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00:01:48.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created turning point.
00:01:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:37.000Like after just three or four minutes of conversation um, you know, if people feel like they like me and trust me, they open up to me with stories.
00:02:45.000You know my kid od'd um and I was in a dark place and you know it's Republican Party activism becoming a precinct committee man, that kind of put me, you know, like these stories.
00:02:54.000Or my kid was shot in Afghanistan and is recovering and it's like it gets actually pretty emotional sometimes.
00:02:59.000But just meeting people and and it's um, it's a real blessing to be able to do this.
00:05:12.000And they say, well, the heroin needles were, you know, it's just getting a little much for me to find these things on the sidewalk and the homeless encampments were encroaching on my kids' school and taxes were sky.
00:06:12.000And, but you would also be prepared to actually talk about some of these incredibly complex yet important tech issues that honestly confuse most U.S. senators.
00:06:44.000Where just from what is an algorithm to kind of social media manipulation, a lot of it, it would be as if I was sitting on some sort of hearing around some sort of super wonky, like pharmaceutical issue.
00:07:29.000But what do you do when Facebook is, yeah, basically serving targeted advertising to teenagers and kind of addicting?
00:07:35.000You know, you see, they have the data on what it does to teenage women and their brains, and it makes them more depressed and suicidal to have the endless scroll feed, right?
00:07:43.000It's manipulating them in these ways that are very profitable for Facebook, but very bad for the children involved.
00:07:48.000And regulating that the right way is probably going to be harder, right?
00:08:51.000I'm not like some, let's work in a bipartisan fashion.
00:08:54.000I think you can't work with most Democrats, but I'm happy to work with Democrats if they're actually going to be commonsensical and reasonable.
00:08:59.000So I'm like, maybe there was some sort of left-right alliance on meaningfully restraining big tech.
00:09:04.000And I've just come to believe so far, no, the left wants to hold the antitrust threat out over Facebook to extract compliance.
00:09:11.000It's like Facebook, we will break you up if you don't take out that and that and that piece of COVID misinformation from your platform, right?
00:09:18.000So Facebook plays along and you get this sort of fusion of I think left-wing corporate power with the Biden administration.
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00:10:49.000And so when Richard Blumenthal goes on CNN and starts to bash Facebook, he's not doing that because he wants Facebook to become a free and open platform or Facebook to actually become a place where you and I can talk.
00:11:02.000He wants it for it to become a one-party utility, even more so than it already is.
00:13:02.000And the byproduct of that, just, I mean, the tech space, it's so obvious, is that you have tech companies that are worth more than ever before that are doing so much damage and they're largely untouchable.
00:13:12.000They're basically governments of themselves.
00:13:20.000They're like, and I think they're happy to have a messenger and me and like a candidate who's getting up and saying like, no, I'm pro-business, but this is out of hand.
00:15:20.000Vaccine mandates, everybody's up in arms about that for good cause, right?
00:15:24.000It appears that we at least have a reprieve now.
00:15:26.000The federal courts are finding those unconstitutional, putting stays on those, but it's kind of everything, honestly.
00:15:32.000So you add up all these issues, and I quickly, in like, you know, the campaign talks, get to this meta-issue where we're just losing the country.
00:15:39.000Like, the left has taken over every single institution in our country, even formerly neutral ones, like the military or the FBI, DOJ.
00:15:46.000I mean, these things have been like weaponized against, I think, like average Americans.
00:15:52.000And I think if we don't get them back in the next two or three years, it's all over.
00:15:55.000And so part of it is that we need people that are willing to go to D.C. and not just write letters, but actually reframe what Republicans are supposed to be.
00:16:28.000And I'm sympathetic to that because like I am one vote in the Senate.
00:16:30.000I can't just like legislate unilaterally.
00:16:32.000Like, that's the constitutional design, right?
00:16:34.000For better or worse, and mostly for better.
00:16:36.000But I also tell people you got to get a new generation.
00:16:40.000You've got to get people in there who understand that we're playing for all the marbles.
00:16:43.000We're playing for the future of the country.
00:16:44.000And so I spend a lot of time talking about cultural issues or talking about the unfair treatment of the January 6th protesters.
00:16:51.000Contrast that with the people who were burning down police precincts in the summer 2020, the left-wing Antifa people who did not get arrested.
00:16:58.000And if they did get arrested, then Kamala Harris was right there to bail them out of jail, right?
00:17:05.000And yeah, it's going to be hard for me as one senator to get in and clean up the FBI.
00:17:09.000And I think 2022 and 2024, they go together, right?
00:17:12.000Unfortunately, when I take office in January 23, we'll still be playing defense a little bit because Joe Biden or whatever, Harris, maybe they have their regime will be in power and it'll take until 2024, January 25, to get a strong Republican back in the White House.
00:17:28.000But we just have to start playing offense and take back these institutions.
00:19:03.000But the nice people, some of whom have, you know, joined our program, and I try my best to, you know, be respectful, but still firm, is like, I don't think they realize we're kind of on war footing domestically.
00:19:27.000Yeah, it's like I liked it better when I had my cozy books and we just listened to whatever huge corporations on the left did, you know, whatever they want to do.
00:19:57.000But I'll put it all right to do that in this public space.
00:20:01.000And it's the argument is a little bit of sophistry.
00:20:04.000He, he, he basically says, like, America is pluralism, right?
00:20:09.000We've never had just one monolithic cult.
00:20:11.000Like, you know, there's some individual freedom here.
00:20:13.000And because America is pluralism, it is conservative to love pluralism.
00:20:16.000He defines pluralism as like anything that progressives want to do.
00:20:19.000And therefore, it's conservative to just like go with progressivism.
00:20:22.000You know, it's like this is where the lie of that argument is: is that it's always, despite any of the racial demographics and all that, whatever, it's that actually it's not been pluralistic of the love of the country.
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00:22:02.000This idea that we must allow the soundbite of pluralism for the sake of it, that's actually super, that's a that's a small L liberal idea gone wrong.
00:22:20.000That's why conservatism has always been necessary for a counterbalance because we're not going to say that every fruit the enlightenment is wrong.
00:22:27.000Like free speech is nice and individual rights, but absent any sort of anchoring of tradition and order, you start to get Drag Queen Story Hour everywhere.
00:22:37.000And I use that as like a provocative example, right?
00:22:39.000But, or you get pedophilia books in Loudoun County schools, or you get kids that have to put condoms on cucumbers in California.
00:23:01.000You'll get deplatformed from the modern town squares, right?
00:23:03.000You'll get a Twitter mob raged up against you to go to your employer and demand yourself.
00:23:08.000This is the question I ask of like James Lindsay and Peter Boghogian, who are liberals I really respect, who do want to live in that liberal America.
00:23:43.000And again, we could go deeper into kind of how liberalism sowed its own destruction starting with Machiavelli.
00:23:49.000But anytime you allow liberalism to go its own devices without the restraint of order, tradition, and kind of a push on modernity, you will go to French Revolution, Russian Revolution super fast.
00:24:00.000And this is, as far as I can tell, the biggest difference between the conservative mindset and the progressive mindset is how they deal with imperfection.
00:24:07.000So I think like the founding fathers knew they weren't perfect, right?
00:24:10.000Like they were conscious of the slavery debate.
00:24:12.000And even if many were wrong, obviously.
00:24:30.000And the left-wing or the progressive, it's that Bolshevist mentality.
00:24:34.000It's no, because the founding fathers own slaves, you know, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they're irredeemable and you must throw them out, right?
00:25:01.000I actually don't mind it that much to be called that.
00:25:04.000I know that's like a pejorative, but I do think there's something that said that, yeah, we're actually going to be a little bit more dramatic in our counter move because you guys are deciding to just destroy everything.
00:25:39.000And there is something that's the trope of the silent majority.
00:25:42.000But like, I think if the Democrats keep pushing the way they're pushing, the silent majority is about to become very, very vocal.
00:25:47.000And it's a tyrannical minority, extremely small, by the way, but very, very influential.
00:25:52.000Was it David Sachs who said someone said the greatest trick the progressives ever pulled was convincing the population that they were more than 5%?
00:26:42.000Despite the empirical evidence and everything around them is unwinding because they say, oh, yeah, it's okay.
00:26:46.000After we destroy the currency, open up all the borders and have 35 million Central Americans and everyone just works for a collection of three companies.
00:27:14.000But the whole Democrat Party is actually largely embracing this.
00:27:18.000And so let's talk about what, you know, we call you based Blake around here because you're willing to say the one line that drove people nuts.
00:28:25.000But I do think even the left finds it inconvenient to attack the family because actually most people love their family and want families if they don't have them.
00:29:01.000But I didn't say like, who should do what?
00:29:02.000Like, laissez-faire, man, do what you want, but like, we ought to have a society where you should be prosperous enough to have to get married and have kids.
00:29:09.000And most on the margin would prefer to raise their kids.
00:29:12.000You can go leave JP Morgan and take the mask off of like, you know, making change for a $100 bill for some weirdo and Nihalis and like go raise a family.
00:29:21.000Turns out most people aren't actually so fortunate to have some job that they love and some boss that they love.
00:29:26.000And, you know, most people find fulfillment through family and through hobbies and through spirituality, through the religion.
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00:32:40.000We're importing nearly 3 million people every season.
00:32:43.000And I think the best asset that so many Americans own actually is monopolistic or opt to be monopolistic access to a tight domestic labor market.
00:32:50.000And if you throw open all borders and you just say, congratulations, like your son is now competing with 7 billion people.
00:34:31.000But yeah, we need to make things here again.
00:34:32.000And if you make things here again and you sort of, you know, in intelligent and wise and humble ways, protect American industry, that's half the equation.
00:34:40.000The other half of the equation is healthcare, education, housing.
00:34:42.000Why does this stuff keep getting so expensive every year?
00:34:44.000We've become so habituated to this that we think it's like an iron law of physics.
00:34:49.000Like, of course, housing has to get more expensive every year.
00:35:08.000But and the whatever EPA classification, that was like a wet river that had some endangered fish in it.
00:35:13.000And so, like, this project, $20 million, you can't build houses, even though there's like tons of demand for it, uh, because the EPA over in DC is worried about some non-existent endangered fish in this wash that will probably never be a river again, you know.
00:35:26.000And we're just drowning in bureaucracy.
00:35:28.000You look at housing, education, healthcare, these systems, they have like monopolies, it's cardinalization, it's regulatory capture, right?
00:35:35.000You got to get in there with a proverbial machete and hack away at some of this stuff to get some dynamism back in these industries so that people can innovate and prices can come down.
00:36:04.000Like you know this because it's one of the more horizontally expansionist states in the country and it's it's actually ceasing to be that way.
00:36:12.000Where for years, Arizona, if you wanted to add more development, you would go outward, east or west.
00:36:19.000And that's why Maricopa is so expansionist, right?
00:36:22.000From Queen Creek all the way to Glendale, it's this massive development.
00:36:26.000But now, because of the EPA and government lands, developers are like, yeah, we can't do many more of these.
00:36:32.000We can't do any more Del Webb communities.
00:36:34.000And so if you see in Scottsdale, you know, North Scottsdale, especially, they're going up.
00:36:45.000But what's the problem with that is you create more renters or more displaced high-income people coming from California that might not be rooted to the ground.
00:36:54.000Talk a little bit about the like this BlackRock thing, renting versus owning.
00:36:58.000And should we as conservatives even care about it?
00:37:24.000But it is good to pursue wise policies that actually allow people to own some piece of dirt, right?
00:37:30.000Some equity that, yeah, maybe appreciates over time.
00:37:33.000I'm very, I mean, I know, you know, when the BlackRock thing blew up a few months ago, all these people wanted to point out and say, oh, well, BlackRock only owns like, you know, point whatever, 05% of the U.S. housing stock.
00:37:44.000But I think like now is the time to pay attention to that.
00:37:46.000Like all these private equity interests and hedge funds are pursuing these strategies to buy up single-family homes.
00:37:51.000And okay, maybe that's not like meaningfully reflective.
00:37:56.000And, you know, and then they're just in control, right?
00:37:58.000Like, I think you want decentralization in society.
00:38:01.000I think you want individual Americans to own their homes.
00:38:03.000I don't think you want 10 or 20 firms to control half the housing stock in 15 or 20 years.
00:38:09.000And if that's the way the economics are breaking in this world that we have, I think wise policymakers should be paying attention to that and putting the brakes on it because it's bad.
00:38:18.000Like you want people to be able to own stuff.
00:38:20.000And it's becoming increasingly hard to do that.
00:38:22.000And I, I want like a nation of 70 million capitalists, not like seven or even seven million.
00:38:29.000Like it's, you know, we don't want to become a Latin American country where like, I and Republicans don't talk about the wealth inequality.
00:39:01.000Let's put it this way: they're not building classical education schools or giving money to Hillsdale College, Zuckerberg, or Turning Point USA, right?
00:39:51.000I'm up and to the right in the polls, and certainly anecdotally, people are excited to finally have like a non-politician who's smart and capable and actually understands these problems.
00:40:18.000They want a thin slice of elite at the top.
00:40:20.000And surprise, surprise, they get to control the elite.
00:40:22.000They want a hollowed out middle class, and then they want a permanent underclass that's on the dole, whether it's conventional welfare or UBI or stimulus checks or whatever.
00:40:30.000And I think that that's A, dystopian and bad.
00:40:33.000Like, I don't want the United States to look like Brazil.
00:40:35.000I want it to look like the United States as we know it and love it.