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00:03:12.000So on this program, we try to be one of optimism and positivity, try to find solutions and not just complain about the problems.
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00:03:27.000We have a lot of things we want to get to today, but the one thing that I think can give you some hope, and it is an amazing possibly canary in the coal mine, is what's happening in Texas.
00:03:41.000In Texas, one of the most Hispanic communities in America just elected a Republican as mayor in McAllen, Texas.
00:03:52.000Now, one of my best friends in the world is from McAllen, Texas.
00:03:59.000And we used to joke, he said that every single position on the city council in Congress was dominated traditionally by Democrats.
00:04:12.00085% of the town of McAllen, Texas is Hispanic.
00:04:18.000This was not covered by MSNBC or Huffington Post or BuzzFeed, but Javier Villalobos won Saturday in a Mexican-American majority McAllen, Texas.
00:04:30.000I'm reading from Axios.com, funded by Lorene Powell Jobs.
00:04:34.000Comes as Latino Democrats say their party has been ignoring Mexican-Americans in Texas, New Mexico, and California, as the Republican Party makes dents in areas once solidly blue.
00:04:47.000Villalobos, an attorney and former chair of the Hildago County Republican, let me stop there.
00:04:52.000This guy did not pretend not to be a Republican.
00:04:55.000He was the chairman of the Republican Party.
00:04:58.000What this shows you is the Hispanic community in McAllen, Texas, a border town.
00:05:02.000And if you know anything about Texas geography, as Producer Connor does, that is on the border of the border.
00:05:10.000In fact, there are buildings tall enough where I believe you can even see Mexico from McAllen, Texas.
00:05:15.000That is as close to the border as you can get.
00:05:19.000And Villobos shows that as he was chairman of the Hildago County Republican, he beat Veronica Whitaker by 200 votes in a nonpartisan race where Democrats have traditionally dominated for years.
00:05:34.000His victory drew praise from Steve Cortez and others.
00:05:37.000And I look into this and I see that this is a fire alarm for Democrats.
00:05:42.000Hispanic voters have been the most mentioned talking point in Republican and conservative circles.
00:05:49.000You see, at Turning Point USA, we have had the blessing of spending a lot of time with the wealthiest and most successful Americans across the country, many of whom we've lost this last year.
00:06:00.000And a common goal amongst Republican donors, especially, has been, how do we win over Hispanics?
00:06:22.00053% of the high school I went to was Hispanic.
00:06:25.000I was a minority as a white male in my high school.
00:06:31.000And growing up, I knew that the Hispanics were more conservative than they realized.
00:06:37.000But only the Democrat Party was presenting them with an ask for their vote.
00:06:45.000I think the Republican Party has done a much better job over the last decade of communicating and courting Hispanic voters.
00:06:55.000But one of the biggest lies when it comes to Hispanics is one that a smart man that I completely disagree with, Carl Rove, has been trying to push forward for the last couple years.
00:07:05.000And I have nothing personal against Karl Rove.
00:07:07.000I think he says some very smart things at times.
00:07:09.000I also think he says some things that are totally wrong.
00:07:12.000And Karl Rove has said for years that the key to winning the Hispanic vote is immigration, that if we just embrace amnesty and corporate tax cuts, Hispanics are going to come to us in record numbers.
00:07:25.000Now, this is a very basic and I think deceiving reading of the Hispanic community.
00:07:32.000Having spent time in the Hispanic and Latino community growing up, hosting five, or is it six, young Latino leadership summits at Turning Point USA?
00:07:45.000I have realized that it's not the Hispanic community that wants mass amnesty.
00:07:49.000Instead, they want something that the conservative movement seem to be getting away from, but they're almost recommitting themselves to, especially in recent years, which is Hispanics first and foremost want law and order.
00:08:04.000This is an issue that is not talked about enough when we try to communicate to Hispanics.
00:08:08.000Now, you might say, well, why would they want that?
00:08:11.000Well, if you travel to Central America or South America, you cannot have commerce in many parts of Mexico because it's run by the cartel.
00:08:20.000You can't go to school in parts of Nicaragua because of the lawlessness.
00:08:24.000Hispanics know that if you do not have police that can keep the streets safe, commerce does not matter.
00:08:33.000In fact, in the Hispanic community, because of the history, because where they've come from, they know that as soon as the windows start getting smashed, the businesses start getting looted, and the drive-by shootings commence, this kind of chaotic destruction of civil society makes it unlivable.
00:08:53.000And Hispanics, by the way, have a reverence for law enforcement.
00:08:58.000You look at many police departments across the country, they are overrepresented by the Hispanic community.
00:09:04.000In fact, nearly half of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic.
00:09:12.000They believe in participating in something bigger than themselves.
00:09:17.000Now, this kind of deeper read of the intellectual drivers of why Hispanics might all of a sudden be interested in Republican politics goes right over the head of Republican consultants.
00:09:29.000Republican consultants say amnesty is all they care about.
00:09:36.000First of all, many of the Hispanics in McAllen, Texas came here legally.
00:09:40.000There's plenty that came here illegally, but there's plenty that came here legally.
00:09:44.000And the Mexicans in McAllen, Texas were thought to be just automatic Democrats, but we're seeing that change.
00:09:52.000And it's changing first and foremost because of the law and order issue.
00:09:55.000Secondly, it's changing because of the social issues and the hyper radical, dare I say, degenerate culture that the left seems to be embracing.
00:10:10.000I'm talking about a new video out from Nickelodeon, new video out from Nickelodeon that shows a drag queen talking to five, six, and seven-year-olds, glorifying sex changes, and Nickelodeon platforming this idea of being a drag queen.
00:10:27.000A Hispanic voter in McCall and Texas, who is Catholic and has a large family and believes in order and believes in tradition, they see this on their television.
00:10:39.000And they retreat or they choose a different voting choice of someone, any party that wants to keep what works and what is moral and what is timeless the same.
00:10:51.000This is a jingle, I guess you could say, a Nickelodeon of a, I don't know if it's a woman or a man propagandizing six-year-olds that they should become drag queens.
00:11:39.000I just want you to imagine a 45-year-old Hispanic in McAllen, Texas, who grew up going to the Catholic Church, believing in marriage between a man and a woman.
00:11:51.000All of a sudden, they turn on Nickelodeon, they see this trash, and they say, hold on a second, there's something wrong here.
00:11:57.000And their instincts are not incorrect.
00:11:59.000There's a couple other issues of why Hispanics are coming in the Republican direction that most Republican consultants do not realize.
00:12:07.000But if you are losing hope here, I want to reiterate this.
00:12:10.000Hispanic heavy Texas City, 85% Hispanic, was won by a Republican, not just any Republican, but the former chair of the Hildalgo County Republican Party.
00:12:22.000If you look closely, there is a seismic shift happening in American politics right now where Hispanic voters and voters of color are coming in the Republican direction.
00:12:34.000And this spells trouble for Pelosi and Schumer.
00:12:42.000Are you still going to the post office, still paying full price for postage?
00:13:54.000In the Chamber of Commerce circles, in the establishment Republican circles, many of them are saying, aha, Hispanic voters are coming in our direction.
00:14:11.000The more that Republicans and conservatives embrace traditional social conservative values, emphasize small business and entrepreneurship, protect the muscular class, the more Hispanics are going in the direction of Republicans.
00:14:26.000There's another reason, though, why Hispanics are embracing the Republican Party at a record number, and they're not just doing better, they are winning mayor's races.
00:14:38.000The other reason is this idea of the macho man.
00:14:43.000You know, Donald Trump used to come into these rallies to the song Macho Macho Man, and he used to dance as the way Trump would.
00:15:08.000And this idea of the macho man is not something to be overlooked.
00:15:13.000You see, if you go to a poor Hispanic family in McAllen, Texas, or maybe in Arizona, or maybe in the Central Valley in California, there is this idea for the man to be the provider of the family.
00:15:29.000And he might be only earning $18,000 a year and his family might barely be scraping by, but he will sit at the head of the table with both hands on the table and say, I am proud of my family.
00:15:42.000And I believe masculinity is something worthy of protecting and understanding.
00:15:47.000You see, the American left, with what they are doing with the transgender movement, with what they're doing with almost every single cultural program they are putting forward, they are almost saying to the traditional Hispanic male, you need to be more feminine.
00:16:08.000I've talked to a lot of Hispanic men about this, and a lot of Hispanic men agree with me wholeheartedly.
00:16:14.000They say in the Hispanic community, there's something to be said about the way to win over Hispanics is not through the head, but through the heart.
00:16:26.000And the Democrats seem to try to be force-feeding the Hispanic culture, this postmodernist, white liberal, Yale-manufactured agenda.
00:16:37.000And you have Hispanics that kind of look at this, say, hold on a second.
00:16:39.000You're trying to tell me that you don't believe in God.
00:16:42.000You're trying to tell me there's no such thing between men and women.
00:16:45.000You're trying to tell me we should only have one kid per family.
00:16:48.000We have to stop eating meat, get rid of oil and gas, have abortions on demand, no borders at all whatsoever, and get rid of the police.
00:16:57.000Basically, Democrats, white liberals from Yale and Harvard, are going to the Hispanic community and poking these Hispanics in the eyes and saying everything your family's family, your grandfather's grandfather has done has been racist, colonialist, and white supremacist.
00:17:15.000And excuse the voters of McAllen, Texas, 85% Hispanic, which, by the way, used to be one of the most dependable Democrat areas in the country.
00:17:28.000I want to just reinforce how big of a deal this is.
00:17:31.000This would be like a Republican winning a mayor's race in black-dominated Chicago.
00:18:19.000It's something that is now manifesting itself in real local politics, which is the greatest canary in the coal mine, the harbinger of things to come.
00:19:13.000Everything to him is charts and graphs.
00:19:15.000What if I told you, Karl Rove, that your polling is not going to necessarily indicate to you that what has been does not have to be what will be?
00:19:38.000Do Hispanics want a long discussion about corporate tax rates?
00:19:42.000Here's what Karl Rove says: He says that pluralities in seven of these congressional districts, he's talking about swing districts, now think both the country and the economy are on the wrong track.
00:19:53.000Voters are closely divided on raising corporate taxes, but strong majority in all 10 districts say taxes overall should either be lowered or kept the same.
00:20:02.000And he has all these numbers to reiterate that.
00:20:07.000Democrats may continue on Republicans, maybe counting on Republicans to emphasize culture war issues, rather than deliver a focused, principled attack on the president's orgy of spending and tax increases.
00:20:30.000This isn't to suggest issues like defunding the police, critical race theory, and border security are unimportant.
00:20:35.000But in 2022, as in most years, the economy will likely be the real congressional battleground.
00:20:40.000The sooner Republicans can recognize that, the better.
00:20:45.000Now, he cushions his language a little bit because I think he doesn't want the inevitable backlash of the I told you so.
00:20:52.000My favorite Karl Rove story is when he goes on Fox News right before the 2016 election, and Donald Trump is down in every single poll imaginable.
00:21:02.000And Karl Rove holds up his whiteboard.
00:21:05.000He goes through something, and I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to find this clip.
00:21:09.000I've looked for it, and I'm paraphrasing, but this is the essence of it.
00:21:13.000It was a beautiful piece of television.
00:21:15.000I just wish that he would have a follow-up question.
00:21:17.000It was either Martha McCallum or Sean Hannity or someone.
00:21:19.000They said, so, Mr. Rove, tell us, do you think there is a hidden Trump voter?
00:21:26.000And Karl Rove said, I find no evidence that there is a hidden Trump voter.
00:21:33.000And I thought to myself, well, Mr. Rove, if it's hidden, of course you can't find the evidence of that.
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00:23:18.000So Mitt Romney lost McAllen, Texas 71% to 29%.
00:23:23.000So when we were putting forward the Romney agenda of Bain Capital, corporate tax cuts, private equity running the world, 29% of voters in McCall, Texas wanted that agenda.
00:23:35.000Now they're electing Republicans as mayor.
00:23:40.000What's happened is that Republicans have now been unafraid to engage on culture war issues.
00:23:45.000Mitt Romney intentionally avoided culture war issues.
00:23:50.000Mitt Romney would run the other way anytime anyone would say anything that wasn't able to be proven on a graph or a chart that didn't include deindustrializing our economy, shutting down manufacturing plants, or cutting taxes for Jeff Bezos, Mitt Romney didn't want to talk about it.
00:24:07.000And a lot of you listening to this program probably voted for Mitt Romney.
00:24:14.000I was enthusiastic about it because I thought the conservative movement was all about economic freedom for corporations.
00:24:23.000And as long as we were socially moderate and accepting of the internationalist globalist order, then we are going to win and everything's going to be terrific.
00:24:34.000Now, mind you, as I look back at the time, at 2012 and the years leading up to that, I realize we were bamboozled and swindled by a corporate class that took advantage of Barack Obama and the hatred for Barack Obama and infiltrated and co-opted and hijacked a grassroots movement centered around freedom and liberty and a reclamation of America and pivoted it towards an agenda that, quite honestly,
00:25:01.000was indifferent about the decay of America as long as we were having a rising stock market and robust economic growth.
00:25:10.000Mitt Romney was a pro-choice governor of Massachusetts.
00:25:15.000If you want to find someone who's been on every issue of every side of every issue, that's Mitt Romney.
00:25:22.000He was for abortion before he was against it.
00:25:26.000He was in favor of China before he was against it.
00:25:30.000And so the Mitt Romney Republican Party won 28% of the vote in McCallan, Texas, 29%.
00:25:42.000And now we are having Republicans win races there.
00:25:44.000And so what is the lesson for the rest of the Republican Party?
00:25:51.000Well, first, we have to dive into how Donald Trump did.
00:25:54.000And how Donald Trump did is pretty remarkable.
00:25:59.000Well, Donald Trump increased the Republican vote margin to 41%.
00:26:43.000This is her with Lester Holt from NBC.
00:26:47.000And this all ties together with this issue of McCall and Texas and how to win over Hispanics and whether or not we are going to be able to win elections and broaden our party.
00:26:56.000And I could just tell you right now, the people that wear three masks and that go around screaming at people if they are not vaccinated in Brooklyn, they're very nervous.
00:27:07.000They're nervous because the people that they've never met in places they've never visited and towns they can't find on a map and people that aren't necessarily traditional white conservative voters are rising up in record numbers and embracing Republicans.
00:27:33.000And I don't understand the point that you're making.
00:27:37.000All I could say is Lester Holt will be audited next month and thoughts and prayers for his family as they go through a financial colonoscopy.
00:27:45.000Because how dare he ask a question like that of Kamala?
00:28:36.000That is the viewpoint that is expressed in college campuses.
00:28:40.000Nations are merely a construct put forward by white supremacist colonialists, that there should be no difference between Macau and Texas and Mexico City, Mexico.
00:28:50.000The U.S. Constitution does not have limits, boundaries, or borders.
00:28:56.000Now, those of us that actually have our viewpoint rooted in reason and logic, we know that countries are not acts of randomness.
00:29:08.000We know that countries are deliberate.
00:29:10.000That it's when a people come together, hopefully through the consent of the governed, give up a little bit of their freedom and liberty in exchange for some form of a civil government, and hopefully and prayerfully in return, will get a free society.
00:30:20.000Number two, Stockholm or Paris is not bringing in tons of drugs into our country every single day, or guns, or thousands of women are not getting raped every single month coming from London into our country.
00:30:36.000But for her, we're all citizens of the world.
00:30:49.000The first explanation very well could be that Democrats think that because of the way that they are able to manipulate mail and balloting, because of the way that they are able to control the voting systems, that they never actually have to face another election again the way they used to.
00:31:11.000Or, number two, they are so confident in their own press releases and their own nonsense coming out of the New York Times and the Washington Post that they think they're actually doing such a wonderful job.
00:31:24.000How could people not possibly support them?
00:31:27.000But Democrats almost always make this mistake.
00:31:29.000Governing for them is something they've never been good at because governing takes consensus, it takes perseverance, it takes focus, it takes the ability to take responsibility for your actions.
00:31:44.000Democrats are awful at governing, they're really good at running bureaucracies inefficiently for their own personal gain.
00:31:52.000But as far as governing a state or a country, that is a skill that most Democrats do not have because for them, governing takes looking at the world empirically through practical wisdom and using prudence and then putting forth public policy.