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00:01:21.000Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:24.000Super thrilled to be joined by one of the smartest and wittiest people that I have had a chance to get to know, Chris Bedford, who's a senior editor at the Federalist.
00:01:32.000Chris, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:36.000So I was really, we spent time together last summer at an undisclosed location fishing somewhere.
00:01:43.000And you said something that was super interesting that I've used and reused with sometimes giving you credit, where you said that this Marxist movement in our country is one of the first ever that is against the country they're trying to take over.
00:02:08.000I still actually haven't worked my way through my haul of fish from that trip yet.
00:02:13.000I'm not very good at eating salmon or cooking it.
00:02:16.000The problem, the weird thing about America's left is I don't think they've got a real place in history outside of maybe some of the anarchists, certainly not with the traditional left, of how much they hate this country.
00:02:29.000I mean, if you look at the previous more modern left-wing revolutionaries, from the Nazis to the communists, the Bolsheviks, all of these groups were fiercely, fiercely patriotic.
00:02:43.000They had different ideas about what the country should be.
00:03:00.000Hitler, obviously, a little bit of a nationalist.
00:03:02.000The Soviets were all about the motherland or the fatherland.
00:03:05.000And the Chinese, as we're seeing today, are strict nationalists, even as a essentially Soviet-style economy Leninist economy, which, by the way, Russia still is.
00:03:16.000The American left is very different from that.
00:03:22.000They want to destroy this country and everything that made it.
00:03:25.000They want to, I mean, they go from the radical environmentalists who just think that humans are a bad thing and a pollutant.
00:03:32.000Carbon is maybe one of the more socially acceptable pollutants to them, to the leftists on campus who, and now in our streets, and now in the New York Times, and now disrupting your events, who just think that white people are the horrible thing and white genocide needs to happen.
00:04:01.000Yeah, so I guess my question is: there's so many different ways to take this.
00:04:06.000First of all, how are they successful in creating a movement of self-loathing?
00:04:10.000Because the reason why the Soviets were fierce nationalists, but also they wouldn't have been able to assume political power being anything else.
00:04:20.000I mean, there was almost an expectation to the agrarian class against the Romanovs, like you have to love this place if we're going to put you into power.
00:04:41.000In fact, it was the reason he was able to win over the workers, at least in appearance, I think he was much less popular than the revisionists would tell us, is because he used the symbology and the history of Cuba to his advantage, right?
00:04:56.000So can you walk us through, first of all, have we ever seen this before?
00:05:01.000Where you have a movement to try to almost convince the country that now it's time to commit suicide and to go wherever.
00:05:26.000As much as I can, I wish I could help us all just solve it.
00:05:28.000I would definitely give you the key if I could activate all the campuses.
00:05:34.000The only close thing I can even think of are the anarchists, the Bolshevik, not the Bolshevik, the Russian anarchists, the German anarchists, the assassin of President Garfield, Charlie Gitta, the people who, it was a cult of death and a really strange thing in that movement, not unlike religious extremism that we've seen in ancient biblical history and the Jewish fights versus the Romans and now more frequently in Islam.
00:06:02.000There was a willingness to die in a glory of death where people would run into crowds holding bombs, these anarchists, just to kill as many people as possible.
00:06:11.000Or some of the Bolsheviks followed through on this old Russian idea of carrying bombs and rolling under the Tsar's carriage in attempts to kill him.
00:06:19.000Suicide for them was kind of an interesting, glorious thing for the revolution.
00:06:24.000But I will give credit to our revolutionaries here.
00:06:28.000People have been asking me, how do we fix the press?
00:06:58.000They're straight up telling us that the Soviet Union is better than us because they had more diversity in their cosmonaut suicide program and that the white people are horrible and the history of this country is not starting with our founders.
00:07:32.000These young cadres are coming out of the universities, people you have to deal with all the time, who are being indoctrinated in this stuff, and they believe it.
00:07:40.000And they take over the HR departments and they start their own slack channels, the black New York Times staffers, black gay female Times staffers, black gay persons, transgenders, people of weight slack channels, all these different groups breaking it down.
00:07:57.000A lot of the poison and toxicity that takes over the newsroom or takes over corporations begins in those little cloistered groups that are taught in college to be like that.
00:08:08.000So you're sitting there, maybe you've been in the company for 20 years, 30 years.
00:08:12.000You're an old classical liberal at the New York Times or at the Bay Capital.
00:08:16.000Yeah, Barry Weiss, any one of these folks who is generally a centrist or more open-minded to these ideas, and you're afraid.
00:08:24.000Because if you were to post on your Facebook page at a major corporation that you stand with the blue, you are going to be pulled in front of your HR department, at some of the more woke ones, some of the more lawsuit-resistant ones, and you're going to possibly lose your job.
00:08:39.000The reason why the silent majority is so silent is because they're being silenced by the threat of massive reprisal from their corporations, from losing their jobs.
00:08:49.000From all of that, and Tucker Carlson's talked about this, I've never seen a movement before where the most powerful people in the country are doing everything they can to destroy the least powerful people in the country.
00:09:03.000It's sickening, and I wish I could get a more simple answer to this pathology of trying to hurt people who are lesser than you.
00:09:12.000But it's kind of like that Game of Thrones cult where they, you know, they got some good ideas.
00:09:43.000Amazon thinks Jeff Bezos thinks he'll be killed last, so he's funding it.
00:09:47.000Bank of America is giving away a billion dollars to Black Lives Matter, which is a fraudulent near-terror organization.
00:09:56.000The pathology, I think, of fear, wanting to be part of this club and this junior class of acolytes who are just walking through the streets, you know, barefoot chanting, those things are combining, I think, to people who are without religion, an America that's lost its eternal truths, lost objectivity, been told for decades there's no objectivity, there's no beauty, there's no truth, it's only science.
00:10:35.000And so I think one of the reasons why we have this insurgent Marxist attempted revolution that is actually having success around self-loathing is that post-Reagan, I think the Republican Party became far more interested in protecting corporate interests and trying to create an idolatry of corporations, not of the country.
00:10:57.000And so because of that, you're going to have hierarchies and haves and haves-nots, right?
00:11:04.000The issue is that we expanded wealth so dramatically for certain zip codes, particularly around Washington, D.C. or Silicon Valley, Malibu, and Manhattan.
00:11:14.000And the rest of the country felt continually disenfranchised.
00:11:18.000So those places that felt disenfranchised, what do they do?
00:11:20.000Well, they send their kids to try to be like the Malibu people to the universities, right?
00:11:32.000And non-binary and they don't believe in the history.
00:11:35.000And you do that for about 15 or 20 years and you send your most prized possessions, your young people, to these universities.
00:11:42.000It shouldn't come as a surprise that self-loathing all of a sudden becomes fashionable.
00:11:47.000And unlike the Soviet Union in 1917 or 1921 or 1930, through every variation of their allowance of the transition from agrarian, let's just say monarchy to whatever was replaced there, I think they handled the transition economically improperly, basically, because you have people that lived under this agrarian rule for 5,000 years,
00:12:12.000and all of a sudden this industrial revolution begins all throughout Europe, and the Bolsheviks allegedly had an answer to that.
00:12:19.000But the reason why the Bolsheviks had to be nationalistic is the middle class, they still loved their country, right?
00:12:28.000They said, no, we actually still love where we are from because that's the only thing that we know.
00:12:34.000And I think, and I'd love your analysis of this, Chris, there's a lot there to unpack.
00:12:38.000A lot of it has been our inability to handle this explosion of wealth, or at least this explosion of wealth for certain people, while also communicating what the country actually is.
00:12:49.000It's not just an idolatry of corporations.
00:12:53.000But one of the most eye-opening things the last couple of years is how the conservative movement has almost prioritized corporate America over the country that we live in.
00:13:05.000I should be clear that even though the Bolsheviks were, to your point, you know, to our point, patriotic and nationalistic, they really did at the end.
00:13:13.000This is why our modern leftists so honest, they hated their country.
00:13:16.000They destroyed everything about it, but they had the experience of nationalism.
00:13:21.000I know we're both on the exact same page on that.
00:13:24.000Most of these groups, you know, they don't let you know how much they hate you until they're in charge.
00:13:28.000We're blessed to have one that's very clear about it right now in our midst.
00:13:33.000You know, the GOP was always kind of traditionally a northern industrial party.
00:13:37.000That's where there was the trading up in Salem and Boston, and then the factories later, the Industrial Revolution.
00:13:43.000And Calvin Coolidge is famous for his defense of business and how it was a part of the American character.
00:13:50.000But Coolidge and people around his time, and you see it with Barry Goldwater later in the 1960s, did not confuse the nature of man with what a lot of the modern GOP has.
00:14:01.000Barry Goldwater in Conscience of a Conservative wrote in the 60s that the difference between Democrats and Republicans, or at least conservatives and liberals, because he hadn't yet taken over the party, was that liberals look at man as a material creature and conservatives understand man as a spiritual creature, which is why conservatives say, hey, throwing money at this, reparations, welfare, expanded government access, that doesn't make anyone happy.
00:14:29.000And the reason, I mean, just watch any of your friends.
00:14:31.000They can have all the money they want.
00:14:32.000But if they've got no job and they've got no, you know, they've got rich dad giving them a credit card on campus, you might notice they develop drug problems and other kinds of antisocial activity because what is there to do?
00:14:43.000I mean, what is there to chase if you have no self-worth from a hard day's work?
00:14:49.000And the Republicans have forgot a lot about that.
00:14:52.000And in their defense of business and in their defense of free markets, they confuse that thing with free trade.
00:15:00.000And the ability to trade between Massachusetts and Missouri, they're largely on equal playing grounds.
00:15:06.000That's different when you deal with China and other mercantilist countries that look at trade as war.
00:15:12.000And you can't replace lost jobs simply with consumer goods.
00:15:17.000I mean, we've got companies like Walmart that a lot of people defend, a lot of Republicans very fiercely so, and they've done some good things.
00:15:25.000These companies like Walmart, it's hard to tell if they destroyed the town or if they came into the dead town and just lived there because the main streets, the folks that open up small shops, they can't compete with that.
00:15:39.000They can't provide the same amount of employment.
00:15:43.000We end up with parking lots, and these companies import their goods, which is why they're so cheap.
00:15:48.000It helps gut the American industrial base.
00:15:51.000And at the same time, they're huge lobbyists for food stamps and other things that their employees and a lot of their customers rely on to buy these cheap goods.
00:15:58.000It's kind of like a reverse Chinese opium trade.
00:16:01.000And I sing all at Walmart not because they're the only ones who do this.
00:16:05.000It's incredibly difficult right now to find made in American products.
00:16:08.000It's basically a luxury good to find a pair of sperries that are made in America.
00:16:32.000It's ability to manufacture cheaper, sell us this plastic, sell us this addiction, sell us this information.
00:16:38.000We buy it, and before you know it, they're completely beholden to the enemy and not even willing to call themselves an American company anymore.
00:16:45.000This global elite is so separated from the needs of us, Americans, human beings, that they think of themselves as global citizens and global elite.
00:16:56.000And then that's kind of a trigger word because when you hear some people raving about the globalists, sometimes that's a sign that they're insane.
00:17:02.000But there really is a globalist group of very powerful and elite businessmen, politicians, proponents of the United Nations, proponents of world trade, that don't care about this country.
00:17:17.000And when your ruling class doesn't want to defend your country, it's very difficult for those who don't have those resources to stand up and do it in their stead.
00:17:24.000And that's why the middle class saw Trump as their champion.
00:17:28.000And that's why they rose up in numbers.
00:17:30.000They said, finally, there's a defector from the ruling class to defend us.
00:17:33.000And they were largely correct about that.
00:17:46.000And what I think is very interesting, though, is, and I've really come to realize this with a lot more clarity in recent years, is, you know, Chris, I got my start in the conservative movement in 2012, 2013, reading a lot of the pamphlets and the policy papers pushed by these think tanks, and I don't have to say any names.
00:18:01.000That, you know, I was an 18-year-old coming into the movement, right?
00:18:07.000And there were those vociferous defenses of Walmart and how us trading with China is like the greatest thing ever.
00:18:12.000And I remember so vividly, and I still have the emails back and forth with some of the scholars there at some of these think tanks that were, you know, in long-form detail.
00:18:21.000And I can't help but look back and say, were these purchased?
00:18:28.000And I do not believe that the continual importing of mountains of plastic from China has made our country better, more fulfilled, more meaningful.
00:18:36.000And if you dare say that, though, in certain circles, and I think this circle's really disappearing quickly, it's considered like heretical to the religion of free markets.
00:19:05.000I recently was in Montana backpacking.
00:19:07.000And thank you, Teddy Roosevelt, for preserving these beautiful parts of our country so that I don't have a target in the middle of the Bitterroot Mountains, right?
00:19:49.000And so you can go up to Hamilton, Montana, 30 miles north, and they have their Walmart and they have their big box chains and their stores and mountains of plastic and all that.
00:19:57.000And I'm more convinced than ever that's not sustainable for a country.
00:20:24.000And really, what it is, is you have a growing economic elite that were educated in these universities that actually share the ideology with the Huffington Post reporters and the Berkeley intelligentsia.
00:20:36.000They see America as nothing more than a sandbox to maximize profits and to just go to the next place.
00:20:52.000And I think you're right on all of those counts.
00:20:54.000One of the biggest tricks that the folks pulled on us, the free trade people, is taking advantage of the fact that you and I and other people like us love free markets.
00:21:03.000We think that there should be a fair competition between our fellow Americans.
00:21:07.000Taking that free market love and saying that free trade is the exact same thing.
00:21:13.000I mean, I was talking to some ranchers in South Dakota on a cross-country trip, reporting trip recently, and they don't even know what they got for it.
00:21:21.000And I promise someone's going to look into it once the world stopped ending.
00:21:27.000You're not allowed to put that on American beef products anymore.
00:21:29.000Someone in the U.S. government who was working on the treaty with the World Trade Organization made some decision to make a trade where they would no longer advertise and even let Americans know, unless they buy it from the farm themselves, where beef came from if it came from this country.
00:21:44.000And the reason is because Brazilian and Canadians decided Brazilians and Canadians said that it would unfairly target them because Americans might prefer to buy their own beef as opposed to beef from a foreign country.
00:22:02.000But some bureaucrat decided they didn't want to be unfair to Brazil.
00:22:05.000Now, the average politician in Brazil doesn't think like that.
00:22:09.000And the average politician in Canada maybe actually does.
00:22:11.000But most of the world doesn't think, well, how can I be more fair?
00:22:15.000How can I represent the other citizens?
00:22:18.000I mean, look at the Democratic Parties.
00:22:20.000Look at Joe Biden's number one priority.
00:22:22.000The first thing he's going to do, he said, is take care of the DREAMers and import 20 million people or however many illegal immigrants there are, make them legal citizens.
00:22:32.000So his first duty as president of the United States is to the citizens of Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador and Mexico and fine countries, all of them.
00:22:41.000But you'd think that the president of the United States, who's asking for the vote of the American citizenry, would put at least something, maybe get a snack or a glass of water for the American citizenry before you take care of the citizens of foreign countries.
00:22:56.000This backwards thinking that's completely supported by the schools, and thank you for fighting this every day.
00:23:02.000Unfortunately, they're on break right now, right?
00:23:05.000That's completely supported by the schools is that thing.
00:23:08.000And these companies, they really do take advantage of the fact.
00:23:13.000When I used to be at the Daily Color, we called around to about 15 or 20 of the major U.S. companies, Ford, Chrysler, Microsoft, and asked them if they consider themselves an American company.
00:23:24.000Most of them said they consider themselves a company of the world.
00:23:28.000Now, there are some rules to that, because if you say you're an American company and you're Twitter, then France is going to crack down on you because they want you to be a French company.
00:23:35.000But in reality, they take advantage of our IT.
00:23:39.000They take advantage of what used to be a law and order country, our Navy that protects the seas, our ability to defend them, and then they sell us out entirely.
00:23:49.000The only companies that were willing to say they were still American were the car companies, because I think Ford, someone at Ford, had the good sense to say, wait a second, our whole brand is being an American company.
00:24:02.000Well, I think Fiat Chrysler would have a tough time saying they're American for obvious reasons, but that's a different topic.
00:24:08.000But I think, and this is one of my new themes I'm really focusing on.
00:24:13.000And Tucker really opened my eyes to this when he said it.
00:24:16.000And I think he just said it in like a 20-second off tangent, but it was so insightful to me, which you look back to the people that were supposed to hate, and I do think they had too much power.
00:24:24.000And I think we could learn a lot from Teddy Roosevelt, the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, Chase.
00:24:29.000They were actually patriotic ruling class.
00:24:32.000They were not trying to serve the interests of another country.
00:24:36.000I think that they knew they were in charge.
00:24:45.000But we are going to kind of be the protectors of this country.
00:24:48.000And I do think it was the right thing to act on them.
00:24:51.000Whereas you look at the modern-day equivalents, to your point, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, the Google people, Sergei Brin, and all those individuals.
00:24:59.000Do you really think that they have a patriotic, any sort of patriotic core?
00:25:05.000They look at themselves as citizens of the world.
00:25:08.000They look at themselves as America being this awful place that sure has a lot of money and resources, and maybe we can maximize profits here.
00:25:14.000And so I think the kind of shift in how we view corporate America has to be one of the most profound takeaways for conservatives.
00:25:21.000I want to ask you another question, though, as kind of a sidebar to this, Chris, which is the Republican Party's failure to, I think, reform itself to an actual workers' party, I think will go one of two ways.
00:25:35.000If we think that Donald Trump was just a one-off aberration, we're fooling ourselves.
00:25:40.000I think Donald Trump's the beginning of a trend of a revolt against the elites.
00:25:43.000And it's either going to go in a socialist workers' direction or it's going to be kind of an Eisenhower-Teddy Roosevelt direction where the Republican Party represents the middle class of America again.
00:25:53.000How would you grade Republicans' reaction to the recent BLM nonsense to all of this in the last couple months, let's say, the kowtowing to corporate America, a lot of their silence?
00:26:03.000How would you judge the Republican Party and all this?
00:26:26.000And there are some articles, some articles that came out from a Claremont Review from American Spectator, Rest in Peace, that came out and said, this is a revolt against the ruling class.
00:26:36.000And for people like Paul Ryan to take it as just, all right, this is my blank check to eliminate Social Security and do more free trade deals, like that was not actually the answer.
00:26:46.000We're just going to balance the budget.
00:26:47.000I think all of those things can be important.
00:26:49.000But that was not what the Tea Party revolt was about.
00:26:52.000It was a revolt against elites who seemed disconnected from America, embodied in the Barack Obama administration with all the fancy Kennedy-esque bureaucrats who came in, all the know-it-alls.
00:27:04.000And the Republican Party, I mean, Mitch McConnell, a shrewd tactician, strong Republican Senate leader, he cares about judges and he cares about protecting campaign finance.
00:27:15.000There's basically no case on campaign finance he hasn't been involved with except for Citizens United.
00:27:20.000And he's very, very important on judges.
00:27:22.000Now, things like abortion, things that a lot of social conservatives and Americans care about, things like immigration, a lot of Americans care about, things like the entire Trump populist idea, those are hard fights he'd rather not have.
00:27:36.000So he'll give, he'll make great ads to them, and he'll say all the right things on the campaign trail until the Republicans who are in safe red districts do the same.
00:27:49.000Keep coming back and voting for us because, and this is true, the Democrats are not an alternative.
00:27:55.000The Democrats are antagonistic to all of these things.
00:27:58.000They think that abortion should be more common.
00:28:01.000It's amazing to see their honesty recently.
00:28:04.000Republicans have a Republican voters have no other home, I think, than the GOP.
00:28:10.000Unfortunately, they've taken it over, but it's been a tough takeover since Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and now Donald Trump.
00:28:18.000The Democrats are completely hostile, and the only hope is to hold these organizations severely accountable from the think tanks you talked about to the Republicans.
00:28:27.000But even though I like the guy, I don't think Kevin McCarthy is going to lift up the populist torch.
00:28:32.000I don't think that Secretary Pompeo is going to be the next Donald Trump.
00:28:36.000I have a difficulty seeing the next Trump, just like I have difficulty seeing the next Lincoln or TDR.
00:28:42.000And I'm not comparing them, but those guys are just forces of personality.
00:28:55.000We might have had a different discussion 10 years ago on what it means to be conservative.
00:29:00.000And visiting the GOP recently in Connecticut, I had a great time with the Greenwich Republicans, a phenomenal group, and Fairfield Republicans.
00:29:07.000It's a very, very wealthy aspect of Connecticut.
00:29:11.000And the entire left of the state, the entire west of the state is working class and it's solidly blue.
00:29:16.000I think that if the GOP is successful in this and the policies that Trump has pushed onto the GOP and you've been pushing are successful, then that'll hopefully be reversed in the next 10 years.
00:29:26.000And the elites of the coast will be blue and the working class will be red.
00:29:31.000And I think that's the future for the GOP.
00:29:34.000And we also have to ensure we have a working class, not just the consumption class.
00:29:37.000And it's two completely different things.
00:29:39.000You have to have people that are making things and at least having value in the marketplace, not just buying piles of plastic on the little crumbs that they get redistributed.
00:29:47.000And I don't mean insignificant crumbs in Nancy Pelosi's sense, but just whether it be some sort of government handout or something that, oh, yes, now you can go buy XYZ.
00:29:57.000I think that we've, in a lot of different ways, we've overvalued whatever it means to get a college degree, and we've undervalued labor.
00:30:07.000And if you dare say that, I think there's more space to say that now in the conservative circles, but if you would have dared say that 10 years ago, they say, oh, it's creative destruction.
00:30:58.000And then this month is BLM woke month.
00:31:00.000It's essentially, I will be unsurprised in the next decade if they have to take the Eucharist in some sort of vegan snack in Central Park to they get blessed by some sort of atheist figurehead.
00:31:13.000And I'm half kidding, by the way, because we all have a yearning.
00:31:16.000We have a yearning for worship and connection and ritual.
00:31:36.000Yeah, and from a social psychology standpoint, it's no different than the creation of early day Christianity, except that there's no moral just, there's no morality to this at all, and their figurehead is anything but righteous and true.
00:32:01.000I talked to some of these Republican senators, and you could just tell that they think that this is just kind of like a thunderstorm that's going to pass.
00:32:40.000You know, I think you're right in that President Trump needs to be re-elected because Joe Biden is not, unfortunately for Joe Biden, he's not there anymore.
00:32:49.000And the people who are running Joe Biden are so far to the left.
00:32:53.000They are the people we're seeing in the streets and those who are condoning it.
00:32:56.000And our society is going to have a difficult time.
00:32:59.000Very, very difficult time with Joe Biden.
00:33:04.000That's the level that we're at of breakdown of law and order, breakdown of fact, public shaming, firing, basic professional lynchings.
00:33:12.000And there's only a matter of time before it actually turns into violence against conservative citizens and simply peaceful citizens who are silent in the face of the new party orthodoxy.
00:33:21.000Donald Trump, however, really needs to step up to the plate on this.
00:33:25.000Republicans are just, they cannot wait for him to be defeated.
00:33:28.000They're already talking about how, well, at least when he's defeated and this goes away, the nation can go back to normal, and then maybe we'll retake the Senate in two years.
00:33:36.000Like, that's the way they think, and that's the way that they were thinking in 2016, too.
00:33:40.000Well, Orange Man's going to get beat by Hillary Clinton, and then maybe we can make some money, things will go back to normal, and then we can regain maybe the House or get back the Senate in 2018.
00:33:54.000The military leadership's not behind him.
00:33:56.000The Republican leadership's not behind him.
00:33:58.000So he's going to need the votes, but he's going to need also to focus dramatically, really dramatically, on Joe Biden, on his policy and what he's running for.
00:34:06.000Right now, he's not running on wall, immigration, trade, working class like he did the first time.
00:34:11.000He's kind of all over the place, and he's working a lot in different feuds.
00:34:15.000So I'd like to see some message discipline from Donald Trump.
00:34:18.000But I am getting the feeling that the mainstream class is once again very wrong in predicting that he will go down easily.
00:34:25.000A lot of Americans are completely fed up.
00:34:27.000And unbelievably, the left has gone and taken moments of national tragedy where we all looked together and said, wow, that's a horrible thing that happened in the streets out there.
00:34:35.000And they've turned it on America and they've held a gun to our heads.
00:34:40.000I think that hopefully that silent majority that's been quieted is still out there.
00:34:45.000Yeah, I mean, look, we have elections, so we don't have civil wars.
00:34:48.000I mean, this is, people have been asked, well, when are we going to speak out?
00:34:51.000I say, well, thankfully, the founders came with this brilliant idea of representative government, so you don't have to resort to defending yourself.
00:34:59.000I think a lot of people are saying, let's just take it easy.
00:35:27.000But it's really hard to say that things are going to end well if these people that are so disenfranchised and so ridiculed do not have at least some semblance of being able to get towards victory in November.
00:35:40.000And I do think that the polling is incorrect and wrong and misguided.
00:35:44.000So, Chris, final question: anything you're working on you want to make our audience aware of?
00:35:49.000Anything that you're working on a big piece right now about a prominent magazine that might have made a serious error in judgment.
00:36:14.000I encourage you to listen to our sister episode where we talk about professorwatchlist.org and divestu.com, projects of Turning Point USA.
00:36:22.000So, please check out our sister episode where we talk about the radical left-wing indoctrination that is ruining our country and that is seeping through all of our institutions.
00:36:31.000So, please check out tpusa.com, tpusa.com.
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