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00:01:43.000One of the themes that we have been hitting here on this show is over the last calendar year, from January of 2021 to today, you've seen the rise of the citizen and the fall of the regime.
00:01:57.000We have seen regular moms and dads show up to school board meetings across the country, get criminalized by the Department of Justice, be called domestic terrorists.
00:02:05.000But it created this robust, bottom-up, grassroots political movement that the ruling class and the people that run the country that want to turn you into serfs or subjects were totally surprised by.
00:02:26.000They couldn't quite comprehend why parents cared so much about their kids' education.
00:02:32.000Now, because of the lockdowns that society decided to enact as a response to the Chinese Fauci coronavirus, parents across the country for the first time decided to get engaged and get involved in school board races and elections over the last year.
00:02:53.000This is part of the rise of the citizen.
00:02:56.0002021 did not have many elections, but there was one in particular that started to surface as a potential climax, as a potential testing point of all these different political trends that we started to see in April and May and June of last year.
00:03:14.000Businessman Glenn Young was running for governor of Virginia.
00:03:20.000He was running up against Clinton Operative and former governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.
00:03:25.000And Glenn Young was down nearly double digits in the polls, 12 to 15 points.
00:03:31.000It seemed as if Terry McAuliffe was going to have an easy waltz to the governorship.
00:03:35.000There'd be no questions asked, and Republicans would lose yet again in the ever-increasing blue state of Virginia.
00:03:44.000Of course, moms and dads rose up in record numbers.
00:03:48.000Loudoun County was tighter than ever before.
00:03:51.000The strong conservative areas got behind Yunkin, and Yunkin was elected governor of Virginia.
00:03:59.000Now, we celebrated that victory that night.
00:04:01.000We did a whole live stream that evening.
00:04:03.000It was a massive win against the regime.
00:04:06.000It was a win for parents, the parents' party that is ever increasing and strengthening in numbers.
00:04:12.000It was a win for those of us that care for educational mobility and school choice, vouchers, and especially the fight against critical race theory.
00:04:24.000Now, in the weeks that followed Glenn Young's election, there were a lot of articles that were suggesting that Glenn Young was going to go the way of Mitt Romney, that he was going to go straight towards the middle, that Glenn Young was going to betray his campaign promises, and he said one thing on the trail, and he was going to do another.
00:04:43.000And honestly, I was starting to see a pattern that I had seen far too often amongst many politicians.
00:04:50.000A politician that will use the energy, use the deciding factor of the conservative base to try to get political power and then completely discard them once he believes or she believes they have maximized their utility.
00:05:07.000I've been in kind of a wait-and-see approach to kind of see what is Youngkin going to do when he actually takes office.
00:05:13.000Well, on Saturday, Glenn Young was sworn in as governor of Virginia.
00:05:19.000Immediately, Glenn Young went to signing executive orders aimed at keeping key campaign pledges.
00:05:25.000I'm reading from CharlieKirk.com to push back on highly divisive critical race theory and to investigate Loudoun County public school members and officials.
00:05:36.000Glenn Young, within minutes of becoming governor, he decided to do what so Republicans hesitate to do, which is to fulfill on your campaign promises.
00:05:46.000Number one, Glenn Young has banned all uses of critical race theory in public education in Virginia.
00:05:54.000To restore excellence in education, Glenn Young signs an executive order ending the use of divisive concepts, including critical race theory in public education.
00:06:02.000Number two, Glenn Young has said to empower Virginia parents, again, it's this kind of theme of the parents' party in their kids' education.
00:06:12.000It is now the rule in Virginia to allow parents to make decisions on whether their kids should wear a mask in schools.
00:06:19.000Mask mandates for children are dead in Virginia.
00:06:23.000To restore confidence and integrity in the parole board of the Virginia comment on the Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:06:29.000Not exactly sure if that one is relevant to the theme we're talking about, but it sounds interesting.
00:06:35.000The next one, to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County.
00:06:39.000Remember the covering up of the father who came and complained about his daughter that was raped, the 14-year-old daughter, and then they reassigned the male student who raped again?
00:07:04.000Maybe the internet has already figured that out, but it's a spitting image, almost identical.
00:07:09.000Next, Glenn Young is saying Virginia is open for business, no more lockdowns.
00:07:16.000And now, then a couple to prevent human trafficking and support, provide support for survivors.
00:07:21.000And then finally, there is a commission to combat anti-Semitism.
00:07:25.000And then finally, to withdraw from regional greenhouse gas initiative, which is to push back against the green energy lobby that Terry McAuliffe and Governor Ralph Northam and many others tried to institute in Virginia.
00:07:42.000What Glenn Young told us day one should be a shot in the arm.
00:07:47.000It should be encouragement for all you parents out there.
00:07:51.000That he listened to you, and not only did he say the right things on the campaign trail, but day one, he says, mask mandates are done, critical race theory is done, I'm investigating Loudoun County, I'm going to crack down on this greenhouse gas, green energy nonsense in Virginia.
00:08:09.000This is winning everybody, not just winning elections, but actually meaningfully and measurably improving the states that you live in.
00:08:20.000Glenn Youngkin was pressed about banning CRT in schools, and he, in a very articulate way, doubled down on it.
00:08:30.000School systems, we're not going to teach our children to view everything through a lens of race.
00:08:36.000Yes, we will teach all history, the good and the bad, because we can't know where we're going unless we know where we have come from.
00:08:44.000But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true.
00:08:55.000And the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King ring in our ears that we must judge one another by the content of our character and not the color of our skin.
00:09:03.000This is what will be the founding principle of our executive order, what we're going to do in Virginia schools.
00:09:08.000It's Martin Luther King Day, and Glenn Youngkin is right to take the moral high ground of the challenge that Martin Luther King put forward.
00:09:17.000Glenn Youngkin is doing what he said he is going to do, what he's going to do, which I think should be a great sign for those of us that might be a little apprehensive, myself included, about some Republicans that we might elect to Congress coming into November and what they might do once they go to D.C.
00:09:35.000Today, those of you that are members of the Parents Party, that are members of a constitutional reset that are trying to create or try to recreate a society that you grew up in where you don't care about the color of people's skin, you care about the content of their character.
00:09:50.000Virginia has just moved in the right direction.
00:09:53.000And Virginia can be the next Florida if he pushes.
00:09:56.000Now, here's why Youngkin cannot run for reelection.
00:10:03.000And I think people are going to rally behind him.
00:10:06.000And I think he's going to move the Overton window and move Virginia.
00:10:09.000If he keeps this up, if he doesn't become a typical Chamber of Commerce, weak need Republican, he can move Virginia from a blue state to a purple state to maybe right in the middle.
00:10:20.000And that takes leadership, but also it's because of you.
00:10:24.000It's a manifestation and a reflection of the people.
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00:11:38.000So, I do want to get into the new revelations of how much money Anthony Fauci made, but actually, as a better story to kind of complete the point about the Parents Party, is a once-in-a-generation seismic shift, a realignment is occurring in American politics.
00:11:53.000You are living through a political realignment.
00:11:58.000So, Gallup does these polls every quarter about United States political affiliation.
00:12:05.000Do you lean or do you identify with Republicans or Democrats?
00:12:11.000So, one year ago, in the first quarter of 2021, 49% of Americans that were polled say they more identify, they sympathize more with Democrats than with Republicans.
00:12:47.000That's probably because some Republicans might have been a little sour about January 6th or kind of what happened, how we lost the Georgia Senate runoffs, and they were done.
00:12:57.000But they came back home, and we saw that in a variety of different types of numbers.
00:13:01.000But Democrats did not lose any support from the first quarter of 2021 to the second quarter of 2021.
00:13:13.000In the third quarter of 2021, of last year, all of a sudden we saw a tightening that was almost inexplicable.
00:13:22.000We saw Democrats go sharply down from 49% of Americans that strongly identify or lean identify or strongly identify as Democrats to 45 and 44 Republicans.
00:13:37.000So it starts the year at 49.40, Democrats in the lead.
00:13:41.000And then by the third quarter, it's 45.44.
00:13:47.000Well, the last poll that was conducted at the end of this last year, by the way, the sample size for these are 12,000 randomly sampled U.S. adults.
00:13:59.000And this information, this data correlates perfectly.
00:14:03.000It fits seamlessly into the approval rating data of Joe Biden.
00:14:07.000Now, this article was published today, January 17th.
00:14:56.000Democrats get oversampled, urban cities, inner cities, heavy Democrat pockets, turnout, Republicans less likely to tell pollsters who they are.
00:15:04.000So it's probably even more dramatic than this.
00:15:07.000It's probably even more dramatic that Republicans, 47, Democrats, 42.
00:15:13.000This is a dumpster fire for the Democrats.
00:15:16.000Some people, including Steve Bannon, thinks that this could be a generational realignment that could displace the Democrats from power, a near extinction event for the Democrat Party.
00:15:29.000A once-in-a-generation metaphorical asteroid, for those of you that watch Netflix, don't look up, you know what I'm talking about.
00:15:35.000Once-in-a-generation asteroid that could come in and destroy the entire Democrat Party and put them into total and complete irrelevancy.
00:15:45.000I'm not there because Republicans don't control the FBI, the CIA, Harvard, Google, the New York Times, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Amazon, or the biggest corporations, or the internationalist organizations from the World Health Organization to the World Economic Forum.
00:16:03.000However, what this does show is that the people are not going to buy what Democrats are selling anymore.
00:16:10.000Basically, Democrats have built their coalition out of people that are strictly and firmly ideological Democrats.
00:16:16.000People that are pro-abortion, no matter what you say, they are aggressive environmentalists, no matter what argument you make, no matter what, they have a dogmatic position that they are going to stick to.
00:16:29.000Instead, what wins elections is you motivate your base, you grow your base, and if you're able to peel away 3 to 5% of people in the middle, you're able to win an election.
00:16:41.00047% of Americans identify favorably with Republicans, 42% of Democrats.
00:16:46.000And by the way, this is before inflation really starts to kick in this year and other major headwinds that Democrats have to face.
00:16:54.000You might be living through a once-in-a-generation political realignment.
00:17:00.000Everybody, I know you love freedom and you want to defend it.
00:17:04.000And I know you love the Constitution, and so do I.
00:17:07.000It's the same with the wonderful Hillsdale College.
00:17:20.000Well, Hillsdale College, the last college, the beacon of the North, they are pursuing their mission of truth, of pursuing truth, and defending liberty.
00:17:28.000It gives their wonderful graduate, undergraduate students the best education, and it is working to make education available to all.
00:19:34.000All right, Kelly, summarize the rulings we got last week.
00:19:37.000Two parts, one OSHA, one Medicare, healthcare, workers.
00:19:43.000Kind of make sense for it for our audience.
00:19:47.000OSHA was the bigger of the two, but they're both important.
00:19:51.000But if people don't know what OSHA is, OSHA is a federal agency that was created 50 years ago to make sure that there weren't like that there was some ability to stop really dangerous situations in the workplace.
00:20:05.000And so they have the ability to, you know, tell you that you're not doing something and therefore help protect workers around the country.
00:21:38.000I mean, it was a massive takeover of all the businesses.
00:21:41.000And it included every religious organization with 100 and more employees, you know, organizations like Turning Point and other organizations.
00:21:50.000So a lot of us, I think there were, I don't know how many total, but maybe 20 or so overall groups filed lawsuits.
00:23:22.000And so it was really, it would have changed our entire structure as a country in that we would have bureaucrats from DC controlling everything in their lives with us having no recourse.
00:23:33.000So that was the OSHA decision, and that was 6-3.
00:23:36.000And every justice voted, I think, the way that we would have expected them to.
00:23:41.000Now, on the other one, though, it is the mandate for healthcare workers, which impacts a lot of our listeners and a lot of our followers and supporters.
00:23:52.000I was disappointed with Kavanaugh's ruling on that.
00:23:55.000I know you have to be careful with what you say because you have a lot of pending courts for cases in front of the Supreme Court, and I don't want to put you in a tough position, but just help us make sense of that.
00:24:48.000And so what happened is, I mean, if you're Kavanaugh and you're Roberts, there's more of an argument here because this is the federal government doing something with regard to health care.
00:25:00.000When it came to OSHA, I mean, I mean, that didn't have to do with the workplace.
00:25:05.000That was about a nationwide, you know, virus.
00:25:09.000And so that was really extreme, what they were doing here.
00:25:12.000Here, they're trying to take something that the federal government does have some control over and expand what they can do.
00:25:21.000I think the dissent was right that there's no authority to do this in the statute.
00:25:44.000It's the Congress that can give this sort of power, not a president.
00:25:48.000We don't have kings, you know, not a president, not some bureaucrat.
00:25:52.000You had to go through the legislative process because you can vote those people out of office.
00:25:56.000So this was about what did Congress give them power to do?
00:25:59.000And I think it's pretty clear they didn't.
00:26:02.000If you want an explanation for how a Kavanaugh gets there, I think that Kavanaugh is a conservative in his mind in a strong way that people don't think about, which is some conservatives, and I would put the Chief Justice at this too, think they should defer to the institutions unless something is very clear.
00:27:08.000Yeah, it's a bizarre way of looking at originalism, I suppose, that we want to defer to the fourth branch of government that basically is all three branches looped into one.
00:27:21.000And I think the court's unwillingness to check the fourth branch of government, what we call the IRA, the independent regulatory agencies, has been one of the greatest failings of the court.
00:27:32.000That's really what Article III was built for.
00:27:35.000You and I have talked about this a lot, but it's these unchecked, unknown bureaucracies with wide-ranging power where they can make their own rules, they can implement them as they see fit, and they act as if they're untouchable.
00:27:47.000That's why we have a Supreme Court and to act as if that, well, it's there, therefore we can't do anything about it.
00:27:54.000I think that logic falls apart rather quickly.
00:28:33.000And I understand you have to be careful about this.
00:28:35.000I'm going to talk broadly about some of the court's, let's say, lack of knowledge when it came to very basic information when it came to the virus.
00:28:43.000I interpreted it as stay in your lane, interpret what the Constitution says.
00:28:54.000I thought I was grateful for it because I thought it showed that it really did show a little bit of the divide between the liberal bloc and the conservative block on the court.
00:29:08.000The way I would put it is, let me explain something to people.
00:29:12.000When they argue the case, you think they're asking questions of the advocate, and they are, but they're really sort of talking to each other also, because later that same day, they were going to be voting on this in a room, just the nine justices.
00:29:25.000So their questions, they're actually trying to kind of convince other justices to come their way.
00:29:31.000And so really the approach of the liberals and the court is mainly, hey, look, we've got a really good end.
00:29:38.000So it doesn't matter what means we use to get there.
00:29:41.000And of course, that is opposite the way, you know, our constitutional structure works.
00:29:45.000And so you've got guys like Roberts and others saying, you can't do a workaround.
00:29:49.000You've got to go through the constitutional structure.
00:29:51.000But the liberals were more arguing these things, which they didn't know the facts about because they just, their heart was in the right place.
00:29:59.000They were trying to do something good.
00:30:01.000And so they didn't really care about how it was done.
00:30:05.000And so I thought it really showed something and a difference between the more conservatives on the court and the more liberals on the court.
00:31:24.000And so after every game, he would go to a knee by himself and say a 20-second silent prayer that just thanked God for the privilege of coaching the young men he got to coach.
00:31:36.000And that was great until somebody seven years later came to the school and said, hey, it's really neat what your coach is doing.
00:31:46.000And the next thing you know, Coach Kennedy was told, if you go to a knee again, you're going to be fired.
00:31:52.000And, you know, Coach fought for our freedoms.
00:31:55.000And he's like, what kind of example am I going to be for the kids and the Constitution that I fought for?
00:32:01.000So he went to a knee and he was fired and went to the Ninth Circuit, which is unfortunately the district where he lives out of San Francisco.
00:32:31.000So this thing is set up beautifully for the Supreme Court, but it's really, it's the first time there's ever been a case at the Supreme Court on the rights of teachers or parents, I mean, or coaches to live out their faith.
00:32:45.000I mean, there's cases about you can't use the power of government to coerce kids with regard to your faith.
00:32:50.000But this is about, is it wrong for somebody to ever even be religious because somebody might see you?
00:32:58.000So this affects everybody who's any government situation anywhere and whether they lose their religious freedoms when they show up at work.
00:33:06.000It's not what the law says, but it's what this court said.
00:33:10.000And it's going to affect millions and millions of people across the country.
00:33:22.000And Charlie, you know, we talk politics, we talk law, but the other thing that we talk that I know we can speak on the same wavelength is spiritual.
00:33:56.000Are you willing, even if it's going to cost you?
00:33:58.000That's what it takes when the bullies are coming at the country like they are right now.
00:34:02.000You got to have people willing to stand up and say, no, our Constitution is not being taken away from us.
00:34:07.000And that's what Coach Kennedy's doing.
00:34:09.000And again, I'm very encouraged because the court, most of the time they take one, it's because they're going to overrule what happened below.
00:34:18.000So the odds are with us at this point.
00:34:22.000We've got some justices who have already spoken to this earlier in the case for the four conservatives before Barrett was even on the court, Kavanaugh included, that were they found it very troubling what the Ninth Circuit was doing.
00:34:34.000So I think this is set up well and could be a powerful precedent for maybe the next 40 or 50 years.
00:34:40.000There's never been a case on anything like this.
00:35:08.000If you're going to do a great job arguing, I think that you might get a decision that can have massive spiritual implications across the country.