The Ben Shapiro Show - Yes, The Left Lost Its Mind | Ep. 1484

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00:01:48.000 Well, it has been very clear for a long time in the United States that the left has moved further left over the course of the last 20 years than the right has moved right.

00:01:56.000 And this is clear in pretty much every area of politics.

00:01:59.000 You'd be hard pressed to find an issue on which the right has actually moved right, meaning the Republican Party has moved right.

00:02:05.000 You can make the case that the Republican Party has gotten tactically More radical.

00:02:09.000 So, for example, holding up the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

00:02:13.000 But that was in direct response to Harry Reid nuking judicial nomination filibusters.

00:02:18.000 For example, you can say that the right has gotten more radical in terms of how it interprets elections.

00:02:25.000 But that followed a pattern of Democrats doing exactly that in 2000 and 2004.

00:02:29.000 And then again in 2016.

00:02:31.000 So you can say that the right has gotten more reactionary in terms of its tactics.

00:02:35.000 But in terms of actual political positioning, there is no question That the right has not gotten more radical, and the left has gotten significantly more radical over time.

00:02:42.000 The reason this comes up today is because Elon Musk put out a tweet, and it's a tweet of a meme.

00:02:46.000 And it demonstrates how people perceive American politics to have gone, and the left is just wildly upset with this meme.

00:02:53.000 So here's what the meme shows.

00:02:55.000 It shows a spectrum, left, center, and right.

00:02:57.000 The year, 2008.

00:02:58.000 It shows conservatives standing on the right.

00:03:00.000 The center, located at the center of the line.

00:03:02.000 And it shows a stick figure labeled me, Slightly to the left of center, and then my fellow liberal all the way on the left.

00:03:11.000 Shows same spectrum, now it's wider, the spectrum.

00:03:13.000 The conservative is still standing on the right.

00:03:15.000 The center has actually moved to the left, and where it says me, still slightly left of center, and says my fellow liberal, and then all the way to the left, like running to the left.

00:03:24.000 And then it says 2021.

00:03:26.000 Over on the right, the conservative is still where the conservative always was.

00:03:29.000 And he says, LOL.

00:03:31.000 And then the center has now moved way to the left, and me is now center right, and woke progressive is way the hell out to the left, far away from everyone, shouting bigot at everybody else.

00:03:41.000 This is an accurate meme.

00:03:43.000 It is.

00:03:44.000 The reason that independents largely poll like moderate Republicans now is not because the right got more right and the left got more left.

00:03:51.000 It's because the right is basically stagnant in terms of its positions.

00:03:54.000 In fact, there's a good case to be made that the right is actually more socially liberal and economically liberal than it was back in 2008.

00:04:01.000 In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties.

00:04:05.000 The traditional marriage was the actual way that marriage was to be done in the United States.

00:04:10.000 In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties that the police were good.

00:04:15.000 In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties that America was at root a place of liberty and decency and that the American story was a good one.

00:04:23.000 Barack Obama ran on this platform in 2008.

00:04:26.000 By 2021, the left had abandoned virtually all of those issues and has now embraced radicalism on every one of those issues.

00:04:32.000 And by the way, so have many Republicans.

00:04:35.000 The untold story of the Republican Party is that the Republican Party, there are members of the Republican Party who voted in favor of the so-called Equality Act, which enshrines gender identity in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:04:48.000 There are members of the Republican Party who have embraced gay marriage in total, including, by the way, President Trump, who basically did so.

00:04:56.000 Hey, that is the Republican Party moving left on social issues.

00:04:59.000 And yet the media are wildly upset with this meme.

00:05:02.000 They suggest that Elon Musk has it all wrong.

00:05:03.000 The left hasn't moved left.

00:05:04.000 The right moved right, and the left moved left, and that's why the polarization happened.

00:05:07.000 No, that is incorrect.

00:05:09.000 The left moved left culturally.

00:05:10.000 The right actually moved left culturally, but not nearly as fast as the left did.

00:05:14.000 The center moved left.

00:05:16.000 The difference is that the left is moving so far, so fast to the left, that the reaction is now very, very strong, and the left has left a lot of people behind.

00:05:24.000 If you actually spent some time last night reading through the 2008 Republican platform, there is nothing in the 2008 Republican platform that has massively changed other than the strong defense of traditional marriage in the 2008 Republican platform.

00:05:38.000 In 2020, that plank had been somewhat watered down, shall we say.

00:05:43.000 But other than that, platforms are virtually identical.

00:05:46.000 You can say, by the way, fiscally, that the Republican Party has gotten more liberal.

00:05:51.000 Fiscally, the Republican Party has stopped talking about deficit reduction.

00:05:54.000 The Republican Party has stopped talking about balanced budget amendments.

00:05:58.000 The Republican Party doesn't talk about spending anymore.

00:06:00.000 And that is a legacy of President Trump, because he realized that that was a political liability.

00:06:03.000 He left that behind.

00:06:04.000 So, the only problem with the graphic that Elon Musk tweeted out is that it shows that the right is stagnant.

00:06:08.000 That's not correct.

00:06:09.000 The right actually moved to the left, the center moved to the left, and the left moved way the hell to the left.

00:06:12.000 But it's when you look at the 2008 Democratic Party that you see how far this party has moved.

00:06:17.000 Let me read you a section from the 2008 Democratic Party platform.

00:06:20.000 Okay?

00:06:20.000 This is from the Democratic Party platform.

00:06:22.000 Quote.

00:06:24.000 At a time when our nation's officers are being asked both to provide traditional law enforcement services and to help protect the homeland, taking police off the street is neither tough nor smart.

00:06:32.000 We reject this disastrous approach.

00:06:35.000 This is the Democratic Party Platform 2008.

00:06:37.000 We support and will restore funding to our courageous police officers and will ensure that they are equipped with the best technology, equipment, and innovative strategies to prevent and fight crime.

00:06:46.000 Circa 2020, the Defund the Police movement was part and parcel of the Democratic Party.

00:06:51.000 I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.

00:06:53.000 of systemic racism inside police.

00:06:55.000 That's a pretty wide gap.

00:06:57.000 In 2008, Barack Obama went to Saddleback Church to speak with Rick Warren, and he had this to say about his definition of marriage, 2008.

00:07:05.000 I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.

00:07:09.000 Now for me as a Christian, for me as a Christian, it's also a sacred union.

00:07:20.000 God's in the mix.

00:07:24.000 Okay, that's bigot Barack Obama. 0.87

00:07:26.000 Tear down all the statues. 1.00

00:07:27.000 Obviously that man is a homophobe and a transphobe of epic proportion. 0.96

00:07:32.000 That was Barack Obama Circuit 2008.

00:07:34.000 By the way, it was Barack Obama's presence on the ballot in 2008 that probably got Prop 8 to pass in California.

00:07:40.000 Black voters showed up in droves to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 in the presidential election, and they simultaneously voted to enshrine traditional marriage in the Constitution of the state of California.

00:07:49.000 Which Democrats then appealed, and Kamala Harris refused to defend, and all the rest of this. 0.53

00:07:53.000 Okay, so Elon Musk's tweet is correct.

00:07:55.000 And the reason it matters, folks, is because when you look at how the political spectrum is shifting, the left has to insist, they have to gaslight you, they have to lie.

00:08:02.000 They have to insist that the right is radical.

00:08:04.000 The right has gotten more radical.

00:08:05.000 Now, again, when it comes to tactics, you can make the case that the right is more radical because, of course, President Trump is very Trumpy.

00:08:12.000 President Trump said things about the rule of law that I disagreed with and criticized him for.

00:08:17.000 President Trump said things about the election of 2020 that I disagreed with him about and don't think are backed in evidence.

00:08:23.000 But when it comes to the actual political positions, which is what people typically vote for, when people vote for the generalized political perception of each party, the right has not gotten more radical by any stretch of the imagination.

00:08:33.000 The right has embraced in large part Obamacare.

00:08:35.000 Remember that time when they said they're going to repeal Obamacare?

00:08:37.000 The Republican Party never did that.

00:08:39.000 Remember that time that the right was suggesting it was for balanced budgets and not blowing out the deficit and then spent $7 trillion in 2020?

00:08:46.000 So the right has got more left too.

00:08:48.000 But the media can't, they can't allow this argument.

00:08:50.000 The Elon Musk argument cannot be allowed because, again, if you go back to the meme that Elon Musk put up, the natural consequence of the argument that Elon Musk puts up is that Democrats are going to lose and they're going to continue to lose a lot.

00:09:02.000 Because here's the problem.

00:09:03.000 The woke progressives now rule the roost.

00:09:05.000 We've gone through the stats before.

00:09:06.000 If you actually examine the constituency of the Democratic Party, Only about 10 to 15% of the Democratic Party considers itself woke progressive.

00:09:14.000 But those are also the most active and the youngest contingent of the Democratic Party.

00:09:18.000 Those are the people most passionate about Democratic Party politics.

00:09:21.000 And so the Democratic Party is beholden to those people.

00:09:24.000 So if you follow this pattern, right, if Elon Musk's meme tweet is essentially correct, And the woke progressives continue to move to the left and the right just kind of continues to hover where it is.

00:09:34.000 And the center continues to be dragged to the left.

00:09:37.000 And everything right of center votes for the right.

00:09:39.000 You're going to end up with waves of Republican elections from here on out.

00:09:43.000 And that is precisely what you're seeing in the polls right now.

00:09:46.000 What you're seeing in the polls in swing districts is voters believe that Democrats are the party of defund the police.

00:09:50.000 That they are the party of abortion to and past birth. 0.83

00:09:53.000 That they are the party of men can be women and women can be men.

00:09:57.000 That they are the party of America is systemically racist and true anti-racism is in giving government complete and total power over your life?

00:10:05.000 And that we shouldn't indoctrinate your kids in radical genderqueer theory at the age of six? 0.98

00:10:10.000 People believe this is what the Democratic Party is about, mainly because this is what the Democratic Party is about.

00:10:14.000 And to pretend that that is not a radicalization is completely incorrect. 0.88

00:10:18.000 This is why there are moderate liberals, even somewhat progressive liberals, people ranging from Roy Tishera to David Shore, who are saying to the left, are you guys insane?

00:10:27.000 What are you doing?

00:10:29.000 But the media, who are the Praetorian Guard for the Democratic Party, they're very angry at Elon Musk for noting this.

00:10:34.000 This is the real reason they oppose Musk.

00:10:35.000 Because it's not... Elon Musk is not a right-winger.

00:10:39.000 By any stretch of the imagination.

00:10:40.000 He is maybe a quasi-libertarian.

00:10:42.000 Maybe.

00:10:43.000 But Elon Musk is not a traditional conservative.

00:10:46.000 He's not a down-the-line Republican voter.

00:10:48.000 I believe he donated to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

00:10:50.000 Elon Musk is not quote-unquote, one of us here on the right.

00:10:55.000 Neither is Joe Rogan.

00:10:56.000 One of us.

00:10:57.000 Joe Rogan and I disagree on, I would say, at least 60% of our policy prescriptions.

00:11:03.000 The difference is that we are not crazy. 0.90

00:11:06.000 And the left has gone completely, utterly, bat bleep, insane.

00:11:10.000 And so what they are afraid of is that Elon Musk is going to come in at Twitter and he's going to allow people to say these things.

00:11:16.000 Because the left relies on we have to shut down the conversation so that you don't realize that the left has moved to the left.

00:11:23.000 If you can move the center to the left and you can foreclose the right in order to make this chart even for the Democrats, if Democrats are going to win, then you have to go to that 2021 line, right?

00:11:31.000 That shows that the center Now excludes both me and the conservative and that all of those people are to the right.

00:11:38.000 If you can just cut off that chart before it gets to conservative and reorient the center, then you can reorient American politics completely.

00:11:46.000 So you have to censor.

00:11:48.000 You have to shut down.

00:11:49.000 You have to toss the right wingers off the cliff. 0.96

00:11:52.000 Make them not part of the Overton window.

00:11:55.000 That's all you have to do.

00:11:56.000 And this is their focus.

00:11:57.000 So the left is focused in laser-like on rebutting the true idea that the left has moved radically to the left.

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00:13:11.000 So there were a bevy of think pieces yesterday about how wrong Elon Musk is.

00:13:15.000 So you have a piece from Philip Bump, the national correspondent for The Washington Post.

00:13:19.000 What Elon Musk's polarization graph gets wrong?

00:13:22.000 And here's what he says.

00:13:23.000 So the guy who was poised to buy Twitter once again successfully drew attention to Twitter by offering a visual analysis of how American politics has changed in recent years.

00:13:29.000 And then he shows Musk's tweet.

00:13:31.000 The unsubtle point is in keeping with most of Musk's other non-Rocket related tweets, since it was announced that Twitter would accept his buyout bid.

00:13:37.000 The American left had run him up, literally to the left in the illustration, leaving even one-time allies behind.

00:13:42.000 Meanwhile, the right had just been sitting there watching its opponent's head to the fringe.

00:13:46.000 One can see how this is appealing to Musk, who has leaned into the idea that Twitter is dangerously influenced by extreme left-wing thinking, and whose recent engagement on the platform has been to express sympathy toward overt right-wing trolls.

00:13:59.000 But the illustration is simply wrong.

00:14:03.000 It's not a misinterpretation.

00:14:05.000 It's not.

00:14:06.000 It is not a differential interpretation.

00:14:08.000 It is just wrong, according to Philip, but factually incorrect.

00:14:12.000 Not solely in its obvious exaggeration for effect, but in its understanding of how the country has changed over the past decade or two. 0.68

00:14:19.000 And then Philip Bump drags out a couple of measures that are just ridiculous.

00:14:22.000 One is the average ideological score using a metric called DW-Nominate, shown for each party's caucus in each chamber of Congress.

00:14:30.000 The score runs from a minus one to plus one, with lower scores representing more liberal ideologies, as expressed in votes centered on support for government power.

00:14:39.000 The biggest changes have been in the Senate, where since the start of the 111th Congress in 2009, the Republican caucus has gotten 0.13 points more conservative on average.

00:14:47.000 In each of the other caucuses, the shift has been about 0.04 points toward the polls.

00:14:52.000 That's not what DW nominate does.

00:14:56.000 Okay, the idea of the DW nominate is some sort of objective metric on ideology.

00:15:00.000 That's not correct.

00:15:02.000 They basically just look at how they bootstrap their own standard errors.

00:15:10.000 There are deep problems with this particular measurement.

00:15:12.000 Basically, it just looks at the center of the parties and it looks how often parties vote in unison.

00:15:17.000 If parties vote in unison more often, it assumes they are more ideologically rigid.

00:15:21.000 Democrats were always ideologically rigid and they always voted in unison.

00:15:24.000 Republicans increasingly have voted in unison.

00:15:26.000 Therefore, it looks like Republicans have moved more.

00:15:29.000 That doesn't mean Republicans move more.

00:15:31.000 The center of the Republican Party is basically where it always was.

00:15:34.000 It's just that they are voting more often against the Democrats together.

00:15:39.000 They say there are a lot of valid criticisms of DW-Nominate in general that we could examine, but it's not a great measure of what Musk is talking about anyway.

00:15:45.000 Well, then why did you bring it, Philip Bump?

00:15:47.000 So instead, he says, let's consider how Americans actually identify their own politics.

00:15:51.000 Luckily, we have a metric for that.

00:15:52.000 Evaluations of ideology, as measured in the biennial General Social Survey.

00:15:57.000 The survey asks people to score their identity on a scale from one, extremely liberal, to seven, extremely conservative.

00:16:02.000 In the middle is four, moderate.

00:16:04.000 And then it shows how Americans have shifted.

00:16:07.000 And what it shows is that Democrats are more often identifying as liberal and Republicans are more often identifying as conservative.

00:16:14.000 But that doesn't actually measure the positions of the parties.

00:16:18.000 Again, conservative people on the right are identifying more as conservative in opposition to people on the left who are in fact saying and doing more woke things.

00:16:28.000 The actual change in ideology is a real thing.

00:16:32.000 But they can't allow this to be the case.

00:16:33.000 They can never acknowledge this.

00:16:35.000 Because then, they can try to claim that it's the right that's getting more right for no reason at all.

00:16:40.000 Which is why you've seen, simultaneously, an attack on Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:16:44.000 How dare Ron DeSantis in Florida?

00:16:46.000 He's creating these divisive, polarized political issues.

00:16:49.000 No, he's not. 1.00

00:16:50.000 He's reacting to the fact that you guys lost your damned minds. 0.99

00:16:53.000 It didn't used to be a controversial position that cops should be paid and that you should back them. 0.99

00:16:58.000 That is Ron DeSantis' position in Florida. 0.98

00:17:00.000 It didn't used to be a controversial position that you shouldn't indoctrinate seven-year-olds, that a penis doesn't mean you're a boy. 0.95

00:17:07.000 These did not used to be controversial positions. 0.85

00:17:09.000 Ron DeSantis articulating those positions does not make him more radical.

00:17:12.000 He has not moved the spectrum.

00:17:14.000 He has just continued to stand there and you're angry that he's standing there.

00:17:19.000 So in what is clearly an echo chamber environment in the media, there are several simultaneous hit pieces out there about Ron DeSantis today.

00:17:25.000 Two from the Washington Post, one from the New York Times, all about how the right is moving, they're running, screaming toward the right.

00:17:31.000 Not true.

00:17:32.000 The right is just standing here.

00:17:33.000 That's all we've been doing the whole time.

00:17:36.000 And the way that you can tell this, by the way, the way that the media treat it as a revelation every time, for example, the Pope says he still believes in traditional marriage demonstrates the case.

00:17:46.000 The Pope, as it turns out, has had this position on marriage since literally the inception of the Catholic Church a couple of thousand years ago.

00:17:54.000 This has been the position of every major world religion for several thousand years at this point.

00:17:59.000 And yet every time a major religious thinker says something like, men and women make a marriage.

00:18:04.000 Men are not women and women are not men. 0.99

00:18:05.000 The media immediately come out and they say, my God, they're getting more right wing.

00:18:09.000 Or perhaps what we have here is the Doppler effect.

00:18:13.000 And you are in the car that's speeding away and everything sounds different because you are speeding that way.

00:18:18.000 Maybe this is your problem.

00:18:21.000 So in the New York Times today, you have a piece called How DeSantis Transformed Florida's Political Identity.

00:18:26.000 Maybe he didn't do it.

00:18:27.000 Maybe you guys did it.

00:18:29.000 Maybe by insisting that Andrew Cuomo was a godsend and that kids should be indoctrinated in radical gender ideology and critical race theory, maybe you did it.

00:18:37.000 But here's what the New York Times says.

00:18:38.000 Again, this is a reported piece, not an opinion piece.

00:18:41.000 Quote, Florida feels like a state running a fever.

00:18:44.000 It's very identity changing at a frenetic pace.

00:18:45.000 I'm sorry that it feels that way to you.

00:18:47.000 Oh, the New York Times.

00:18:48.000 Oh, I'm so sad for you. 0.99

00:18:50.000 I'm so sorry that you lost a congressional seat in your state because you guys suck at everything. 0.99

00:18:53.000 I'm sorry about that. 0.98

00:18:55.000 It doesn't feel like Florida's running a fever because it feels great.

00:18:57.000 I live here.

00:18:58.000 It's fantastic.

00:19:00.000 We're not running a fever. 0.99

00:19:01.000 You guys are just insane. 0.85

00:19:06.000 If I got a fever, the prescription is more. 0.62

00:19:09.000 Once the biggest traditional presidential battleground, it has suddenly turned into a laboratory of possibility for the political right.

00:19:14.000 Ooh.

00:19:15.000 Ah.

00:19:15.000 Now, I love this description.

00:19:16.000 You ready?

00:19:18.000 Discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity prohibited in early elementary school.

00:19:23.000 This is a state apparently moving to the right.

00:19:25.000 Let me read that again.

00:19:26.000 Discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity prohibited in early elementary school.

00:19:31.000 Now a sane and rational person might read, wait a second.

00:19:33.000 You were trying to teach sexual orientation and gender identity to elementary school students?

00:19:38.000 That's what a sane person would read.

00:19:39.000 To the New York Times, if you wish to prohibit this, this means that you are running a political fever and you are implementing your fascism from the right to prohibit such things.

00:19:49.000 Math textbooks rejected en masse for what the state calls indoctrination.

00:19:53.000 Well, I mean, were you trying to push critical race theory about how every disparity, racial disparity in America is a result of American racism in math books?

00:20:02.000 Because yeah, that's what that is.

00:20:03.000 And no, that shouldn't be taught in schools.

00:20:05.000 Schools and other employees limited in what they can teach about racism and other aspects of history.

00:20:10.000 Tenured professors in public university subjected to new reviews.

00:20:13.000 Oh my God, tenured professors who actually have to be reviewed for their work.

00:20:16.000 That's crazy.

00:20:17.000 Abortion's banned after 15 weeks.

00:20:19.000 Oh, the radicalism!

00:20:20.000 You mean that Florida says that you shouldn't be able to stop the murder of unborn children?

00:20:26.000 Unborn children who are nearly four months old in the womb?

00:20:29.000 That's so radical.

00:20:30.000 By the way, this also happens to the position in nearly every civilized country.

00:20:33.000 America is a wild outlier in what it allows with regard to abortion.

00:20:37.000 A congressional map redrawn to give Republicans an even bigger advantage.

00:20:41.000 I mean, all terrifying stuff.

00:20:43.000 And perhaps most stunning of all, Disney, long an untouchable corporate giant, stripped of the ability to govern itself for the first time in more than half a century in retaliation for the company's opposition to the crackdown on LGBTQ conversations with young school children.

00:20:55.000 It does have the feeling of, oh, what the hell just happened, said Kristen Arnett, a novelist and Rolando native who now lives in Miami.

00:21:00.000 It's overwhelming.

00:21:02.000 Here's the thing.

00:21:02.000 The left never thought it was going to lose again.

00:21:04.000 They never thought they were going to lose again. 1.00

00:21:05.000 They thought that everyone was just going to go along with them on this crap forever. 1.00

00:21:08.000 That is what they thought. 0.99

00:21:09.000 And they are stunned to learn that Americans didn't move. 0.75

00:21:12.000 They just moved. 0.99

00:21:13.000 But this is the line of the left, and this is why Democrats are going to get their asses handed them in November. 0.99

00:21:18.000 I mean, they're just going to get clocked. 0.97

00:21:19.000 There are new polls out today showing Republicans have a generic ballot, 10 point congressional advantage.

00:21:24.000 To put that by way of contrast, in 2010, a Republican wave election, going into the election, they had like an R plus 4, R plus 6, not R plus 10.

00:21:31.000 It's going to be a wipeout.

00:21:33.000 But again, the media cannot handle this because the media are the people who have driven this to the left.

00:21:38.000 They are the ones who have taken this Cadillac and they are driving it off the cliff with Joe Biden in the passenger seat.

00:21:44.000 It's insane.

00:21:45.000 Alrighty, so again, the left's contention is that it's the right that has moved right.

00:21:48.000 This is a lie.

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00:22:51.000 So you got Amber Phillips, staff writer over at the Washington Post.

00:22:54.000 How Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wages his culture wars.

00:22:58.000 Perhaps no politician has been as effective at waging today's culture wars as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:23:03.000 He didn't initiate the culture war.

00:23:05.000 You guys did.

00:23:07.000 Who initiates the culture war matters.

00:23:09.000 If you punch me and then I punch you back, I didn't initiate the fight.

00:23:13.000 You initiated the fight.

00:23:14.000 And if I finish the fight, good for me.

00:23:18.000 But again, the left has to portray the Republicans as the aggressors here.

00:23:20.000 There is not a single social issue in America where Republicans are the aggressor over the course of the last 30 years.

00:23:26.000 This country has been moving progressively to the left on social issues for decades on end.

00:23:26.000 Not one.

00:23:32.000 You cannot name a social issue on which the American governmental structure has moved to the right.

00:23:39.000 It does not exist.

00:23:41.000 It just doesn't.

00:23:43.000 I challenge anybody on the left to bring me one issue Where the governmental structure of the United States, the legislative structure of the United States, has moved to the right over the course of the last 30 years.

00:23:54.000 The only case you can make is in some states on abortion, and that's only because there was an artificial quash on abortion law put in place in 1973 by the Supreme Court in Roe.

00:24:04.000 Every other issue, literally all of them, we have moved to the left.

00:24:07.000 Every single one.

00:24:08.000 But the idea is that if Ron DeSantis says no, this means that he is the aggressor now.

00:24:13.000 Or maybe you guys are the aggressor.

00:24:18.000 Again, Amber Phillips says, DeSantis acknowledges critical race theory is not part of public school curricula in Florida.

00:24:22.000 Though it originated as an academic construct that argues that racial inequality is woven into society and its systems, the term has become a catch-all on the right for teachings or discussions about race conservatives oppose.

00:24:32.000 He also directly takes on the left's allegations that the focus is inherently rooted in white grievance.

00:24:38.000 DeSantis said, quote, it's required in Florida statutes to teach about all segments of American You have to teach about the Holocaust, African-American history.

00:24:46.000 You teach about the institution and the abolition of slavery.

00:24:48.000 You teach about the failure of the post-Civil War amendments to take hold and how you need to fight for civil rights.

00:24:52.000 We teach that because it's real history and it's important.

00:24:55.000 What we will not do is let people distort history to try to serve their current ideological goals.

00:24:58.000 This apparently is radical.

00:25:00.000 Deeply radical stuff.

00:25:02.000 How dare he?

00:25:04.000 Another piece from Paul Waldman in the Washington Post.

00:25:07.000 The new Republican statism.

00:25:09.000 You see, the Republicans are now statists.

00:25:10.000 They've moved radically to the right.

00:25:11.000 Guys, this gaslighting, it's not working.

00:25:14.000 Because Elon Musk's chart, it rings true.

00:25:16.000 It is correct.

00:25:18.000 So Paul Waldman says, when a Republican state legislator unashamedly announces his intention is not only to ban books from school libraries across the state, but to burn the offending books, you know something has changed.

00:25:28.000 Wait, hold up a second.

00:25:29.000 So the idea is that Republicans who are now asking that school libraries pre-screen their books for young children, that this is something that has changed?

00:25:36.000 This has been part of local governmental structure for literally all of time.

00:25:41.000 Not every book is available in every library in the United States, and left-wing school districts ban books just as right-wing school districts do when it comes to the library.

00:25:49.000 But, says Paul Waldman, there might not be state-sponsored book burnings in Tennessee in the near future, but who knows?

00:25:55.000 Perhaps more profound than even the fury of the new right-wing culture war is the way it appears to be completely reconfiguring what we understood American conservatism to be.

00:26:03.000 It's manifest in the ongoing wave of speech-restricting gag laws being passed by Republican states.

00:26:07.000 That's not where it's going to end.

00:26:09.000 These laws are being passed at a furious pace.

00:26:11.000 Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a group of laws on Thursday to restrict what teachers can say about race, gender, and sexuality, as well as forbidding transgender children from playing sports.

00:26:21.000 I have a question.

00:26:22.000 How is that Republican statism?

00:26:24.000 That's a reaction to the fact that you guys now say that boys should race girls.

00:26:29.000 If you mistake the reaction for the initiation of the fight, You're going to lose because you will continue to make excuses for why you haven't moved.

00:26:37.000 Anybody again, anybody who argues that the left hasn't moved just the Republicans have been saying this about JFK for decades, right?

00:26:42.000 If you if you look at JFK's platform in 1960, it looks like the Republican platform circa about 2004.

00:26:48.000 And if you look at the Democratic platform circa 2008 on policing.

00:26:52.000 If you look at Barack Obama's comments on marriage circa 2008, if you look at how Democrats talked about gender in 2008, there's not anybody in 2008 in the Democratic Party who would have recognized as a White House related notion that small children should be given access to puberty blockers.

00:27:09.000 You guys did this.

00:27:11.000 You dug the hole and you won't stop digging.

00:27:13.000 And let me be clear about this.

00:27:14.000 The more you protest, the worse it's going to get for you.

00:27:17.000 The more you protest that those of us who say no are the offenders, the worse it is going to get for you.

00:27:23.000 Again, the Democratic Party has gotten more radical.

00:27:26.000 It used to be about local governance for the Democratic Party in some way.

00:27:30.000 School boards mattered.

00:27:31.000 Parents still mattered.

00:27:32.000 Now they're just rushing to the left because they think they'll never lose an election again.

00:27:35.000 They're about to find out the hard way.

00:27:37.000 That ain't true.

00:27:38.000 So, for example, literally yesterday, Miguel Cardona, the Secretary of Education, he came out and he says that he is concerned that parents are holding schools accountable.

00:27:46.000 This is your party, guys.

00:27:47.000 This is a far-left position.

00:27:51.000 We are concerned with some of the policies that are less curriculum, more about division, more about bringing politics into the schools.

00:27:58.000 I said at the onset, our schools should not be the place for for culture wars.

00:28:05.000 The school should not be a place for culture wars.

00:28:07.000 You guys initiated the culture wars.

00:28:09.000 You did.

00:28:10.000 We didn't do it.

00:28:11.000 It was you.

00:28:13.000 You guys said that you can't teach prayer in the public schools, but you can teach boys that girls have it.

00:28:19.000 That was you.

00:28:20.000 And then you're like, oh, well, you know, we didn't rush to the left.

00:28:23.000 It's all you guys.

00:28:24.000 This is why they're so angry at Elon Musk.

00:28:26.000 They're deeply afraid that if Elon Musk allows people to say these things out loud, things will get worse for the left.

00:28:31.000 Because again, the only solution to this is censorship.

00:28:34.000 The only solution to the fact that you guys have rushed way to the left and you left the mainstream behind, you left the center behind, you pushed everybody to the right, and you forced people with views as politically disparate as me and Brett Weinstein and Joe Rogan and Bill Maher into the same corner.

00:28:49.000 Me and Bill Maher in the same corner.

00:28:52.000 That's on you.

00:28:53.000 And the only way that you can avoid the consequences of your own action is to silence the right.

00:28:58.000 It's to pretend that people like me are the aggressors, or Ron DeSantis is the aggressor, or maybe Bill Maher is the aggressor, or Joe Rogan is.

00:29:03.000 I mean, they go after Joe Rogan and Bill Maher with similar alacrity to the way they go after people like me.

00:29:09.000 So if you just keep slicing off that, if you just keep moving the Overton window to the left, then you can pretend that there isn't anybody outside the Overton window.

00:29:15.000 Problem is all those people vote.

00:29:17.000 All those people vote.

00:29:18.000 When you wish every single other person you don't like out into the cornfield, it turns out there'll be a lot of people out in that cornfield, and they will grab pitchforks, and they will come for you.

00:29:27.000 And that's what's happening politically right now.

00:29:28.000 And this is why they are so afraid of what Elon Musk is about to do at Twitter, because he's about to open the Overton window again.

00:29:33.000 And my God, if the right is allowed back into the Overton window, the left has no chance whatsoever politically.

00:29:38.000 They are screw-ed.

00:29:40.000 They're in serious trouble.

00:29:42.000 Which is why you see the Twitter moderate.

00:29:44.000 So again, the left angle is that we have to stop Elon Musk.

00:29:47.000 And the best way to stop Elon Musk is we will whine about it.

00:29:49.000 We will just cry and we'll just whine.

00:29:51.000 A piece from the New York Times today.

00:29:53.000 Inside Twitter, fears Musk will return platform to its early troubles.

00:29:57.000 Now, let me just be clear.

00:29:59.000 I was on Twitter pretty early.

00:30:01.000 Twitter was a much better place early on.

00:30:02.000 It was.

00:30:03.000 You could actually tell jokes and you could say wild things and you could have thought experiments.

00:30:07.000 In fact, you want to know why there's a lot of quote-unquote resurfacing of old tweets?

00:30:11.000 Because Twitter wasn't the kind of place in 2008 that it is in 2022.

00:30:16.000 In 2008, you could put out a wild idea as like a thought experiment, and nobody would take it super seriously.

00:30:21.000 Or, you could make an irreverent, edgy, terrible joke, and everybody would go, eh, it's just a joke.

00:30:27.000 Then came 2022.

00:30:27.000 The future rushed along, and now we unsurface those old tweets, and then we hold you to account.

00:30:34.000 And maybe we ban you for a tweet that's 10 years old.

00:30:37.000 So how, you know, oh my God, we can't have jokes anymore.

00:30:40.000 We can't have, we have to stop this.

00:30:42.000 And the Twitter moderators know best.

00:30:44.000 They know best.

00:30:45.000 According to the New York Times, Elon Musk had a plan to buy Twitter and undo its content moderation policies.

00:30:50.000 On Tuesday, just a day after reaching his $44 billion deal to buy the company, Musk was already at work on his agenda.

00:30:55.000 He tweeted that past moderation decisions by a top Twitter lawyer were, quote, obviously incredibly inappropriate.

00:31:00.000 Later, he shared a meme mocking the lawyer, sparking a torrent of attacks from other Twitter users.

00:31:04.000 Mr. Muck's personal critique was a rough reminder of what faces employees who create and enforce Twitter's complex content moderation policies.

00:31:11.000 His vision for the company would take it right back to where it started, employees said, and force Twitter to relive the last decade.

00:31:17.000 Oh, God forbid!

00:31:19.000 Gaia forbid! 0.92

00:31:19.000 Ha! 0.92

00:31:21.000 Twitter executives who created the rules said they had once held views about online speech similar to Musk's.

00:31:25.000 They believe Twitter's policies should be limited, mimicking local laws.

00:31:28.000 But more than a decade of grappling with violence, harassment, and election tampering changed their minds.

00:31:33.000 Now, many executives at Twitter and other social media companies view their content moderation policies as essential safeguards to protect speech.

00:31:39.000 Well, yes, which is why Twitter is a failure and why Musk is coming in to fix it.

00:31:44.000 Twitter employees wrote in an internal list of questions they hope to ask Musk, quote, You have said you want more free speech and less moderation on Twitter.

00:31:49.000 What will this mean in practice?

00:31:51.000 Another question asks, Some people interpret your arguments in defense of free speech as a desire to open the door back up for harassment.

00:31:56.000 Is that true?

00:31:57.000 And if not, do you have ideas for how to both increase free speech and keep the door closed on harassment?

00:32:03.000 So again, the line here is going to be that Twitter is going to be terrible and horrible and no good and very bad because people will be allowed to talk and people can't be allowed to talk because the far left has to be perceived as the new center.

00:32:16.000 That's the only way this is ever going to work.

00:32:19.000 Well, the problem is that eventually the truth gets out.

00:32:22.000 Well, when the left is losing, there's one solution for them and that's to shut everybody up.

00:32:25.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:35:51.000 So meanwhile, again, the reason the left has to silence everybody is because they've moved so far to the left.

00:35:55.000 It's also because, again, when the news is bad, if you can just sort of shut down the news, then you do.

00:36:02.000 When Donald Trump suggested that the news is the fake news, in one way, he was wrong, right?

00:36:05.000 Sometimes they would report things that were true, and he would label it fake news.

00:36:08.000 But in a broader way, he was totally right, which is that the journalismers are journalismers.

00:36:11.000 They are not, in fact, journalists.

00:36:14.000 They're journalism, getting that hot, sticky journalism all over the place.

00:36:17.000 And that hot, sticky journalism invariably is ghouly left-wing.

00:36:21.000 So, for example, we are supposed to pretend that Joe Biden is still with us.

00:36:25.000 Joe Biden, the late lamented Joe Biden, has been dead for at least a year.

00:36:29.000 And now he's just walking around and his neurons are randomly firing.

00:36:35.000 And it is a it is a deeply depressing sight.

00:36:37.000 Here yesterday was the non-functional president of the United States attempting to say the word kleptocracy.

00:36:44.000 We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-begotten gains.

00:36:49.000 Of Putin's kleptocracy.

00:36:52.000 Yeah.

00:36:54.000 Kleptocracy.

00:36:56.000 The guys who are the kleptocracies.

00:36:58.000 Ha ha ha ha.

00:37:00.000 Mm-hmm.

00:37:02.000 Things are going great, guys.

00:37:04.000 guys.

00:37:05.000 And by the way, Joe Biden also says he's not worried about a recession, which is weird because everybody's worried about a recession.

00:37:10.000 As we found out yesterday, the US GDP fell at 1.4%.

00:37:13.000 The economy shrank for the first time since early in the pandemic.

00:37:16.000 There is no rationale for why the economy should be shrinking right now.

00:37:19.000 When he took office, I suggested we were going to have a two-year boom because the vaccines were in place.

00:37:24.000 The economy is ready to open back up.

00:37:26.000 People have money to spend.

00:37:27.000 People want to get back to work. 1.00

00:37:29.000 And somehow, this idiot has managed to plunge us into the face of a recession. 0.99

00:37:34.000 We are one quarter away from an official recession. 1.00

00:37:35.000 A recession is defined as two quarters of negative growth.

00:37:38.000 We now have one.

00:37:40.000 This last quarter of GDP failure did not take into account fully the Ukraine war.

00:37:44.000 It did not take into account fully the new COVID wave in China that is shutting down supply lines.

00:37:48.000 It took into account massive government spending that has continued under Joe Biden, which contributes to GDP growth.

00:37:54.000 GDP is not a wonderful stat because it takes into account government spending as overall spending.

00:37:59.000 So you can actually jack around with the GDP stats by basically ratcheting up government spending.

00:38:03.000 This is what China does on a routine basis to jog those GDP stats.

00:38:08.000 It doesn't take into account the fact that the interest rates are about to increase dramatically, that mortgage rates are spiking.

00:38:13.000 It doesn't take into account any of those things.

00:38:14.000 So things are about to get worse.

00:38:16.000 Pretty much everyone now estimates that we're going to hit a recession sometime inside the next year and a half.

00:38:19.000 I think it's going to be sooner rather than later.

00:38:22.000 The estimates range from maybe six months from now, full-blown recession, to a year and a half from now, which would be the worst case scenario for Joe Biden.

00:38:28.000 It would be going into a presidential election.

00:38:29.000 Presidents do not survive actual recessions on their watch.

00:38:33.000 I mean, I don't mean physically survive because I'm not sure that Joe Biden has already physically survived his presidency.

00:38:37.000 But here was Joe Biden yesterday saying he is not concerned about a recession.

00:38:41.000 Because why would he be?

00:38:41.000 He's not concerned about anything.

00:38:42.000 He's the happiest man in America.

00:38:43.000 Every morning somebody wakes him up and tells him he's president and he's excited about it.

00:38:47.000 How concerned are you about a recession given the GDP reports today show the contraction of 1.4% of the forest program?

00:38:54.000 Well, I'm not concerned about a recession.

00:38:59.000 I think what you're seeing is enormous growth in the country that was affected by everything from COVID and the COVID blockages that occurred along the way.

00:39:12.000 Oh, he's not worried about it at all.

00:39:13.000 He's not worried.

00:39:14.000 Everything is great.

00:39:15.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, another of your geriatric There's something wrong with a country where your entire leadership class is 80.

00:39:26.000 Really, that is a problem.

00:39:27.000 I don't care if it's right-wing or if it's left-wing.

00:39:29.000 When your entire leadership class is two generations removed from the national average age, that is a problem.

00:39:36.000 Some of these folks are older than the boomers.

00:39:40.000 Holding on to power this way is not indicative of a healthy body politic.

00:39:44.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi explaining that actually they're doing an excellent job lowering costs at the pump and at the table, which comes as a shock to everyone who has gone shopping in the last year or anybody who buys gas ever.

00:39:57.000 There are many aspects to this, but the price of gas and the price of oil have an impact on the price of many other things, including the price of food.

00:40:08.000 So lowering costs at the pump, lowering costs at the kitchen table, That's what Democrats are about. 0.97

00:40:16.000 Oh, is that what you're about?

00:40:17.000 Is that what you're about?

00:40:18.000 Well, it's going very poorly for you then.

00:40:21.000 And what is their answer to things like gas price inflation? 0.91

00:40:25.000 Here's another dullard, Chuck Schumer, soon to be my minority leader, saying that it's the oil companies.

00:40:30.000 If we yell at the oil companies, then probably that will fix things. 0.97

00:40:34.000 Oil companies last year made record profits.

00:40:40.000 They're vultures.

00:40:41.000 That's what's going on here.

00:40:42.000 We have the Ukraine tragedy, we have the COVID tragedy, and do they try to make things better? 1.00

00:40:47.000 No, they come in and make record profits.

00:40:50.000 They're vultures, right? That's what's going on here. It's all the oil companies that are vultures.

00:40:55.000 You guys can't escape the fact that your economic program created this.

00:41:00.000 You did this.

00:41:01.000 This is on you.

00:41:02.000 And the continuation of bad economic policy is also on you.

00:41:06.000 I have to say, the regressive nature of democratic economic policy is truly incredible.

00:41:10.000 It really is.

00:41:10.000 I mean, it's not just that they are pursuing economic policy that sinks the possibility for future innovation and investment.

00:41:17.000 It's not just that regulation and tax policy recommended by this administration, the fundamental belief that governmental spending is somehow superior to private sector spending.

00:41:25.000 It's not just that that is deeply damaging to the economy.

00:41:28.000 It's that even the governmental policies they pursue are actually regressive.

00:41:31.000 So, for example, they're now talking very seriously about student loan relief.

00:41:34.000 This benefits the laptop class.

00:41:37.000 This benefits all the people who waited to pay off their loans.

00:41:40.000 Not people like me.

00:41:41.000 I paid off my loans and I paid off my wife's loans.

00:41:44.000 It benefits people who did not pay off their student loans.

00:41:46.000 They took out $100,000 to get a gender studies degree from NYU so that they can become a professional useless person at a diversity, equity, and inclusion symposium for Rochester University or something.

00:41:58.000 It helps those people.

00:41:59.000 The professional laptop class, the younger laptop class, who now owe student debt.

00:42:04.000 Because if you're 45, you probably paid off your student debt.

00:42:06.000 It's really if you're 25, this is 4.

00:42:08.000 So Joe Biden is openly talking about that.

00:42:10.000 And these, by the way, are the people who, as an economic contingent, are the people with the highest income potential in the United States if you're talking about college graduates with student loan debt.

00:42:19.000 Here is Joe Biden talking about how he wants to relieve that student loan debt in the middle of an inflationary cycle as we are about to enter a recession.

00:42:26.000 I am considering dealing with some debt reduction.

00:42:30.000 I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction.

00:42:34.000 But I'm in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there will be additional debt forgiveness.

00:42:41.000 And I'll have an answer on that in the next couple weeks.

00:42:45.000 Okay, so they're thinking about relieving student loans.

00:42:47.000 Meanwhile, this unbelievably regressive, I mean, it really is amazing, this unbelievably regressive administration is now moving to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes.

00:42:56.000 Now, I'm not an advocate of cigarettes.

00:42:58.000 I don't like cigarettes.

00:42:59.000 They annoy me.

00:43:00.000 The smoke bothers me.

00:43:02.000 However, if you are looking at policies that directly target the poorest Americans, particularly black Americans, banning menthol cigarettes is actually the way that you do that.

00:43:12.000 According to the New York Times, the FDA on Thursday announced a plan to ban sales of menthol-flavored cigarettes in the United States, a measure many public health experts hailed as the government's most meaningful action in more than a decade of tobacco control efforts.

00:43:22.000 The ban would most likely have the deepest impact on black smokers, nearly 85% of whom use menthol cigarettes, compared with only 29% of white smokers, according to a government survey.

00:43:32.000 If effective in reducing smoking, the ban could significantly diminish the burden of chronic disease and limit the number of lives cut short by one of the most hazardous legal products available.

00:43:39.000 Now again, I'm not a fan of cigarettes.

00:43:42.000 I also am going to point out here that it was Democrats who used to claim that the killing of Eric Garner in New York City, which was because he was selling what are called Lucy's, and he was selling Lucy's because of the high tax on cigarettes in the city of New York.

00:43:57.000 They're now proposing more restrictions that will lead to presumably more illegal activities for the large number of black people who use menthol cigarettes.

00:44:04.000 So this administration's position right now is relieve student loan debt on rich white people and ban the sale of menthol cigarettes for poor black people.

00:44:14.000 Genius stuff from the most progressive administration in modern American history.

00:44:19.000 Meanwhile, other wonderful policies that they are pursuing.

00:44:22.000 Jen Psaki says, you know what, maybe in order to relieve inflation at this time, perhaps we should get rid of some tariffs on the Chinese.

00:44:27.000 Genius!

00:44:28.000 Genius!

00:44:29.000 So the Chinese are providing the sole economic outlet for the Russians right now.

00:44:33.000 We are in effectively an economic proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

00:44:37.000 We're trying to cut them off at the knees. 1.00

00:44:38.000 Meanwhile, China has cast its eyes upon Taiwan. 0.97

00:44:41.000 China is militarizing faster than ever before.

00:44:44.000 China is cutting itself off from the rest of the world in an attempt to weaponize up. 0.97

00:44:50.000 And this administration's policy is, what if we help them out by getting rid of the tariffs because our own inflationary policy is too crappy?

00:44:57.000 Here is Jen Psaki announcing this one. 0.99

00:44:58.000 I mean, these folks are so incompetent.

00:44:59.000 They are cruising for an extraordinary bruising in November.

00:45:03.000 To what extent are you looking at cutting tariffs on Chinese goods as a way to ease inflation?

00:45:09.000 Well, there's an ongoing review of that, led by Ambassador Tai at USTR, and we are certainly continuing to look at where these tariffs put in place by the prior administration don't make sense.

00:45:20.000 And one of the factors that we're looking at as a part of this review is certainly the impact on jobs and wages.

00:45:26.000 We're also looking at where we have concerns about the economic policies and approaches of China, but I don't have any Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:45:39.000 So this administration is a disaster area, which is why, again, they must focus on shutting down your ability to speak inside the Overton window.

00:45:46.000 It has to happen because if people actually realize how far left the left has moved, the left will just not win.

00:45:51.000 They will not win.

00:45:52.000 They will pay an extraordinary political price.

00:45:54.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 29, 2022

Yes, The Left Lost Its Mind | Ep. 1484

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