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00:02:05.000This would be the first Muslim senator, should he be successful in winning the state of Michigan, which he has a very good shot of winning, should he be elected?
00:02:16.000And I mean, it looks like I think he's the favorite to win it.
00:02:20.000He certainly has all of the viral energy, he has all of the intensity focused on him.
00:02:27.000And as we were discussing the other day, if we ignore these lunatic DSA types, if we just dismiss them, they will have a way of just winning.
00:02:39.000Emerson College has Elsa Ed at 54 and Haley Stevens, the more centrist, I guess moderate.
00:02:45.000She's quite the character herself, actually, at 39%.
00:02:50.000Mitchell Research, which was from late July, has Elsa Ed at 52%, Stevens at 38%.
00:02:56.000Tavern Research, also from late July, has Elsa Ed at 46%, and Stevens at 36.
00:03:00.000So he's probably going to win tonight.
00:03:03.000And he does not claim the mantle of being a DSA, a Democrat Socialist of America, which is Basically, the far left Looney Tunes bin of the party.
00:05:41.000So, this is a self described proud son of Africa, Blake, coming to the state of Michigan, telling Americans about how horrible our founding was.
00:05:58.000He might reject the label of socialist, but the reason we're so eager to append him to it is he certainly comes with what you might consider all the other ideological baggage of modern socialism, which is seeing America as fundamentally illegitimate,
00:06:13.000really wearing as a badge of pride how not historically American he is.
00:06:32.000And so that was something people had to work through.
00:06:35.000He's got, I mean, he has, he helped open.
00:06:39.000I'm reading now, this is from Chuck Ross over at the Washington Free Beacon, that he helped speak at the opening of an Islamic center in Michigan, whose Imam is now saying that people have a duty today to vote against the Zionist puppet.
00:06:53.000And by the Zionist puppet, he doesn't mean the Republican, he means the Democrat that El Sayed is running against, who is a Zionist puppet and needs to go.
00:07:04.000And they have to deal a blow against the Zionist menace, as it were.
00:07:13.000It is a categorically anti American attitude to take.
00:07:18.000And if we get this guy as a senator from Michigan, and if we have Francesca Hong winning out of Wisconsin with her platform of abolishing Thanksgiving, it's going to represent a new frontier for the Democratic Party.
00:07:32.000And the Democrats have had bad ideas for a long time.
00:07:35.000We think their policies do not work best for America.
00:07:39.000And they've definitely done destructive stuff as they did in 2020.
00:07:43.000But this will be a pivot of the Democratic Party into full Euro leftism with total civilizational solvent.
00:07:52.000Permanent open borders, permanent end to free markets, permanent end to really America itself.
00:08:09.000Beyond that, I look forward to pushing forward legislation that would preempt localities from participating with ICE and using their local resources to do the same.
00:08:20.000Beyond that, we've also got to make sure that in this state, we are not discriminating by documentation status.
00:08:25.000Right now, if you're undocumented, you don't get access to a driver's license.
00:08:56.000I'm a proud son of Africa, and I'm also proudly Arab and Muslim American.
00:09:00.000I think we have an opportunity to bring communities together to bring back the voters that too often we lost to win the future for our state, take back our state from Donald Trump.
00:09:09.000Proud son of Africa coming to you, folks, in Michigan.
00:09:15.000One of the most, if you tour around Michigan, it is one of the most American feeling states in so many parts of that state.
00:09:22.000And it's just crazy that this is the moment we're at, folks.
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00:10:56.000I don't know what it is about deep red states, but it is almost impossible to get two good conservatives in the Senate from deep red states.
00:11:06.000So, Senator John Curtis said, It's so frustrating.
00:11:09.000Senator John Curtis says, Utah employers tell me time and time again how difficult it's become to find enough workers to meet growing demands.
00:11:19.000Our bill, so he's proposing a new bill, allows states to sponsor visas tailored to their unique workforce needs while ensuring rigorous federal vetting.
00:11:57.000We need more and more cheap foreign labor to meet the demands of business.
00:12:03.000This is an absolutely tried and tested giant lie that has resulted in a foreign born population in our country of north of 15%, which is historic on many fronts.
00:12:17.000America has absorbed the largest movement of human beings that any country in the history of the world has absorbed since the 1960s, right?
00:12:25.000When we had the Hard Cellar Act, 1965.
00:12:29.000We have absorbed that much and done better with it than any other country on the planet because of our greatness.
00:13:51.000I mean, it's just, first of all, it's so frustrating because.
00:13:55.000It's like these guys persistently decide to just not get the point.
00:13:59.000They don't get why Donald Trump was able to win the nomination in 2016, why he won that election, why he was able to come back and win in 24.
00:14:08.000They don't get what issues fire up the base.
00:14:13.000They seem incredibly pigheaded in refusing to see what the long term consequences of this are.
00:14:19.000Okay, you say business owners want lower wages, and then these same people will turn around and scream, save us, when you have El Said.
00:14:28.000Running in Michigan when you have these DSA candidates taking over New York City, taking over Wisconsin, taking over California.
00:14:38.000All of this is very directly related to us having lots and lots of immigration from countries where socialism is the norm, where third world economics is the norm, and voting for it is the norm.
00:14:50.000And so the long term effects of this are you dilute America's ability to be competitive.
00:14:56.000The long term effect of this is you dilute what made America so special, what made America a desirable place for people.
00:15:02.000To come to in the first place, and then they just deliver these lectures.
00:15:07.000Oh, we have a shortage of workers, and it's not even really true.
00:15:12.000And on top of that, like, use your brain.
00:15:15.000What's everyone freaking out about right now?
00:15:16.000Everyone's freaking out about artificial intelligence.
00:15:31.000Go look at a video from China where they're making humanoid robots.
00:15:35.000What these guys are proposing to do is bringing in people from foreign countries who will have the right that any kids they have will have birthright citizenship, thanks to our glorious Supreme Court.
00:15:46.000Those birthright citizens can then sponsor their entire extended family to get permanent residency here and then ultimately citizenship as well.
00:15:53.000They want to import all of those people when their jobs might be getting automated away.
00:15:58.000This is the excuse we heard in the first Trump term who's going to drive the Ubers if we don't import a million immigrants?
00:16:03.000Well, now we're on the brink of self driving cars and Are all of those Uber drivers going to go back to their home countries?
00:16:09.000No, a bunch of them are citizens at this point.
00:16:11.000And I'm even reading Deseret News's thing buried in Curtis's bill, even though he says it brings accountability and has safeguards, it has a pathway to legal residency for visa holders who are illegal immigrants physically present in the U.S. since December 31st,
00:16:37.000And so we're going to get a backdoor amnesty thrown in, just like they have in Spain, just like they have everywhere else.
00:16:43.000How do you prove someone's been here since 2016?
00:16:45.000I can't imagine that will be strictly enforced.
00:16:47.000You only need one judge to say that actually, you know, you're not allowed to enforce that in any way.
00:16:52.000This is just rank insanity that we've seen happen over and over and over again.
00:16:58.000And it's like you said, it's so hard to just get two Republican senators who actually vote for what the base wants, which is also good for the party's long term interest, good for America's long term interest, just good for the country.
00:17:13.000I just can't get over how dumb this is.
00:17:15.000Well, and Blake, we can't forget the Dignidad Act.
00:17:20.000That was sponsored by roughly 40 different politicians.
00:17:25.000The chief sponsor would be Marie Salazar from Florida.
00:17:30.000She's the author and previously introduced a different version in 2023.
00:17:35.000And it has a bunch of Democrats sponsoring it as well.
00:17:38.000And it's basically asylum reform and it gives legal status to dreamers.
00:17:44.000And then that version, the Dignity Program, for eligible long term undocumented individuals present before roughly late 2020.
00:17:52.000So, again, how are you going to prove somebody was here in 2020 or before?
00:17:58.000These are experts at making up fake papers, folks.
00:18:01.000And I can guarantee you there are a lot of lawyers and NGOs standing by to help them make their case.
00:18:07.000So, once again, we have conservatives, so called conservatives, betraying the base, going against everything that put Donald Trump in office.
00:18:16.000And it is so shameful that it deserves an entire eight minutes calling it out for what it is a betrayal of base voters, of what we voted for.
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00:21:55.000You know, it wasn't long that I was on these college campuses.
00:21:59.000I saw them trying to indoctrinate every single student that comes their way, but now they're trying to get it into the middle schools, the high schools, the grade schools.
00:22:08.000What they're doing is they're going after our kids.
00:22:10.000And that's what makes this movement so, so dangerous.
00:22:32.000I just keep thinking how nice it is that we have another young guy running for Congress.
00:22:38.000I don't imagine you were seeing our last segment, but we were just blowing up at Utah's Republican senator because he's pushing out this bill for amnesty for so many millions of illegal workers and bringing in new ones.
00:22:59.000And what we always tell them is progress is coming one retirement at a time, one new election at a time.
00:23:06.000And I feel optimistic because I don't know that I've ever seen a Republican candidate who's under the age of 40, like yourself, who's bad on the issues.
00:23:15.000They might have other, you know, they might be inexperienced, they might not be the perfect candidate, but they actually get it on issues.
00:23:20.000And even if they're a child of immigrants, even if they're from unconventional backgrounds, you guys just get it in a way all of our.
00:23:28.000All of our older generation of guys, the guys who weren't around, who were around before Donald Trump, they just don't get it.
00:23:34.000And so I'm just very grateful to have guys like you.
00:24:55.000So, basically, what happened in New Richmond, Wisconsin, which was a predominantly pro Trump area, their school board got taken over and they didn't even realize it.
00:25:04.000So, for about a year, there was a boy using the girl's bathroom.
00:25:10.000They called an emergency school board meeting and the board.
00:25:14.000Voted six to one to do nothing, not to protect the girls.
00:25:18.000So, the President Trump, there's a lot of things that have happened, but President Trump is now investigating, probably going to sue the school district.
00:25:25.000And we're holding this rally to show that the people of Wisconsin, of New Richmond, are not going to stand for this.
00:25:30.000We're not going to allow women's spaces to be invaded by men.
00:25:34.000We're not going to believe this ridiculous notion of a woman.
00:25:38.000We believe in women as God created them.
00:25:41.000And I also want to shout out the young girl who really made this whole thing public.
00:26:21.000But I'm so glad that you got Riley Gaines up there who's been loud and out front in this issue.
00:26:27.000She's fearless, she's courageous, and you're bringing that much needed attention.
00:26:31.000You have this weird little nook in the country, Alfonso, where you're Northwest Wisconsin, you butt up against Minnesota, where so much of these crazy ideas are coming out of, which I find shocking because Minnesota,
00:26:45.000most of the state feels very all American, you know, but yet this Minneapolis, St. Paul area, Get the craziest ideas and they bleed into your area.
00:26:56.000Are you seeing that happen or am I mistaken in some way?
00:27:21.000But if you want to bring your pro, Pro women votes over here, you're pro bringing back the American economy votes over to Wisconsin.
00:27:29.000We need them because we have a very serious race.
00:27:33.000Yeah, I just think it's, I'm almost shocked.
00:27:36.000Wisconsin, it feels like it should be a redder state because you do have Minnesota is kind of the top avatar of liberalism, certainly that really radical liberalism in the United States.
00:27:49.000And we've seen that where the results are that they positively wrecked Minneapolis, they let the city get.
00:27:56.000Torched, they let it get looted, they let murders roam free.
00:28:00.000And then, I mean, the insane Somali scams, all sorts of welfare fraud.
00:28:06.000You have Tim Walz going around doing his Tim Walz things and looking like a cartoon character.
00:28:11.000And now you have this Francesca Hong individual.
00:28:15.000She's running to become the governor of the state.
00:28:18.000Can you tell us a little bit how that is affecting all the races across the state that she's becoming essentially the statewide leader of the opposing party?
00:28:30.000Yeah, you know, I like to say that the Democrats, traditional Democrats, have been so disappointing that even the Democrats are looking for something else.
00:28:40.000You know, I mean, Joe Biden left us with the worst inflation crisis we've had in 40 years.
00:28:45.000So, you know, now these leftists are saying, well, we need to push even further to the left.
00:28:50.000But when you look at Wisconsin, what you're talking about was saying, you know, these are great people.
00:30:01.000And one of his big deals was he's coming out with a grocery store in each of the five boroughs of New York City.
00:30:08.000And he says that prices are going to be 30% cheaper.
00:30:11.000And that apparently you need an ID now to check out, to take advantage of these.
00:30:17.000Cheaper prices, which is hilarious because Democrats hate IDs.
00:30:22.000But it's a larger, I think, story that I want to talk to you about because young people, I'll never forget when we were doing our CLS roundtable at the Chapter Leadership Summit in DC just a few weeks ago.
00:30:33.000One of the students said, Hey, listen, you know, for me, it's as simple as like, I shouldn't have to pay $20 for a burrito.
00:30:39.000And I said that on social media, and a bunch of people were like, I can get burritos for 15 bucks with rice and beans.
00:32:43.000We're seeing this in places in Texas where the studies have come out where you don't have as many H 1Bs, you don't have as many immigrants.
00:33:00.000Now, what happened during the Biden years is that we had a lot of inflation, and that hangover is still felt, and people aren't getting the relief immediately.
00:33:08.000And I understand that that's painful, but Blake, and maybe this is your time to chime in here.
00:33:12.000The siren song of free stuff populism, of free stuff is going to fix everything.
00:33:18.000Why is that so disastrous in the long run?
00:33:44.000And what sets all of those things apart is those are places where our glorious government has said, oh, these goods are expensive and important to people.
00:33:53.000Let's heavily regulate and shape these markets and make all of these guarantees.
00:33:58.000And all that they've done is lock in ever increasing prices.
00:34:02.000It's like what we saw with student loans, where when the government said, we'll pay any amount for a student loan and just grant it no questions asked.
00:34:10.000And so the schools, just like clockwork, were upping their tuition five, six, seven, eight percent per year because they could get away with it.
00:34:17.000And as soon as the Trump administration came in and said, we're not going to up this mindlessly every year, you started seeing schools say, actually, this year we're going to experiment with a tuition freeze, or it's only going to go up 1%.
00:34:29.000Suddenly, different behaviors were coming out.
00:34:32.000And if we let them impose this on, for example, groceries, what you will find is you might get some immediate short term relief.
00:34:41.000You know, it feels good to be given a free thing tomorrow, but the long run is you're going to have less of those goods available.
00:34:48.000The long term increase in prices is going to be high.
00:34:50.000You're going to have fewer grocery stores around because, spoilers, that is what happened every time this is done.
00:34:56.000It's what happened in the Soviet Union.
00:34:59.000It's what happens every time they try price controls.
00:35:01.000We have to not let this insidious ideology get in.
00:35:05.000It will impoverish us the way it's impoverished so many countries around the world.
00:35:09.000Michael, final word to you, and please tell people where they can go to support you and what the action steps are to get involved in your campaign.
00:35:46.000And I just want to echo what Blake said earlier.
00:35:48.000We're so grateful for young voices like yourself that are proud conservatives that are.
00:35:54.000Proudly American, that are willing to step into the breach and be a counterweight to the Hassan Pikers and the crazy murderers' row of DSA that is rising all across the country, you are more important than you realize.
00:36:08.000And we hope that soon enough you will be joining the ranks of Anna Polina Luna, Tim Burchett, and Brandon Gill in Congress, Herrera, these other young, new voices that actually get it, that aren't speaking like a generation gone by,
00:38:47.000I know that was a few months ago, but it's worth throwing up again because he's A point by point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done.
00:39:04.000And I wish we were under better circumstances, but you are reacting in that clip to what we could only call a mass demoralization campaign that we're seeing play out in social media and podcasts from the right.
00:39:17.000So tell us what you're seeing and why you decided to make that clip and start speaking out.
00:39:22.000Well, I think the thing that really frustrated me is.
00:39:26.000This whole idea that all is lost, that our elections mean nothing because they're all rigged, that nothing has happened.
00:39:32.000The Trump administration has done absolutely nothing.
00:39:35.000I hear this all the time from members of the right because they're frustrated that it hasn't done enough.
00:39:40.000And so, what I'm seeing over and over again is this again, I don't want to call it an attempt.
00:39:45.000I don't know if it's just they're genuinely demoralized or they're actively trying to demoralize people, but it's this idea that there's nothing we can do about our situation except, I guess, complain and like.
00:39:56.000Follow and subscribe the various influencers that are pushing this particular narrative.
00:40:02.000There's a very, very big difference between someone that says, I am frustrated because I voted for one thing and I don't feel like i'm getting it.
00:40:08.000There's a very big difference between that versus somebody that says nothing has happened.
00:40:12.000There's no difference between the parties, it's all one big uniparty and i'm looking at that like that is verifiable garbage.
00:40:23.000It is totally accurate to say I don't think enough has been done.
00:40:26.000It is totally accurate to say that we have some people that claim to be Republicans and then govern very differently when we actually elect them.
00:40:32.000But to suggest that they're all the same, look, as someone that just had to leave Virginia, because I love Virginia, but as someone that had to leave it because it decided to lose its mind during the last election cycle, I can tell you right now,
00:40:46.000as frustrated as you might be with certain people on the right, and rightfully so, if you honestly believe that there's no difference, oh, well, I encourage you to look at a state that was once governed by people that actually believed in things like individual liberty,
00:41:01.000private property rights, Second Amendment rights, pro-life.
00:41:04.000Versus now, when it's actually run by people that want abortion all the way up to the point of birth and want pornography within your public school library and believe that your guns should be confiscated from you or severely restricted.
00:41:16.000Because there is a significant difference between living in one of those two places.
00:41:25.000There's so many cases where I often use the term I use for it is like emotional incontinence.
00:41:31.000I think what drives a lot of it is it's, I've mentioned this, it's a little addictive.
00:41:36.000To be really emotionally built up, really angry, really sad.
00:41:41.000That's why people like watching horror movies or really sad movies because they get a rush out of those emotions.
00:41:47.000And I think we're seeing that play out on social media over and over again that it's really satisfying to say they've completely ruined it.
00:41:55.0002024 was for nothing, it's all a waste.
00:42:19.000That's what was going on when he would say, no blackpilling.
00:42:22.000It doesn't mean never complain, never criticize.
00:42:24.000It's that anytime you're complaining and criticizing, it needs to be aiming to help somebody, give them an action item, direct someone in the right direction.
00:43:01.000It's very easy to tear down and destroy.
00:43:04.000And, Nick, I heard you trying to chime in here, but I just want to say that it is so easy and it's morally lazy, it's morally repugnant, actually.
00:43:16.000Well, no, I was basically going to say something very similar.
00:43:19.000I remember watching people when I was in the legislature in Virginia, and I was one vote out of 100 in the Virginia General Assembly and one vote in the 100 of the Virginia House of Delegates.
00:43:29.000And I would carry a bill and I would lobby for the bill and I would argue for the bill in subcommittee and I would go out on social media and tell everyone what exactly was happening with the bill.
00:43:51.000And it was amazing because a lot of the times those criticisms, those criticisms would come from one of two people.
00:43:57.000It was either people that were just fed up, but then once you explained what you were doing, why you were trying to do it, and how they could help, they got to work.
00:44:20.000And this is the group that gets this intense moral satisfaction out of risking nothing, putting in zero work other than complaining about everybody else.
00:44:31.000And in the moment, they never want to run for office themselves.
00:44:34.000They never want to put in any actual work because who cares?
00:44:37.000And well, they would never get elected because they're too honest.
00:44:40.000I look at those people, I say, gosh, you know, I sure wish you were in charge.
00:44:44.000You apparently have all of the answers.
00:44:47.000And if only we could get you into a position of real authority, you'd achieve everything.
00:45:02.000It's one of the things, again, I've always appreciated about Charlie.
00:45:05.000It was like, if you're upset about something, I have a way that you can actually be more effective.
00:45:11.000And the people that actually take up that call and do it, those are the ones that I respect.
00:45:16.000Those are the ones whose critiques, whose arguments, whose frustrations, I have no problem listening to because I know they're going to put in the work to actually do something about it.
00:45:24.000But then you've got this whole other group where they honestly believe that, well, I showed up and voted.
00:45:28.000Oh, well, I guess that's the totality of your civic duty.
00:45:31.000I guess nothing else is required to protect our civilization, our way of life, our system, except for you to show up and vote, right?
00:45:57.000And the more they talk and the more they gather influence online, the conclusion I come to is this serves no one except the left.
00:46:06.000Because the Mamdani wing of the Democratic Party is taking over right now.
00:46:10.000If they can't get your vote, they will settle for your apathy all the way up until the point where they have enough power and then it doesn't matter anymore.
00:46:18.000So, again, I will listen to critiques from anybody in the trenches.
00:46:31.000Remember Yuri Bezmanov, who was a KGB defector from the Soviet Union, and he warned against these demoralization campaigns.
00:46:42.000And it feels like we're living through this mass psychosis where everybody's just like dooming, and that hits the clicks.
00:46:48.000And if you're not super cynical, nobody believes you because you got to be a paid op or a shill or something like that.
00:46:54.000Nobody ever seems to give any credence to the idea that we just love our country, and I have kids, and you have kids, and Blake's going to have a lot of kids.
00:47:01.000And we just want a country to pass down to the next generation that looks better than the one we got, okay?
00:47:20.000Even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
00:47:34.000In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.
00:47:40.000To get rid of society of these people, you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society.
00:48:05.000Because I think about the work Charlie was doing raising up that generation of patriotic Americans and how much work was done in that direction.
00:48:12.000And it feels like we've taken a couple steps back.
00:48:14.000But what he says about the fact that you could tell them black is black and white is white, they still won't acknowledge the truth.
00:48:22.000So when we talk about, hey, we've gotten rid of 1.4 million people, illegals out of this country, which is a fact that I tweeted about over the weekend, a lot of people came in the comments and said, so what?
00:48:43.000Your reaction to this demoralization campaign.
00:48:47.000Well, Yuri Bezmanov was talking about something called active measures that was put out by the Soviet Union.
00:48:51.000It was, again, a very active, well funded attempt in order to influence through our university system, through our culturally shaping institutions.
00:48:59.000And one of the things he talked about was the ability of these things to basically outlive themselves.
00:49:03.000So essentially, the Soviet Union is no more.
00:49:05.000Does that mean that the programs that they implemented are no longer successful?
00:49:09.000No, I would argue that they've been wildly successful with a number of generations of Americans that have been taught to believe that the United States or the West in general is evil, it's bad, it's fundamentally flawed.
00:49:22.000And that's where you get everything from wokeism to third worldism to decolonization to all the little hot words that are used by people that all have essentially the same moral and philosophical foundation.
00:49:33.000But what you see going on on the right is different right now.
00:49:57.000It's right now you are looking at young men in the West who have been told repeatedly for the last two to three decades that they're the source of all the world's ills, that they're the problem, that they're evil, they're fascist, they're racist, they're sexist, they're bigoted, whatever.
00:50:10.000And they're looking at their own conduct and saying, I don't buy this.
00:50:18.000Should I defend the thing that has been doing this to me for the past three decades, or should I defend the thing that was powerless to stop it?
00:51:11.000The real question they have to ask yourself is, is what you believe true?
00:51:16.000And I believe that Christianity is true.
00:51:19.000I believe that this country, that our way of life was fundamentally built upon Christian ethics and theology.
00:51:25.000I believe that we then used centuries of wisdom with respect to trying to avoid the concentration of power.
00:51:32.000In the hands of a few, and that our founders set up an incredible system of government that has, in many respects, stood the test of time beautifully and, and I am not.
00:51:43.000I am not about to look at our system, i'm not about to look at my, our faith.
00:51:48.000I'm not about to look at the incredible history that the United States has and throw it all out because currently it has some really bad stewards, or that it has had some really bad stewards in the immediate past.
00:52:02.000I want to find the people that want to once again reference not just the Constitution,
00:52:09.000but the ideas that informed it and said, I'm willing to fight for those.
00:52:14.000I'm willing to give up everything for those, just like the people that went before me.
00:52:19.000And that's what I want young men, that's what I want young people in the United States to understand is that nothing is easier than to throw in the towel and say it all sucks.
00:52:28.000But unless you're really willing to accept that we're in the worst and most dire period of all of American history, and so therefore your effort is no longer necessary or warranted, if you're really willing to say that, well, then what do you say?
00:52:42.000What do you say to the people that actually went across the Delaware with George Washington?
00:52:47.000On the verge of the Continental Army collapsing?
00:52:49.000What do you say to the 19 year olds that stormed beaches at Normandy?
00:52:53.000What do you say to every other American that had to face incredible to existential crises with an American history and rose up and conquered it and created something better?
00:53:05.000What, you're just not worthy of that legacy?
00:53:39.000I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:53:43.000And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was What was behind the scenes?
00:53:50.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:53:59.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:54:03.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:54:05.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:54:10.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:54:13.000This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie, it's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building.
00:54:21.000And whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:54:25.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:54:45.000right, without further ado, we have the great Helen Andrews, who's the author of Boomers, the Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster.
00:54:54.000We had her on for one of my favorite articles of all time about the wokeism is just feminism that is institutionalized with our businesses.
00:55:32.000Helen, why don't you just tell our listeners what is the decision America has to make in your view?
00:55:37.000A lot of people are walking around feeling like the insanity we all live through in 2020 is thankfully behind us and we don't have to worry about wokeness anymore.
00:55:46.000I am here to tell you, unfortunately, that that's not true because the factors that led to the episode of racial hysteria that we live through in 2020.
00:55:56.000It wasn't just a random episode that was caused by George Floyd.
00:56:00.000These are deep problems related to decades long demographic trends.
00:56:05.000To put it in a single sentence, the racial regime that we crafted in the 1960s for an America that was 90% white and 10% black, roughly, is no longer going to function effectively in the America that's coming down the pike and that Generation Z is already living in, when it's less than 50% white and the people who are able to claim special treatment under our system of racial laws.
00:56:39.000That is just a recipe for race intruding into every interaction, every institution, every political issue.
00:56:46.000And that's an extremely toxic outcome that we are now at a decision point when we're kind of almost at the last moment when we can avert that bad outcome.
00:56:56.000I think this is what's so important about it.
00:56:59.000You describe how, first of all, you say the Trump administration's done good stuff, they've actually been trying to apply.
00:57:08.000Civil rights laws fairly and say, it says you can't discriminate based on race.
00:57:12.000You guys have been discriminating against white people.
00:58:31.000The HR person enforces our particular rules of political correctness.
00:58:36.000Any place you work, if you work at an institution that employs more than 10 people, you've probably got an ideological enforcer on your staff.
00:58:43.000So, this idea that our government Has an ideology, and it's not enough for people to sort of accept the government that they live under as legitimate.
00:58:56.000The government has, is evangelical about its ideological line.
00:59:00.000That's a recipe for it's going to feel oppressive.
00:59:03.000It is contrary to the basic principles that America used to be founded on, which is freedom of thought and freedom of philosophy.
00:59:11.000It's not a recipe for solid, independent Republican citizenship if your government has an ideology that it feels it necessary to enforce on you.
00:59:30.000We've been pushing back, but as we always say, woke is not dead.
00:59:33.000I know woke was one of the terms that you bandied about in this piece, kind of wondering should that be the word or the phrase that we use to describe this turning point that we're at.
00:59:43.000But you say this is one of the last points that we have to fix this problem.
00:59:50.000What do you mean by that, and what would the solutions be?
00:59:55.000I love the work that the Trump administration is doing on this front right now.
00:59:59.000They are stacking up new wins every day on stuff like this.
01:00:03.000Harmeet Dillon at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice suing these schools that have been discriminating against white and Asian college applicants, med school applicants.
01:00:14.000I love that they're suing businesses for their anti white DEI programs, telling them you can't racially humiliate your employees as part of a workplace seminar.
01:00:29.000But I don't think it's a sustainable long term solution because if we get into a Situation where we conduct all of our politics by race based lawsuits, then the party of race, which is the Democrats, is better than us at that.
01:00:46.000I think that's a battle we're going to lose.
01:00:48.000So I think when we stack up these wins like the Trump administration is doing, we need to think about what's our long term strategy?
01:00:54.000What's the end goal we really want to arrive at?
01:00:57.000And my two cents is that the only solution to this toxic cycle of race based conflict that we're kind of just seeing the start of in America.
01:01:08.000The only way to avert that is to go back to freedom of association and just enough with the race based lawsuits, period.
01:01:16.000That's just not the way we should conduct our politics.
01:01:19.000But right now, returning to freedom of association is kind of a political non starter.
01:01:24.000So the only way to get liberal institutions to sort of entertain even that possibility would be to inflict enough pain on them now through the kinds of lawsuits that the Trump administration is targeting at places like Harvard.
01:01:41.000If Harvard feels like it's inundated with lawsuits and the only way to stop it is to go back to freedom of association and just take race based lawsuits off the table completely,
01:01:54.000I want to get Harvard to a point where Harvard would agree to that.
01:01:56.000And I think the way to get Harvard to that point is to use these lawsuits based on equality under the law to inflict enough pain on them now.
01:02:13.000And we saw this in the Soviet Union as well.
01:02:15.000That it was, I mean, it was a country that could fight and win World War II in the 40s.
01:02:19.000It put a man in the first man in space in the 50s, but by the 80s, it can't do anything and it entirely falls apart.
01:02:26.000And I love how you highlight actually the Kamala Harris campaign in 2024 as this excellent example of where we're going.
01:02:32.000That when we started with DEI and affirmative action, as you said, 90% white country, we have a 10% black underclass that hasn't done as well.
01:02:43.000But when half the population or more is eligible for this, higher and higher rungs of society are subject to this.
01:02:50.000And so the Democrats run an unqualified DEI presidential candidate, not just someone who's checking boxes, but someone who's not capable of fulfilling this job.
01:03:24.000Well, the reason why the Kamala Harris incident was so striking for so many people is that the fundamental promise of the affirmative action regime is that it might sometimes be unfair.
01:03:35.000You might sometimes give a job to somebody who wasn't quite as qualified as the most qualified white candidate, but that's okay in the interests of justice.
01:03:43.000And at the end of the day, if it's something really important, you'll end up with somebody who meets minimal qualifications.
01:03:49.000We're not going to elevate somebody who's Well, Kamala Harris kind of disproved that.
01:03:59.000The trouble with these forces of decay is that it's really hard to notice how much of your house the termites have eaten before it just falls down completely.
01:04:10.000These incremental forces of decay can really go invisible for a really long time.
01:04:17.000The air traffic controllers was a story that got a lot of coverage in 2023.
01:04:21.000There were a lot of close calls at airports, planes almost hitting each other, and a lot of them were due to air traffic controller error.
01:04:29.000And President Trump raised the possibility in a press conference that maybe this was the result of some really aggressive DEI measures that the Obama administration implemented through its FAA in the selection of air traffic controllers.
01:04:44.000They basically threw out the standardized test completely and started picking air traffic controllers purely based on the color of their skin and diversity mandates.
01:04:55.000Donald Trump speculated that that had led to a situation where they were less qualified.
01:04:59.000And that's the thing, it's hard to notice until you get to the crisis point.
01:05:04.000So whites, as a share of the global population, Helen, only make up about 10% of the world's population right now.
01:05:12.000About 850 million whites, maybe a billion, depending on how you count it, out of 8.1 billion people on planet Earth.
01:05:19.000So, how come everybody is so intense, it feels like, especially DSA candidates, the Democrats, but across the world about demonizing white people when some of the most successful societies are white societies?
01:05:33.000And it seems like everybody wants to move.
01:05:35.000To societies that have been built by Europeans and their descendants.
01:05:43.000The thing that disturbed me most about the racial hysteria of 2020 was not its intensity, it was the facility with the language of white supremacy that I saw among immigrants and children of immigrants.
01:05:58.000One of the things that I mentioned in the piece is that it's striking how many members of the new DSA left, the sort of Momdani left, are themselves.
01:06:07.000Immigrants or the children of immigrants.
01:06:09.000These are people who were born in Africa or India or Francesca Hong, whose parents were from Korea.
01:06:15.000These people have no personal connection to the episodes of American history that gave us our current racial bargain.
01:06:24.000These are not people whose parents were around during the Civil Rights Movement or whose ancestors were affected by American slavery.
01:06:31.000These are people who got here the historical equivalent of the day before yesterday, and yet they are.
01:06:36.000Trading on hostility to me and my ancestors and my children in order to gain political power.
01:06:44.000So I really, really am deeply worried about the left buying into a simplistic moral narrative of politics and American history that boils down to essentially white people bad, non white people good,
01:06:59.000that can be assimilated into by any person who's not white from anywhere else on the planet.
01:07:05.000Anyone else can just come here and join that anti white movement.
01:07:09.000That's a recipe for disaster and expropriation and all kinds of horrible outcomes that we're even starting to see right now.
01:07:34.000But I want to tie this back to your thesis last winter that we really liked about the great feminization that as our professional fields, law, Politics, everything else have had more women enter them, they've taken on more feminine modes.
01:07:48.000And it feels like this is very similar that as we've become a more multiracial country, American politics and law and society has increasingly taken on this aspect of racial ethnic conflict as a core thing in everything that's going on.
01:08:05.000And I guess what I worry about is you say in your own piece, we're approaching our last chance to diverge from this, but you also admit Democrats, the left, they're able to offer people a ton of things.
01:08:18.000They're able to say, here's your villain, we're going to take their stuff and give it to you.
01:08:23.000And the right, we can't compete with that if we're just rejecting racial politics.
01:08:29.000So I know you're a writer, not a senator, not the president, but do you see a strategy that you think is viable for getting us on the superior path when we have that asymmetry in politics right now?
01:08:43.000Step one just has to be to accept the truth and confront the truth.
01:08:47.000Right now, I still see a lot of people on the right saying, Gosh, it's really frustrating.
01:08:53.000Isn't it crazy that no Republican presidential candidate? Has won the vote of any racial or ethnic minority in any presidential election since Herbert Hoover.
01:09:04.000We've never won the black or Hispanic or Asian vote.
01:09:13.000And I fully agree that outreach to those demographics is excellent.
01:09:17.000I think everybody should be a conservative, everybody should be a Republican, and those people included.
01:09:22.000But the bottom line is you can't beat something with nothing.
01:09:26.000And if the Democrats are saying, we're going to give you lots of privileges simply on the basis of your race, And people turn to the Republicans and say, okay, what's your counteroffer?
01:09:34.000And we say our counteroffer is nothing, then that's not an effective negotiation.
01:09:39.000So the only way to stop that toxic cycle is to do something decisive to take race based redistribution off the table entirely.
01:09:47.000And I agree that we're not there right now in terms of being able to pull political levers to make that happen.
01:09:53.000But that has to be the long term goal that we're working towards because anything else, these long term demographic trends are just going to pull us back towards the toxic cycle once again.
01:10:05.000Yeah, and you know, I want to go back to your earlier point where you're talking about these DSA candidates.
01:10:09.000Obviously, in Michigan, we've got Abdul El Sayed who's running in his primary, he's probably going to win.
01:10:15.000And we played this clip earlier, but it bears repeating.
01:10:19.000Founded on the removal of a whole people.
01:10:23.000Founded on the idea that we could compromise on whether or not people, as a function of the color of their skin, could be enslaved by other people.
01:10:34.000Founded under the idea that all people are created equal, all men.
01:10:37.000But that only meant certain men and not women.
01:11:05.000And of course, it's affronting to hear somebody like Abdul Sayed talk like that.
01:11:09.000But my concern isn't even with the effrontery he shows in talking like that.
01:11:14.000My concern is that he enjoys favors under the law.
01:11:18.000He is advantaged through various legal programs over white Americans whose families have been in this country for generations simply by virtue of being a non white person.
01:11:28.000This legal dividing of America into non white and white and apportioning privileges to the former and disadvantages to the latter that's a system that worked okay in the America of 1965.
01:11:41.000But our demographics have changed a lot since then.
01:11:44.000And it's simply not going to be supportable as we proceed into a future of a majority minority America.
01:11:51.000Helen Andrews, the racial crossroads at compactmag.com.