The Ben Shapiro Show - We Didn’t Start The Fire | Ep. 1268

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00:01:43.000 The constant theme from the Democrats and from the media these days is that there is a deep, abiding threat to American democracy.

00:01:51.000 And I think there are certainly threats to American democracy.

00:01:53.000 I just don't think they are coming from where the left says they are coming from.

00:01:56.000 I think that the great threat to American democracy these days, and to a civilized way of life, is the authoritarian left that is on the move inside every American institution.

00:02:04.000 An authoritarian left that is seeking to centralize power and to quash all dissent from its opponents in pretty much every major institution in American life.

00:02:12.000 Whether we're talking about the scientific institutions or whether we're talking about our educational institutions, certainly the media that push forward this authoritarianism.

00:02:20.000 I mean, the press openly root at this point for those who dissent to be quashed.

00:02:25.000 They openly attempt to push social media, another institution dominated by leftists, to shut down people who disagree.

00:02:32.000 And that's not even getting to the governmental policy that is now being pushed by the Democrats, which is overtly racist and discriminatory, which is government policy that is directed at seizing money from the private sector and sucking the money out, and then apparently blowing the money back in, but into all the wrong places.

00:02:49.000 And completely redoing the way democracy has historically been done in the United States.

00:02:54.000 America is a liberal republic.

00:02:56.000 Okay, there's a focus on the word liberal there because it's classically liberal.

00:02:59.000 The whole point of the American Constitution is that pure mob rule is tyranny.

00:03:04.000 If you look at the Federalist Papers, all the founders say this.

00:03:07.000 Pure mob rule is just a different sort of tyranny.

00:03:10.000 Mobocracy is not, in fact, democracy.

00:03:14.000 Liberal democracy requires that there be certain pre-existing individual rights.

00:03:17.000 Those rights of pre-existing government.

00:03:19.000 Government was formed in order to protect those rights.

00:03:21.000 This is why there are checks and balances.

00:03:22.000 Otherwise, you wouldn't need checks and balances.

00:03:25.000 And the left, the authoritarian left, says you don't need checks and balances.

00:03:27.000 What you need is effectively an elected dictatorship in which the bureaucracy decides all of your rights and all of your duties.

00:03:34.000 And then, by mob rule, they can be replaced at any time.

00:03:38.000 This is what the left would prefer.

00:03:40.000 And some people on the left aren't even shy about this, right?

00:03:42.000 Ibram X. Kendi, who's the ideological...

00:03:45.000 grandfather at this point of the entire democratic agenda.

00:03:49.000 Ibram X. Kendi has openly stated and pushed for a department of anti-racism, a federal department of anti-racism, where there would be a bureaucratic department inside the Justice Department, presumably, and their entire job, or be a cabinet-level department, their entire job would be to strike down any law, state, local, or federal, That ends with disparate impact, right?

00:04:12.000 That ends by impacting different racial groups differently, or that ends with inequality of outcome.

00:04:17.000 Okay, that's tyranny.

00:04:19.000 And the left isn't being shy about all of this.

00:04:20.000 And yet, at the same time, the left is demagoguing all of this by suggesting that the right is the true threat to democracy.

00:04:25.000 Now, I'm not going to pretend that there aren't people on the right who have wanted to quote-unquote overthrow the system.

00:04:30.000 And when you have Defy, like, Michael Flynn out there suggesting that we should have a Myanmar-like coup.

00:04:38.000 Obviously, that is going to be fuel on the fire for the Democrats.

00:04:41.000 But when we're talking about who has institutional power, who's actually attempting to do this right now, it is important to recognize that the left is playing up January 6th because the true authoritarian threat to the country, meaning the threat that is most likely to succeed, is not a bunch of droogs running into the Capitol building on January 6th and then within hours being dissipated and All of the mechanisms of the republic moving forward as normal.

00:05:06.000 The real threat is the overarching change that the left wishes to bring to the country.

00:05:12.000 And yet the left pretends that it is not the aggressor in this.

00:05:15.000 The left has been pushing on every single front.

00:05:17.000 They've been pushing cultural radicalism.

00:05:19.000 They've been pushing racial polarization.

00:05:21.000 They've been pushing the breakdown of democratic institutions.

00:05:24.000 They want to get rid of the filibuster.

00:05:26.000 They want to get rid of the Senate. 0.63

00:05:27.000 I mean, you had the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, literally say yesterday that we have a serious problem in the United States when Wyoming has as many votes in the Senate as California.

00:05:34.000 That's not a problem with the system.

00:05:36.000 That is the system.

00:05:38.000 The system was specifically designated so that the states have the power to check federal ambition.

00:05:44.000 This is one of the purposes of the checks and balances of the Constitution of the United States. 1.00

00:05:49.000 This is what I talk about in my new book, The Authoritarian Moment, which comes out in July, is the fact that if we're talking about the true authoritarian threat, the true authoritarian threat is not a bunch of crazy people and idiots saying ridiculous things on Twitter. 0.96

00:06:05.000 The real threat is people taking over actively institutions and then weaponizing those institutions against dissent while overthrowing the checks and balances that protect individual rights. 0.94

00:06:13.000 That's the actual authoritarian threat in the United States right now.

00:06:17.000 And the left has to demagogue this because if they can accuse the right of doing what they themselves are doing, if they can distract you over here with the shiny object, then you might not notice the fact that they are actually pushing for mobocracy and bureaucratic top-down rule.

00:06:30.000 Ben Rhodes is king of this. 0.93

00:06:31.000 So Ben Rhodes, who is just a liar. 1.00

00:06:33.000 Ben Rhodes is just a terrible human being. 0.99

00:06:35.000 He was a chief advisor to Barack Obama. 0.94

00:06:37.000 Openly admitted, by the way, that he lied to the American people repeatedly.

00:06:41.000 He openly admitted in print that he had manipulated members of the media into lying about the Iran deal.

00:06:46.000 He said that the Obama administration had found moderates inside the Iranian administration.

00:06:52.000 And that they had to embolden those moderates by signing the Iran deal.

00:06:54.000 Then later he admitted there were no moderates inside the Iranian administration.

00:06:57.000 Actually, that was all nonsense.

00:06:58.000 We just created that narrative out of whole cloth.

00:07:01.000 We lied about when we started negotiating with the Iranians, said Ben Rhodes.

00:07:04.000 And he admitted that he had an echo chamber of journalists, sycophantic journalists like Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who would just do his bidding.

00:07:10.000 He said there were a bunch of young journalists who didn't know anything about the Middle East, and they would just do whatever Ben Rhodes wanted.

00:07:15.000 So Ben Rhodes has admitted to lying to the media.

00:07:16.000 The media still suck up to him.

00:07:18.000 He's admitted to misleading the American people.

00:07:20.000 He's still considered a well-respected voice on these issues.

00:07:23.000 And of course, he was part of an administration that radically shifted American politics.

00:07:27.000 And there are a lot of folks on the left who believe that 2016 broke the country.

00:07:30.000 Ah, when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, that's when the country started to fall apart. 0.79

00:07:33.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:07:34.000 The election that broke the country in serious ways that have yet to be repaired was 2012, when the most decent person, in terms of just personal decency, who has run for public office in a very long time, Mitt Romney, was beaten by a president who was presiding over an extraordinarily slow recovery from a deep economic recession.

00:07:53.000 Who had pushed a deeply unpopular Obamacare program, who had blown out the spending, and who then engaged in a complete rewriting of how politics was done in the United States.

00:08:01.000 I think it is completely underrated what Barack Obama did between 2010 and 2012.

00:08:05.000 Between 2010 when he lost Congress and 2012 when he won re-election with a large number of votes.

00:08:10.000 He lost several million votes from 2008.

00:08:12.000 He still won in 2012, becoming the first president in a very long time to win re-election by losing votes between the two elections.

00:08:19.000 What Barack Obama did at that point was truly astonishing.

00:08:22.000 He completely redid the way American politics was done.

00:08:25.000 Instead of attempting to appeal to the broadest possible audience, Barack Obama decided he was going to throw out SOPs to a variety of identity-related groups, and then he was going to militarize that coalition against the quote-unquote prevailing white ascendancy.

00:08:40.000 He started the fire.

00:08:41.000 In other words, the Democrats started this fire.

00:08:43.000 And then they claim, oh, well, why is there this fire here?

00:08:46.000 You guys did it.

00:08:47.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

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00:09:56.000 Okay, so back to Ben Rhodes.

00:09:57.000 So Ben Rhodes is now making the rounds suggesting the democracy is under threat.

00:10:02.000 And we here in the United States, we have to show that a multiracial democracy can work.

00:10:05.000 Now, what he means by that is that Republicans are trying to stop a multiracial democracy from working.

00:10:09.000 The quiet implication here, which is not so quiet, is that Republicans are racists who want to stop multiracial democracy from working.

00:10:09.000 Right?

00:10:15.000 But the reality is, when you are overtly using government policies to cater to people of particular races, you are stopping multiracial democracy from working.

00:10:23.000 Multiracial democracy can only work when there are no preferences based on race.

00:10:29.000 But it's Democrats who are pushing overt policy, government policy, that has racial discrimination written into the policy.

00:10:35.000 Here is Ben Rhodes doing a fair bit of gaslighting right here.

00:10:39.000 Whether we're dealing with Russia or China, the most important thing the United States can do, I've come to believe, and this book was the whole process of learning this, is not any foreign policy.

00:10:50.000 We have to get our own act together.

00:10:52.000 The most powerful thing that people want from us around the world is not any one foreign policy.

00:10:57.000 It's that we can demonstrate that a multi-ethnic, multi-racial democracy can work.

00:11:03.000 And we have a lot of work to do to demonstrate that reality.

00:11:07.000 Okay, for the left, everything is a lever for the kind of change they are pushing.

00:11:11.000 Notice how Ben Rhodes is saying, you know, to fight Russia, to fight China, we don't actually have to have a strong military or a strong foreign policy.

00:11:16.000 We have to do the work.

00:11:18.000 We have to change how America is.

00:11:19.000 When you get the same thing from Joe Biden, he'll say, you know, in order to change China, in order to fight China, we need to, come on, man.

00:11:28.000 What that translates as, in order to fight China, we need to spend $6 trillion a year in the budget.

00:11:34.000 And we need to spend a huge amount of that on racially reparative policy. 0.51

00:11:38.000 We need to redo how democracy works.

00:11:40.000 We need to federalize all election law.

00:11:42.000 That's going to fight China. 1.00

00:11:43.000 Now, of course, that's not going to fight China.

00:11:45.000 But the idea from the left constantly is that America is deeply flawed and therefore we can't fight Russia and China. 0.76

00:11:50.000 Now, the reality is that America is the best system on earth.

00:11:55.000 We have the best politically designed system on earth under the Constitution of the United States.

00:11:58.000 There is no better.

00:12:00.000 There is a reason why America leads the world in virtually every economic and freedom category on a wide variety of issues until as of late apparently.

00:12:10.000 The reason for that is because it is inherent in the system and in a culture that Americans used to share with regard to God and community and social fabric and that has been almost completely blown up at this point by government interventionism and a social left on the march.

00:12:24.000 But the goal here, everything for the left, is about internal change.

00:12:26.000 It is never about fighting the bad guys.

00:12:28.000 It's never about standing up to China. 0.56

00:12:30.000 It's never about standing up to Russia.

00:12:32.000 This is why, when Donald Trump was president, their main focus was not... Trump would stand up to China.

00:12:37.000 He would stand up to Russia. 0.61

00:12:38.000 And they would get angry. 1.00

00:12:40.000 He would stand up to Iran and he'd kill their terrorist leader. 1.00

00:12:42.000 And they'd get mad. 0.99

00:12:43.000 They'd be like, yes, but the real change has to take place here, at home.

00:12:46.000 At home.

00:12:47.000 Okay, this is how the left thinks.

00:12:49.000 And they think, of course, and they lie.

00:12:51.000 They say that it's the right that started the culture war in the United States.

00:12:54.000 The culture wars have driven things to an extraordinary polarization in American politics again.

00:12:58.000 That's because the left is always pushing systemic change.

00:13:02.000 Systemic change that destroys any level of comedy in American politics.

00:13:06.000 Systemic change that destroys mainstay institutions in American life.

00:13:11.000 So here's a perfect example.

00:13:12.000 Today's New York Times.

00:13:13.000 There's an essay by a person named Cole Stangler, a journalist based in France.

00:13:13.000 This really struck me.

00:13:18.000 It's called France is becoming more like America. 0.94

00:13:20.000 It's terrible.

00:13:22.000 Which is an amazing statement. 0.99

00:13:24.000 First of all, if France were more like America, we wouldn't have to go over there every so often and save their asses from the Nazis. 0.99

00:13:29.000 But aside from that, France is becoming more like America, and it's terrible. 0.99

00:13:32.000 The reason that people in France have been saying that France is becoming more like America is because they have adopted a lot of the racially polarizing politics of the United States.

00:13:39.000 Who does Cole Stangler blame this on?

00:13:41.000 He blames it on the right, which is crazy.

00:13:43.000 You can see the role reversal that's taking place.

00:13:46.000 The left starts a culture war, and when the right responds, it's, how dare the right even respond?

00:13:50.000 You guys should stay out of the culture wars.

00:13:52.000 The answer is no.

00:13:53.000 The right is not going to stay out of the culture wars.

00:13:55.000 You started the fire.

00:13:57.000 You did it.

00:13:58.000 And we are going to fight for values that we hold dear.

00:14:01.000 We are going to cling to values that have undergirded classical liberalism and traditional values morality for hundreds of years when it comes to government and thousands of years when it comes to those values.

00:14:14.000 He'll get to this piece in just a second, because it really is telling.

00:14:16.000 It's really telling how the left does this gaslighting routine.

00:14:19.000 You guys are destroying democracy.

00:14:20.000 Meanwhile, Soto Voce, well, you know, we really need to get rid of all these democratic institutions.

00:14:25.000 You guys started the culture war, Soto Voce.

00:14:27.000 Well, what if boys were girls and girls were boys?

00:14:29.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.

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00:15:38.000 Okay, so there's this piece in the New York Times that really is very telling.

00:15:41.000 For some of these critics, it's the reason so many young people adopting the view of Black Lives Matter activists believe police violence is a problem.

00:15:46.000 cabinet, to the far-right opposition, from print columnists to talking heads, Americanization is increasingly held responsible for a whole set of social ills ailing the nation.

00:15:55.000 For some of these critics, it's the reason so many young people adopting the view of Black Lives Matter activists believe police violence is a problem.

00:16:01.000 For others, it explains why the quality of academic research is in decline, as fanciful ideas concocted on American college campuses like intersectionality and post-colonialism supposedly flourish.

00:16:10.000 To others still, it's why people can't speak their mind anymore suffocated by the threats of cancel culture.

00:16:14.000 Perhaps the most common gripe is that ideas and practices imported from the United States are making the French obsessed with ethnic, religious, and sexual difference at the expense of their shared identity as citizens of the Universal Republic.

00:16:25.000 They're not wrong. 0.51

00:16:26.000 French politics are in fact becoming Americanized.

00:16:27.000 Okay, so it seems like this columnist is going to say, yes, the left.

00:16:31.000 From the left's perspective, it is the right that is the problem.

00:16:37.000 The problem is not left-wing theories or censorious scolds.

00:16:40.000 It's the rise of an insular nationalistic right-wing discourse, driven by a belligerent style of press coverage, distinctively French in content, the form this discourse takes.

00:16:48.000 Grievance-swallowing hosts conjuring embittered conversations about national decline, immigration, and religion follows America's lead.

00:16:54.000 As in the United States, the result is a degraded political landscape that empowers the far right, dragging mainstream politicians into its orbit.

00:17:01.000 Culture wars are America's true gift to France. 0.96

00:17:04.000 Okay, so instead of recognizing that America right now has moved into a period of deep political polarization because the left is speeding so fast to the left.

00:17:14.000 I mean, they're Thelma and Louise off the cliff.

00:17:16.000 Remember, 30 years ago?

00:17:19.000 The concept of decriminalizing homosexuality was still a controversial idea in the United States.

00:17:24.000 And then the United States was like, well, you know what?

00:17:26.000 We're not gonna criminalize bedroom activity, which I think is the right move.

00:17:30.000 And then there was an argument about civil unions.

00:17:31.000 And people were like, should they get the same sort of contractual benefits as people who are married?

00:17:35.000 People with two men versus a man and a woman. 0.92

00:17:37.000 And people on the right were like, sure, okay, I guess.

00:17:41.000 And then it went to, okay, gay marriage. 0.70

00:17:43.000 Marriage that's exactly the same under law and treated with respect by everyone.

00:17:48.000 And it won't hurt you.

00:17:49.000 And then it went to religious institutions have to perform gay marriages and your child has to be indoctrinated in this. 0.65

00:17:54.000 And then it went to boys and girls, since marriage now no longer is between a boy and a girl or a man and a woman.

00:18:00.000 Now, because of all of that, we should just recognize the truth, which is that boys and girls don't exist.

00:18:04.000 And so if a boy says he's a girl and a girl says she's a boy, that means they should compete in sports against one. 0.83

00:18:08.000 Like the rush to the left on social issues from the left is unbelievable.

00:18:11.000 Remember, Bill Clinton in the 1990s, being a pro-abortion politician, still said things like safe, legal and rare.

00:18:18.000 There was a baseline acknowledgement that abortion was a bad thing.

00:18:22.000 Now, the left speaks out about how wonderful abortion is.

00:18:25.000 Abortion is an asset. 0.66

00:18:26.000 Don't tell me that the right has gotten more right-wing.

00:18:28.000 It's just a lie.

00:18:30.000 All that happened is that the right stopped surrendering on every single issue because they finally reached some core issues they couldn't surrender on.

00:18:37.000 It's the left that has pushed these culture wars.

00:18:39.000 It is the left that has decided to polarize Americans around issues that would have been considered absolutely Uncontroversial, even 10 years ago.

00:18:48.000 10 years ago, it would have been considered an uncontroversial idea that a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl.

00:18:51.000 That would have been considered absolutely conventional in 2010, 2011.

00:18:56.000 Now, you say that sort of stuff and you're afraid that your business is going to fire you.

00:19:00.000 The left's culture wars have driven this.

00:19:03.000 And then the left says, well, if we can't get done what we want to get done, it's the checks and balances that have to go.

00:19:09.000 The woke cultural left has moved into the governmental left.

00:19:15.000 And that merger is creating tremendous rifts in American public life.

00:19:19.000 The left did.

00:19:19.000 Who started that?

00:19:20.000 The left has been rushing so fast to the left.

00:19:23.000 Remember, Bernie Sanders was a fringe figure 10 years ago.

00:19:27.000 Now, Bernie Sanders is considered a thought leader of the Democratic Party.

00:19:30.000 You think the squad would have any power in the Democratic Congress 15, 20 years ago?

00:19:34.000 Absolutely not.

00:19:35.000 They'd be seen in exactly the same way as Cynthia McKinney was seen inside the Democratic Party, who was the last Democrat who apparently Democrats were able to condemn. 0.99

00:19:43.000 For overt anti-Semitism.

00:19:44.000 Now you have Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Alexander Ocasio-Cortez leading the squad as an ideological threat inside the halls of Congress.

00:19:51.000 Don't tell me the right started this fire.

00:19:53.000 It's not true.

00:19:53.000 That's a lie.

00:19:55.000 Donald Trump didn't start this fire.

00:19:56.000 He was a symptom, not a cause.

00:19:58.000 As I've said many times, Donald Trump himself, I know the left wants to treat it as though the universe began spinning when Donald Trump became president, but that's not true.

00:20:04.000 He performed exactly in line with other Republican candidates.

00:20:08.000 He won about the same percentage of the popular vote as Mitt Romney did.

00:20:11.000 The reason for that is because the left has created a hard core on the right of people who are going to resist them, and the more they push, the more resistance there will be.

00:20:19.000 And then, of course, they'll blame you, and they'll blame democracy.

00:20:22.000 I mean, look how far they've pushed on culture.

00:20:24.000 So yesterday, there was a video making the rounds on the internet of a girl in Texas who was valedictorian of her high school.

00:20:30.000 And instead of reading her valedictory address, which had been pre-approved, which is typically how this is done at high schools all around the nation.

00:20:37.000 Instead, she got up and she decided to rant about abortion and how abortion was a wonderful thing for women. 1.00

00:20:41.000 And she was cheered for this.

00:20:42.000 Hillary Clinton, remember, her husband said safe, legal, and rare.

00:20:45.000 This girl was like, if we don't have abortion, women can't succeed in American life. 1.00

00:20:48.000 And Hillary Clinton was cheering it.

00:20:50.000 Here's what this young woman had to say.

00:20:53.000 I have dreams, and hopes, and ambitions.

00:20:57.000 Every girl graduating today does. 0.89

00:21:00.000 And we have spent our entire lives working towards our future.

00:21:04.000 And without our input, and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us.

00:21:12.000 I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter.

00:21:26.000 Okay, what she's saying is morally horrifying, right? 0.97

00:21:28.000 She's saying that her hopes and aspirations rely on killing a baby in the womb. 0.98

00:21:31.000 That's what she's actually saying. 0.96

00:21:33.000 She throws in rape there, but the reality is that the vast majority of people who are having abortions in the United States, as in on the order of over 99%, are not people who have been raped or are victims of incest.

00:21:43.000 The vast majority of people who have abortions in the United States are having abortions because they don't want the baby.

00:21:49.000 But that is treated not only as mainstream political rhetoric these days, that abortion is a fundamental good.

00:21:53.000 It's a guarantor of women's rights. 1.00

00:21:55.000 It's a guarantor that you're able to do what you want in the workplace.

00:21:57.000 Now, it turns out that there are other ways to avoid getting pregnant. 0.88

00:22:00.000 Namely, don't have sex. 0.96

00:22:03.000 Use birth control, use a couple forms of birth control.

00:22:05.000 You could theoretically do what my wife and I did and get married before you have babies, right? 0.99

00:22:09.000 There are lots of things you can do.

00:22:11.000 But the idea here that abortion is the sole guarantor, that it is the last available battlement before women's rights are breached is an insane one, but the left has fully embraced this. 0.66

00:22:20.000 To the point where Andrew Cuomo was lighting up buildings in New York pink after they passed a basic abortion on demand up until point of birth bill in New York.

00:22:29.000 Who's pushing the culture war?

00:22:31.000 The people who are pushing the culture war are the folks on the left.

00:22:33.000 Again, Hillary Clinton tweeted out, this took guts.

00:22:36.000 Thank you for not saying silent, Paxton.

00:22:38.000 Because she knew she'd be celebrated.

00:22:38.000 Did it take guts though?

00:22:39.000 Beto O'Rourke tweeted, Paxton, thank you for having the courage of your convictions and inspiring Texas with your refusal to accept injustice as the price of participation in civic life bra.

00:22:50.000 Maybe I'll use our place in this democracy to fight for what we believe to be right and follow your example.

00:22:55.000 Yeah, you should follow her example by, you know, shouting about how abortion is just an indubitable moral good.

00:23:01.000 It's just an incredible moral good.

00:23:04.000 Accept injustice as the price of participation.

00:23:05.000 Again, no one is forcing her to get pregnant.

00:23:09.000 Nobody is suggesting that she cannot make the decision not to have a baby.

00:23:13.000 Okay, but once you have a baby in your womb, that is an independent human.

00:23:19.000 It really is.

00:23:21.000 The culture wars are being driven by the left.

00:23:23.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:24:35.000 Speaking of the culture war, see, here's the thing.

00:24:37.000 Culture wars are a bunch of little battles.

00:24:40.000 And every time there's a little battle, people on the left say, well, why are you even pushing back on this?

00:24:43.000 Again, this is all part of the broader gaslighting.

00:24:45.000 So the broader gaslighting is, we didn't start the culture war, you guys are the culture warriors.

00:24:49.000 And we're like, wait, I'm a culture warrior because I say that abortion is bad and men and women exist?

00:24:54.000 I'm confused.

00:24:55.000 Like, how did that make me the aggressor in this culture war?

00:24:57.000 And this is why the media are constantly using the language of Republicans Pounce.

00:25:01.000 Every time something happens that the left is pushing, it's Republicans Pounce.

00:25:05.000 The story is not Republicans Pouncing.

00:25:07.000 The story is the left pushing an aggressive move.

00:25:10.000 Okay, but then they say, okay, so there'll be a little cultural battle.

00:25:13.000 That seems to not make much of a difference.

00:25:15.000 And the right will push back.

00:25:16.000 They'll say, why are you even pushing back on this cultural battle?

00:25:18.000 Why can't you just take the L?

00:25:19.000 Why are you even sounding off about this?

00:25:21.000 Why is it even important to get your thoughts on, for example, Chris Harrison being booted off The Bachelor?

00:25:26.000 And the answer is, because every little aggressive move is an inch in your direction.

00:25:31.000 And that has to be checked.

00:25:32.000 That has to be stopped.

00:25:33.000 But it's not being stopped.

00:25:34.000 It is marching forward full scale.

00:25:36.000 We've now learned again, it's important to recognize that small issues add up to a big issue.

00:25:41.000 Small changes add up to a big change.

00:25:43.000 Okay, so when The Bachelor, which again is a very popular TV show in the United States, ousts its host for the great sin of having said that a girl should have grace.

00:25:52.000 So people should give a girl grace. 0.99

00:25:54.000 For having, when she was 19 years old, gone to an antebellum ball at her college.

00:25:57.000 He loses his hosting gig, and he's now apparently not returning to Bachelor in Paradise.

00:26:02.000 All of this over saying the same thing that this girl's black boyfriend was saying at the time before he decided to reverse himself and take the woke position that his girlfriend was actually evil.

00:26:11.000 Apparently, she's now back with him, which is, frankly, an incredible lack of self-esteem.

00:26:15.000 I mean, seriously, note to all ladies, if your boyfriend publicly calls you a racist and says you have work to do, you shouldn't be with him. 1.00

00:26:21.000 He's a jerk. 0.99

00:26:22.000 Okay, but put that aside, Chris Harrison, who wasn't even involved in that core relationship, has now lost his job. 1.00

00:26:29.000 And by the way, the ratings for The Bachelor are gonna pay the price here.

00:26:31.000 According to Variety, Chris Harrison's future with The Bachelor franchise remains in limbo, as the longtime host will sit out the summer season of Bachelor in Paradise.

00:26:39.000 Instead, the role will be filled by celebrity comedians, including David Spade.

00:26:43.000 Good luck with that.

00:26:44.000 By the way, David Spade's a comedian.

00:26:45.000 I can't imagine he's never told a risque joke.

00:26:49.000 Harrison has been on the sidelines and embroiled in controversy since February, when he made highly criticized comments during an interview about the controversy surrounding The Bachelor.

00:26:57.000 Kirkconnell had attended an antebellum-themed fraternity party in 2018, while she was a college student.

00:27:01.000 When the controversial images resurfaced on social media this year, Harrison defended Kirkconnell.

00:27:06.000 And then, of course, Rachel Lindsay went after him because she knew that she could get him fired, and she knew that she could get him removed, and that she would earn all sorts of media plaudits for doing so, despite the fact that she herself has capitalized on wokeness to an extraordinary extent.

00:27:21.000 She literally cut an Instagram post in the middle of the BLM protest-slash-riot in front of a Cadillac, talking about how she experiences the racial injustice of the United States by listening to Bluetooth on her Cadillac.

00:27:34.000 Again, all of these cultural issues, they may not mean much, but they mean everything.

00:27:38.000 They may not mean much individually, but they mean everything collectively.

00:27:41.000 Because when the entire culture is designed to push a particular point of view, people will fight back against that.

00:27:46.000 When the entire culture is designed to suggest that you're a bad person for believing in traditional values with regard to, for example, sexuality, people will push back against that.

00:27:53.000 That is not, the people who are pushing back are pushing back.

00:27:58.000 Okay, they're pushing back because you are aggressing.

00:28:02.000 And when you say to people that you can't bring up your kids the way that you want to bring up your kids because it makes you a religious bigot to say to your children that you would prefer that your boy marry a girl and that your girl marry a boy.

00:28:11.000 Okay, people are going to push back on that and they should push back on that because traditional values still matter.

00:28:17.000 None of that means you have to be intolerant of gay and lesbian people.

00:28:20.000 But that is a far cry from what the culture is pushing, which is the notion that you are in fact a bad person if you are if you are Excited about the probability of your child marrying someone of the opposite sex.

00:28:32.000 You're not allowed to express a preference as to whether your child marries a person of the opposite sex and provides you natural grandchildren.

00:28:38.000 You're not even allowed to mention that these days.

00:28:39.000 Right?

00:28:40.000 That's dangerous stuff.

00:28:42.000 So who's the cultural?

00:28:43.000 And then this is pushed into governmental policy and structural policy.

00:28:48.000 So what the left says is, okay, we're going to push super hard on the culture side.

00:28:51.000 And then if you push back, this just shows that you're an intolerant bigot.

00:28:54.000 Intolerant bigots shouldn't be part of the conversation.

00:28:56.000 And let me tell you, there are institutions that magnify the influence of intolerant bigots.

00:29:00.000 So what we really need to do is change all of those systems so we no longer have to pay attention to the intolerant bigots.

00:29:05.000 This has been part of the broader argument made by people like Ronald Brownstein for years on the left, the so-called demographic argument in the United States, which is shockingly similar to the demographic argument made by the alt-right.

00:29:17.000 The left has been saying since basically Barack Obama won in 2008 that there was an ascendant coalition of minorities, and the minorities would eventually be the majority.

00:29:26.000 And then they would just run roughshod over this white supremacist country.

00:29:31.000 This was called the Browning of America. 0.99

00:29:32.000 There were pieces about it in the Atlantic.

00:29:35.000 And people like me are like, that's a really racist way to think of the world.

00:29:37.000 There are plenty of people who are brown who don't vote for Democrats.

00:29:40.000 And in fact, race is not destiny.

00:29:42.000 Demographics are not destiny.

00:29:43.000 The alt-right, by the way, makes the same argument as the left.

00:29:45.000 They say that they want to restrict immigration because only white people can be trusted with politics, which is weird because it suggests they've never been to Wellesley, an overly white place with a lot of extraordinarily liberal people.

00:29:56.000 But the broader argument, which is that we need this coalition of minorities, and that if we don't win it's because people are trying to suppress the minority vote, is again part and parcel of this broader culture war that is now being pushed into the realm of governmental policy.

00:30:10.000 Institutions have to be changed so that this coalition can win more often, is the case that the left is making these days.

00:30:16.000 Which is why now they're pushing very hard on HR1.

00:30:19.000 These things are not disconnected.

00:30:21.000 HR1 is being pushed because the left wants its way on everything. 0.86

00:30:24.000 And if you refuse to give them their way on everything, they suggest that you are just part of this remnant of old white racists.

00:30:31.000 They'll even go after members of their own party.

00:30:33.000 I mean, the other day, Joe Biden pretty clearly went after Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, members of his own party.

00:30:38.000 Kyrsten Sinema happens to be bisexual, by the way.

00:30:40.000 He went after both of them for failing to destroy the filibuster.

00:30:43.000 An institution that Joe Biden five minutes ago was talking about as the hallmark of American democracy.

00:30:47.000 Now he wants to destroy the filibuster.

00:30:49.000 So here is Joe Biden going after members of his own party for not wanting to destroy the system.

00:30:55.000 I hear all the folks on TV saying, why doesn't Biden get this done?

00:30:59.000 Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.

00:31:12.000 But we're not giving up.

00:31:13.000 Okay, he's pretty obviously going after members of his own party there, right?

00:31:16.000 Jen Psaki then tried to walk that back to, oh, well, you know, Joe didn't mean Sinema. 0.98

00:31:20.000 He meant other people. He pretty obviously did not, by the way.

00:31:22.000 I mean, if you look at what the president said, the big tell here is I hear all the folks on TV saying now as a former TV pundit myself.

00:31:33.000 I can tell you that sometimes these conversations can be oversimplified.

00:31:37.000 TV isn't always made for complex conversations about policymaking.

00:31:41.000 We all know that, right?

00:31:43.000 He was not giving a specific commentary on a policy.

00:31:46.000 He was conveying again that sometimes that's the summary, shorthand version that he sees on cable news.

00:31:52.000 No, that's nonsense.

00:31:52.000 Okay, we all know what Joe Biden was trying to do and it was put pressure on Manchin and Sinema.

00:31:55.000 In fact, the Washington Post is trying to do the same thing today.

00:31:58.000 Good for her.

00:31:58.000 Kyrsten Sinema is still standing up for at least the basic notion of the filibuster in the Senate.

00:32:03.000 Here she was yesterday just flat out saying, no, I'm not going to kill the filibuster.

00:32:08.000 I've long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation.

00:32:14.000 Rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth between policies, the idea of the filibuster was created by those who came before us, the United States Senate, to create comity and to encourage senators to find bipartisanship.

00:32:31.000 She's right about this, but apparently this makes her part of the right-wing majoritarian or minority control chamber.

00:32:38.000 This makes her bad.

00:32:39.000 The left is pressing on all these issues.

00:32:41.000 It's the left that started this.

00:32:42.000 And you can see it, right?

00:32:43.000 The Washington Post has an article today, pressure mounts on Manchin as quote-unquote panic sets in among Democrats over voting rights.

00:32:49.000 Because otherwise, you know, it's the new Jim Crow. 0.89

00:32:51.000 I mean, Joe Biden has even said that that Georgia voting law, that was the new Jim Crow.

00:32:55.000 Sure, it is more permissive with regard to voting than his home state of Delaware.

00:32:58.000 Sure, the new Texas law is more permissive of early voting than his home state of Delaware.

00:33:01.000 But you know, it's like Jim Crow. 0.71

00:33:03.000 And if Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema don't bend to it, Don't bend to getting rid of the filibuster and completely federalizing election procedure in violation of the Constitution.

00:33:11.000 This just means that they are part of the polarizing half of the United States.

00:33:15.000 Remember when Joe Biden said at the beginning he wanted unity?

00:33:18.000 And I said, unity can mean one of two things.

00:33:19.000 It can mean that we try to come together around shared policy and around shared ideas, or it can mean I run roughshod over you.

00:33:25.000 And I suggested that Joe Biden meant the latter.

00:33:29.000 Pretty obvious which one Joe Biden meant.

00:33:31.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we're gonna get to the latest on the economic news, because I have a theory that has been creeping into my head of late, that inflation is not the true danger to the American economy.

00:33:42.000 Something else is.

00:33:42.000 We'll get to that in just one second first.

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00:35:22.000 Okay, so as you may have been noticing, the threat that I've been talking about here...

00:35:25.000 is the threat of authoritarianism.

00:35:27.000 It's cultural authoritarianism, running roughshod over people, militarizing all of your social institutions against you.

00:35:32.000 It's the threat of governmental authoritarianism, pushed by social authoritarians.

00:35:36.000 I read about this in my brand new book, The Authoritarian Moment.

00:35:39.000 It comes out in July.

00:35:40.000 It is really an important book.

00:35:41.000 It goes through all of this, chapter and verse.

00:35:43.000 It goes through chapter by chapter and examines how every major institution in American life was militarized on behalf of the authoritarian left.

00:35:50.000 And more importantly, how we push back.

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00:36:22.000 So meanwhile, there's more indicators that the economy is not going swimmingly right here.

00:36:34.000 Yesterday, the Dallas Federal Reserve executive, he came out and he said that the next jobs report is going to be rather odd.

00:36:40.000 It's not going to be exactly what people are expecting, namely this giant jump in growth.

00:36:45.000 These structural issues, which we saw in the early May report for April, supply issues, fear of infection, all those tensions, they're not actually going to go away Even for the next jobs report, we think you're going to see another maybe odd or unusual report.

00:37:08.000 That odd or unusual report, will that look like a miss of 750,000 jobs, which is what happened last month?

00:37:14.000 The Dallas Fed Chief, Robert Kaplan, making that comment.

00:37:16.000 According to Politico, businesses say they can't find enough workers to hire.

00:37:19.000 The pace of Americans moving off the unemployment rolls is slowing.

00:37:22.000 And a top Federal Reserve official is warning that job trends in May might look odd.

00:37:26.000 All of that suggests that the next monthly U.S.

00:37:28.000 employment report, which will be released on Friday morning, may not show the robust growth that President Biden needs to help pass his sweeping agenda.

00:37:34.000 On the heels of April's sluggish job growth, which shocked economic forecasters and sparked debate over a nationwide worker shortage, the May data will be closely watched for an indication of whether something significant is holding back the labor market recovery, such as what Republicans say are overly generous federal unemployment benefits, or whether the previous data was nothing more than a one-month blip.

00:37:53.000 Democrats are downplaying the concerns.

00:37:54.000 Maintaining the path back to full employment was always going to be winding and stacked with challenges.

00:37:58.000 I don't know why it would be winding and stacked with challenges, considering it was an artificial depression, and now we have a natural recovery.

00:38:03.000 Yeah, but Jen Psaki is trying to push this idea. 1.00

00:38:05.000 It's unbelievable.

00:38:06.000 Jen Psaki is now suggesting that the labor shortage is not caused by people being paid to stay home.

00:38:09.000 Labor shortage is caused by people who are still afraid to go back to work because of COVID.

00:38:13.000 No, that's not true.

00:38:15.000 And by the way, if you're afraid to go back to work because of COVID, after you've been vaccinated, 50% of all American adults have now been fully vaccinated.

00:38:22.000 The rates of spread in this country are extraordinarily low.

00:38:26.000 We are now down to below 10,000 new cases a day, which, by the way, is the metric that Anthony Fauci wants declared to be the end of the pandemic.

00:38:33.000 That's where we are, like right now.

00:38:35.000 But here's Jen Psaki trying to claim that it is not her bad economic policy that is causing all of this. 1.00

00:38:40.000 No, no, no, no.

00:38:40.000 It's that people are still afraid of COVID.

00:38:42.000 Honestly, if you know people who are still walking around in deathly fear of COVID, it's because they haven't been watching anything and or they are sheep and or they are stupid.

00:38:49.000 Our view is that it's going to take time for workers to regain confidence in the safety of the workplace, reestablish child care, school and commuting arrangements, and finish getting vaccinated. 0.83

00:39:01.000 And even when individuals get their first dose, we've seen a huge increase in that.

00:39:06.000 As I started the briefing talking about, it's about a five to six week cycle.

00:39:10.000 So we have expected that to have an impact.

00:39:13.000 No, you didn't expect it to have this kind of impact, which is why you were all shocked by the economic numbers that came out last month.

00:39:18.000 As Hot Air points out, we still have over 12 million continuing pandemic-enhanced unemployment claims being paid, while over 7 million job openings are left unfilled.

00:39:26.000 So we're paying 12 million people to stay home, there are 7 million unfilled jobs.

00:39:29.000 Things are going great.

00:39:30.000 Business owners are complaining about lack of interest in jobs.

00:39:33.000 I know business owners who are literally paying people to show up for interviews.

00:39:37.000 They're paying them extra bonuses just to get them to show up for, like, baseline jobs.

00:39:41.000 The costs on labor right now are going up tremendously.

00:39:44.000 And people on the left, they're saying, oh, well, that's what we're celebrating.

00:39:47.000 Well, the problem is if businesses don't have the margins, those businesses aren't going to be able to hire people at those labor rates.

00:39:53.000 Apparently, there are negative impacts on retail sales in the latest reports.

00:39:56.000 We talked yesterday about shrinkflation, in which businesses are beginning to give you less bang for your buck.

00:40:01.000 You get a smaller package for the same amount of money.

00:40:05.000 The political question over the next jobs report is murkier than this easy prediction.

00:40:08.000 One more bad report in a row might spur Congress to end the pandemic unemployment programs before their September expiration.

00:40:14.000 Okay, Joe Biden could do something, or, theoretically, he could do nothing.

00:40:18.000 Okay, so this raises the question as to what the mid-to-long-term situation of the United States is economically.

00:40:24.000 So there are a couple of possibilities that are worth discussing.

00:40:26.000 Some we've discussed on the program before.

00:40:27.000 That is the short-term inflation.

00:40:28.000 So right now, because Joe Biden is injecting tons of money into the economy with this quote-unquote relief act, right, he is sending money out, literal checks, to people, that is gonna lead to some short-term inflation because you have more money in the system following fewer goods.

00:40:41.000 You have supply chain holdups, You have people who are not able to go back to work.

00:40:45.000 That means same amount of product, more demand because you're forcing money back into the system, and that's going to lead to increased prices.

00:40:52.000 Now, that could lead to runaway inflation.

00:40:54.000 It could.

00:40:56.000 But over the course of the past 40 years, it's been a while since we had runaway inflation in the United States.

00:40:59.000 After 2007, 2008, we didn't have runaway inflation in the United States.

00:41:03.000 So, David Bonson of the Bonson Group, I heard him speaking about this recently, and he had a different take that I think is worth noting here.

00:41:10.000 And that take is that the big long-term threat to the United States is not, in fact, some sort of inflationary cycle like we saw in the 70s.

00:41:17.000 You might get a short-term inflationary burst, like you saw in the 1970s.

00:41:20.000 But his big point is that the government does not have the capacity, short of literally just continuing to send stimulus checks to people.

00:41:27.000 They don't have the capacity to actually inflate.

00:41:30.000 Because the real way that inflation typically is done is the Fed lowers its rate at which banks lend to one another.

00:41:37.000 It lowers the overnight rate at which banks lend to one another because they have to have their balance sheets all set up for the next day.

00:41:43.000 Or the Fed tries to inject money into the system by buying bonds from these banks, and then the banks have money to lend out.

00:41:50.000 What happens if there's no demand for the money to lend out?

00:41:54.000 Then the money doesn't get injected in the system, right?

00:41:56.000 What if businesses who have already leveraged up, and by the way, businesses have leveraged up, right?

00:41:59.000 Businesses that want to borrow money, because borrowing is so easy, they've already borrowed the money.

00:42:03.000 Over the course of the last year, businesses have moved from like a three times leverage ratio to like a five times leverage ratio.

00:42:10.000 So businesses have been leveraging up, they've been borrowing money to buy back their own stock in some cases, to grow in other cases, to maintain their share of the market or stay alive in other cases.

00:42:18.000 But what happens when the demand for that money goes away?

00:42:22.000 What happens when businesses have no place else to spend the money because the economy is stagnant and because the government is removing so much money from the system via taxation and regulation that there is no possibility of growth?

00:42:34.000 That's when you get secular stagnation.

00:42:37.000 Secular stagnation means long-term and thoroughgoing throughout the economy.

00:42:40.000 This is exactly what happened in Japan.

00:42:42.000 So in the 1980s, Japan was going to be the big threat. 0.97

00:42:44.000 Japan was going to be the country that was going to eat our lunch economically. 0.99

00:42:49.000 You had books and movies like Rising Sun.

00:42:51.000 There's a reason why in Die Hard.

00:42:53.000 It's Nakatomi Plaza.

00:42:54.000 The quote-unquote Japanese are going to come and take everything. 1.00

00:42:56.000 They're buying real estate.

00:42:57.000 They're taking over everything.

00:42:59.000 Isn't that really scary?

00:43:00.000 And then Japan's economy completely fell apart.

00:43:02.000 And Japan tried to spur their economy through central bank spending.

00:43:06.000 They tried to push lower interest rates.

00:43:08.000 They tried to push money into the economy and nothing happened.

00:43:12.000 Nothing happened because they had already regulated the economy too much, and because they continue to regulate the economy a lot, because they had taken a lot of money out of the economy, and because there was no real possibility of explosive growth.

00:43:23.000 Businesses had no reason to take out money.

00:43:26.000 Like, you're not going to take out a loan if you have no reason to take out the loan.

00:43:28.000 Why would you take on debt if there's no way that you're going to repay the debt?

00:43:31.000 Or, alternatively, if you're taking out the debt so that you can pay back the bank over a long period of time.

00:43:35.000 Like, that's not going to happen.

00:43:36.000 So this is why when Joe Biden put out his budget proposal, which was $6 trillion, he said in the budget proposal that he was expecting about a 2% rate of growth for the next 10 years.

00:43:45.000 That's a super low rate of growth, a very low rate of growth.

00:43:49.000 I think the real possibility here And this is what Bonson mentions, I think this is probably right, is that we actually undershoot that.

00:43:56.000 That we don't end up at a 2% rate of growth every year.

00:43:58.000 That we end up at a 1.5% rate of growth every year.

00:44:01.000 Or a 1.3% rate of growth every year.

00:44:03.000 Because as the government has to pay back all of the money on the interest, it's going to have to raise taxes.

00:44:08.000 As it raises taxes, it's going to have to take money out of the private system of entrepreneurship. 1.00

00:44:14.000 As it takes money out of that private system, people are going to be able to hire less.

00:44:17.000 The government...

00:44:19.000 The Soviet Union didn't have a huge inflation problem.

00:44:22.000 They had a huge stagnation problem.

00:44:25.000 So right now, the big problem with overregulation, and this is true for Europe as well, if you see the stagnation of places like Sweden, the problem there wasn't Weimar Republic, we're going to have wheelbarrows full of Deutschmarks that you run around and you have to throw them at somebody for a loaf of bread.

00:44:41.000 That's not what happened in Sweden when Sweden's economy stagnated.

00:44:44.000 Instead, taking too much money out of the economy, taxing too much, regulating too much, making it very difficult for business to do what it could do.

00:44:51.000 You can lower the interest rate as much as you want, but if businesses can't do their business, nobody's going to take that money out of the banks.

00:44:56.000 There will not be loans.

00:44:57.000 You just will not be able... You're not going to be able to inflate.

00:45:01.000 So the point that Bonson makes, and I think this is right, is that there is this baseline assumption that the central government of the United States is capable of superheating the economy.

00:45:09.000 That they can actually generate this kind of superheated, massive growth rate, superheated economy.

00:45:13.000 What we're seeing right now is actually evidence that that's not the case.

00:45:16.000 What we're seeing right now is that when the government gets deeply involved and provides things like greater unemployment benefits, when the government provides free healthcare and free childcare, when it does a lot of these things, what it ends up doing, because on the other end you have to tax the hell out of people and regulate the hell out of people, is you end up removing all of the incentive structures that would make it lucrative to take out a loan from the bank.

00:45:36.000 And that is a major problem for the US economy going forward.

00:45:39.000 So maybe Republicans, yes.

00:45:41.000 It's well worthwhile to point out that the policies followed by the Biden administration in this moment are creating short-term price shocks.

00:45:49.000 Whether we are still in an inflationary cycle two years from now, I think that's rather unlikely.

00:45:53.000 I think the Fed Reserve says it's rather unlikely too.

00:45:55.000 It could be, but that's not what the past few decades have shown.

00:45:58.000 Instead, what it's shown is that what prevents inflation is deflation.

00:46:01.000 What prevents inflation is lack of demand. 0.96

00:46:03.000 What prevents inflation is that the government sucks at its job. 0.98

00:46:06.000 There are two ways the government can suck at its job.

00:46:08.000 One is they run the printing press, and the other is they literally cannot galvanize any sort of growth, but they are still removing money from the private sector and redistributing it via the public sector in ways that inhibit the ability of the economy to grow overall.

00:46:20.000 Meanwhile, just blowing out the debt over time, which will lead to austerity measures.

00:46:23.000 I think that is the most likely path that we are headed for, is a secular stagnation.

00:46:26.000 It looks like it's already setting in, thanks to our great and wonderful President Joe Biden and the Democratic administration.

00:46:33.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 03, 2021

We Didn’t Start The Fire | Ep. 1268

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