The Charlie Kirk Show - Why Are Gen Z And Gen X So Rightwing?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, why is it that baby boomers are not as supportive of President Trump as Gen X or Millennials or Gen Z? We dive into that with Mark Mitchell.

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00:01:28.000 Joining us now is Mark Mitchell.

00:01:31.000 A great follow on X. Very smart.

00:01:35.000 Runs all the polling for Rasmussen Reports, the head pollster.

00:01:40.000 Mark, welcome to the program.

00:01:42.000 Yeah, happy to be here.

00:01:43.000 Thanks for the kind words.

00:01:44.000 We try really hard.

00:01:45.000 It's basically just a handful of us, and we put out more polling in the morning consult, and they have hundreds of employees.

00:01:51.000 It's amazing.

00:01:52.000 It's a tough job.

00:01:53.000 It's a great thing you guys are doing.

00:01:56.000 So I just have to give a trigger warning.

00:01:58.000 It's a disclaimer here.

00:02:00.000 The core of our show here are patriotic, wonderful people that happen to be baby boomers.

00:02:07.000 So I always have to disclaim this.

00:02:08.000 What we're about to talk about, the people in this audience are exempt from this.

00:02:12.000 However, there is a generational truth that must be told here about who is approving of Trump and who is not.

00:02:22.000 I'm about to get the angriest emails imaginable, Mark.

00:02:26.000 So this is you, not me.

00:02:27.000 And for the record, everyone in the audience...

00:02:29.000 The rumors get really touchy.

00:02:30.000 Oh, no, no.

00:02:31.000 You have no idea.

00:02:31.000 It's like, I need personal security.

00:02:34.000 And so, Mark, what is going on here?

00:02:37.000 Well, I think what's happening is that we're entering the end of the fourth turning, and we're seeing what they talked about in that theory is rapid.

00:02:45.000 Rapid political realignments, changes, massive changes in public opinion.

00:02:49.000 And I'm here for it because I'm a public opinion professional.

00:02:52.000 And I don't think we've even begun to see the way in which people's opinions are going to change.

00:02:56.000 And 18 to 39-year-olds, perennially, you know, they approved of a Biden, Obama, a couple months into his first term.

00:03:04.000 It's 68%.

00:03:05.000 Well, guess what?

00:03:07.000 They are the highest approving age bracket of Donald Trump right now, 56%.

00:03:11.000 As of yesterday.

00:03:13.000 And that's astounding because in our numbers, those people went for Hillary Clinton by almost 30 points.

00:03:18.000 And they have a net plus 14 approval rating for Trump right now.

00:03:23.000 So that's like, you know, we're talking almost a 50-point swing in opinions.

00:03:28.000 And so it's because Donald Trump came in, and in my opinion, is saving the future of the republic in a way that nobody believed.

00:03:36.000 And the 18 to 39-year-olds are plugged in, I think more than anybody else, to independent online media, and they like what they see.

00:03:43.000 And it's not just Trump approval rating.

00:03:45.000 We also have right direction, wrong track at the highest numbers we've ever had in our polling.

00:03:49.000 47% right direction, 47% wrong track right now.

00:03:53.000 Those numbers are at parity.

00:03:55.000 They've only been above zero.

00:03:58.000 Twice in our history, and one of them was last week.

00:04:01.000 And so people are seeing this, and the mainstream media is just banging this constitutional crisis drum.

00:04:06.000 They're banging this Napoleon quote.

00:04:08.000 Nobody cares.

00:04:09.000 Nobody cares.

00:04:10.000 They're like, yeah, I voted for somebody to come in and uncover all this stuff.

00:04:14.000 And even the 18 to 29-year-olds, they are a little lefter than the 30 to 39-year-olds.

00:04:20.000 You know, those people are working, you know, peak career professionals, and they're also building families.

00:04:27.000 But 18 to 29-year-olds, based on all of my February data, and so this is more data than any other pollster is going to have on this right now, 18 to 29-year-olds, 49% approve of Trump, 48% disapprove.

00:04:40.000 That's incredible.

00:04:41.000 I mean, Mark, I got to interrupt.

00:04:42.000 I mean, so that's net plus one.

00:04:45.000 Has a Republican president enjoyed that kind of approval from this demographic in the last 20 years?

00:04:51.000 Well, I mean, it's been Trump for a decade, right?

00:04:54.000 And back then, no, like 30 points, 18 to 39-year-olds went to Hillary Clinton in our polls.

00:04:59.000 So again, this is a very recent thing, and we have charts that show Trump picked up a lot of their support during the 2020 cycle.

00:05:08.000 It wasn't enough, and they didn't go for him.

00:05:11.000 And he didn't win them this time out either, but now it's the fact that he came in and is doing what he promised.

00:05:18.000 And we have other polling that backs it up.

00:05:21.000 We also asked, during his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump said the golden age of America begins right now.

00:05:28.000 Agree or disagree?

00:05:30.000 And 52% of U.S. likely voters agreed with that statement, but 56% of 18- to 39-year-olds.

00:05:37.000 And so this is what happens when you steal these kids' future.

00:05:41.000 That's what's happened.

00:05:43.000 Basically, what we have here, you know, the fourth turning crisis isn't war with China or Russia.

00:05:47.000 It's war with our own government.

00:05:48.000 Exactly.

00:05:49.000 That's basically used the intel operations to conduct the biggest gaslighting warfare, information warfare in history for decades, faking this Republican-Democrat paradigm of politics that everybody sees through now.

00:06:04.000 We don't know what the Democrat and Republican parties are going to look like.

00:06:07.000 Can you even imagine the Democrats coming up with some kind of coherent platform?

00:06:11.000 To address what Trump's doing?

00:06:13.000 Like, I really can't.

00:06:14.000 Even if they could figure out one that would make sense, nobody's going to believe them.

00:06:18.000 And they're just so uncool and just so slow-moving.

00:06:22.000 But help me understand, why is it that younger voters, just to reiterate, 18 to 24 approve of Trump, whereas baby boomers do not?

00:06:34.000 I mean, just that's the generational divide.

00:06:35.000 You have more young voters that like Trump than older voters.

00:06:39.000 What is going on here?

00:06:41.000 Well, I think, you know, some of its brand, some of its news consumption, but to put a really sharp point on exactly what's going on with age brackets.

00:06:51.000 Is that older voters above 65 are more opinionated, so they're more likely to strongly approve of Trump and strongly disapprove, but they only get to a 50% approval and a 49% disapproval, so they're net plus one, whereas, you know, the 18 to 39-year-olds are, what did we say, net plus 14. It's huge, right?

00:07:11.000 Only 28% of 18 to 39-year-olds strongly disapprove of Trump.

00:07:15.000 So what that tells me is that everybody who's said that this man is Orange Hitler...

00:07:20.000 They don't care.

00:07:21.000 They do not believe it.

00:07:23.000 And I think it's because they're on the leading edge of understanding the collapse in trust in our institutions.

00:07:29.000 And I have other numbers to back this up.

00:07:31.000 Everybody says Kamala Harris was a bad candidate. 0.97

00:07:33.000 Well, she did convince 49% of the country to vote for her.

00:07:37.000 But we asked the question, do you trust the federal government?

00:07:40.000 Only 30% say yes.

00:07:42.000 The 18 to 39-year-olds were very close to that number.

00:07:45.000 I forget off the top of my head.

00:07:47.000 Is America safer than it was four years ago?

00:07:50.000 And this is the kind of question where you'd see like a really low yes response for the 65 and older, maybe 10 years ago.

00:07:58.000 Now only 27% of 18 to 29 year olds say America is safer than it was four years ago.

00:08:02.000 Only 24% of 30 to 39 year olds.

00:08:04.000 And will today's children be better off than their parents?

00:08:08.000 The number of people who say yes, 18 to 29-year-olds, only 34%.

00:08:12.000 These are people that just got out of college.

00:08:14.000 They're in a dating pool.

00:08:15.000 They're, like, getting their first corporate jobs.

00:08:17.000 And only 34% of them think that today's children will be better off than their parents.

00:08:21.000 That's horrifying.

00:08:22.000 And so everybody says, oh, like, economics, the economy, it's the number one issue.

00:08:27.000 And it's like, well, yeah, it has been for the last 40 years.

00:08:31.000 But we're looking at something very different here.

00:08:33.000 And the number two issue is the border security, but we all know that that's an economic signal as well.

00:08:39.000 And so really what it comes down to is people despise authority figures.

00:08:44.000 Overwhelmingly, they said that Biden was represented more of the same and that Trump was the change candidate.

00:08:50.000 Like, major numbers more than what Trump got.

00:08:53.000 I think over 60% said that Donald Trump was the candidate of change.

00:08:57.000 And that's it.

00:08:58.000 It's like you weaponize the government.

00:09:00.000 You weaponize the judicial system.

00:09:02.000 You try to throw people in internment camps because of COVID. You literally destroyed the First Amendment.

00:09:08.000 You know, everything.

00:09:10.000 They pushed the final vestiges of trust in the mainstream media off a cliff.

00:09:16.000 They literally burned every asset to try and stay in power.

00:09:20.000 And it failed.

00:09:21.000 And now they're scrambling.

00:09:22.000 And they don't look cool, that's for sure.

00:09:24.000 You're right.

00:09:24.000 I mean, they have a whole lot of septuagenarians and a whole lot of former Republican neocons out there just histrionically, like, whinging is the word, I think.

00:09:35.000 I don't know what else to say about it.

00:09:37.000 And then you have, it looks like a race to the bottom, insanity, where AOC is like, oh, you want populism?

00:09:43.000 I'll give you populism.

00:09:44.000 We're going to shoot CEOs.

00:09:45.000 Like, that's what they have.

00:09:47.000 It's absolutely insane.

00:09:49.000 I think it's remarkable where you have the next generation that is largely carrying this presidency.

00:09:56.000 And by the way, it's because they say, stop stealing my future.

00:09:58.000 I want to live in America.

00:09:59.000 I want to be able to own a home.

00:10:00.000 I don't care about Trump's tone or style or decorum.

00:10:03.000 In fact, I support it because I don't have a future.

00:10:05.000 I want someone to blow it up.

00:10:07.000 I want someone to fight for me.

00:10:08.000 I want someone to go in there and break stuff like Elon.

00:10:11.000 And for a lot of baby boomers, at least from my experience, is they want politeness. 0.61

00:10:18.000 They want decorum.

00:10:20.000 And a lot of them have done quite well financially.

00:10:22.000 They own homes.

00:10:23.000 younger people do not.

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00:11:27.000 Mark, how popular is Doge?

00:11:32.000 Well, more popular than Trump is right now.

00:11:35.000 We had net plus 10 just last week.

00:11:37.000 And so this is after people are watching USAID go in and get gutted.

00:11:42.000 And that's really incredible because, you know, everybody's complaining about Trump's new president, Elon, you know, Hitler oath swearing Elon, and it didn't work.

00:11:52.000 Elon Musk had a 52% favorability rating too.

00:11:55.000 And that might not sound great, but Trump's the only person besides Elon that polls above 50% of everybody we test right now.

00:12:03.000 That's where we're at.

00:12:04.000 We're never going to see a president unless the economy gets fixed or we go to war.

00:12:08.000 With a 60-70% approval rating, we're just past that.

00:12:12.000 Everything is too dire.

00:12:13.000 The tensions have ratcheted up too high.

00:12:16.000 But I also think that Trump's 50% is probably going to be pretty sticky.

00:12:20.000 I really don't think that he's going to get into the 40s unless...

00:12:24.000 They're going to have to throw something major at them like they did before.

00:12:26.000 And I don't even know if they can do that anymore.

00:12:28.000 I don't even know if they have the trust left.

00:12:31.000 The mainstream media really just absolutely screwed themselves over.

00:12:34.000 And we were talking about the boomers.

00:12:36.000 I think the idiot box is really to blame there.

00:12:40.000 I totally agree.

00:12:41.000 The white noise machine.

00:12:43.000 Talk about that.

00:12:43.000 How do people that are boomers get their information?

00:12:48.000 We asked, as part of our September Swing State set with American Thinker, and you can go check the crosstabs out.

00:12:55.000 It's not behind a paywall.

00:12:56.000 People can download them.

00:12:57.000 Really rich set of crosstabs.

00:12:58.000 Who do you trust more for your political news, major cable news channels, network TV news, independent online sources, or other?

00:13:05.000 And 18 to 39-year-olds said major news channels on cable, 37, no, sorry, 18%.

00:13:15.000 But it's 43% of those 65 and older.

00:13:19.000 And independent online sources was 36, and 65 and older was only 19. And so I don't think what we're seeing here is like politicization.

00:13:30.000 I think it's objectivity.

00:13:31.000 I think that younger voters are being more objective about what they see around them and unwilling to just trust somebody because it's a human on a TV telling them stuff.

00:13:42.000 And I can tell you...

00:13:44.000 What channel you watch, what channel you trust on cable news says a hell of a lot about what you think.

00:13:51.000 We looked at the top two issues of MSNBC viewers, and 75% of them, it was threats to democracy and abortion this cycle.

00:14:00.000 And of people that watch Fox News or Newsmax, it was 80% prices and the border.

00:14:05.000 Just two completely different Americas. 0.71

00:14:08.000 And so I think that, like, hopefully that's dying out.

00:14:11.000 I don't think it's, you know, I don't think that's how younger people are getting their news now.

00:14:16.000 And on issue after issue, what we would see is younger voters just a little bit more astute or aware about things around them.

00:14:24.000 Like, for instance, we asked a question, how likely is it that Obama is influencing the Biden administration?

00:14:29.000 And the 18 to 39-year-olds had something like a 5 or 10-point edge there over everybody else.

00:14:34.000 And it's just time after time you'd see that kind of pattern.

00:14:37.000 And so I think what we're seeing maybe is, like I called it Revolution X, right?

00:14:44.000 Totally.

00:14:45.000 X is no longer a fascist cesspool.

00:14:47.000 This is where I want to end our conversation here.

00:14:51.000 Gen X is becoming so right-wing that the future looks red.

00:14:55.000 I mean, if Gen Z goes the way it's going, it's funny. 0.99

00:14:59.000 It goes boomers that are tepidly moderate and then... 1.00

00:15:04.000 We have Gen X that is super right wing.

00:15:07.000 Millennials that are center left.

00:15:08.000 Gen Z increasingly right wing. 0.97

00:15:10.000 But what is going on with Gen X? Well, I don't think all the chips have settled yet.

00:15:15.000 When I said Revolution X, I'm talking like X the app.

00:15:18.000 I think that the mainstream media can't even control the narrative anymore because they try and float.

00:15:23.000 Listen, you could look at on Google Trends for the search term constitutional crisis and nobody was searching that and all of a sudden 8 to 10 X. Like any prior year's search volume in Google history in just two or three days.

00:15:39.000 So they're still trying to jumpstart this rebellion, this resistance to Trump, and they're using all their old tricks.

00:15:44.000 And everybody just goes to X and just ruthlessly dunks on these people.

00:15:48.000 And I think all ages are kind of getting involved.

00:15:51.000 And so I think what we're seeing is kind of a flattening across the age spectrum from a, like, how do I measure them from a political perspective?

00:16:01.000 But I do think there is something about, you know, younger Gen X millennials and older Zoomers are going to step into the hero generation archetype of the fourth turning. 0.99

00:16:13.000 And we got a crisis coming because, you know, we talked about on our channel about this.

00:16:20.000 The fourth turning can be delineated by periods of high demand and supply of order.

00:16:27.000 And then as the crisis passed, you have less demand for order, then less supply for order.

00:16:33.000 And you are here, where we're at, is a super high demand for order and absolutely none to be found.

00:16:38.000 All of our institutions are completely corrupt.

00:16:41.000 And so what history tells us is that new leaders will step in and fill that vacuum.

00:16:46.000 Mark, thank you.

00:16:46.000 Early Gen X is the most right-wing cohort by far, but the really amazing thing is millennials are moving right as well.

00:16:52.000 Mark, thanks so much.

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00:18:18.000 Okay, a very important guest here to discuss his new book, Wanted, the FBI I Once Knew, by Christopher Piotta.

00:18:31.000 Christopher, welcome to the program, and thank you for taking the time.

00:18:34.000 Tell us about your book.

00:18:35.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you.

00:18:37.000 Appreciate your time today.

00:18:39.000 As far as the book goes, I wrote the book so that people could understand how the FBI changed, how the FBI went off track, and how I feel the FBI can be put back on the right track to being that trusted and respected organization it once was in service of the American people.

00:18:57.000 I wanted to give folks a bird's-eye view of my time with the FBI, spent nearly 25 years with the organization, and watched it evolve and change.

00:19:09.000 Is it fair to say that after 9-11, the FBI largely changed its premise from being a law enforcement agency to an intelligence-gathering agency?

00:19:21.000 That's correct.

00:19:22.000 And it was a very violent shift after 9-11 because there seemed to be many failures based upon the previous model of the FBI being a more reactive law enforcement organization and not a predictive and preventative intelligence-driven organization.

00:19:38.000 So tell us more specifically, because the FBI director who did this was Bob Mueller, correct?

00:19:44.000 He was the FBI director that helped orchestrate the details of...

00:19:49.000 Well, I think like all government...

00:20:08.000 Decisions that started out with good intentions ended up with bad outcomes.

00:20:13.000 I think one thing that people have to remember in the government is the rule of if some is good, more is better.

00:20:21.000 And then too much is just right.

00:20:23.000 And it happened that way with the surveillance activities after 9-11.

00:20:28.000 We were operating in a position of fear and anxiety of looking for the possible next attack.

00:20:35.000 And those fears and that anxiety led to things such as the Patriot Act and other legal frameworks that gave us additional tools to combat the threat of terrorism.

00:20:47.000 But then ultimately...

00:20:48.000 As what happens in the government, you have mission creep, you have that incrementalism of more, some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

00:20:57.000 And then those tools are starting to be used in more domestic surveillance activities.

00:21:04.000 And then we lacked the principal leadership over the past several years to keep that under control and to analyze what we were doing to the privacy and civil liberties of our own people.

00:21:18.000 So, Kash Patel looks like today at 5.30 p.m.

00:21:21.000 there is a cash procedural vote that will allow Thune to file cloture.

00:21:25.000 A confirmation vote is likely on Thursday, so very excited about that.

00:21:31.000 What should Kash Patel do on day one?

00:21:33.000 He gets sworn in, he goes in the motorcade, he enters the J. Edgar Hoover building, goes to, what is it, the seventh floor, gets the big desk.

00:21:42.000 What is it that Kash Patel should do?

00:21:44.000 What are his action items?

00:21:46.000 First day.

00:21:47.000 He's got to walk in and establish himself as the leader of the FBI.

00:21:52.000 He's not there as a political operator or any other, I would say, less operational role.

00:22:00.000 He's there as the leader of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:22:03.000 He's got to look at three particular areas as he is the strategic leader of the organization.

00:22:08.000 First, he's got to look at the culture of the organization.

00:22:11.000 The culture has declined and eroded over time, and he's got to fix that and set new cultural norms and expectations.

00:22:20.000 Second thing he has to do is look at the leadership environment that exists.

00:22:25.000 I'd say 80 to 90% of all FBI challenges, especially over the past four years, are due to bad leadership, bad decisions, and just weak leadership culture.

00:22:36.000 The third thing he's going to have to do is look at the operational practices that are prevailing in the FBI right now.

00:22:43.000 I've heard discussions, people say we haven't changed our standards in the FBI, maybe not on paper.

00:22:49.000 But what you've done and what they've done is change the way those standards are enforced, the way those standards are upheld and maintained and interpreted.

00:22:58.000 I watched it happen when I was still there.

00:23:01.000 Standards started sliding and it happened under Jim Comey up through Director Wray and the FBI no longer holds some of the same high standards it used to.

00:23:11.000 So those are the three areas that I would say he has to do on day one.

00:23:15.000 One more thing is that he has to form A senior leadership team around him that is going to help him execute the wishes of the chief executive, the attorney general, as well as his own vision as the FBI director.

00:23:30.000 He can't do it by himself.

00:23:31.000 He's got to have that senior leadership team that is aligned with him to execute his wishes.

00:23:36.000 So, Chris, I know this might be an unusual question, but there are real talks about the FBI just being eliminated and folded into other agencies.

00:23:45.000 Why should the FBI exist?

00:23:47.000 The FBI has to be part of our protective infrastructure.

00:23:52.000 It's a primary part of what keeps our country safe and looks out for the interests of the American people and the US government.

00:23:59.000 The moving off track that we saw over the last several years, it's not indicative of the work that the FBI does day to day on behalf of the American people.

00:24:11.000 What we saw mostly was the result of Bad leadership, bad management, and the inability of FBI leaders to properly navigate the political and social operating environments and to maintain their apolitical and objective stance.

00:24:28.000 I think the people of the FBI provide an essential service to the American people, and once given a proper leadership and operating environment, they will snap back into place quickly and do that again.

00:24:41.000 The FBI It can't just be discarded because of what's happened in the past several years.

00:24:50.000 There's a lot of good still that exists with the FBI. It has to be reforged, reset, and then refocused on serving the American people.

00:25:00.000 The FBI provides national security protection as well as combating crime problems, complex crime problems in our communities.

00:25:08.000 So it provides that essential service.

00:25:10.000 It just has to be re- Yeah, so remind our audience about some of the good things that the FBI does.

00:25:19.000 Well, on the national security side, the FBI is your primary domestic counter-espionage, counter-terrorism operation, protects our communities from harm and compromise from our international adversaries.

00:25:31.000 On the criminal or crime problem side, the FBI is our public corruption.

00:25:41.000 Investigations.

00:25:41.000 They're the only ones that do that.

00:25:43.000 They also provide a lot of white-collar crime investigative work.

00:25:47.000 They support our state, local, and other federal partners in those endeavors.

00:25:51.000 And they also provide what we used to call the gang task forces.

00:25:56.000 We're looking at community safety.

00:25:58.000 And one time when I was in charge of a field office, we talked to the community leaders and we explained to them that when the state arrests gang members, They can be back on the streets in months, if not weeks.

00:26:14.000 When you let me do it from the enterprise gang theory, we take them, they go away for years and they're doing federal time.

00:26:21.000 They don't come back.

00:26:23.000 And we were able to pull together resources.

00:26:25.000 The FBI has a lot of authority and statutory power to do things that other organizations cannot.

00:26:32.000 And again, marshalling those people, resources and authorities is what makes the FBI very powerful and effective when, again, provided with proper leadership and proper mission focus.

00:26:45.000 And so the with Kash Patel taking over, how much how many firings would you recommend that he does?

00:26:53.000 I don't know of an exact number, Charlie, but I will tell you, when he arrives on scene and he takes inventory and he starts identifying the Areas in the organization that could still be subject to political or ideological decision-making, he's going to have to dismiss those people.

00:27:11.000 They should be excused from FBI service.

00:27:13.000 There is no place in our FBI for political or ideological-driven decision-making when enforcing the federal laws of our nation.

00:27:22.000 So the FBI, in its previous iterations, Chris, please plug your book one more time, how people can find it, any other elements or details about the book you want our audience to be aware of.

00:27:46.000 Certainly.

00:27:47.000 Again, my book, Wanted, the FBI I Once Knew.

00:27:50.000 It is a bird's eye view of my 25 years with the FBI. It's available on Amazon and anywhere books are sold.

00:27:58.000 And I wrote the book as a way to chronicle my...

00:28:03.000 Time and how I learned how to be an FBI agent from the old breed of FBI special agents who built the reputation of the FBI. So I appreciate if anyone would read it and they could see where the FBI ran off track and how to get back on track.

00:28:20.000 I look forward to any feedback people would have, and I look forward to having the next iteration of the FBI delivered by Kash Patel and his team to give us back that trustworthy, principled organization that we trusted and depended on for years.

00:28:35.000 Chris, thank you so much.

00:28:36.000 Excellent.

00:28:36.000 Really appreciate it.

00:28:37.000 Thank you.

00:28:38.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:28:39.000 Have a great day.

00:28:39.000 Thank you.

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00:29:44.000 So we've been saying for quite a while how the left is race-obsessed.

00:29:48.000 So Trevor Noah recently had a guest.

00:29:51.000 A Princeton professor by the name of Ruha Benjamin who suggests that desegregating our schools was not the right solution.

00:30:02.000 Now understand that the left has always been against integration.

00:30:07.000 They've always been pro-segregation, and they are today.

00:30:10.000 Do you know we have black-only dormitories on campuses across the country?

00:30:14.000 That we have black-only graduation ceremonies?

00:30:17.000 The left has fiercely wants resegregation.

00:30:21.000 They want whites only and blacks only. 0.99

00:30:24.000 They have, it's part of the DNA and the fiber because they are race obsessed.

00:30:28.000 The biggest lie is that the left wants equality.

00:30:32.000 It's not true.

00:30:34.000 So let's listen to this together.

00:30:35.000 This is the first time I'm hearing this.

00:30:37.000 Let's play Cut 107.

00:30:39.000 Do you think that integration was the right move?

00:30:45.000 Like...

00:30:47.000 And now I'm separating two things.

00:30:49.000 Because I know in America, people are like, well, of course.

00:30:50.000 I mean, there was racism and there was segregation.

00:30:53.000 And I go, yeah, no, no, no.

00:30:54.000 I'm separating them.

00:30:55.000 Let's separate someone being oppressed and someone not being able to get a job and someone not being able to get a bank loan.

00:31:00.000 Let's take all of those, the negative things away.

00:31:04.000 Because I'll put myself out personally and say.

00:31:06.000 So if I'm in a room with black people, already there's like an implicit trust because we know what certain actions, words, and vibes mean.

00:31:14.000 And then you're in a room with another African. 1.00

00:31:16.000 Ah, already.

00:31:18.000 Now, even if you shout at me, I know what your shout means.

00:31:21.000 The same way an Italian knows what an Italian shout means.

00:31:24.000 Yeah.

00:31:24.000 Right?

00:31:25.000 Continues in Cut 108, Professor, Prince Professor Ruha Benjamin responds to Trevor Noah.

00:31:32.000 Play Cut 108. No, I don't.

00:31:35.000 And I don't think it's actually that controversial when, if you understand that segregation and integration weren't the only options.

00:31:45.000 Like, those are, within those two options, it may seem like integration is the more progressive.

00:31:50.000 Like, of course, we don't want segregation.

00:31:52.000 But again, when you're being integrated into institutions, into a culture that's a supremacist culture, that's a culture that feeds off of hierarchy, that feeds off of insecurity, anxiety.

00:32:03.000 Why are we being integrated into that?

00:32:05.000 From the beginning, you could tell they believe there are good races and bad races.

00:32:11.000 They believe in sorting people by race.

00:32:14.000 It has always been America's view to treat people as individuals.

00:32:18.000 Our movement is focused on character and meritocracy.

00:32:22.000 In the end, you can tell they just don't like white people. 0.55

00:32:25.000 They don't like Western culture.

00:32:27.000 They don't like any of it.

00:32:29.000 They want whatever path lets them not like white people more. 0.87

00:32:35.000 They, in this clip, Trevor Noah and Ruha Benjamin, are pushing forward.

00:32:43.000 An ideology that is no different than the Ku Klux Klan. 0.92

00:32:47.000 It's the modern day manifestation of the Ku Klux Klan. 0.85

00:32:51.000 It is black KKK, is what they're saying.

00:32:53.000 Let's re-segregate. 0.98

00:32:55.000 We don't want to be around white people. 1.00

00:32:56.000 We don't want to be around all their anxiety and their customs and having to show up on time and all the white supremacist practices.

00:33:04.000 This is what's so different about what our movement is about.

00:33:06.000 Our movement is about unity.

00:33:08.000 We don't care about the color of your skin. 0.88

00:33:10.000 We care about your character.

00:33:12.000 We don't care about how you look.

00:33:14.000 We care about how you act.

00:33:15.000 We don't care about melanin content.

00:33:18.000 That is the way that we want to base the entire society.

00:33:20.000 They are race-obsessed.

00:33:21.000 They want to put us all in pre-described buckets based on the color of their skin. 0.83

00:33:28.000 This is a losing political mentality, by the way.

00:33:30.000 This is why blacks and Hispanics who seek freedom and empowerment are flocking to the Trump Republican Party.

00:33:36.000 Meanwhile, Trevor Noah and his professor friend, they're trying to...

00:33:43.000 Rebuild the modern-day plantation.

00:33:45.000 They want to try to keep people off to the side.

00:33:48.000 Black's over here, white's over there. 1.00

00:33:49.000 That's basically the ideas that they are entertaining here.

00:33:52.000 We reject that.

00:33:53.000 We look at every human being as made in the image of God with infinite potential.

00:33:59.000 And that's what liberty is all about.

00:34:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:02.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 18, 2025

Why Are Gen Z And Gen X So Rightwing?

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