00:00:24.000Why is it that it seems as if we're using different terms when it comes to racism when we talk to the left, we talk about President Trump's chances and so much more.
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00:00:46.000If you listen to this podcast and you say, I just want more young people to hear the truth, this is your vehicle.
00:01:16.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:22.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:00.000I see people that are wanting to recommit their activism, their time, their energy, their resources to this unbelievable gift that we have been given.
00:02:11.000And that's what this country is, is that we've been given a gift.
00:02:14.000As mentioned, we've made plenty of mistakes in our country's past, but America is not a mistake.
00:02:19.000This country that we have been given is the most benevolent, charitable, forward-thinking, generous, open-minded country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:02:27.000And this country, thank you, it's true.
00:02:30.000And this country will, this country will survive or disintegrate based solely on our ability to communicate our values to the next generation.
00:03:07.000But first, I want to just kind of establish the framework of something a lot bigger than just the election.
00:03:13.000Because if President Trump wins, and I hope he does, a lot of these problems are not going away.
00:03:18.000If President Trump wins, there will only be so many more elections that we can survive narrowly with an ever-growing generation that does not have gratitude to live in this country.
00:03:28.000According to Gallup, only 43% of my generation thinks that America is a good country.
00:03:36.000The country cannot survive if the younger generation with the energy and the ambition, the entrepreneurial spirit has lost complete and total faith in this gift that we have been given.
00:03:47.000And so what we do at Turning Point USA through digital social media, through going on campuses, high school campuses, is our job is very simple.
00:03:55.000We want our kids to love America again.
00:03:58.000We want to teach the next generation why this country is different, why we are exceptional.
00:04:03.000So we've done a very poor job of that over the last couple decades.
00:04:12.000A couple years before that, the Berlin Wall fell.
00:04:16.000And a lot of parents in the 1990s, after that wall fell, I think consciously or subconsciously thought with that the fight against collectivist Marxist ideas was over.
00:04:26.000And with that, the 1990s, we saw record prosperity, growth, incredible amounts of abundance, spreading of entrepreneurial activity, likes of which our country has never seen before.
00:04:40.000And with that, a lot of people in this country, primarily my parents' generation, we kind of allowed the left to take over many of our core institutions in our country.
00:04:50.000And now we are seeing what has happened as a byproduct of that.
00:04:55.000And one of the things that frustrates me the most when I go to these university campuses is I'm not even talking about conservative versus liberal.
00:05:03.000I have to first convince young people that this country is not awful.
00:05:08.000My basis point, my starting point is trying to convince young people that this country was not founded on slavery, instead it was founded on freedom, that this country has a heroic story to be told, that this country was built by titans, by forward-thinking individuals, by heroes.
00:05:29.000In the last couple months, we have had an unrelenting campaign by mass media, social media, by the most powerful people in our country to convince you that we live in an awful country.
00:05:39.000The first thing that they say is that this country was founded in 1619, not in 1776.
00:05:44.000Whether you know it or not, many of your children are being taught this in public schools across the country.
00:05:48.000It's called the 1619 Project by Nicole Hanna-Jones.
00:06:01.000There was something special that happened in 1776.
00:06:04.000When our Declaration of Independence was written, it was our birth certificate, but there was no guarantee it was going to be our birth certificate.
00:06:11.000It very well could have been our death certificate.
00:06:14.000It was one of the most uncertain documents ever written on the history of the planet.
00:06:18.000It starts with when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve ties.
00:06:24.000They were telling King George, you're not in control.
00:06:27.000They were saying that our rights don't come from King George or from government, but they come from God.
00:06:31.000This document that, quite honestly, has kind of been cast aside in the communication of the history of our children was such an unbelievable leap forward for humanity where it mentions God four times.
00:06:44.00051 out of 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, regular attending Christians.
00:06:50.000It was the first great awakening in our country that started the philosophical framework that allowed this document to even be conceptualized.
00:06:58.000But the most amazing part about the Declaration of Independence was not even the boldness or the courage, but it was the uncertainty.
00:07:07.000It was that the people that signed it had no idea what came next.
00:07:11.000It was a declaration that very well could have been, as I mentioned, the death sentence.
00:07:15.000What came after, of course, is a bloody revolution that we won.
00:07:18.000And then the question is, what do you do?
00:07:20.000What kind of government do you create?
00:07:22.000Well, our founders very well could have created the Washingtonian, Franklin, Jeffersonian ruling class.
00:07:27.000They could have divided the states up for themselves.
00:07:29.000They could have become kings and queens and monarchs because that's all human history knew for the past 1,500 years with maybe a couple little blips of the radar of small little democratic experiments.
00:07:40.000The founding fathers were the first group of people to win a war and then give up power.
00:07:48.000Usually you want to keep the spoils for yourself.
00:07:51.000They went so far in the United States Constitution to reject this idea that in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution, it says that bloodline and titles of nobility will be rejected in this new country and this republic.
00:08:05.000We are the longest-lasting, longest-standing country ever to exist to have the same framework from our founding to where we are today.
00:08:14.000In France, they change their constitution every other month.
00:08:17.000In every single banana republic, they're always going through another constitutional crisis.
00:08:21.000Why is it that the words that were theorized and written in 87 and 91 when it was ratified, the Bill of Rights was random, why does it stead the test of time?
00:08:31.000Because the Constitution was not written for the times.
00:08:33.000It was written to stand the test of time because it took human nature as a constant.
00:08:39.000It said that human beings naturally want to gain as much power as possible.
00:08:45.000That human beings want to centralize their authority over others.
00:08:51.000And we have to do everything we possibly can to make sure that tyrannical, charismatic, and quite honestly, misleading people do not use that power and abuse it.
00:09:01.000So that's where we came up with the idea of checks and balances, which was derived from Montesquieu.
00:09:05.000That's where they came up with the idea of freedom of assembly and Second Amendment rights.
00:09:08.000But what's so amazing about the United States Constitution, it's not rules for you.
00:09:12.000It's first and foremost rules for our government.
00:09:15.000It's what the government cannot do to you.
00:09:17.000It's recognizing that the government is the greatest abuser, first and foremost, of human liberties and freedoms.
00:09:24.000That people deserve the right to be free because that's how we were born and that's how we were made in what?
00:09:30.000The image of God, a uniquely American idea.
00:09:33.000Now, people say we are founded on slavery.
00:09:37.000In the United States Constitution, 20 years after the ratification, it put a sunset clause saying that the importation of new slaves into the United States will not be allowed.
00:09:48.000Thomas Jefferson, the third American president, being a slave owner himself in 1807, had a real big moment.
00:09:54.000Will I actually sign the abolition of new slaves coming to the U.S. or no?
00:09:59.000Highly complex, very complicated man, but he did a moral good for our country.
00:10:05.000And we do a disservice to our young people not to communicate people that were wrestling with the times and did something good for humanity.
00:10:12.000Yet we're taking down statues of Thomas Jefferson.
00:10:14.000University of Virginia is trying to abolish him from their entire history.
00:10:56.000Despite all of that, our union stayed together and we abolished the unspeakable sin of slavery.
00:11:02.000Before we get on our moral high horse and we act as if we've actually abolished slavery worldwide, there's more slaves on the planet today than there were back then.
00:11:09.000Let's go to the Horn of Africa or go to the Middle East or look at the sex trafficking happened all throughout Central and South America.
00:11:16.000More people have found more opportunity thanks to the American Enlightenment ideas, more so than any other philosophical framework in the history of the planet.
00:11:24.000This country has produced more wealth, more opportunity for more people of any single skin color imaginable than any other experiment.
00:11:33.000The question is, why all of a sudden are we trying to stop it?
00:11:36.000Why is it the country that has more Nobel Prizes than any other country, more gold medals, first to the moon, first to space, first to the moon, first to flight, open heart surgery, brain surgery, more medical innovations?
00:11:50.000Why is it this country founded on the American trinity of in God we trust liberty and e pluribus unim, why all of a sudden are we trying to go the other direction and almost entertain an American suicide?
00:12:03.000Because as we have removed a moral backing from our country and we had more abundance than we could ever possibly imagine, all of a sudden liberty breeds apathy.
00:12:14.000And when you have liberty, there will inevitably be inequality.
00:12:17.000It's impossible to have liberty without inequality.
00:12:24.000With that, you'll have unequal outcomes.
00:12:26.000The question is, what do you do about it?
00:12:28.000Well, when you have unequal outcomes, certain people then are going to try to use demagoguery, division, and class warfare to try to attain power.
00:12:36.000And so over the last couple decades, we removed the moral backing from our country.
00:12:40.000We have become more secular, more removed from moral teaching, more godless.
00:12:45.000Yet, we have more devices that allow it easier than ever for us to indulge in things that do not make us more prosperous, more happy, or more content.
00:12:53.000I'm talking about the supercomputers that all of you have in your right-hand pocket.
00:12:57.000So now we have a generation in our country that can have anything they want at any time at instant notice, and they're the most miserable generation in American history.
00:13:06.000They have more stuff, more opportunity, more capacity information, yet they are the most suicidal, most depressed, most anxious, least happy generation ever.
00:13:18.000It's because liberty only works if you know how to handle liberty.
00:13:23.000It's a very interesting point that I, quite honestly, in the last six months, I've been wrestling with.
00:13:29.000Because if you have unlimited liberty and you don't know how to handle it with abundance that goes with it, you'll soon be a slave to those devices and to those actions with it.
00:13:39.000We made an unbelievable mistake in the last six months.
00:13:41.000In fact, I've done a lot of research on this.
00:13:43.000The lockdowns will go down as one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country, bar none.
00:15:49.000You have to deal with the city, the local, the county government, convince people to come back in.
00:15:53.000The backbone of the American entrepreneurial experiment are middle-class people taking a small risk that have five to 10 employees, and we crushed them.
00:16:03.000And what happened to the ruling class in this country?
00:16:05.000Jeff Bezos is richer than he ever has been.
00:16:09.000The wealthy and the rich, God bless them, most of which have been able to survive this quite well.
00:16:16.000It is the collectivist class that has been calling the shots in this country that hurt the little guy through these lockdowns.
00:16:24.000And they say, well, it's to stop the spread.
00:16:56.000So we have a generation that the average student loan debt per borrow is $31,000 per borrower, that then goes, graduates college with very little to any skill, most times.
00:17:08.000And I'm happy to build out the whole college issue, to then enter a country where we tell them, just go work harder.
00:17:17.000I'm sorry, we shut down the country the last nine months.
00:17:20.000And what we are playing with right now in Western society, if we do not fully reopen our economies and fully reopen our schools, will be irreparable damage to the backbone of our republic that will only give license to a socialist demagogue to get power.
00:17:38.000The kind of intractable problems that we are starting to see pop up will pave the way in the next 18 months, next two years, for a younger version of Bernie Sanders to take power in our country, the likes of which we have never seen.
00:17:54.000Because we wanted to, allegedly, protect health.
00:17:58.000We wanted to do the right thing for safety and health.
00:18:01.000And so what's really amazing to me about the whole lockdown, the whole lockdown issue, is how we tolerated the incredible and blatant hypocrisy of the people that were putting forth these orders.
00:18:14.000We still, there are orders that say churches cannot open, yet BLM Incorporated is allowed to parade through the streets, no masks, no social distancing, all throughout the streets of our country.
00:18:23.000Los Angeles Lakers celebration drew 15,000 people in the streets of LA, but if you have 25 people in your church, you risk total and complete arrest.
00:18:33.000What was really the most telling moment of the last six to nine months of these lockdowns is something that is not a happy conclusion.
00:19:55.000Well, first, you have to admit we made a mistake, and we did.
00:19:58.000And the next time people that make open-ended, declarative statements saying to trust the science, we should be very, very skeptical of these people because the left they say trust the science.
00:20:12.000They want to trust the scientists that they like because there were plenty of scientists and doctors that were speaking out throughout this entire thing.
00:20:19.000And so, what does this mean for where we are in America?
00:20:29.000I want anyone over the age of 40 to think back where you were in your mid-20s.
00:20:34.000You were working hard, hopefully, earning wealth, hopefully, seeing your life get a little materially better each year.
00:20:43.000As you were seeing your life get a little materially better, you were gaining faith in the American system.
00:20:50.000You were believing that if you worked hard and played by the rules, the system works for you.
00:20:58.000An average 27-year-old in this country, if they graduate college, which only 59% of people that go to college graduate, the national graduation rate is 59%.
00:21:08.000So, 41% that go to college drop out, 41%.
00:21:12.000If they graduate, they have an average $37,000 per borrow, $32,000 to $37,000, depending on the region.
00:21:20.000They graduate sometimes with a degree that has no application to the marketplace whatsoever.
00:21:28.000And we stuff them into urban cities with a very, very high cost of living, where they are not building equity and they're not building, they're not taking out mortgages.
00:21:37.000This is a generation that is the least likely to own property of any generation in American history.
00:21:43.000It is the least married generation in American history.
00:21:45.000We're on pace to have 500,000 less children next year than this year.
00:21:49.000We're on the verge of a civilizational collapse, and no one wants to talk about it.
00:21:56.000I'm worried about a civilizational collapse.
00:21:58.000And all of a sudden, they're in Seattle and Portland, and their net worth is the same as when they're 28, as when they're 32, because 44% of college graduates in this country end up getting jobs that don't require a college degree.
00:22:12.000So the question is, why'd they go at all?
00:22:19.000But then don't be surprised when the 32-year-old who's unmarried, doesn't have a mortgage, and $37,000 in debt and is working a minimum wage job all of a sudden thinks that the entire system does not work for them.
00:22:30.000And that's exactly what's happening in our country that no one wants to talk about: the burning and the rioting, the looting, BLM Inc. is just a manifestation of economic anxiety held by a lot of middle-class young people in this country.
00:22:43.000And Bernie Sanders had a complete and total incorrect application of what we're supposed to do about this.
00:22:49.000However, he wasn't wrong in the observation.
00:22:52.000When you have a generation that is the most indebted, most urbanized generation in American history where they're renting, not owning, where they're not marrying, eventually that is a combustible group of people that is waiting for a revolution.
00:23:24.000We have way too many people going to college.
00:23:26.000We need more carpenters, welders, HVAC police officers, firefighters, entrepreneurs, gap year, people that work with their hands than people that go to four-year universities to borrow money they don't have, to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist.
00:23:44.000And I understand, I say the same thing here that I'll say, and I know that when you go to Highland Park, Texas, you do not touch the third rail of politics, which is higher education, but I'm going right in.
00:23:55.000Because, and I'm not, I think college is wonderful if you want to be a lawyer, a doctor, if you want to get a skill.
00:24:01.000We interview thousands of young people at Turning Point USA every single year.
00:24:04.000My favorite question to ask is, what is your skill?
00:24:08.000And sometimes they'll say, well, I went to TCU and I have political science degree.
00:24:45.000It is for some people, but the obligatory path to go to Fourier University in this college, in this environment, has led to many of the problems that we're experiencing today.
00:24:56.000We need a lot more people to go to community college.
00:24:58.000We need a lot more people to take gap years.
00:25:00.000We need a lot more people that maybe go get a technical degree and they don't go to university at all.
00:25:06.000And the other part of this, and all of you know this, is if you send your kid to college, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.
00:25:13.000And they may come back someone completely and totally different.
00:25:18.000Now, if they survive, God bless America, right?
00:25:21.000But where do you think the defund police Green New Deal, where do you think these ideas originate from?
00:25:27.000What happens on college campuses did not say on college campuses.
00:25:31.000It goes to the hall of Congress and eventually corporate boardrooms.
00:25:35.000And I think that, and I grew up in this kind of environment in the suburbs of Chicago, there's an expectation that our most aspirational, the most qualified young people must go to Fourier University.
00:25:47.000And for some people, that is the right path, but not for every person.
00:25:50.000And I think we should ask our high school seniors, why are you going to college, not where are you going to college?
00:25:56.000We need better reasons to go $80,000 into debt.
00:25:59.000We need better reasons to go take North African lesbian poetry.
00:26:02.000We need better reasons to go find yourself at a university.
00:26:11.000Because, believe it or not, you can learn a lot outside of college.
00:26:16.000In fact, I can tell you that I think things are finally being disrupted on this landscape.
00:26:22.000And if I were trying to create a population of people that was ripe for a socialistic revolution, I would send them all to a place that they can't afford to believe in nothing, to be ungrateful for a country they live in, to acquire no skill, to stuff them into urban areas they can't afford, to be ready to be convinced for someone that will give a lot of promises to fix all of that, but will never deliver.
00:26:49.000Now, I'm not saying it's all intentional, but if I was trying to do this, this is exactly what I would do.
00:27:08.000I think that we need to make it easier to have children in this country.
00:27:10.000It's too expensive to have children in America.
00:27:13.000And the birth rates in America are so incredibly alarming that if we do not, 500,000 less children next year should be a fire alarm for our civilization.
00:27:25.000Also, I think that we need to teach our children, and this kind of ties back to what I started with, that we don't live in an awful country.
00:27:34.000Because I think when you, when I grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s, my parents always used to tell me that I was the problem and America was awesome.
00:27:45.000Now we tell our young people that you're awesome and America's the problem.
00:27:50.000And what higher education should be, but it isn't, is teasing young people that maybe there is truth and goodness out there.
00:28:00.000And let's go on a journey together to try and find it.
00:28:59.000Actually, Californians are voting more Republican than Democrat, according to the recent data that I've seen.
00:29:04.000So you can thank California for one good export, finally, right?
00:29:09.000And the reason, the reason is cultural, and I think we all know this, that as conservatives and Republicans might have been winning elections for the last 30 years, we've been losing almost every single cultural battle in every cultural institution.
00:29:25.000How we educate our children, how we communicate our values.
00:29:29.000Are we creating a more thankful, more thankful generation that is more likely to appreciate this beautiful gift?
00:29:53.000As I've mentioned, we've made plenty of mistakes as a country, but we are not a mistake.
00:29:58.000If you apply yourself correctly, you could truly succeed in America.
00:30:03.000And the thing that really depresses me the most is when I meet a young person that has been convinced that their action has no bearing on their future in the country.
00:30:12.000That no matter what they do, they are not able to succeed.
00:30:16.000And more so than anything else, our future rests, I think, solely on our ability to make our kids love America again, that we are the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:30:25.000That we have done so much good for the planet and for the world.
00:30:29.000And that if we are able to communicate these values and these ideas to young people, then that will be the future of America outside of the election.
00:30:37.000The election is just a moment in time.
00:30:39.000And I do think things are trending positively, and we can build that out even more.
00:30:42.000Benjamin Franklin famously said, it's a republic if you can keep it.
00:30:46.000So it's all on us and everyone here to do exactly that.
00:31:05.000Charlie, can you talk a little bit about globalism versus nationalism, why Trump ran for president, what he's actually fighting against?
00:31:14.000He's fighting a lot bigger battles than just what's going on in this country.
00:31:19.000Yeah, I mean, there is a push to destroy American sovereignty.
00:31:24.000There is a push to try to create a almost unified world government that will basically deteriorate the idea of the United States of America as its own self-determining country.
00:31:37.000And President Donald Trump stands in stark opposition to a lot of these needs, wants, and wishes of a lot of these people that are pushing for this.
00:31:44.000And so you can see this in the push for the Paris Climate Accord, which would have destroyed the oil and gas industry in this state if fully implemented.
00:31:52.000You see this in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
00:31:55.000You see this through the overzealous push to try to have the United Nations almost have jurisdiction over our country.
00:32:02.000And I'm a believer in, I'm a believer in countries being able to determine their own future.
00:32:10.000And there is an understandable, I think, put, I think there's an understandable school of thought that says, well, in the 20th century, we had too many individual nations.
00:32:41.000Venezuela was once a beautiful, unbelievably rich and prosperous country, and it flipped in a generation.
00:32:47.000We have tried countries with global ambitions before and trying to unify the entire planet under one perspective.
00:32:54.000And it is very, very dangerous what one of these people are pushing.
00:32:57.000Look, the president gets a bad rap, and I think a lot of it, almost all of it, is completely unwarranted.
00:33:02.000I mean, this is a president who did not have to run for office.
00:33:05.000This is a man that, despite the ridicule, the backlash, and the opposition, not only won the election in 2016, but he did something that is against the golden rule of Washington, D.C.
00:33:17.000He actually did what he said he was going to do after he got elected.
00:33:25.000And I understand some of you say, I don't like his tweets.
00:33:30.000Gorsuch Kavanaugh, 200 federal judges, soon to be 300, largest middle-class tax cut, finally taking child sex trafficking seriously in our country, canceling the Iran deal, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Golan Heights.
00:33:46.000And I think we have to be very clear as to who is the president and what type, what time are we in?
00:34:00.000You might not have signed up for this, but nations go through this periodically.
00:34:04.000And when you're in a season of struggle and conflict, you want to make sure that the ideas that preserve the civilization you care about win.
00:34:14.000And that's why I said at my RNC speech that President Donald Trump is the bodyguard of Western civilization.
00:34:21.000And I love that imagery of a bodyguard because when I hire a bodyguard, I couldn't care less about their tweet history.
00:34:30.000I don't care about if they're a little rough around the edges.
00:34:33.000I want someone that knows how to fight and will protect our country and our civilization.
00:34:37.000And quite honestly, for the first time in my lifetime, I finally feel that we are making tangible and serious policy wins for the betterment of our country under a conservative perspective.
00:34:49.000I mentioned the judge, I mentioned all these sorts of things.
00:35:29.000You're losing our country to people that suddenly have an extraordinary amount of power and they're willing to use it.
00:35:36.000And the one thing that these, that the corporate elites and the big tech elites and the Hollywood community and all these people, the one thing that frustrates them so much is that they still can't control all of you.
00:35:52.000The one thing that bothers them is they think that they can bully and intimidate and almost extort all of you to vote for Joe Biden.
00:36:13.000I think that he would make a couple phone calls and he'd say, end it.
00:36:16.000I think that the manufactured chaos that we saw in our country the last couple months was trying to get people to say, I've had enough.
00:36:25.000Who's going to try to end this sort of stuff?
00:36:27.000But I think the American people are a lot wiser than that.
00:36:29.000I think that our government is set up.
00:36:32.000Of course, the people are the sovereign in our country, we the people.
00:36:36.000Such an incredible leap forward for humanity that some king or queen or blood right is not in charge, but you actually get to call the shots.
00:36:45.000And that's the only thing they still have not yet been able to control.
00:37:13.000Could you talk a little bit more about that and how a free market capitalist can tackle that conversation?
00:37:20.000Well, I think that the family is the bedrock of any functioning society.
00:37:24.000I think that it is a disgrace that 77% of black babies in this country are born without a stable father in the home.
00:37:31.000I think that the reason, the number one reason why mothers do not have more than one or two kids, which is the average birth rate for natural born Americans, is because of financial reasons.
00:37:40.000And I don't think we have a capitalist system if you don't have a country.
00:37:43.000And I also believe that if we do not prioritize the family and family creation in our country, then you're not going to have a country to even have a capitalist system at all.
00:37:51.000And I actually value the family more than I value, like I value family creation and stable families more so than I might value like the maximal profit return.
00:38:02.000And we spend money on such ridiculous garbage in this country.
00:38:06.000And there's conservative ways to fund it.
00:38:08.000President Trump put forth a conservative way to do it, said you can borrow out of your Social Security fund and be able to do this.
00:38:15.000And look, it's a provocative view for a conservative to hold.
00:38:20.000But if we're serious about the civilizational collapse that we're looking at right now, and we want to actually fix some of these problems, and if we're, look, we know this through psychological data, we know this.
00:38:32.000We should want young families to have more children, and we should want mothers to be able to spend those formative years with their newborns.
00:38:56.000It almost forces the woman into the workplace.
00:38:58.000Now, I'm not diametrically against that if the woman chooses, but I am against it by force.
00:39:03.000I think it's bad that young women in this country, young mothers, have no other option but to go into the marketplace to keep a middle-class lifestyle going.
00:39:12.000And so, yeah, that's why I think that if we're serious about the role the family plays in the American society, which we know is the longest lasting, most important institution to any functioning civilization, then we must make it easier to have children in this country.
00:39:26.000We also must, I think, support young mothers being with those children.
00:39:31.000And every single study shows that if a young mother is able to be with a newborn for those 18 months, they're far less likely to go to prison, far less likely to commit suicide, they're less likely to be social isolation.
00:39:43.000Every metric that we are concerned about comes back to the mother being there with the baby the first 18 to 24 months.
00:41:08.000And I want to make sure that we all of a sudden do not become completely despondent if that happens.
00:41:14.000And now, so just talking about what I said earlier, I don't want to give people's hopes up too much, but just because the early voting numbers we're seeing out of these states, we've never seen before for Republicans.
00:42:11.000And there's also others, like kind of little crumbs, to use a Nancy Pelosi term, that I think is very positive for President Trump.
00:42:20.000We sold 19 million guns in this country in the last nine months.
00:42:23.000I don't think that's a lot of Joe Biden voters, okay?
00:42:28.000I think that there is pent up, I think there is so much pent up disgust against these lockdowns, against the double standard, against the micro-tyranny.
00:42:40.000I think that people are just, they cannot wait to go vote.
00:42:43.000It's an enthusiasm level that makes 2016 look like nothing.
00:42:47.000So the question is this, and this is a very real question.
00:42:51.000Is there also a hidden anti-Trump vote?
00:42:54.000Are there also people out there that have been waiting for the chance to vote against him?
00:42:59.000And they don't have a chance to go to rallies and their rallies are like the BLM demonstrations.
00:43:35.000So here's the other good news for Trump, if you guys want it.
00:43:40.000If you're still undecided right now, and if you're here tonight, thank you for coming.
00:43:44.000But if you're still undecided and you still, after everything they've thrown at Trump, you're like, I don't know if I don't like this Trump guy.
00:43:52.000You're waiting for a reason to vote for Trump.
00:43:55.000After the nonstop 24-7 just arbitrage that this guy has had to survive, it is that people are just saying, like, please give me a reason to vote for you.
00:44:14.000I think if the president comes out, he has to do three things.
00:44:17.000And I did a whole podcast on this, but I'll distill them into three quick things.
00:44:19.000Number one, I think that he has to handle the Hunter-Biden thing correctly.
00:44:23.000I think he runs a risk of handling this thing completely in the wrong direction.
00:44:27.000If he focuses too much on Hunter and too much on conjecture, he'll lose that argument.
00:44:32.000He has to make it about Joe, not about Hunter.
00:44:36.000If you make it too much about Hunter, Hunter's not running for office, okay?
00:44:38.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's instead, you have to say, Joe, why do you refuse not to answer these questions?
00:44:44.000He just has to ask the question, demonstrate the facts, and let Joe talk.
00:44:47.000Number two, in a very bizarre way, the debate commission, I think, has given Trump an advantage here.
00:44:52.000President Trump has to not interrupt Joe Biden, okay?
00:44:55.000He just, well, his microphone will be muted, so I guess that will help.
00:44:59.000And again, it's just, if we're just being very honest, independent swing voters do not like a candidate that's interrupting the other person.
00:45:48.000I think that if he channels the energy he had with Savannah Guthrie last week, where he's magnanimous and he's charming, he wins the election so convincingly, it won't even be close.
00:45:59.000Now, if he has another one of the shouting matches, I don't know what's going to happen.
00:46:04.000I'd rather be President Trump than Joe Biden.
00:46:06.000If you said, Charlie, who would you rather be at this point and this time?
00:46:09.000I'd rather be the candidate that has the most new registered voters, which President Trump has, has an advantage of hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters.
00:46:16.000I want the candidate that's crushing early voting, which typically wins on election day.
00:46:21.000I want the candidate that's not mired in an FBI scandal about intercontinentally selling out our country.
00:46:26.000I want the candidate with a stronger base, and I want the candidate that actually does public appearances.
00:46:32.000Like, I would take that in a second, where, and I know that might not, there is evidence to show that maybe Joe Biden will have some other support or some things that'll surge at the end.
00:46:44.000But if President Trump does his job, it's his race to win or lose.
00:46:54.000Could you talk about the prevalence of cancel culture and how it affects civil discourse and public policy?
00:47:01.000Yeah, I mean, this is one of the most dangerous things happening in our country right now, that the people with the most amount of power in America, they seek to silence, destroy, and annihilate anyone they disagree with.
00:47:16.000And we were a country for many years where we could agree to disagree.
00:47:20.000It is a bedrock American principle that the minority opinion should be given a platform.
00:47:29.000We are now entering a phase of America, if not directly confronted, where if you dare say something that is not the dogmatic opinion, you will lose your job, lose your friends, be socially isolated outcasts.
00:48:35.000And so it shouldn't stun you when all of a sudden people take to the streets like they did this weekend and they assault the black conservative in the streets of San Francisco and they assault that young woman who's a Turning Point USA Ambassador Isabel at the Woman's March.
00:48:49.000They hospitalize her and nearly break her neck just because she was holding up a Trump flag.
00:49:17.000And so what's the solution to this is that anyone who dares cancel somebody because it's an opinion they don't like, they must be harshly held accountable.
00:49:27.000If it's a college administrator, if it's a boss, if it's a CEO, and the other thing is that enough people have to say, I'm not going to abide by the cancellation standards that you put through.
00:49:39.000I mean, they're trying to cancel Chris Pratt now because he's a Christian.
00:49:42.000I mean, it's a whole new thing they're doing in Hollywood the last couple of days.
00:49:45.000And just because he came out as a Christian and some other celebrity is like, oh, he hates gay people because he's a Christian.
00:49:52.000And so there's only two ways to govern human beings.
00:49:56.000You can govern human beings by speaking, persuasion, and talking, or you can govern human beings by force.
00:50:03.000The American experiment has succeeded because we have had a system where you have to make good arguments to get power and continue to earn people's trust to stay in power.
00:50:15.000The other government systems the last hundred years were based on force.
00:50:18.000The Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba.
00:50:23.000So all of a sudden, if you shut people's capacity to speak, you're heading to a very, very dangerous direction, which, by the way, that's why what we are doing at Turning Point USA is so critical to the fabric of the republic.
00:50:37.000Because many of these campuses, Highland Park High School, all these campuses, there's no conservative presence at all whatsoever.
00:50:46.000If all of a sudden they are able to obliterate all viewpoints or all opinions of a certain political opinion, then they've won completely.
00:50:56.000And then you've entered a one-party state.
00:51:03.000I believe in strong borders and that it's very important to come in legally.
00:51:07.000But an argument that I often run into is, what about the people who can't afford to come in legally or need to come into the country quickly because they're in a dangerous situation?
00:51:46.000That doesn't even count illegal border crossings or illegal entries into the country.
00:51:51.000And so I guess if you can't afford to come into this country legally, there's plenty of ways to say you can apply for a green card and all these sorts of things.
00:52:01.000But I'm of the opinion that every immigration proposal and policy must be kept in mind with, is it good for our country?
00:52:11.000Are these people able to assimilate into our country?
00:52:14.000Because it should always be about assimilation of the American culture.
00:52:17.000And if not, then sometimes you should take pauses with American immigration.
00:52:21.000And we've done this in our past before very successfully.
00:52:24.000And this new idea of bringing 1.2 million people into our country endlessly is a failed model.
00:52:30.000And that's where you have more people that speak Spanish than English in the state of California.
00:52:35.000I'm not against speaking Spanish, but if you do not have the capacity to interface, if you do not have a common language, which I believe English should be the official language of the United States, then you've lost a lot of the capacity to be able to relate with people and communicate with people.
00:52:49.000And so, and as far as asylum seekers, we are the most generous country when it comes to asylum seekers.
00:53:03.000That's why it's like, and so we take tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people when it comes to that.
00:53:09.000And so this is why I believe in very strong borders on the southern border, because not only is it bad with, not only is it bad with all the reasons that you obviously agree with, which is the crime, the child sex trafficking, the drugs, but also what it does is it diminishes legal immigration is what it does.
00:53:31.000And it blurs the line between the person in Bulgaria and Belarus that has to wait their turn for 20 years to come into America and then someone that's able to come to the southern border and hop in.
00:53:42.000That is not, that is a moral difference of immigration.
00:53:45.000I don't never think we should blur those lines between someone that comes here the right way and immigrants immigrate and someone that comes in illegally.
00:53:58.000Hey, Charlie, just before I'm a question, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate how refreshing it is having such a young person like you be such a political trailblazer in this country right now.
00:54:14.000My question is, what are your thoughts on the whole Hunter Biden hard drive situation and how do you think that is going to possibly affect the election here in the next couple of years?
00:54:38.000So anyone that's in the kind of like the drug rehabilitation world, you can use this.
00:54:42.000I mean, your father's running for the presidency of the United States and you show up with three laptops, one of which that has emails and text messages with foreign oligarchs and you forget to pick them up.
00:54:53.000At first I was apprehensive and skeptical.
00:54:55.000Now we have evidence that shows that his signature verified that he did this.
00:55:00.000We have the person, Del Isaac, I think is his name, of the computer repair shop that has shown that this is exactly what happened.
00:55:10.000The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had this laptop for nine months and they've done nothing because there really are two justice systems in this country, one for the wealthy Democrats that are well connected and for the rest of us.
00:55:23.000And secondly, I don't know if we have enough time to really make this move the dial, but we don't need to make it move the dial 10 points.
00:55:31.000If this is able to move the dial two or three points, then this can have a very significant advantage for President Trump, especially in the state of Pennsylvania, especially in a state where Joe Biden pretends he's the good old Scranton guy.
00:55:46.000Okay, you're the good old Scranton guy when you're sending your crack addicted son to Kazakhstan, China, Ukraine to sit on barisma while you make millions of dollars for 10% for the big man.
00:56:02.000That dog does not hunt in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
00:56:05.000And so I don't know what the implications will be, but just so if you have no idea we're talking about the Hunter Biden thing, it's worse than you can imagine.
00:56:12.000I encourage you to look at these emails.
00:56:14.000They have been independently authenticated.
00:56:16.000They have been verified and corroborated through metadata and other ways.
00:56:19.000And the most scary thing, though, out of the entire Hunter Biden story is not the Hunter Biden story.
00:56:25.000It's how the most valuable companies in our country that are worth trillions of dollars have decided that you do not have the right to read this story.
00:56:39.000Because when you have multi-trillion dollar companies collectively with their market cap together, all of a sudden say, no, no, no, citizen, you're not supposed to see this.
00:56:56.000That makes 1984 look like an instruction manual where you have a one-party state that is saying that you are not allowed to view it.
00:57:06.000And if you don't know what happened, I'll just say this.
00:57:08.000New York Post article against Hunter Biden last week, Twitter and Facebook forbade the sharing, the direct messaging, and the viewing of their articles on their platform, and they would deactivate your Twitter account.
00:57:18.000My Twitter account was deactivated over the weekend for a similar violation.
00:57:21.000I just got my Twitter account back today.
00:57:23.000And so what's really scary, though, and this is something that I think we all have, it's a teaching moment.
00:57:30.000We as conservatives have always thought of corporations as being on our side.
00:57:34.000We've always thought of the biggest companies to be on Team Republican.
00:57:40.000These tech companies in particular, Facebook, Google, Twitter, all of them, they view themselves as auxiliary communication and enforcement arms of the Democrat Party.
00:57:52.000And they are, in my opinion, that's when you should lose your Section 230 immunity.
00:57:58.000People should be able to sue these companies because it is not fair.
00:58:34.000But the thing that I want all of you guys to really think about over the next couple of days and weeks heading into the election and post-election, is it okay that a couple of companies have more power than our federal government?
00:58:48.000Because the, because here's the thing, if the federal government came out and they said you're not allowed to read the New York Post story, we would sue and we'd win in court in an afternoon because we have a First Amendment for that.
00:59:00.000If the federal government all of a sudden deleted a social media account of yours, you'd say you're not allowed to do that.
00:59:06.000That is a violation of my First Amendment rights.
00:59:08.000There's no bill of rights with these tech companies.
00:59:11.000So we're dealing in a digital age in an ecosystem that's created for these tech companies, staffed only by people that agree with one viewpoint, that we're bad and they're smart and good, and just give them power and they're going to figure it out for us.
00:59:26.000They're the philosopher kings, as Plato would say.
00:59:35.000The tech companies wouldn't have done this if this Hunter Biden story wasn't legit.
00:59:39.000These tech companies would not have done this if this Hunter Biden story was just like vapor and fake.
00:59:45.000There's something to this story that has them so nervous.
00:59:48.000And it actually created the Barbara Streison effect.
00:59:51.000The Barbara Streison effect in 2003, Barbara Streisand, pictures of her Malibu home started to be leaked.
00:59:56.000And she said, no, no, no, no, she tried to buy all these pictures back and it resulted in millions of people going to go look at her home and more people knew where she lived than if she would have just let the pictures be released anyway.
01:00:06.000It's exactly what happened with Hunter Biden.
01:00:08.000It became a bigger story than they would have ever possibly imagined.
01:00:56.000And you were able to not be indoctrinated.
01:00:59.000I wish liberal arts was the idea of liberal arts.
01:01:03.000And maybe you had a different experience at Belmont.
01:01:05.000And I've heard mixed things about Belmont.
01:01:07.000We were talking about that earlier with somebody, where they have a whole thing where they don't want Donald Trump on their campus this week because he's coming to debate.
01:01:15.000My opinion of liberal arts is that in its ideal form, it's terrific.
01:01:20.000But the current state of liberal arts in this country, I'm a very, very harsh critic of.
01:01:25.000Where you are reading more Angela Davis or Herbert Marcuse and Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida than Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, you got a problem.
01:01:36.000And so if liberal arts is able to refashion its roots as being a traditional classical Western education, I am all for that.
01:01:46.000If it can be done so, in your case, economically, makes sense, not going endlessly into debt.
01:02:05.000So my incumbent position is I'm a critic of current liberal arts education.
01:02:11.000I am, because I've seen what it creates, and I've seen the lack of depth at many of these universities of what they're teaching and what they're expressing and the venom that some of these professors have.
01:02:22.000And if Belmont's the exception, God bless Belmont.
01:02:24.000I know a little about the school, but not enough to be able to interface on that.
01:02:28.000But hope that helps answer your question.
01:02:55.000Part of believing in a market, according to Milton Friedman, one of the most important things in believing in a market is prices.
01:03:03.000Prices is how you communicate with the vendor or the entrepreneur or the provider what you are willing to pay or give up for what they're offering.
01:03:13.000The biggest problem with healthcare in this country, especially at the delivery point, is the lack of prices, is the surprise billing, is the disclosure of prices.
01:03:24.000This is why the president passing an executive order by our friend Cynthia Fisher, it was terrific, for healthcare transparency, that hospitals have to publish their prices to people that go into hospitals.
01:03:34.000And I believe this is a free market position.
01:03:36.000Because I believe the more information you give the patient, the better decisions they'll be able to make.
01:03:42.000I also believe firmly in buying health insurance across state lines.
01:03:46.000I believe in tort reform, which is something I think that Texas has done very well.
01:03:50.000I believe that we need more independent, more independent practice doctors in this country and less conglomerate, massive hospital organizations.
01:04:04.000But more than anything else, I think where conservatives get wrong on this issue is sometimes they become defenders of a broken incumbent position, a broken incumbent system.
01:04:15.000I think because some Republicans are heavily funded by these organizations, they're heavily funded by some of these companies, and they go out of their way to defend a system that really, in some ways, works, in other ways doesn't.
01:04:29.000And so if we're trying to create a healthcare system, in my opinion, that works, we definitely don't want the Bernie Sanders model, nationalize everything, it's a disaster.
01:04:36.000We also should appreciate what we do right.
01:04:37.000We have the highest quality of care on the planet.
01:04:41.000It's just the problem is it's really expensive, hard to be able to get high accessibility for it.
01:04:46.000And there's a lot of problems in the middle area of Medicaid, health insurance, and health insurance for the poor, which is Medicaid, and also employer provided health care.
01:04:54.000So I think the first step for Republicans on health care has to be the more information, the better.
01:05:02.000We have to become transparency crusaders, where we want you to have all the information.
01:05:08.000When you break a leg, exactly what they're going to give you and what that is going to mean for you on your health insurance plan.
01:05:15.000The more questioning, the more conversation, the more communication with patients when it comes to health care, I believe the better.
01:05:23.000And I think that's a free market position that I'd be willing to defend.
01:05:26.000I'm happy to dive into it more, but we'll kind of leave it there.
01:07:00.000As soon as you shut up hate speech, those people only get more powerful.
01:07:04.000And this is the unintended consequence of censorship.
01:07:07.000You give more credence to the silenced person the moment you shut them up, because then they can play the victim and they say, they're trying to shut me up because I have something that everyone else wants and I'm a threat to them.
01:07:21.000And so the minute that you start to enforce speech laws like they do in Europe based on specific political opinions, regardless of how reprehensible they are, then you actually give credence to them.
01:07:32.000This is why in Germany, where they do not allow swastikas, they do not allow Nazi paraphernalia, their white nationalist, awful movement is actually gaining traction because it has like a rebellious underbelly.
01:07:46.000Bring your bad ideas publicly so decent people can cross-examine you so we can see who you are, we can talk to you and convince the public otherwise.
01:07:55.000This is a hard argument for some young people to hear because they're like, it's so hateful, it's so awful, it deteriorates our country.
01:08:47.000All of a sudden, if the government becomes the speech police and they start calling the shots, like, oh, the government will get rid of the bad guys for me.
01:09:06.000If you make the intentional publication when you're behind a news outlet with false information, knowingly false information, I think that you should be able to be sued in court more generously with the libel laws that we have in this country.
01:09:19.000And so the difference is that if you know you have materially false information and you publish it to a big, wide readership, that is not freedom of speech.
01:09:38.000My name is Zach Scornovako, and I was hoping to ask you a little bit more specific about the struggle that our country's small businesses are facing.
01:09:48.000My mom owns a small business in Southern California that was closed for five months due to coronavirus.
01:09:55.000She's now scraping by on the brink of closure and we're looking to see the Congress pass possibly some stimulus checks.
01:10:03.000Do you think that is a responsible response to what our small businesses are facing?
01:10:08.000I mean, do you think this stimulus will help boost the economy?
01:10:11.000Or do you think it's going to leave us in an even bigger debt?
01:10:15.000There are parts of, great question, there are parts of the stimulus that I spoke out against.
01:10:18.000The part I didn't was the PPP because these businesses were forced to close their business.
01:10:27.000At gunpoint, they were forced to close their businesses.
01:10:30.000Therefore, I think the government, I think it's under Article 5, the government can't take property from you without reimbursing you.
01:10:37.000I think they deserve, every small business and business in this country deserve the right to be able to receive those funding.
01:10:44.000And also, what has happened to our hospitality businesses, our hotel businesses, our restaurants, our bigger restaurants.
01:10:50.000I'm not just talking about the small ones because, look, $10 million of PPP sounds like a lot, but all of a sudden, if you're running a hotel chain with 400 hotels across the country, you're like, I don't know, 10 million, that kind of caps out.
01:11:01.000So I think that that was perfectly fine.
01:11:16.000That's the best stimulus we could possibly have.
01:11:18.000And so, but it is, it is, I think it is necessary.
01:11:24.000The part of the stimulus that really drove me nuts was the $75 million for national public radio, the $50 million for PBS so that we can pay them through taxpayer dollars to attack people like me.
01:12:44.000Why is it that Jimmy Carter announced the re-election campaign in one of the hometowns of the KKK, a Southern Democrat in 1976?
01:12:56.000In 1980, I'm sorry, when he was running for re-election against Reagan, it completely blurs the lines on the timeline.
01:13:01.000It's the Republican Party, and this is the greatest argument of all of them.
01:13:04.000It's the Republican Party when we were founded as the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin, that said skin color does not matter.
01:13:11.000It's the Republican Party that passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act and was the first party to have blacks serve in the United States Senate and the United States Congress.
01:13:20.000It's the Democrat Party in the 1860s that said skin color matters.
01:13:25.000Fast forward to today, which party says skin color matters?
01:13:59.000It's a party that wants aspiration and opportunity for all people, regardless of skin color.
01:14:04.000It's a party that wants people to break out of their current condition to something better.
01:14:08.000There's a continuous philosophical line from the Democrat Party from 1864 to 2020, that we're going to take care of you and you're going to do what we tell you to do.
01:14:17.000That's what they said in 1864, and that's what they're saying in 2020.
01:14:21.000The most tragic thing that happened was after the Civil Rights Act was passed, which was by Republicans, by the way, reluctantly signed into law by a Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson, that Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Great Society Act, which ended up being one of the worst things that ever could have possibly happened for black urban life in this country, where we subsidized fatherlessness, where we destroyed black businesses, we verticalized the black community in Chicago and the urban cities of our country.
01:14:51.000And you see it in the approach of how the Democrat Party to this day talks to black voters.
01:14:59.000If you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
01:15:10.000He said that very clearly in the 1990s that our inner cities were jungles, black men were super predators, and he authored the Clinton crime bill.
01:15:18.000Which president signed the First Step Act?
01:15:51.000I'm sorry, when he ran for president, 1952, 1956, why is it that he started to win southern states like Tennessee and Arkansas well before the great switch, they say that happened?
01:16:01.000Republican Party of Eisenhower was the party that sent in the federal troops to desegregate the American South.
01:16:07.000The Republican Party of Eisenhower was the party that demanded the federal government side with the lawsuits on behalf of the Civil Rights Act.
01:16:16.000And it was Dwight D. Eisenhower that stood in opposition of the segregated armed forces in the 1950s.
01:17:29.000My question is, is you see the left continuing to provide a narrative that says that because of someone's skin color, that they can't succeed in America, that because you're black, you can't succeed.
01:17:40.000And I feel like if I was born a black American today, that I would have no motivation at all to succeed because I'm told that the system completely works against me.
01:17:49.000My question to you is, how do Republicans combat this narrative and fight against this and start to get black Americans to believe in the American dream that they have?
01:18:02.000I think it's already starting to happen.
01:18:03.000And one thing that I'm very proud of that we have done at Turning Point USA is we are on the cutting edge of empowering a lot of these very popular black voices in the conservative movement.
01:20:04.000Why is it that the white community does 20% better on income and wealth than the black community in this country?
01:20:11.000The number one reason is the fatherlessness rate.
01:20:14.000You can point to the fatherlessness rate as the number one predictor of success in this country, not skin color.
01:20:19.000Now, the white Americans are not the wealthiest in this country at all.
01:20:24.000Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Americans do far better than the average white person in this country, including Indian Americans who have skin and melanin content closest to black Americans.
01:20:35.000I thought it's impossible for people of dark skin color to succeed in this country.
01:20:40.000The Constitution was not written in Korean.
01:20:42.000You can succeed no matter who you are in this country.
01:20:46.000If you apply yourself, if you work hard, if you believe in the system, this thing is built for anyone with aspiration and it is immoral.
01:20:53.000In fact, I think it is so incredibly dangerous, disgusting, and wrong to talk to young black people to have them lose faith in this system.
01:21:03.000Because that's the real tragedy, is a young black kid in this country is told that you can't succeed, and they're starting to believe it.
01:21:10.000And then they just disengage and they're less likely to do the things that we know you need to do.
01:21:16.000And what's really amazing, people say America is a racist country.
01:21:59.000A white person is twice as likely to be shot and killed by a police officer in this country, twice as likely in a black person.
01:22:04.000In fact, a black person is 18 and a half times more likely to shot and shoot and kill a police officer than a police officer is to shoot and kill them.
01:22:12.000In fact, according to a Department of Justice survey done by Barack Obama's own DOJ, they found that police departments across the country, 400 of them, were systemically un-racist.
01:22:22.000That police departments go above and beyond to not engage in controversial conduct when it comes to black people in this country.
01:22:29.000But instead, we pick four or five highly emotive, very controversial, nuanced examples, and we just indict an experiment that has 330 million people and we say, we must be awful.
01:22:56.0003 million people, 2 million from Africa, 1 million from the Caribbean.
01:22:59.000The reason is that we're actually the greatest place for any person of any skin color to succeed.
01:23:03.000And black Americans in this country are the 18th wealthiest country on the planet.
01:23:08.000If you just take black Americans, there's a growing black middle class.
01:23:11.000And thanks to President Trump, lowest ever black poverty rate, lowest ever black unemployment rate, highest ever black entrepreneurship rate, opportunity zones, historical black college universities.
01:23:21.000Most of that does not get conveyed or communicated in the media.
01:23:24.000So what we have to do is get back to the American idea of e pluribas unum, which is this.
01:23:33.000I don't care, and you shouldn't either.
01:23:34.000In fact, if you care, you're a racist.
01:23:36.000I don't want to talk about people's skin color anymore.
01:23:39.000If you're trying to tell me I have certain privilege and you don't, or you can't be racist in all this, then you care about melanin a lot more than I do.
01:23:45.000And you know who used to do this in this country?
01:23:50.000That's what we got away from everybody.
01:23:52.000That's why we had a civil rights movement in this country.
01:23:54.000We had a moment in time that I grew up in, and many of you remember just 10 years ago, where we said, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can succeed regardless of skin color.
01:24:04.000We have to get back to a country where we stop looking at people based on the melanin content and hyper-racializing things because we don't.
01:24:11.000We all know that it's not going to be good where we're headed.
01:24:57.000Dr. Fauci said himself, it does not work back in March.
01:24:59.000He said it again in April, and they reversed position.
01:25:01.000I have not seen the white paper that supports that.
01:25:04.000I am very, very skeptical against government central authorities telling people how to live their lives, especially with ever-changing narratives and contradicting data and the human costs that we have seen.
01:25:18.000I think it is so incredibly immoral to make high school kids socially distanced and wear masks.
01:25:23.000There is no evidence to support this whatsoever.
01:25:26.000No high school in America should do this.
01:25:30.000There is no evidence whatsoever to support countries that locked down, that had any sort of change in hospitalization or death rates, or countries that didn't.
01:25:38.000There is no data whatsoever to support.
01:25:40.000And I'm willing to go toe-to-toe with anyone on this because we have the data.
01:25:43.000And Heather McDonald did an unbelievable story on this, that wear masks or not.
01:25:47.000Again, if you believe they work, then wear one.
01:25:51.000If you are at risk, make good choices.
01:25:54.000But don't go to the government, which has all the power and prevent other people from being able to make choices to assemble, especially when it comes to young people.
01:26:02.000It is a travesty what we have done in this country.
01:26:05.000Canceling prom, graduation, spring sports, summer sports.
01:26:12.000There will be a decade of unraveling because what we have done in this country.
01:26:15.000And so a lot of this will go away after the election.
01:26:18.000I just think that there's actually going to be a lot of unintended consequences.
01:26:21.000I think that a lot of people are so fed up with this nonsense that they're actually going to look to the one party that wants a reopening of this country.
01:26:27.000And I actually think a lot of the one-size-fits-all policies that have gone towards this thing is actually going to backfire tremendously.