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00:02:21.000His 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.
00:02:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:45.000America is at its lowest level of tonality that I've ever lived through.
00:02:53.000America is in total need of a jolt of positivity and optimism more than ever before.
00:03:00.000Many loyal Trump supporters that I have spoken to in the last couple of days have honestly lost total hope in America.
00:03:06.000And they don't even think that if President Trump wins four more years, it'll matter.
00:03:12.000Many loyal Trump supporters that I speak to, they have no idea what the 2020 message is or what we are running on this November.
00:03:22.000One of the most impactful books I read growing up was Trump's 2007 book, Think Big.
00:03:30.000One of the quotes that really resonated with me was, and I remember presenting it to my eighth grade teacher, and she just laughed and kind of scoffed at it and dismissed it, was as long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
00:03:45.000And Donald Trump repeated that many times throughout his business career.
00:03:49.000And in a lot of ways, in 2016, Donald Trump challenged America to think bigger.
00:03:56.000In fact, in 2016, Donald Trump was able to capture the imagination of a nation.
00:04:04.000A lot of the people thought that Hillary Clinton lost more than Donald Trump won.
00:04:34.000We're going to win so much, you're going to be sick of it.
00:04:38.000In fact, Donald Trump tempted Americans to dream for a better future for the first time since Ronald Reagan.
00:04:46.000I've personally met thousands and thousands of people, and some of you have emailed me here at freedom at charliekirk.com, who said they voted for the first time in their lives in 2016 because Donald Trump captured the creativity and imagination of a nation that felt like we were in perpetual decline.
00:05:07.000In many ways, the country right now is in a total reset.
00:05:12.000Many of the landmark economic and cultural accomplishments of the last three years have been erased by the lockdowns and by the virus.
00:05:21.000It is now almost time for Donald Trump to run a completely new campaign, as if he were running for the presidency for the first time.
00:05:29.000Now, mind you, politicians are able to win votes in three categories.
00:05:33.000Now, this is something that I came up with originally, but as I explain it, it's not anything original.
00:05:39.000It's just a way, in my opinion, to categorize political communication in an easy-to-way understand.
00:05:45.000Politicians are able to either run on what they did, what they are currently doing, or what they will do.
00:05:53.000So, Donald Trump is able to go to the American people and say, hey, look at Kavanaugh, look at Gorsuch, I did that.
00:05:59.000Donald Trump is able to go to the American people and say, what they're doing.
00:06:02.000I'm managing the Chinese coronavirus right now, or what they will do.
00:06:06.000Or Donald Trump's able to say, we're going to go to Mars.
00:06:11.000Now, Joe Biden fails to be able to talk about what he did because what he did is in such contradiction to what he's trying to run on now, because he was almost a completely different senator than he is a candidate right now.
00:06:24.000He's not doing anything because he's not in office.
00:06:27.000And no one knows what Joe Biden actually is going to do.
00:06:31.000And so if you actually compartmentalize politics into did, doing, and will do, Donald Trump has a huge advantage.
00:06:38.000This is why incumbents traditionally are able to win.
00:06:41.000It's because they are able to say, look what I'm doing right now and look what I did, whereas outsiders can only say what I will do and criticize what was done.
00:06:50.000So Trump traditionally, over the last 40 years, was the best will-do icon in America.
00:06:56.000This is why so many people followed and supported him.
00:07:01.000His focus on achieving the impossible, breaking barriers, building Trump Tower, writing Art of the Deal, building the Woolman rink was Trump defying detractors and using incredible focus, stamina, and relentlessness towards achieving success.
00:07:35.000What is the next massive dream or focused objective of the Trump presidency?
00:07:40.000The president understandably feels like he's already done so much and that he's received no credit for it.
00:07:47.000And all the accomplishments of his presidency have basically been invalidated.
00:07:52.000In fact, the president feels like he's done more than any other president, let alone in eight years and three years, and now everyone's forgotten it.
00:08:02.000You throw in a three-year witch hunt, an illegal impeachment, a pandemic, and race riots.
00:08:08.000It's easy to see how all the amazing wins have been totally erased.
00:08:13.000Now, despite all this, Donald Trump has to almost rerun on a will-do campaign, not a I did campaign.
00:08:22.000Now, mind you, with the nation being in a trough right now and in an endless spiral towards despair and destruction, a positive, upbeat, big message will resurrect the spirit of America.
00:08:39.000Our country will rebound instantaneously with positivity and energy around concrete ideas.
00:08:47.000Again, Trump won on the credibility of being able to say, I built amazing businesses.
00:08:54.000And he could still lean on some of the done category for America, meaning I had the lowest ever black, Hispanic unemployment, Asian American, and female unemployment.
00:09:04.000And that's why we have to dream again.
00:09:07.000In fact, America needs the 2007 Donald Trump, who's a business promoter and a positive beam of energy.
00:09:15.000I've done a lot of serious thinking about what this actually looks like and means.
00:09:21.000I think the president has to push the boundaries of what we are able to talk about in political discourse.
00:09:28.000At our event, a Turning Point Action, we hosted the President of the United States in front of 3,000 students in Phoenix, Arizona last week.
00:09:36.000The two greatest applause lines with the most enthusiasm was when President Trump said, we are going to Mars and Space Force is created.
00:09:45.000Let me play some tape and you can hear the roar from the crowd yourself.
00:10:34.000They want to think bigger than themselves.
00:10:37.000See, if you leverage recent cultural controversies and the collateral damage that has been done by Democrats, Trump can amazingly and creatively break out of this Washington, D.C. matrix.
00:10:50.000He can use the social anxiety that the Democrats and the media have focused on and created to his advantage.
00:10:57.000And we know this in physics, and it's not untrue in politics.
00:11:01.000For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
00:11:04.000So when you feel like you're in a rut, use that energy of negativity and reposition it towards something positive.
00:11:14.000Americans want to think we can do the impossible.
00:11:19.000It makes us almost feel the permission to embrace that unique American frontier spirit.
00:11:27.000You juxtapose the arson of America with the hope-filled message of a return to space, for example, it gives people an extra step of enthusiasm for our country.
00:11:38.000So after a lot of thought, here are five concrete ideas that I think that Donald Trump can embrace and win on.
00:11:46.000And this is different than low taxes or high taxes.
00:11:49.000And President Trump's already advocating for some terrific ideas.
00:11:54.000School choice, educational vouchers, charter schools, opportunity zones.
00:12:00.000These are five things that are currently not being talked about in the American political discourse that people can feel, that they can interact with, that they can say, yes, that's an America I want to raise my kids in.
00:12:13.000Number one, we will make our kids love America again.
00:12:19.000Parents are deathly worried about their kids' future.
00:12:23.000They're afraid their kids will become the next generation of arsonists and thugs that have total disregard for our country.
00:12:30.000Most suburban parents are overwhelmed by the daily stresses of life and are barely keeping it all together.
00:12:37.000And they have very little remaining bandwidth to teach their kids history or how to properly advocate for America.
00:12:44.000These parents are, interestingly enough, the suburban voters who are currently, let's just say, not supporting Donald Trump at numbers that Republican vote at Republicans usually do.
00:12:56.000The recent burning of America offers a tremendous opening to countermove the negativity to a positive.
00:13:04.000Use this unprecedented deletion of our history to challenge America to get our kids to love our country again.
00:13:14.000Parents across the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and Pennsylvania will signal massive support around a campaign to recapture the love of our incredible nation.
00:13:24.000Make the Constitution mandatory in 5th, 7th, and 8th grade.
00:13:28.000Make them have to pass a mandatory Constitution class.
00:13:31.000Instead of allowing the statues of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln be torn down, ask yourself, why are they being torn down?
00:13:39.000It's because our kids don't love America because we failed our kids.
00:13:42.000And Donald Trump needs to look the American people in the eye and say, the same DC cartel that spied on me and then impeached me also didn't teach your kids history, and I will make sure they learn it.
00:13:56.000Parents are horrified that their kids might grow up in an America that is full of burning and looting and arson.
00:14:05.000But instead of just going after the law and order message, which is so important, we should arrest these thugs and these terrorists, let's go after the root causes.
00:14:13.000Let's ask ourselves, why are they doing this?
00:14:16.000It's because those thugs that are taking down the statues in Washington, D.C., and Portland, and Seattle, just 10 or 15 years ago, were sitting in a middle school classroom hearing from a Marxist teacher say, America is an awful country.
00:14:34.000We do not live in a exceptional country.
00:14:40.000And that seventh grader who heard that started to believe it.
00:14:44.000And he heard it again in 9th grade and 11th grade and then really heard it when he was in college.
00:14:50.000Before you know it, he's taking a rope and trying to tear down a statue.
00:14:54.000Root causes is where Donald Trump needs to focus on.
00:14:59.000And America will reward him politically.
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00:16:15.000If there's any time to really stretch the imagination of our party and our movement, now's the time.
00:16:24.000And one more thought on people learning to hate America.
00:16:27.000I was so deeply disturbed by the story I read on Foxnews.com by Yael Holan, who says this, Michigan GOP candidate, deeply hurt by daughter's anti-endorsement, but applauds her for speaking out.
00:16:38.000A young socialist by the name of Steph on Twitter, Stephanie Regan, came out and said, if you're in Michigan and 18 years old, please for the love of God, do not vote for my dad for state rep. Tell everyone.
00:16:52.000That's what colleges do, is they create bitter, hateful resentment so that kids will rebel against their parents.
00:17:03.000I mean, it's just, it makes me sick to my stomach that I see this, that we have parents who are running for office and their kids go viral saying to not vote for him.
00:17:12.000And then the celebrities in the left say that she's a hero.
00:17:16.000Honor your mother and father is in one of the Ten Commandments and the disobedience.
00:17:20.000And the father is obviously saddened by it, but he's trying to keep his family together.
00:17:25.000I hope he has some very private words and says you're going to pay for your own college now.
00:17:30.000But that just goes to show people want their kids to love America again.
00:17:36.000But it's our indoctrination factories and the left-wing institutions and colleges that are teaching the hatred of America every single day.
00:17:45.000Another provocative idea that I have is having students take a gap year before entering college.
00:17:58.000Essentially, a domestic Peace Corps to solve structural problems in America.
00:18:02.000Now, there's AmeriCorps, but it doesn't go anywhere far enough.
00:18:05.000I'm talking about a new call of service in America.
00:18:09.000You see, when I speak to audiences, there's a massive and enthusiastic response when I float out the idea of having young people serve their country for a year before entering college.
00:18:19.000This will address the root causes and help solve a lot of the economic challenges we are seeing with recent graduates.
00:18:25.000I believe that if we can create a new national gap year program for 18-year-olds across the country to help tackle poverty, address opioid addiction, and address other issues, we'll have a new national focus on fixing structural issues.
00:18:38.000This idea has been floated by many people, and I believe will be really favorably rewarded by voters as it addresses root causes.
00:19:06.000They want to see a new vision for America where young people are excited and serving the country, not burning it down.
00:19:14.000So if Donald Trump basically steps up and says, we are going to have young people build America, not burn America, that's something voters can get behind.
00:19:26.000That is a huge juxtaposition to the arson of the Democrat Party.
00:19:31.000Idea number three is something that my friend Chris Buzkirk from AmericaGreatness.com talked about in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk Shaw.
00:19:46.000And the idea is this: we must make America completely self-sufficient by the end of Trump's second term.
00:19:54.000If you want to see one thing that the Chinese coronavirus exposed, it is how dependent the United States is on China and other countries for critical supplies and infrastructure.
00:20:04.000We don't make antibiotics, vitamin C, PPE, things that we need for our country.
00:20:10.000And it's because the ruling class and the political cartel sold out our country to China and China's affiliates and American companies that have no patriotism at all in their company or in their worldview.
00:20:20.000Instead, all they care about is maximizing the bottom line.
00:20:23.000And if we don't have a country and they're just able to sell us out and decay the inner part of everything that we're doing, then so be it.
00:20:31.000Polling shows that this is an 80-20 issue across party lines, that we can make things in America, and we must.
00:20:38.000Donald Trump has already started us along this thought process.
00:20:41.000He won in 2016 around saying we are going to bring back supply chains to America.
00:20:46.000Now, mind you, a lot of economists say, well, what about competitive advantage or comparative advantage?
00:20:51.000Well, comparative advantage is fine if the only thing you care about is pennies on a dollar.
00:20:56.000But when we need to get antibiotics or vitamin C in a pandemic from our greatest enemy, China, I don't care if it's pennies on a dollar.
00:21:03.000And by the way, what's the comparative advantage of not having the millions of lost jobs of people that could be making massive pieces of infrastructure, PPE, vitamin C, antibiotics?
00:21:14.000And I'm just off the top of my head, Advil, all of it's made in China, all of it.
00:21:19.000We must bring these industries back to America immediately.
00:21:23.000Now, mind you, the Chamber of Commerce and a lot of their affiliates will totally reject this.
00:21:27.000And the Chamber of China wants the Chinese Communist Party to be perpetually in control over our critical infrastructure.
00:21:36.000What is a nation that doesn't make its own steel?
00:21:39.000That's what Donald Trump said in 2016.
00:21:42.000The same is true for antibiotics and PPE.
00:21:45.000We can no longer depend on foreign adversaries for the betterment of America.
00:21:50.000The virus has exposed how much we have sold out the core of our country to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:21:56.000And this will tangibly address it and will be met enthusiastically by voters.
00:22:00.000So President Trump should go find a vacated old factory that is very real to the voters of Michigan or Wisconsin, that people knew when they drove by for 50 years and it's now empty.
00:22:12.000And he should do a press conference outside of that factory.
00:22:14.000And he should say, you see this factory right here?
00:22:17.000This factory will make vitamin C two years from today if you re-elect me president of the United States.
00:22:22.000This factory will be empty and converted into an opioid clinic if Joe Biden is elected president of the United States.
00:22:29.000That kind of visual, President Trump can win on.
00:22:31.000President Trump should fly to Southeast Ohio and find an opioid clinic and say, we're going to shut down this opioid recovery clinic because we're not going to have enough people that need to go there and we're going to turn it into a manufacturing plant to make antibiotics, to make PPE.
00:22:46.000People think visually, especially people that have lost their jobs in factories and plants that were a part of their identity.
00:22:57.000Donald Trump won these voters in 2016 because he made them dream that they could get an America back where they used to have dignity and high wages and functioning communities.
00:23:07.000And we didn't sell out our country to the neoliberal elites that promised us that the greatest thing in the world was the continual decay of the middle class of our country.
00:23:17.000Idea number four: a military-style war room needs to be created to address urban crime and failing schools.
00:23:25.000President Trump needs to announce a 24-7 war room designed to address all issues of urban conflict and crime.
00:23:32.000This needs to be staffed by military, National Guard, and cultural leaders.
00:23:37.000Local cities and mayors, like in Chicago, where they had dozens of people shot and dozens of people killed in just the last 30 days in downtown Chicago.
00:23:44.000I mean, we had over 100 people shot over Father's Day weekend and two minors were killed.
00:23:50.000Yet Black Lives Matter remained completely silent on this.
00:23:52.000Donald Trump needs to create a 24-7 war room that monitors these hotspots, that is deploying federal resources, invoking the National Guard, not necessarily saying he needs to use the 1807 Insurrection Act, but it needs to be on the table.
00:24:05.000And also, he needs to focus on root causes.
00:24:08.000Any school that is failing their students that doesn't have kids reading at grade level, he should bring in the National Guard to go teach the kids how to read.
00:24:17.000Because obviously, the teachers aren't doing their job.
00:24:21.000And the National Guard should get involved in the schools in Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, all across the country.
00:24:28.000And if a school does not hit federal standards, they should bring in the National Guard.
00:24:33.000They should deploy in the National Guard.
00:24:59.000I'm a fan of using federal force if it's for a righteous and moral purpose.
00:25:03.000And some conservatives disagree with me, but guess what?
00:25:06.000We are breaking apart at the seams of our country, and people have been so betrayed by their local leaders, specifically Democrats.
00:25:15.000It's time to make tangible differences in the communities that have been so disadvantaged all across the country.
00:25:22.000And by the way, this can pair very nicely with a lot of the opportunity zone victories and criminal justice victories that President Trump was able to pass and sign into law.
00:25:32.000And by the way, what's the point of electing conservatives if they can't do anything about the problems they were elected to fix?
00:25:39.000Idea number five: rebuild the American family.
00:25:45.000President Trump should float a massive goal that we are going to cut fatherlessness in America in half in the next five years.
00:25:52.000By the time his second term is over, fatherlessness will be cut in half.
00:25:57.000This is brilliant for a couple different reasons.
00:25:59.000Number one, the fatherlessness rate is massive in communities run by Democrats.
00:26:04.000Number two, the Democrats don't think fatherlessness is an issue, and they actually support high rates of fatherlessness.
00:26:10.000Number three, it'll make our country so much better, stronger, vibrant, and a better place to live.
00:26:16.000We will not tolerate kids growing up without fathers anymore.
00:26:29.000Now, of course, there's abusive fathers, and those should be dealt with quickly, expediently, and throw them in prison.
00:26:37.000But that is not the vast majority at all.
00:26:40.000In fact, most individuals that are fathers abdicate authority and responsibility because the government subsidizes single motherhood, and fathers are allowed and given a free pass to act like grown infants and not take responsibility for their actions.
00:26:58.000This is an issue that's a 95-5 issue in Wisconsin and other Midwest states.
00:27:04.000Everyone agrees with this, and zero politicians dare speak about it.
00:27:08.000This is where Trump thrives, by the way.
00:27:10.000President Trump thrives on issues that the traditional political class and the ruling class are deathly silent on.
00:27:17.000The Democrat Party does not believe in strong families.
00:27:20.000In fact, Black Lives Matter, which is an affiliate of the Democrat Party, says on their website that they must disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:27:30.000President Trump needs to challenge Americans to build strong families again.
00:27:38.000And by the way, the Democrats are so pathologically opposed to everything that the president says that when he says we need to build strong families, they're going to come out and they're going to say we don't need strong families.
00:27:47.000That's when you're going to start to see the Democrat poll numbers tank and President Trump climb and climb and climb.
00:27:54.000Now remember, President Trump has to win just a collection of certain states.
00:27:59.000He has to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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00:29:23.000And so if President Trump advocates for even three out of these five things that's out of the kingdom of Washington, D.C. political orthodoxy and speaks directly to the American people about things that can actually matter to them.
00:29:35.000And by the way, that's not an exhaustive list.
00:29:37.000I think number six can be saying that we're going to cut the suicide rate in America in half because suicide is something that I think politicians never talk about.
00:29:44.000We have a mental health crisis in our country that has been so ignored.
00:29:48.000And if President Trump says suicide is something that is affecting every corner of American society, we're going to cut the suicide rate in half.
00:30:05.000Say that rapists will spend a minimum, mandatory minimum of 30 years in prison.
00:30:10.000Number eight, reducing illiteracy in the inner city by 50%.
00:30:14.000If all of a sudden saying you're going to start to solve structural issues through all sorts of different ways, America needs that positive future right now.
00:30:21.000So every time I sit at a meeting in Turning Point USA or any meeting that I'm involved in where we have a problem and we're trying to work through that problem and we're trying to come up with a solution, I always say this.
00:30:31.000We did this on the podcast, and a lot of our, let's just say, success is attributed to this thinking matrix.
00:30:38.000And I think President Trump and his team needs to employ this exact exercise.
00:30:43.000And I encourage you to do this in your life right now.
00:30:46.000Ask yourself the question: what does success look like?
00:32:00.000Because young parents that have just kind of gotten the shot in the arm that they're now responsible for one or two or three human beings, they're looking around and they're saying, I don't know how to process this country and I don't like it.
00:32:13.000And some of them are kind of going to the flight to safety, which is the treasury bond equivalent in politics of Joe Biden.
00:32:19.000Like, sure, maybe this will get me back to an America that makes sense.
00:32:22.000Because when Obama was president, this is what made sense.
00:32:25.000Things were a lot more calm when Biden was in office than Donald Trump.
00:32:30.000Donald Trump has to articulate what success looks like: families that are rebuilt, churches that are flourishing, suicide that is going down, America being self-sufficient.
00:32:43.000The Constitution will be well understood.
00:32:44.000We'll be building statues of George Washington, not tearing them down.
00:32:49.000Donald Trump needs to say, we will be a country where our kids come home excited to tell their parents about George Washington, not ashamed for being America.
00:32:59.000We'll be a country where schools are so on fire for the writings of Ben Franklin and John Locke that they will be erecting statues to our leaders, not trying to bring them down, that they will be naming schools after Abraham Lincoln, not renaming them.
00:33:17.000That we will not be renaming John Wayne Airport, which is what they're doing in Orange County, California right now, but instead, we'll be solving structural issues like homelessness and drug addiction.
00:33:28.000Show me the America that we're trying to achieve.
00:33:33.000Success will be a country of kids that will love America and their God so much that the parents will be like, whoa, calm down a little bit, little Johnny.
00:33:52.000It all flows downstream from there because the country we're living in right now is parents that have to look their 11-year-olds and their 14-year-olds in the eye and they say, Hey, do you guys want to, what do you guys want to do for July 4th?
00:34:03.000And the 11-year-old's on their phone all day, and they say, I don't know, July 4th is awful because our country sucks.
00:34:08.000And they just kind of look in the distance.
00:34:13.000Instead, how do we optimistically and concretely and tangibly create America where they put their phone down and they say, I can't wait to celebrate America.
00:34:22.000Now, mind you, what's so brilliant about these five ideas is that Donald Trump can't be blamed for these structural issues because they predate him by generations.
00:34:34.000It's been a betrayal by the ruling class in both political parties as to why these problems exist.
00:35:03.000Like, here's my 12-step plan to restarting small businesses in America.
00:35:08.000Okay, that's not what's happening anymore, everybody.
00:35:11.000We are now in a full-fledged hand-to-hand combat culture war.
00:35:16.000This is no longer about white papers that have been published by think tanks in D.C. America wants to know, and especially Washington, especially people in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Florida, they're looking at their leaders and they're saying, like, hey, if you don't solve this, I'm going to do it myself, and I'm going to homeschool.
00:35:33.000And if you're not going to address it, I'm not going to be enthused to vote for you.
00:35:36.000And my kids definitely won't be, and my neighbors won't be.
00:35:39.000And if you're going to leave me alone and not talk about it, then so be it.
00:35:42.000And the people on the cultural left, they feel like their leaders are communicating culturally right now.
00:35:48.000The people on the cultural left are actually getting their cultural daily dose out of Alexandria Kazi-Hortes and Elon Omar.
00:35:57.000Our Republican base and our conservative base, we are not getting that from our leaders right now.
00:36:02.000We are not getting concretely the America we want to live in.
00:36:05.000And by the way, notice that when this cultural battle happens, especially after George Floyd's death, our conservative leaders retreated to just parliamentary tactics.
00:36:15.000Well, let's introduce a bill in the Senate.
00:36:19.000Something that like Nancy Pelosi probably could have even authored.
00:36:22.000Instead, they should have said, America is a beautiful country.
00:36:25.000You will not insult America in front of me.
00:36:27.000In fact, if you dare insult America and call it a racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards colonialist country, you're an anti-American and you should be kicked out of the U.S. Senate.
00:36:40.000And when we're able to articulate what success looks like, Republicans are rewarded.
00:36:44.000Let me give you two examples of Republican presidents that served two terms and one reelection convincingly because they articulated the soul of the country and what success looked like.
00:36:54.000Number one, a president that we forget about so often because he was such a successful president.
00:36:59.000And I didn't agree with him everything philosophically.
00:37:01.000In some ways, he was a big government guy.
00:37:02.000In other ways, he was just a patriotic American trying to get America back on track.
00:37:26.000He also warned us against the military-industrial complex.
00:37:30.000Differently and separately, Ronald Reagan.
00:37:32.000He made America think big in a different way, that we can defeat Soviet communism, that we're going to break out of the Carter malaise, that we can be the best.
00:38:26.000Because right now, Joe Biden knows that if America continues in the direction of depression, he might get elected president of the United States.
00:38:37.000And Donald Trump almost has to run as a political outsider, as an incumbent, because of how unusual and bizarre this entire year has been.
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00:38:51.000A home security system that's so complicated you never use it.
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00:39:19.000For all the criminals on the loose, we're letting criminals out of jail like it's going out of fashion and they're prowling around and they're committing crimes and they're going after innocent people.
00:40:45.000You can't go to outdoor venues in Travis County, Texas of more than 100 people.
00:40:51.000You could probably feel a little bit depressed.
00:40:56.000Alcoholism, drug usage, mental health issues are accelerated dramatically.
00:41:02.000In fact, a friend of mine who's very well respected even told me today that antidepressants make up 60% of all the new pharmaceutical prescriptions that are being written in the country.
00:41:15.000And Gavin Newsom just closed down bars in eight counties in California.
00:41:20.000When America's at its lowest point, which I think we're at our lowest point in decades right now, just philosophically and culturally and psychologically, and we might enter lockdown 2.0, now's the time for Trump to give that pump-up speech.
00:41:34.000Now's the time for Trump to give that halftime locker room talk and say, things suck right now.
00:42:56.000Descartes says you think, therefore I am.
00:42:59.000Tell me what you think of these five ideas, but also send me your ideas of what you think politicians, Republicans, and the president should embrace, because guess what?
00:43:06.000We are going to need to push the boundaries right here, right now.
00:43:10.000And for the hundreds of thousands of people listening to this, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:43:18.000And it was more like eight ideas, but still, maybe it's eight ideas to make America great or whatever.
00:43:22.000But if Donald Trump made his 2020 slogan and scrapped all that other stuff and he said, think big, we will win.
00:43:29.000Five words that could recapture America's imagination.
00:43:34.000The great eight big ideas or something.
00:43:37.000So email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:43:40.000Because right now, we are trending poorly.
00:43:42.000I don't think the polls are as bad as the media makes it seem, but I do not think that if the election were held today, that it would go well.
00:43:50.000I don't want to try to say something that is, I never want to tell you something that is not true because you guys trust me with hours and hours of your time.
00:44:07.000Four months is an eternity in presidential politics.
00:44:09.000I'm just giving you an assessment and temperature check right now.
00:44:13.000And by the way, a lot of the polling, the reason why Donald Trump is not doing as well in some of this polling is people are pretty upset about the direction of the country.
00:44:20.000Like a lot of it is like, are you happy with where your life is right now?
00:44:39.000Leadership means you have to be blamed for things that are not your fault and you have to keep on punching and come up with new vision and new ideas and remain eternally optimistic.
00:44:46.000And Donald Trump is the perfect person for that.
00:44:49.000We can win and we will win if we capture the imagination of a depressed nation.
00:44:55.000We will lose if we just relentlessly attack Biden and think that no one will vote for a senile old man because Americans are smarter than that.
00:45:08.000But if you do not capture them, if you do not make them think outside of the normal boxes of political orthodoxy, there's no guarantee we will win.
00:45:45.000He made us push the boundaries of what politics could be, more than low-tax, high-tax, big military, small military.
00:45:55.000If you're like me, you want to believe that tomorrow will be better than today and that our kids and grandkids will live in a tremendous country.
00:46:04.000And people are losing faith in that materially and tangibly.
00:46:10.000Donald Trump is the last best chance of Western society and civilization.
00:46:15.000It's time to make America dream again.
00:46:43.000Get engaged, get involved, chip in some money if you can.
00:46:46.000And for those of you that want to win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine, subscribe, give us a five-star review, screenshot at an emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:46:53.000You will get into the running to win one.