The Charlie Kirk Show - November 04, 2021


The Curious Case of Senator Ed Durr


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On this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk talks about Edward Durr's historic win in the Democratic primary, and how the White House is now divided on the way forward for the 2020 election. He also talks about why there is a "woke fault line" within the Democratic Party and the left.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, the curious case of Edward Durr.
00:00:03.000 An incredible story.
00:00:04.000 We talked about this on our show before.
00:00:06.000 Probably the greatest political upset in American history that I can think of.
00:00:11.000 And that's a big statement.
00:00:12.000 I'm sure there are some other ones that were probably similar, but we talk about that story.
00:00:17.000 We talk about how there is a woke fault line within the Democrats and the left.
00:00:23.000 A lot of you are asking, are they going to change strategy?
00:00:26.000 Are they going to adjust after this?
00:00:28.000 That's a very important question.
00:00:31.000 We're going to analyze that and so much more here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:36.000 Obama world is divided on the way forward, everybody.
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00:04:42.000 Buster Douglas that name might mean something to you and he was known for one performance at one time that shocked the world.
00:04:54.000 Buster Douglas was one of the, let's say, most incredible sports stories of the last 30 years.
00:05:05.000 A heavy underdog beyond.
00:05:08.000 He's a boxer.
00:05:11.000 Buster Douglas was up against Mike Tyson at a fight in the Tokyo Dome, Mike Dyson versus Buster Douglas.
00:05:22.000 It was a professional boxing match.
00:05:23.000 That happened on february 11th 1990.
00:05:27.000 Buster Douglas was a 42 to 1 underdog going into the fight against the great Mike Tyson.
00:05:36.000 Now, at the time, Mike Tyson was traveling the world.
00:05:39.000 He was the undisputed heavyweight champion.
00:05:43.000 No one would dare ever even cross the line of Mike Tyson.
00:05:48.000 This was almost an exhibition match, but Buster Douglas went all the way out to Tokyo, to the Tokyo Dome, and shocked the world, not just the boxing world.
00:06:01.000 For a man that was so confident he didn't prepare enough.
00:06:04.000 A 42 to 1 underdog, Buster Douglas defeated and beat Mike Tyson.
00:06:13.000 Many of you remember, years ago, Appalachian State from North Carolina, Boom Boone, North Carolina, where Appalachian State walked into the Big House at the University OF Michigan and defeated the Michigan Wolverines in one of the most incredible football upsets in history.
00:06:40.000 They hosted the Appalachian State football team in 2007.
00:06:46.000 The Wolverines were 27 point favorites in the Big House and Appalachian State won.
00:06:58.000 Upsets in sports are things that we all enjoy.
00:07:03.000 They are nail biters of the Cinderella 16 seed in the NCAA tournament going up and beating a one seed, all the way from sports upsets in boxing from Buster Douglas against Mike Tyson to Michigan losing to Appalachian State.
00:07:23.000 But what we saw in New Jersey, everybody, is greater than any of the sports upsets we have seen in the last 30 years.
00:07:31.000 The equivalent would not be Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson.
00:07:36.000 The equivalent would be Venus Williams or someone that doesn't even box coming in and beating Mike Tyson at the Tokyo Dome.
00:07:45.000 Now, I'm, of course, talking about our new favorite political story, Edward Durr.
00:07:51.000 We covered Edward Durr briefly yesterday.
00:07:55.000 Edward Durr is far from a political heavyweight.
00:07:57.000 Edward Durr decided to run because he saw New Jersey becoming a socialist, left-wing, cronyist, one-party dominated, unrecognizable state.
00:08:14.000 Edward Durr is from the southern part of New Jersey.
00:08:18.000 Edward Durr did not have political consultants that cut ads for him.
00:08:21.000 Edward Durr did not have big donors writing huge checks.
00:08:24.000 Edward Durr spent $153 on his race.
00:08:32.000 And he wasn't just running up against a random, powerful person in New Jersey.
00:08:38.000 It was up against the New Jersey state Senate president.
00:08:42.000 It was up against the person who runs the New Jersey State Senate president.
00:08:47.000 His name is Steve Sweeney.
00:08:50.000 Now, when asked, Edward Durr basically says, look, I'm just a normal guy.
00:08:55.000 I ran for office because I felt that my state was falling apart.
00:09:00.000 And he had this incredible quote that I want to read for you about how while other people were mocking him and other people were sitting at home doing nothing, he showed up and knocked on doors.
00:09:15.000 Edward Durr was willing to put in the work.
00:09:20.000 Edward Durr is a truck driver.
00:09:22.000 Edward Durr is someone who put in the clipboard and tennis shoes type of work that is so necessary and so missing in American politics.
00:09:33.000 Here's what he said, quote, I walked three to four hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
00:09:39.000 I walked six to eight hours.
00:09:41.000 We usually had about half a dozen volunteers.
00:09:44.000 I walked six to eight hours.
00:09:47.000 We usually had about half a dozen volunteers.
00:09:49.000 One time we went out and we had 12 to 13 go out with us, he recalled proudly.
00:09:54.000 Trust me, plenty of days I did not feel like walking.
00:09:57.000 It was too hot.
00:09:59.000 My ankles and my feet hurt.
00:10:00.000 I'm not a young man anymore, and I have gout and planter fasilitis, and it was a hard thing.
00:10:06.000 Now, gout is no joke, everybody.
00:10:10.000 And the second most powerful person in New Jersey, Steve Sweeney, unseated by a challenger that would have been considered a joke by the entire New Jersey ruling class.
00:10:24.000 And just like when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his 10th round knockout of Mike Tyson, people don't even know how to process this in New Jersey politics.
00:10:34.000 It is now, this race has been called.
00:10:36.000 Bloomberg.com, New Jersey truck driver ousts Senate boss after spending $153 on race.
00:10:45.000 Play cut 89.
00:10:46.000 Remember when Buster Douglas shocked the world?
00:10:48.000 This is an even bigger deal than that, everybody, because at least Buster Douglas, he was a boxer.
00:10:54.000 This guy is a truck driver who spent $153.
00:10:59.000 Play tape.
00:11:15.000 He may not be every stubborn.
00:11:17.000 It's up to seven.
00:11:18.000 And he, he's not going to make it.
00:11:20.000 Unbelievable.
00:11:25.000 He wants to dump it.
00:11:30.000 Edward Durr is Buster Douglas.
00:11:33.000 The Cinderella impossible, 42 to 1 odds.
00:11:36.000 But I will tell you that Edward Durr is an even greater story than Buster Douglas or Appalachian State or a 16-seat beating a one-seed in the NCAA tournament.
00:11:51.000 This guy's never been in politics before.
00:11:54.000 Edward Durr, while he was walking the district, encountered his opponent.
00:12:01.000 Durr politely challenged him to a debate, and Sweeney blew him off and laughed at him.
00:12:08.000 Well, who's laughing now?
00:12:11.000 We should all love upsets, regardless of your political affiliation, but there's a deeper story at play here when you have a truck driver who just walked the district and put in the type of work that is necessary, doors, conversations, volunteers, not big ads, not social media campaigns, not super PACs funded by multi-billionaires.
00:12:34.000 Instead, it was real politics.
00:12:37.000 It was face-to-face type conversations.
00:12:39.000 And the people of South Jersey, despite being an overwhelmingly Democrat area, they had enough.
00:12:45.000 They had enough with their leaders growing fat and happy in Trenton.
00:12:49.000 They had enough of vaccine mandates and mask mandates.
00:12:52.000 And they were willing to send a vessel in the greatest political upset that I believe I have ever seen in my lifetime.
00:13:00.000 I would like anyone to show me a greater political upset than this.
00:13:03.000 I went through for about an hour last night looking at what's called the greatest political upsets.
00:13:07.000 This is the top of the list.
00:13:10.000 Where in real time, you have the king of the hill, the Senate president, Tony Soprano himself, running the New Jersey State Senate, and he's going to be unemployed.
00:13:23.000 And he lost his job to a God-fearing grandfather of six, father of three, Harley-Davidson writing, Eagles fan, normal American muscular class patriot, Edward Durr.
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00:14:04.000 Next thing you know, he's doing the Falseberry flop like you wouldn't believe. 0.71
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00:14:43.000 Welcome back.
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00:14:49.000 As you start to unpack what happened this week, you start to see that Democrats are reeling for answers.
00:14:57.000 Someone must pay for people like Edward Durr for having a voice.
00:15:01.000 They exist to make sure that white middle-class men that ride Harley-Davidson's are thrown into the oblivion.
00:15:10.000 They must be irrelevant.
00:15:15.000 The fact that people like Edward Durr are winning drives the MSNBC class nuts.
00:15:24.000 So there is an ongoing public discussion that is happening right now in Democrat circles.
00:15:33.000 They say, what's the right way for us to proceed?
00:15:36.000 Well, the smart people on the left are realizing that their party has lost their mind and that they are espousing positions and public policy proposals that are not just unreasonable.
00:15:52.000 They're against the laws of nature themselves.
00:15:55.000 They have declared all-out war on the laws of nature and nature's God, on the preamble of the United States Constitution, on the promise of America, and they're proud of it.
00:16:07.000 So we're going to play cut 88 here.
00:16:09.000 This is James Carville.
00:16:11.000 I want to show you two different universes of the Democrat Party.
00:16:15.000 Now, James Carville, he's an honest guy as far as he is not afraid to speak out when he is seeing his party go in the wrong direction. 0.99
00:16:24.000 I believe it was James Carville who said it's the economy stupid. 0.98
00:16:28.000 I'm 90% sure that was him who came up with that phrase under Clinton. 0.99
00:16:34.000 But James Carville is saying the obvious thing.
00:16:36.000 He's saying, well, don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey.
00:16:39.000 Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo.
00:16:42.000 Democrats are losing everywhere.
00:16:43.000 And he's pinpointing why.
00:16:46.000 Will the Democrats listen to James Carville?
00:16:48.000 Will they embrace him?
00:16:51.000 Play cut 88.
00:16:53.000 But move me wrong. 1.00
00:16:54.000 It's just stupid wokeness. 1.00
00:16:56.000 All right. 1.00
00:16:57.000 Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey.
00:16:59.000 Look at Long Island.
00:17:00.000 Look at Buffalo.
00:17:01.000 Look at Minneapolis.
00:17:02.000 Even look at Seattle, Washington.
00:17:04.000 I mean, just defund the police lunacy to take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools.
00:17:11.000 I mean, people see that.
00:17:13.000 And it's just really have a suppressive effect all across the country.
00:17:19.000 The Democrats, some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.
00:17:24.000 James Carville was the top Clinton advisor that helped build a moderate Democrat coalition that ended up defeating George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot in 1992 and 96.
00:17:37.000 Well, H.W. Bush didn't run in 96, but defeating incumbent President H.W. Bush and Ross Perot around the, I feel your pain.
00:17:46.000 He was the author and one of the main driving forces behind Bill Clinton proclaiming in front of the United States Congress that the era of big government is over.
00:17:56.000 You see, the 1990s, because of Reagan's profound courage and leadership, created a very conservative country.
00:18:05.000 And since America was such a conservative country at the time, both socially conservative, fiscally conservative, and also enjoying the wealth and the prosperity that came after the 1980s and early 1990s, Bill Clinton had to camouflage himself as a more compassionate, conservative Southern Democrat, which is exactly where the country was.
00:18:25.000 Now, I'm not here to defend Bill Clinton. 0.99
00:18:27.000 I think he's a scumbag. 1.00
00:18:28.000 He's an awful person. 1.00
00:18:30.000 But Bill Clinton also wanted to win, and he knew how to win.
00:18:33.000 And I think Republicans actually didn't really know how to defeat someone like Bill Clinton.
00:18:37.000 I think that they were, they went in the wrong direction a lot of different ways.
00:18:41.000 That's a completely different show for a different time.
00:18:43.000 So listen, you heard what James Carville said. 0.51
00:18:46.000 James Carville said that people need to go to a woke deto center.
00:18:50.000 What is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying?
00:18:54.000 Well, let's listen to AOC.
00:18:56.000 Here's what she said.
00:18:57.000 Here's why she said Democrats lost.
00:19:00.000 Play tape.
00:19:02.000 Plus, on the election front, I actually think we have good news as well.
00:19:05.000 I know that Virginia was a huge bummer.
00:19:08.000 And honestly, if anything, I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to, or energize a progressive base.
00:19:23.000 And frankly, we weren't even really invited to contribute on that race.
00:19:29.000 So I do want to applaud Alexandria Kaiser-Cortez.
00:19:32.000 She is not using the word like every other word anymore.
00:19:36.000 I have to say, she's growing up.
00:19:38.000 She's no longer saying, and like socialism, like communism, like open borders, like, yeah.
00:19:45.000 Maybe she knows how many branches of government there are. 0.65
00:19:47.000 I don't know.
00:19:47.000 Everyone has a chance to improve in life, and I hope she embraces that.
00:19:51.000 You hear what she said?
00:19:52.000 She said, oh, we ran a moderate in Virginia, and we, AOC, and Talib and Omar, weren't allowed to contribute.
00:19:59.000 Here's what you have, everybody, and we're going to dive into it in great detail.
00:20:03.000 The woke fault line is happening in the Democrat Party.
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00:22:05.000 The fault line is being exposed.
00:22:07.000 The Democrats are doing an autopsy of why they lost in every possible direction from Edward Durr to the Virginia governor's race to the lieutenant governor's race in Virginia.
00:22:19.000 How bad was it, actually?
00:22:21.000 Well, I just want to hear, let's just go local news report, Cut 87.
00:22:26.000 This is in New York, Nassau County.
00:22:29.000 Play Cut 87, just so you understand what Democrats are dealing with, even in New York.
00:22:36.000 Play tape.
00:22:37.000 The shock resonated from the New York suburbs down the eastern seaboard.
00:22:41.000 People are saying there was a red wave.
00:22:43.000 They're wrong.
00:22:44.000 It was a red tsunami.
00:22:45.000 Republican Bruce Blakeman's declaring victory in the Nassau executive race considered the biggest upset here since Ed Mangano unseated Tom Swasey in 2009.
00:22:54.000 We had the right message.
00:22:55.000 It was taxes.
00:22:56.000 It was crime.
00:22:58.000 People are fed up with the liberal, progressive policies of the other party.
00:23:02.000 This isn't the party of John F. Kennedy anymore.
00:23:04.000 It's the party of AOC and Bernie Sanders, and they're rejecting that.
00:23:08.000 And Joe Biden, they're rejecting that.
00:23:11.000 I said this yesterday to Connor, and I said this to Andrew. 0.98
00:23:14.000 I said, if the Democrats continue with this, and if they are unable to inoculate themselves and remove the tumor that is wokeism from their party, it is not out of the conversation that if conservatives do their job and they don't, we're not run by a bunch of feckless morons, which is so often the case, we could end up winning states like New Jersey and Connecticut. 0.98
00:23:38.000 We could win 40 out of 50 states. 0.88
00:23:39.000 California is a tall order, but it is not out of the equation that in the next 10 years, if these trends continue, that a Republican for president could win one of these states.
00:23:50.000 That's what last night showed, a couple nights ago showed.
00:23:54.000 Is that crime, families, parents, those things transcend team right versus team left jerseys. 0.62
00:24:03.000 Now, this is easy for us to understand, obviously, because we see that most parents do not want their seven-year-old, who is white, be taught that he or she is an awful person based on their immutable characteristics.
00:24:16.000 We don't want our eight-year-olds in school to be exposed to pornographic sexual education curriculum.
00:24:24.000 The other side doesn't quite see it that way.
00:24:27.000 There is this ongoing now public tension.
00:24:31.000 We saw it between AOC and James Carville of how do we deal with the woke?
00:24:38.000 How do we deal with this?
00:24:39.000 We know that the flyover people don't like it, but don't you notice now that their indictment of who they hate is expanding?
00:24:47.000 It's not just the people in Missouri and Kansas anymore.
00:24:50.000 Now they hate the dock workers in South Jersey.
00:24:53.000 Now they hate the suburban white women in Loudoun County. 1.00
00:24:58.000 Boy, there's a lot of people they don't like.
00:25:01.000 It's the dock workers in South Jersey. 0.99
00:25:04.000 It's the garbage men in Trenton. 0.65
00:25:07.000 It's the suburban mom in Loudoun County. 0.98
00:25:12.000 And then it's also the Christian in South Dakota.
00:25:17.000 It's a lot of different groups to simultaneously be mad at at once. 0.54
00:25:22.000 See, we played AOC and James Carville and this kind of tug of war of which way do we want to go as Democrats?
00:25:31.000 Now, I'm going to play out kind of what they're saying, the significance of it, and then I'm going to tell you why it's impossible for them to decouple from wokeism and then the reason why wokeism will win within it.
00:25:47.000 But let's just kind of just show into the drama here.
00:25:49.000 This is an ongoing public and now increasingly nasty debate.
00:25:56.000 This is David Plough, cut 96, where he says that Democrats now need to go on offense on wokeism.
00:26:05.000 The problem in Virginia is that we were too apologetic, that we need to be clear about Herbert Marcuse's one-dimensional man, that we need to be very open about how being on time for work and telling the truth and reading are symptoms of white supremacy.
00:26:25.000 David Plough, who wrote the book Audacity to Win, is saying basically, the reason we lost is that we didn't own our radicalism.
00:26:38.000 Play cut 96.
00:26:41.000 Critical history was a lot.
00:26:43.000 And I think we need to go on the offense a little bit.
00:26:44.000 And Terry McCall have tried to do this.
00:26:46.000 Say it's a lie.
00:26:47.000 They know it's a lie.
00:26:48.000 But are you scared for your kids to learn about slavery or lynching or housing discrimination?
00:26:54.000 Are we raising kids to be that weak?
00:26:57.000 Like, I think sometimes we answer with facts that we don't believe people will believe these things.
00:27:02.000 But they're not going to campaign on the level, Nicole.
00:27:05.000 They're going to lie.
00:27:06.000 They will say anything.
00:27:08.000 If this is a boxing match, they're bringing heavier gloves and nice in your boots.
00:27:12.000 He's saying it's a lie.
00:27:13.000 It doesn't exist.
00:27:14.000 Now, last night we were at the University of Alabama.
00:27:17.000 We are going to play this tape on our social media feed where a black woman said exactly the same thing.
00:27:22.000 What even is CRT? 1.00
00:27:23.000 You don't want to have people learn how to deal with other races. 1.00
00:27:25.000 And I asked her directly, I said, do you believe in black-only dormitories? 1.00
00:27:29.000 She said, yeah, I would live in a black-only dormitory. 0.98
00:27:31.000 I said, do you believe in black-only graduation ceremonies like they have at Columbia?
00:27:35.000 By the way, she'd never even heard they existed before.
00:27:38.000 And I said, is segregation evil?
00:27:39.000 She didn't answer the question.
00:27:42.000 That's what CRT is, David Pluff.
00:27:44.000 That's why parents are getting angry and upset. 0.98
00:27:47.000 But when David Pluff says, oh, it doesn't exist.
00:27:49.000 It's not real.
00:27:50.000 Here's a science teacher in Indiana saying, I'm an administrator for the largest school district in Indiana.
00:27:57.000 Here's what we mean when we tell you we aren't teaching critical race theory.
00:28:01.000 Everybody, I hope you listen to this very carefully.
00:28:04.000 We are going to post this at charliekirk.com.
00:28:07.000 Send this to all of your friends because your school boards are lying to you.
00:28:12.000 PlayCut 84.
00:28:14.000 I'm the science coach and admin in the largest public school district in Indiana.
00:28:17.000 I'm in dozens of classrooms a week, so I see exactly what we're teaching our students.
00:28:21.000 When we tell you that schools aren't teaching critical race theory, that it's nowhere in our standards, that's misdirection.
00:28:27.000 We don't have the quotes and theories as state standards per se.
00:28:30.000 We do have critical race theory in how we teach.
00:28:33.000 We tell our teachers to treat students differently based on color. 0.67
00:28:36.000 We tell our students that every problem is a result of white men and that everything Western civilization built is racist.
00:28:42.000 Capitalism as a tool of white supremacy.
00:28:45.000 Those are straight out of Kimberly Crenshaw's main points, verbatim in critical race theory, the writings that formed the movement.
00:28:51.000 And I encourage everyone to go read Kimberly Crenshaw's book, Critical Race Theory.
00:28:54.000 It's literally called that.
00:28:55.000 And yet now the new smokescreen tactics from the people in charge is like, it doesn't exist.
00:28:59.000 It's a lie.
00:29:03.000 Hey, everybody.
00:29:04.000 As I have told you, James Lindsay deserves such amazing credit for the work he has done for exposing critical race theory.
00:29:10.000 Now, maybe you're super busy and you don't have time to learn about critical race theory, but that is why on Thursdays we bring you Thinker Thursday. 0.84
00:29:18.000 T-H-I-N-K-R.org is the place for you to be able to get big ideas and consume them quickly.
00:29:27.000 Thinker.org slash Charlie, you can consume in 12 minutes the essence of James Lindsay's famous book, Cynical Theories. 0.80
00:29:35.000 Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity and Ideology, and Why This Harms Everybody.
00:29:42.000 What does our new woke language mean? 0.54
00:29:44.000 Where does it come from?
00:29:45.000 Why is it so harmful to actual progress in the realm of social justice?
00:29:49.000 The social justice movement that dominates the thinking of contemporary society didn't always exist.
00:29:54.000 Rather, it originated in the 1960s French academia through an intellectual movement called postmodernism, a way of thinking about reality that disregards objective truth and meaning.
00:30:02.000 Later, in the 1980s and 90s, postmodern thought produced critical theory, which supplies the current social justice movement with the majority of its ideas.
00:30:09.000 Liberal thinkers, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, illustrate the rise of social justice movements in culture and the academy.
00:30:16.000 Here's some key insights you'll get from the book, that postmodernism's radical skepticism denies our ability to know anything.
00:30:22.000 Culture creates truth.
00:30:23.000 They believe that postmodernism or the left needed to change, so it decided the world needed to change too, with the help of some abstract theory.
00:30:31.000 Critical race theory unravels discourse to prove that language creates identity.
00:30:36.000 Identity determines the capacity for power and knowledge, but identity politics wants to turn that on its head.
00:30:42.000 You can't prove social justice scholarship, but you can't argue with it either.
00:30:45.000 And at the core of liberalism is the desire to question, empathize, and repair.
00:30:50.000 But however, cynical theories wants to destroy all of that.
00:30:53.000 Go to thinker.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.
00:30:58.000 Check it out, everybody, right now.
00:31:02.000 Play cut 85, this administrator, super smart guy, by the way.
00:31:06.000 I'd love to have him on our show, Tony Kinnett.
00:31:09.000 He continues by saying, parents, you are being played.
00:31:13.000 You are being conned.
00:31:14.000 You are being manipulated.
00:31:16.000 You are being misdirected.
00:31:18.000 You are being gaslit by administrators on school boards.
00:31:22.000 Play tape.
00:31:23.000 When schools tell you that we aren't teaching critical race theory, it means one thing.
00:31:27.000 Go away and look into our affairs no further.
00:31:30.000 It isn't about transparency.
00:31:31.000 It isn't about cultural relevance.
00:31:33.000 It's race essentialism, painted to look like the district cares about students of color.
00:31:37.000 We call it anti-racism.
00:31:38.000 So you feel bad if you disagree with our segregationist pedagogy.
00:31:42.000 It's taking advantage of kids' vulnerability and parents' inactivity to preen over social snake oil schemes designed to create division.
00:31:49.000 Parents, when we tell you critical race theory isn't taught in our schools, we're lying.
00:31:54.000 Keep looking.
00:31:55.000 They're lying.
00:31:56.000 Now, David Plough, who was the architect of the Obama coalition, says it's not real.
00:31:56.000 Keep looking.
00:32:04.000 Nicole Wallace said the same thing on television, Cut 51.
00:32:09.000 Remember, ignorance is knowledge.
00:32:12.000 War is peace.
00:32:14.000 We're all living in 84.
00:32:16.000 Play tape.
00:32:17.000 I mean, he worshipped at the altar of Donald Trump on Fox News.
00:32:20.000 He flew an insurrection flag at his rallies. 0.98
00:32:23.000 He simply didn't, he played dumb about a Zoom rally. 0.76
00:32:28.000 He did not really put much distance between himself and Donald Trump on the big lie or the deadly insurrection. 0.96
00:32:35.000 Critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican.
00:32:46.000 What do Democrats do about that? 0.97
00:32:49.000 War is peace.
00:32:50.000 Freedom is slavery.
00:32:51.000 Ignorance is strength, as Orwell said very eloquently in 1984.
00:32:56.000 You know what's so amazing about that tape is you have a former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill from Missouri that just allows this nonsense and this drivel. 0.98
00:33:04.000 Went from CRT being just a legal theory that it's not to our kids, not being taught to our kids, that it doesn't exist.
00:33:10.000 No, there's no books that are called critical race theory.
00:33:12.000 Well, what about Kimberly Crenshaw's book?
00:33:13.000 It doesn't exist.
00:33:14.000 Okay, it doesn't exist.
00:33:15.000 Hello.
00:33:16.000 It doesn't exist.
00:33:18.000 There's a book that says critical race theory.
00:33:22.000 And so the Democrats are trying to square and trying to get clarity on how do they proceed.
00:33:32.000 Now, the smart Democrats like Carville say, we have got to get away from this.
00:33:36.000 Cut 95, you have Obama world a little bit divided here.
00:33:40.000 You have David Plough who just wants to go all in on the woke.
00:33:44.000 He wants to be the grand marshal of the crazy train parade. 0.63
00:33:49.000 David Plough wants to just ride in on the BLM flag, and he thinks that's the way.
00:33:55.000 But Stephanie Cutter, being, I think she's a mom, she says, well, look, the one thing we need to make sure of is that the Republican Party doesn't become the party of parents.
00:34:04.000 Now, I want to thank Stephanie Cutter.
00:34:07.000 The term party of parents, that has a nice ring to it.
00:34:11.000 I like it.
00:34:12.000 And if the Republican Party was smart, they'd be tweeting that out, not that you have to be scared of socialism. 0.95
00:34:19.000 Ridiculous messaging. 0.89
00:34:21.000 Play Cut 95. 0.54
00:34:22.000 And the one thing that we need to make sure that Republicans in 2022 don't become is the party of parents, because we need to be the party of parents.
00:34:33.000 And we are.
00:34:34.000 You know, all of this, we need to own that agenda.
00:34:37.000 We cannot let it go.
00:34:38.000 We need to own that agenda.
00:34:40.000 Ah, Stephanie Cutter is smart. 1.00
00:34:42.000 She's smarter than David Plough.
00:34:44.000 David Plough is bought and paid for, and he's lost his shine. 0.94
00:34:48.000 Stephanie Cutter, just her remark, I mean, the part where she says we're the party of parents is obviously ridiculous, but she says, we are, we can't let this happen.
00:34:57.000 This is a problem that parents are leaving us.
00:35:03.000 The Republican Party does become the party of parents.
00:35:07.000 It changes American politics in 40 out of 50 states.
00:35:11.000 Cut 82, they're already playing defense.
00:35:14.000 Jaya Paul says, no, no, no, we're the parents' party.
00:35:17.000 We are.
00:35:18.000 We want to chemically castrate your children and vaccinate against their will and keep them masked all the time.
00:35:23.000 Democrats are seeing what we are seeing, which is a recalibration of American politics in real time.
00:35:30.000 Party of parents.
00:35:32.000 PlayCut 82.
00:35:33.000 You know, look, we have to pay attention to local politics.
00:35:37.000 And I think that Democrats are the party of parents, not Republicans.
00:35:42.000 But I really believe that this is what happens in many elections when you have one party take over three and off your elections.
00:35:50.000 This is not abnormal.
00:35:51.000 And I think that we will get through the next, you know, this doesn't mean anything for the midterms.
00:35:58.000 That's not to say we shouldn't take it seriously.
00:36:00.000 We absolutely should.
00:36:01.000 Democrats can't have it both ways. 0.84
00:36:03.000 They can't be the party of sexual anarchy and also be the party of parents.
00:36:07.000 It doesn't work.
00:36:09.000 You got to pick a team.
00:36:10.000 Be the party of sexual anarchy or be the party of parents because parents are worried the country's falling apart.
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00:37:23.000 The woke lash that we experienced this week is being interpreted by different camps in the Democrat Party.
00:37:32.000 The Democrat Party's not really sure how to proceed.
00:37:36.000 So on one side, you say we were not radical enough.
00:37:40.000 That's Elon Omar, AOC.
00:37:42.000 They say we didn't do CRT enough.
00:37:44.000 David Plough.
00:37:45.000 We have Stephanie Cutter, James Carville, who came out and said that we need a woke detox.
00:37:51.000 Well, let me tell you, let me just kind of end the suspense for you, if you will.
00:37:57.000 That Democrats made a decision right as Floyda Palooza was beginning in last June.
00:38:06.000 As Floyda Palooza was happening and we had $3 billion in damages across the country, Wendy's on fire, police officers getting shot.
00:38:15.000 Democrats saw a kinetic political energy that they wanted to seize for their own Machiavellian short-term power goals.
00:38:27.000 They didn't care about the cost.
00:38:29.000 They made an all-in bet on the racial argument that this was going to be as significant, as powerful, as persuasive, and as permanent as the sudden shift on gay marriage in America. 0.51
00:38:48.000 The Democrat consultants, the corporate hacks, they all said, okay, the same way that Americans' attitudes on gay marriage changed dramatically in almost five years, that is going to be the case with race.
00:39:04.000 That we are going to be, we have to be ahead of this thing, and we want to be the party of woke.
00:39:10.000 Now, Republicans and conservatives, to their credit, despite some U.S. senators saying that they liked BLM during all this stuff, we excommunicated wokeism from our circles.
00:39:23.000 In fact, with great intensity, backlash, and condemnation, any conservative leader that wrote some sort of pandering op-ed after George Floyd's death was met with total and complete repudiation from think tank leaders to pundits to people in communication.
00:39:43.000 It says, okay, if you want to be woke, you got to go to the left.
00:39:47.000 We pushed it out.
00:39:48.000 Now, that wasn't an easy conversation.
00:39:49.000 You remember back in May, June, July, and August of last year, the overtures of people said, well, we just have to, we have to have a little bit of wokeism.
00:39:58.000 We said, no, you take a little bit of it.
00:40:01.000 You give them an inch.
00:40:03.000 They take a mile.
00:40:04.000 It is the metaphorical camel's nose in the tent, and it is over.
00:40:09.000 And so the conservative movement took a hard stance.
00:40:13.000 And James Lindsay deserves a lot of credit for that because the intellectual and philosophical foundation that laid the backing for us to push back against this, that was necessary.
00:40:24.000 It was powerful.
00:40:25.000 But the Democrats and the left made a totally different decision.
00:40:28.000 They made a different political calculus.
00:40:30.000 They said, this stuff is going to be inevitable.
00:40:32.000 This stuff is powerful.
00:40:33.000 It is potent.
00:40:34.000 It gets our activists in the streets.
00:40:36.000 It makes white liberals write us big checks. 0.81
00:40:37.000 It makes corporations pander to us endlessly.
00:40:41.000 And they said to Robin D'Angelo, to Kimberly Crenshaw, to Patrice Cullers, to Ibram X. Kendi, you said, you guys are now the grand marshals of the parade.
00:40:52.000 We will become the party of the woke.
00:40:55.000 Now, once you make that decision, everybody, all bets are off.
00:40:59.000 There is no science, math, reason, hierarchy, meritocracy.
00:41:04.000 There are no rules, freedom of speech, dialogue, fruits of the Enlightenment.
00:41:08.000 No, you are back in tribalism.
00:41:10.000 It's that simple.
00:41:12.000 Wokeism is like steroids.
00:41:14.000 Steroids can make you, it can make you kind of big, but you lose something when you take steroids.
00:41:21.000 Some things might get pretty small.
00:41:24.000 Steroids feel good at first.
00:41:26.000 Yeah, I'm going to get big.
00:41:28.000 And there's lifelong costs and consequences to them.
00:41:31.000 The Democrat Party took a steady stream of woke steroids, and now they're realizing, oh, there's some missing ingredients here.
00:41:41.000 This had a cost that we never anticipated.
00:41:44.000 And some people say, oh, we have to have a woke detox.
00:41:46.000 That's not the way it works, Mr. Carville.
00:41:48.000 Once you allow the ethos of wokeism within your entire institution and you play by the rules of white allies and black voices matter, and whoever the most oppressed person is who wins the oppression Olympics gets the highest platform, you're done. 0.56
00:42:05.000 And for the Democrat Party, there is no getting rid of wokeism. 0.81
00:42:09.000 Wokeism is your party. 0.98
00:42:11.000 Diversity, equity, inclusion, you are the party of black only dormitories. 1.00
00:42:15.000 The Democrat Party is the party of segregated dormitories and segregated graduation ceremonies. 0.98
00:42:21.000 There is no decoupling from it.
00:42:23.000 Enjoy.
00:42:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:42:37.000 God bless.
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