Sen. Mike Lee (R-VA) joins Glenn on the show to talk about his opposition to the stimulus bill, and why the government should not be allowed to have a say in what is taught in public schools.
00:22:13.980He hasn't thought through the consequences of it.
00:22:15.960Federal agencies should never be used as your own personal army.
00:22:20.960Trump troops in Portland are definitely not the answer.
00:22:24.740As we saw, this only escalates the tension and we need dialogue and de-escalation.
00:22:32.420I think it has a substantial chilling impact on First Amendment speech.
00:22:35.500Jay Ashley Albies, a civil rights attorney in Portland, worries the tactic may deter law-abiding citizens from participating in demonstrations.
00:22:44.380Mayors of five major cities sent a joint letter to President Trump and Attorney General Barr today calling for the removal of federal officers from their city, saying, quote,
00:22:53.220The unilateral deployment of these forces into American cities is unprecedented and violates fundamental constitutional protections and tenets of federalism.
00:23:02.720He's stepping on his political influence onto the Department of Homeland Security to use this big law enforcement force to go beyond the scope of what their normal activities are to do.
00:23:13.200Local officials there had been allowing peaceful demonstrations without too much interference.
00:23:17.780But President Trump was not happy about that.
00:23:24.740OK, so let me just go over what they're saying.
00:23:27.480You know, I was being gracious to Joe Biden when Mike Lee shockingly said, no, Glenn, that's exactly what he meant when I said he used the he used the word complicit, saying if people in Congress don't go along with his spending packages, you're complicit in America's decline.
00:30:15.840And I'm going to tell you next hour about Washington State University is leading a new $125 million USAID project to detect emerging viruses.
00:31:28.940The man, the motives and the menace behind today's rampaging American left.
00:31:34.240He has worked under President Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton.
00:31:38.660He was in the Office of Management and Budget.
00:31:42.040He is a guy who has an awful lot of credibility and has been around and has because he's an investigative journalist actually knows how to tell the right story and get the facts right.
00:32:06.860Well, you know, he's made out to be this secular god that could never have done any wrong.
00:32:14.700But as I describe in the book, he is everything, everything that he claimed to hate about all the people he was going to destroy with the Communist Revolution.
00:32:30.600He was a greedy, selfish, petty, arrogant, lazy, dishonest, two-faced, lecherous, bigoted, and he brimmed with hatred.
00:32:43.240He had all the ugly characteristics he attributed to others to excuse the destruction he and his followers intended to inflict on the world.
00:32:50.880He was deeply bigoted, he hated blacks, he favored slavery, he called the proletariat, he was supposedly going to free from their chains, stupid boys, rogues, asses.
00:33:09.720He spied for the German government on his communist friends for money, and despite the fact that his father was a wealthy attorney who showered money on him, he was perpetually broke and spent his life depending on small cash donations from his co-conspirator, Friedrich Engels, who stole money out of his father's business petty cash account.
00:33:38.920And then spent the rest of his time hovering over ailing relatives, waiting for them to die so he could find out what he would get in their wills.
00:34:32.900When you actually learn about him, and a lot of this stuff wasn't known, a lot of the stuff was held back by the former Soviet Union and classified.
00:34:44.300And I think it was a Verona paper time that some of this stuff was released, but nobody wants to talk about it.
00:35:16.580And, you know, there's still a lot of classified stuff, stuff about the Soviet communists and their various meetings.
00:35:26.180But Marx is just amazing, just amazing, the truth about his life.
00:35:32.500You know, two of his daughters committed suicide, a son-in-law, three of his children died of malnutrition while his wife was running around trying to raise enough money to get a coffin for one of their kids.
00:35:45.960Marx employed what one writer described as a loudish, libidinous, and otherwise useless secretary, because he felt that a man of his stature needed to keep up appearances.
00:36:39.780So, you know, they were an ethnically Jewish family, but his father converted to Christianity, became a Lutheran so that he could continue to practice law in Lutheran-dominated Germany.
00:36:54.000And Marx was raised as a Christian and actually in high school wrote beautiful Christian poetry.
00:38:52.300I don't think, from what I've read, I don't think Marx was, you could put him in that category of just can't believe that God would allow these things to happen.
00:39:04.120He was an oppositional, knowing oppositional force.
00:39:09.140He was, I think he actually believed in God and was trying to thwart him, taking the opposite positions.
00:40:31.640And Jim has some ways and some things that we need to understand before you go in for an intellectual fight.
00:40:40.780Jim Simpson, author of the book, Who Was Karl Marx Out Today?
00:40:45.720So, Jim, your book pretty much describes everything happening today as a result of, you know, Karl Marx and further developed by his followers.
00:40:56.060But am I wrong saying that it is chaos and hatred is the main strategy?
00:41:36.160And Lenin was the first one to really articulate that.
00:41:39.420He said, we need to write in a language that inspires hate, revulsion, and scorn towards those who disagree with us.
00:41:51.340You know, not towards those who are bad or wrong or anything, to those who disagree with us.
00:41:57.660And the whole point is to intimidate, marginalize, and, as we're seeing, you know, destroy the reputations and the lives of people who are articulate in pulling these guys' covers and showing who exactly they are.
00:42:20.420And so people don't necessarily go along with this whole idea that, you know, we're white supremacists, we're a racist society, all that.
00:42:30.740But they're afraid to say otherwise because they see what happens to those people who stand up to the left.
00:42:40.100And, really, nobody wants to be in that position.
00:42:43.620Nobody wants to be excommunicated from their society, from their friends, from their neighbors, from their family, even, losing jobs.
00:42:54.900You know, it's literally a form of terrorism.
00:43:00.100And, you know, it was started with Lenin, but it was carried forward through the Soviet Communist Party, telling Communist Parties of the world, call our opponents bigots, racists, call them anti-Semites, call them fascists, Nazis.
00:43:16.980And so they just keep repeating that, and over time, people start to actually believe it.
00:43:23.380And then it got brought forward by another hardcore communist who talked about white privilege, Noel Ignatieff, who was actually a Harvard professor.
00:43:42.660Even though he did not have the qualifications to be a Harvard professor, he became one anyway.
00:43:50.520And he came up with the idea of white privilege.
00:43:54.400We have Herbert Marcuse, who deserves a book of his own, who came up with the concept of partisan tolerance.
00:44:02.760That is, tolerance only of the ideas from the left, and complete intolerance, right down to the level of thought of anybody who disagrees with them.
00:44:14.500And so this is where all this stuff came from.
00:44:17.100And then our favorite guy, Saul Alinsky, put it all together in a manual on how to destroy your enemies called Rules for Radicals.
00:44:27.980We are, I've been saying for a while, we are in a revolution, but only one side is recognizing it.
00:44:36.760And the rest of us are like, well, no, it's not that.
00:45:13.580Somebody, one of my readers sent me an essay he wrote.
00:45:17.740I didn't actually know that he had said the same thing, but it's very important, because his suggestion, you know, he was the leader of Czechoslovakia after the Soviet Union, quote unquote, fell.
00:45:32.260You know, he was the Czech Republic's first president, and he said the only way to circumvent the communism that is deeply entrenched in the culture and the society and the institutions, which is the same problem we have here, is to create a parallel society.
00:45:52.140And you create a parallel society that everybody will find preferable, because what the communists set up is so horrific.
00:46:43.360And that chapter describes at great length.
00:46:46.460It is the longest chapter with hundreds and hundreds of suggestions on ways to do that and the things, the ways that we should behave.
00:46:54.700And a lot of it involves things that don't really require that we really change our lifestyle too much, because, you know, most people just aren't going to do that.
00:47:06.320Most people aren't going to go out in the street and start fighting against Antifa.
00:47:09.800Most people aren't going to stand up to this massive cultural incursion that the left has successfully prosecuted over the last hundred years.
00:47:19.840So we need to figure out a way to work that harmonizes with our abilities and, as Saul Linsky said, doesn't take us out of our comfort zone.
00:47:29.700So, Jim, I am, I am, I'm going to pick your book up today.
00:47:35.980This is the kind of stuff that I have been looking for.
00:47:39.660And, you know, I, I know your research.
00:47:43.800I know, you know, this inside and out, and this is more than just knowing where it all came from, which is really, really important to see how it was built.
00:47:54.280But I am, I'm very interested in the solutions as well, because we better get moving quickly or time will run out on us.
00:48:04.960Jim Simpson, the author of Who Was Karl Marx?
00:48:08.220The man, the motives, and the menace behind today's rampaging American left.