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00:02:55.000A lot of people say, Charlie, how do I meet more people?
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00:05:27.000Buster Douglas was a 42 to 1 underdog going into the fight against the great Mike Tyson.
00:05:36.000Now, at the time, Mike Tyson was traveling the world.
00:05:39.000He was the undisputed heavyweight champion.
00:05:43.000No one would dare ever even cross the line of Mike Tyson.
00:05:48.000This 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.
00:06:01.000For a man that was so confident he didn't prepare enough.
00:06:04.000A 42 to 1 underdog, Buster Douglas defeated and beat Mike Tyson.
00:06:13.000Many 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.
00:06:40.000They hosted the Appalachian State football team in 2007.
00:06:46.000The Wolverines were 27 point favorites in the Big House and Appalachian State won.
00:06:58.000Upsets in sports are things that we all enjoy.
00:07:03.000They 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.
00:07:23.000But what we saw in New Jersey, everybody, is greater than any of the sports upsets we have seen in the last 30 years.
00:07:31.000The equivalent would not be Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson.
00:07:36.000The equivalent would be Venus Williams or someone that doesn't even box coming in and beating Mike Tyson at the Tokyo Dome.
00:07:45.000Now, I'm, of course, talking about our new favorite political story, Edward Durr.
00:07:51.000We covered Edward Durr briefly yesterday.
00:07:55.000Edward Durr is far from a political heavyweight.
00:07:57.000Edward Durr decided to run because he saw New Jersey becoming a socialist, left-wing, cronyist, one-party dominated, unrecognizable state.
00:08:14.000Edward Durr is from the southern part of New Jersey.
00:08:18.000Edward Durr did not have political consultants that cut ads for him.
00:08:21.000Edward Durr did not have big donors writing huge checks.
00:08:50.000Now, when asked, Edward Durr basically says, look, I'm just a normal guy.
00:08:55.000I ran for office because I felt that my state was falling apart.
00:09:00.000And 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.
00:09:15.000Edward Durr was willing to put in the work.
00:10:10.000And 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.
00:10:24.000And 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.
00:11:33.000The Cinderella impossible, 42 to 1 odds.
00:11:36.000But 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.
00:11:51.000This guy's never been in politics before.
00:11:54.000Edward Durr, while he was walking the district, encountered his opponent.
00:12:01.000Durr politely challenged him to a debate, and Sweeney blew him off and laughed at him.
00:12:11.000We 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.
00:13:10.000Where 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.
00:13:23.000And 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.
00:13:38.000I've been telling you guys about Relief Factor for quite some time.
00:13:41.000And truth is, I know millions of people are, in fact, 100 million people are in some kind of pain.
00:13:45.000Look, producer Andrew, he couldn't walk.
00:15:15.000The fact that people like Edward Durr are winning drives the MSNBC class nuts.
00:15:24.000So there is an ongoing public discussion that is happening right now in Democrat circles.
00:15:33.000They say, what's the right way for us to proceed?
00:15:36.000Well, 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.
00:15:52.000They're against the laws of nature themselves.
00:15:55.000They 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.
00:17:13.000And it's just really have a suppressive effect all across the country.
00:17:19.000The Democrats, some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.
00:17:24.000James 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.
00:17:37.000Well, H.W. Bush didn't run in 96, but defeating incumbent President H.W. Bush and Ross Perot around the, I feel your pain.
00:17:46.000He 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.
00:17:56.000You see, the 1990s, because of Reagan's profound courage and leadership, created a very conservative country.
00:18:05.000And 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.
00:18:25.000Now, I'm not here to defend Bill Clinton.
00:19:02.000Plus, on the election front, I actually think we have good news as well.
00:19:05.000I know that Virginia was a huge bummer.
00:19:08.000And 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.
00:19:23.000And frankly, we weren't even really invited to contribute on that race.
00:19:29.000So I do want to applaud Alexandria Kaiser-Cortez.
00:19:32.000She is not using the word like every other word anymore.
00:21:29.000Express VPN for me has been a game changer to be able to know that the tech companies or the government, they have to go through a whole nother barrier to try to spy on us.
00:21:41.000When we see with the new announcements out of DC, if you've spoke at a school board meeting lately, you better get a VPN.
00:21:46.000Secure your online activity by visiting expressvpn.com slash Charlie today.
00:22:07.000The 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.
00:22:45.000Republican Bruce Blakeman's declaring victory in the Nassau executive race considered the biggest upset here since Ed Mangano unseated Tom Swasey in 2009.
00:22:58.000People are fed up with the liberal, progressive policies of the other party.
00:23:02.000This isn't the party of John F. Kennedy anymore.
00:23:04.000It's the party of AOC and Bernie Sanders, and they're rejecting that.
00:23:08.000And Joe Biden, they're rejecting that.
00:23:11.000I said this yesterday to Connor, and I said this to Andrew.
00:23:14.000I 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.
00:23:39.000California 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.
00:23:50.000That's what last night showed, a couple nights ago showed.
00:23:54.000Is that crime, families, parents, those things transcend team right versus team left jerseys.
00:24:03.000Now, 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.
00:24:16.000We don't want our eight-year-olds in school to be exposed to pornographic sexual education curriculum.
00:24:24.000The other side doesn't quite see it that way.
00:24:27.000There is this ongoing now public tension.
00:24:31.000We saw it between AOC and James Carville of how do we deal with the woke?
00:25:07.000It's the suburban mom in Loudoun County.
00:25:12.000And then it's also the Christian in South Dakota.
00:25:17.000It's a lot of different groups to simultaneously be mad at at once.
00:25:22.000See, we played AOC and James Carville and this kind of tug of war of which way do we want to go as Democrats?
00:25:31.000Now, 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.
00:25:47.000But let's just kind of just show into the drama here.
00:25:49.000This is an ongoing public and now increasingly nasty debate.
00:25:56.000This is David Plough, cut 96, where he says that Democrats now need to go on offense on wokeism.
00:26:05.000The 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.
00:26:25.000David Plough, who wrote the book Audacity to Win, is saying basically, the reason we lost is that we didn't own our radicalism.
00:29:04.000As I have told you, James Lindsay deserves such amazing credit for the work he has done for exposing critical race theory.
00:29:10.000Now, 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.
00:29:18.000T-H-I-N-K-R.org is the place for you to be able to get big ideas and consume them quickly.
00:29:27.000Thinker.org slash Charlie, you can consume in 12 minutes the essence of James Lindsay's famous book, Cynical Theories.
00:29:35.000Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity and Ideology, and Why This Harms Everybody.
00:29:45.000Why is it so harmful to actual progress in the realm of social justice?
00:29:49.000The social justice movement that dominates the thinking of contemporary society didn't always exist.
00:29:54.000Rather, 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.
00:30:02.000Later, in the 1980s and 90s, postmodern thought produced critical theory, which supplies the current social justice movement with the majority of its ideas.
00:30:09.000Liberal thinkers, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, illustrate the rise of social justice movements in culture and the academy.
00:30:16.000Here's some key insights you'll get from the book, that postmodernism's radical skepticism denies our ability to know anything.
00:30:23.000They 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.
00:30:31.000Critical race theory unravels discourse to prove that language creates identity.
00:30:36.000Identity determines the capacity for power and knowledge, but identity politics wants to turn that on its head.
00:30:42.000You can't prove social justice scholarship, but you can't argue with it either.
00:30:45.000And at the core of liberalism is the desire to question, empathize, and repair.
00:30:50.000But however, cynical theories wants to destroy all of that.
00:30:53.000Go to thinker.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.
00:32:51.000Ignorance is strength, as Orwell said very eloquently in 1984.
00:32:56.000You 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.
00:33:04.000Went 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.
00:33:10.000No, there's no books that are called critical race theory.
00:33:12.000Well, what about Kimberly Crenshaw's book?
00:33:18.000There's a book that says critical race theory.
00:33:22.000And so the Democrats are trying to square and trying to get clarity on how do they proceed.
00:33:32.000Now, the smart Democrats like Carville say, we have got to get away from this.
00:33:36.000Cut 95, you have Obama world a little bit divided here.
00:33:40.000You have David Plough who just wants to go all in on the woke.
00:33:44.000He wants to be the grand marshal of the crazy train parade.
00:33:49.000David Plough wants to just ride in on the BLM flag, and he thinks that's the way.
00:33:55.000But 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.
00:34:04.000Now, I want to thank Stephanie Cutter.
00:34:07.000The term party of parents, that has a nice ring to it.
00:34:22.000And 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.
00:34:44.000David Plough is bought and paid for, and he's lost his shine.
00:34:48.000Stephanie 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.
00:34:57.000This is a problem that parents are leaving us.
00:35:03.000The Republican Party does become the party of parents.
00:35:07.000It changes American politics in 40 out of 50 states.
00:35:11.000Cut 82, they're already playing defense.
00:35:14.000Jaya Paul says, no, no, no, we're the parents' party.
00:38:29.000They 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.
00:38:48.000The 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.
00:39:04.000That we are going to be, we have to be ahead of this thing, and we want to be the party of woke.
00:39:10.000Now, 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.
00:39:23.000In 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.
00:39:43.000It says, okay, if you want to be woke, you got to go to the left.
00:39:48.000Now, that wasn't an easy conversation.
00:39:49.000You 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.
00:39:58.000We said, no, you take a little bit of it.
00:40:04.000It is the metaphorical camel's nose in the tent, and it is over.
00:40:09.000And so the conservative movement took a hard stance.
00:40:13.000And 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.
00:40:36.000It makes white liberals write us big checks.
00:40:37.000It makes corporations pander to us endlessly.
00:40:41.000And 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.
00:41:28.000And there's lifelong costs and consequences to them.
00:41:31.000The Democrat Party took a steady stream of woke steroids, and now they're realizing, oh, there's some missing ingredients here.
00:41:41.000This had a cost that we never anticipated.
00:41:44.000And some people say, oh, we have to have a woke detox.
00:41:46.000That's not the way it works, Mr. Carville.
00:41:48.000Once 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.
00:42:05.000And for the Democrat Party, there is no getting rid of wokeism.