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00:03:37.000As we kind of take a picture of this landscape that we are living in, that we are experiencing, that is being broadcast on social media and the nightly news.
00:03:49.000It's really, really becoming a very clear dichotomy.
00:03:56.000You see, on the one hand, angry, just petulant, ideologically driven young people, mostly women, that are very upset about what's going on in Gaza.
00:04:09.000But you get the sense that they're upset about something more.
00:04:14.000You get the idea that they have directed so much of their ire and their energy and their anger into an ideology that has them enslaved to something that makes them miserable, to things that don't work in their best interest.
00:04:33.000And on the other side, you've got something that reminds you of the America that we all grew up in, the America that we all love.
00:04:41.000You get frat boys, you get attractive young people that are raising the flag, supporting the flag, defending the flag, singing the national anthem, and they are awakened.
00:06:52.000At first, there was a few dozen, then there was a few more dozen.
00:06:58.000And now, today, in 2024, when Charlie visits a college campus, there's hundreds and hundreds of supporters that come out to see him, to see him debate with left-wingers or people that disagree with him.
00:07:43.000These encampments, these angry protesters, the nose piercings, the humanities studies, the You need to give us humanitarian aid at this encampment because we pay for a meal plan at this school by, gosh darn it.
00:07:57.000It's just ridiculous stuff that we're seeing.
00:07:59.000But hidden behind all the noise and all the chaos, there is hope.
00:08:07.000There's hope that the seeds planted are bearing fruit.
00:08:11.000Now, this clip, Charlie shared it again this morning on Twitter, and it's fantastic.
00:09:34.000That wasn't in reaction to anything except the normal morass of society.
00:09:40.000And what we are telling young men by going into these hostile environments and telling them that they have a voice, that they should be proud, they have nothing to be ashamed of.
00:09:52.000They're not in the wrong simply by the skin that they were born in.
00:09:57.000They need to stop feeling ashamed and that they need to stand up for themselves loudly and proudly.
00:10:04.000And Charlie's been that voice on these college campuses with Turning Point USA going from one campus to the next to the next to the next.
00:10:11.000And time after time in the last couple of years, something crazy has happened.
00:10:15.000I'm telling you people, the tide is turning.
00:10:18.000There is a counter-revolution calling us back to the country that we know we are and can be again.
00:10:25.000And it was happening right underneath our noses.
00:10:30.000So instead of looking at these campus protesters, these petulant brats, these humanity studies with the piercings and the green hair and the masks, these weak femme boys and getting discouraged at the future of America, look at the counter-protests that are happening and getting sparked all across this country and take hope in the future of America because, as we said on this show a number of times,
00:10:55.000young men specifically are more conservative than they've been in a generation, in 50 years, according to the polling.
00:11:04.000The message to them is that instead of being shamed for your white privilege or for your male privilege or for being toxically masculine, be proud at your American privilege.
00:11:16.000Be proud to live in the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:11:22.000And we see it taking root all across the country.
00:12:48.000If you saw it from my perspective, when I first started working with Charlie and with Turning Point USA, just how thankless the work was.
00:12:55.000You know, it's easy to look at Amfest and, you know, almost 15,000 people in an event, and you got President Trump at our events, and Tucker Carlson, and thousands of people, and thousands of campuses.
00:13:09.000But when you saw it where I saw it, where it felt like the whole world was against you, and it was so lonely, I mean, just, I want you to appreciate the grind that it took to get to this place.
00:13:24.000And yeah, it wasn't just Turning Point.
00:13:25.000There's a chorus of voices: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire guys.
00:13:32.000Of course, it's a cultural moment that we're living in.
00:13:36.000But when you saw the grind day in, day out, campus after campus, event after event, you have to see the seeds that have been sown for over a decade.
00:13:49.000And understand the cultural headwinds that we were against.
00:13:55.000The running assumption was that we were doomed, that young people were going to be 80-20, liberal, Democrat, progressive, forever.
00:14:04.000After 2008, which is actually the inspiration for the start of Turning Point USA, Charlie saw that in Chicago.
00:14:13.000The mass mobilization of the millennial generation.
00:14:18.000The community activists had taken over, community organizers on the left.
00:14:23.000The assumption was we were going to have liberal young people forever.
00:19:40.000Just appreciate for a moment with me the vibe shift that has to happen for students to openly support Donald Trump on campus.
00:19:51.000They're not just singing the national anthem like that last clip.
00:19:53.000The clip before, they were saying we want Trump.
00:19:56.000They were going on the offense in 2016.
00:20:00.000Campuses would literally investigate students that were celebrating a Trump win.
00:20:05.000Now, you got in 2024 whole groups of students shouting proudly, shouting down the protesters, saying we want Trump and singing the national anthem.
00:20:14.000But it's not just UNC, it's not just Ole Miss.
00:20:36.000So, you've got the Palestinian, pro-Palestinian crew on one side, Palestine will be free, and you've got all these other kids at Rutgers saying USA, USA, chanting it over and over again.
00:20:51.000We played the Cow Poly clip from earlier.
00:20:53.000That was a month before the protests happened.
00:20:55.000That's proof that the seeds for this were already planted long ago, and they're just finally coming to fruition.
00:21:04.000And these clips are inspiring a whole generation.
00:21:06.000We're getting reports at Turning Point USA that this is happening organically all across the country.
00:21:12.000A lot of our chapters, you're seeing this bubbling up of pure, unadulterated pro-American patriotism.
00:21:20.000It's like the cool kids are taking back their school from a bunch of nerds.
00:21:28.000Whereas you got Soros, students for justice in Palestine-funded groups that are taking, you know, that all you see the same signs, the same campuses, the tents look the same, the same procedures.
00:21:40.000Outside agitators coming in and trying to radicalize these kids and pump their minds full of whatever.
00:21:47.000And on our side, you have a ground up, an organic, spontaneous combustion of just pushback.
00:22:54.000Charlie was at 1.7 million followers on Twitter.
00:22:58.000It was at 1.9, and then January 6th happened.
00:23:01.000A couple days later, it was down at 1.7, and it stayed that way for the entirety of the time between then and when Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X.
00:23:13.000And now, guess how many followers he has?
00:23:30.000The data points are there if you look at them.
00:23:34.000The most conservative young men in 50 years, a spontaneous movement of patriotism, patriotism, and counter-protests rising up versus this top-down radical movement, free Palestine.
00:23:50.000By the way, why do they all wear masks?
00:26:38.000And by the way, there's a longer clip that you guys should all check out on X. About 10-minute long exchange, where he starts off calling Charlie a fascist.
00:27:28.000Winning over hearts and minds, one video at a time, one interaction at a time.
00:27:33.000And by the way, going into the lion's den, going into the hostile enemy-occupied territory and telling kids it's okay to believe these things.
00:30:07.000They have no idea the enormity of the problem that the Democrats and Joe Biden have thrust upon the country, the chaos that they have unleashed.
00:30:16.000If you ask kids on campus how many abortions happen every year, they literally think it's like 50,000, when the number is actually a million.
00:30:23.000These assumptions are getting changed.
00:30:26.000And we're going right into the lion's den.
00:30:28.000We're going right into enemy-occupied territory, telling them the truth.
00:30:34.000So let's fix our gaze now on the upcoming convention that the Democrats are going to be holding.
00:30:43.000Because there's some parallels here that we can draw to another very consequential convention that was in 1968.
00:30:53.000So Wall Street Journal puts it like this: Evidence is mounting that campuses have been targeted by professional mob agitators who sense White House weakness and are already gearing up to descend on Democrats' Chicago convention in August.
00:31:09.000This recalls the party's 1968 convention, the violence of which cemented a view of a lawless country under Democratic rule and aided Richard Nixon's election victory.
00:31:21.000Mr. Biden used the 2020 George Floyd protest to great effect against Mr. Trump, both egging him on, egging them on, and reveling in the White House's inability to restore order.
00:31:36.000It's something that we need to keep an eye on because I don't think this protest energy is going anywhere.
00:31:44.000There's that really great clip from this week where pro-Gaza protesters and counter-protesters, the only thing that they could agree on was F. Joe Biden.
00:31:58.000They chanted in unison that clip or that chant.
00:32:03.000So there's a lot of energy behind this movement, and it's probably going to carry over into the summer when the Democrats have their convention in August in Chicago.
00:32:16.000Now, let's just play some of the polling for you here.
00:32:20.000A new YouGov poll shows that 47% of people oppose on-campus protests, pro-Palestine protests, while just 28% support it.
00:32:31.000Now, I wish those numbers were greater, but that's still a 20-point delta of oppose versus support.
00:32:49.000Because it's not just that there are young people who oppose the protests, but they're finally speaking up.
00:32:53.000They're going to rally more people to their cause.
00:32:56.000It's everything we've been talking about this hour.
00:32:59.000And I want to kind of shift your thinking on what happened in 2020 with the BLM riots.
00:33:05.000A lot of people, the consensus is that those protests were stoked from on high, which they probably were, in order to remove Trump from power.
00:33:18.000And like I said, there's valid reason to believe that that's the case, but there's actually evidence to believe that those riots actually boosted Trump.
00:33:27.000People saw that it was coded left-wing.
00:34:18.000And then Hubert Humphrey became the Democrat nominee, but he was not enormously popular with the base.
00:34:27.000They didn't have primary elections in most states back then, and Humphrey didn't run in any of the primary states.
00:34:32.000So he kind of got zero support from regular voters.
00:34:36.000Chicago Mayor Richard Daly thought that the convention was his chance to show off Chicago and was extremely angry about protests.
00:34:44.000So he deployed more than 11,000 Chicago police to surround the convention and block protesters.
00:34:50.000This backfired protesters clashed with police all week.
00:34:57.000The media and the protesters believed that the violence of police against anti-war demonstrators would cause a surge of public support and anti-war sentiment.