The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 191 ｜ They Broke America's Social Compact. What Now？｜ Steve Deace ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:03:05.740 Hey, Steve.

00:03:19.000 Hey.

00:03:19.320 How are you?

00:03:20.040 I'm good, man.

00:03:20.620 How are you?

00:03:21.560 Tired.

00:03:21.960 You know, last night was the debate and we were all here late.

00:03:26.820 And I haven't had a chance to talk to you one on one on on what the heck happened.

00:03:33.860 What happened last night?

00:03:35.680 It was a bizarre, never before string of events that is people are just acting like it's normal.

00:03:45.100 This is not normal.

00:03:46.360 None of this is normal.

00:03:47.640 I don't think anything about this cycle is going to be normal.

00:03:50.380 Yeah.

00:03:50.580 And I'm not sure that our people are prepared.

00:03:53.780 And in their defense, I don't know any people could be prepared.

00:03:57.660 But I think like even today, I mean, Fulton County originally wanted to have a trial in

00:04:02.320 March, literally right after the D.C. trial.

00:04:05.200 Now they want to have it on October the 23rd of this year.

00:04:08.760 You've got to be kidding.

00:04:09.340 They announced that just right before you and I started sitting down here to talk.

00:04:12.420 How is this not clearly a election?

00:04:15.520 It's an assassination.

00:04:17.080 We don't do Dealey Plaza anymore.

00:04:19.020 Yeah.

00:04:19.180 That's too obvious.

00:04:20.200 Right.

00:04:20.440 So now we use social media and lawfare.

00:04:22.380 We're going to do assassinations that way.

00:04:23.900 And so I in a way, I had very low expectations going in, you know, and I actually enjoyed

00:04:30.280 it more than I thought.

00:04:31.380 I did, too.

00:04:31.860 It was one of the first debate.

00:04:33.360 The summit, I thought, changed everything.

00:04:35.920 And I was really wondering how old and tired is this format going to look?

00:04:41.440 I actually got a lot of hope out of it.

00:04:43.640 I did, because we needed to break up sort of the stagnant talking points of Team GOP.

00:04:50.120 Waste, fraud and abuse, efficiency.

00:04:52.000 OK, we've heard all that stuff for 30 years.

00:04:55.100 And Trump came in and broke a lot of that monotony up and brought a flair and a showmanship

00:05:00.380 back to the process.

00:05:01.460 And I think that attracted a lot of new eyeballs.

00:05:04.120 But I do fear now that we are at this existential, we're at like 14 existential cliffs as a people

00:05:10.480 right now on every front.

00:05:12.680 Socioeconomic, morally, culturally, theologically, philosophically, epistemologically, medically

00:05:17.780 now after COVID, we're at, we've got more existential cliffs than we know what to do with.

00:05:22.500 And I kind of feel now like we kind of need some of the old time religion back. 1.00

00:05:26.660 Like the run and shoot offense was fun for a while, you know, but now we kind of get back

00:05:31.320 to some blocking and tackling.

00:05:32.880 And I thought last night at the debate, we did something.

00:05:36.000 I didn't, I don't know.

00:05:36.920 It wasn't always great.

00:05:38.000 But we actually talked issues.

00:05:40.820 Now, most of the candidates and issues that matter, except when Fox decided to ask about

00:05:44.440 UFOs instead of gender mutilation.

00:05:46.940 Yeah.

00:05:47.140 OK, but for the most part, we talked issues.

00:05:49.900 And I thought, I think you saw two candidates that represented in their own way, an understanding

00:05:55.520 of what we like to say in the right, what time it is.

00:05:58.180 Everybody else, I thought, was from a different era politically, a different paradigm and a bygone

00:06:02.460 era.

00:06:02.700 And it's it's I think Biden has really done this.

00:06:07.940 I mean, Trump is, you know, in the same era as Biden, but Biden just looks like father time

00:06:15.040 who has died about 10 years ago.

00:06:18.640 And, you know, when you had Ramaswamy and DeSantis standing there, Nikki Haley at one point

00:06:26.540 said, you know, it's time for the next generation.

00:06:28.960 And I thought of those two, not including her.

00:06:32.320 And I realized, oh, my God, she's the same age.

00:06:34.500 But she was still speaking kind of the old language.

00:06:39.620 Right.

00:06:40.120 Right.

00:06:40.940 And I think that there was one there was one moment last night that I thought kind of encapsulated

00:06:46.680 this the most.

00:06:48.320 And it was the question on education in the second half of the debate.

00:06:51.620 And DeSantis goes first and talks about how he has specifically confronted things like,

00:06:59.860 you know, critical race theory, the rainbow jihad and thrown him out of the schools in

00:07:04.480 Florida.

00:07:05.020 And he's probably the only person we know that's ever done something like that.

00:07:08.460 And so he talks about the specific threats, itemizes them, how I confronted them.

00:07:13.140 And then right after him, Vivek gets to follow up.

00:07:16.680 And Vivek talks about the broader zeitgeist cultural issues that led to the things that

00:07:22.200 DeSantis had to confront.

00:07:24.120 And I thought that three to five minutes right there between the two of them, where Vivek

00:07:28.700 highlighted the broader issues that led to the fights that DeSantis is now engaged in.

00:07:33.060 And DeSantis talking about here are the fights I took on and how I got rid of these people.

00:07:36.460 I thought that was the best three to five minutes on the issue of education that has ever been

00:07:42.620 televised in the history of the Republican Party.

00:07:46.680 And it's way beyond any of the talking points or anything we've been fed for a generation

00:07:51.540 and really spoke to an understanding in their own way.

00:07:56.820 Vivek speaks thematically.

00:08:00.020 DeSantis speaks specifically.

00:08:01.700 But in their own way, they each touched on things in a level of depth that none of the

00:08:07.560 rest of the candidates on that stage could, even if they wanted to.

00:08:11.240 And I'm not, and I also don't think that's who Trump is.

00:08:14.220 I think Trump tries to find people that can do that, you know, and I'll delegate, you do

00:08:18.300 that and I'll be over here, you know, you know, clearing, giving you air cover with the

00:08:23.480 media.

00:08:24.020 Yeah.

00:08:24.240 But at some point we need to, we are, our people are, and when I say our people, I'm not

00:08:30.400 just talking about now people who consume products like ours.

00:08:33.520 I mean, our countrymen.

00:08:34.960 We are in a nuclear winter epistemologically.

00:08:37.880 Most people don't know why they believe what they believe.

00:08:40.080 They don't know what is true.

00:08:41.980 We're at a point right now that guys like you and I, for example, could go on MSNBC and

00:08:46.680 pretend we believe like them and we could actually articulate their views better than them.

00:08:50.960 They have been so successful in dumbing down and removing critical thinking from their

00:08:56.300 side of the aisle to get them to buy into their false premises that now their own people

00:09:00.500 can't even explain what they think.

00:09:01.980 They're not like smart anymore.

00:09:03.260 Yeah.

00:09:03.380 There's no Andrew Sullivan's anymore.

00:09:05.280 You know, there, there, there, there is no gory Vidal's debating William F. Buckley's

00:09:09.640 anymore.

00:09:10.040 They're not smart. 1.00

00:09:10.900 There's their arguments are dumb. 1.00

00:09:12.320 They're very vapid, shallow. 1.00

00:09:13.920 It's all name calling. 0.98

00:09:14.960 Well, if you just disagree with me, you must be a racist.

00:09:16.740 They have, because they haven't been taught anything else.

00:09:19.480 And we need to have, you know, I was reading a book recently by a guy I know that, you

00:09:23.860 know, uh, kind of his memoirs, James Robinson wrote his memoirs and he was talking about

00:09:28.100 how Billy Graham came back from the Soviet union in 1979.

00:09:32.040 He was invited to speak there and found out while he was there that they were basically

00:09:35.940 using him as propaganda during the confrontation with the Carter administration over the Olympics

00:09:40.020 and things of that nature.

00:09:41.580 And that Billy Graham was walking through red square and just, you know, thought the Lord

00:09:46.640 spoke to him and said, um, freedom will be gone from America and the West within the next

00:09:52.040 decade, unless you guys radically change course.

00:09:55.020 And so he came back and he called some of the people that we now know today as kind of

00:09:59.340 the founding fathers of the old Christian, right? 0.83

00:10:01.640 The Pat Robertson's, the, um, the Adrian Rogers, the James Robison's.

00:10:07.040 And he convened a meeting here in Dallas.

00:10:09.060 Actually, they met here in Dallas.

00:10:10.640 And what do we do in the future?

00:10:12.440 And one of the things they decided was they had to find a leader, someone that could speak

00:10:18.500 to the, to the people about the extent and the stakes that they were playing for, how

00:10:23.100 serious the matter of the moment was.

00:10:26.240 And when they looked and surveyed the landscape of who was going to run in the Republican party

00:10:30.180 in that next cycle, the only person they could think of that had that credibility was somebody

00:10:34.300 none of them knew at the time.

00:10:35.360 The former actor is what they called him, Ronald Reagan.

00:10:37.740 And, um, and they made the, they, they decided to go to him and try to, he wasn't going to

00:10:44.360 run again in 1980.

00:10:45.420 He had already run in 76 and lost and was maybe going to move on from politics.

00:10:49.020 And they basically convinced him that you are the one person where they can stand up on

00:10:53.480 that stage, uh, nationally and convince people of the existential stakes that we are standing

00:10:58.840 on, uh, and that we're on the brink of right now as a people and what we desperately

00:11:02.960 need right now.

00:11:04.380 Um, and we don't, and the window for this is closing Glenn.

00:11:07.920 Um, I, I, here's, we have, we have this thing on the right right now that we somehow believe

00:11:14.040 there is some middle way to win other than policy or bullets.

00:11:17.580 There never has been that way.

00:11:19.400 Our founders gave us a constitution.

00:11:21.160 So we'd fight civil wars at the ballot box and in the halls of legislatures and Congress

00:11:25.140 and not out on the streets.

00:11:26.560 We, these sorts of irreconcilable differences that we have now as a people, they're only determined

00:11:31.840 by policy outcomes or bullets.

00:11:33.560 There is no killer meme.

00:11:35.760 There is no devastating troll that we're going to come up with.

00:11:39.600 And Randy Weingarten is going to say, you know what? 0.99

00:11:42.040 Hot damn. 0.98

00:11:43.180 Now is really good to convince another generation of kids to become Marxist, but I read your 0.99

00:11:46.760 killer meme and I'm really ashamed of myself and I'm going to stop.

00:11:50.000 It doesn't happen.

00:11:51.200 Right.

00:11:51.320 We have to beat them in policy or be, or we're going to have to fight them.

00:11:54.460 That's history.

00:11:55.280 I don't, I'm not, you and I at our age aren't going to be the ones fighting them.

00:11:58.440 Our kids and grandkids are, and we're going to force them to do that.

00:12:01.860 If we don't take advantage of the window we have right now to use whatever remnant of

00:12:05.880 constitutional processes we have to peaceably, but aggressively push back on this.

00:12:11.500 And we need someone to stand on the stage and explain, here's why I'm doing this.

00:12:16.680 Here's what's at stake.

00:12:18.380 All right.

00:12:18.720 And if we don't do this, here's what will happen.

00:12:20.780 And if we don't do this and take advantage of this window, I don't even, I don't even want

00:12:26.520 to contemplate what things are, where things are in five or 10 years.

00:12:31.000 Wow.

00:12:31.520 I can't even think that far out.

00:12:33.560 If we don't, if we don't really dramatically change and find this, this person, a story

00:12:40.500 I've never shared before.

00:12:41.620 Mike Lee.

00:12:42.340 And I think it started as a joke.

00:12:45.220 Mike Lee used to say to me all the time, you should run for president.

00:12:49.320 And I'm like, are you out of your mind?

00:12:51.800 And he called me one day about a year ago.

00:12:55.840 And he, I was, we were just chatting.

00:12:59.000 My wife finally came in. 1.00

00:13:00.500 She's like, what are you two talking about?

00:13:02.800 Wrap it up.

00:13:04.060 And I said, he's trying to convince me to run for president. 0.99

00:13:07.740 And, and I'm, I'm like, Mike, that's the dumbest thing. 0.97

00:13:11.240 I have no, this is where it ended. 0.90

00:13:13.700 I said, I have no chance of winning.

00:13:15.860 And he laughed and he said, oh, of course not.

00:13:18.780 I'm not saying you should run for president because I think you could win.

00:13:23.260 Somebody needs to articulate where we are and what we face and who we have always been

00:13:32.660 and need to remember who we are.

00:13:34.860 He said, we, we need a storyteller.

00:13:38.240 And I think we have that now on the stage last night between DeSantis and Vivek.

00:13:47.420 We have Vivek doing the big aspirational Ronald Reagan, which was fascinating that he coupled

00:13:56.420 it with, he's so positive of here's who, here's who we are.

00:14:01.380 Here's who we, what we're going to be again.

00:14:04.340 But he started it with, it's not morning in America.

00:14:07.340 I thought that was one of the most important lines of the evening.

00:14:09.920 Me too.

00:14:10.320 I agree with that.

00:14:11.060 Me too.

00:14:11.620 And I, I, I have been critical of Vivek the last few months and I will explain why.

00:14:16.180 Um, I think I emceed his first campaign event in Iowa.

00:14:19.700 It was a bitterly cold night in January.

00:14:21.760 I mean, really bad.

00:14:22.680 And I wasn't sure he called and asked me to do this.

00:14:25.740 I adore Kathy Barnett, who is kind of his top campaign, uh, um, advisor.

00:14:31.100 And so she called and asked me to do it.

00:14:33.340 And, um, and I had some mutual friends that knew him who were very high on him.

00:14:36.860 So I was very curious and I went, not sure how many people would come.

00:14:41.060 There were well over a hundred people there in the dead of January in Des Moines, Iowa,

00:14:45.400 that early in the process.

00:14:46.540 That is a very good crowd.

00:14:48.160 I mean, the place was packed at this restaurant and I watched him stand up there and take questions.

00:14:52.040 I mean, I, I watched him take questions from my fellow evangelicals who dominate Iowa on 0.98

00:14:57.480 religion as a Hindu.

00:14:58.820 And, and I watched him like, and I'm a Bible guy.

00:15:01.460 I use your network.

00:15:02.520 Your network's not explicitly Christian.

00:15:04.180 I use your network and platform.

00:15:05.960 I'll do Bible studies, theology conversations.

00:15:08.860 And so I'm a big Bible guy.

00:15:10.380 When I hear Mike Pence bring it up, I cringe.

00:15:12.800 Me too.

00:15:13.280 As a Bible guy.

00:15:14.040 Like I can't imagine what the rest of the broader culture who doesn't, who isn't into

00:15:18.460 that or doesn't understand it.

00:15:19.600 I can't even imagine how they receive it.

00:15:21.380 Cause I cringe when Mike Pence talks.

00:15:22.880 When Mike Pence talked last night, I agreed with, I love Jesus.

00:15:28.760 That's the problem.

00:15:29.820 We are not worshiping God.

00:15:31.760 We've lost our way.

00:15:32.800 I agree with everything he said.

00:15:34.320 And I, my skin crawled when he was saying it.

00:15:37.540 I agree.

00:15:38.000 So now I don't know what it is.

00:15:39.660 Now, obviously I've got fundamental religious differences with Vivek.

00:15:42.600 I believe there is one God, not 33, for example.

00:15:45.000 And yet there's more sincerity from him.

00:15:47.280 I think when he talks about these broader spiritual themes than from somebody like Pence,

00:15:51.860 who I more theologically would agree with.

00:15:53.920 When he said last night, the most effective form of government in human history is the nuclear

00:15:58.080 family.

00:15:59.020 I mean, that's now you're speaking my love language.

00:16:01.320 Okay.

00:16:01.720 And so I listened to this for two hours and I'm like, I think I could see this becoming

00:16:07.440 a thing in Iowa.

00:16:08.440 I mean, I really could.

00:16:09.940 Something happened the last few months where until like the second hour of last night's

00:16:14.420 debate, I've not heard a lot of that.

00:16:16.720 And I, I, here's what I honestly think.

00:16:18.840 I honestly believe that he thought this was an opportunity to have a very serious conversation

00:16:23.840 about the next generation.

00:16:25.920 And then he got out on the, on the campaign trail and maybe found out maybe the people aren't

00:16:29.920 that serious.

00:16:30.500 Maybe what they want is a troll, a show.

00:16:34.180 And so I'm going to become that guy and, and kind of be, and I think you saw that at

00:16:39.340 the first hour of the debate last night.

00:16:41.400 Okay.

00:16:41.940 I'm the only one that controlled.

00:16:43.640 I'm the only one, you know, that has done this.

00:16:45.920 And, and, and he even got booed.

00:16:47.780 He went so far over the board, overplayed that hand.

00:16:50.620 He actually got booed at one point in the debate.

00:16:53.100 Second half.

00:16:53.640 It was on that line, which I thought was really bad.

00:16:56.640 Second half of the debate we got is when he just kind of was.

00:17:00.500 The, um, the curious ideologue that people like you adore.

00:17:04.620 And I think you saw him absolutely shine at that point.

00:17:08.280 And, and, and when I look at DeSantis, I see a guy that understands the broader stakes very

00:17:14.200 well, does not thematically communicate them as well as Vivek, but understands how government

00:17:20.480 works.

00:17:21.680 And Ron DeSantis to me, do you remember the old SNL skit with Phil Hartman?

00:17:26.880 It was during Iran Contra.

00:17:28.900 And it was the early years of the Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, um, you know, uh, Phil Hartman

00:17:34.800 era of SNL.

00:17:36.300 And they, and they did this skit where Hartman played Ronald Reagan, who was, who was like,

00:17:39.480 I don't remember anything.

00:17:40.260 I'm old.

00:17:40.740 I'm losing my memory.

00:17:41.660 Right.

00:17:41.920 And then, and then, so Reagan would play this up, you know, Jimmy Stewart played by Dana

00:17:45.180 Carvey would come visit him and he'd act like he doesn't remember when they were in movies

00:17:48.600 together.

00:17:49.020 He doesn't remember his name.

00:17:49.980 Right.

00:17:50.540 And then at seven o'clock when the white house press corps goes home, switch gets flipped.

00:17:54.200 Right.

00:17:54.880 And the, and the oval office is like a fricking bat cave. 0.97

00:17:57.100 And Reagan is like doing foreign exchange rates for a Ronnie in his head.

00:18:00.880 Do you remember this skit?

00:18:01.480 It's brilliant.

00:18:02.360 And like Reagan is actually the godfather.

00:18:04.260 He's in complete control. 0.75

00:18:05.400 The amiable dunce thing is all an act.

00:18:07.360 And when the TV cameras go off, he is actually in complete and total control all by himself.

00:18:12.860 That's kind of who Ron DeSantis is actually.

00:18:14.940 He's, he's kind of the guy that doesn't need much of a staff.

00:18:17.720 I mean, he actually enjoys the, he wants to know where the bodies are buried.

00:18:20.980 He wants to know the specifics.

00:18:22.320 He is eager to, he is eager to exercise power against his enemies and in favor of his ideology.

00:18:29.100 And I thought what you saw between Vivek and Ron last night was two halves of the, of the,

00:18:34.020 of the, the singular brain that we need right now.

00:18:37.740 Someone who can emotionally speak to the zeitgeist and the themes that are at stake.

00:18:42.320 And Vivek does that exceedingly well.

00:18:43.960 And then someone though, eventually it's time as Jesus said, why do you call me Lord if you

00:18:48.520 do not do what I say?

00:18:49.480 Right.

00:18:49.960 Eventually it's time to grow some fruit on the tree.

00:18:51.800 Who can do the things that Vivek talks about?

00:18:55.200 And that is where DeSantis shines.

00:18:57.000 And I think what would be fascinating is to see the two of them on a stage together for

00:19:01.620 two hours and, and to watch the doer versus the thinker and the guy that.

00:19:08.260 Well, he, he is, he's a doer.

00:19:10.840 He's not been a doer for government.

00:19:13.300 I mean, he has run large corporations.

00:19:15.700 He's successful, but he's not a government guy.

00:19:19.780 Correct.

00:19:20.040 Back to the podcast here in a second.

00:19:22.620 First, let me tell you a lot of the time criminals are completely predictable. 1.00

00:19:26.680 That's because the overwhelming majority of them are stupid. 1.00

00:19:30.420 However, that's not true when you're dealing with cybercrime or the Biden family. 1.00

00:19:35.240 Every once in a while, they'll pull a fast one in a way that you might not expect.

00:19:39.480 For instance, they can steal your home's title, forge your signature on it, and then own your

00:19:46.120 home.

00:19:47.100 And here's the kicker.

00:19:48.180 When it happens, you might not even know about it for a long time, months until it's too late.

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00:21:01.160 One of the things we learned about with Trump is that running the government like a business

00:21:06.060 is not easy, first of all.

00:21:07.300 Yes.

00:21:07.600 OK, secondly, remember, Trump didn't run like your classic corporation.

00:21:11.920 He ran an empire.

00:21:12.820 He didn't face shareholders, division heads.

00:21:15.300 So he could be that Phil Hartman character.

00:21:17.740 I mean, he could hire and fire in a given day.

00:21:19.840 I'm out.

00:21:20.400 I'm done with you.

00:21:20.900 You're gone.

00:21:21.380 I liked you.

00:21:21.820 I don't.

00:21:22.160 You're done.

00:21:22.840 And when you're running the largest corporation on planet Earth,

00:21:26.880 the executive branch of the United States government, man, that includes the Pentagon.

00:21:30.740 OK, the Department of Justice and everything else, your ability to figure out who are who's

00:21:35.700 going to run the fiefdoms.

00:21:36.740 I can't watch everything.

00:21:38.020 This is beyond the grasp of a man.

00:21:39.680 It's like Moses.

00:21:40.780 Right.

00:21:41.080 And Jethro, his father in law, comes to him and says, this is too much for one man.

00:21:44.540 You've got to figure out who you're going to delegate this to.

00:21:46.300 And so he figured out, I'm going to delegate it to people like Steve Mnuchin and Rex Tellerson.

00:21:50.220 And we all know these names.

00:21:51.660 OK, and they were disasters.

00:21:53.320 All right.

00:21:53.960 Notice where Trump shined when he could unilaterally act foreign policy.

00:21:58.520 For example, I can unilaterally direct that.

00:22:01.380 I can walk into a room of Saudi sheiks and declare, here's the new America plan. 1.00

00:22:06.720 If you like making money, we'll help you.

00:22:08.640 If you want to be left alone, we'll leave you alone.

00:22:10.580 If you get in our way, we're going to drop Moab's on you.

00:22:12.660 Any questions?

00:22:13.880 And lo and behold, man, we had peace deals we've never seen.

00:22:16.740 He undid 40 years of failed Bush-Clinton era, Jim Baker and, you know, Madeleine Albright foreign policy.

00:22:25.820 And where he could directly intervene, judicial appointments, although that still required some level of approval.

00:22:32.240 OK, executive orders.

00:22:34.000 He did great.

00:22:34.680 Now, of course, Biden comes in and can erase all those executive orders in 10 minutes.

00:22:37.600 But the best parts of Trump's presidency, where he did things for us no one had ever done before and accomplished things that were way beyond people's expectations, is when he could directly intervene and act.

00:22:49.600 When he actually had to move government, negotiate, move the party.

00:22:53.420 He outsources Obamacare to McConnell and Ryan.

00:22:55.580 It never gets done.

00:22:56.840 He could not.

00:22:57.560 That's because that's not his background.

00:22:59.300 And that's not the kind of business he ran.

00:23:01.160 The kind of business he ran was, I am commodus in the arena, thumbs up or thumbs down.

00:23:05.320 And when he was able to do that as president, he was an A+.

00:23:08.100 When he was not able to do that as president, he was handicapped.

00:23:11.360 So the problem that he had, I think, and he has said this, is he didn't realize this, this is what he said to me, he didn't realize the scope and how deep the problems went.

00:23:24.280 And he just didn't make his loading of his team the priority.

00:23:30.260 He was going to make that in the second term.

00:23:32.600 But now, I'm not sure if he can get enough people.

00:23:40.060 I mean, we're talking thousands of people that are going to be reporting directly to him or somebody else that is supposed to, you know, be taking care of his vision.

00:23:52.640 I don't know who can find these things on their own.

00:23:58.020 It's going to take a tremendous team and a team that is not from the swamp, not your usual players and people with just nerves of steel.

00:24:12.240 You saw this with Reagan.

00:24:13.980 When Reagan came from California with Lynn Nofzinger and Michael Deaver, when he came, Ed Meese, when he brought the California team with him in his first term, he revolutionized the political landscape.

00:24:24.600 Now, it wouldn't look revolutionary to us 40 years later.

00:24:26.700 But, you know, judging from where the political system was in 1981, it was very radical.

00:24:34.320 Then what happens, the second term, a lot of those people go home, man, they're tired.

00:24:37.460 Washington is a grind.

00:24:38.960 They want their lives back.

00:24:40.360 And now kind of the Howard Bakers and those kinds of people now begin to take over. 0.97

00:24:44.520 And now we're going to give big pharma a lifetime exemption.

00:24:49.100 Now we're going to do amnesty that loses California and turns it into the worst blue state in the country.

00:24:54.120 And so personnel, you know, this is the old Morton Blackwell line from the Leadership Institute.

00:24:58.420 Personnel is policy, your ability to identify personnel.

00:25:02.600 And this gets back to the conversation with the lawfare against Trump.

00:25:06.680 You know, so a friend of mine, Jenna Ellis, who was one of the president's attorneys, and she had no clue.

00:25:13.060 Jenna had no clue she was going to get indicted in Fulton County.

00:25:15.400 No heads up.

00:25:16.280 No one called her.

00:25:17.060 No one asked her any questions.

00:25:18.620 She was just hanging out on Twitter the day the indictments come down and reads on Twitter her name is in it.

00:25:23.920 She was just stunned and blown away.

00:25:25.280 So now she's got to scramble, all right, to come up with the money for an attorney.

00:25:29.780 Because of the likelihood you'll be disbarred, discredited, because you're representing anybody associated with Trump.

00:25:37.100 All right.

00:25:37.320 This is like, you know, working.

00:25:38.660 This is the legal equivalent of managing a convenience store in South Central L.A., third shift.

00:25:45.000 All right.

00:25:45.400 You're going to pay those guys a lot more an hour than you're paying people working, you know, 8 o'clock in the morning.

00:25:49.820 Because it's a lot more dangerous.

00:25:50.980 Correct.

00:25:51.380 All right.

00:25:51.600 And so she was quoted as much as million dollar retainers.

00:25:54.760 She finally got a competent attorney who would do this for a $50,000 retainer.

00:25:59.820 That was the cheapest she could find before we got to the billable hours.

00:26:03.920 She's been told to keep her out of prison. 1.00

00:26:05.920 It'll cost a minimum of a half a million dollars.

00:26:08.860 Now, she's at the low end of this RICO case that they're trying to do in Fulton County.

00:26:13.260 What's it costing Rudy Giuliani and the people at the top end?

00:26:16.580 I've been told by a little birdie, John Eastman's legal fees are already over $2 million.

00:26:20.940 How many people that you and I both know, you and I both know a lot of people that worked in the Trump administration.

00:26:26.920 How many of those people can afford the lawfare of being Trump adjacent?

00:26:31.360 And that's what we have to ask ourselves, can he form an administration if he were to, let's say he beats all these.

00:26:36.640 He's got 41 indictments.

00:26:38.080 That's a lot.

00:26:39.320 Let's say he beats them all.

00:26:40.900 Let's say he convinces the normies and independents to come back to him that we've lost the last three elections and pulls all of that off.

00:26:47.480 That's an incredibly tall task, but let's say he does it.

00:26:51.040 Who's then willing to go?

00:26:52.300 You think these people are going to say, you know what, you beat us again.

00:26:54.600 So we're just going to go ahead and beat our swords into plowshares now and let you govern.

00:26:58.280 No, they're going to triple down on what they did before.

00:27:00.820 What competent people will want to go in there knowing that the minute they sign on to a letterhead that has Trump's name on it, I'm looking at walking out of here, not making millions of dollars writing my memoirs of working in the White House, but spending millions of dollars on legal bills.

00:27:16.420 There's a reason why a lot of the best people, and I'm not talking, you know, the Steve Mnuchin or Jared Kushners, people that we liked.

00:27:24.640 There's a lot of, there's a reason why even the people that we liked are not formally with the Trump campaign while they're supporting him publicly because they can't afford what's going to happen to them because of that.

00:27:37.340 And I think that these are the kinds of questions we have to consider and, and nobody wants to talk about them.

00:27:44.280 And, and I understand why it's uncomfortable.

00:27:47.840 We shouldn't be talking about these things.

00:27:49.980 It's a frigging disaster that we are, but we're sitting here right now.

00:27:53.820 And can anybody, who can say right now that at this time, what are, I think it's 326 days until the G, until someone will give the acceptance speech at the GOP convention in Milwaukee next July 18th.

00:28:07.880 Can you tell me right now, I mean, you have, you have a history of being a visionary and seeing things coming in our movement, in our industry before a lot of people doing connecting dots.

00:28:15.600 Tell me right now, do you know for sure that Donald Trump will have, will have the freedom to go to Milwaukee, to leave Mar-a-Lago and go to Milwaukee in person and, and deliver that acceptance speech.

00:28:28.620 They wouldn't have to do it like over zoom via house arrest.

00:28:31.160 They wouldn't have to take a plea agreement that he wouldn't even be incarcerated in some way, shape or form.

00:28:36.120 Can, can you, can you, can you tell me right now that, you know, for sure that that's the case?

00:28:40.640 Cause I don't know.

00:28:42.320 Um, and I say that because, um, of the cowardice of attorneys, um, our attorneys in this country have grown fat and wealthy on the, just gorging themselves on the blood of freedom.

00:28:58.300 Uh, and, uh, they are all complete wusses. 1.00

00:29:05.500 None of them want to take him on, you know, in, in, in his defense.

00:29:11.260 No one wants to, because they're being threatened that they'll lose their, their firm, their jobs, their reputation.

00:29:20.280 So everybody wants to stay away.

00:29:22.640 And because we don't have a John Adams and we don't have, who will even represent red coach in the Boston mass.

00:29:29.280 Yes.

00:29:29.660 And we don't have a, I mean, when you look at John Adams, that was almost a death sentence for him to take on.

00:29:38.720 He was the most unpopular guy at the time, but he did it because it was right.

00:29:44.440 I don't see those people stepping to the plate.

00:29:47.780 Um, I don't see those people, you know, they're using, they are twisting the law and using every trick in the book and distorting and pushing, um, to get him into a courtroom lawfare.

00:30:06.720 Where are the people who are the prosecutors in any of these States where Hunter Biden agreed, where are they?

00:30:16.040 Okay. So this is, this is where the pair, like, for example, back to Jenna, she, her bond is a hundred thousand dollars, Glenn, to stay out of jail, a hundred grand.

00:30:24.700 And again, she's at the low end of this Fulton County case.

00:30:27.600 She can't just come up with a hundred thousand dollars out of nowhere.

00:30:30.000 Thankfully, a lot of people, including our own Mark Levin, myself and others have publicized her legal defense.

00:30:35.260 She's probably raised enough to come up with the bond and her retainer.

00:30:38.460 But I mean, she's still got to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars more. 0.99

00:30:42.800 Why?

00:30:43.520 You asked the key question a second ago.

00:30:46.040 And I had to undergo this paradigm shift as well.

00:30:48.440 I mean, I would have been somebody who four or five years ago, 2017, I'd have said, no way.

00:30:53.540 I mean, we, we are, we, we, um, we don't, we don't tell private corporations like Twitter what to do if they want to ban people.

00:30:59.700 They're, they're a private company.

00:31:00.800 We don't want to set that example.

00:31:03.780 When we talk about the constitution, we got to take, we got to go back a layer.

00:31:08.120 Understand the constitution begins with the words, we, the people in order to form a more perfect union.

00:31:12.760 That is a statement of social compact.

00:31:16.480 Right?

00:31:16.880 So a marriage is not, is, is not the genesis of a covenantal relationship between a man and a woman.

00:31:25.340 It is the formalizing of it, the quantifying of it, the announcement of it, that covenant you're, you're searing that covenant, but, but you're, you were already stepped into it by your willingness to confirm it publicly.

00:31:36.440 Meaning that that association, that intimacy, that desire to be with one another in that union has already been expressed.

00:31:43.460 The marriage is just the culmination of that expression.

00:31:46.620 That's what our constitution is.

00:31:49.100 The, the, the, the declaration of independence is sort of the DNA of America.

00:31:53.200 The social compact is these, this is who we are as a people.

00:31:56.920 This is how we're going to agree to live together.

00:31:58.580 This is how, you know, how are we going to sell out our differences and maintain e pluribus unum, as you've talked about for years.

00:32:04.220 The constitution is simply just a legal quantification of those things.

00:32:07.540 It's not a mission statement.

00:32:09.260 The quantification, it is the announcement of the marriage.

00:32:11.680 The marriage has already taken place.

00:32:13.180 There's already 13 states.

00:32:14.640 We've already formed a union.

00:32:15.940 Right?

00:32:16.240 Now we're going to talk about how we're going to live together in light of the fact we've agreed to live together.

00:32:21.500 It's that social compact that is broken.

00:32:23.760 The old way of doing things, and it frustrated people like us at times because it would work against us, but the old social compact was in the two-party era post-Civil War.

00:32:33.300 If one side went too far right of center, or one side went too far left of center, then there would be such a unique backlash of punishment by the voters for doing so, that are not really as politically in tune to either side like people like you and I are, or audiences.

00:32:48.340 That backlash would be so prohibitive then that it would keep people in check.

00:32:52.300 And a lot of times, Republican establishment figures would tell people like you and I, we can't do the stuff that you want us to do because we'll get the backlash of the very voters you're talking about.

00:33:02.720 When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, that was a sign that the social compact in America is over.

00:33:10.460 A new breed of left-wing activists had taken over now.

00:33:14.660 And someone that is not interested in polls doesn't care.

00:33:17.260 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:33:20.340 That's not what I think the American people thought they were getting.

00:33:24.620 Were saying.

00:33:25.280 They thought they were expunging themselves.

00:33:27.400 They thought they were absolving a century of sin, of racism and slavery.

00:33:31.940 And they were coming together.

00:33:33.400 We, the people, want to show that we are not those people.

00:33:37.940 But you don't sit in Jeremiah's church, Jeremiah Wright's church, for a few years and not absorb a few things.

00:33:42.040 Yeah, I know.

00:33:42.420 All right, that's not where you go to church in order to flaunt yourself or build up a political resume.

00:33:46.860 You go to a church like that because you're a true believer.

00:33:49.140 And what happened is an actual Marxist got elected.

00:33:52.360 And he's out to win an argument with history.

00:33:55.600 Republicans are out to win the next election and win polls.

00:33:58.380 So go back and think of that era when we'd have like fights over the sequester and government funding, right?

00:34:04.320 And you'd watch Boehner and McConnell make the walk of shame to the White House and come out empty-handed with nothing, okay?

00:34:09.680 Because they were negotiating against themselves.

00:34:11.560 Remember when Bill Clinton got annihilated in 94 and the next State of the Union he gave in 95, what was his opening statement?

00:34:18.400 The era of big government is over.

00:34:20.380 He heard the voters.

00:34:21.340 He saw the backlash.

00:34:22.720 The second term of Bill Clinton, we got the Defense of Marriage Act.

00:34:25.160 We got balanced budgets.

00:34:26.260 We got three strikes and you're out for criminals.

00:34:27.980 We got welfare reform.

00:34:29.300 You couldn't be on welfare for more than two years.

00:34:31.240 These are the kinds of things the Republicans did. 0.99

00:34:32.660 These are the racist, misogynist, xenophobic, homophobes. 0.79

00:34:35.200 Bill Clinton did them all in the second term. 0.98

00:34:37.240 That's a different era, though.

00:34:38.360 He represented a different era.

00:34:40.000 A new generation of left-wing activists is what Obama represents.

00:34:43.980 And so Obama was not deterred by the—he got a 94 like annihilation in 2010 by the Tea Party.

00:34:48.760 Didn't care.

00:34:49.480 He then got even worse in 2014.

00:34:51.680 We had a nine-seat swing in one Senate election.

00:34:55.220 That's one of the biggest in American history.

00:34:57.340 Didn't deter him at all.

00:34:58.700 He came in a Marxist, went out a Marxist.

00:35:00.900 He was out to reshape the country.

00:35:03.020 He's a crusader on a mission.

00:35:05.620 And so, therefore, your traditional ability of deferring—we maintain our constitutional fealty.

00:35:13.960 We let them go radical, and the voters will step in as referees and punish them for overreacting and overreach.

00:35:21.780 That doesn't happen any longer.

00:35:23.340 And this last midterm election, when you saw me nearly have a nervous breakdown sitting next to you on the stage that night, was the final proof of that.

00:35:30.920 And that's why I was having a nervous breakdown.

00:35:32.540 Because there's no more excuses.

00:35:33.880 Now we don't have the Trump excuse, the mean tweets.

00:35:35.600 He's not on the ballot anymore.

00:35:37.060 They're literally out there wearing unitards and pitchforks. 0.79

00:35:39.820 Open demonic, you know, we're going to gender mutilate your kids. 1.00

00:35:43.160 If there was ever a moment the normies would have come home and said, like they used to, and they would have said, okay, that can't happen.

00:35:49.120 We can't have Hillary care. 1.00

00:35:50.540 We can't have Obamacare. 0.84

00:35:52.120 If there was ever a moment that the normies would have come home and said, time for a backlash midterm election, man, this would have been the one.

00:35:58.520 I was convinced we were going to have it.

00:36:00.000 Not a single meaningful incumbent in America lost.

00:36:02.480 It was like the most incumbent, pro-incumbent midterm election in modern history after all the hell they just put us through.

00:36:07.800 And what broke me was that realization like, oh, the old system is out now.

00:36:13.580 We're going to have to actually punish.

00:36:15.420 We're going to have to elect Republicans that will punish Democrats. 1.00

00:36:18.380 We can't trust the voters anymore.

00:36:20.100 We have to elect the Republicans that will do this, that will now take the power we give them.

00:36:24.160 The old social compact of this is e pluribus unum is broken now.

00:36:28.520 And now this is a full out cold civil war.

00:36:31.500 And what we need now is, and how did we win the last civil war?

00:36:35.080 Reagan understood there were men in the Kremlin who looked at the weakness of the United States and actually thought they could win a nuclear war.

00:36:41.820 He had to create a deterrent.

00:36:44.080 So there would be mutually assured destruction.

00:36:46.720 You understand no one wins this.

00:36:49.160 Okay.

00:36:49.460 You cannot win.

00:36:50.560 You fire a hundred at us. 1.00

00:36:51.920 We'll fire a thousand at you. 1.00

00:36:53.140 Okay. 0.99

00:36:53.560 You can't win. 0.95

00:36:54.560 All we'll do is just turn this thing into a dust bowl for cockroaches. 1.00

00:36:57.600 No one can win.

00:36:59.180 And we are going to have to elect Republicans, Glenn, that will do that.

00:37:03.160 And you kind of alluded to it a minute ago.

00:37:04.860 All right.

00:37:05.320 Where are the red state AGs?

00:37:07.500 Where are the red county AGs and places where, where, where, where a hundred Biden took a dump once, drove through your state once and you got it on camera.

00:37:16.300 All right.

00:37:16.760 Hey, that's residency.

00:37:17.660 We gotcha.

00:37:18.260 Okay.

00:37:19.100 Where is the equal law fair to say, if you do this to us, we will do this to you. 0.91

00:37:24.420 Are you sure you want to do this?

00:37:25.880 Are you, what's happening right now is there is no mutually assured destruction.

00:37:29.480 They think they can do whatever they want to us and get away with it.

00:37:32.260 And they can, they do.

00:37:33.220 And the voters are, the voters have checked out.

00:37:34.920 They're not going to hold them accountable anymore.

00:37:36.380 And then one of the big reasons why is they just don't like Republicans.

00:37:39.180 They just, they hate, they don't think Republicans will do what they think.

00:37:42.680 It's funny.

00:37:43.240 If you look at the midterm elections, who were the Republicans that actually won?

00:37:47.080 Not even guys I agree with all the time, like Brian Kemp and Mike DeWine, but guys who actually led their states, not always in ways I would have.

00:37:53.780 Ron DeSantis, my governor, Kim Reynolds, they were the ones that won big.

00:37:57.580 No other Republicans anywhere run.

00:37:59.120 In other words, the idea that I'm just going to vote Republican now as a check and balance against Democrats ain't going to work anymore.

00:38:05.120 You're going to have to earn my vote.

00:38:06.960 I don't trust any of you guys.

00:38:08.500 Okay.

00:38:08.700 I don't think you're going to do what I think.

00:38:09.900 I don't think you're going to do your high-minded talk.

00:38:11.680 I don't think we're going to cut government or any of that kind of stuff.

00:38:13.500 I think you're going to help your corporate cronies.

00:38:14.540 That's what I think you're going to do.

00:38:15.580 Yeah.

00:38:16.420 Now this might not come as a surprise to you, but Steve and I both love meat.

00:38:22.840 Yeah.

00:38:23.260 All American meat.

00:38:24.920 Knock the horns off it.

00:38:26.160 Just take the chill off and put it on a plate.

00:38:30.740 Love it.

00:38:32.400 Especially, I especially like really good meat that's free.

00:38:38.560 Yeah.

00:38:39.300 Yeah.

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00:39:15.400 Inflation is horrible.

00:39:16.460 Can you imagine what meat prices are going to be in a year from now?

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00:39:24.400 I follow the pork belly market, you know.

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00:40:00.660 Now Republicans are going to have to lead now.

00:40:03.180 We have to elect people that will go to Disney and say,

00:40:06.040 no, you're not going to put porn in our schools.

00:40:07.620 In fact, I'm going to not only, I'll give you one story about DeSantis

00:40:11.080 that just blew my mind at the time.

00:40:13.600 One of his staffers is a guy named Kyle Lamb, a buddy of mine.

00:40:17.840 And when DeSantis came out against Disney, I sent Kyle a text and I said,

00:40:24.120 dude, really?

00:40:25.080 I didn't expect that.

00:40:26.300 But I said, you know what?

00:40:27.000 If you really want to hurt Disney and take them on,

00:40:30.000 tell your boy to go after their set asides and that'll really hurt him where it counts.

00:40:34.120 And he texts me back, LOL, I think we're probably a little ways away from doing something like that.

00:40:40.880 48 hours later, Ron DeSantis walks out there and says,

00:40:44.720 and we're going to take away their corporate set asides and all of their grift and all of their bennies.

00:40:49.260 And we're going to treat them like Busch Gardens and SeaWorld and every other attraction in Florida.

00:40:54.820 No more favoritism for you.

00:40:56.420 That blew my mind.

00:40:57.380 Because I've never, I just never saw a Republican do anything like that.

00:41:00.760 The closest was what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin,

00:41:02.880 where he actually took the union's ability to use government to fund themselves away.

00:41:07.460 Okay.

00:41:07.860 But the idea of now affirmatively, that was still like a check and balance move though.

00:41:12.820 But like taking power and then affirmatively wielding it against the other side to punish them.

00:41:18.280 One of our colleagues here at The Blaze, Oran McIntyre, likes to say,

00:41:21.620 politics is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends.

00:41:25.600 He's right.

00:41:26.300 Now, we can do that in ways that are still constitutional.

00:41:30.480 I am not saying to become nihilists and go on, become Japanese,

00:41:34.240 the version of the right-wing American version of Japanese kamikaze pilots.

00:41:38.020 But for a long time, Glenn, we've been nicer than God.

00:41:41.080 And I think anything short of helping them burn the Constitution ourselves

00:41:44.780 and violating the Ten Commandments, we ought to be willing to do to win.

00:41:48.720 And we're not willing to do most of those things yet.

00:41:50.960 And that's why we're on the brink of losing.

00:41:52.380 I am willing to do absolutely everything the Constitution allows us to do.

00:41:58.240 I am willing to do everything that the Bill of Rights allows us to do.

00:42:04.240 And I am willing to look at new strategies, like Vivek has talked about.

00:42:11.180 You know, my theory is I can fire all these people or I'm working for them, not the other way around.

00:42:19.740 I agree with that.

00:42:20.780 And that's a battle I want to fight.

00:42:22.620 But I'm not willing to become everything I despise.

00:42:28.140 I agree.

00:42:28.700 Zero times zero is still zero.

00:42:30.720 Right.

00:42:31.080 And so we are, my fear is that we either continue to elect people like Mitch McConnell, who will, we're over.

00:42:43.440 We're over.

00:42:43.920 Or we, because hunger is coming.

00:42:49.980 Hunger is coming.

00:42:52.020 You think crime in our cities is bad.

00:42:54.660 Now give it a year.

00:42:56.140 Give it a year.

00:42:58.060 Especially if a Republican will win.

00:43:02.180 We are headed for real hard times.

00:43:05.020 And the next logical step that happens throughout history is dictatorship.

00:43:13.680 And I feel it's very necessary to make sure that when we talk about things like this, that we are saying, and everybody else that is involved is saying, we are based on what you said, Declaration of Independence.

00:43:34.240 That's our mission statement.

00:43:35.960 How to do it is our constitution.

00:43:39.400 And just a safety reminder, you're never to do any of these things is a bill of rights.

00:43:44.960 Those three things.

00:43:47.340 And if we can have some sort of a great awakening that balances that power, does not fuse itself, but balances it.

00:43:57.440 If we can restore those things, that's a high, high bar to fill, especially when people are like, just stop them.

00:44:08.200 Just stop them.

00:44:09.460 What you just described is, just to show you how high of a bar it is, it's only happened one time in human history we just described.

00:44:15.320 That's called the American Revolution.

00:44:16.740 I know.

00:44:17.000 What typically happens is either the Little Red Book Revolution or the French Revolution.

00:44:23.720 Some form of vo populi power to the people.

00:44:26.500 The problem is the people are sinners.

00:44:28.780 And so when they don't recognize that, meaning they don't have that awakening, that revival.

00:44:33.460 We had great awakenings before we had a revolution.

00:44:37.440 When people don't have the realization that there is a God and you're not it, and you're accountable to him, and you're a human, he's not.

00:44:47.860 You're finite, he's not.

00:44:48.940 You're a sinner, he's not. 0.98

00:44:50.580 Without that humility, what ends up happening is the vo populi revolution ends up killing even more people than the previous aristocracy of elites did.

00:45:00.120 That's what you've seen in Marxist countries, where you see the French Revolution.

00:45:03.500 And so when they're done taking the guillotine to the elites, they then roll it over to the church next. 0.69

00:45:07.360 They bring out the bishops. 0.99

00:45:08.120 They execute them.

00:45:09.100 They take the Virgin Mary out of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and they put the goddess of reason in it, and they call it a reign of terror.

00:45:14.280 Because we're God now.

00:45:15.800 All right?

00:45:16.320 And we're going to replace the people that gave us the old gods. 0.98

00:45:18.900 That's why, that's why.

00:45:20.080 There is something new being introduced now that is very reminiscent of 1930, early 1930s.

00:45:33.200 And that is this idea that it is modernism that is the problem, that the Enlightenment was a problem, that we have to go back and reset before the Declaration of Independence, before the Enlightenment, before you could ask questions, before science.

00:45:59.640 Science is not bad.

00:46:01.820 It is the idea that the scientists now believe they're God.

00:46:07.380 Yes.

00:46:07.920 That's the problem.

00:46:08.800 They're no longer seeking truth.

00:46:09.680 They're conjuring it.

00:46:10.580 Correct.

00:46:11.180 Yeah.

00:46:11.420 You're describing, that's progressivism.

00:46:13.180 Right.

00:46:13.300 That's regressivism.

00:46:14.040 It is.

00:46:14.300 Going back to a pre-Judeo-Christian understanding of the world, basically. 0.85

00:46:17.200 Correct.

00:46:17.400 And if you go and say, you know, in Germany, it could have been very easy to go and say, you know what?

00:46:25.280 It's these doctors.

00:46:26.520 It's these nurses that really got us into trouble. 1.00

00:46:29.680 Because it was.

00:46:30.680 It was the medical establishment.

00:46:34.060 But they knew it was the people's philosophy that had gone.

00:46:39.100 It's not science.

00:46:40.380 It's the people's philosophy that are in science.

00:46:43.360 And so, what's new here, I think, that you add to what you were just saying is, there are many people on the right, too, that are now starting to say, none of that is any good.

00:46:58.700 Right.

00:46:58.900 None of the declaration of the Constitution.

00:47:02.180 We have to go before questioning of anything to be able to come back.

00:47:07.900 That's a slaughterhouse as well.

00:47:10.040 I agree.

00:47:10.380 One of the things I am frustrated by, I don't believe, and this last election, again, broke me.

00:47:17.720 Because I don't believe, I don't like saying this, okay?

00:47:22.800 But I don't believe there is literally anything the system could do to Donald Trump that would make the independents and normies that have deserted us the last few elections and who have made it clear they don't like him suddenly say, you know what?

00:47:38.780 You masked my kids.

00:47:40.440 You told me I had to take an experimental shot in order to have a job.

00:47:44.300 And you locked down my church.

00:47:46.640 And I don't really care about all of that.

00:47:48.700 But you know what?

00:47:49.340 This billionaire that you're persecuting now, that's suddenly a real issue for me, despite the fact I voted for a dementia patient who gave me the worst new car market in American history and the most expensive housing market in American history.

00:48:01.880 I voted for this dementia patient over mean tweets and created generational damage for my kids and grandkids.

00:48:09.640 But now that you're treating Donald Trump unfairly, I suddenly care more about him than I cared about my own household when I voted against him the last few elections.

00:48:16.260 So what happens when they put him in jail?

00:48:18.600 I think nothing happens.

00:48:20.480 I think we will meme.

00:48:22.880 I think that we will, I mean, the amount of mugshots that I saw trending today, people coming up with their own Trump mugshots for fun.

00:48:31.160 I mean, that I saw on conservative Twitter.

00:48:34.020 Again, a lot of people think this is a show.

00:48:36.440 I saw a YouGov poll last week that showed only 12% of Republicans think Trump will be convicted.

00:48:41.420 A buddy of mine who works for a governor, a Republican governor, was at the gym the day of the D.C. indictment.

00:48:49.860 And he was there with a bunch of his buddies, and they're sitting around the TV watching it in between sets.

00:48:53.600 And he looks at him and he says, you guys know that they're going to convict him, right?

00:48:56.660 This is Washington, D.C.

00:48:57.720 It's a gulag.

00:48:58.400 It's not a jury.

00:48:59.000 And his buddies looked at him.

00:49:00.700 These are his buddies.

00:49:02.000 Oh, no, man.

00:49:02.620 Trump's got a plan.

00:49:03.460 It's a show.

00:49:04.700 Okay.

00:49:05.160 And I think we are not as serious as our enemies are.

00:49:08.420 They are serious as a COVID jab-induced myocarditis heart attack.

00:49:13.360 Very serious.

00:49:14.680 I think we think this is a show.

00:49:16.320 I think we think that some form of normalcy will just kind of organically return.

00:49:21.880 And I think it's because we're very comfortable.

00:49:23.840 And, you know, in May I was invited to a meeting of some Christian ministry leaders from around the country.

00:49:30.080 And we all agreed politics stays away for now.

00:49:32.820 Let's just talk about where the country is spiritually and where we think things are going.

00:49:35.720 And we just got together, prayed together, talked, had a very blunt conversation.

00:49:38.880 And one of the senior members of the leaders that were there got up towards the end, almost like Benjamin Franklin, man, in Independence Hall kind of stuff.

00:49:47.120 He's one of the oldest guys there.

00:49:48.800 And he got up and he looked at us and he said, you know, there's been a lot of talk about we need revival.

00:49:53.240 And I have said on my show for years it's revival or bust, right?

00:49:56.060 He goes, everybody here is talking about revival.

00:49:57.780 He goes, just make sure.

00:49:58.500 Do you guys truly understand what you're asking the Lord for if you ask for that?

00:50:01.720 Because he cannot send revival to us right now.

00:50:04.800 We're too comfortable.

00:50:06.560 We'll reject it, right?

00:50:08.100 We don't think we need him.

00:50:09.440 We think we got this figured out.

00:50:10.780 We're all good to go.

00:50:11.780 If we just nominate the right Republican and win the next election, or if I get the right job, if I marry the right person, my kids get in the right school, we'll get this whole thing fixed.

00:50:21.260 He goes, so I desperately agree this country's needed revival.

00:50:24.840 He said that in more time than all my 70, 80 plus years.

00:50:28.200 But understand what you're asking the Lord to do.

00:50:30.660 If we want revival, we have to be humbled first.

00:50:34.760 And he said in the 17th and 18th century, we had awakenings alongside normal American life without a lot of civil disruption because we weren't as prosperous and comfortable as we are now.

00:50:47.240 There wasn't such a thing as a teenager in 1812.

00:50:50.340 Nobody during the 18th century, Jonathan Edwards' revivals had a social media account that they were monetizing.

00:50:58.360 I mean, life in and of itself was far more uncomfortable than anything we could tolerate today.

00:51:04.100 So awakenings without a mass amount of civil unrest could be possible because the people were much humbler back then.

00:51:10.980 We're going to have to be humbled quite a bit.

00:51:13.300 And so if we truly want revival, he said, things are going to actually have to probably get markedly worse than they are right now.

00:51:19.360 And that froze me.

00:51:23.060 I hadn't even thought about that because I'd always looked at the past and when awakenings happen and they happen within the largely normal aspects of American life.

00:51:31.180 But this is not the same American life as 300 years ago.

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00:52:45.980 Look, I think the Lord's been trying to humble us since nine eleven and we just keep getting more and more arrogant.

00:52:52.700 And in everything we do, we try to prove to him we're God and we don't need you.

00:52:58.900 The reason why we have the society we have is because we've lost humility, because we've lost gratitude.

00:53:10.040 I mean, I get up every day and there will be something in my life that happens and it doesn't have to be grand.

00:53:19.100 It can just be standing someplace and looking at just the technology of everyday life.

00:53:25.280 Thank you.

00:53:28.260 My gosh, look at where we're living.

00:53:32.040 Look at the time we're living in.

00:53:33.740 Even look at the bad things that are happening and the good things that could happen on the horizon.

00:53:41.140 All of this.

00:53:42.360 No one has lived like we are living right now.

00:53:46.100 And because we just take it and go, yeah, it's always going to be like this.

00:53:52.640 We have no gratitude and we have no humility.

00:53:55.320 When my son was younger, he was about nine and we sat and we watched Disney's Man in Space, which is the 1955 film that he made that actually convinced America we could go to space and go to the moon.

00:54:09.220 And Wernher von Braun was part of it and the next thing that was up was Man on Mars and also a Disney thing.

00:54:21.260 And I said to my son, it'll be amazing when we go to Mars.

00:54:27.000 And he said, we haven't been there?

00:54:30.420 I said, no.

00:54:32.480 And he said, why?

00:54:35.860 I said, well, it's a little difficult.

00:54:38.320 It's a long, long, long, long, long, long, long way away.

00:54:42.080 And I realized.

00:54:44.800 This is the everything is possible to them, everything you can do anything.

00:54:52.100 Sky's the limit.

00:54:53.080 Mars, why aren't we there?

00:54:54.420 How come we're not there?

00:54:55.180 I've heard people say, oh, we definitely didn't land on the moon.

00:54:59.140 You know, India just became the fourth country to be able to land on the moon, I think yesterday.

00:55:04.700 And if we could do that, you know, Russia just crashed a lunar rover.

00:55:12.760 China has crashed.

00:55:14.660 You know, we have these rockets from Musk that are blowing up.

00:55:18.300 We never went to the moon.

00:55:21.120 Yeah, we did.

00:55:21.960 It's just very difficult to do it.

00:55:26.920 We have no concept of any of that now.

00:55:32.400 And, you know, that's why the people in China, I have been told, the Christians in China have been praying for us to, for our economy and everything to collapse.

00:55:45.120 And they're doing it because, because I said, what, what, what are you praying for?

00:55:50.280 And they said.

00:55:52.040 Humility.

00:55:52.800 You're, you have to be humbled.

00:55:54.260 You don't remember who you are.

00:55:56.000 You don't remember.

00:55:56.860 Within a decade, there'll be more Christians in China than any country in the world.

00:55:59.900 Yeah.

00:56:00.080 There's a better chance that you will be converted to Christianity being born in China than in Chicago. 0.70

00:56:05.820 If you look at the stats.

00:56:07.020 I got news for you.

00:56:07.740 I was a, I was a better member of my faith in New York than I ever am in Salt Lake City because there's no rub.

00:56:15.580 There's no, it's just, that's what it is.

00:56:18.700 It's like being a Catholic in Rome. 0.83

00:56:21.320 So before you and I started recording this, I got an email yesterday from a gentleman who, one of his best friends is a guy named Daryl Evans.

00:56:28.600 And Daryl Evans is a former major league baseball all-star and he was the first player in baseball history to hit 40 home runs in both the American and National League.

00:56:39.020 And he played for my beloved childhood Detroit Tigers as a kid.

00:56:42.660 And I watched him, you know, my entire childhood on the great Sparky Anderson Tiger teams of the 80s.

00:56:48.680 And he comes in today and he's, it turns out he's a big fan of you and the blaze and our show.

00:56:53.720 And he wants, he comes in, I give him the tour, you were still on the air.

00:56:57.020 And he lets me put on, he brings it, comes in wearing his 1984 Detroit Tigers World Series ring.

00:57:02.120 Wow.

00:57:02.640 And it is actually a perfect fit on my finger.

00:57:04.560 And I take a picture with him in the ring and my wife takes the picture and I go to talk and I can't.

00:57:09.620 Because I'm thinking to myself, I'm, I'm back to being the 10 year old boy that when my parents went to bed and the Tigers on the West Coast and it's 1030 Eastern and I got school the next morning and I'm sneaking up to turn the TV on and putting it on with no sound so I can follow the game.

00:57:21.480 And I'm going to be up till 1am for school, right?

00:57:23.340 I'm back to being that kid again.

00:57:25.500 And it dawned on me after that moment and how magical it was.

00:57:29.620 First of all, even in the midst of all of the existential dangers facing us, the Lord is still good.

00:57:35.460 Just these kinds of little blessings, right?

00:57:37.780 But it also reminded me that what are we really fighting for?

00:57:42.240 I think that we're not fighting for our kids and grandkids.

00:57:46.420 That's who we're fighting for.

00:57:47.460 That's who we're fighting for, to pass on an American legacy to them that was given to us so that we're not the generation Reagan warned about.

00:57:55.940 The one that will one day have to tell their children what it was like once in America when we were free.

00:58:00.460 But what we're fighting for is actually moments like what you just described with your son, what I had out here in the lobby with Daryl Evans.

00:58:09.440 The idea that it's the major benchmarks in life that matter the most.

00:58:16.340 A marriage.

00:58:16.880 If everything goes right, it'll happen only once.

00:58:19.020 At most, twice.

00:58:21.560 Your kids being born.

00:58:24.100 That only happens once for each kid.

00:58:25.900 Your kid graduating from school.

00:58:27.380 That only happens once for each kid.

00:58:28.720 Your kid getting married.

00:58:29.500 That only happens once for each kid.

00:58:31.020 These major benchmarks are rare.

00:58:32.860 That's why they're so important.

00:58:34.060 And we organize our lives around them and celebrate them.

00:58:37.280 In between those major benchmarks, we go to work every day, pay the bills every day.

00:58:42.940 What are the things in between those major benchmarks that bring joy to your life?

00:58:47.680 So that you don't feel like a cog in a machine.

00:58:49.720 So that you feel like your life is worthwhile.

00:58:52.020 That it's fun, joyful.

00:58:53.380 That there's a reason for those things.

00:58:55.080 When America provided more than anything, and more than any other nation on earth ever has been able to, because of its prosperity, and because of its supremacy, and its liberties, and its freedoms, is those little moments of joy.

00:59:11.020 That I was given, I had the freedom and the prosperity to even go sit for $4 in the old Tiger Stadium bleachers, 440 feet away from home plate, and watch Daryl Evans as a little boy hit a home run into those seats.

00:59:23.940 And if we lose those things, what's happened, we're going to lose them.

00:59:28.900 Because, see, in our era, particularly the men, they have prioritized those little joys over their main responsibilities.

00:59:36.700 That we now don't look forward to those little joys to give us a break from our responsibilities.

00:59:42.840 And we get refueled.

00:59:44.020 Hey, I had a weekend off.

00:59:45.280 I went to the ball game.

00:59:46.080 Hung out with my kid.

00:59:46.980 Took my wife out on a date night.

00:59:48.440 I'm good.

00:59:49.120 I'm ready to go back to the battle on Monday.

00:59:51.180 All right?

00:59:51.560 I'll be at my kid's school board meeting on Tuesday.

00:59:53.340 I'll go to my kid's game on Friday.

00:59:55.380 All right?

00:59:56.120 We've flipped our priorities now, particularly the men.

00:59:58.660 Now they know more details about their fantasy baseball team than they do their legislature.

01:00:02.980 Now they know more details about their leisure pursuits than they do their priorities and responsibilities.

01:00:07.920 And because of that, because our priorities are out of order, we're now in danger of losing both.

01:00:13.280 You're now in danger of everything's politicized now.

01:00:16.000 Even your leisure pursuits are politicized now.

01:00:17.860 And so because we're not engaged generationally.

01:00:22.060 We're not in the fight generationally, particularly the men.

01:00:25.480 And the leisure pursuits are an ends and a means to themselves.

01:00:29.560 They're the goal.

01:00:30.700 Okay?

01:00:30.920 Not a break.

01:00:32.220 They're the goal.

01:00:33.500 And we're in danger of losing all of that.

01:00:35.460 That's really the unique...

01:00:36.700 Your museum is a testimony to this.

01:00:39.180 What you have chronicled for decades and collected and having that museum across the street.

01:00:43.600 Yes, there's historical things of great significance there.

01:00:46.440 Okay?

01:00:46.940 There's also Dorothy's Red Shoes.

01:00:49.060 There's also a Darth Vader helmet.

01:00:51.060 They're really in the grand scheme of things.

01:00:52.900 No one's taken that with them to the next life.

01:00:55.060 Okay?

01:00:55.920 But until we get to that next life, it's actually those things that give us joy to keep going,

01:01:04.080 to finish the race, as St. Paul said, to keep going, to not quit, to keep fighting, to encourage us.

01:01:09.920 All right?

01:01:10.580 And we're in danger of losing those things because we have prioritized those things more

01:01:15.260 than the historical things that you have archived in that museum as well.

01:01:20.320 Without knowing it, I think you explained why we collected those things last.

01:01:26.880 We didn't collect them at the same time.

01:01:30.820 We focused on the really important.

01:01:34.200 And then when we had enough of that as our center, it's like John Adams said,

01:01:40.820 I'm doing this now so my children can study mathematics and everything else so they can build an art gallery

01:01:52.520 that their children can appreciate art.

01:01:56.680 But right now, I can't do any of that.

01:01:58.220 Yep.

01:01:58.840 Because I'm just trying to have freedom and opportunity to work.

01:02:03.600 Like my son, we had a moment this summer, my son had a lot of days this summer,

01:02:09.840 had to get up and go to off-season conditioning for football at 7 a.m. in the summer, work out in the heat,

01:02:15.140 then come home, go to lunch, and then go to work when he worked outside for a company that did inflatables.

01:02:21.320 And he was often putting in 7, 8, 9 hours in the heat all summer long.

01:02:25.600 And he'd come home at night, and I'd be like, you want to hang out?

01:02:27.600 You're tired?

01:02:27.980 What do you want to do?

01:02:28.380 He's like, I'm tired.

01:02:29.280 I kind of just want to, you know, play Skyrim.

01:02:31.300 Do you care?

01:02:31.680 I said, you know what?

01:02:33.520 You can play Skyrim for the next three hours.

01:02:35.360 You know why?

01:02:36.380 Because you got up, went to football practice, worked out for two hours there, came home for lunch,

01:02:41.520 went to work, worked another six hours.

01:02:43.320 You handled your business first.

01:02:45.580 Your time is yours.

01:02:46.840 That is your leisure time.

01:02:47.960 You may do what you want with it.

01:02:48.960 You earned that time.

01:02:51.000 What we want to do in our era now is flip it.

01:02:53.620 Yes.

01:02:54.000 And the leisure time now is actually what we want to do during the day when we're supposed to be productive.

01:02:59.280 Correct.

01:02:59.560 All right?

01:02:59.960 And then by that point in time, it's too late, and our priorities are out of order.

01:03:05.020 And I think God is going to have to humble us where those priorities are concerned to bring us to a place where our hearts are ready for revival.

01:03:12.240 And if we can be humble enough to not kill each other while that's happening.

01:03:18.020 And I'm worried about that.

01:03:19.220 I am too.

01:03:20.080 But with God's grace, you know, maybe we'll do that.

01:03:28.340 Always good to see you.

01:03:29.320 You bet, man.

01:03:29.620 When you come, I didn't ask a single question I had prepared.

01:03:33.840 So when you come back, will you come back to the podcast?

01:03:37.020 Absolutely.

01:03:37.500 I'd love to.

01:03:37.880 You bet.

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 26, 2023

Ep 191 ｜ They Broke America's Social Compact. What Now？｜ Steve Deace ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 26, 2023

Ep 191 ｜ They Broke America's Social Compact. What Now？ ｜ Steve Deace ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Ep 191 ｜ They Broke America's Social Compact. What Now？｜ Steve Deace ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast