truth and the facts that are at odds with it.
00:17:32.000My God, the way that the New York Times phrases that.
00:17:34.000The story highlights the tension between a deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it?
00:17:41.000Okay, translate that over to the QAnon folks, and see if the New York Times goes along with that.
00:17:45.000You know, there are people who have a deeply felt sense of personal truth about the QAnon conspiracy theory, but there are facts at odds with it, and there's tension there.
00:17:52.000Or, is it that you're completely wrong and lying, and you believe a bunch of horse crap, and there are facts that disprove this, which makes you a liar!
00:18:01.000Because facts exist in real life, and the New York Times reported the lie for years, and only three years later are they coming back around like, well, you know, I guess that, you know, there is a tension between your personal truth and actual facts.
00:18:12.000These tensions, says the New York Times, come at a time when few in the Smith community feel comfortable publicly questioning liberal orthodoxy on race and identity.
00:18:19.000And some professors worry the administration is too deferential, so it's increasingly emboldened students.
00:18:25.000Right, because why would you question liberal orthodoxy?
00:18:28.000If you question liberal orthodoxy, then you become one of the people with a target on your back.
00:18:33.000James Miller, econ professor at Smith, says, my perception is if you're on the wrong side of issues of identity politics, you're not just mistaken, you're evil.
00:18:42.000And that perception has spread throughout the liberal community, which is why you see that stat that the highest percentage of any percentage of Democrats who believe that there is a problem believe that the problem is Trump supporters and white nationalism.
00:19:06.000The janitor who's probably making 20 grand a year.
00:19:08.000That guy got in serious trouble for doing nothing wrong.
00:19:12.000Faculty members pointed to a pattern they say reflects the college's growing timidity in the face of allegations from students, especially around the issue of race and ethnicity.
00:19:20.000In 2016, students denounced faculty at Smith's social work program as racist, after some professors questioned whether admission standards for the program had been lowered, and this was affecting the quality of the fieldwork.
00:19:30.000Dennis Mills, one of the professors they decried, left the school long after because you're not even allowed to point out that when you put in place affirmative action programs, it lowers the standards of admission.
00:19:37.000That is what affirmative action programs are deliberately designed to do.
00:19:41.000If people had to meet the exact same standard, you wouldn't have to have affirmative action programs.
00:19:45.000Affirmative action programs are deliberately designed to lower standards through the soft bigotry of low expectations in order to achieve the proper racial balance.
00:19:54.000But if you point that out, probably you should be forced to leave because looking truth directly in the face is not allowed.
00:20:00.000Then, in the autumn of 2019, the Religious Studies Department proposed a class on Native American religion and spirituality.
00:20:05.000A full complement of students registered, but well before classes began, a small contingent of Native American students and allies pasted bright red posters on buildings on campus reviling the course as harmful, intrusive, and disrespectful, and attacking the instructor who was young, white, and not on a tenure track.
00:20:20.000He had an academic background in this field and has modeled his course on that of his mentor, who is a well-known professor and member of the Choctaw Nation.
00:20:26.000All of this is disgusting and terrible, but it does not matter.
00:20:28.000had the instructor submit to sessions of radical listening with the protesters, and the religious studies department dropped the class.
00:20:35.000All of this is disgusting and terrible, but it does not matter.
00:20:40.000The New York Times still treats the original story as worthwhile of respect, which it turned out to be crap, by the way.
00:20:47.000The janitor is the one who's the actual victim in this story.
00:20:51.000The janitor, who was in his 60s and poor of sight, was emptying garbage cans when he noticed someone in a closed lounge.
00:20:56.000All involved with the summer camp were required to have state background checks and campus police had advised staff it was wisest to call security rather than confront strangers on its own.
00:21:13.000He was not sure if he was looking at a man or a woman.
00:21:15.000Later, Canute would accuse the janitor of misgendering her.
00:21:20.000A well-known older campus security officer drove over to the dorm, recognized Knut as a student, they had a brief and polite conversation, which she recorded, he apologized for bothering her, she spoke to him of her discomfort, that night she wrote a Facebook post, and the college took it so seriously that they basically decided they were gonna can everybody involved.
00:21:35.000I mean, all of this is just indicative of where we are as a society.
00:21:39.000It's indicative of how our society works.
00:22:26.000She lives with her husband, a mechanic, and makes $40,000 a year.
00:22:30.000Smith put out a short statement noting that Blair had not placed the phone call to security but did not absolve her of broader responsibility.
00:22:38.000Somebody at the administration called the ca- Again, this is like an unrelated cafeteria worker who's now getting death threats because of all of this.
00:22:43.000But don't worry, this is just about the tension between some people's version of truth and, you know, the truth.
00:22:49.000This has now bled over into every element of our society because the narrative matters more than the fact.
00:22:53.000Which is why Amazon has now put in place an actual digital book burning policy.
00:22:59.000According to Emily Zanotti over at dailywire.com, internet mega-retailer Amazon appears to have quietly updated an internal rule, just the news reports, eliminating an exemption for books and periodicals from its site-wide policy against selling items that contain or promote hate speech.
00:23:13.000The rule change might have gone unnoticed, except that a conservative author posted on social media that Amazon had ended its own sales of his book on transgenderism and barred third parties from even selling the work on Amazon.
00:23:24.000This, of course, would be our friend Ryan Anderson.
00:23:26.000Ryan was on the show yesterday talking about his book, When Harry Became Sally, which is a very thoughtful examination of gender dysphoria and the mental problems associated therewith.
00:23:36.000The book calls for tolerance for people who suffer from gender dysphoria, which, of course, is the humane, decent, and just thing to do.
00:23:58.000When you're talking about the largest bookseller on planet Earth, that is the largest retailer of ideas on the planet.
00:24:04.000People like me, my last couple of books have sold literally hundreds of thousands of copies on Amazon.
00:24:10.000And they make many of the same claims that Ryan Anderson makes.
00:24:13.000So, Amazon, if you want to come after me, note that I make many of the same claims that Ryan Anderson makes because that is what the science says.
00:24:20.000That there is such a thing as a dichotomous sexual difference between male and female in the human mammal.
00:24:32.000Just the news notes, sometime before this week, when it removed from its digital shelves a book critical of transgender ideology, Amazon altered its content policy to explicitly forbid books that promote hate speech, a major rule change that could be used to rationalize actions against a broad range of books sold by the digital retail giant.
00:24:49.000Amazon yanked When Harry Became Sally from its main web store, its Kindle servers, and its audiobook lineup, with no explanation.
00:24:55.000The policy under which When Harry Became Sally was booted now reads, we don't sell certain contents, including content we determine is hate speech.
00:25:04.000The Washington Free Beacon notes that the rule change appears inconsistent across Amazon seller guidelines, suggesting the change was recent and that Amazon has yet to bring the full site into compliance.
00:25:14.000According to the Free Beacon, the company's content guidelines previously contained no mention of hate speech.
00:25:18.000In an apparent contradiction, Amazon's Seller Central page, on offensive and controversial materials, currently exempts books because they don't want to appear to be, you know, burning books.
00:25:29.000And so, they are essentially engaging in digital book bannings, which is the same thing as a digital book burning.
00:25:36.000By the way, this is now extending to other corporations.
00:25:40.000According to the Twitter account, Woke All Distance, Target has now removed The End of Gender by Dr. Deborah So, who is not a conservative.
00:25:48.000That is a book again about gender ideology and its lies.
00:25:51.000They've removed Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier again.
00:25:54.000You remember Target did this a few months ago and then decided to walk it back.
00:26:00.000Okay, so Target backed down last time.
00:26:28.000The polling data is that Americans thought race relations were getting significantly better all the way up until Barack Obama took office, and then they started to plummet.
00:26:35.000By the way, that includes the first few months of the Obama administration, when Americans were, I think, justly excited about the fact that we had a black president.
00:26:44.000Like, I think it's very good that America has had a black president.
00:26:47.000Because, again, it demonstrates that Americans... It does.
00:26:50.000It is evidence that Americans are not super racist.
00:26:53.000To have a black president is a sign that you are not systematically objecting to the idea of black people in power, right?
00:27:02.000I was not excited that the black person who happened to be in power was Barack Obama, who is a radical leftist, but I understand why Americans were excited about that, of course.
00:27:10.000But, Barack Obama then proceeded to polarize Americans along political lines because he didn't come along and say, he didn't actually repeat the messages that he gave in 2004 at that famous DNC speech.
00:27:28.000Instead, Barack Obama very quickly transmuted into a president who suggested that anybody who opposed any element of his agenda was doing so because they were a covert racist.
00:27:59.000Also, Barack Obama is a very serious human being.
00:28:02.000He isn't in any way just a celebrity hound.
00:28:06.000He's not somebody who's ever pursued the spotlight, Barack Obama.
00:28:08.000He's just a humble public servant, Barack Obama, who does podcasts with Bruce Springsteen, one of the great minds of our time.
00:28:13.000Here is Barack Obama explaining to Bruce Springsteen on their joint podcast that the only reason that people opposed his agenda was basically because they were racist.
00:28:24.000What I saw during my presidency was that the politics of White resistance and resentment made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as politically not only a non-starter,
00:28:57.000Okay, so there's Barack Obama saying, I would have done slavery and racial reparations, except for those evil white supremacists who are on the other side of the aisle.
00:29:05.000Right, he literally says it's about white resistance.
00:29:07.000It's not about many Americans are unhappy with the idea that you are going to be giving benefits solely on the basis of race, because that's violative of not only the 14th amendments of the constitution, but in fact, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legally speaking.
00:29:19.000You are not allowed to give benefits on the basis of race.
00:30:35.000Or even if you didn't vote for Donald Trump, people who oppose them, more broadly speaking.
00:30:39.000We're going to get to that in just one second because that leads to an interesting political analysis from Cook Political about the future of the Republican Party and what kind of Trump support represents.
00:30:47.000And I think this is a correct analysis.
00:31:06.000Instead, what you need to do is change your long-term habits.
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00:32:03.000Alrighty, in just a second, we're gonna get to the Republican Party and what the continued support for Trump actually means in real terms.
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00:33:29.000When you have one side of the political aisle that deems everybody else on the other side of the political aisle a white supremacist and the real problem with America, it should not be a surprise when people resonate to whoever is the figurehead that you have chosen as the font of all evil.
00:33:44.000And this is what Cook Political Report says today.
00:33:46.000Amy Walter has a good piece about this.
00:33:47.000She says the degree to which folks continue to view American politics through the Trump prism is both understandable and frustrating. On the one hand, despite losing the election, the former president has remained an omnipresent figure in our daily lives.
00:33:57.000He spends almost every day from November 3rd until January 20th attacking the integrity of the election, etc, etc, etc. Trump will take the stage on Sunday in Orlando at the annual CPAC conference.
00:34:07.000Once again, the political conversation will revolve around GOP infighting and the challenge for Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell to put Trump in the rearview mirror.
00:34:14.000In an attempt to prebut that narrative, the National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott sent out a memo on Tuesday declaring that while, quote, a parade of pundits and even Republican voices suggest we should have a GOP civil war, this does not need to be true, should not be true, and will not be true.
00:34:28.000But, says Amy Walter of Cook Political Report, again not a Republican, it's important to remember we are only one month into Biden's first term.
00:34:34.000We are more than 20 months away from the midterm elections.
00:34:37.000Trump's role in 2022 could be a definitive issue in the next election, or it may not be.
00:35:29.000The reality is that Trump is not in power.
00:35:31.000And what is going to unify Republicans is going to be eventually the recognition That the Democratic Party has decided to other the Republican Party.
00:35:39.000That the Democratic Party has decided to see them as the enemy worthy of cancellation and worthy of destruction.
00:35:44.000That is what's going to unify the Republican Party.
00:35:46.000Trump was a figurehead for that because he was the person most targeted by that sort of material.
00:35:51.000But as time goes on, and he no longer is that, it's not going to be about Trump.
00:36:21.000It didn't mean that his character flaws didn't exist.
00:36:23.000But the reality is that the high levels of support for Trump are really about Republican solidarity in the face of a movement that seeks their utter and complete destruction and wiping away an American life.
00:36:33.000It would not matter, by the way, in that Democratic poll, if it said Donald Trump supporters or if it said Liz Cheney supporters.
00:36:40.000For the Democratic Party, if you oppose their agenda, you are the opponent.
00:36:45.000This is why Liz Cheney falling directly into this particular trap, talking about Trump as though Trump is still somehow a deeply important figure, as opposed to just the name of the guy who is the most recent president of the United States and who had the most Republican support.
00:37:06.000That's why Trump had such high levels of support inside the Republican Party in the first place.
00:37:10.000It's because, again, the attacks on Trump were perceived by Republicans, in large measure, and in many cases, truthfully, as an attack on them.
00:37:17.000Trump was just the guy who was standing in the line of fire.
00:37:20.000So when Liz Cheney does this... I don't blame people for being angry at Liz Cheney.
00:37:23.000When she says, yeah, you know what, Trump shouldn't be the head of the... You're just falling for the Democratic narrative.
00:37:28.000You're falling for the Democratic narrative that Trump is the seminal figure in the Republican Party and everything is about Trump personally.
00:37:33.000The universe never revolved around Trump.
00:37:35.000I understand the media wanted to make everything in the world about Trump.
00:38:32.000I've been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which following January 6th, I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.
00:38:47.000On that high note, thank you all very much.
00:38:50.000McCarthy's like, I can't believe she just did that.
00:38:52.000Like, by the way, her sentence could have just stopped right after that.
00:39:48.000But, Lindsey Boylan, who's a former progressive sort of icon in New York, She has a long piece out over at Medium.com talking about how Andrew Cuomo apparently routinely sexually harassed her.
00:40:02.000You know, I'm glad that she came out with this.
00:40:04.000Now it would have been much more useful had she... apparently this has been happening for years.
00:40:07.000It would have been much more useful if she had come out about this earlier.
00:40:11.000And when I say useful, I mean if you want to stop people who engage in alleged sexual predation.
00:40:15.000It would be great if you would come out when they first engage in that.
00:40:44.000I responded sarcastically and awkwardly.
00:40:46.000I tried to play it cool, but in that moment, I realized just how acquiescent I had become.
00:40:50.000Governor Andrew Cuomo had created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned, but expected.
00:40:58.000His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right.
00:41:02.000He used intimidation to silence his critics.
00:41:04.000And if you dared speak up, you would face consequences.
00:41:06.000That's why I panicked on the morning of December 13th.
00:41:09.000While enjoying a weekend with my husband and six-year-old daughter, I spontaneously decided to share a small part of the truth I had hidden for so long in shame and never planned to disclose.
00:41:16.000The night before, a former Cuomo staffer confided to me that she, too, had been the subject of the governor's workplace harassment.
00:41:52.000She says, my first encounter with the governor came at a January 6, 2016 event at Madison Square Garden to promote the new Pennsylvania Station Farley Complex project.
00:42:00.000After his speech, he stopped to talk to me. I was new on the job, surprised by how much attention he paid.
00:42:04.000My boss soon informed me the governor had a crush on me. It was an uncomfortable but all too familiar feeling.
00:42:09.000The struggle to be taken seriously by a powerful man who tied my worth to my body and my appearance.
00:42:13.000Stephanie Benton, director of the governor's office, told me in an email on December 14, 2016, the governor suggested I look up images of Lisa Shields, his rumored former girlfriend, because, quote, we could be sisters, and I was the better looking sister.
00:42:25.000The governor began calling me Lisa in front of colleagues.
00:43:31.000He paused at one point and smirked as he showed off his cigar box.
00:43:33.000He told me President Clinton had given it to him.
00:43:36.000The governor must have sensed my fear because he finally let me out of the office.
00:43:40.000At least he didn't try to touch her, but in 2018, she was promoted to Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Advisor to the governor.
00:43:48.000And apparently, at one point, they were in his New York City office, and as she got up to leave and walked toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips.
00:44:08.000And I hope that Andrew Cuomo receives all of the due process of law when these sorts of allegations come up, as he has been so richly in favor of giving to Republicans like Brett Kavanaugh.
00:44:19.000I hope he receives all due process of law here.
00:44:21.000We deserve to hear Andrew Cuomo's side of the story, because facts do matter.
00:44:25.000I'll just note that I believe all women would suggest that at this point, Andrew Cuomo should be Out of a job.
00:44:32.000And more and more, it seems like that may actually happen because he has outlived his usefulness to the Democratic Party.