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00:00:00.000 hey today uh what a great great show we start from washington dc we're in all week we tell

00:00:10.620 some things on the on the whole show about what's really happening here you are not being told what

00:00:15.860 the amazing things that are happening in washington dc are i mean wait until you hear

00:00:20.700 about just the fireworks that are happening that's on the the full show but this is the

00:00:24.380 edited so you get right to some meat um today part two of the writing of the declaration of

00:00:29.540 independence i tell you who thomas jefferson really is and what he was really going through

00:00:34.880 when he wrote that thing also i give you a little white pill for everybody who thinks wait a minute

00:00:39.920 wait a minute the supreme court just said no we can just let anybody in if they're born here

00:00:44.880 that's crazy that's a suicide pact um and yesterday socialism in the democrats uh we had another dsa

00:00:53.380 member win in Colorado. I talk about that and I give you a white pill, something that I think

00:01:00.180 you need to know. We win in the end. You'll understand after today's best of podcast.

00:01:17.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:23.380 I want to, I'm going to give you some hope here.

00:01:29.980 I want to talk to you about, uh, tonight I've got my special on, uh, immigration and it's

00:01:38.680 the truth on immigration and, you know, birthright citizenship yesterday.

00:01:43.660 This was, this is a poison pill for America.

00:01:47.020 Uh, and it's really, really dangerous and we don't survive unless somebody fixes this.

00:01:53.380 and you know that you know we are faced i mean we had socialist win again deep deep socialists

00:02:01.220 these are not like hey i think we should be more like sweden socialists these are deep socialists

00:02:07.180 i'll get into that next hour they won last night in colorado that's in the center of the country

00:02:13.260 gang but to give you hope i want to take you back to i can't believe i'm saying this

00:02:20.040 and i hate these things i'm going to take you to an opera which i absolutely

00:02:24.660 hate opera i love this one song can you play a little clip of this i love this one song

00:02:32.160 mainly because it's in every mob movie

00:02:34.020 you know this song right you don't know what it says you don't know what it means you're just like

00:02:40.960 oh it's the fat clown right crying or is that a different opera i'm not really sure

00:02:45.180 okay 0.60

00:02:47.300 so listening to this song this song matters okay this is from uh turndote it's uh puccini's opera

00:02:58.620 never seen it but apparently you know if you could you could read if they would put subtitles on

00:03:05.600 maybe a few of us would go but anyway a prince named caliph falls in love with the princess

00:03:11.040 Turandot. And she has sealed herself behind fear and power and impossibly cruel conditions.

00:03:19.260 If somebody wants to seek her hand for marriage, he has to answer three riddles. And failure

00:03:26.000 means death. Well, Caliph succeeds, yet victory doesn't end the struggle. Instead,

00:03:34.440 Instead, he offers her a challenge of his own. 0.99

00:03:37.840 If she can discover his name before dawn, she can have him executed. 0.54

00:03:42.180 I don't know. 1.00

00:03:42.800 Is she a lesbian? 1.00

00:03:43.540 I don't know what the problem is with getting married in this thing.

00:03:46.080 I didn't look that deeply.

00:03:47.600 But the entire city is drawn into this search of who this guy is.

00:03:53.400 And fear spreads through the streets.

00:03:55.820 Nobody is allowed to rest.

00:03:57.060 No one's allowed to sleep.

00:03:58.880 Find out who this guy is.

00:04:01.200 That's the setting of this song called Ness and Dorma.

00:04:04.440 none shall sleep.

00:04:06.160 That's none shall sleep.

00:04:07.680 That's the name of that song.

00:04:09.640 Now,

00:04:10.260 standing in the middle of that tense and fearful night,

00:04:13.500 Caliph sings alone.

00:04:15.500 Everyone around him is consumed by uncertainty,

00:04:18.420 but he is absolutely convinced that dawn will bring not his death,

00:04:24.260 but a different outcome.

00:04:26.620 And the aria builds to,

00:04:28.280 you know,

00:04:28.560 one of the most famous climaxes in all of music where he says,

00:04:32.720 Vincero, Vincero.

00:04:35.500 What does that mean?

00:04:36.960 What does Vincero mean?

00:04:39.340 It means I will win.

00:04:43.540 The power of that song,

00:04:45.600 the reason why it speaks to you,

00:04:47.760 even though you don't know the story

00:04:49.220 and you don't know what it says,

00:04:50.360 it speaks to you

00:04:51.220 because the song is not found in triumph already achieved.

00:04:56.160 It comes from the confidence maintained

00:04:58.720 before the outcome is known.

00:05:01.400 It'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.

00:05:18.180 That's why this aria has endured far beyond the opera itself.

00:05:22.660 It speaks to something larger than romance.

00:05:26.100 It's a conviction that fear doesn't have the final word.

00:05:30.540 now let me give you a little the reason why i know this story because i looked it up because

00:05:38.080 i was curious why does donald trump always end all of his rallies with that song because i didn't

00:05:44.260 know this story he ends these rallies with that song it's a voice carrying a certainty that nobody

00:05:52.160 else can see yet. Vincero, I will win. Now, for a lot of politicians, that would be the whole

00:06:02.980 message. But I think for Donald Trump, it operates on two different levels at once. The first,

00:06:09.440 clearly obvious. It's personal. Trump has spent his entire public life cultivating the image

00:06:16.020 of a man who walks into impossible situations believing that he can prevail business setbacks

00:06:23.180 political opposition criminal investigations impeachments election battles relentless

00:06:29.360 criticism the iran thing all of it and yet the central theme remains consistent this fight's

00:06:38.520 not over you have no idea the verdict is not final the story is still being written

00:06:45.740 tomorrow brings a surprise now that confidence whether admired or criticized

00:06:54.280 is inseparable from donald trump when the tenor reaches the summit and declares victory

00:07:02.720 supporters hear an echo of the quality they associate with trump more than any other

00:07:09.300 they don't know it because they don't know the story

00:07:11.300 It's the refusal to concede psychologically before things are finished.

00:07:20.400 But like I said, there's another layer, and I think it's a larger one.

00:07:25.580 The song arrives at the end of his rallies because the rallies themselves are not about one man.

00:07:32.840 They're about a story.

00:07:35.020 And it's the story his audience, the you that I believe, about our country.

00:07:43.180 It's a feeling that something precious is truly being lost here.

00:07:48.840 Being lost.

00:07:51.040 A belief our institutions have become distant to us, to the people.

00:07:55.920 A sense that the cultural confidence has been weakened.

00:07:59.620 A conviction that decline is not natural nor inevitable.

00:08:05.940 The crowd doesn't say, I will win.

00:08:11.620 We hear a nation saying it.

00:08:14.960 We hear our families saying it, communities saying it.

00:08:20.120 We're not done.

00:08:21.920 People who feel dismissed and ignored and pushed aside, I'm not done.

00:08:26.440 this song gives voice to a hope

00:08:31.700 that history is not finished with us

00:08:35.520 the future remains open

00:08:40.400 renewal is possible

00:08:43.280 that dawn will follow even the darkest of nights

00:08:47.420 that's why this choice is so fascinating

00:08:50.920 because the story of Turandot

00:08:53.560 is not about force it's not it's endurance it's about carrying conviction through uncertainty

00:09:04.580 it's about holding on to a belief while surrounded by doubt while everyone else is saying

00:09:10.400 let's look at what they've done look at what they've done in the supreme court yesterday

00:09:14.840 we're done we're not going to make it yes we are yes we are you don't know how this story ends yet

00:09:22.120 An entire city spending a night searching frantically for an answer.

00:09:28.140 That was us yesterday.

00:09:30.100 What's the answer? What's the answer?

00:09:35.680 And somewhere there are many of us holding on to a certainty.

00:09:39.320 I don't know.

00:09:40.640 I don't know how it works out.

00:09:43.280 But I know it works out.

00:09:45.280 And that is the contrast that matters.

00:09:47.540 We 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.

00:10:01.540 what we must express

00:10:08.660 is resolve

00:10:09.920 persistence

00:10:13.620 the determination

00:10:16.600 to continue standing

00:10:18.060 when everyone is saying collapse

00:10:20.680 the confidence

00:10:23.000 that a frozen situation

00:10:25.040 is going to thaw

00:10:26.680 what appears settled

00:10:30.360 is going to change.

00:10:32.420 What appears lost

00:10:33.660 is going to return.

00:10:35.760 And the music swells

00:10:37.560 and the crowds cheer.

00:10:40.260 And that final note

00:10:41.600 hangs in the air.

00:10:43.960 And for a brief moment,

00:10:46.160 the distinction between

00:10:47.460 the man and the movement

00:10:49.440 becomes blurred.

00:10:52.600 The victory being sung

00:10:54.740 belongs to both

00:10:57.440 personal and political victory.

00:11:00.360 cultural victory, a spiritual victory, not a promise that success is guaranteed,

00:11:08.560 not a claim that the battle is going to be won, but a declaration.

00:11:12.140 Surrender is unnecessary. Despair is premature.

00:11:16.660 The future hasn't rendered its verdict yet.

00:11:20.220 And so it closes with the message that reaches beyond the campaign and the policy and the elections,

00:11:25.720 the message carried by a voice pushing through the darkness toward the morning,

00:11:29.980 Hold on.

00:11:32.220 Night's not forever.

00:11:33.400 The story's not over.

00:11:36.400 Vincero.

00:11:38.680 We will win.

00:11:59.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:12.800 So the most important words ever written about human freedom,

00:12:16.160 the words that would go on to topple empires and free slaves

00:12:19.880 and shame tyrants for 250 years,

00:12:23.000 were written by a man who did not want the assignment.

00:12:27.200 He didn't want to be in the city.

00:12:29.540 most people don't know he was drowning in grief.

00:12:35.520 He almost didn't even make it into the room.

00:12:39.660 You know, we've turned Thomas Jefferson into marble,

00:12:43.100 a face in the mountain, a face on the nickel,

00:12:45.920 a powdered wig and a serene gaze and a quill held at the perfect angle.

00:12:53.060 Take away the wig and the marble and all of that stuff

00:12:56.220 because he is much more astonishing than the statue is.

00:13:02.580 Start with this.

00:13:04.340 He almost missed the whole thing.

00:13:06.960 It's spring of 1776.

00:13:09.100 History is about to be made in Philadelphia.

00:13:11.020 He doesn't think it's going to be made.

00:13:12.180 He thinks it's going to be made in Virginia, in the statehouse.

00:13:16.580 And so he is staying at home.

00:13:19.400 And he didn't want to go.

00:13:22.800 His heart was in Virginia.

00:13:24.280 the writing of a brand new state constitution was happening right then that was the prize to him

00:13:33.300 philadelphia was the duty and he lingered for a while he lingered at monticello

00:13:40.140 he didn't leave congress until early may nearly missed his own immortality by sheer reluctance

00:13:50.260 And 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.

00:14:17.320 you know thomas jefferson this is a guy fountain of language this is a guy who could spin a sentence

00:14:22.480 like silk he just he would write volumes of words on things and all of them beautiful do you know

00:14:29.980 how he recorded the death of his own mother in his own little pocket account book one line one flat

00:14:38.160 line my mother died this morning time of day her age nothing else no grief on the page he was

00:14:48.940 bottling it all up if you've ever lost somebody and you find yourself unable to write a single

00:14:59.020 feeling down just the cold facts because the facts are all you can survive then you know who

00:15:03.760 Thomas Jefferson was in this moment that flatness isn't coldness that flatness is a wound that is

00:15:09.280 way too deep for any kind of words so that happens and then he gets sick he's prone to

00:15:17.860 migraines and he's got a blinding migraine headache um and it was triggered by the grief

00:15:24.720 and the strain of what was happening not only with him but there was something else his wife

00:15:29.820 Martha the love I mean the love of his life you want to read something really beautiful

00:15:35.840 his wife eventually dies he goes over to Paris and he is he falls in love with this girl and he

00:15:43.640 he still feels promised to his wife and so he doesn't know what to do he loves this woman

00:15:50.520 wants to go off with this woman but he doesn't and he writes this letter to his heart and then

00:15:57.000 his heart writes a letter to his head and it's this argument from the heart to the head and the

00:16:02.380 head to the heart it's just this amazing letter he's trying to figure out what do i do well his

00:16:08.620 wife is still alive and this is the love of his life her health had always been fragile broken

00:16:14.320 again and again by pregnancy after pregnancy after pregnancy she keeps having miscarriages

00:16:19.340 and every time she's gravely ill she's now recovering from another miscarriage

00:16:27.100 and the letters he was i mean he was desperate to receive any word from her health telling

00:16:34.260 is she getting better or worse they weren't coming while he was in philadelphia so throw 0.73

00:16:40.220 out all the crap that you learned in the school book about you know the image of this calm genius

00:16:45.200 at his desk you know and replace it with the truth this guy was in deep angst and mourning 0.97

00:16:53.060 and congress comes in and hands history to him

00:16:57.200 he wants to go home he's afraid his wife is going to die at any minute miles away no word from home

00:17:07.720 homesick down to his bones helpless to do anything about it at all that's who wrote the

00:17:14.200 Declaration of Independence. So now the committee of five meets and somebody has to actually put 0.96

00:17:21.240 pen to paper. And the obvious choice is not Jefferson. The obvious choice is John Adams,

00:17:26.960 but John Adams, I mean, he's a nightmare. He's the firebrand. He's an, he's the engine of all

00:17:33.880 of it. He's been called the Atlas of Independence because he carried the whole cause on his back,

00:17:40.220 but nobody liked it nobody liked him by every right the pen should have been his and the fame

00:17:49.700 that went with it the man who wrote the declaration would be remembered forever and

00:17:55.460 john adams knew it and john adams said i can't write this i can't write it why because for as

00:18:03.280 As bullish as John Adams was, to his everlasting credit, he knew exactly who John Adams was.

00:18:11.900 46 years after the fact, Jefferson remembered it simply.

00:18:17.320 He said the committee just asked him, and go read both versions for yourself and judge.

00:18:23.300 But Adams does not play it down.

00:18:27.100 Jefferson tried to hand him the pen.

00:18:29.300 Adams refused.

00:18:30.180 Jefferson said, you should write it.

00:18:31.800 Adams said, I'm not going to. Why? Then Adams gave him three reasons. And there's some of the

00:18:37.520 most self-aware words any powerful man has ever spoken. Reason one, you're a Virginian and

00:18:43.840 Virginians ought to stand at the head of this business because Virginia is the largest independent

00:18:49.400 colony. So we have to have Virginia. We need your face on it. Reason number two, and here's a guy 0.93

00:18:54.520 looking in the mirror without flinching at all quote I'm obnoxious I'm suspected I'm unpopular

00:19:04.060 and you are very much otherwise and reason three you can write 10 times better than I can now

00:19:12.620 think that's the most powerful voice in the room

00:19:17.600 handed the chance to be immortal and and he knows it he knows it but he says

00:19:26.240 nobody likes me and I always see Ben Franklin in my head standing behind him because Thomas

00:19:33.100 Jefferson was really polite and he had to have said no no no that's not true and I can see Ben

00:19:38.200 Franklin standing behind Adams going oh yes it is they don't like him nobody likes him I don't even

00:19:42.800 like him okay my name's on it men are going to resist it just because it's me and they resist me

00:19:49.980 give it to the quiet kid who can write he gives away the most famous writing assignment in the

00:19:55.640 history of the world because he loved the cause more than he loved his own glory when was the

00:20:01.780 last time you saw any powerful man do that and then the quiet kid was quiet this is the detail

00:20:09.880 that I ponder for a while.

00:20:13.220 Adams said that in all of his time

00:20:15.440 that he sat beside Jefferson in Congress,

00:20:17.420 he never heard him utter three sentences together.

00:20:22.080 Three sentences.

00:20:24.240 The man who would write the document

00:20:26.340 that defined a civilization, Western civilization,

00:20:30.800 could not or would not speak up in a meeting

00:20:33.960 because he was shy.

00:20:35.160 He was a homebody.

00:20:36.020 He hated the cut and the thrust of the debate,

00:20:39.180 shouting and the performing he hated it put him on his feet in a crowd and he's frozen put a pen

00:20:45.460 in his hand and alone in silence and he could reach up and pull thunder out from the sky

00:20:53.060 there's a lesson in that that i don't think we should walk past every quiet person who ever sat

00:20:59.560 in a loud room feeling useless every person who knew they had something true inside of them but

00:21:05.320 couldn't win the shouting match, Thomas Jefferson is your founding father. He's your patron saint.

00:21:12.360 The revolution didn't need him to be loud. It needed him to be right on paper when it counted.

00:21:18.960 Your gift might not be the one that wins the room. It might be the one that wins the century.

00:21:27.080 So how does he do it? Let me take a quick break and pick a story up there next. So Thomas Jefferson

00:21:34.860 and has to sit down now all by himself and put this together where does he go he rents out two

00:21:41.440 bedrooms uh sorry two rooms a bedroom and a parlor it was on the second floor of a new brick house

00:21:46.680 it was owned by a young brick later bricklayer named um uh jacob graff center uh of town it's

00:21:55.980 at seventh and market that's actually at the edge of the city at the time um and he sits down and

00:22:02.820 he pulls out this little portable writing box. It's a lap desk. He designed it himself. The guy

00:22:07.400 was unbelievable. A little clever, little folding thing of his own invention. He designed the very

00:22:13.360 desk on which he would invent a nation. Now, here's the question everybody gets wrong in both

00:22:18.660 directions. How much did he already have? Did he pull it out of thin air or did he just copy other

00:22:24.400 people? The answer is neither. And the truth is probably the most interesting thing about him.

00:22:29.680 That's the thing I love about history.

00:22:31.460 The truth is much better than everything that you've learned in school.

00:22:35.800 It cuts both ways, good and bad.

00:22:38.760 Just days before George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights had been printed,

00:22:43.800 and it opened by declaring that all men are by nature equally free and independent with inherent rights.

00:22:52.220 You read that, then you read Jefferson, and you can hear it humming underneath the lines.

00:22:57.140 He had his own earlier writing to draw from, a pamphlet that he printed in 1774 that first really made Thomas Jefferson famous.

00:23:07.020 He had the whole inheritance of English liberty and John Locke deep in his bones, but he didn't open a single book while he wrote.

00:23:15.520 He didn't look at any other paperwork.

00:23:17.540 It just was coming from him and explains the genius of him better than anything else.

00:23:23.080 He said he never intended it to be original.

00:23:27.140 he said, I just wanted the declaration to be an expression of the American mind.

00:23:33.000 He wasn't trying to invent a new idea.

00:23:35.600 He was really, I mean, it's a lot, very much like Thomas Paine and common sense.

00:23:40.120 He was trying to use common sense.

00:23:41.980 He was trying to find the words for the thing 3 million people already felt inside,

00:23:48.120 but they hadn't said it yet.

00:23:50.160 So he reaches into the common air of his own time,

00:23:53.100 And 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.

00:24:07.500 And he did.

00:24:09.060 He did it all alone.

00:24:11.080 Grieving his mother, terrified for his wife, homesick, sick himself in 17 days.

00:24:18.100 days, the fate of a continent, the weight of his own neck pressing down on that little

00:24:26.500 folding desk. And the thing I want you to carry out, he had no idea. He really had no

00:24:37.240 idea. He thought he was writing a committee report. Imagine how worthless you thought

00:24:44.320 that was your your mother just died your wife is dying you don't have any word and you're stuck 0.97

00:24:51.120 in a room by yourself writing a committee report he thought this was routine paperwork that would

00:24:57.040 be forgotten in a month he really didn't have any idea he never dreamt his name would outlive

00:25:03.240 the empire that he was defining go read his draft in his own hand that's what i'm going to talk

00:25:12.760 about on the mall here in a little bit two o'clock this afternoon i'm in washington dc and i'm going

00:25:18.400 to speak on the main stage here in washington dc on the mall and i'm going to bring the copy

00:25:25.420 of the original draft in thomas jefferson's own hand and you look at the crossouts

00:25:32.700 you look at what he printed there are five words that are printed not in cursive united

00:25:42.280 States, America. There are three. And then Christian and men. He added two more. Those two

00:25:52.520 would be deleted by two colonies. But you look at the crossouts, you look at what was changed and 0.84

00:26:00.980 who changed it. It's amazing. You'll see crossed out and you'll see something changed. And then 1.00

00:26:05.600 it'll be in the hand of Benjamin Franklin and it will say B. Franklin on the edge. And then in the

00:26:11.120 margin a little farther down, I'll say Jay Adams, and there'll be another change in John

00:26:15.060 Adams' hand. But very few changes. But you can see it's not God writing Scripture. It's

00:26:23.580 a frightened, brilliant, heartbroken young man doing the best he could and reaching by

00:26:31.960 accident and grief and genius, reaching all the way to forever.

00:26:41.120 The progressives have made the Declaration of Independence

00:26:44.360 something that was meant to be just for their time.

00:26:51.820 But that's the genius of it.

00:26:54.680 It's not just for their time.

00:26:57.380 It's for our time.

00:26:59.760 That is the argument that Wilson started,

00:27:02.640 Woodrow Wilson started, turn of last century.

00:27:05.760 That the Declaration of Independence is irrelevant.

00:27:09.360 That's why Independence Day is so important.

00:27:13.260 You know, that's not the founding of our country.

00:27:16.420 That came later after the war.

00:27:19.240 This is the 250th year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,

00:27:25.840 the most important document, I think, in all of human political history.

00:27:32.740 I'm going to tell you part three of the story, how it was passed,

00:27:36.580 and what it was like for Jefferson to hear it butchered tomorrow.

00:27:41.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:28:42.200 milat kairos uh won yesterday and she won uh in the democratic part primary now i don't know how 0.78

00:28:52.220 this is going to turn out but i know that i saw her speech she is a democratic socialist

00:28:58.460 Yesterday, in fact, let me see if we have this audio. 1.00

00:29:02.680 Yesterday, we had Mom Donnie. 0.85

00:29:05.040 Yeah, cut to listen to this.

00:29:07.640 Listen to this. 1.00

00:29:08.140 This is Mom Donnie. 0.99

00:29:09.220 And we raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least.

00:29:14.520 Throughout this process, I've been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.

00:29:19.700 If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

00:29:23.080 These past months have shown us anything.

00:29:24.560 It 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.

00:29:34.060 They've been in office for what? Less than a year? We've proven it.

00:29:39.780 Every single socialist experiment fails, fails.

00:29:44.220 So Milot wins yesterday in Colorado, and she says, we're taking our system back and we're taking our country back.

00:29:53.740 what do you mean you're taking your country back because that's what everybody was saying about

00:29:58.860 the tea partiers what do they mean by we're taking our country back what does that mean 0.97

00:30:03.960 well i know what it means it it means we're returning to the constitution and the declaration 0.84

00:30:09.540 of independence when you're talking about getting rid of capitalism you're not taking it back

00:30:14.880 so the question is is this is this just the edges of the party or is this going to be

00:30:24.580 is this a death knell for the next election because that's what they always say about the 0.96

00:30:31.000 republic when you have somebody who's a constitutional he's an extremist he's crazy

00:30:35.420 he hates the government he's he's totally on the edge he's a danger these guys are not getting that

00:30:44.300 rapped from the press, of course. But have they gone too far for the average Democrat? I don't

00:30:50.140 know. I don't know. One of the biggest mistakes Republicans could make right now is believing

00:30:55.220 we've seen this movie before. We haven't seen this. Okay. People are like, this is a Democratic

00:31:00.420 Tea Party. No, it's not. It's really not. The Tea Party. I was part of that. You may have been part

00:31:08.440 of that what was it we were asking america not to become something new we were asking america

00:31:16.200 to do something traditional to become something old again okay remember what those rallies look

00:31:23.880 like the pocket constitution guys my son turned into one yesterday on the airplane he had a pocket

00:31:29.980 constitution i'm like i'm not gonna tell you but in my day that made you really super nerdy

00:31:35.580 but pocket constitution the don't tread on me flags the people quoting the declaration of

00:31:42.980 independence dressed up as ben franklin and george washington i mean wow that's radical

00:31:49.880 they were not demanding that washington seize industries or redistribute wealth they were not

00:31:56.980 saying eat the rich they were arguing that washington had forgotten its own limits whether

00:32:03.360 you agreed with them or not their argument was restorative you could say i don't want to go back

00:32:08.980 there but they wanted less government lower debt a return to constitutional principles they were

00:32:14.520 like let's do it the old way they're extremists now those same voices are calling democratic

00:32:22.980 socialism the future think of that one movement wanted to go wanted to get the government to

00:32:30.740 shrink the other believes the government should regulate more spend more own more forgive more

00:32:37.480 guarantee more direct more of the economy these are not mirror image they are opposites

00:32:45.740 and here's something else that nobody seems to notice every successful socialist movement in

00:32:53.320 history claimed to represent the workers this is so important where are the workers today

00:32:59.500 Where are they?

00:33:02.720 Today's movement represents the graduates.

00:33:07.320 Look where all the energy comes from.

00:33:09.700 The elite universities, the prestigious media, the non-profits, the government bureaucracy, the professional activists, the commanding height of culture.

00:33:25.880 Karl Marx predicted the revolution would come from the factory floor.

00:33:30.220 Instead, it seems to be coming from the faculty lounge.

00:33:35.760 So now here's the question.

00:33:37.980 And we don't know the answer to this.

00:33:39.660 We'll find out in November.

00:33:40.700 Will the average Democrat buy it?

00:33:43.420 Maybe, maybe not.

00:33:44.720 I don't know.

00:33:46.700 I was looking at some polling last night from Gallup.

00:33:49.420 Found something fascinating.

00:33:51.180 Americans still view capitalism more favorably than socialism.

00:33:54.440 54% to 39%

00:33:56.940 but that's crazy

00:33:58.120 socialism

00:33:58.680 people are actually talking about communism now

00:34:00.860 but here's what's more interesting

00:34:04.040 take capitalism out of it

00:34:05.880 the free market

00:34:06.940 do you support small businesses

00:34:09.840 and the free enterprise

00:34:11.180 95% have a positive view

00:34:15.100 of small business with the free market

00:34:17.280 81% say free enterprise

00:34:20.840 is good

00:34:21.920 81% it's language

00:34:24.160 the anger here is not directed to the local hardware store it's directed at concentrated

00:34:31.780 corporate power and that matters the average democrat is not sitting around dreaming about

00:34:38.840 nationalizing industries they're trying to buy groceries they're trying to make rent they're

00:34:45.500 trying to pay for child care they don't want a revolution they want relief they want somebody

00:34:51.480 you actually standing up for them who's listening to them that is an incredibly interesting split

00:34:57.700 inside of the democratic party the activist class is talking about restructuring everything

00:35:04.960 the average voter is like i just want my eggs to come down in price

00:35:09.740 these are two entirely different conversations and even the democrats themselves know it

00:35:17.100 they know it recent polling found large majorities of democratic voters wanting new leadership

00:35:23.480 they want their party focused on kitchen table economics not cultural battles and this where

00:35:30.380 it gets even more interesting socialism has always promised equality but eventually every socialist

00:35:37.480 movement runs right into the same wall what is that wall this is why the common core was so

00:35:43.200 important. The wall is math. It's math. Somebody has to build. Somebody has to invent. Somebody

00:35:51.200 has to risk failure. Somebody has to create wealth before somebody can take it away from them.

00:35:57.260 The bill always comes due.

00:36:01.660 So I don't know if the Democrats have jumped the shark or not, or they're just way ahead

00:36:05.920 of the curve. I don't know. That's the right question. Maybe a better question.

00:36:13.200 Has the activist class become so convinced of its own moral certainty that it no longer knows how ordinary people actually live?

00:36:24.100 I was walking around Washington, D.C. last night, and they have the president in a cage now.

00:36:30.320 I mean, you can't get within two blocks of the White House.

00:36:33.760 Now, it's only for this weekend, I found out.

00:36:36.340 But I'm looking at what we're turning into, our political class with the violence and everything.

00:36:41.380 You're not going to get near this stuff.

00:36:42.860 I remember you could walk in, I could just walk in to the Capitol building.

00:36:48.020 You just walk in.

00:36:49.980 You're not doing that now.

00:36:52.680 We have a bell in our history vault.

00:36:56.960 We have a bell that used to sit at the front door of the White House where you could walk in and hit this bell. 0.69

00:37:02.080 This is Lincoln's time.

00:37:03.380 Hit that bell and say, I want to see the president.

00:37:06.180 And somebody would come down and say, okay, yeah, sit down here and he'll see you in a minute.

00:37:10.060 We have the bell, the service bell.

00:37:12.360 now serving number 23 you can't you can't get within two blocks of the white house

00:37:17.920 these guys are going to become more and more elite but history offers this warning

00:37:24.580 and it's this political parties usually don't collapse because the other side defeats them

00:37:32.600 they collapse because their leaders begin speaking a language that their own voters

00:37:39.460 no longer recognize why have you fallen away from the republican party because they're speaking a

00:37:46.560 language that you're like that that's not what i'm saying that's not what any of my friends are

00:37:50.340 saying my friends aren't for any of that stuff what are you talking about that's what's happening

00:37:56.860 to the democrats the democrats i think i could be wrong but i think they have gone so far they are

00:38:04.020 speaking like they're giving this message that sounds like a graduate seminar and all you're

00:38:12.120 saying is can somebody help me with the price of eggs you got a real problem if that's who you are

00:38:19.000 and that's the real test not whether socialism excites activists on social media of course it

00:38:25.020 does the real thing is does a dad who's working overtime or a mom balancing two jobs believe

00:38:32.580 another layer of government control

00:38:35.100 is actually going to make tomorrow

00:38:37.100 better than today.

00:38:38.860 And what they believe about small business

00:38:41.140 and the free market,

00:38:42.440 that's a hard sell.

00:38:46.140 But the answer to that is going to determine

00:38:48.400 not just the future of the Democratic Party,

00:38:51.360 but whether America remains a country 0.64

00:38:53.360 that rewards those who build

00:38:55.980 or one that increasingly rewards

00:38:58.680 those who promise to divide

00:39:00.260 what others have already built.

00:39:03.340 And I want to get into that at the bottom of the hour.

00:39:05.920 I want to take a quick break here.

00:39:07.240 And I want to tell you, you know, you don't know.

00:39:11.440 Everybody says, we got to be more like Europe.

00:39:14.940 Really?

00:39:15.480 Do we?

00:39:16.140 That's working out. 0.99

00:39:17.240 We got to be more like Sweden.

00:39:19.160 You have no idea what Sweden has done since the 1990s, do you?

00:39:22.860 They have no idea what Sweden has done.

00:39:25.480 Let me set the record straight on Swedish and Norwegian socialism, because it's not what you think it is.

00:39:32.580 when they say we're taking our country back they're they're not taking their country back

00:39:37.000 they are saying at the same time they want to fundamentally transform this is what obama used

00:39:41.500 to say five days away from the fundamental transformation of america and they have

00:39:45.320 transformed us that is let me give you this let me give you this picture going into a museum

00:39:50.660 and i want you to picture you're in the louvre and there's a guy standing there two guys stand

00:39:57.640 in there one has traveled a thousand miles maybe the other side of the earth to come see his

00:40:04.240 favorite painting a painting he adores he loves the mona lisa and he's standing there for a long

00:40:10.360 time and he's studying every brush stroke every shadow every tiny little detail that survived

00:40:15.660 more than 500 years and he's looking at the curator he's like i just love this and the curator

00:40:22.380 smiles like I know I know it's great isn't it but says the guy I love this but I think it could be

00:40:30.420 better I mean the smile should be bigger I'm thinking about buying it how much somebody from

00:40:35.920 Texas how much for that painting up there on that wall because I can change I can make it better

00:40:40.280 you know the background kind of feels a little dated put a modern skyline behind her maybe lose

00:40:46.100 the dark clothing it's a little out of date let's give her something more current that she's wearing

00:40:50.480 and make her smile because that smile sucks but i love this painting by the time he's finished

00:40:56.640 the curator is looking at him like dude are you kidding me and the man looks at him like what's 0.60

00:41:01.860 wrong i told you i love that painting no no no you didn't love that painting you loved your idea

00:41:10.120 of what that painting should be if you love the painting your first instinct would not be to erase

00:41:16.720 everything that makes it what it is. The first thing you wanted to change was her smile.

00:41:23.360 There's a difference between restoring something and replacing it, and everybody understands that.

00:41:30.540 You know, an old church begins to crumble. If you love the church, you repair the stone.

00:41:36.740 You don't bulldoze it and build a casino in its place. Your grandfather's watch stops running.

00:41:43.040 you fix the gears you don't melt it down and make earrings out of it

00:41:47.880 can you imagine saying to your wife honey i love you try this honey i love you so much

00:41:56.400 i love i love everything about you if i could just fundamentally transform everything about you

00:42:03.880 i mean what what would your night be like you don't love her and she'd know it you love the

00:42:11.380 person you wish she would become love begins with accepting the identity of the thing you claim to

00:42:18.320 love you help it grow you help it heal you call it back when it loses its way that's what the tea

00:42:24.380 party was trying to do you've lost your way we love you we know who you are we know what you are

00:42:31.400 not we don't want to transform you we want to restore you

00:42:35.160 you don't erase the character and then congratulate yourself for saving it

00:42:41.620 obviously i'm not talking about painting i'm talking about america

00:42:46.160 we keep hearing politicians on the left fundamentally transforming the united states

00:42:51.700 we're calling our country back you're not you're fundamentally transforming it not to improve not

00:42:58.700 to restore, not to renew, but to transform. Those are very different things. Restore and renew

00:43:06.540 and transform. America has an identity. It has a beginning. It has first principles. It has a

00:43:17.740 reason for existing. And the reason's not hidden. It's right there. Our founding fathers put it in

00:43:24.620 the Declaration of Independence.

00:43:27.480 That's our country.

00:43:29.960 Just be honest.

00:43:31.260 You want to transform it.

00:43:33.520 You want to get rid of that mission statement

00:43:35.960 and replace it with something else.

00:43:39.140 We know who you are.

00:43:40.900 Does America know who America is?

00:43:45.360 That's the question we're going to find out,

00:43:47.160 I think, in this next election.

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