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Glenn Beck talks Iran, Bitcoin, and the death of the old order. Also, a woman in Texas is facing a year in jail for serving four drinks in four hours. Also, Michael Malice has a new book out called The New Right . We talk about my favorite president, Woodrow Wilson.
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Hello, podcasters. We've got a great show lined up for you today.
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We talk a little bit about the war in Iran, Bitcoin up, the Dow way down, gold way up.
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Also, the death of the old order and common sense.
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Stu kind of had an epic story today of somebody here in Texas who's a bartender
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who is now facing a year in jail because she over-served someone.
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But it was four drinks and two of them were beers in four hours.
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Also, Michael Malice, he's got a new book out called The New Right.
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We talk about my favorite president, Woodrow Wilson.
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But he is defining the new right. That's coming up.
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We also show you a clip of Mike Lee that I think you're going to want to hear.
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And also, Ami Horowitz, a guy who is now running for president.
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And you can help him get on the Democratic stage.
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It would be much better for them to collapse like the Soviet Union did.
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And the Saudis yesterday said that they did hit those Saudi oil tankers.
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So they're trying to disrupt the Middle East and they're trying to disrupt the global economy.
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Yesterday, looks like we have a plan now for 120,000 troops to go over to Iran for an invasion.
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It doesn't mean that it's actually going to happen.
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I'm hoping that it's not because it will not be easy.
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Not that Iraq was easy, but it will not be in Iraq.
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Iran is just one step up, it would say, from Afghanistan and from Iraq.
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I think Donald Trump is the president when it comes to foreign affairs.
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He's the president that I've always wanted to have.
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I've always said, you know, the president needs to have like a twitchy eye.
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But the bad actors in the world should look at our president and go, you know, he's just crazy.
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You want to appear stable and yet just crazy enough to go, you know what, let's do it.
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And I think that's what he's doing, but I don't know.
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The tariffs are a good example of he does keep his word.
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You know, he has said, and this is one of the things that I was really concerned about were these tariffs.
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Because that is the one thing he has said for 40 years.
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And whenever you get into a trade war, it usually leads to a hot war.
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World War II, we put the tariffs up and that was really the catalyst.
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Now, we were in a different situation, but that was the catalyst for the Great Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Act.
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Now, if the president is playing hardball, that's good.
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He's going to lose the farm vote, and that's very concerning to me.
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These farmers have been, you know, they have really been supportive of him every step of the way.
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And when they were, you know, I mean, you want to talk about taking one for the team.
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Yeah, so, well, I mean, everybody knows what's happening in that.
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It's in the first episode, and it's a part of history.
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Anyway, but last night, they were looking for volunteers to do things.
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And one of the guys, one of the Soviets said, they're all like, you're crazy.
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And there is always a crisis in every generation.
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And they all knew they were volunteering for about 20 minutes of life.
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There really were legitimate heroes in that story.
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That were Soviet citizens that stepped up and did crazy stuff they never should have done.
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And all of the people that are involved, all of the people that are now involved in the second, they're all starting to realize, I'm dead soon.
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I only bring that up because I look at the farmers.
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And they were willing to put their money and their livelihood where their mouth was because they're the ones that were on the front line of these tariffs.
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They're targeting red states and politically sensitive districts to target the tariffs because they know it will make a maximum impact.
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And honestly, so far, the Trump administration has done two things.
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One is say, well, we'll just take this tax money and redistribute it to those people.
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I thought that was a Democrat thing to do, to take tax money and redistribute it to their chosen parties.
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And secondarily, though, and this is one I think has more, I don't know, to me, credibility, is, you know, the bottom line is, where are they going to go?
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Are you going to go vote for one of these people?
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I mean, so, I mean, you know, yes, this policy is hurting them, but I mean, what are they going to do?
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Are they going to go vote for Elizabeth Warren?
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It's just, it's going to create a forgotten man again.
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Nobody's paying attention to the farmers who have taken one for the team.
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We might have paid higher prices on this or that.
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And we need to be grateful to the farmers and support our farmers because they don't know what to do.
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Now, Donald Trump said yesterday, well, we'll see what happens.
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But I just want to point out, after he got his trade deal with Mexico and Canada, he did not remove the tariffs because he likes the tariffs.
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And he has been consistent on that for as long as he's been in the public eye.
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Now, people are concerned that China is going to dump our treasuries.
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I don't think so, because they've already done that and it hurt them.
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They came out and said, we're getting out of the treasury business.
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So there's a chance that they've already learned that lesson.
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They don't know if I want to do that because they were the victim of that scheme that they did.
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I think gold is having its best week in I don't even know how many years.
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Bitcoin, they declared today Bitcoin the winter of...
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And that is because people are starting to say, what I want to talk to you about today, the new world order is being formed.
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It's faltering and it appears as though everyone is building something new.
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There was a mass shooting, what, two years ago, of people just watching a Dallas Cowboys game.
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And it turned out to be a, you know, a jilted ex-husband or estranged husband.
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And that is the bartender who served him before he left to murder his family.
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And so, my first case here is just basically like, it's a ridiculous law.
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When I went through training at a restaurant, they trained us on this.
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You got to make sure that, you know, no one is drunk, that you're serving drinks.
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The blood alcohol level of the patrons they're serving.
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And even though you might be a server who's not even of age of drinking.
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So, you would have legally no way to recognize what drunk even is.
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And the ones that you're really worried about, you know, are the nice ones, you know?
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You're not worried about saying, oh, I'm sorry, sir, but I think you've had enough.
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Now, Glenn, as an alcoholic, you're talking about in recovery-ish.
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Talking about, if you believe this to be a legitimate law, okay?
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The bartender, okay, this person's way over the line.
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How many drinks would you have to serve them, would you say?
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And it depends on their size, their weight, and their tolerance.
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And you're expecting restaurant workers to judge that.
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I could have ordered a Jack and Coke, and it probably wouldn't have touched me until I
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Because you're getting a little, you know, you're getting two fingers of Jack, and that's
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So, let me give you the first piece of evidence here, beyond the fact that the law is ridiculous.
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The man who did this murder was served five drinks.
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She's not gone to prison yet, but she's been charged with this crime.
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So, now we're at a point where now we're charging this woman for essentially accessory
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to a mass shooting because she served a guy four drinks.
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For even the generic average drinker, that is nothing.
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The first visit was near 2.30 in the afternoon.
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So, now we're talking about she served four drinks over the course of four hours, which
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you could, if nothing else happened, you could drive and not be near the legal limit
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I mean, I'm operating the lawnmower and not yet thinking I can turn this thing over and
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Now, it may now not occur to me that that would be a bad idea.
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Now, she suspected that he may have gone to another bar in between.
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Because he did, to her, appear to be a little tipsy.
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She actually texted a co-worker, a guy named Timothy Banks, from the bar about her concern
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over his behavior and asked him to come to talk to the guy.
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She's texted a co-worker, told him to come in and actually talk to the guy to make sure
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Now, she says he's drunk and being weird and he keeps saying he has to put someone in his
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Now, look, that is very, if you take out all tough talk by people who are buzzed at a
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Like, a bartender will tell you they hear people say crap like that all the time.
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If you take out all tough talk and offensive talk, you have to get rid of almost everybody
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So, now, again, four drinks over four hours and two visits.
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She does think he's drunk and she's a little worried.
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She texts a co-worker, has him come in to actually talk to him to see if everything's
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Now, I don't know if this 27-year-old woman is supposed to overpower him, tackle him, put
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him in a stranglehold, because she surely would have gone to prison for that if she had
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She tries to actually stop him from leaving the bar.
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I mean, I guess they try to talk him out of it and say, no, you should stay.
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You're allowed to leave places when you want to leave them.
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But, again, if you say, all right, then, she just gave up.
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So, she leaves the bar and starts driving around trying to find this guy.
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She successfully locates this guy after he leaves the house and finds the guy at the
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house that we're talking about where the mass shooting eventually goes on.
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She actually called him at one point, her friend.
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Calls 911 and reports that she has a friend in danger who is in possession of a gun and
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So, she has gone like 10 steps past where she needs to go on this.
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Then, they leave the house and Banks, the friend, drives Glass back to the bar.
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Then, he, the person she initially texted to see if the situation was going to go okay,
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Then, while he's on the way to the house, he flags down a uniformed county sheriff's deputy
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At that point, they start getting ready to go over there and that's when the shooting
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happens and everyone responds to go for the shooting.
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Did everything they possibly could except make a citizen's arrest on the guy.
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I think legitimately, I think legitimately, Lindsay Glass in this situation should be viewed
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I mean, this is a person who went way above and beyond what a normal person would be thought
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of to, if she's trying to stop someone she believes is dangerous, who she knows is armed and had
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too much to drink, and she's going out there trying to stop them at this house to make sure
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She would be free today if she just didn't say anything and did nothing.
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He had four drinks, but because she alerted a co-worker and then left the bar to go track
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If this is, you know, this, this, when you look at the former Soviet Union and any places
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that have had dictatorial rule, your neighbors don't say anything.
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They look, they say they could see you being beaten to a bloody pump, a pulp, and they turn
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their eyes and they move on because they don't want to get involved.
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Um, here's this woman getting involved, trying to do the right thing as a human being.
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Do you think the next bartender is going to do what she did?
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You just hope to look the other way and not notice.
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However, four drinks over four hours almost doesn't change your blood alcohol level at
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Like you're going to have, you're not above the legal limit.
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You know, I remember being in health class when I was a kid and they said, you know,
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basically one drink per hour is what your body will burn off.
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So four drinks in four hours to her, everything that she served them probably didn't change
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As this is all going on, this tragic shooting, she is brought in by deputies the night it's
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They commended her for her actions and the lives that she saved.
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And now she might be going to jail for a year for this.
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She's being charged at all is possibly ridiculous.
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I can't believe a Texas jury would convict her.
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A year and a half after this happened, they're trying to bring her into jail for this?
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I mean, looking at the facts here, what on earth do you expect a 25-year-old bartender
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She did 10 times more than I would even think of doing in that situation.
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I'm not going to this guy's house when he's drunk and armed.
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A woman going there, which you did have one guy with her, but still, I would not even think
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It's like saying like, you know, you pass a homeless person in the street and you might
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It's like the, it's like a Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
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He like brings her into that, brings the homeless guy in the house, gives him soup, tries to
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warm him up, gives him a place to stay and he keeps dying and he just can't do anything
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She did way more than I think any citizen would normally do.
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I have to tell you, I would have just called 911.
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We tried to get him to stay at the most and yeah, there you go.
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I mean, because the same thing would have happened.
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If you would have said, we got to go find this guy.
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No, how if that was, if that was my girlfriend or my wife who told me that I would say no
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way or no way, honey, seriously, this could be not today's world.
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And like, look, they're going to say that like, that's what she maybe should have done
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earlier, but I mean, you know, look, this is someone she knew was seemingly a regular.
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She tried to prevent, she did everything she could.
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And if she, let's just say she tried to get somebody else.
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The first thing you do because we have the normalcy bias and our, our brain is telling
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So the first thing we do is go, Hey, is there something wrong with a reactor or is it just
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You go, Hey, um, I'm thinking, I mean, this sounds crazy cause it's not supposed to blow,
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And she's, she's going to the point where she's like pouring a pitcher of water over the
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I mean, I just cannot believe in Texas of all places that they could look at that and
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use any level of common sense and try to do say that she did anything.
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He is also the, um, the author of what is the Kim Jong, uh, ill book that we always talk
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So Michael, I started reading, I haven't finished it, but I've started reading it and
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I've, I've kind of picked through it and I'm not sure I agree with you.
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So I want you to set it out from the beginning.
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Tell me what, tell me what you are defining the new right as.
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I got very kind of technical with the definition.
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I define the new right as a loosely connected group of individuals united by their opposition
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to progressivism, which they perceive to be a thinly veiled religion dedicated to egalitarian
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principles and intent on world domination via globalist hegemony.
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I mean, that's, that does capture, I think there's a lot of that.
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I mean, it's the loosely connected part, I think is really important there because there
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are a lot of different reasons why they oppose it and correct.
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Uh, but yeah, I think that's, that's largely true.
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That would include, uh, people like identitarians, um, which I think their solutions are not good,
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A lot of these groups, not all of them, obviously not, no, no, no, no, let's not have any blanket
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I was thinking we were living in a reasonable world still when people feel like the, the nation,
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in whatever nation they live in, I mean, this is happening all over the world, that their
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nation is being destroyed by globalism and not a globalism of, Hey, let's just buy products
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A globalism that says your country is valueless.
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It doesn't, it's no different than anything else.
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That, that is a driver for a lot of people that feel like we're losing the things that
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And, and, and, and what I talk about in the book is how did we get to this point?
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So if you, you know, in a broader sense, the new right can be regarded as the unorthodox
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And these are the people and types who are basically driven out of the mainstream.
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How do we get to the point where this, uh, what you and many other people are fighting
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And it's not just Italy, you know, stop talking about spaghetti and Italy doesn't matter.
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It's that you individually don't matter anywhere you go.
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And not only that, which I discuss, if you talk about video games, if you talk about movies,
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if you talk about places that don't exist and escaping the earth, even there, these ideas
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have to be promulgated by the, what I call the evangelical left.
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So what I criticize conservatives about, and let me just take a step back, because a lot
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of people think, oh, if you criticize conservatives, you must be an AOC supporter.
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Conservatives, I think are a little naive about the nature of who they're opposing.
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They think there's room to reason with these people that they're like journalists are sloppy
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And the point I demonstrate is these so-called mistakes have been made the same exact way
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So if you keep making the same mistake in the same exact way, at what point does it become
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So, Michael, let me go a step deeper with the, the, um, the new right, because there is
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the alt-right, which is an alternative to the right, uh, and that is, they are just as big
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government and, and socialists, many of them are just nationalists, but they don't believe
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You know, these neo-Nazis, um, you know, you, you listen to Richard Spencer and that's
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Yeah, I was in Charlottesville and I talk about that in my book and I'm Jewish and I'm an
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Um, and you know, I was not invited to some of the parties for obvious reasons.
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What the progressives would love to have is the idea that you and I and Stu, we're all
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neo-Nazis simply because we disagree with them.
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Anyone, racism has no place in civilized society.
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Therefore, anyone who disagrees with me has no place in civilized society.
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One of the things I point out in this book, which will drive them crazy, is more white
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nationalists and white supremacists fought the Nazis than urban feminists during World War
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So to have everyone in this big, giant box is very convenient for them.
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And again, this happens at the university level and it happens at the media level.
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And one of the things I discussed, which I don't think conservatives really have an answer
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for, how is it that they so dominate the media and the universities?
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Andrew Breitbart, who I'm sure you have very kind things to say about, made that realization
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And when so much of conservative thought is about Washington, my point in this book is
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if you're dealing with it at the Washington level, you've already lost.
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I mean, that is, it is a huge problem, I think, for whatever is left of the conservative
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movement or whatever part of it is real anymore.
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So are you saying, Michael, that you would, that the new right is a replacement for the old
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right or is it just a new branch of what we used to kind of look at as the conservative
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I would think the new right is in many ways opposed to the conservative movement.
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And I talk about the past conservative movement, and I talk about how Buckley and the National
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Review have for decades, you know, read people out of the movement, you know, driven them
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from a respectful society and are using tactics that, you know, very leftist tactics.
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And that's no surprise because they have their roots in literal, like Trotskyist communists.
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James Burnham, you know, these, I'm going old school here, was one of the original
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National Review people, he was friends with Trotsky, and so on and so forth.
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So I discuss how, and it happens now, you have the Bill Kristol types and so on and so
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forth, who would love to drive everyone out of the movement and off the face of the other.
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I mean, that's the thing that the right refuses to look at, is that the progressive movement
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I mean, you know, he didn't invent it, but he was the one that first really popularized
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And it was the progressive party that he started.
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Glenn, you and I, last time, another time I was on, you and I are bonding over our hatred
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Conservatives at their best are about studying history and applying those lessons to today.
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So this conservative idea that it's only been recently that progressivism has taken
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place in America, I debunk that in this book, because as you and I know, Woodrow Wilson
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said it 100 years ago, and he was far more progressive than anyone out there today.
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He really was messianic and said explicitly that he was sent here by God to save the world
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So the idea that it's only been since the 60s that this has been going on is false.
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And I especially talk about it in context of universities.
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And I talk about how, you know, since the 1890s, people came over from Germany with the intent
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of creating an elite to control and dominate American culture.
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Yeah, I mean, that's that's why that's why John Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University
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It was the first progressive university meant to take what was being taught in Heidelberg
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I mean, it's been going on for a very long time.
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And the other key thing to understand is Wilson and many of these types have the roots in the
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And this idea is that instead of saving an individual soul, it is a nation that has to
00:33:52.200
And when that is your approach to a country, that means there is no room anywhere for people
00:33:58.220
to have sinful, i.e. incorrect, i.e. not progressive views.
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And that is why there's such, in a sense, jihadis when it comes to anyone that they don't like.
00:34:14.480
How do you separate those people who don't like progressive policies but seem to accept
00:34:25.640
I mean, where is the line, you know, because there's a lot of people right now on the right
00:34:33.060
that are falling into the trap of progressivism and it's my way or the highway and they're
00:34:39.800
not really basing anything in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
00:34:45.060
I mean, you could be a socialist or a Marxist and not be a progressive and so on and so
00:34:49.300
And many of them are very, very pro-big government in a sense that you and I would find anathema
00:34:57.380
I sat down with these identities, Jared Taylor, who's a big, you know, race realist and some
00:35:04.400
And I think it's important to air out these ideas and engage them and fight them because
00:35:11.420
otherwise the accusations of, well, you're making your fellow traveling with these types.
00:35:16.700
It's like, well, no, I'm showing you I'm doing a better job of arguing with them than
00:35:21.460
you are, because I'm showing where their ideas are wrong instead of just dismissing
00:35:25.520
And what happens is when you drive ideas underground, young kids who want to upset people and be
00:35:31.000
trolls and be edgy and cool, they are drawn to it.
00:35:34.000
It's like telling kids, don't smoke cigarettes.
00:35:37.880
It's like, oh, yeah, where can I get some Camel?
00:35:39.700
So it's happening in current culture, and they don't even realize what they're doing.
00:35:49.240
So, OK, so, Michael, we're talking to Michael Malice, the author of the new book, The New
00:35:53.940
Right, A Journey into the Fringe of American Politics.
00:35:58.260
I'm going to take a one minute break and then I want to come back.
00:36:00.320
And I want you to kind of, can you cut up the right and tell me all of the little pieces
00:36:06.220
that are involved and where the new right fits in all of this?
00:36:11.440
So, Michael, how do you how do you chop up the right and and separate people who are anarchists?
00:36:35.860
So the ones that want to just have chaos, you don't want to have chaos in the streets.
00:36:42.700
Chaos in the streets is a function of government because streets are owned by the government.
00:37:04.600
I'm glad to be in the riots in the street every night.
00:37:08.520
But, Michael, explain to me, like, where do we fit in the right?
00:37:22.040
Do you regard progressivism as a thinly veiled religion dedicated to world domination?
00:37:30.760
Do you think that it's a problem that organizations like National Review have for decades been kicking people out of politics for the sake of people on the left?
00:37:46.400
And if you regard – here's how the real litmus test for the new right.
00:37:49.980
If you unambiguously regard Woodrow Wilson as by far the most evil man to be president, I think that's a good litmus test.
00:38:04.760
When I talked to her about a year and a half ago, she went off – she was like, I know you hate Woodrow Wilson.
00:38:21.500
We talked a lot about – well, we did talk a lot about eugenics.
00:38:26.760
Well, the other thing that's important about Woodrow Wilson is it's not a coincidence that he was a college university president of Princeton before he became president.
00:38:38.740
And I talk in this book extensively about the universities and how they're the real problem, and this is something that conservatives are kind of aware of, and they talk about things going on on campus.
00:38:50.620
And my point is the root, the rot, goes far deeper than kids acting out.
00:38:57.440
I mean these kids are being trained in this way, and the chickens are coming home to roots.
00:39:02.460
Well, I don't think a lot of conservatives do because historically – and this is what I talk in the book is – this was the idea of my kid's the first one to go to college.
00:39:12.560
It's this middle-class aspiration, and it was a great, great thing.
00:39:16.780
And now people are coming to realize, thankfully, that you have this beautiful young 18-year-old girl going to school, and four years later she comes home as a swamp walrus, and you can't even have conversations with each other over dinner.
00:39:35.560
Even in my home, this is probably the biggest argument we have in my home with me and Tanya, my wife.
00:39:44.060
She says kids have got to go to college, and I'm like, over my dead body, and she's like, I'm willing to kill you.
00:39:51.020
But it is – I mean, I cannot find a reason to fund the swamp walrus training for my kids.
00:40:04.660
Right now we're talking to the author of the book, The New Right, Michael Malice.
00:40:09.460
He's a friend of the program, been on several times.
00:40:14.360
But, Michael, I want to go back to your definition of who fits in the alt-right.
00:40:22.580
Because the New Right could include – well, it does include, I would imagine, that would include people like Alex Jones.
00:40:33.020
And Alex and I disagree on 98% of things, I think.
00:40:41.000
However, we do agree probably on your definition.
00:40:46.240
But that is more of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
00:40:49.680
And that's good to destroy, but a conservative conserves and doesn't want to destroy the good things that remain.
00:41:00.020
And I'm more about building a new future than destroying.
00:41:06.040
I think the 2% you and Alex would agree upon is probably the most important 2%, and which I discuss at length,
00:41:12.440
which is we are being lied to, that we have been being lied to for a very long time,
00:41:19.540
and what is the nature of this narrative that's being constructed in front of us?
00:41:23.840
But when we even get to that 2%, what we're being lied to, I mean, I'm not going – I don't think we're being –
00:41:35.860
What I meant by that 2% is not what you're being lied to about.
00:41:39.420
That this mechanism is being done intentionally and systemically and pervasively,
00:41:48.300
And once people start looking – and that's the problem.
00:41:50.720
And that's the problem I grapple with in the book because once you take that one red pill like in The Matrix
00:41:55.660
and you see, okay, I'm being lied to, you take one red pill, not the whole bottle.
00:42:00.340
Because once you start thinking more and more things are lies,
00:42:04.340
you get to the point to full-blown Holocaust denial because everything is a lie.
00:42:09.060
So that is something that I address and grapple with.
00:42:12.340
What do you do once you realize that the media is manipulative and lying?
00:42:16.840
But there comes a point where you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:42:25.080
I mean, the book is worth it just for, I think, the creation of a potential TV series of Michael Malice Talks to the Nazis,
00:42:35.340
But, I mean, I would just be riveting television.
00:42:39.460
But I wanted to ask you, Michael, because it's interesting looking at the book and the way you talk about these groups.
00:42:45.480
And you're describing, I think, something real that is happening right now.
00:42:52.900
Or do you just see this as, hey, everybody, wake up.
00:42:57.720
First of all, I wrote a book to be entertaining.
00:42:59.560
I think if you're writing a book about politics and you get people to laugh and be engaged and you could be on the beach or in the bathroom, you've accomplished something.
00:43:07.000
Number two is it's the kind of thing where, you know, if someone is having an affair and the wife looks the other way, this book is you can't pretend you don't know anymore.
00:43:16.560
This book is exposing what is going on and forcing people to confront the very dark realities of our politics and our cultural war in a way that I think is going to make some people uncomfortable because it's really scary to realize just how totalitarian the opposition is.
00:43:35.800
The argument with, you know, they block people from Twitter, from PayPal, right?
00:43:38.940
They say, go make your own network if you don't like it.
00:43:42.260
And Glenn Beck said, all right, I made the blaze.
00:43:44.740
And now if they had their druthers, they would drive the blaze out of business.
00:43:51.140
So I also talk about the techniques that the evangelical left uses to further their control of American and world domination because it's not about, you know,
00:44:00.740
if you're arguing about, you know, transgender bathrooms or, you know, immigration from Muslim countries, this is a distraction.
00:44:07.040
As soon as that issue is done, they're going to find something else because it's always about furthering their power.
00:44:14.020
Yeah, it's, that's the, that's the biggest problem is people think that they're dealing with honest brokers and they're not.
00:44:24.120
And because it is a barely disguised religion, once you think of yourself as saved, then you are allowed to do anything you want because you're doing it in the service of what you perceive to be the good.
00:44:36.760
C.S. Lewis, who I'm sure you're a fan of, who's a great, great philosopher.
00:44:40.200
I have a quote from him in the book where he says, I'd rather be under the control of people who are corrupt than a bit moral busybody because the corrupt person will at least sleep at night, whereas the busybody will never tire because he's fueled by his own self-righteous conscience.
00:44:56.760
And that is something people need to understand.
00:44:59.200
This is a totalitarian faith for these types and they will never let you rest.
00:45:05.580
Michael, thank you so much for your hard work and thank you for being on the, the program.
00:45:13.620
The name of the book is The New Right, A Journey into the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice, a great, great writer that you really do enjoy reading his books.
00:45:46.500
He's the director of trade policy studies at the Cato Institute.
00:45:50.820
And I wanted to bring him on because I'm, I'm very concerned about what this trade war is, is leading us to.
00:45:59.200
Um, and, uh, and Dan is here to explain, welcome to the program, Dan, uh, how, how, how deep in the madness are we here with this trade war with China?
00:46:11.920
Well, we are, uh, on the verge of, uh, tariffing each other's products, uh, out of existence.
00:46:20.440
I mean, the Trump administration has announced that it will extend tariffs on all products, uh, by next month that the deal is not reached.
00:46:29.440
The Chinese are already close to, uh, tariffing all of our products.
00:46:33.640
And, uh, my concern is that, uh, this can spiral out of control without, uh, even if there's some, some, uh, sense to this.
00:46:42.820
And even if there's some plan to try to pull back and reach some deal, and this is all negotiating tactics, it could spiral out of control.
00:46:49.440
There's a lot of politics at play, a lot of, what, what does that, what does that mean spiral out of control to what?
00:46:55.380
So right now the United States exports about 120, $130 billion a year, uh, you know, U S exporters to China.
00:47:01.800
But we have companies there that, that generate revenues of about 500 billion.
00:47:06.820
And, uh, they are being compelled, I think, by the Trump administration to reconsider where they're investing.
00:47:16.600
Um, what's, ultimately what's going to happen is that the costs of, of production for U S businesses are going to rise dramatically.
00:47:25.960
Revenues for U S exporters are going to, are going to shrink.
00:47:28.280
That's going to also put downward pressure on profits.
00:47:30.680
If businesses don't have profits, they can't invest and they can't hire.
00:47:34.840
Uh, so like we'll likely see some economic contraction and we will likely see the, the global economy kind of breaking up,
00:47:41.120
bifurcating into, into two segments, two blocks, those that fall within sort of China's ambit.
00:47:46.420
It knows that, that we continue to woo and boy, it's, it's hard to woo countries nowadays, uh, considering how we've poked many of them in the eyes, uh, with respect to our, our trading policies.
00:47:56.200
So, uh, you know, if you, if you look at the, the cycle, uh, that leads to war, usually the last thing before, uh, war, actual war happens is, um, is a trade war.
00:48:12.780
Um, this is the worst one I think I've seen in my lifetime, at least the one that I can remember.
00:48:18.280
Um, and I'm torn on, I'm not torn on Mexico or Europe or Canada, uh, wrong.
00:48:24.920
Um, however, China has really bad practices, um, and they are, I think are the biggest enemy of not America, but of, of freedom of mankind out there.
00:48:39.600
And while I don't like the tariffs, uh, I also don't like really doing a lot of business with, with China, uh, because they're just, they're very bad actors.
00:48:51.460
Certainly the China of, uh, 2019 is very different than the China of say, 2001 when it sort of joined the global economy and joined the World Trade Organization.
00:49:01.720
It was a poor country at the time that was trying to make amends for a lot of bad economic policies, bad social policies.
00:49:08.020
And there was a hope that, that China would become more like us and open up and, and, and capitalism would prevail.
00:49:15.220
And now they have a president who's president for life.
00:49:17.580
Uh, he has, uh, um, he surveils his population.
00:49:21.680
He exports surveillance, uh, equipment around the world.
00:49:26.360
Uh, and so, yes, we need to be a little bit more skeptical of China, but at the same time, we don't want this to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:49:34.100
I mean, the Chinese people, I think, uh, will suffer from, uh, you know, if we, if we turn our backs on each other and we, you know, we, it's, it's not them.
00:49:42.920
It's, it's a regime that might be under pressure from this trade war, uh, which is likely to spark, you know, to inspire nationalism, uh, as the economy starts to go south in China.
00:49:56.180
Uh, but ultimately, uh, I think Chinese people are peace loving and would like to, uh, have, uh, mutually beneficial relations.
00:50:06.360
Generally speaking, I think we're all that way.
00:50:08.160
Sometimes politics and politicians are not that way, but I think generally speaking, the average person on earth is just like, I just want to be left alone, man.
00:50:18.000
I was just going to say that, you know, even if this trade war were to end and the Chinese were to accept all of the Trump administration's demands, and many of those demands, I think, are legitimate.
00:50:27.700
And China's doing certain things that it was, that it shouldn't be doing.
00:50:31.200
Uh, they, they need to abide by the commitments that they have made in some areas where the president is pushing for the Chinese to buy more U.S. products.
00:50:41.640
But if, if they were to agree to everything, we would still have the problem that the United States is the technologically preeminent economy in the world.
00:50:50.840
And there are first mover advantages to being, you know, to, to, to, to, to, to being dominant in a particular technology that has military and security applications.
00:50:58.620
Uh, so there's going to be this, I'm concerned that there's going to be this sort of cold war, uh, uh, dynamic that plays out because we're going to want to prevent them from getting there.
00:51:08.840
They're going to do it, whatever it takes to get there to the technological four.
00:51:11.760
And that, that spells, um, you know, a lot of, uh, that spells trouble for me.
00:51:18.520
One says that the washers and dryers that they put tariffs on, uh, uh, added $200 of cost to a washer dryer set.
00:51:25.920
Plus, uh, it's cost over $800,000 per job, uh, that it created.
00:51:35.020
And also, they're now saying that the, the tariffs, if implemented as threatened, uh, would now overwhelm the entire benefit of the tax bill that was passed in 2017.
00:51:44.860
Now, those, those line up with, with what you see going on?
00:51:50.000
Uh, I've seen those studies and, uh, I don't doubt them.
00:51:53.460
Um, you know, the thing is so far, you know, up until last weekend when this thing really erupted, uh, we, there were tariffs in place.
00:52:01.640
Uh, and certain sectors, certain, you know, steel-using industries and certain manufacturers were complaining about the tariffs.
00:52:08.000
Uh, but by and large, the economy wasn't, didn't seem to be so adversely affected by it.
00:52:16.680
The farmers are in bad shape, uh, but they've been retaliated against.
00:52:20.100
But interestingly, you know, they're among the most patriotic Americans.
00:52:24.640
They seem to think, look, there's a bigger issue here.
00:52:33.440
But, but, but Trump realizes that they can't take it for very long.
00:52:36.300
And so he's, uh, directed subsidies to farmers who are in bad shape.
00:52:40.400
And, uh, but, but anyway, I, I, I think, uh, because the economy has generally been doing so well, it's masked some of the costs.
00:52:56.100
U.S. cost of living for families is going to increase.
00:53:01.080
We have to reestablish all sorts of business relationships around the world in order to, you know, to compensate for what is lost in this relationship.
00:53:08.000
So can you tell me, um, you know, in a minute, um, are you worried at all about the China, the Chinese selling our treasuries?
00:53:16.660
I mean, they've tried that and it actually seemed to have backfired on them.
00:53:31.740
Uh, but that's not something I would recommend.
00:53:34.380
Uh, but they, they, they buy our debt because it's a good investment for them.
00:53:39.180
And particularly since we're scrutinizing all of their investments, you know, their direct investments in the United States so rigorously now, um, they don't have many choices to buy dollar-denominate assets other than to buy, buy debt.
00:53:50.340
Uh, and they can buy equities, but, um, there, I think it's, it's, it's a myth that, that we're threatened by the fact that China owns all the debt, uh, the U.S. debt.
00:54:00.620
But the thing is, it speaks to a bigger problem.
00:54:10.520
And then we never have to worry about, uh, this fake, fake concern.
00:54:38.400
This is a first you'll, you'll tell your kids and your grandkids someday.
00:54:42.580
I was listening to the Glenn Beck program the first day that they had a democratic national candidate, uh, on somebody who was running for the presidency of the United States in the democratic side.
00:54:57.340
We have tried over and over and over again for 20 years.
00:55:00.860
They do not want to ever come on first time ever, a lesser known candidate at this point.
00:55:10.400
Uh, but I think a guy who could go all the way and he might even get my support.
00:55:25.720
So you're not the kind of guy that I would expect to be running for a president of the, you know, under the democratic ticket.
00:55:40.240
The honest truth is I, I am always country over party.
00:55:43.340
I mean, I never cared about an R or a D or an I next to my name.
00:55:47.680
Uh, it's all about what are the important issues that Americans face and those, the issues that animate me and those issues that drive me.
00:55:55.180
And that's why I decided I needed a, a platform for those viewpoints.
00:55:59.340
And I think that the democratic party in particular is doing itself a great disservice by the radicalization.
00:56:06.960
That is the radical transformation, I should say, that's gone through over the past several years.
00:56:11.200
And we've seen an inexorable move by the democratic party to the left over the last, you know, 15 years.
00:56:18.020
But, but we've seen that in hyper drive over the last couple of years.
00:56:23.800
And I think they need somebody to write the ship.
00:56:28.520
So now, um, you've, you've, you've registered, you filed the papers.
00:56:34.980
And, and here's the interesting, here's the interesting thing.
00:56:53.480
If you get donations, even if it's a dollar per donation, right?
00:56:59.120
If you get, uh, 65,000 individuals giving you even 50 cents, you are then guaranteed a
00:57:11.260
It's a massive hack to get on the Democrat debate.
00:57:14.440
Now, not this is, again, this is a serious run.
00:57:23.720
When, when, how long have you been a registered Democrat?
00:57:36.800
I mean, I think that you're born with a Democratic voter card.
00:57:45.300
The actual, the actual, yeah, it's been about two months.
00:57:49.100
It's like a new suit you get, you know, made to measure.
00:57:51.720
But to be clear, Bernie Sanders is not much longer than that.
00:57:54.440
So Bernie Sanders does a very interesting thing.
00:57:58.320
And he's independent as a senator and is for years.
00:58:01.060
And then he always switches several months before the election to a Democrat.
00:58:05.840
And you're actually not, because you're not a Republican either.
00:58:11.720
Uh, so, um, now what do you think they're going to do when you have 65,000 people donating
00:58:24.340
to your campaign and that qualifies you to be on that debate stage?
00:58:30.920
There needs to be a lot of heart doctors available at the DNC the moment that happens.
00:58:37.160
I think they're, they're, listen, um, clearly they don't want me on the stage.
00:58:41.020
And in fact, I can't get the details now, but there's been moves already to try to, um,
00:58:58.220
Listen, I mean, I don't, in fact, I think the Republicans wanted to get Democrats on
00:59:01.760
board with, with capital punishment, just very late term abortion.
00:59:07.040
So, so, uh, but cause what we talked about this, you know, just a few days before you
00:59:13.260
And I said, they're never going to let you on the stage.
00:59:16.720
And, and you said, no, the rules are, they have to.
00:59:22.240
If they, if they decide, okay, there's, they have, they're in a box.
00:59:25.860
So if, if I have 65,000 people send me a dollar, anything that gets me on that stage,
00:59:30.800
their choices are either they can change the rules, their own rules, which would put them
00:59:35.780
in a really tough situation because they've, you know, Tom Perez, when they first announced
00:59:39.480
what the requirements were, uh, and they did it because they were so stung by the criticism
00:59:44.720
that they got when Bernie Sanders essentially, you know, they conspired against him and, and
00:59:50.440
the rules allowed for them to do that, uh, that they wanted to make this in his own
00:59:54.440
words, the most open, uh, process they've ever had.
00:59:58.560
And he said he wants a diversity of, of candidates.
01:00:02.440
I'm not sure he meant intellectual diversity, but anyways, that's what he's getting.
01:00:06.340
Now, if they do change that, he has to go back on everything he said.
01:00:09.880
And he has to, there's gonna be a lot of people.
01:00:12.020
And I'm looking at your board right now, which by the way, do I, is my name on this
01:00:19.740
Not either of us, not either of us, you look guilty, my man.
01:00:29.840
Well, they'll, they'll take them off the board also because they don't put me on and
01:00:35.540
Uh, they're gonna have to, you know, a lot of people are qualifying the same way I am.
01:00:38.660
They'll be off the board also, or they have me on and I'm going to make the Democrat debate
01:00:44.660
Cause I would imagine if they just decided to change the rules and say, we don't believe
01:00:48.020
you're a real Democrat or whatever they tried to do, they would be opening themselves up
01:00:53.500
There's some constitutional issues that I think have never actually been discussed about
01:00:57.420
what a party is allowed or not allowed to do, which I think would be whole other interesting
01:01:02.720
And you're not talking about anything necessarily radical.
01:01:06.920
Uh, you're talking about things that the Democrats would find radical.
01:01:11.460
Look, I, I, I think that I, if, had I done this, um, 30 years ago, 25 years ago, I think
01:01:18.120
I would find a very comfortable place in the American debate stage.
01:01:20.520
I mean, I think my, you know, I look at myself and think I'm pretty ideologically aligned with
01:01:24.840
a scoop Jackson or Patrick Moynihan or JFK, to be honest.
01:01:28.520
But those guys, if they ran again today, uh, they'd be run off a rail Democratic party.
01:01:35.540
They just don't fit with the Democratic party is.
01:01:43.600
I don't think it's healthy to have one party that's, that's, that's, um, dominating and
01:01:48.600
one that's not, but the, but the, the issues that they, it's really, look, it's amazing.
01:01:53.520
I would say a lot of their positions now, if you looked at like right wing conspiratorialists
01:01:59.200
and what they would say Democrats really believed in and go, oh, you're insane.
01:02:09.960
That's actually what they, there's like Juan Castro.
01:02:15.500
Juan Castro is like a shortstop for the Astros, I think.
01:02:18.040
But Julian, Julian Castro, he said he wants open borders.
01:02:22.260
These are actual positions that they're taking.
01:02:26.720
The great, the, the, the, the great, uh, middle of the road moderate.
01:02:29.740
He said, we want illegal aliens to have health coverage in this country.
01:02:34.360
I mean, these are radical, insane positions that the majority of the country, vast majority,
01:02:42.120
I feel pretty comfortable saying, do not feel comfortable with.
01:02:46.300
If you look at the, um, uh, the polling numbers where Joe Biden is leading in some polls by 40
01:02:52.940
Um, what's the, the lowest 25 points, 21 points, something like that.
01:03:00.440
And I think that's because Americans know him and they don't feel as though he's a radical
01:03:12.520
But I think the Democrats see him and they just go, oh, he's just Joe Biden and he's not
01:03:23.760
And with him being 20 points ahead of anybody else, it shows that the democratic voter is
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I mean, they just did a poll on, uh, some healthcare issues and healthcare consistently comes for
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They pulled Medicare for all specifically and only 47% of Democrats supported Medicare for
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all, which puts you in the majority position on the number one issue.
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If that doesn't qualify you as a valid candidate, I don't know what is.
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I mean, here's the thing about, about, about our healthcare system, which is incredible
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to me, which I don't know if they know, I don't know if these, of these Democrats even
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care, but you're talking, we have the most innovative healthcare system the world has ever
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There's a reason why 50% of all innovation across healthcare, that could be bioengineering, medical
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devices, pharmaceutical, all happens in this country.
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It's because we have a robust profit system that allows people to invest money, take massive
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You know how much money, how much billions of dollars it takes to, to, to investigate an
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And Hey, we, there's no guarantee of success, but they take the risk to do that because there's
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The question is not about that side of the equation.
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And to overturn our entire healthcare system for essentially 10% of people who don't have
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coverage, because remember 90% of people, when they introduced Obamacare, 90% of people
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had coverage, whether it be personal coverage or through their, or through their jobs.
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But for 10%, instead of finding a way to cover that 10%, which I want to do, they overturned
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The radicalism of the democratic party where norms don't make a difference anymore.
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Uh, no, no, but we have talked about that quite a bit.
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Um, I I'm talking about the new Ukrainian president.
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A number of things have happened in Ukraine since then.
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Yeah, I know that, but the world is at a place to where a disruptor, Donald Trump, you could
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actually, you know, uh, walk away with, with a nomination and, and, and possibly win a nomination.
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Look, if, if you had said to me, if you had asked me four years ago, is this possible?
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I would say, come on, of course not, but in the president of the United States essentially
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Look, there is a wide open lane for somebody like me.
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And I think that the challenge is trying to get the democratic electorate to understand
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And the fact that I don't think any of those guys on the board over here can beat Donald
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I think I can, and I think if they want a Democrat in the white house, I'm their guy.
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And all it takes is what, that's the crazy thing about this.
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You don't have to send me a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars.
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One, if they go to ambiforamerica.com for $1, they can see the greatest show on earth.
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And by the way, you know who wants me on more than anybody else?
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I guarantee you that I will double or triple, if not larger, what their audience was from
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Oh, I could guarantee that because everybody on the right would be watching.
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Because I would like to, I would like you to say, I wouldn't want to see you just go
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up and mock it, which I don't think you're trying to do.
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I would like you to go up and say, look, when did we start believing as Democrats?
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When the greatest system ever demised by man, literally, I would say, I would literally
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say that, that has created more wealth for more people, brought more people out of poverty
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and to run away from that system to a system that we see demonstrably does not work.
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And I'm saying they're not, they're not looking to model themselves after that, but that's
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Well, they were modeling themselves after that until Maduro, until it collapsed.
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And by the way, there is this weird undercurrent in the democratic party that supports Maduro and
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But I want to hold them accountable for their beliefs.
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Because let me tell you who's not going to hold them accountable.
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They're not going to ask the tough questions about their beliefs and what that's going to do
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Well, I promise you that if I get on that stage, I'll make sure that every view they
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have, however radical it is, I will hold them accountable for it.
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How about instead of a medal, a $1 donation to amiforamerica.com?
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Well, do you have it also, Amy, A-M-Y, just in case?
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But I was going to say this is not my first rodeo, but this is definitely my first rodeo.