00:00:47.000And so we have Kayleigh McInani, Ted Cruz, Laura Ingram, Josh Hawley, Greg Gutfeld, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kat Temp, Pete Hegseth, Byron Donalds, Ben Carson, Rick Scott, Lauren Boebert, Governor Kevin Stitt, Kat Kamack, Matt Gates, Jack Pesobic, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Sean Foyt, and more.
00:01:05.000And then we also have Turning Point Action hosting Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
00:02:08.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:16.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:05:05.000You know, more than half of every state's budget is in the public schools.
00:05:10.000And that means, you know, and then the federal part is not very big as federal spending goes, but it's controlling it.
00:05:19.000And so it's, you know, if you're a poor governor of a state where the people want the schools to get better, you've got to go through them.
00:05:28.000And then they generate the teachers' union and other public employee unions are much the largest contributors to left-wing causes.
00:06:09.000And then one of the online courses that I took for Hillsdale, actually several of them, talk about the progressive era and Woodrow Wilson, who tried to create almost this new founding and was almost criticizing the founding fathers.
00:06:22.000Not almost, but was criticizing the founding fathers for not being as enlightened as Professor Wilson.
00:06:29.000Let's talk about what the Founding Fathers argued.
00:06:31.000And I want to just plug your book, The Founder's Key.
00:06:33.000I was actually just rereading it the other night in anticipation of this.
00:06:37.000And what I love about the book and the speeches you give about the book, the lectures, is that you're refuting a common talking point that has really is prevailing over academia, which is there were kind of two founding events.
00:06:50.000And one was kind of more liberal in nature and one was more conservative.
00:06:56.000And the Declaration, you know, it was just founding fathers saying that they don't want to be part of Britain anymore, but the Constitution fixed a lot of that.
00:07:03.000And they were kind of these separate deals.
00:07:05.000You make the argument that they're actually tied together, that they make claims about the universality of humanity.
00:07:48.000And we try to adapt the ways to the purposes.
00:07:52.000But the ways are different from the purposes.
00:07:54.000You know, you're a burgeoning young conservative scholar and personality and influencer, but your show is cameras and microphones.
00:08:08.000Anyway, so for there to be a founding and it to be coherent, all of that has to be covered.
00:08:14.000And it actually gets covered in both documents, in the Declaration and the Constitution, although the weight is different between the two.
00:08:24.000In the Declaration of Independence, there are three parts.
00:08:29.000The first part is very beautiful and also emphatically universal.
00:08:34.000And the middle part is 30 paragraphs, 29 paragraphs of details.
00:08:40.000But if you just read those details backwards, if you just say all the stuff the king has done that justify the revolution, then you would need a constitution that forbids those things.
00:08:53.000And the Constitution does forbid those things.
00:08:56.000They group into the main features of the Constitution, which are representation, separation of powers, and limited government.
00:09:07.000And those three things give the Constitution its structure.
00:09:24.000And, you know, the first part, I mean, like the best celebration you could make for the Declaration of Independence is to study it for an hour because it's an extremely interesting document.
00:09:38.000It begins purely universally when in the course of human events, right, that means any time, it becomes necessary for one people, that means any people, to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with other and to assume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:10:02.000Those laws are, if they exist at all, they are simply eternal and universal.
00:10:08.000And it's the name of those that the document begins.
00:10:12.000And then the next paragraph is about some self-evident truths that establish our right, any people's right, remember, not just ours, any people's right to choose the government, consent to it, and get rid of it if it goes bad.
00:10:31.000And that's, you know, that's a, that's nothing to do in particular with the American people, any people, they say.
00:10:40.000And then this middle part where they talk about the bad stuff the king has done, which condemnation supply the main structure of the later Constitution.
00:10:50.000And then at the end, it's just gorgeous.
00:10:52.000I mean, it's, and so you have to picture the situation.
00:10:58.000Understanding history means being able to do that.
00:11:01.000And this is 2 million people along the eastern seaboard.
00:11:06.000They didn't have an army to speak of, right?
00:11:08.000They were all, they found out they were all the army in a way, but it wasn't organized.
00:11:13.000There was nobody in America who had ever moved a large body of troops from one place to another.
00:11:21.000And that's one of the reasons why Washington lost lots of battles, especially early in the war.
00:12:58.000There was a general with an army who was looking for them.
00:13:02.000And if he had found any of these ones, and he did find many people, they were going to take them into custody in a military force and they were going to send them back to England, a trip of two months, and they were going to be tried by strangers for their lives, right?
00:13:20.000And they know that when they're in the room and they write, and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, the last mentioned of God, and the last universal statement, we mutually pledge to each other, to each other.
00:13:43.000That means Thomas Jefferson is pledging to John Adams and vice versa.
00:13:51.000And that means everybody who was there who signed that document placed their reputation in the hands of everybody else there.
00:14:01.000Mutually pledged to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, which is all that a person's got to give.
00:14:08.000And so step outside, you know, the debate about this thing today, because, you know, it's condemned, right?
00:15:50.000I am apt to believe that it will be that the 2nd of July, turned out the 4th, will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.
00:16:02.000It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
00:16:09.000It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, with games, with sports, with guns.
00:23:26.000It doesn't matter then if Anthony Fauci, to name an example, has been there for 400 years and wrote the textbook on epidemiology, which he did.
00:25:40.000If I have to choose between the liberal world order and bread and the ability to feed my family, then I'm sorry that I'm going to have to incinerate a liberal world order if that's what's standing between me and being able to provide for and take care of my family.
00:25:56.000But I think the funniest thing about that is it's a kind of admission that all of this is actually on purpose.
00:26:02.000It's not a set of circumstances that the Biden administration, that the people in charge of this country just couldn't have foreseen or couldn't have predicted.
00:26:09.000It's a kind of implicit admission that actually this is all controlled and you have to suffer through it because that's what it takes to preserve this abstraction, this liberal world order, whatever that means.
00:26:22.000And I mean, in my mind, what comes to mind is the United States, the federal government of the United States subsidizing the rape of Afghan boys through our so-called allies over there, basically forcing American taxpayers to subsidize that, right?
00:26:36.000I mean, name your atrocity that the federal government does without your knowledge, without your consent, with your money, and sometimes with your blood.
00:26:46.000And that, in my mind, is the liberal world order.
00:26:58.000And I think we could change it as it's more kind of the neoliberal world order, was what they're talking about, which is open borders, no sovereignty, uniformed language, one currency.
00:27:08.000It is really kind of this World Economic Forum, World Health Assembly against the idea of a sovereign nation.
00:27:15.000Now let's play Joe Biden, who happened to be with John Kasich, by the way, on this very topic in 2017.
00:27:23.000This breaking down of the international and national norms is the glue that holds the liberal world order together and holds together our system.
00:28:00.000What were the promises of neoliberalism?
00:28:02.000And what were the catastrophic results?
00:28:05.000Well, I think an important thing to understand is the unipolar moment, right?
00:28:09.000So basically, and this is important because NATO is very prominent right now, right?
00:28:15.000I mean, NATO is the thing, unfortunately, on everyone's mind right now because of this war between Russia and Ukraine that NATO seems to be provoking and benefiting from.
00:28:25.000And of course, NATO is led by the United States.
00:28:27.000So basically, NATO was created by Western nations and led from the beginning by the United States to do primarily one thing, which was act as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
00:28:38.000And the Soviet Union, as an ideological nation, a nation that was premised on ideas, viewed every other government, every other non-communist government as an existential threat to itself.
00:28:51.000Any state that did not share its ideas, its presuppositions, its beliefs, was a threat, right?
00:29:00.000So it was on a kind of maximal war footing with the entire world constantly trying to replicate itself, to influence the world, to basically spread itself and reproduce itself all over, right?
00:29:14.000So that, I mean, there's no debate that that is what the Soviet Union was.
00:29:19.000But the problem was, or I should say the historical irony of this is that with the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States itself emerged as a kind of ideological nation itself.
00:29:29.000In other words, the United States kind of became the thing that it was fighting.
00:29:34.000It became a kind of version, a bizarre version of the Soviet Union that instead of Marxist-Leninism, it's promoting transgenderism and LGBTQ rights.
00:29:45.000I don't know what that means and like homosexuality all around the world.
00:29:50.000This is the, again, the historical irony of the story of the Cold War is that the United States kind of became what it set out to fight.
00:29:59.000And sometimes there are admissions of this.
00:30:01.000Francis Fukuyama wrote a book called, yeah, The End of History.
00:30:06.000And he famously broke with neoconservatives because he viewed neoconservatives as basically Leninists in the United States and the other side of the coin of neoliberalism.
00:30:15.000But Fukuyama famously said that these Leninists had emerged first as tragedy in the Soviet Union as Bolsheviks and now as farce again in the United States as neoconservatives.
00:30:28.000And so rooted in neoliberalism is a couple promises that I once believed because I was naive and young.
00:30:35.000And it was also so dominant, Pedro, in the conservative movement in 2012, 13, 14 for kind of new people that were entering into it, which is that all international trade is good no matter what, that any trade barriers will actually make you go into recession and immediate depression, that there really isn't a better thing about your nation.
00:30:53.000You could believe in American exceptionalism, but you only believe in American exceptionalism because of our ability to espouse neoliberal ideas.
00:31:00.000That was the only type of American exceptionalism that was okay.
00:31:04.000For example, there was kind of talking points on the right that says, you know, America is such a great country because we're more tolerant than other countries.
00:31:12.000And of course, if we read Aristotle, tolerance and apathy are the two dying signs of a society.
00:31:19.000And so it's also open borders is a big part of neoliberalism.
00:31:22.000And there's also another one, which is who are we to judge?
00:31:26.000That's a big part of neoliberalism, right?
00:31:28.000And it's a lie, obviously, because the people doing the judging are the ones telling you not to judge, but it's kind of a live and let live phenomenon, right?
00:31:35.000Which is, you do you, and I do me, which of course is nice.
00:31:39.000It sounds good until the person on the other side wants to tell you how to live a certain way, which is inevitable.
00:31:46.000Can you talk about the ideological underpinnings of this quote liberal world order that now the Biden regime is saying we must suffer high gas prices, food shortages, and breadlines potentially to execute the finishing touches of that?
00:32:02.000Yeah, well, I think the key thing here is that because we're talking about ideology, that means it's not really connected to reality.
00:32:09.000So, I mean, if you look at the United States right now, let's focus on the military.
00:32:14.000Right now, the military is having a really difficult time finding bodies to fill roles.
00:32:18.000Recruitment is at some historic lows right now, which is why they're relaxing all of these standards to get people where they need to be in the military, right?
00:32:26.000At the same time that that's happening, you've got these neoliberal ideologues talking about how the United States needs to prepare for a simultaneous war with both Russia and China.
00:32:40.000But you can read this article in Foreign Policy Magazine by Matthew Kroenig, who's saying that the United States has to be ready to defeat Russia and China in overlapping timeframes.
00:32:52.000There is, I don't know anyone who actually has their feet on the ground and looks around with open eyes and sees that they think that that's possible or that we should do that.
00:33:01.000I mean, Kroenig is saying not only can we, we should.
00:33:06.000That, again, ideology is extremely dangerous because it has nothing to do with reality.
00:33:11.000And so, yes, if you're an ideologue, it's perfectly normal to say, well, a few million Americans are going to have to starve or lose their homes or not be able to support their families.
00:33:21.000That's the price that we have to pay to support this ideology.
00:33:24.000And I think this is the consistent thing with any ideology, is that it subordinates reality, the facts on the ground to the idea.
00:33:33.000I mean, again, look at the Soviet Union, this kind of denialism all the way up to the end among the ruling class, right?
00:33:40.000At the same time, that in fact, everything is crumbling.
00:33:44.000And I think, again, the United States is this kind of bizarro version of the Soviet Union with this or under the spell of the liberal world order, the neoliberalism ideology, whatever you want to call it.
00:33:59.000But I think it's the same kind of thing.
00:34:01.000And you're seeing this kind of come to a screeching halt and the cracks starting to emerge in this.
00:34:07.000Yeah, and that's such a good point, which is at its core, it is about denial of material reality, whether it be biological reality, geopolitical reality, human reality.
00:34:21.000And Alexander Solshenitsyn, who actually helped take down the Soviet Union, he warned America about hyper-ideological movements.
00:34:29.000And so Alexander Solzhenitsyn actually said the Soviet Union became what it did thanks to ideology.
00:35:14.000No, it was an extremely pessimistic speech.
00:35:18.000It was an extremely pessimistic speech.
00:35:20.000I think for Harvard, these young optimistic people, it was shocking for them.
00:35:25.000But I think we'll come back to an important point about what happens if you believe that your nation is an ideological one and how that connects everything else.
00:35:34.000What do you do when you recognize or realize you're living in a nation captured by ideology?
00:35:39.000So basically, if you believe that it's possible to take a nation and reduce it to an abstraction, basically to just a kind of set of ideas, then it follows that that's going to apply to every aspect of life.
00:36:08.000There's no such thing as even when we say things like American culture.
00:36:12.000Well, there's no such thing because to be an American is simply a kind of subscription to a set of ideas, the liberal world order.
00:36:21.000It's basically just the reduction of life to a bunch of buzzwords, which on the one hand sounds absurd because it is, but on the other hand, it's also how you get totalitarian societies.
00:36:33.000Because in an ideological regime, everyone has to subscribe to the ideas.
00:36:39.000That means it's not enough for you to simply just keep your head down, mind your own business.
00:37:13.000And the difference between that and saying that the United States has a kind of moral obligation to build democracies around the world.
00:37:21.000That we can simply turn men into women by using different language, pronouns.
00:37:28.000I mean, I think the funny thing about pronouns is they're actually much more totalitarian than people realize because it's you kind of denying that reality is a thing and kind of acquiescing to this lie.
00:37:41.000So I think it's not so simple as saying, well, if you believe in the idea of liberty, if you believe in the idea of family, we're not talking about ideology here.
00:37:51.000We're talking about something very different.
00:37:53.000And again, the problem with ideology is on the one hand, again, like I said, everyone has to believe in it.
00:38:00.000But on the other hand, it's always changing.
00:38:03.000There's always a kind of new addition, a new thing that you have to believe in in order to stay up to date.
00:38:09.000Otherwise, you end up like J.K. Rowling, who was basically fine with a lot of things that we would identify with neoliberalism or the liberal world order, again, whatever you want to call it.
00:38:20.000But she broke with her liberal friends on transgenderism and they completely cannibalized her and people like her because she's not keeping up with the latest aspect of this.
00:38:31.000So it's very different from saying, again, like, I believe in freedom and liberty and this kind of totalitarian ideology that demands complete fealty to it, complete subordination to it.
00:38:44.000And I also want to add, though, that ideology is different than philosophy.
00:40:05.000So yes, it's the exact opposite of philosophy, which is philosophy is, I mean, ultimately, we're really just talking about a willingness to kind of subject everything to interrogation.
00:40:26.000Where philosophy is rooted in Socratic pursuit of truth or in the love of wisdom, things that never change, things that all people can understand, not just be captured by a certain hallucination or delusion.