00:01:16.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:02:13.000That's something we talk about here a lot on this Charlie Kirk show.
00:02:56.000So, you know, this is us sending out some good energy, some prayers that he will enjoy himself and that he'll come back refreshed and ready to do this.
00:03:06.000Anyways, we have, you know, we just had Jennifer Horne on the show.
00:03:10.000Jennifer Horn, host of the Morning Answer, AM870 in Los Angeles, talking about California, what's going on there, but also kind of in a larger sense, what this media landscape is like.
00:03:21.000It's a very weird time we're all living through.
00:03:26.000And it feels like to many of us that because the media was so fixated on hating Donald Trump, they were so fixated on demonizing him every step he made, whether he did good things or bad things, whether he cured cancer, he was going to be attacked.
00:03:42.000We don't live in that era anymore where studies have showed that Trump received between 90 and 95% negative news coverage.
00:03:49.000Biden is receiving probably about approximately 60% positive.
00:03:56.000Regardless, we are seeing a seismic shift in this nation just regarding the state of the government, the welfare state, the role of government.
00:04:09.000We're also seeing a changing in the public's perception of what the role of government should be.
00:04:18.000This is often taking the form and shape of massive spending plans from the Biden administration.
00:04:26.000Roughly $6.5 trillion in new spending has been proposed.
00:04:31.000They got $1.9 trillion of that through budget reconciliation.
00:04:37.000And we are living through inflation, whether or not Joe Biden wants to admit it or not.
00:04:45.000He's saying that it's a lot of loose talk about an overheating economy.
00:04:50.000But again, what we're seeing is a massive increase in spending.
00:04:57.000This to me, I saw this come through this morning.
00:05:00.000I think it's probably the most terrifying new proposal from the Biden administration.
00:05:07.000And it's called the Department of National Child Care.
00:05:10.000And the Wall Street Journal editorial board had a great read on this this morning.
00:05:15.000Mr. Biden wants to subsidize childcare so families pay based on a sliding scale.
00:05:21.000For the most hard-pressed working families, the White House says costs would be fully covered with payments coming out of a $225 billion pot that Mr. Biden is asking Congress to fill.
00:05:30.000For the middle class, families earning 1.5 times their state medium income will pay no more than 7% of their income.
00:05:37.000So this is actually Joe Biden creating an entirely new bureaucratic mess within the federal government called the Department of National Child Care.
00:05:49.000And they want to subsidize not just the most needy families to get childcare.
00:05:54.000They want to subsidize everybody's child care.
00:06:00.000This is, on the one hand, this show has been loudly and proudly very pro-family.
00:06:09.000We want to empower families to have more kids, to get married.
00:06:16.000This is something Charlie and I talk a lot about: how does the conservative movement become so pro-family, so pro-marriage, so pro-the institution of family that we can actually see sizable increases in our birth rate, native-born birth rate?
00:06:33.000Now, we're not talking about immigration.
00:06:34.000We're not talking about importing low-wage, low-skilled workers.
00:06:38.000We're not talking about keeping our poorest border open to drug traffickers and sex traffickers and human smugglers.
00:06:45.000We're talking about Americans having babies.
00:06:48.000Now, we saw 500,000 fewer babies born in 2020 than in the previous year.
00:06:54.000All intents and purposes show that that is increasing.
00:06:57.000That's below the replacement level of births.
00:07:01.000So, on the one hand, so I think it's about 10 years ago, it was roughly at replacement level.
00:07:10.000So, every couple, it's two people, is only having 1.6 babies.
00:07:14.000That's not going to replace the current population.
00:07:18.000Now, that is a very troubling trend for a number of reasons because it's an indication that your society is failing.
00:07:26.000It's no longer either culturally acceptable or financially possible to recreate yourself, to pass on your values and your DNA and your culture to the next generation.
00:07:44.000So, on the one hand, I support making it easier for families to have more children and to make it more cost-effective.
00:07:52.000But what they're doing is essentially universal daycare.
00:07:56.000And why this is so terrifying to me and why I want to pause on this story for a little while is because we have to think what's happening in our public schools.
00:08:05.000Now, most of this audience knows, but it bears repeating, that the most radical unions in this country very well are, likely are, the teachers' unions.
00:08:16.000There's something, whether you call it selection bias, that these people that tend to lean left, self-select into the teaching profession.
00:08:27.000That might be one of it, one of one of the causes.
00:08:31.000Whereas conservative-minded people tend to want to start businesses.
00:08:35.000They want to go into more capitalistic pursuits where they're not bound by government income.
00:08:42.000There's also the fact that these unions act like the mafia.
00:08:47.000These are essentially modern organized crime units in a lot of ways.
00:08:50.000Now, I know, listen, media matters, we rely on teachers.
00:08:56.000Nevertheless, there is a function within these unions that forces far-left radical policies to take shape.
00:09:05.000And a lot of these teachers' unions, we hear from them, a lot of you email the Charlie Kirk show at freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:12.000Please send us your thoughts on this if you've experienced this type of bullying.
00:09:17.000But in order to advance within your teaching profession, there is a pressure placed on teachers to toe the line, to embrace these far-left practices and policies like anti-racism, that America is based on systemic racist ideology.
00:09:35.000We're colonialist, that test scores and standardized testing is somehow racist.
00:09:42.000All of these ideas are being shoved through the teachers' unions right to your public schools through the mouthpieces of far-left radical teachers.
00:09:51.000And even the good teachers that are more moderate are feeling the pressure to toe the line.
00:09:55.000Now, there was a Supreme Court case called Janice, which made it illegal to force teachers to pay unionized dues, union dues.
00:10:06.000But what we found is that a lot of them still end up paying it.
00:10:09.000Well, they either believe in the union, that it's protecting them, that it's doing a good job, or they feel coerced into doing it because if they're caught out as not supporting the union and paying the dues, then that might jeopardize their career.
00:10:23.000So what we see time and time again with the government, when it gets involved in raising your children, when it gets involved in, you know, basically involved in places where the family was preeminent, has always been the lead, it becomes a mechanism, a conduit for cultural indoctrination.
00:10:45.000So when I see that Joe Biden wants to subsidize universal health care, then I instantly my eyes raise because guess what?
00:10:55.000That means he's going to have one more conduit through a federally subsidized program to educate your children and to take your ability to raise your children out of your control.
00:11:08.000So there's actually a very interesting study that was done in Canada that showed that when you had two parent households that were one would stay at home, most likely obviously the mother, but regardless, one parent was staying at home raising the children and the Canadian government subsidized child care and that child was then shipped off to a third party to help raise it,
00:11:37.000those children experienced higher levels of aggression.
00:11:47.000So these are the data points that we're all working with.
00:11:52.000Now, this is what also is interesting, is that this incentive actually will Mr. Biden envisions, sorry, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Biden envisions more subsidies and cost inflation.
00:12:08.000His plan says providers, quote, will receive funding to cover the true cost of quality early childhood care.
00:12:15.000So you're going to get $15 an hour minimum wage for sure.
00:12:19.000And then caregivers who have a similar qualification as kindergarten teachers will receive comparable compensation.
00:12:25.000The Wall Street Journal concludes, this is a formula for bureaucratized national child care and enforced by federal rules and no doubt unionized.
00:12:45.000So if you're a family that has means to send your child to child care that you prefer, you might choose to spend more.
00:12:53.000Well, what this is going to do is it's going to force the same system upon all parents.
00:12:59.000And the other problem is that it actually rewards parents that have their children closer together and it will not reward people that have children further spaced apart.
00:13:09.000So it's just sort of, you know, it's kind of a side note, but it doesn't, it's not equally applied.
00:13:15.000And that's problematic because anything with the government, when the government gets involved, we know it has unintended consequences.
00:13:21.000But here's another problem with this Biden proposed bureaucracy.
00:13:29.000It will have the same perverse incentive effect that we have seen in higher education.
00:13:35.000If all of this is guaranteed funding for this network of childhood care facilities, preschools, they have no incentive to keep costs low because the federal government will be subsidizing it.
00:13:50.000We've seen this with the university system.
00:13:52.000The university system gets guaranteed government grants.
00:13:54.000There's no incentive to compete on price because those loans are going to be backed up by the federal government.
00:14:04.000There's no worry that the students will default because if they default, the federal government's will be left holding the bag.
00:14:12.000And that really means you and me, the taxpayers.
00:14:42.000Well, I think it tells you that they care much more about the preferences of our ruling class elites than they do about the preferences of middle class Americans.
00:14:50.000If you look at poll after poll, it shows that the ruling class family model is just different from what middle class Americans want.
00:14:57.000The ruling class is obsessed with their jobs, even though they hate a lot of their jobs.
00:15:00.000They're obsessed with their credentials and they want strangers to raise their kids.
00:15:04.000But middle class Americans, whatever their station in life, they want more time with their children.
00:15:09.000Even if they're working, they want the opportunity to spend more time with their kids and not be forced to send them to daycare.
00:15:16.000And so what this policy really represents is an effort to subsidize the preference of our ruling class over the preference of our middle and working classes.
00:15:40.000And I remember seeing this tweet where it went out.
00:15:44.000He said universal child care is a massive subsidy to the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class.
00:15:56.000I mean, it was one of those tweets that he put out there, and people completely missed what he was actually getting at.
00:16:02.000So he got, as they say in Twitter lingo, that he got ratioed.
00:16:07.000So he had a bunch of people saying that he was tone deaf and out of touch because now he's well off because his book sold millions of copies or whatever.
00:16:17.000So I was really glad that he went on with Tucker Carlson and explained his perspective on this because he's actually 100% right.
00:16:25.000What this does when you have the federal government get involved with teaching your children and prescribing the way you should go and saying this is the way you should go, this is the right answer, that everybody should put their kids into childcare.
00:16:40.000What that is doing is it is enforcing a worldview and a policy prescription that our elites tell us we should just blindly accept.
00:16:50.000Of course we should go to work and get our credentials and work 80 hours a week, not see our kids, not have hands-on time with our children, and let a stranger raise them.
00:17:20.000We need to give the, if we're going to subsidize family formation, it should be in the form of tax incentives and credits for families to do what they see fit.
00:17:30.000Now, a side story that a lot of people are missing as well is AOC wants to create something called the Civilian Corps to battle climate change.
00:17:57.000They're expanding this so that we're all used to these ideas as if as if it's normal somehow to just spend trillions of dollars willy-nilly.
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00:18:59.000Folks, I want to bring you back to a story actually.
00:20:44.000And I can tell you that we were very curious about who the identity of this teacher was last week.
00:20:50.000Turning Point USA runs something called Professor Watchlist, which, you know, is a living trigger warning for the left.
00:20:57.000The professor watch list, I've never seen anything like it.
00:21:00.000It's just, they hate it so much, but all it is, is a database of far-left radical professors and teachers that have been caught or revealed or proudly espouse their radical ideas to the world.
00:21:13.000Using confirmed reporting, they compile a professor watch list database.
00:21:18.000Again, this is all third-party confirmed.
00:21:20.000So you get reported in this paper or that paper.
00:21:25.000It's all publicly available information.
00:21:26.000It just makes it easily accessible for parents and teachers that might want to send their kids to a university or college, and they want to know who's teaching their children.
00:21:35.000So we wanted to put this professor on the watch list because obviously she's a radical.
00:22:09.000The faculty members and some associations in North Orange County are very upset about the behavior of the university, which I think is laughable.
00:22:18.000Faculty members at Cypress College and across California's North Orange County Community College District are urging administrators to publicly support a Muslim professor targeted for how she interacted with a student.
00:22:30.000So I'm not sure what her being a Muslim has to do with anything, but apparently that's worth noting.
00:22:35.000The student, who is white, again, not sure what that has to do with anything, but they're bringing it up, said police officers are heroes and the professor appeared to disagree.
00:22:46.000Their debate made national headlines after it was uploaded to the internet.
00:22:50.000This is a quote from the, let's see, I think this is the union.
00:22:56.000A university faculty stands, oh, this is for the faculty, stands in solidarity with all our faculty in protecting their academic freedom and the right to a safe work environment free of hostility and threats to their physical safety and emotional well-being.
00:23:09.000The district's full-time faculty union said in a statement last week, we request a strong and clear public statement in support of all faculty and their right to a safe workplace and their ability to exercise their academic freedom.
00:23:22.000So this is all coming down, and then you got the Latino Faculty and Staff Association coming out in solidarity.
00:23:29.000Faria Salim, the professor, made her own statement on the matter and she said, the district has failed to protect me and allowed radicalized and gendered attacks against, again, not sure what happens.
00:23:41.000What any of this has to do with her being Muslim or apparently a woman?
00:23:45.000I'm assuming that's how she self-identifies.
00:24:16.000So the whole debate, again, was about this police reform, and they're calling this the thin Zoom line.
00:24:21.000And so they want to, they're now taking this to, because of everything that's happened with the pandemic, a lot of classes obviously have become Zoom classes.
00:24:34.000A lot of students that have seen radicalized professors are now having a new avenue to expose them, i.e., recording the Zoom call and sharing it with people in the media or just posting it online or whatever.
00:24:46.000And now, Faria Saleem is the newest professor that's been exposed.
00:25:07.000So they're saying that it's a failure of the school to be anti-racist.
00:25:12.000Joe Biden wants to create a new bureaucratic mess where universal child care is now going to be offered.
00:25:23.000And we talked about how this is a prescription for more ideological indoctrination of your students.
00:25:29.000We've got AOC wanting to create something akin to the Civilian Conservation Corps with 1.5 million, probably recent grads for the civilian climate corps to battle climate change with federal projects.
00:25:45.000And again, what do you think they're going to be learning if we have 1.5 young Americans, million young Americans going into civilian climate corps?
00:25:56.000They're going to be fed one prescription for the problems facing the world and that they're going to be told it's an existential threat.
00:26:05.000That climate change must be dealt with and that all of our modern world should be deconstructed and revolutionized in order to confront the threat.
00:26:14.000And you've got teachers like this teaching your students.
00:26:17.000She was obviously aggressive, saying that the cops are basically terrible, that she wouldn't even call the police if she was getting attacked with a gun or a knife.
00:26:26.000That she would feel less safe with a police officer nearby than she would if there was an attacker assailing her with a gun or a knife, which is obviously crazy in Looney Tunes.
00:26:35.000And yet now she has the gall to attack the university for saying that it's been, it's at a failure to be anti-racist.
00:26:43.000Now, this is something that we have talked about a lot on this show, and I want to delve deeper into it.
00:26:48.000I want to get exactly into the core of what anti-racism is.
00:26:52.000And I want you, everybody in this audience, to be equipped and understand that when people tell you to be anti-racist, they are actually the racist.
00:27:00.000They are actually saying you need to be more racially motivated.
00:27:03.000You need to see everything through the lens of color and of skin tone.
00:28:25.000We have been talking a lot about our schools.
00:28:27.000We've been talking a lot about different vectors by which the left is attempting to indoctrinate our children.
00:28:35.000And there is new news today that's putting some further definition around the Department of National Childcare, this new bureaucratic boondoggle that Biden is proposing, which is another government agency that wants to take care of your children, that wants to force you and actually subsidize your family to accept mediocre childcare.
00:28:59.000And as JD Vance said, this is our ruling class elites attempting to tell middle-class Americans the way that they should raise their children.
00:29:09.000Then you've got AOC suggesting that we need a 1.5 million person strong climate, federally paid for climate army that fights climate change.
00:31:04.000His philosophy of anti-racism is a Manetchian concept.
00:31:09.000Basically, that means it's an either-or.
00:31:11.000It's a binary choice in which the world is bifurcated into racists and anti-racists.
00:31:16.000So, what are you guys probably listening to this show?
00:31:18.000You guys are probably the racist, according to Ibram X. Kendi.
00:31:22.000He thinks that racists should be treated as a plain descriptive term for policies and ideas that create or justify racial inequalities, not a personal attack.
00:31:32.000Someone is being racist when he or she endorses a racist idea or policy.
00:31:38.000So he doesn't even think that not racist is a category.
00:31:42.000This is how the Washington Post summarizes his view like this.
00:31:46.000All policies, even the most trivial, are either racist or anti-racist.
00:32:59.000And we will see that if Biden gets his way with this Department of National Childcare, which is just ridiculous.
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00:34:07.000So we've been talking about how Joe Biden wants to raise your kids.
00:34:10.000It's a very troubling, troubling thing.
00:34:13.000Now, we're missing sort of two really big aspects of this story.
00:34:17.000One is that they already are awful at this.
00:34:21.000And this is what's genuinely perplexing about this whole moment that we're living in: the left and Democrats, blue states in particular, have been so awful at educating our children that there are still many people that are still not going to school.
00:34:37.000There was a report in the LA Times that just came out that said only 7% of students are going back to school.
00:34:48.000Most of those teachers are still teaching via Zoom.
00:34:50.000So you're just going into a physical space where you have to be socially distanced, wear masks, being comfortable, and there's still only going to be a teacher on a Zoom lesson, right?
00:35:03.000This thin Zoom line that we're talking about at Cypress College.
00:35:06.000It's happening all over the school districts, right?
00:35:09.000So at various school districts, they have various rules.
00:35:11.000It's hard to keep track of all of them, but they are absolutely awful at this.
00:35:16.000And it's having an impact on our economy.
00:35:21.000And yet they want to double down, take more of our taxpayer money and double and triple down on it, spend even more, force even more of us into government-controlled educational systems where they already have, in many places, a monopoly, which is part of the problem.
00:35:50.000Problem is that as women decide that they need to stay home either to take care of family members, particularly children who aren't in school, they're not going to be looking for jobs and they won't be reflected in the unemployment statistics.
00:36:06.000Now, more than 2 million women have dropped out of the workforce.
00:36:26.000If these women want to work, hey, we're pro families make their own decisions, right?
00:36:30.000If you're a family and you got children and you want to work as a mom, we're cool with that.
00:36:35.000If you don't want to work as a mom, we're cool at that too.
00:36:38.000And so what we're seeing is that democratic policies are actually having an adverse effect on women that want to work because their schools still aren't open.
00:36:46.000And if your schools aren't open, the parents are forced to remain at home and be the primary child caregiver.
00:36:54.000And so I can't tell because I think that maybe is a good thing.
00:36:58.000So more women at home, according to this report, is actually probably going to have some adverse or some positive unexpected consequences.
00:37:12.000Now, everybody, I hope you guys are aware of this, that we missed our jobs report number by three quarters of a million jobs.
00:37:35.000Is there a particular friction to women getting back into the workforce that you've seen that makes this recovery particularly difficult for women?
00:38:11.000So the fact that schools remain closed hits women harder.
00:38:17.000And yet we are going to be entrusting the same bureaucrats, the same policymakers that have kept the schools closed, even when it runs against science.
00:38:27.000And it has, by the way, for months, months and months and months, we've known that kids can safely return back to school.
00:38:32.000And yet these teachers' unions have held your children hostage, forcing a lot of women to stay out of the workforce.
00:38:40.000And yet the Democrats' prescription moving forward is to take even more of your money, force even more of your children into mandated state programs so that they can taught to be anti-racist, which, as we have just covered, is probably the most racist thing you can be.
00:38:58.000And I do want to finish this with Ibrahim X. Kendi and some of this garbage that he's spewing.
00:39:24.000Capitalism, according to Ibram X. Kendi, who gave himself that name.
00:39:28.000By the way, listen, if any of you are people of faith and you've read the Bible, you understand that God used to give people names when they had a conversion experience.
00:39:42.000There is a bestowing of a new righteousness on people in biblical terms.
00:39:47.000And yet what we're seeing in this is almost a sort of this perverse reversal where somebody like Ibram Henry Rogers gives himself a name Ibram X. Kendi.
00:39:57.000Frankly, you see that with Bruce Jenner to Caitlin Jenner too, but that's for another podcast.
00:40:03.000So listen, what he thinks here is capitalism, which Kendi refers to as a conjoined twin of racism.
00:40:09.000Kendi states that the origin of capitalism cannot be separated from the origins of racism, citing colonialism and slavery.
00:40:17.000I wonder if he ever mentions the fact that actually slavery existed in Africa.
00:40:21.000And actually, some of the slave trading that happened in a transatlantic sense, which we all abhor and think is terrible, was actually empowered in a lot of ways because of slavery that happened in Africa.
00:40:36.000He suggests that capitalism is a racist by dubiously questioning if markets were over-level, were ever-level playing fields between the races and whether blacks could ever compete equally with whites in the marketplace.
00:41:11.000The broad American desire for a race-neutral country, Kendi describes as the most threatening racist movement and one more dangerous than the alt-rights unlikely drive for a white ethnostate.
00:41:23.000Okay, so if I see you as just a person, I am now a racist.
00:41:27.000If I don't see you as a black American or a Latino American, Latinx, whatever the heck that is, then I'm the racist.
00:41:37.000So assimilation, you see, is now a terribly white concept that you should assimilate to this culture because you're American and because all Americans share one culture, more broadly speaking, that's now a racist idea.
00:41:55.000And so what they're doing is actually forcing a form of tribalism on all Americans that is incredibly disruptive.
00:42:03.000Out of many, one is being replaced with anti-racism.
00:42:13.000Well, of course, I don't want to be racist.
00:42:16.000And no American does want to be racist.
00:42:18.000Actually, the fact that they are using racism as a cudgel, as the worst thing that you can call somebody in America is actually a compliment to the progress that we have made as this country.
00:42:35.000And what they're doing is saying, well, we know that you're sensitive to that.
00:42:41.000We know that that's the worst thing we can call.
00:42:42.000He said, we should call all of you that all the time, even if it's true, even if it's not true.
00:42:48.000So do you see that point that I'm making?
00:42:50.000Is that America fought a bloody civil war?
00:42:53.000We have struggled through the civil rights era.
00:43:01.000There is more freedom here than anywhere else in the world.
00:43:05.000I genuinely affirm and believe, and will do so time and again, as long as we have this show to do it, that America is the most generous, accepting, benevolent nation that has ever lived.
00:43:16.000That is why the caravans come up one way and they don't go the other way.
00:43:20.000That's why the boats from Cuba come this way and not the other way.
00:43:24.000That's why over close to 3 million African immigrants have come to the United States in the last three decades.
00:43:32.000And by the way, the Nigerians are performing exceptionally well.
00:43:36.000Nigerian immigrants actually make per capita more than white Americans.
00:43:41.000Asians, most of the subgroups of Asian immigrants, the same is true there.
00:43:47.000Well, I guess it's a subgroup of Asian, but it often is often placed as a subcategory.
00:43:53.000The point I'm making here, folks, is that assimilation has long been looked at as a good thing, the melting pot, that all of these ingredients come from all over the world.
00:44:17.000Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale College put it brilliantly on one of his lectures that the first settlers of the United States from Europe, they brought with them all of these Western ideas about rule of law from the Magna Carta onwards, brought with them some of the most powerful ideas ever to be exposed to the human race.
00:44:40.000But one thing they didn't bring with them, and that was the aristocracy.
00:44:45.000And so for 150 years, upon the first boats landing on the eastern seaboard to the Declaration of Independence, the first Americans of European descent, sure, of the Westerners that came in, had this experiment to wrestle with what did it mean to start fresh, to start new.
00:45:08.000How do you bring all of these different people that were landing here?
00:45:11.000How do you bring them together under one system of government, under one national identity, especially when they had, when the states carried so much of the identity back then?
00:45:20.000People were much more likely to connect with their state as opposed to the nation.
00:45:25.000And as it was forming, as it was wrestling, the one thing they didn't have to contend with that the Europeans did was the aristocracy.
00:45:33.000There was this level playing field for all.
00:47:26.000It was Ibram Henry Rogers, the fraud, basically spewing that same stuff.
00:47:34.000He says standardized testing is a pillar of systemic racism and that student debt relief is racial justice.
00:47:42.000So they're framing everything in these terms now, folks.
00:47:44.000So just be very aware anytime you hear a leftist use the word justice because it's probably anything but.
00:47:50.000So Yale University researchers Josh Calla and Micah English recently explored in a working paper that tested various types of messaging to promote progressive policies.
00:48:00.000So they've been doing this for years, but they figured, what the heck, we're going to do it again because, you know, the country has shifted dramatically.
00:48:06.000They took six different policies, progressive policies, $15 minimum wage for giving $50,000 in student loan debt, the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, upzoning housing, and decriminalizing marijuana and erasing prior convictions.
00:48:20.000And then they asked people if they supported it.
00:48:22.000And what they did is they approached it in three ways.
00:48:24.000One based on class, one based on race, and one based on race and class.
00:49:01.000It's not even true for black Americans.
00:49:04.000Something really important that we found is that the race appeal and the class appeal are about just as effective for black voters, English said, speculating that these voters tend to be more pragmatic in their political approach.
00:49:59.000They just want to be patted on the back at the cocktail parties and impress their cohort, their liberal elite cohort that's trying to tell you how to raise your kids.
00:50:37.000You make us strong and you make us independent and you help us avoid any of those boycotts, the troublesome boycotts that plague so many on the right.