00:01:41.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:49.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:45.000Hey, Charlie, what do you think of the recent decision by Amy Coney Barrett in regards to vaccines?
00:02:54.000Well, look, in regards to Amy Coney Barrett, I'm not going to lie, I'm very disappointed.
00:02:59.000I'm deeply disappointed, but with the reading and the studying I've been doing, we shouldn't be that disappointed, not just about Amy Coney Barrett, but about the courts in general.
00:03:08.000Alexis de Tocqueville, who is a phenomenal author, wrote a great book called Democracy in America.
00:03:15.000He said that all issues will eventually be decided by the court.
00:03:20.000All issues are, in fact, judicial issues.
00:03:25.000Now, the third article of the United States Constitution talks about the judiciary, the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:03:32.000And for years, conservatives have put, we have put our trust and our faith in an independent judiciary.
00:03:40.000Now, mind you, this has not been a fool's errand.
00:03:43.000Some of the Supreme Court victories that we have secured are going to last a lifetime.
00:03:48.000But a common talking point amongst upper middle class Republican circles is that the most important thing a president will do is secure the Supreme Court.
00:03:58.000That's probably right if the Supreme Court is listened to.
00:04:02.000What happens if the Supreme Court is just ignored?
00:04:06.000What happens if the Supreme Court makes bad decisions?
00:04:10.000A major push by Senator Mitch McConnell throughout the years has been putting, has been trying to put in better judges with prudence to make decisions in alignment to the United States Constitution.
00:04:22.000Now, to give Senator McConnell credit, this has been an upgrade versus Trent Lott when he was in the United States Senate.
00:04:31.000We have far better judges than Trent Lott when Trent Lott was putting them into office.
00:04:36.000So Amy Coney Barrett came out and she's in charge of a certain circuit court.
00:04:42.000So the way it works is that every single one of the U.S. Supreme Court justices, they oversee a certain circuit court for emergency appeals.
00:04:50.000They could decide to take them, write opinions on them.
00:04:52.000It's not a final decision, but they all oversee that area.
00:05:36.000I mean, the courts made a terrible decision in the Dred Scott decision, 7-2, 7 Democrats, two Republicans as dissenting, because public opinion was that blacks were not humans at the time, an awful and disgusting and evil decision.
00:05:49.000As time progressed and public opinion changed, the courts reversed their decision.
00:05:55.000We believe that all humans are created equal.
00:05:58.000If they just would have listened to the tenets of the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they wouldn't have had to do some sort of movement in the Dred Scott decision to come to that kind of conclusion.
00:06:09.000But instead, the courts conform to public opinion.
00:07:01.000Now, this is something that we as conservatives don't talk about enough.
00:07:05.000We think that the courts are going to make sober and fair and unbiased decisions regardless of the clamoring or the chattering class.
00:07:13.000Hamilton never thought, never thought this was in the case.
00:07:16.000He wrote about this in the Federalist Papers, and he wrote about this in his private journals.
00:07:20.000And Alexander Hamilton was actually a ghostwriter for a lot of George Washington's speeches in his second term of his presidency.
00:07:28.000Now, the idea of judicial review came in thanks to Marbury versus Madison, which really kind of enshrined this idea that the Supreme Court is a co-equal branch of government.
00:07:40.000The Supreme Court has the ability to have a check and balance against tyrants and despots or unconstitutional measures from the legislature.
00:07:49.000As we've covered extensively in a previous episode of our podcast, Joe Biden has just basically said, I don't care what the Supreme Court says, I am going to do what I believe is right.
00:09:20.000You know what happens when you have a great emperor like Marcus Aurelius?
00:09:24.000Great emperors usually have really bad kids like Commodus, and the whole empire starts to fall apart.
00:09:29.000It can work for a moment, but there's no sustainability to it.
00:09:33.000Now, I'm not saying that Amy Coney Barrett or Brett Kavanaugh or Neil Gorsuch are Roman emperors, but they have a lot of power.
00:09:41.000And we haven't invested as the conservative movement too much in individuals.
00:09:46.000Now, I'm glad the Supreme Court has a majority.
00:09:50.000I'm glad that we're going to at least have some sort of a check and balance on Joe Biden's activism.
00:09:56.000But we're going to get let down more and more.
00:09:59.000Now, maybe things will change, but Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, to a lesser extent, and definitely not Clarence Thomas.
00:13:11.000They have a whole course on theology 101.
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00:14:41.000You email us your question, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:14:44.000The essence of the question is basically this, which is that where do we find our hope at this present moment?
00:14:54.000What can we possibly do to try to change things in our favor?
00:15:00.000So I think a really important thing we don't talk about enough, I was just having this conversation with some wonderful Claremont Institute people, is we don't talk enough about the vulnerabilities and the weak spots of the left.
00:15:12.000We don't talk about where they can be challenged and defeated easiest.
00:15:20.000We almost only talk about the disadvantages we're experiencing.
00:16:12.000But we know the solutions to these things.
00:16:14.000We need to create new community and fraternity.
00:16:17.000The Republican Party needs to get a backbone and not negotiate multi-trillion dollar infrastructure packages, $1.2 trillion infrastructure packages of the opposition.
00:16:27.000Build new actual infrastructure, not this fake infrastructure of nonprofits and groups that are willing to stand up and contest for things.
00:16:57.000I have hope that we can win because the conservative movement is finally talking seriously about playing offense.
00:17:09.000If Joe Biden would have won everything perfectly, fairly and squarely, which of course is not true, I don't think the conservative movement would be in that position.
00:17:17.000But when something is stolen from you, all of a sudden you have a completely different mindset.
00:17:23.000We are going to avenge what happened to us.
00:18:07.000That's why they have all these fake and phony commissions in Washington, D.C. That's why they have to categorize half the country's insurrectionists.
00:18:16.000We're going to see this in a variety of different ways.
00:18:18.000The school board uprising in America absolutely gives me hope.
00:18:22.000It's not a Democrat or Republican thing.
00:18:24.000It's not a conservative or liberal thing.
00:19:02.000All of a sudden, the left is going to be very, and let me say this again, emphasize this for point, very worried because their church, their golf, their business, their children was just political power.
00:19:18.000So whether we like it or not, we're living in a Marxist-created power struggle.
00:19:33.000That's something we have not seen in decades.
00:19:38.000It is a real life living example of the greatest political document ever written in the United States Constitution.
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00:20:34.000If the Chinese hack our cyber grid, everybody, and all of a sudden there's no electric power, are you able to feed your family for more than a day, two days?
00:20:41.000Do you know that they say after five days, there'll be total chaos and bedlam in the streets.
00:22:29.000You can go to Hegel and the Hegelian dialectic and the long march through institutions and a German historicist view of our experience and our existence.
00:22:43.000But there is one person that every conservative should become familiar with.
00:22:49.000Now, I want to give a hat tip to the great Newt Gingrich.
00:22:52.000Newt Gingrich did something back in 2012 where he insistently introduced the author and the activist Saul Alinsky into the mainstream of the conservative movement.
00:23:06.000When I go to Republican Lincoln Reagan Day dinners, when I go to tea party meetings, which really don't exist anymore, when I go to any sort of function and I say Saul Olinski, I'd say 70 or 80% of the room knows who I'm talking about.
00:23:18.000Now, actually, I've been going across the country speaking at churches.
00:23:22.000You'd be amazed at how few churches know who Saul Linsky is.
00:23:24.000A man who wrote Rules for Radicals, 13 Rules.
00:23:27.000We've covered them extensively on this show.
00:23:29.000And the dedication of that book was to Lucifer, who he said was the first ever rebel.
00:23:35.000You're trying to tell me we're not in a spiritual war?
00:23:37.000Oh, Charlie, it's just a bunch of matter versus matter.
00:23:44.000Now, the man who is the architect of a lot of the chaos you're living through, the man who is largely responsible for a lot of the academic backing of what we're seeing is a man by the name of Herbert Marcuse.
00:24:37.000I believe history changed right around 1960 as soon as the new left started to get power.
00:24:43.000Students for a Democrat Society, which eventually became Weather Underground, run by William Ayres, a terrorist who became a college professor and still is a college professor at University of Illinois, Chicago.
00:24:53.000Bernardine Dorn, they tried to bomb federal buildings, legitimate insurrectionists, and then they became professors to go teach your children because they started to realize and recognize you have to be much more patient than just blowing buildings up.
00:25:06.000The kind of wise, aged statesman, I use those words ironically because he was anything but wise.
00:25:14.000I guess he was aged, was Herbert Marcuse.
00:25:18.000He was the man who clarified the adolescence that was inherent in 1960s leftism.
00:25:27.000Now, a lot of you might be saying, Charlie, what does that to do with now?
00:25:30.000Every single one of his propositions was adopted and has been implemented by the people who are educating your children, running the FBI, running the CIA.
00:25:40.000And yes, even Joe Biden and John Kerry are in some ways disciples of Herbert Marcuse.
00:25:47.000So Herbert Marcuse wrote a very famous essay called Repressive Tolerance.
00:25:54.000Now, if you really want to confuse yourself, go read Repressive Tolerance.
00:26:03.000There's a series of these essays that happened in the 1960s where, again, my argument is that this changed things permanently.
00:26:11.000The 1960s of black feminism, of second-wave feminism, of identity politics, it changed the way we did American politics for so long that now here we are 60 years later, finally feeling the implemented effects of it.
00:26:27.000That's how long it took for us to finally wake up and go to a school board meeting and say something about it.
00:26:33.000So Herbert Marcuse wrote a series of books as well.
00:26:36.000He wrote a book called One-Dimensional Man.
00:26:39.000I'm not going to get into that right now.
00:26:41.000He also wrote a book called Eros and Civilization.
00:26:45.000Mikey can fact check me out on that fact, just clarify that.
00:27:39.000He said, we're living in a tyrannical society because, for example, people call themselves men and call themselves women, and no one told them to do that.
00:27:50.000That social norms and customs are actually repressing people.
00:27:53.000This is why he called it repressive tolerance.
00:27:56.000Herbert Marcuse believed in a thing called frame theory, in an unlimited amount of ways to interpret existence.
00:28:02.000He believed that as soon as people are able to do whatever they want to do, however they want to do it sexually, then men or mankind will reach its highest level of existence.
00:28:12.000This is where we get the transgender debate from, the abortion debate from.
00:28:15.000This is where we get the birth control debate from, or argument from.
00:28:19.000It's where a lot of these ideas started to germinate.
00:28:24.000So Herbert Marcuse wrote this article, Repressive Tolerance, which kind of gave a lot of credibility to what is best known as the Port Huron statement by the adolescent Apparatchic left that wasn't really sure what they were saying, but they knew something was wrong and they were willing to do something about it.
00:28:45.000And there's one part of this article that I want to focus on, which I think is exactly where we are headed right now.
00:28:53.000There's one part of this article by the grandfather of the new left, Herbert Marcuse, that really we're seeing right now.
00:29:02.000Now, before I go any further, Herbert Marcuse had disciples, like Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
00:29:09.000Now, those were all very virtuous people.
00:29:12.000Not so virtuous is the disciple of Herbert Marcuse, a woman by the name of Angela Davis.
00:29:19.000I have a personal mission to, quote, make Angela Davis famous again.
00:29:25.000Angela Davis needs to be known by every American conservative family.
00:29:30.000If you don't know who Angela Davis is, you are not playing on the terms of their debate.
00:29:34.000Angela Davis is a bitter, angry, need to be careful what other words I use, clever, treacherous, deceitful, yet highly effective academic who is a devout Marxist and communist.
00:29:49.000Angela Davis, I think she still teaches in the UC system.
00:30:03.000He said, where society has entered the phase of total administration and indoctrination, let's stop there.
00:30:10.000What did he mean by total administration and indoctrination?
00:30:13.000He said, once the civil service and the bureaucracies and the colleges and the media are controlling everything and we've indoctrinated everyone, then this is about to happen.
00:30:24.000This would then be a small number indeed, and not necessarily that of elected representatives of people.
00:30:37.000And this is something that I've been trying to warn conservatives about the last couple years, and I think they're finally starting to get it.
00:30:44.000Quite honestly, it took years for me to get it.
00:30:52.000Is that there is this lie in liberalism that everyone is going to be co-equally neutral to your opinion.
00:31:01.000What Marcuse talks about in this essay, which I'm not going to get into all the details, is, hey, if we have ideas that we know are right, like sexual liberation and allowing children to be sexually active, which he believed was a moral good.
00:31:17.000And you could read his essay, he talks about it, then we should shut up the people that disagree with us.
00:31:23.000Why would we give the other side a chance to talk?
00:33:22.000As long as the other side honors free speech.
00:33:25.000If we're the ambassadors of neutrality and they're the ones shutting us up, how do you get them to stop doing that?
00:33:31.000A great example I could do is this, and this is something that we got to reprogram our politicians to understand the moment that we are in.
00:34:06.000A power struggle is only actually a power struggle when the other side respects you.
00:34:11.000And the reason why they are so hyper-aggressive is they're trying to obliterate us until we wake up and realize that we actually control more governor's mansions than them, that we control more state legislatures than them, that we control more attorney generals than them, that there's probably more of us than them.
00:35:07.000He was actually defending me on Twitter.
00:35:08.000He said something, and I wrote it down, and then I said it again on our podcast and our radio show, where he said, look, if Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington saw Drag Queen Story Hour happening in their local library, they'd mobilize the Minutemen.
00:35:34.000There were laws prohibiting cross-dressing originated in the colonial era, often drawing on biblical teachings and also serving the needs of society that were ordered among gendered hierarchies.
00:35:43.000In the late 19th, early 20th centuries, psychologists developed the term transvestite and transsexual to denote individuals who wish to change their gender either physically or via clothing or social comportment.
00:36:06.000I'm going to pray for their salvation, like that very sad person who's marching around the White House with a dress on, whoever that person is.
00:36:13.000The guy in the dress with the long fingernails.
00:36:15.000The perversity is that you're doing it to children.
00:36:38.000Now, some of you might be saying, Charlie, what is drag queen story hour?
00:36:40.000Not everyone is as well read into this as we are.
00:36:44.000There is a movement afoot in the United States where transgender people, gender-confused, gender-dysphoric people, go to libraries and get licenses or permission, permits, permits is a better word, to go conduct storytelling hour in full drag in front of five, six, and seven-year-olds.
00:37:09.000And the debate on the right, and it was between David French and Saurabh Amari, happened a couple years ago, and Saurabh totally red-pilled me on this, is that this should be illegal.
00:37:19.000And some conservatives are like, oh, no, no, no.
00:37:21.000If you make Drag Queen Story Hour illegal, next they'll come for the church.
00:37:25.000First of all, they're already coming for the church.
00:37:27.000Second of all, stop making a moral comparison between worshiping your creator and doing a moral good and being a perv at the local library wearing a dress as a dude.
00:38:59.000I am saying, though, the founding fathers designed the system we have with strict moral guidelines because they thought liberty, the pursuit of virtue, was only possible when people had the framework set in place to be able to do that.
00:39:12.000This idea of the John Lennon founders, that they were all just a bunch of like LSD dropping, you know, drunks that were totally and completely morally questionable is revisionist.
00:39:24.000George Washington was one of the most pious, loyally married, careful, religiously obedient people ever in the American founding.
00:39:35.000I could read Publius Federalist 16 says here, Federalist number 16, December 1787, ministers of the law land from whatever source it might emanate would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the level local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness.
00:39:53.000Licentiousness is mostly in the sexual domain or the morally questionable domain, but it means having no guidelines, doing what you want.
00:40:01.000And by the way, you can be licentious in financial behavior and licentious in moral behavior.
00:40:10.000Of this, I'm secure, that we shall soon have an effective government.
00:40:13.000The rich, the wise, the brave, the industrious, and the enterprising.
00:40:16.000However, I'm sure they will not be content to lie at the mercy of the idle and the licentious and be prey of happy speculators.
00:40:28.000Page after page of how the founding fathers were not just these free-loving libertarians.
00:40:34.000No, they believed in moral order because they cared about things that were beautiful, good, and true, and they wanted to preserve the country.
00:40:39.000The new way that we read the founders is so deceiving.
00:40:42.000Now, was there an element of kind of social libertarianism?
00:40:46.000Yeah, Thomas Jefferson embodied that in some of his writings.
00:40:49.000By calling for castration and not for murder of sodomites.
00:41:05.000Licentiousness and enthusiasm are the ruling principles of the anti-Federists and Kent Federalists and cannot be doubted, talking about Thomas Jefferson.
00:41:13.000By their false alarms of offended justice and endangered liberty, they assume the right of corrupting each other.
00:41:21.000And like fanatics in religion, working themselves up into enthusiastic zeal.
00:41:27.000How about the editorial from the Newport Herald?
00:41:30.000The indolent and the abandoned and the offscoring, this is 1788, the offscoring of the earth who have no prospects but in the state of anarchy where marauders, freebooters, knaves, and the licensed are encouraged.
00:41:42.000They didn't really like licentiousness.
00:41:58.000That's why you have rules in sporting events.
00:42:01.000It's why you have rules for any sort of institution.
00:42:04.000For example, you can't go into church and just start screaming.
00:42:07.000You can't wear a bathing suit to church.
00:42:09.000Rules actually make certain experiences more desirable.
00:42:14.000Now, stupid rules and voluminous rules and laws, as James Madison would say, is an act of tyranny.
00:42:20.000That's why you have to use prudence, practical judgment, wisdom, of which our rulers do not have.
00:42:28.000Virginia Convention, 1788, Lee said, it was necessary to provide against licentiousness, which is so natural to our climate.
00:42:35.000I dread for the more licentiousness of the people than from the bad government of the rulers.
00:42:40.000I fear more of people being morally questionable than the rulers going nuts.
00:42:46.000Patrick Henry, mixed bag, not exactly an adopter of the Constitution early.
00:42:54.000From his then situation, King George could have furnished us with the instances in which licentiousness trampled on the laws.
00:43:02.000I don't think I need to make my point any further, but for any of you questioning me, which there were plenty of people emailing me, the founding fathers were libertarians.
00:43:10.000I got 17 pages to show you they believed in a transcendent moral order.
00:43:14.000Now, their religious personal views varied from the most, let's say, editorialized would be Thomas Jefferson.
00:43:46.000Share this episode with your friends, how the founding fathers had to mobilize the Minutemen against transgender people reading stories to children, which should be a conservative position.
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00:47:41.000But all of that depends on treating history as if it is made by people who, although very different from us in many ways, are yet still people.
00:47:54.000The animals that can talk to each other, learn from each other, recognize good and evil, which are all, by the way, we have a course on Aristotle where we explain this.
00:48:08.000Our ability to see good and evil and our ability to talk boil down to the same thing.
00:48:13.000And so a creature like that, which lives in a perishable body and has needs, how does it steer itself by the ultimate truth when in its needs it's just like any animal?