00:05:01.400It's somebody, it's the sound of somebody standing in the darkness, surrounded by absolute doubt by everybody, holding fast to the belief that morning is coming and morning is bringing a different outcome than that everybody else thinks.
00:05:18.180That's why this aria has endured far beyond the opera itself.
00:05:22.660It speaks to something larger than romance.
00:05:26.100It's a conviction that fear doesn't have the final word.
00:05:30.540now let me give you a little the reason why i know this story because i looked it up because
00:05:38.080i was curious why does donald trump always end all of his rallies with that song because i didn't
00:05:44.260know this story he ends these rallies with that song it's a voice carrying a certainty that nobody
00:05:52.160else can see yet. Vincero, I will win. Now, for a lot of politicians, that would be the whole
00:06:02.980message. But I think for Donald Trump, it operates on two different levels at once. The first,
00:06:09.440clearly obvious. It's personal. Trump has spent his entire public life cultivating the image
00:06:16.020of a man who walks into impossible situations believing that he can prevail business setbacks
00:06:23.180political opposition criminal investigations impeachments election battles relentless
00:06:29.360criticism the iran thing all of it and yet the central theme remains consistent this fight's
00:06:38.520not over you have no idea the verdict is not final the story is still being written
00:06:45.740tomorrow brings a surprise now that confidence whether admired or criticized
00:06:54.280is inseparable from donald trump when the tenor reaches the summit and declares victory
00:07:02.720supporters hear an echo of the quality they associate with trump more than any other
00:07:09.300they don't know it because they don't know the story
00:07:11.300It's the refusal to concede psychologically before things are finished.
00:07:20.400But like I said, there's another layer, and I think it's a larger one.
00:07:25.580The song arrives at the end of his rallies because the rallies themselves are not about one man.
00:09:45.280And that is the contrast that matters.
00:09:47.540We are not a political movement that draw our energy from anger. We don't. Some draw it from fear. We can't. Others draw it from resentment. We mustn't.
00:13:24.280the writing of a brand new state constitution was happening right then that was the prize to him
00:13:33.300philadelphia was the duty and he lingered for a while he lingered at monticello
00:13:40.140he didn't leave congress until early may nearly missed his own immortality by sheer reluctance
00:13:50.260And he had reasons to stay, nothing to do with politics and reasons that honestly, if you, if you're human, it almost breaks your heart when you stop and look at him. That March, his mother died and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, she was 57 years old and he was devastated, devastated, very close to his mother.
00:14:17.320you know thomas jefferson this is a guy fountain of language this is a guy who could spin a sentence
00:14:22.480like silk he just he would write volumes of words on things and all of them beautiful do you know
00:14:29.980how he recorded the death of his own mother in his own little pocket account book one line one flat
00:14:38.160line my mother died this morning time of day her age nothing else no grief on the page he was
00:14:48.940bottling it all up if you've ever lost somebody and you find yourself unable to write a single
00:14:59.020feeling down just the cold facts because the facts are all you can survive then you know who
00:15:03.760Thomas Jefferson was in this moment that flatness isn't coldness that flatness is a wound that is
00:15:09.280way too deep for any kind of words so that happens and then he gets sick he's prone to
00:15:17.860migraines and he's got a blinding migraine headache um and it was triggered by the grief
00:15:24.720and the strain of what was happening not only with him but there was something else his wife
00:15:29.820Martha the love I mean the love of his life you want to read something really beautiful
00:15:35.840his wife eventually dies he goes over to Paris and he is he falls in love with this girl and he
00:15:43.640he still feels promised to his wife and so he doesn't know what to do he loves this woman
00:15:50.520wants to go off with this woman but he doesn't and he writes this letter to his heart and then
00:15:57.000his heart writes a letter to his head and it's this argument from the heart to the head and the
00:16:02.380head to the heart it's just this amazing letter he's trying to figure out what do i do well his
00:16:08.620wife is still alive and this is the love of his life her health had always been fragile broken
00:16:14.320again and again by pregnancy after pregnancy after pregnancy she keeps having miscarriages
00:16:19.340and every time she's gravely ill she's now recovering from another miscarriage
00:16:27.100and the letters he was i mean he was desperate to receive any word from her health telling
00:16:34.260is she getting better or worse they weren't coming while he was in philadelphia so throw
00:16:40.220out all the crap that you learned in the school book about you know the image of this calm genius
00:16:45.200at his desk you know and replace it with the truth this guy was in deep angst and mourning
00:16:53.060and congress comes in and hands history to him
00:16:57.200he wants to go home he's afraid his wife is going to die at any minute miles away no word from home
00:17:07.720homesick down to his bones helpless to do anything about it at all that's who wrote the
00:17:14.200Declaration of Independence. So now the committee of five meets and somebody has to actually put0.96
00:17:21.240pen to paper. And the obvious choice is not Jefferson. The obvious choice is John Adams,
00:17:26.960but John Adams, I mean, he's a nightmare. He's the firebrand. He's an, he's the engine of all
00:17:33.880of it. He's been called the Atlas of Independence because he carried the whole cause on his back,
00:17:40.220but nobody liked it nobody liked him by every right the pen should have been his and the fame
00:17:49.700that went with it the man who wrote the declaration would be remembered forever and
00:17:55.460john adams knew it and john adams said i can't write this i can't write it why because for as
00:18:03.280As bullish as John Adams was, to his everlasting credit, he knew exactly who John Adams was.
00:18:11.90046 years after the fact, Jefferson remembered it simply.
00:18:17.320He said the committee just asked him, and go read both versions for yourself and judge.
00:23:50.160So he reaches into the common air of his own time,
00:23:53.100And he pulls down language that has been waiting inside of him for years, some of these words, and waiting for somebody just to be clear enough and brave enough and wounded enough to finally write it down.
00:29:09.220And we raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least.
00:29:14.520Throughout this process, I've been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
00:29:19.700If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.
00:29:23.080These past months have shown us anything.
00:29:24.560It is that socialists not only understand economics, just as well as the capitalists who came before, but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles.
00:29:34.060They've been in office for what? Less than a year? We've proven it.
00:29:39.780Every single socialist experiment fails, fails.
00:29:44.220So Milot wins yesterday in Colorado, and she says, we're taking our system back and we're taking our country back.
00:29:53.740what do you mean you're taking your country back because that's what everybody was saying about
00:29:58.860the tea partiers what do they mean by we're taking our country back what does that mean0.97
00:30:03.960well i know what it means it it means we're returning to the constitution and the declaration0.84
00:30:09.540of independence when you're talking about getting rid of capitalism you're not taking it back
00:30:14.880so the question is is this is this just the edges of the party or is this going to be
00:30:24.580is this a death knell for the next election because that's what they always say about the
00:30:31.000republic when you have somebody who's a constitutional he's an extremist he's crazy
00:30:35.420he hates the government he's he's totally on the edge he's a danger these guys are not getting that
00:30:44.300rapped from the press, of course. But have they gone too far for the average Democrat? I don't
00:30:50.140know. I don't know. One of the biggest mistakes Republicans could make right now is believing
00:30:55.220we've seen this movie before. We haven't seen this. Okay. People are like, this is a Democratic
00:31:00.420Tea Party. No, it's not. It's really not. The Tea Party. I was part of that. You may have been part
00:31:08.440of that what was it we were asking america not to become something new we were asking america
00:31:16.200to do something traditional to become something old again okay remember what those rallies look
00:31:23.880like the pocket constitution guys my son turned into one yesterday on the airplane he had a pocket
00:31:29.980constitution i'm like i'm not gonna tell you but in my day that made you really super nerdy
00:31:35.580but pocket constitution the don't tread on me flags the people quoting the declaration of
00:31:42.980independence dressed up as ben franklin and george washington i mean wow that's radical
00:31:49.880they were not demanding that washington seize industries or redistribute wealth they were not
00:31:56.980saying eat the rich they were arguing that washington had forgotten its own limits whether
00:32:03.360you agreed with them or not their argument was restorative you could say i don't want to go back
00:32:08.980there but they wanted less government lower debt a return to constitutional principles they were
00:32:14.520like let's do it the old way they're extremists now those same voices are calling democratic
00:32:22.980socialism the future think of that one movement wanted to go wanted to get the government to
00:32:30.740shrink the other believes the government should regulate more spend more own more forgive more
00:32:37.480guarantee more direct more of the economy these are not mirror image they are opposites
00:32:45.740and here's something else that nobody seems to notice every successful socialist movement in
00:32:53.320history claimed to represent the workers this is so important where are the workers today
00:33:09.700The elite universities, the prestigious media, the non-profits, the government bureaucracy, the professional activists, the commanding height of culture.
00:33:25.880Karl Marx predicted the revolution would come from the factory floor.
00:33:30.220Instead, it seems to be coming from the faculty lounge.