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00:00:16.000We'll get to the Antifa hubbub in Portland a little bit later on in the show.
00:00:20.000Plus, we'll get to the economic update.
00:00:22.000Well, we begin today with the Democrats trotting out the new narrative for 2020.
00:00:25.000It was obvious that this was going to be the narrative for 2020.
00:00:28.000The truth is, it was the narrative for 2012.
00:00:30.000It just wasn't the narrative for 2016.
00:00:31.000So in 2012, the Democrats ran on the platform that, effectively speaking, there was no great way for the for the United States to get past its racial bias, except by electing Barack Obama president of the United States again.
00:00:46.000That was the only good way to do this.
00:00:48.000And Mitt Romney thus had to be thrown under the bus.
00:00:50.000Mitt Romney was a terrible, no good, very bad man.
00:00:52.000Mitt Romney was the kind of fellow who was going to put people back in chains in the words of Joe Biden.
00:00:56.000Well, then in 2016, the Democrats switched it up because Hillary Clinton was the nominee.
00:01:00.000And it turns out it's difficult to run on a narrative of American racism.
00:01:06.000And so now we are moving forward to 2020.
00:01:09.000Donald Trump has been the president by that point for four years, and people are looking for a narrative to use against Trump.
00:01:14.000Now, there are many narratives that the Democrats could use against Trump in 2020.
00:01:17.000They could do what Joe Biden has done.
00:01:19.000They could use a character narrative that Donald Trump is short on character, that Donald Trump is divisive and derisive, that Donald Trump is mean and cruel and alienates suburban women.
00:01:29.000The reason it would be their smart move is because it would attempt to emulate the coalition of 2008 for Barack Obama.
00:01:34.000So in 2008, Barack Obama did not run On the race narrative.
00:01:37.000In 2008, Barack Obama did not run on the idea that the United States was deeply rift by racial strife and that the only way to fix that was to elect him president.
00:01:46.000He basically ran on the suggestion that America was moving toward a better day.
00:01:50.000No red states, no blue states, the United States.
00:01:54.000And then he won a broad-based victory.
00:01:55.000Yes, with heavy black turnout, but also with extraordinarily high white turnout and with a lot of people in the middle switching sides to favor him.
00:02:02.000He won a much broader victory in 2008 than he did in 2012.
00:02:05.000Then in 2012, Obama created what Democrats thought was the new electoral normal.
00:02:09.000And the new electoral normal suggested That he was going to be at the Democrats forever.
00:02:14.000We're going to be able to turn out at insane rates, minority voters.
00:02:18.000They were going to be able to turn out at wildly disproportionate rates, minority voters.
00:02:22.000That's why Barack Obama was reelected, because he turned out minority voters in heavy numbers in a lot of swing states like Ohio, for example, where about 10% of the population was black, but about 13% of the electorate was black.
00:02:34.000So Democrats in 2016 thought, okay, the new normal is 2012, not 2008.
00:02:37.000And they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to be able to draw exactly those same black voters, and they would show up at exactly the same rates, and then she would run away with the election.
00:02:46.000Well now, move forward to 2020, and Democrats have to make a choice.
00:02:49.000Do they choose to run on Barack Obama circa 2008, or do they choose to run on Barack Obama circa 2012?
00:02:56.000And it is becoming more and more obvious that Democrats are addicted to the narrative that 2012 is the new coalition, not 2008.
00:03:03.000That running on the basis of Trump's moral shortcomings and lack of character is not a winning strategy.
00:03:08.000Instead, the strategy is going to be that Donald Trump is a vicious racist, that America is terribly, horribly sinful and racist and racism is built into its DNA.
00:03:18.000And the only way to fix that is to elect a Democrat.
00:03:20.000Now, it's going to be very awkward if Joe Biden is the nominee.
00:03:23.000If Joe Biden is the nominee, it's going to be extraordinarily awkward for Democrats to run on the race narrative because Joe Biden's own racial history is, as we have seen from Kamala Harris's critiques of him, at least somewhat checkered going all the way back to the 1970s and desegregation through busing and all of this.
00:03:39.000But if they were to nominate somebody like Cory Booker or Kamala Harris, it becomes a lot simpler.
00:03:44.000In any case, the media, who are well-educated white liberals who live in major metropolitan areas, it turns out that they are more interested in the racial narrative than they are in the reach out to the white folks in the middle of the country narrative.
00:03:56.000They're more interested in replicating the 2012 Obama coalition than they are in replicating the 2008 Obama coalition.
00:04:02.000And this mirrors some of the statistics that we have seen about the political preferences of white Upper educated college liberals living in major cities.
00:04:13.000Those are the people who are the foundation of the new woke politics.
00:04:15.000And it is more important to appeal to those people than it is to appeal to the people in the middle of the country, according to Democrats, because those are the people who constitute the media.
00:04:23.000And so you're seeing the Democratic Party embrace their 2020 strategy.
00:04:26.000Their new 2020 strategy, it turns out, is not only that Donald Trump is a racist, but that Donald Trump is representative of a long line of American racism stretching all the way back to slavery, and that America is rife with Endemic problems that are created by slavery and that cannot be wiped out absent total revolution.
00:04:43.000That is the narrative that Democrats are trying to draw.
00:04:45.000It justifies their revolutionary rhetoric.
00:04:50.000If it turns out that America was based in, rooted in, not just that America was reliant upon economically, but that America was, all of its institutions were infected with and infused with and rooted in and based on slavery, then the only way to fix those institutions is to rip them down To branch and branch and tree.
00:05:08.000I mean, the entire thing must be ripped down.
00:05:11.000And that is what Democrats are now claiming, as we will see.
00:05:14.000Democrats, particularly, again, those media, those media radicals, this is the narrative they are pushing.
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00:07:16.000And this is now the narrative that is being pushed by the left.
00:07:18.000As I say, as we will see, there is a there is more than a grain of truth to the idea that slavery was a deeply rooted, endemic part of American life for several hundred years, beginning in 1619 and ending officially in 1863.
00:07:35.000It depends on whether you're dating it from the Emancipation Proclamation or the 14th Amendment, might say 1865.
00:07:40.000In any case, the fact is slavery was, of course, a massive part of America's history.
00:07:46.000Jim Crow was a massive part of America's history.
00:07:49.000But it is a lie to suggest that America was founded based on slavery.
00:07:52.000Surely the Puritans who arrived on the Mayflower were not there to bring slavery about, nor was it the Southern economy that lent the great strength of America's economy her strength.
00:08:03.000We'll get to that in just one second, but here's the thing.
00:08:05.000Beto O'Rourke, who is now trying to channel exactly what the media want from him.
00:08:09.000So Beto O'Rourke is a man in search of love.
00:08:11.000Beto O'Rourke had that love back in the 2018 Senate race against Ted Cruz.
00:09:41.000It's exactly as AOC said a couple of weeks ago in a tweet thread, white supremacy is so deeply embedded in American life that there is no way of extricating it from American life, which suggests that the only solution is radical chemotherapy.
00:09:53.000But if the cancer is everywhere, if it has infected the entire body politic, the only answer is radical chemotherapy.
00:10:00.000This justifies the radical changes Democrats are calling for.
00:10:03.000It justifies the overthrow of a lot of the wonderful great things about America.
00:10:06.000Because after all, if all those wonderful great things are rooted in one of the most evil institutions in the history of mankind, it's difficult to make the moral case for them being retained, even if they have had some good positive effect.
00:10:18.000As we will see, this is exactly what the New York Times is about to claim.
00:10:21.000So the New York Times has launched something called the 1619 Project.
00:10:24.000Now, on its face, there is nothing wrong with the 1619 Project.
00:10:28.000There's nothing, not only is there nothing wrong, there's something quite good about America learning about its own history, about staring the evils of racism in the face, about staring the evils of slavery and white supremacism and Jim Crow directly in the face, recognizing their ugliness.
00:10:41.000Too many Americans don't know much about slavery.
00:10:43.000They just hear it as a word and they don't understand the tremendous suffering.
00:10:46.000They've never read any of the slave memoirs.
00:10:48.000They've never read Frederick Douglass.
00:10:50.000They've never watched any of the documentaries about slavery.
00:10:54.000They haven't looked at any of the materials.
00:10:56.000They don't understand the deep cruelty, the malignant malice and racism and evil of slavery.
00:11:03.000Many Americans don't understand how that was projected forward a hundred years through Jim Crow.
00:11:07.000How institutions took slavery as their model and then used that in order to keep black people down and segregate them and destroy their lives and make it impossible for them to progress in American society.
00:11:18.000Too many black folks in the United States, right?
00:11:21.000That is stuff that, of course, should be taught about.
00:11:23.000And if the 1619 Project were that, that would be one thing.
00:11:26.000But the 1619 Project is not that, as it turns out.
00:11:28.000The 1619 Project is about something that is much deeper and much more radical.
00:11:33.000And that is radically rethinking America as the quote-unquote product of slavery.
00:11:36.000That everything in America is due to slavery.
00:11:39.000That America's founding ideology is a slave ideology.
00:11:42.000It's an ideology about promoting and promulgating slavery.
00:11:45.000And so, as we'll see, the New York Times has shifted its premise.
00:11:48.000Now, the reason the New York Times is doing this is purely political.
00:11:50.000This is not because they've suddenly become interested in educating the American people about slavery 150 years after it ended.
00:12:03.000First, I look at screens all day long, right?
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00:13:43.000Okay, so as I say, this is part of a narrative that is now being driven by the media.
00:13:47.000And that narrative is, again, rooted in a basic truth, which is that slavery was a serious part of America's founding, that it was a massive part of America's history, which, again, I think most people know on a basic level, but don't understand at a root emotional level.
00:14:04.000But that is not what the 1619 Project really is about.
00:14:06.000The 1619 Project is really about driving a narrative ahead of 2020.
00:14:09.000The Washington Examiner reported last week that Dean Beckett, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president's alleged racism.
00:14:22.000Baquette said that they had built up their entire staff, basically, to cover Trump-Russia, and then it turns out that Mueller blew up that narrative.
00:14:30.000And Baquette said, I think we've got to change.
00:14:31.000The Times must, quote, write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions.
00:14:36.000I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier, said Baquette.
00:14:40.000How do we cover a guy who makes these kind of remarks?
00:14:42.000How do we cover the world's reaction to him?
00:14:44.000How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies?
00:14:47.000How do we cover America that's become so divided by Donald Trump?
00:14:50.000And that in and of itself is an editorial decision that it's Trump dividing America as opposed to pre-existing divisions that have been exacerbated and made worse by President Trump.
00:15:02.000He vows a vision for the paper for the next two years.
00:15:04.000Quote, how do we grapple with all the stuff you're talking about?
00:15:07.000How do we write about race in a thoughtful way?
00:15:09.000Something we haven't done in a large way in a long time.
00:15:12.000That to me is the vision for coverage.
00:15:13.000You all are going to have to help us shape that vision, but I think that's what we're going to have to do for the rest of the next two years.
00:15:18.000And in case you think that that is the Washington Examiner taking this stuff out of context, it is not.
00:15:23.000There's a full transcript of Dean Beckett's exchange.
00:15:26.000He's the executive editor of the New York Times.
00:15:27.000His exchange with a bunch of staffers That was obtained by Slate.
00:15:33.000And in the middle of this exchange, he references the 1619 Project three separate times.
00:15:39.000He says, quote, what I'm saying is that our readers and some of our staff cheer us when we take on Donald Trump, but they jeer at us when we take on Joe Biden.
00:15:46.000They sometimes want us to pretend he was not elected president, but he was elected president.
00:15:50.000And our job is to figure out why and how and to hold the administration to account.
00:15:54.000If you're independent, that's what you do.
00:15:57.000The same newspaper that this week will publish the 1619 Project, the most ambitious examination of the legacy of slavery ever undertaken in a newspaper, to try and understand the forces that led to the election of Donald Trump.
00:16:08.000In other words, slavery led to the election of Donald Trump, and the 1619 Project is an attempt to explain that.
00:16:17.000And that, of course, is not the only time that Dean Beckett talked about the 1619 Project.
00:16:21.000A staffer asked him about the 1619 Project and said this, quote, Hello, I have another question about racism.
00:16:28.000I'm wondering to what extent you think that the fact of racism and white supremacy being sort of the foundation of this country should play into our reporting.
00:16:35.000Just because it feels to me like it should be a starting point, you know?
00:16:38.000Like these conversations about what is racist, what isn't racist.
00:16:41.000I just feel like racism is in everything.
00:16:43.000This is what a staffer says to the executive editor of the New York Times.
00:16:48.000It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.
00:16:53.000And so to me, it's less about the individual instances of racism and sort of how we're thinking about racism and white supremacy as the foundation of all the systems in the country.
00:17:03.000Not just a part of all the systems in the country.
00:17:05.000The foundation of all the systems in the country.
00:17:09.000Not just that racism was something that America has fought with, and struggled with, and given into, and fought to overcome, but the root of all of our institutions is what this staffer is saying.
00:17:21.000Which is sort of like saying that, let's say that you get married, and let's say that your marriage involves emotional abuse.
00:17:29.000That the marriage was rooted on emotional abuse.
00:17:32.000No, the marriage was probably rooted on all of the other stuff and then endured it despite the emotional abuse.
00:17:38.000Emotional abuse is a major part of the story, but it is not in fact the whole story, nor it is the foundation of the story.
00:17:44.000The staffer says, I think particularly As we are launching a 1619 project, I feel like it's going to open us up to even more criticism from people who are like, okay, well, you're saying this and you're producing this big project about this, but are you guys actually considering this in your daily reporting?
00:17:58.000The staffer said, it's less about the individual instances of racism and sort of how we're thinking about racism and white supremacy as the foundation of all the systems in the country.
00:18:08.000And here's how Bacchette responded, quote, I do think that race and understanding of race should be a part of how we cover the American story.
00:18:14.000Sometimes news organizations sort of forget that in the moment, but of course it should be.
00:18:18.000I mean, one reason we all signed off on the 1619 Project and made it so ambitious and expansive was to teach our readers to think a little bit more like that.
00:18:25.000So they're going to teach their readers that they have to think of every issue in America through the lens of race.
00:18:30.000Race in the next year, and I think this is, to be frank, what I would hope you come away with this discussion with, race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story, Question, why in the next year?
00:18:45.000Race is only a part of the American story for the next year.
00:18:47.000How weird, how weird that the timeline matches up precisely with the 2020 election.
00:18:52.000He says, I mean, race in terms not only of African Americans in their relationship with Donald Trump, but Latinos in immigration.
00:18:58.000I think one of the things I would love to come out of this with is for people to feel very comfortable coming to me and saying, here's how I would like you to consider telling that story.
00:19:06.000Because the reason you have a diverse newsroom, to be frank, is so that you can have people pull together to try to tell that story.
00:19:12.000By diverse newsroom, he doesn't mean ideologically diverse newsroom or philosophically diverse newsroom.
00:19:17.000He means a racially diverse newsroom, of course.
00:19:18.000That is the only thing that matters in the end for Dean Beckett.
00:19:22.000The point that I am making is, again, not that it is bad to review the history of slavery in the United States, or to try, in some statistical, data-driven way, examine the impact of slavery on a going-forward basis in American life, and how we obliterate the vestiges of Jim Crow and slavery in our institutions when we identify them.
00:19:45.000This project is a media-driven enterprise designed How do I know this?
00:19:49.000That people who support Donald Trump are part of the legacy of slavery.
00:19:52.000Those who oppose Donald Trump are not.
00:19:54.000It is a bit of virtue signaling on the part of the New York Times.
00:19:58.000Not designed to raise awareness about America's past, but designed to do so specifically in order to draw modern connections with political movements they don't like.
00:20:14.000The vast majority of them are not very good.
00:20:15.000There are a couple that I think are appropriate.
00:20:18.000There's one in particular that I think is appropriate, if overstated.
00:20:23.000And then there are a bunch that are really not, that are really quite sloppy, that are designed to be op-eds directed against conservatives.
00:20:29.000And the idea here is that if you say that these op-eds are sloppy and directed against conservatives, it's because you're not taking the legacy of white supremacy and slavery seriously enough.
00:20:38.000This is designed, specifically, not to bring America together to learn about our history, but to polarize around modern political issues by linking them directly with slavery.
00:20:47.000By saying, if you disagree with me, it's because you don't take slavery seriously, it's because you don't take white supremacy seriously, and if you did, you would recognize that I'm right on my politics today.
00:20:56.000That is what these pieces are, which is why they are universally written by members of the political left.
00:21:01.000Now there are people on the right who are historians, who have studied slavery.
00:21:05.000Theoretically, some of them could have been asked to write.
00:21:07.000There are prominent black people in America who are conservative.
00:21:10.000Senator Tim Scott would be a good example of this.
00:21:11.000Jason Reilly at the Wall Street Journal.
00:22:52.000In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia.
00:22:57.000It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans who were sold to the colonists.
00:23:01.000No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed.
00:23:06.000Now, I think that's an overstatement, but a mild one, meaning that, of course, America was affected deeply and in a variety of ways by slavery.
00:23:18.000I think it would be difficult to say that no aspect of the country was untouched by years of slavery, but that's within the realm of possibility.
00:23:25.000You see, on the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.
00:23:32.000And then the original text suggested they've changed the text a little bit.
00:23:36.000They said that the true founding of the country was in 1619.
00:23:41.000We have to understand 1619 as the true founding.
00:23:46.000The 1619 project is a major initiative from the New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery, which again, worthwhile.
00:23:54.000It aims to reframe the country's history This is where we get into trouble.
00:23:58.000It aims to reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
00:24:11.000And now, again, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the American story is totally fine.
00:24:53.000And as we will see, the essays that are attached to the 1619 Project are not about the legacy of slavery so much as they are about an attempt to link modern politics with slavery so that Democrats and liberals and leftists can claim that any conservative policy is in fact rooted in slavery and thus racist and bigoted.
00:25:13.000So there are a couple pieces here that are worthwhile.
00:25:15.000There's one by Nicole Hannah-Jones that I think is over overstated, but generally correct, which is our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written.
00:25:25.000Black Americans have fought to make them true.
00:25:27.000Now, that little stinger right there is not true.
00:25:31.000They were not false when they were written.
00:25:33.000They were wrongly applied when they were written.
00:25:35.000If you read the Declaration of Independence, Or the Constitution, both of which Frederick Douglass suggested were freedom documents.
00:25:51.000Okay, now, maybe we can read it, that they were falsely applied when written, but if the idea is that the ideals were originally corrupt, that's not true.
00:25:59.000This particular piece is actually fairly good, right?
00:26:02.000This piece, as I say, by Nicole Hannah-Jones talks about how black Americans have shaped America, changed America, made America better, helped America live up to its original eternal values.
00:26:19.000So this piece, while I say, I think that this piece overstates the case in terms of the impact of slavery on the nation.
00:26:27.000I think that in general, this piece is fine and worthwhile, right?
00:26:31.000She says, it would be historically inaccurate to reduce the contributions of black people to the vast material wealth created by our bondage.
00:26:37.000Black Americans have also been and continue to be foundational to the idea of American freedom.
00:26:42.000More than any group in this country's history, we have served generation after generation in an overlooked but vital role.
00:26:47.000It is we who have been perfectors of this democracy.
00:26:50.000That is true, although I think that you would have to include among the people who have perfected the democracy all the people who fought to free slaves, including hundreds of thousands of white people who died to free slaves, including the abolitionist movement, which was generally led by white people.
00:27:05.000In other words, it was not just black people fighting against white people, it was good people fighting against people who were wrong.
00:27:10.000And to boil that down to black people versus white people is racially untrue.
00:27:15.000It is true that black people were fighting for rights that they ought to have had.
00:27:18.000It is also true that they were joined in that fight by a huge number of people who did not share their race but did share their ideals.
00:27:28.000This, uh, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes, Our Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4th, 1776, proclaims that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, but the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in our midst.
00:27:46.000Okay, that's not true for all the white men.
00:27:49.000It's just not true for all the white men.
00:27:51.000It's true for some of the slave-holding white men.
00:27:53.000It was certainly not true for a bunch of the founders who were actual abolitionists, who opposed slavery.
00:27:58.000John Adams opposed slavery, of course.
00:28:01.000Despite being violently denied the freedom and justice promised to all, black Americans believe fervently in the American creed.
00:28:06.000Through centuries of black resistance and protest, we have helped the country live up to its founding ideals.
00:28:20.000These other essays link everything from capitalism to Trump To the criminal justice system, to differences in medical outcome, to slavery.
00:28:32.000So in other words, anything that the left doesn't like, any inequality is due to inequity, and any policy the left does not like is due to slavery.
00:28:40.000There's an essay in the New York Times Magazine as part of the 1619 Project that suggests that America's failure to embrace Medicare for all is rooted in slavery.
00:28:49.000That America's failure to embrace nationalized healthcare is rooted in slavery.
00:29:14.000Then, they all fast forward about 150 years, and then they say, and just as slavery was bad then, here is an institution now I don't like, and it's connected to slavery.
00:29:24.000And they don't really explain how that institution is deeply connected with slavery, they just sort of fast forward, and then make the assumption, and they assume that the good-hearted liberal readers at the New York Times will understand precisely what they're talking about, because the good-hearted liberal readers at the New York Times wish to believe that their political opponents are pro-slavery and pro-Jim Crow.
00:29:57.000If you're gonna make an argument like every institution in America is founded on slavery, that should be some pretty tightly reasoned stuff because that's counterintuitive.
00:30:04.000It turns out that the North's industrial power was significantly greater than the South's agricultural power.
00:30:09.000And yet you have an essay in the New York Times suggesting that American capitalism is rooted in slavery.
00:30:45.000And my great fear is that the New York Times is purposefully doing this sort of stuff deliberately and cynically.
00:30:52.000In order to suggest that if you disagree with the implications that they are drawing from slavery, that you are not taking slavery seriously.
00:31:00.000You can take slavery and Jim Crow seriously, you can take racism seriously, and still disagree with the New York Times, that Medicare for All is not mandated by opposition to slavery.
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00:33:03.000Now, Jamel Bouie is a very radical dude on politics.
00:33:07.000He still claims that Stacey Abrams is governor of Georgia.
00:33:09.000He still thinks that she lost the vote by 50,000 votes.
00:33:12.000He still thinks that she was the duly elected governor of Georgia and only racism prevented that, despite the fact that black voters turned out in massive numbers in the last election cycle and were not, in fact, suppressed.
00:33:21.000He has a piece in the New York Times Magazine in the 1619 Project.
00:33:25.000It says, America holds on to an undemocratic assumption from its founding that some people deserve more power than others.
00:33:31.000And I can tell from that blurb that this is going to be wildly overbroad, that he is now going to suggest that because America was founded With slavery as part of its founding compact.
00:33:42.000That slavery was tolerated and there was an assumption that some people deserve power and others did not.
00:33:46.000That this is now the same in American politics.
00:33:53.000And he talks about the debt limit standoff that took place in 2011.
00:33:57.000He says, quote, the debt limit standoff was a case study of a fundamental change within the Republican Party after Obama took office in 2009.
00:34:04.000Republicans would either win total victory or they would wreck the system itself.
00:34:08.000The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, used a variety of procedural tactics to effectively nullify the president's ability to nominate federal judges and fill vacancies in the executive branch.
00:34:17.000In the minority, he used the filibuster to an unprecedented degree.
00:34:20.000Well, actually, Harry Reid then ended the judicial filibuster.
00:34:24.000In the majority, after Republicans won the Senate in the 2010 midterm elections, he led an extraordinary blockade of the Supreme Court, stopping the Senate from even considering the president's nominee for the bench.
00:34:33.000First of all, the Republicans didn't win the Senate in 2010.
00:34:44.000So you at least got to get your facts straight.
00:34:46.000The Republicans won back the Congress in 2010.
00:34:50.000In any case, the debt limit, he's trying to suggest that the debt limit standoff, believe it or not, is racism and slavery.
00:34:57.000Equivalent that it is an outgrowth of it.
00:34:59.000He says, where did this destructive sectarian style of partisan politics come from?
00:35:03.000Conventional wisdom traces its roots to the Gingrich revolution of the 1990s, whose architect pioneered a hardball insurgent style of political combat, undermining norms and dismantling congressional institutions for the sake of power.
00:35:15.000This is true enough, but the Republican Party of the Obama years didn't just recycle its Gingrich era excesses.
00:35:20.000It also pursued a policy of total opposition, not just blocking Obama, but also casting him as fundamentally illegitimate and un-American.
00:35:27.000He may have been elected by a majority of the voting public, but that majority didn't count.
00:35:36.000Republicans impeached Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
00:35:40.000They never made a move to impeach Barack Obama, despite the myriad scandals that cropped up during his administration.
00:35:47.000I'm not aware of a single major Republican figure who said that Barack Obama was not the legitimate president of the United States, despite the fact that Democrats have claimed that George W. Bush was illegitimate.
00:35:55.000They've claimed that Donald Trump is illegitimate.
00:36:13.000Jamel Bui says, Obama's election reignited a fight about democratic legitimacy, about who can claim the country as their own, and who has the right to act as a citizen that is as old as American democracy itself.
00:36:26.000Did anyone, like, who was claiming that Barack Obama did not have the right to act as a citizen?
00:36:32.000Okay, so basically, if you opposed Obama, it's because you were an outgrowth of slavery.
00:36:34.000And then he goes into the history of John C. Calhoun, right?
00:36:36.000and arrest the power of majorities beyond the limits of the Constitution, has its own peculiar history, not just in the ideological battles of the founding, but in the other institutions that define the American Republic as much as any other.
00:36:47.000Okay, so basically, if you opposed Obama, it's because you were an outgrowth of slavery.
00:36:52.000And then he goes into the history of John C. Calhoun, an actual secessionist who was militantly in favor of slavery and talked about it being a positive good for black people, vicious racist John C. Calhoun.
00:37:06.000He says, listen to how he fast forwards here.
00:37:19.000Ten years later, following the idea of nullification to its conclusion, the South seceded from the Union after Abraham Lincoln won the White House without a single southern state.
00:37:28.000War came a few months later, and four years of fighting destroyed the system of slavery Calhoun fought to protect.
00:37:35.000His deep suspicion of majoritarian democracy, his view that government must protect interests defined by their unique geographic and economic characteristics more than people, would inform the sectional politics of the South in the 20th century, where solid blocks of Southern lawmakers worked collectively to stifle any attempt to regulate the region.
00:37:52.000One, suspicion of majoritarian democracy is not unique to John C. Calhoun.
00:37:56.000Okay, that is true for everyone from Montesquieu to John Locke.
00:37:59.000It is true for all of the Enlightenment philosophers who lay at the foundation of American democracy.
00:38:05.000If you read the Federalist Papers, there is deep concern about maturitarian democracy, which is why we have checks and balances.
00:38:11.000So this is not unique to John C. Calhoun.
00:38:12.000Calhoun used it in the worst possible way and for the worst possible excuse.
00:38:16.000But to blame a belief in federalism on favoring slavery is just historically illiterate.
00:38:24.000Bui says, despite insurgencies at home, the Populist Party, for example, swept through Georgia and North Carolina in the 1890s, reactionary white leaders were able to maintain an iron grip on federal offices until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
00:38:37.000Another thing worth noting here, when he says majoritarianism ought to rule the day, populism ought to rule the day, you know who was a majoritarian populist president?
00:38:47.000Maybe our second after Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, a brutal, horrible racist who declared himself a big man governing with the will of the people through majority without reference to the checks and balances of American government.
00:38:59.000Those checks and balances were designed to protect In many cases, what one justice in the Supreme Court called in a case called Caroline Products, a discreet and insular minority.
00:39:09.000In other words, black people have largely been a discreet and insular minority throughout American history.
00:39:14.000The system should have been designed to protect those discreet and insular minorities, not just majorities.
00:39:19.000Majoritarianism for most of American history was the worst threat to black people in the United States.
00:39:24.000He says, even then, the last generation of segregationist senators held on through the 1960s into the early 2000s, united like their predecessors, by geography and their stake in Jim Crow segregation, they were a powerful force in national politics, a bloc that vetoed anything that touched their regional prerogatives.
00:39:41.000So now, he has fast-forwarded all the way from 1865 to the early 2000s, and now he's going to claim that everything that he opposes is an outgrowth of slavery.
00:39:53.000He says there's a homegrown ideology of reaction in the United States inextricably tied to our system of slavery.
00:39:58.000And while the racial content of that ideology has attenuated over time, the basic framework remains fear of rival political majorities, of demographic replacement, of a government that threatens privilege and hierarchy.
00:40:09.000So now if you oppose Bernie Sanders, you know, a government that threatens privilege and hierarchy, then that's because you've been, you've been somehow infused with the spirit of slavery.
00:40:18.000The past 10 years of Republican extremism is emblematic.
00:40:22.000The Tea Party billed itself as a reaction to debt and spending, but a close look shows it was actually a reaction to an ascendant majority of black people, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and liberal white people.
00:40:49.000But many of us have concerns about a pure majoritarian system, and those concerns are embedded in the Constitution of the United States for good reason.
00:40:57.000Majorities sometimes do horrible things to minorities, as Jamel Bouie of all people should understand.
00:41:03.000Anybody who's minority in America should understand the majorities.
00:41:06.000They're called minorities for a reason.
00:41:54.000And it turns out a bunch of the pieces are like this.
00:41:57.000Perhaps the silliest piece comes courtesy of Matthew Desmond.
00:42:01.000Who's written a book called eviction that's actually a pretty interesting book, but he has a tendency to ascribe to American capitalism all of the all of the problems that individuals experience in their lives.
00:42:14.000He has a piece that cuts against the very foundations of economic theory for the last 200 years.
00:42:19.000He has a piece blaming capitalism on slavery.
00:42:21.000So we've already had Jamal Bowie saying that everything that he doesn't like in today's politics is because of slavery.
00:42:26.000Now we have Matthew Desmond writing a piece that says, in order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
00:42:34.000Weird, because I thought that if you wanted to understand capitalism, you might start with, you know, industrial era revolution, the industrial revolution in Britain.
00:42:41.000Maybe you start with managerial capitalism in the United States post-Civil War.
00:42:45.000Maybe you start with financial capitalism that begins in the United States in the 1970s and 80s.
00:42:52.000To start with the most backward part of the American economy, You know, the part of the American economy so backward that the entire South was overrun simply through the sheer industrial might of the North is pretty incredible, but Matthew Desmond somehow manages to turn this ridiculous trick.
00:43:06.000He connects Martin Shkreli to slavery.
00:43:19.000This is irresponsible, and it's cynical, and it's obviously politically motivated.
00:43:24.000And by the way, it's just factually wrong in many cases, which means the political motivations really matter more than they otherwise would.
00:43:29.000Matthew Desmond had this piece a couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud.
00:43:33.000Martin Shkreli was the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company that acquired the rights to Daraprim, a life-saving anti-parasitic drug.
00:43:40.000And then he talks about Shkreli being terrible.
00:43:50.000It's a fatalistic mantra that seems to get repeated to anyone who questions why America can't be more fair or equal.
00:43:56.000But around the world, there are many types of capitalist societies ranging from liberating to exploitative, protective to abusive, democratic to unregulated.
00:44:03.000When Americans declare we live in a capitalist society, what they're often defending is our nation's peculiarly brutal economy.
00:44:10.000No, what I'm defending when I say we live in a capitalist society is that we live in an economy that has generated the vast majority of the world's growth for the last 50 years and raised half of the world's population from abject poverty in the last 30.
00:44:20.000That's what I'm talking about when I say we live in a capitalist society.
00:44:22.000But according to this columnist for the 1619 Project, Matthew Desmond, Those searching for reasons the American economy is uniquely severe and unbridled have found answers in many places.
00:44:33.000But recently, historians have pointed persuasively to the natty fields of Georgia and Alabama, to cotton houses and slave auction blocks as the birthplace of America's low-road approach to capitalism.
00:44:43.000And then he talks about the, again, this is the same sloppy intellectual move.
00:44:46.000We're going to move directly from slavery is bad to capitalism is slavery.
00:44:53.000So he talks about nearly two average American lifetimes have passed since the end of slavery, only two.
00:44:57.000It's not surprising we can still feel the looming presence of this institution, which helped turn a poor fledgling nation into a financial colossus.
00:45:05.000The surprising bit has to do with many of the eerily specific ways slavery can still be felt in our economic life.
00:45:51.000They were not adopted by the industrial north.
00:45:54.000That would suggest that these plantations were the site of incredible and disproportionate productivity as opposed to the north.
00:46:03.000Now they did become more productive over time through these managerial processes and mostly through the use of machineries like the cotton gin.
00:46:09.000But the fact is that the industrial north was way more powerful than the south and it was not close.
00:47:04.000He says companies have developed software that records workers' keystrokes and mouse clicks, along with randomly capturing screenshots multiple times a day.
00:47:13.000The core impulse behind that technology pervaded plantations.
00:47:23.000He says, consider a Wall Street financial instrument as modern sounding as collateralized debt obligation, CDOs, as ticking time bombs backed by inflated home prices in the 2000s.
00:47:32.000CDOs were the grandchildren of mortgage-backed securities based on the inflated value of enslaved people sold in the 1820s and 1830s.
00:48:01.000And as it turns out, a lot of these pieces are not.
00:48:03.000A lot of these pieces are designed to elicit a particular emotional response that, again, suggests that if you disagree with the conclusion being drawn, you don't take slavery seriously enough.
00:48:21.000New York Times is just saying, if you disagree with their political conclusions, It's because you don't care enough about slavery and you don't understand that at the heart of every beating foundation of the United States, at the beating heart of every foundation of the United States, lies this evil institution and thus they all must be torn down.
00:48:36.000There's an article in here by Bryan Stevenson suggesting that our criminal justice system is rooted in slavery.
00:48:43.000Now again, they're going to have to explain how it is that people commit crimes and go to jail.
00:48:49.000There are parts of America's criminal justice system that, of course, were vestiges of slavery and brutality to black people and Jim Crow, particularly.
00:49:08.000We also have articles that suggest that if you oppose the Affordable Care Act, it's because you're pro-slavery.
00:49:13.000We have articles that suggest that the gap in maternal mortality between black women and white women in the United States is due to slavery and differences in beliefs about racial characteristics, based on incredibly flimsy evidence and also not really explaining why it is that Europe has the same gaps.
00:49:32.000And Europe, of course, eliminated slavery a lot earlier than the United States.
00:49:40.000And the kickback against it should be on that level.
00:49:42.000It should not be on the level of, we shouldn't study this stuff, and I don't really see a lot of people who are making that case.
00:49:46.000What I do see is a lot of people on the left who are cynically suggesting that if you disagree with them politically, it's because you don't take slavery seriously enough, and lead among them is...
00:49:55.000Okay, time for a thing I like and then we'll get to a quick thing that I hate.
00:49:56.000of the New York Times, who's deliberately attempting to link slavery with the 2020 election.
00:50:06.000It turns out America is filled with wonderful, wonderful people.
00:50:09.000For all the hatred that we tend to show each other on a daily basis, particularly on social media, which is bleeding over into real life, The fact is that when called upon, the American people can be wonderful to each other.
00:50:23.000So there is an El Paso shooting victim who was a widower with no other family.
00:50:29.000And Tony Vasco lost, as you said, the love of his life, Margie.
00:50:32.000to the funeral and they were afraid that nobody would show up.
00:50:35.000My friends were afraid that nobody would show up.
00:50:37.000Instead, hundreds of people showed up, hundreds of strangers showed up for the victim's funeral.
00:50:42.000There's still a lot of good-hearted, compassionate people in the United States, lest we forget. - Tony Basco lost, as you said, the love of his life, Margie.
00:51:18.000And most of them are from the El Paso area and also nearby New Mexico, but I've talked to people also from California, from Arizona, and from Utah.
00:51:33.000America is still a great country and becoming better in its tolerance, becoming better in its willingness to overlook differences and its acceptance of people who are different.
00:51:51.000I mean, people are looking to be out there for each other, and they should be.
00:51:53.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:59.000So clashes broke out in Portland over the weekend because it was a weekend in Portland, and there were some dueling rallies, one by the Proud Boys and one by Antifa.
00:52:07.000We've seen these sorts of things break out routinely.
00:52:09.000Naturally, the media covered this as though we're fascists and anti-fascists.
00:52:12.000Doesn't matter that Antifa has gotten extraordinarily violent with people in the past, including in Portland.
00:52:18.000Democrats still will not denounce Antifa.
00:52:20.000They're going to go along with this bizarre notion that Antifa actually is anti-fascist and not just a bunch of thugs in masks running around beating people up.
00:52:29.000Here is a list of Democrats, how they responded to TPUSA's Benny Johnson when he asked them to denounce Antifa.
00:52:37.000Here's Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for example.
00:52:39.000I was wondering if you could take this opportunity to denounce Antifa as a hate group.
00:52:47.000Would you be willing to publicly denounce Antifa today?
00:53:26.000OK, and it just goes on and on and on and on.
00:53:28.000The only person who would even come close to doing it was Joe Biden, who said that he denounces hate on all sides.
00:53:34.000That at least is closer to the answer.
00:53:37.000But the fact that the Democrats, that people on the left continue to cover for Antifa is pretty telling about what they want from American politics.
00:53:47.000There are people who have threatened my life, the lives of people that I know.
00:53:51.000The fact that you cannot get a willingness to denounce just the same way that on the right, you should have a willingness to denounce white supremacists and people who get violent.
00:54:01.000So the flip side of people gathering together to try and, to try and band together against the forces of darkness is people who will not do so, apparently, including leading Democratic politicians.
00:54:10.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
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