The Glenn Beck Program - July 01, 2026


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Glenn Beck's take on immigration, birthright citizenship, and why you should be scared of the dark night of the soul. Glenn also takes you back to an old favorite of his, "Ness and Dorma" by Puccini.

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00:00:00 hey today uh what a great great show we start from washington dc we're in all week we tell
00:00:10 some things on the on the whole show about what's really happening here you are not being told what
00:00:15 the amazing things that are happening in washington dc are i mean wait until you hear
00:00:20 about just the fireworks that are happening that's on the the full show but this is the
00:00:24 edited so you get right to some meat um today part two of the writing of the declaration of
00:00:29 independence i tell you who thomas jefferson really is and what he was really going through
00:00:34 when he wrote that thing also i give you a little white pill for everybody who thinks wait a minute
00:00:39 wait a minute the supreme court just said no we can just let anybody in if they're born here
00:00:44 that's crazy that's a suicide pact um and yesterday socialism in the democrats uh we had another dsa
00:00:53 member win in Colorado. I talk about that and I give you a white pill, something that I think
00:01:00 you need to know. We win in the end. You'll understand after today's best of podcast.
00:01:17 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:23 I want to, I'm going to give you some hope here.
00:01:29 I want to talk to you about, uh, tonight I've got my special on, uh, immigration and it's
00:01:38 the truth on immigration and, you know, birthright citizenship yesterday.
00:01:43 This was, this is a poison pill for America.
00:01:47 Uh, and it's really, really dangerous and we don't survive unless somebody fixes this.
00:01:53 and you know that you know we are faced i mean we had socialist win again deep deep socialists
00:02:01 these are not like hey i think we should be more like sweden socialists these are deep socialists
00:02:07 i'll get into that next hour they won last night in colorado that's in the center of the country
00:02:13 gang but to give you hope i want to take you back to i can't believe i'm saying this
00:02:20 and i hate these things i'm going to take you to an opera which i absolutely
00:02:24 hate opera i love this one song can you play a little clip of this i love this one song
00:02:32 mainly because it's in every mob movie
00:02:34 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 oh it's the fat clown right crying or is that a different opera i'm not really sure
00:02:45 okay 0.60
00:02:47 so listening to this song this song matters okay this is from uh turndote it's uh puccini's opera
00:02:58 never seen it but apparently you know if you could you could read if they would put subtitles on
00:03:05 maybe a few of us would go but anyway a prince named caliph falls in love with the princess
00:03:11 Turandot. And she has sealed herself behind fear and power and impossibly cruel conditions.
00:03:19 If somebody wants to seek her hand for marriage, he has to answer three riddles. And failure
00:03:26 means death. Well, Caliph succeeds, yet victory doesn't end the struggle. Instead,
00:03:34 Instead, he offers her a challenge of his own. 0.99
00:03:37 If she can discover his name before dawn, she can have him executed. 0.54
00:03:42 I don't know. 1.00
00:03:42 Is she a lesbian? 1.00
00:03:43 I don't know what the problem is with getting married in this thing.
00:03:46 I didn't look that deeply.
00:03:47 But the entire city is drawn into this search of who this guy is.
00:03:53 And fear spreads through the streets.
00:03:55 Nobody is allowed to rest.
00:03:57 No one's allowed to sleep.
00:03:58 Find out who this guy is.
00:04:01 That's the setting of this song called Ness and Dorma.
00:04:04 none shall sleep.
00:04:06 That's none shall sleep.
00:04:07 That's the name of that song.
00:04:09 Now,
00:04:10 standing in the middle of that tense and fearful night,
00:04:13 Caliph sings alone.
00:04:15 Everyone around him is consumed by uncertainty,
00:04:18 but he is absolutely convinced that dawn will bring not his death,
00:04:24 but a different outcome.
00:04:26 And the aria builds to,
00:04:28 you know,
00:04:28 one of the most famous climaxes in all of music where he says,
00:04:32 Vincero, Vincero.
00:04:35 What does that mean?
00:04:36 What does Vincero mean?
00:04:39 It means I will win.
00:04:43 The power of that song,
00:04:45 the reason why it speaks to you,
00:04:47 even though you don't know the story
00:04:49 and you don't know what it says,
00:04:50 it speaks to you
00:04:51 because the song is not found in triumph already achieved.
00:04:56 It comes from the confidence maintained
00:04:58 before the outcome is known.
00:05:01 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 That's why this aria has endured far beyond the opera itself.
00:05:22 It speaks to something larger than romance.
00:05:26 It's a conviction that fear doesn't have the final word.
00:05:30 now let me give you a little the reason why i know this story because i looked it up because
00:05:38 i was curious why does donald trump always end all of his rallies with that song because i didn't
00:05:44 know this story he ends these rallies with that song it's a voice carrying a certainty that nobody
00:05:52 else can see yet. Vincero, I will win. Now, for a lot of politicians, that would be the whole
00:06:02 message. But I think for Donald Trump, it operates on two different levels at once. The first,
00:06:09 clearly obvious. It's personal. Trump has spent his entire public life cultivating the image
00:06:16 of a man who walks into impossible situations believing that he can prevail business setbacks
00:06:23 political opposition criminal investigations impeachments election battles relentless
00:06:29 criticism the iran thing all of it and yet the central theme remains consistent this fight's
00:06:38 not over you have no idea the verdict is not final the story is still being written
00:06:45 tomorrow brings a surprise now that confidence whether admired or criticized
00:06:54 is inseparable from donald trump when the tenor reaches the summit and declares victory
00:07:02 supporters hear an echo of the quality they associate with trump more than any other
00:07:09 they don't know it because they don't know the story
00:07:11 It's the refusal to concede psychologically before things are finished.
00:07:20 But like I said, there's another layer, and I think it's a larger one.
00:07:25 The song arrives at the end of his rallies because the rallies themselves are not about one man.
00:07:32 They're about a story.
00:07:35 And it's the story his audience, the you that I believe, about our country.
00:07:43 It's a feeling that something precious is truly being lost here.
00:07:48 Being lost.
00:07:51 A belief our institutions have become distant to us, to the people.
00:07:55 A sense that the cultural confidence has been weakened.
00:07:59 A conviction that decline is not natural nor inevitable.
00:08:05 The crowd doesn't say, I will win.
00:08:11 We hear a nation saying it.
00:08:14 We hear our families saying it, communities saying it.
00:08:20 We're not done.
00:08:21 People who feel dismissed and ignored and pushed aside, I'm not done.
00:08:26 this song gives voice to a hope
00:08:31 that history is not finished with us
00:08:35 the future remains open
00:08:40 renewal is possible
00:08:43 that dawn will follow even the darkest of nights
00:08:47 that's why this choice is so fascinating
00:08:50 because the story of Turandot
00:08:53 is not about force it's not it's endurance it's about carrying conviction through uncertainty
00:09:04 it's about holding on to a belief while surrounded by doubt while everyone else is saying
00:09:10 let's look at what they've done look at what they've done in the supreme court yesterday
00:09:14 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 An entire city spending a night searching frantically for an answer.
00:09:28 That was us yesterday.
00:09:30 What's the answer? What's the answer?
00:09:35 And somewhere there are many of us holding on to a certainty.
00:09:39 I don't know.
00:09:40 I don't know how it works out.
00:09:43 But I know it works out.
00:09:45 And that is the contrast that matters.
00:09:47 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 what we must express
00:10:08 is resolve
00:10:09 persistence
00:10:13 the determination
00:10:16 to continue standing
00:10:18 when everyone is saying collapse
00:10:20 the confidence
00:10:23 that a frozen situation
00:10:25 is going to thaw
00:10:26 what appears settled
00:10:30 is going to change.
00:10:32 What appears lost
00:10:33 is going to return.
00:10:35 And the music swells
00:10:37 and the crowds cheer.
00:10:40 And that final note
00:10:41 hangs in the air.
00:10:43 And for a brief moment,
00:10:46 the distinction between
00:10:47 the man and the movement
00:10:49 becomes blurred.
00:10:52 The victory being sung
00:10:54 belongs to both
00:10:57 personal and political victory.
00:11:00 cultural victory, a spiritual victory, not a promise that success is guaranteed,
00:11:08 not a claim that the battle is going to be won, but a declaration.
00:11:12 Surrender is unnecessary. Despair is premature.
00:11:16 The future hasn't rendered its verdict yet.
00:11:20 And so it closes with the message that reaches beyond the campaign and the policy and the elections,
00:11:25 the message carried by a voice pushing through the darkness toward the morning,
00:11:29 Hold on.
00:11:32 Night's not forever.
00:11:33 The story's not over.
00:11:36 Vincero.
00:11:38 We will win.
00:11:59 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:12:12 So the most important words ever written about human freedom,
00:12:16 the words that would go on to topple empires and free slaves
00:12:19 and shame tyrants for 250 years,
00:12:23 were written by a man who did not want the assignment.
00:12:27 He didn't want to be in the city.
00:12:29 most people don't know he was drowning in grief.
00:12:35 He almost didn't even make it into the room.
00:12:39 You know, we've turned Thomas Jefferson into marble,
00:12:43 a face in the mountain, a face on the nickel,
00:12:45 a powdered wig and a serene gaze and a quill held at the perfect angle.
00:12:53 Take away the wig and the marble and all of that stuff
00:12:56 because he is much more astonishing than the statue is.
00:13:02 Start with this.
00:13:04 He almost missed the whole thing.
00:13:06 It's spring of 1776.
00:13:09 History is about to be made in Philadelphia.
00:13:11 He doesn't think it's going to be made.
00:13:12 He thinks it's going to be made in Virginia, in the statehouse.
00:13:16 And so he is staying at home.
00:13:19 And he didn't want to go.
00:13:22 His heart was in Virginia.
00:13:24 the writing of a brand new state constitution was happening right then that was the prize to him
00:13:33 philadelphia was the duty and he lingered for a while he lingered at monticello
00:13:40 he didn't leave congress until early may nearly missed his own immortality by sheer reluctance
00:13:50 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 you know thomas jefferson this is a guy fountain of language this is a guy who could spin a sentence
00:14:22 like silk he just he would write volumes of words on things and all of them beautiful do you know
00:14:29 how he recorded the death of his own mother in his own little pocket account book one line one flat
00:14:38 line my mother died this morning time of day her age nothing else no grief on the page he was
00:14:48 bottling it all up if you've ever lost somebody and you find yourself unable to write a single
00:14:59 feeling down just the cold facts because the facts are all you can survive then you know who
00:15:03 Thomas Jefferson was in this moment that flatness isn't coldness that flatness is a wound that is
00:15:09 way too deep for any kind of words so that happens and then he gets sick he's prone to
00:15:17 migraines and he's got a blinding migraine headache um and it was triggered by the grief
00:15:24 and the strain of what was happening not only with him but there was something else his wife
00:15:29 Martha the love I mean the love of his life you want to read something really beautiful
00:15:35 his wife eventually dies he goes over to Paris and he is he falls in love with this girl and he
00:15:43 he still feels promised to his wife and so he doesn't know what to do he loves this woman
00:15:50 wants to go off with this woman but he doesn't and he writes this letter to his heart and then
00:15:57 his heart writes a letter to his head and it's this argument from the heart to the head and the
00:16:02 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 wife is still alive and this is the love of his life her health had always been fragile broken
00:16:14 again and again by pregnancy after pregnancy after pregnancy she keeps having miscarriages
00:16:19 and every time she's gravely ill she's now recovering from another miscarriage
00:16:27 and the letters he was i mean he was desperate to receive any word from her health telling
00:16:34 is she getting better or worse they weren't coming while he was in philadelphia so throw 0.73
00:16:40 out all the crap that you learned in the school book about you know the image of this calm genius
00:16:45 at his desk you know and replace it with the truth this guy was in deep angst and mourning 0.97
00:16:53 and congress comes in and hands history to him
00:16:57 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 homesick down to his bones helpless to do anything about it at all that's who wrote the
00:17:14 Declaration of Independence. So now the committee of five meets and somebody has to actually put 0.96
00:17:21 pen to paper. And the obvious choice is not Jefferson. The obvious choice is John Adams,
00:17:26 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 of it. He's been called the Atlas of Independence because he carried the whole cause on his back,
00:17:40 but nobody liked it nobody liked him by every right the pen should have been his and the fame
00:17:49 that went with it the man who wrote the declaration would be remembered forever and
00:17:55 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 As bullish as John Adams was, to his everlasting credit, he knew exactly who John Adams was.
00:18:11 46 years after the fact, Jefferson remembered it simply.
00:18:17 He said the committee just asked him, and go read both versions for yourself and judge.
00:18:23 But Adams does not play it down.
00:18:27 Jefferson tried to hand him the pen.
00:18:29 Adams refused.
00:18:30 Jefferson said, you should write it.
00:18:31 Adams said, I'm not going to. Why? Then Adams gave him three reasons. And there's some of the
00:18:37 most self-aware words any powerful man has ever spoken. Reason one, you're a Virginian and
00:18:43 Virginians ought to stand at the head of this business because Virginia is the largest independent
00:18:49 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 looking in the mirror without flinching at all quote I'm obnoxious I'm suspected I'm unpopular
00:19:04 and you are very much otherwise and reason three you can write 10 times better than I can now
00:19:12 think that's the most powerful voice in the room
00:19:17 handed the chance to be immortal and and he knows it he knows it but he says
00:19:26 nobody likes me and I always see Ben Franklin in my head standing behind him because Thomas
00:19:33 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 Franklin standing behind Adams going oh yes it is they don't like him nobody likes him I don't even
00:19:42 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 give it to the quiet kid who can write he gives away the most famous writing assignment in the
00:19:55 history of the world because he loved the cause more than he loved his own glory when was the
00:20:01 last time you saw any powerful man do that and then the quiet kid was quiet this is the detail
00:20:09 that I ponder for a while.
00:20:13 Adams said that in all of his time
00:20:15 that he sat beside Jefferson in Congress,
00:20:17 he never heard him utter three sentences together.
00:20:22 Three sentences.
00:20:24 The man who would write the document
00:20:26 that defined a civilization, Western civilization,
00:20:30 could not or would not speak up in a meeting
00:20:33 because he was shy.
00:20:35 He was a homebody.
00:20:36 He hated the cut and the thrust of the debate,
00:20:39 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 in his hand and alone in silence and he could reach up and pull thunder out from the sky
00:20:53 there's a lesson in that that i don't think we should walk past every quiet person who ever sat
00:20:59 in a loud room feeling useless every person who knew they had something true inside of them but
00:21:05 couldn't win the shouting match, Thomas Jefferson is your founding father. He's your patron saint.
00:21:12 The revolution didn't need him to be loud. It needed him to be right on paper when it counted.
00:21:18 Your gift might not be the one that wins the room. It might be the one that wins the century.
00:21:27 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 and has to sit down now all by himself and put this together where does he go he rents out two
00:21:41 bedrooms uh sorry two rooms a bedroom and a parlor it was on the second floor of a new brick house
00:21:46 it was owned by a young brick later bricklayer named um uh jacob graff center uh of town it's
00:21:55 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 he pulls out this little portable writing box. It's a lap desk. He designed it himself. The guy
00:22:07 was unbelievable. A little clever, little folding thing of his own invention. He designed the very
00:22:13 desk on which he would invent a nation. Now, here's the question everybody gets wrong in both
00:22:18 directions. How much did he already have? Did he pull it out of thin air or did he just copy other
00:22:24 people? The answer is neither. And the truth is probably the most interesting thing about him.
00:22:29 That's the thing I love about history.
00:22:31 The truth is much better than everything that you've learned in school.
00:22:35 It cuts both ways, good and bad.
00:22:38 Just days before George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights had been printed,
00:22:43 and it opened by declaring that all men are by nature equally free and independent with inherent rights.
00:22:52 You read that, then you read Jefferson, and you can hear it humming underneath the lines.
00:22:57 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 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 He didn't look at any other paperwork.
00:23:17 It just was coming from him and explains the genius of him better than anything else.
00:23:23 He said he never intended it to be original.
00:23:27 he said, I just wanted the declaration to be an expression of the American mind.
00:23:33 He wasn't trying to invent a new idea.
00:23:35 He was really, I mean, it's a lot, very much like Thomas Paine and common sense.
00:23:40 He was trying to use common sense.
00:23:41 He was trying to find the words for the thing 3 million people already felt inside,
00:23:48 but they hadn't said it yet.
00:23:50 So he reaches into the common air of his own time,
00:23:53 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 And he did.
00:24:09 He did it all alone.
00:24:11 Grieving his mother, terrified for his wife, homesick, sick himself in 17 days.
00:24:18 days, the fate of a continent, the weight of his own neck pressing down on that little
00:24:26 folding desk. And the thing I want you to carry out, he had no idea. He really had no
00:24:37 idea. He thought he was writing a committee report. Imagine how worthless you thought
00:24:44 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 in a room by yourself writing a committee report he thought this was routine paperwork that would
00:24:57 be forgotten in a month he really didn't have any idea he never dreamt his name would outlive
00:25:03 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 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 to speak on the main stage here in washington dc on the mall and i'm going to bring the copy
00:25:25 of the original draft in thomas jefferson's own hand and you look at the crossouts
00:25:32 you look at what he printed there are five words that are printed not in cursive united
00:25:42 States, America. There are three. And then Christian and men. He added two more. Those two
00:25:52 would be deleted by two colonies. But you look at the crossouts, you look at what was changed and 0.84
00:26:00 who changed it. It's amazing. You'll see crossed out and you'll see something changed. And then 1.00
00:26:05 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 margin a little farther down, I'll say Jay Adams, and there'll be another change in John
00:26:15 Adams' hand. But very few changes. But you can see it's not God writing Scripture. It's
00:26:23 a frightened, brilliant, heartbroken young man doing the best he could and reaching by
00:26:31 accident and grief and genius, reaching all the way to forever.
00:26:41 The progressives have made the Declaration of Independence
00:26:44 something that was meant to be just for their time.
00:26:51 But that's the genius of it.
00:26:54 It's not just for their time.
00:26:57 It's for our time.
00:26:59 That is the argument that Wilson started,
00:27:02 Woodrow Wilson started, turn of last century.
00:27:05 That the Declaration of Independence is irrelevant.
00:27:09 That's why Independence Day is so important.
00:27:13 You know, that's not the founding of our country.
00:27:16 That came later after the war.
00:27:19 This is the 250th year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,
00:27:25 the most important document, I think, in all of human political history.
00:27:32 I'm going to tell you part three of the story, how it was passed,
00:27:36 and what it was like for Jefferson to hear it butchered tomorrow.
00:27:41 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:28:42 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 this is going to turn out but i know that i saw her speech she is a democratic socialist
00:28:58 Yesterday, in fact, let me see if we have this audio. 1.00
00:29:02 Yesterday, we had Mom Donnie. 0.85
00:29:05 Yeah, cut to listen to this.
00:29:07 Listen to this. 1.00
00:29:08 This is Mom Donnie. 0.99
00:29:09 And we raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least.
00:29:14 Throughout this process, I've been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
00:29:19 If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.
00:29:23 These past months have shown us anything.
00:29:24 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 They've been in office for what? Less than a year? We've proven it.
00:29:39 Every single socialist experiment fails, fails.
00:29:44 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 what do you mean you're taking your country back because that's what everybody was saying about
00:29:58 the tea partiers what do they mean by we're taking our country back what does that mean 0.97
00:30:03 well i know what it means it it means we're returning to the constitution and the declaration 0.84
00:30:09 of independence when you're talking about getting rid of capitalism you're not taking it back
00:30:14 so the question is is this is this just the edges of the party or is this going to be
00:30:24 is this a death knell for the next election because that's what they always say about the 0.96
00:30:31 republic when you have somebody who's a constitutional he's an extremist he's crazy
00:30:35 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 rapped from the press, of course. But have they gone too far for the average Democrat? I don't
00:30:50 know. I don't know. One of the biggest mistakes Republicans could make right now is believing
00:30:55 we've seen this movie before. We haven't seen this. Okay. People are like, this is a Democratic
00:31:00 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 of that what was it we were asking america not to become something new we were asking america
00:31:16 to do something traditional to become something old again okay remember what those rallies look
00:31:23 like the pocket constitution guys my son turned into one yesterday on the airplane he had a pocket
00:31:29 constitution i'm like i'm not gonna tell you but in my day that made you really super nerdy
00:31:35 but pocket constitution the don't tread on me flags the people quoting the declaration of
00:31:42 independence dressed up as ben franklin and george washington i mean wow that's radical
00:31:49 they were not demanding that washington seize industries or redistribute wealth they were not
00:31:56 saying eat the rich they were arguing that washington had forgotten its own limits whether
00:32:03 you agreed with them or not their argument was restorative you could say i don't want to go back
00:32:08 there but they wanted less government lower debt a return to constitutional principles they were
00:32:14 like let's do it the old way they're extremists now those same voices are calling democratic
00:32:22 socialism the future think of that one movement wanted to go wanted to get the government to
00:32:30 shrink the other believes the government should regulate more spend more own more forgive more
00:32:37 guarantee more direct more of the economy these are not mirror image they are opposites
00:32:45 and here's something else that nobody seems to notice every successful socialist movement in
00:32:53 history claimed to represent the workers this is so important where are the workers today
00:32:59 Where are they?
00:33:02 Today's movement represents the graduates.
00:33:07 Look where all the energy comes from.
00:33:09 The elite universities, the prestigious media, the non-profits, the government bureaucracy, the professional activists, the commanding height of culture.
00:33:25 Karl Marx predicted the revolution would come from the factory floor.
00:33:30 Instead, it seems to be coming from the faculty lounge.
00:33:35 So now here's the question.
00:33:37 And we don't know the answer to this.
00:33:39 We'll find out in November.
00:33:40 Will the average Democrat buy it?
00:33:43 Maybe, maybe not.
00:33:44 I don't know.
00:33:46 I was looking at some polling last night from Gallup.
00:33:49 Found something fascinating.
00:33:51 Americans still view capitalism more favorably than socialism.
00:33:54 54% to 39%
00:33:56 but that's crazy
00:33:58 socialism
00:33:58 people are actually talking about communism now
00:34:00 but here's what's more interesting
00:34:04 take capitalism out of it
00:34:05 the free market
00:34:06 do you support small businesses
00:34:09 and the free enterprise
00:34:11 95% have a positive view
00:34:15 of small business with the free market
00:34:17 81% say free enterprise
00:34:20 is good
00:34:21 81% it's language
00:34:24 the anger here is not directed to the local hardware store it's directed at concentrated
00:34:31 corporate power and that matters the average democrat is not sitting around dreaming about
00:34:38 nationalizing industries they're trying to buy groceries they're trying to make rent they're
00:34:45 trying to pay for child care they don't want a revolution they want relief they want somebody
00:34:51 you actually standing up for them who's listening to them that is an incredibly interesting split
00:34:57 inside of the democratic party the activist class is talking about restructuring everything
00:35:04 the average voter is like i just want my eggs to come down in price
00:35:09 these are two entirely different conversations and even the democrats themselves know it
00:35:17 they know it recent polling found large majorities of democratic voters wanting new leadership
00:35:23 they want their party focused on kitchen table economics not cultural battles and this where
00:35:30 it gets even more interesting socialism has always promised equality but eventually every socialist
00:35:37 movement runs right into the same wall what is that wall this is why the common core was so
00:35:43 important. The wall is math. It's math. Somebody has to build. Somebody has to invent. Somebody
00:35:51 has to risk failure. Somebody has to create wealth before somebody can take it away from them.
00:35:57 The bill always comes due.
00:36:01 So I don't know if the Democrats have jumped the shark or not, or they're just way ahead
00:36:05 of the curve. I don't know. That's the right question. Maybe a better question.
00:36:13 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 I was walking around Washington, D.C. last night, and they have the president in a cage now.
00:36:30 I mean, you can't get within two blocks of the White House.
00:36:33 Now, it's only for this weekend, I found out.
00:36:36 But I'm looking at what we're turning into, our political class with the violence and everything.
00:36:41 You're not going to get near this stuff.
00:36:42 I remember you could walk in, I could just walk in to the Capitol building.
00:36:48 You just walk in.
00:36:49 You're not doing that now.
00:36:52 We have a bell in our history vault.
00:36:56 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 This is Lincoln's time.
00:37:03 Hit that bell and say, I want to see the president.
00:37:06 And somebody would come down and say, okay, yeah, sit down here and he'll see you in a minute.
00:37:10 We have the bell, the service bell.
00:37:12 now serving number 23 you can't you can't get within two blocks of the white house
00:37:17 these guys are going to become more and more elite but history offers this warning
00:37:24 and it's this political parties usually don't collapse because the other side defeats them
00:37:32 they collapse because their leaders begin speaking a language that their own voters
00:37:39 no longer recognize why have you fallen away from the republican party because they're speaking a
00:37:46 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 saying my friends aren't for any of that stuff what are you talking about that's what's happening
00:37:56 to the democrats the democrats i think i could be wrong but i think they have gone so far they are
00:38:04 speaking like they're giving this message that sounds like a graduate seminar and all you're
00:38:12 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 and that's the real test not whether socialism excites activists on social media of course it
00:38:25 does the real thing is does a dad who's working overtime or a mom balancing two jobs believe
00:38:32 another layer of government control
00:38:35 is actually going to make tomorrow
00:38:37 better than today.
00:38:38 And what they believe about small business
00:38:41 and the free market,
00:38:42 that's a hard sell.
00:38:46 But the answer to that is going to determine
00:38:48 not just the future of the Democratic Party,
00:38:51 but whether America remains a country 0.64
00:38:53 that rewards those who build
00:38:55 or one that increasingly rewards
00:38:58 those who promise to divide
00:39:00 what others have already built.
00:39:03 And I want to get into that at the bottom of the hour.
00:39:05 I want to take a quick break here.
00:39:07 And I want to tell you, you know, you don't know.
00:39:11 Everybody says, we got to be more like Europe.
00:39:14 Really?
00:39:15 Do we?
00:39:16 That's working out. 0.99
00:39:17 We got to be more like Sweden.
00:39:19 You have no idea what Sweden has done since the 1990s, do you?
00:39:22 They have no idea what Sweden has done.
00:39:25 Let me set the record straight on Swedish and Norwegian socialism, because it's not what you think it is.
00:39:32 when they say we're taking our country back they're they're not taking their country back
00:39:37 they are saying at the same time they want to fundamentally transform this is what obama used
00:39:41 to say five days away from the fundamental transformation of america and they have
00:39:45 transformed us that is let me give you this let me give you this picture going into a museum
00:39:50 and i want you to picture you're in the louvre and there's a guy standing there two guys stand
00:39:57 in there one has traveled a thousand miles maybe the other side of the earth to come see his
00:40:04 favorite painting a painting he adores he loves the mona lisa and he's standing there for a long
00:40:10 time and he's studying every brush stroke every shadow every tiny little detail that survived
00:40:15 more than 500 years and he's looking at the curator he's like i just love this and the curator
00:40:22 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 better I mean the smile should be bigger I'm thinking about buying it how much somebody from
00:40:35 Texas how much for that painting up there on that wall because I can change I can make it better
00:40:40 you know the background kind of feels a little dated put a modern skyline behind her maybe lose
00:40:46 the dark clothing it's a little out of date let's give her something more current that she's wearing
00:40:50 and make her smile because that smile sucks but i love this painting by the time he's finished
00:40:56 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 wrong i told you i love that painting no no no you didn't love that painting you loved your idea
00:41:10 of what that painting should be if you love the painting your first instinct would not be to erase
00:41:16 everything that makes it what it is. The first thing you wanted to change was her smile.
00:41:23 There's a difference between restoring something and replacing it, and everybody understands that.
00:41:30 You know, an old church begins to crumble. If you love the church, you repair the stone.
00:41:36 You don't bulldoze it and build a casino in its place. Your grandfather's watch stops running.
00:41:43 you fix the gears you don't melt it down and make earrings out of it
00:41:47 can you imagine saying to your wife honey i love you try this honey i love you so much
00:41:56 i love i love everything about you if i could just fundamentally transform everything about you
00:42:03 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 person you wish she would become love begins with accepting the identity of the thing you claim to
00:42:18 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 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 not we don't want to transform you we want to restore you
00:42:35 you don't erase the character and then congratulate yourself for saving it
00:42:41 obviously i'm not talking about painting i'm talking about america
00:42:46 we keep hearing politicians on the left fundamentally transforming the united states
00:42:51 we're calling our country back you're not you're fundamentally transforming it not to improve not
00:42:58 to restore, not to renew, but to transform. Those are very different things. Restore and renew
00:43:06 and transform. America has an identity. It has a beginning. It has first principles. It has a
00:43:17 reason for existing. And the reason's not hidden. It's right there. Our founding fathers put it in
00:43:24 the Declaration of Independence.
00:43:27 That's our country.
00:43:29 Just be honest.
00:43:31 You want to transform it.
00:43:33 You want to get rid of that mission statement
00:43:35 and replace it with something else.
00:43:39 We know who you are.
00:43:40 Does America know who America is?
00:43:45 That's the question we're going to find out,
00:43:47 I think, in this next election.
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