The Great America Show - November 21, 2023


MARXIST DEMS FEAR THE PEOPLE


Episode Stats

Length

37 minutes

Words per Minute

171.51387

Word Count

6,377

Sentence Count

444

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Javier Millet has been elected President of Argentina and is likely to continue the leftist policies of his predecessor, Alberto Fernandez. President-elect Javier Millet will take office on December 10th, 2020, and will likely continue the policies of former President Alberto Fernandez, who was in office for less than 20 days.


Transcript

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00:01:18.340 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Thank you for being
00:01:26.880 with us. Make Argentina great again. Populist libertarian Javier Millet has won the presidency
00:01:34.280 of Argentina in a landslide victory. And I must say, all of the election done by paper ballot,
00:01:41.580 no electronic machines, and then knew the results just hours after the election. Imagine that.
00:01:47.740 You may ask yourself, why should I care about an Argentine election? Well, here's why.
00:01:54.820 Malay will be taking over from socialist Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina who managed
00:02:01.960 to put the country in a downward economic spiral, much like socialist Marxist Joe Biden has done
00:02:08.460 to America. Only slightly worse, 200% inflation in Argentina, making people's lives unlivable.
00:02:15.960 Argentina's central bank has raised their estimate for annual inflation this year. That's what socialism
00:02:22.140 and Marxism do to a country. Take a listen to a Tucker Carlson interview with Malay, in which he warned
00:02:29.280 the rest of the world about socialism.
00:02:32.100 Never embrace the ideas of socialism. Never allow yourself to be seduced by the siren song of social
00:02:39.300 justice. Don't get caught up in that terrible concept that there is a need, there's a right.
00:02:44.920 But that can't happen on its own. We have to be prepared for this and wage a cultural war every
00:02:50.240 single day. And we have to be careful because they have no problem with getting inside the state and
00:02:55.160 employing Gramsci's techniques, seducing the artists, seducing the media, or meddling in educational
00:03:00.980 content. You need to be very careful. Cut off their funding and force them into a fair fight.
00:03:06.800 At the same time, we have to raise awareness among the business sector that the masses are necessary.
00:03:12.520 Milton Friedman used to say that the social role of an entrepreneur is to make money, but that's not
00:03:17.540 enough. Part of their investment must include investing in those who defend the ideals of freedom so
00:03:23.400 the socialists can make no further advances. If they don't do it, they will get into the state and
00:03:28.840 use the state to impose a long-term agenda that will destroy everything it touches. So we need a
00:03:35.160 commitment from all of those to create wealth to fight against socialism, to fight against statism,
00:03:40.460 and to understand if they fail to do so, the socialists will keep coming because that's their point.
00:03:46.980 Since they try to leech off others without working, they are tireless in their pursuit,
00:03:51.320 their leitmotif in life is to live off of others. So they never give up on this mechanism to gain
00:03:57.180 control of others' wealth, money, or income. So this battle must be waged unceasingly.
00:04:03.000 We cannot take a day off because when we rest, socialism creeps in.
00:04:07.760 Brilliantly put by the new Argentinian president-elect. And Malay says not only will he not work with China,
00:04:14.600 but he won't work with any communist nation, any socialist nation.
00:04:19.540 Not only will I not do business with China, I want to do business with any communist. I am a
00:04:24.360 defender of freedom, peace, and democracy. There's no room for communists there. There's no room for
00:04:30.160 Putin there. There's no room for Lula there. We want to be the moral lighthouse for our continent.
00:04:35.760 We want to be defenders of freedom, democracy, and diversity, of peace. From within the state,
00:04:41.260 we will not pursue any action with communists or socialists. That doesn't mean that Argentinians
00:04:46.700 can't trade. If they want to trade with China or with Russia or with Brazil, that's up to each
00:04:51.140 Argentinian. Argentina is already sounding better. Malay takes office in another 20 days on December 10th.
00:04:59.080 Puppet President Joe Biden turned 81 yesterday and his age and rapid health decline has his fellow
00:05:05.500 Marxist Dems in the party more than a little anxious. They're anxious, it seems, to replace Biden
00:05:11.080 for the 2024 election. Politico reporting even those in Biden's inner circle, including family
00:05:17.280 members, worry about the optics of his advancing age. The president's birthday arrived on the same day
00:05:24.340 that a new NBC poll showed Biden's disapproval rating at an all-time high, 57%. That same NBC poll has
00:05:34.540 Trump beating Biden in a head-to-head for the first time. And among younger voters, ages 18 to 34,
00:05:41.860 Trump emerged on top, 46 to 42% over Biden. For context, younger voters broke for Biden in 2020
00:05:50.260 by about 26%. And former Obama advisor David Axelrod is doubling down on his calls for Biden to step aside
00:05:59.380 and let a younger Marxist Dems take over. Axelrod telling the New York Times this week Biden has
00:06:05.620 only a 50-50 shot at beating Trump. Our guest today is the founder and editor-in-chief of Just
00:06:12.100 the News, John Solomon. John, great to have you back with us. Let's begin with the January 6th tapes
00:06:17.820 as Speaker Mike Johnson is released. 44,000 hours will be released in all the first installment
00:06:24.860 coming out this weekend. Your reaction, John? Yeah, not surprising to me just because
00:06:30.380 Congressman Laudermilk, the subcommittee chairman that's been running the January 6th investigation
00:06:35.060 since Democrats gave up control of the House, he has been saying that this is the direction he
00:06:42.020 wanted to move in. Of course, Speaker McCarthy was not on board with that. His removal, I think,
00:06:47.680 opened a window or opened a door to come back and revisit the idea that maybe everybody should get
00:06:54.040 access to everything. We trust the American people to find their truth on their own, that it doesn't
00:06:58.560 have to be a controlled release. And I think over the last few days, Speaker Johnson and Chairman
00:07:05.800 Laudermilk worked out a scenario where it's easy to get the information up. Here's the path. We're
00:07:10.360 going to do it. Let's let people take a look at things and find what they want and get the highest
00:07:16.700 degree of transparency possible. And I think we're moving in that direction now. Not all the video is up
00:07:22.640 yet. It takes some time to post this because it's massive in size. There'll be dangers, right?
00:07:28.460 There'll be mistakes that people make. They'll see something on the videotape, think it's something
00:07:31.980 other than that. That's always a problem when you release information publicly. But I think
00:07:36.960 the long-term benefit to the American public is huge. And everybody can see for themselves with
00:07:43.900 their own eyes, without having filters and without the media telling them what to believe,
00:07:48.100 what happened that day. And I think it'll benefit defendants. It'll benefit journalists. It'll
00:07:53.000 benefit historians. And it will benefit voters going into the 2024 election.
00:07:58.440 I was very encouraged and thrilled that he did it because he had made a couple of steps,
00:08:04.400 a couple of moves that I didn't think were in the proper direction or at the proper pace.
00:08:09.600 This is good to see because this is a move toward transparency. I just hope the Republican Party
00:08:16.220 understands that you can't go wrong honoring the public's right to know. And if they follow that
00:08:23.040 particular load star, they'll be fine. It is when they get... And there was a slight apology offered
00:08:30.160 up by the Speaker's office because there are some of the videos that will not be available that,
00:08:35.000 as they put it, reveal architectural features that could have security implications. And if it's
00:08:41.120 de minimis, a fraction of a percent of something in these videos, that's fine. It's when it becomes
00:08:47.580 what it did become under Speaker McCarthy, the whole enchilada. He had a reason to do everything
00:08:53.140 slowly, to do everything that frustrated the public's right to know. I think we obviously have a
00:08:58.640 different... We've got a different fellow and a different sort of fellow in Mike Johnson.
00:09:03.600 Yeah. And it's a different mindset. There's no doubt about it. And I think you said it right,
00:09:07.460 Lou. Why should we fear the public's right to know? The public is smart. And only those who want
00:09:13.160 to manipulate the public, try to control the flow of information. Those who trust the public and trust
00:09:17.960 this constitutional republic know that transparency is the best thing. And I think Mike Johnson came
00:09:22.660 down on that side. Chairman Barry Laudermilk has been a champion of this, and he has worked
00:09:27.420 tirelessly for eight months, nine months, 10 months now, actually, to put us in a position to get
00:09:33.240 this data. And I'm really grateful for him as a journalist, because I've been able to access
00:09:37.560 some of this information. I think the public will be grateful for him long-term, seeing the benefit
00:09:42.160 of this.
00:09:43.400 Yeah. Think about it. It's 10 months really wasted, honestly.
00:09:47.060 Yeah. You're right.
00:09:47.820 I mean, if everybody's straight about it, it was wasted.
00:09:50.440 Yeah.
00:09:50.600 There's no reason on earth that these shouldn't have been out the second that McCarthy was sworn
00:09:55.200 in as Speaker of the House.
00:09:56.360 And the fact that that was not the case shows, I think, everybody's part of the problem with
00:10:03.280 Kevin McCarthy and the cross currents that were running through the conference, largely
00:10:08.400 because of the rhinos and divided allegiances, I'll put it that way.
00:10:14.160 Senator Mike Lee coming out and saying the House January 6th panel should be investigated
00:10:18.360 itself after the release of these tapes, because what we've already seen are, I'll say it very
00:10:25.140 nicely, discordant images with the narrative that the Dems were pushing.
00:10:31.160 I mean, these guys were lying through their teeth on that January 6th committee.
00:10:36.300 Pelosi, what they created is just an embarrassment, a shame, and a disgrace to the Marxist-Democrat
00:10:47.760 party.
00:10:48.780 And we've got to come to terms with it.
00:10:50.640 This is the party.
00:10:51.700 This is who they are.
00:10:53.180 They are rotten to the core.
00:10:55.140 And people better understand, this is not just about right and wrong in terms of policy.
00:11:00.560 This is, there is no moral compass on the left at all.
00:11:05.740 None that I can detect.
00:11:07.880 Yeah, listen, in moments like this in the past, you always put your country before your
00:11:12.560 party in your personal interest.
00:11:14.040 But the Democratic Party have constantly, over the last few years, put party ahead of country's
00:11:18.960 interest.
00:11:19.320 And so we weren't given the truth about what really happened on January 6th.
00:11:23.320 We weren't told about the security failures.
00:11:25.580 I believe in the next few days, we'll begin to learn just how many law enforcement undercover
00:11:31.540 or on scene.
00:11:33.020 I think there could be as many as four or five dozen, four or five teams just from Metropolitan
00:11:37.980 Police Department.
00:11:38.740 That's an area where I've been focusing a lot of my reporting.
00:11:41.040 All of that has been deprived the American public for nearly three years now.
00:11:46.220 We're coming up on the third anniversary.
00:11:47.760 We're still only getting snippets of basic truth for the first time.
00:11:52.940 We had a story last week that I think is so important.
00:11:56.180 The gallows, that big image that television played all that day saying, look, the Trump
00:12:01.780 people want to execute people.
00:12:03.680 Well, we found the video footage of that working with a guy named Ed Martin, working with Chairman
00:12:09.040 Loudermilk.
00:12:09.840 And you see the funniest thing.
00:12:11.040 Those things walk in in the wee hours of the morning.
00:12:13.500 They're sitting on the property for hours without any police trying to take them down,
00:12:20.300 even though it was an illegal structure, wouldn't have met the terms of the permit for that
00:12:26.140 day.
00:12:26.800 You can see the people going in.
00:12:28.740 You can see them talking on the phone.
00:12:30.560 You can see them going for coffee, coming back.
00:12:32.580 You can see the cab that they came in.
00:12:35.400 And somehow the FBI is unable to determine who they are, just like they're unable to
00:12:40.860 determine who dropped those bombs at the RNC and DNC, just like they are unable to explain
00:12:47.480 how the Secret Service didn't sweep the DNC building and allow Vice President-elect Kamala
00:12:53.480 Harris to walk within feet of a bomb.
00:12:55.280 There are so many security failures and security abnormalities that the January 6th committee
00:13:02.380 deprived the American people from learning about.
00:13:05.120 And we're going to get to see them now.
00:13:06.120 We're going to learn about them now.
00:13:06.920 We'll probably get to the bottom of a lot of these lingering and very important issues.
00:13:11.360 You know, you're talking about abnormalities.
00:13:14.740 It's much like the election of 2020.
00:13:17.860 You know, we can talk about abnormalities or we can talk about irregularities.
00:13:22.540 We can talk about anomalies or we can talk about what we're really talking about.
00:13:27.300 That's a rigged election.
00:13:28.740 And this insurrection day on January 6th was an absolute setup on the part of the FBI,
00:13:37.760 the Metro and Capitol Police.
00:13:41.180 I mean, John, this is an outrage staring us in the face and people, I get a kick out of
00:13:47.700 I'm hearing congressmen who are not lawyers talking like they were going to write a constitutional
00:13:53.480 law treatise for their class they're teaching today.
00:13:56.940 I mean, it's staring us in the face.
00:13:59.380 Let's call it what it is.
00:14:00.960 It is a government that is under the control of the Marxist Dems.
00:14:05.520 It's corrupt from one end to the other.
00:14:09.040 And there to see Christopher Wray say he's not a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:14:15.840 Wasn't that a precious moment as he's trying to correct the congressman?
00:14:20.960 I just we have an arrogant bunch of crooks in these jobs.
00:14:26.760 And everybody better understand what we're dealing with, because that's who we're dealing
00:14:31.140 with.
00:14:31.580 Well, listen, our founding fathers feared this very moment that we live in now.
00:14:35.780 That's why they created the Constitutional Republic to avoid a large central government
00:14:39.960 from imposing its own will on the American people.
00:14:44.000 But somehow, particularly in the last 10 to 20 years, instead of a government by for and
00:14:50.740 of the people, it's become a government to control the people and to control the truth,
00:14:55.280 to control what you say, to control what you think, to control what you put in your body.
00:14:59.320 And I think that this is exactly the worst case scenario that our founding fathers did not
00:15:04.540 want to see play out in Washington.
00:15:06.100 And the next election is an opportunity, if Americans are serious about this, if they really
00:15:11.040 are concerned about it, to install into place a mindset and a plan that would substantially
00:15:19.520 shrink the size of government.
00:15:20.820 The only way you can remove power from bureaucrats is to get rid of them.
00:15:24.900 And Republicans have talked that way for 25 years.
00:15:28.320 They didn't get it done.
00:15:29.720 Donald Trump didn't get it done in his first term.
00:15:31.800 He seems very determined if he gets a second term to do exactly that.
00:15:35.760 And I've seen the plans he's put out there, and they make a big dent in reducing the size
00:15:40.400 and power of Washington.
00:15:41.780 But we live in a period right now where the central government has a say over almost every
00:15:47.060 aspect of our life, including telling us what reality we can believe or what reality we see.
00:15:52.480 And the FBI, particularly in the Russia collusion case, was a big part of that.
00:15:57.060 And also the 51 intelligence analysts who misled us in the 2020 election.
00:16:01.980 Talk about being rigged.
00:16:03.460 The American people were completely denied the truth on something as essential as was
00:16:09.380 the president or the person they were about to elect as president compromise.
00:16:13.820 And the answer is he was.
00:16:14.980 But we were told, don't believe it.
00:16:16.820 So the moment is upon us.
00:16:18.560 This next election is the self-correcting moment.
00:16:21.320 If we're going to have one, if it doesn't happen in 2024, I think you look at many, many
00:16:27.860 years of long centralized control of our lives from government in Washington on the horizon.
00:16:34.780 Now, you just saw what happened in Argentina, right?
00:16:37.380 Argentina made a very drastic change.
00:16:39.560 They decided they don't like big government.
00:16:41.900 They don't like the government economy that was given them.
00:16:44.660 And they went in a very radical direction last night with their election.
00:16:48.360 It'll be interesting to see if Americans choose that same path.
00:16:52.440 And a plain spoken fellow, this populist is.
00:16:56.160 And as you might guess, as a populist myself, I was jumping up and down with joy to see what
00:17:01.480 the people of Argentina did, because they have a plain spoken, straight talking president
00:17:06.280 President Dao, who is opposite everything the Peronistas have been for decades.
00:17:13.080 Argentina has a chance.
00:17:14.600 He understands economics as well.
00:17:16.600 Something that no leader, it seems, of Argentina has understood for a half century.
00:17:21.840 We're talking with John Solomon.
00:17:23.500 We're coming back.
00:17:24.420 We're going to talk about how did it take us so long to get to the point where we can actually
00:17:29.000 call a congressman or a senator a lying son of a gun.
00:17:33.700 But we'll be right back with that.
00:17:36.260 Stay with us.
00:17:42.500 We're back now with John Solomon, Just the News.
00:17:45.400 And John, as I said, going to break.
00:17:48.960 How, why, how in the world did we get to a point where we had to fight to get to where
00:17:56.880 we are today?
00:17:57.940 Talking about the fact that the government is rancid with corruption, that the Biden
00:18:03.500 regime is without any question whatsoever corrupt.
00:18:07.640 We can define it.
00:18:08.860 We can slice and dice it.
00:18:10.680 We can get granular or go to 30,000 feet.
00:18:13.640 Bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks.
00:18:15.600 They're corrupt and they're vicious and they are the Marxist left.
00:18:20.180 And we've been so afraid to say the word Marxist.
00:18:23.920 They're Marxist.
00:18:24.740 And they are the they are the threat to this country, aren't they?
00:18:28.120 Well, listen, I think anyone who values freedom, anyone who values personal liberty, who values
00:18:35.660 a free market, which is the three primary foundations upon which this country has been
00:18:39.900 so successful and innovative and globally inspiring, has to recognize that we're in a moment where
00:18:47.260 all three of those core principles, core driving forces of the American experience are under
00:18:53.300 great assault from one party.
00:18:55.440 The Democrats don't believe in personal freedom.
00:18:57.560 They try to restrain it.
00:18:59.600 They don't believe in free markets.
00:19:01.400 They try to create manipulated markets.
00:19:03.080 That's what the Green Energy New Deal is about.
00:19:06.120 They don't believe in a personal choice.
00:19:09.040 They try to remove choices.
00:19:10.340 They have become increasingly critical of the first two freedoms granted in the Bill of Rights,
00:19:16.060 the First Amendment and the Second Amendment.
00:19:17.780 And so you see these efforts through disinformation and censorship, now defunding or debanking gun
00:19:26.260 manufacturers, that the very freedoms that our founding fathers believed were going to
00:19:33.180 be the most important for sustaining the great American experience.
00:19:36.880 There's one party that argues against them on a daily basis.
00:19:40.840 And yes, many of the principles, much of the language they use seems to have its origins in
00:19:46.580 Marxist tradition, critical race theory, DEI, CRT.
00:19:50.600 We can go, you know, we can give you the alphabet soup.
00:19:52.620 But at the end of the day, there is a growing number of people in the Democratic Party who
00:20:00.560 believe that freedom is a threat to the Democrat Party agenda.
00:20:04.500 And that is anathema to the American experience.
00:20:07.600 There is also, beyond the Democratic Party, this massive, well-funded oligarchy in America,
00:20:14.420 particularly those who came out of Silicon Valley, who believe it their job to use their market
00:20:20.840 position to control Americans, control thought, control speech, control convention.
00:20:28.460 And so you have all of these control-a-garchs.
00:20:31.380 That's the term that my good colleague, Seamus Bruner, who has a brand new book out, talks about.
00:20:36.160 And so when you have a Democratic Party aligned with a-
00:20:40.100 Control-a-garchs.
00:20:41.020 Control-a-garchs.
00:20:42.000 That's the term.
00:20:42.940 That's the name of his new book.
00:20:44.400 And he's right.
00:20:45.420 And he chronicles it.
00:20:46.540 So Democrat politicians aligned with big tech oligarchs.
00:20:50.940 The threat to freedom, the threat to the American experience has never been greater.
00:20:55.800 Do you think the Republicans understand that?
00:20:58.140 Do you think Mike Johnson understands it?
00:20:59.960 Do you think that, you know, the Republicans in the Senate understand it?
00:21:05.140 I know, for example, Ted Cruz understands it.
00:21:07.880 I think Mike Lee does a handful, but I don't see this party organizing around the principles
00:21:14.280 that you're describing.
00:21:15.620 We've got a group of people in the House and some to a fewer in the Senate who want to try
00:21:22.900 to make this about government spending.
00:21:25.440 That is madness in and of itself.
00:21:28.260 That is a loser issue.
00:21:30.640 It's a loser proposition.
00:21:33.300 And what has to happen is the Republican Party understands they have got to block the Marxists,
00:21:40.240 understand that the Marxists control the Democrat Party, and they have to understand without
00:21:44.800 any equivocation that they're going to have to make sure that the election of 2024 is not
00:21:52.040 rigged and is not controlled by the Marxist Dems.
00:21:55.100 You know, people ask this question often, do Republicans understand the battle they're
00:22:00.920 in?
00:22:01.220 And I can say this.
00:22:02.280 First off, they certainly haven't been fighting with the political armaments that this battle
00:22:08.420 requires.
00:22:09.000 The Democrats have taken every advantage in changing election roles, in pushing the roles
00:22:15.200 of elections and pushing the roles of governance.
00:22:17.920 And the Republicans have been way too courteous, way too deferential.
00:22:21.540 Now, when you look at the rhetoric, when you look at what key Republicans are saying today,
00:22:27.340 take Mitch McConnell out of it, I think his time has passed, and I'm not sure he understands
00:22:31.440 the battle we're in.
00:22:32.680 But many of the next generation Republicans seem to articulate the danger, seem to articulate
00:22:40.040 the fight correctly.
00:22:41.640 But do they have the tactics?
00:22:43.040 Do they have the armaments?
00:22:44.060 Do they have the strategy?
00:22:45.220 Do they have the policies to combat it?
00:22:47.720 Thus far, they haven't shown that they have it.
00:22:49.680 And I think the last 20 years of history is a poignant reminder that many times Republicans
00:22:58.000 have been co-conspirators in the changing of America towards this big government, suffocating
00:23:04.820 spending, suffocating regulation.
00:23:07.800 They've been a big party to it.
00:23:09.240 Obviously, Donald Trump was a little bit of an aberration, though even on his watch, the
00:23:13.340 Republicans in Congress didn't make the sort of change that the American people empowered
00:23:17.920 to give them in 2017.
00:23:20.280 Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were too tepid.
00:23:23.180 They didn't do what Americans hired them to do.
00:23:26.440 And as a result, they got kicked out of office two years later, or two and four years later,
00:23:30.800 depending on the election.
00:23:32.820 I do think when you look at what Republicans are saying, those in power today, the chairman,
00:23:37.600 people like Jim Jordan and James Comer and the new speaker, Mike Johnson, they certainly
00:23:43.180 articulate the moment we're in, but they have not been able to produce yet results on the
00:23:50.140 border, on shrinking government.
00:23:52.000 Government hasn't shrunk one penny in the last 25 years when Republicans have been in
00:23:58.000 charge.
00:23:58.320 It's getting bigger on Republican and Democrat watches.
00:24:01.680 The border has gotten more and more open every two years.
00:24:05.280 The cycle gets worse and worse.
00:24:07.140 So Republicans have been aiders and a betters in this process.
00:24:10.200 They're very good at complaining about it.
00:24:13.360 I've yet to see the sort of plan that would combat it.
00:24:16.720 Now, President Trump's plan seems to have, I think, the most clear elements of how to
00:24:23.720 change it.
00:24:24.160 I think the America First Policy Institute and some of its 2025 agenda that people like Lee
00:24:29.960 Zeldin are developing, they seem to have real policy actions that match the rhetoric.
00:24:34.980 And then the final question is, if you have the policy and you got the rhetoric, do you have
00:24:38.560 the will to impose it or the will to achieve it?
00:24:41.420 And I think, well, history will let us know that in the next couple of years.
00:24:45.220 Yeah.
00:24:45.320 The problem with the Lee Zeldins, and who's a great guy, is he's not a fighter and he is
00:24:51.380 not a man with a loud voice and a real strong sense of direction.
00:24:57.800 He is, for all practical purposes, a rhino.
00:25:01.820 And you know me, John, I say it straight.
00:25:04.880 There are just too many of these kinds of cookie cutter candidates out there who would
00:25:11.220 like to be in some sort of sinecure for life, it seems, rather than actually get something
00:25:18.280 done and then get the heck out of Washington.
00:25:20.400 And I don't mean any offense to Lee Zeldin.
00:25:23.360 Like I said, I like the man.
00:25:24.880 He's a great guy.
00:25:26.800 I think one of the things you have to look at.
00:25:28.620 But the reality, the reality is we've got to take a break and we're going to come right
00:25:32.660 back and then we're going to find out what John Solomon wants to really say to Lou Dobbs.
00:25:38.500 We'll find out right after this.
00:25:40.380 We'll be right back.
00:25:46.840 We're back.
00:25:47.640 We're talking with John Solomon.
00:25:49.040 And John, your thoughts about the rhinos and the folks who will not talk straight in Washington,
00:25:53.920 D.C., irrespective of party.
00:25:55.460 Yeah, listen, it's a huge problem.
00:25:57.740 The American people are keen on it, right?
00:25:59.460 I think when you look at someone like a Lee Zeldin, who I've really studied closely as
00:26:03.700 a journalist, some of the tactical changes that he willed into existence in New York the
00:26:09.680 last election are the sort of things that Republicans should have been doing six years ago, right?
00:26:14.520 Early voting can make a difference.
00:26:17.100 He got early voting into place.
00:26:18.640 But he didn't win, John.
00:26:22.920 He didn't win.
00:26:24.320 Here's the thing.
00:26:25.080 I want to hear about a Republican who actually talks straight, actually wins and does something.
00:26:30.420 I mean, the state of Arizona right now is producing candidate after candidate who knows they got
00:26:34.700 screwed in the elections of 2022 and 2020, but they don't win.
00:26:41.760 It just drives me crazy.
00:26:43.600 Yeah, listen, I completely agree with you that winning is a problem for Republicans.
00:26:48.560 Republicans don't know how to win very well.
00:26:51.340 Part of the reason is they allowed the Democrats to change the rules of the election,
00:26:55.700 and then they disarmed, saying, I want to hold on to the old election.
00:26:59.200 And I think if you're going to win in 2024, all the data that I've seen as a journalist,
00:27:04.680 again, just looking at pure data, is you have to get your base out.
00:27:09.360 That's what Donald Trump does better than any conservative president in American history
00:27:12.740 or any conservative politician.
00:27:14.360 He gets the base out in record numbers.
00:27:16.580 And then you've got to go after low propensity voters, which Democrats have mastered and Republicans
00:27:21.960 have ignored.
00:27:22.880 There are a certain group of people, and it's sad to say, but it is harsh reality, that won't
00:27:28.480 take the time or don't have the time to go vote on Election Day.
00:27:31.400 But if you make it easy for them to vote early, they will vote early.
00:27:35.040 And that's how Democrats have rolled up some really significant numbers.
00:27:38.760 The data is irrefutable on it.
00:27:40.800 Republicans keep spitting into the wind on this.
00:27:43.660 For the first time, I'm seeing evidence that they are starting to engage those voters.
00:27:49.220 There is an opportunity, Hispanic voters, young parents, Black voters, all moving to the
00:27:55.040 Trump column in 2024.
00:27:56.360 You see it in the polling data, but polling data doesn't equal vote.
00:28:00.660 How you get those people to vote is, I think, the existential question for the Republican
00:28:06.980 Party.
00:28:07.720 Can they muster the sort of votes that win elections?
00:28:11.540 And I do see some encouraging signs.
00:28:14.400 And while Zeldin lost in 2022, and he did lose, he lost by way less than what the polls
00:28:19.640 showed, right?
00:28:20.100 He closed it, but that early voting kicked in three or four wins for Republicans in places
00:28:27.540 like Staten Island and some of the burbs of New York.
00:28:30.360 There are hopeful signs that that strategy could and can be a winning strategy if deployed
00:28:35.660 more widely.
00:28:37.780 The alternative is just to watch the Democrats start every election with 200,000 extra votes
00:28:42.360 on Election Day and then try to make it up on Election Day.
00:28:44.920 It's not a good strategy.
00:28:46.340 Ronald Reagan said, I'm a principled guy, but I'll never unilaterally disarm.
00:28:50.860 Republicans for the last three to four elections have unilaterally disarmed on some of the tactics
00:28:56.400 that could potentially push them over the top.
00:28:59.460 This is 2024 is the year we're going to find out if Republicans can still win.
00:29:03.520 If not, I think we're destined, Republicans are destined to be a minority party for a very
00:29:08.600 long time.
00:29:09.940 Yeah.
00:29:10.320 I think that the way you construct it, if the only way that Republicans can win is by
00:29:16.820 playing like Mark Elias, and that is cheating, going to early voting, making it early months
00:29:25.380 of voting, going to drop boxes.
00:29:30.680 I mean, that isn't somewhere we should be.
00:29:33.280 Oh, but the problem is they allowed it to get that way, right?
00:29:35.280 Yeah, they did, but they should also reverse it.
00:29:38.100 And the fact is that the Republicans are so lazy and so unsure of their leadership that
00:29:44.000 they won't get rid of drop boxes.
00:29:45.880 They won't roll back early voting.
00:29:48.020 They won't talk about an Election Day, just like the Constitution does, talk about it and
00:29:53.040 insist upon it.
00:29:54.620 This is either the Republican Party is going to be the party of law and order and principle,
00:29:59.080 or it's going to be nothing more than an echo of what is a group of Marxist Dems who mean
00:30:06.780 to unravel this country in every fashion possible.
00:30:10.260 John, I just don't see how that's a winning argument for Republicans.
00:30:13.340 I would like to see Republicans show enough energy to get out there and change those laws
00:30:18.380 to roll back that all that Mark Elias and the Dems did in 2020.
00:30:23.240 Because the other way is an unprincipled nightmare that will mean that there won't be a nickel's
00:30:30.160 worth of difference between the two parties.
00:30:32.040 Well, the problem right now is that they don't have control in the battleground states that
00:30:35.480 win you the electoral votes, right?
00:30:36.900 They don't have control in Pennsylvania.
00:30:38.540 They don't have control in Michigan.
00:30:39.920 In fact, they've lost ground in those states because the Democrats changed the rules and
00:30:44.980 then created a strategy to do that.
00:30:47.560 The only way to impose your will on election law is to have the ability to pass and sign
00:30:53.860 the election law.
00:30:54.520 They don't have it in Michigan.
00:30:56.600 They don't have it in Pennsylvania.
00:30:58.200 They used to have it and they slept through it.
00:31:01.040 They yielded the advantages that they had.
00:31:04.080 Wisconsin, they're hanging on by a thread.
00:31:06.360 The only way for them to get back to imposing an election day in America is to win one of the
00:31:11.980 elections under the current rules and then push it backwards.
00:31:15.440 That's the only way we're going to do it.
00:31:16.480 Right now, they've lost ground in Michigan.
00:31:18.300 They've lost ground in Pennsylvania, despite the fact that Donald Trump's more popular
00:31:21.960 in their states than ever before.
00:31:23.600 His policies are more popular.
00:31:25.620 You've got to seize control in order to impose control.
00:31:29.180 And right now, they're at a disadvantage in many of the battleground states.
00:31:33.260 Now, Georgia is one that they don't.
00:31:35.400 Arizona, they just lost.
00:31:36.540 Let's think about that.
00:31:37.520 Arizona, they had statewide control.
00:31:39.280 Now they don't.
00:31:40.620 And I think while they had statewide control, while they had those darn investigations into election
00:31:45.440 integrity, they didn't manage to change the rules to their advantage.
00:31:49.420 And I think failure to continue to do so will be an existential problem for the Republican
00:31:54.820 Party for a long time to come.
00:31:56.160 This is the election where they have to win by the rules that are currently in place, and
00:32:00.560 then you can go and change it to whatever you think the Constitution and the American
00:32:04.160 public want.
00:32:04.920 But absent that, they're going to be a minority party for a long time.
00:32:08.720 That's what I think the polling data shows, what the trend lines of the last six years
00:32:13.320 are.
00:32:13.940 Mark Elias changed the rules.
00:32:15.620 He did.
00:32:16.460 And we can complain about it, but those are the rules.
00:32:19.860 And so we need to go win by those rules, and then you can change the rules back to the
00:32:23.420 way I think most Americans like, which is voter ID.
00:32:26.540 Day up, put your vote on the day up.
00:32:28.580 The Republican principles of election are very popular.
00:32:31.540 They just aren't the letter of the law in many states right now.
00:32:34.820 And that is a shame.
00:32:35.700 Yeah, I'm not Mark Elias' favorite person, but he did like my proposal for the Republican
00:32:42.220 Party back in 2022, which is that it was 2020, actually, for the Republican Party to just
00:32:52.520 take a breath, put together a few hundred million dollars and buy, pay off Mark Elias to work
00:32:59.940 for them.
00:33:00.640 I'm sure he would like that.
00:33:01.900 That would be blueprint.
00:33:02.340 And Mark Elias quit, you know, he blocked me on Twitter right after that.
00:33:07.640 That's funny.
00:33:08.720 That's very funny.
00:33:10.200 But anyway, it's the truth of the matter is there's not a single person in the Republican
00:33:14.340 Party right now, as far as I know, not a single group, not an organized institution, non-profit,
00:33:20.200 whatever you want to say, that knows a darn thing about what they're doing in terms of early
00:33:25.140 voting.
00:33:25.540 All they're going to do is end up going to jail because they're going to break a law of
00:33:31.160 some sort.
00:33:31.640 You're very perceptive.
00:33:32.480 You're right.
00:33:32.960 There is a massive lack of knowledge and capability, and we're less than a year away.
00:33:39.000 And so what is the RNC for?
00:33:42.540 What is it?
00:33:43.020 I guess the question becomes, what is it that Republicans do exactly between elections?
00:33:48.580 Because they seem to just sit on their tails and, you know, just sort of slobber waiting
00:33:56.280 for, you know, a handout.
00:33:58.160 I mean, it's ridiculous to me to see this Republican Party.
00:34:02.420 If they did not have Donald Trump in the Republican Party, this party would already be gone.
00:34:08.360 It would be in the dustbin of history.
00:34:10.860 A 42 or 40 percent party.
00:34:12.560 You're right.
00:34:12.940 Listen, I think you're exactly right.
00:34:14.260 And I grew up in the era of New York where George Steinbrenner demanded excellence, and
00:34:19.080 he would fire his manager if he didn't get it.
00:34:21.000 Just think about this.
00:34:22.060 The RNC has underperformed in five straight elections, and yet it has the same leadership.
00:34:28.260 If you want to start with, you know, an easy thing, if you keep losing, you have to change
00:34:32.780 the team, right?
00:34:33.560 That's what every great football team learns, every baseball team learns.
00:34:36.820 I've got a great idea for you, John.
00:34:38.340 The Republicans keep doubling down on their failed leadership.
00:34:40.240 I've got a banner for just the news.
00:34:42.440 You want to hear it?
00:34:43.200 Yeah, please.
00:34:45.260 Get rid of Romney McDaniel.
00:34:49.880 Yeah.
00:34:50.680 Period.
00:34:52.140 Well, that'll tell us.
00:34:53.260 Listen, if in the next few weeks that happens, which, by the way, there's some very serious
00:34:56.660 conversations going on in the party.
00:34:58.900 If that happens, then you know that some people have been listening to the wisdom that
00:35:02.300 you and others have been saying.
00:35:04.300 If they don't, if they double down on the same team, then all you can do is expect the
00:35:10.820 same result.
00:35:11.360 If you don't change, you end up in the same destination.
00:35:14.580 And I think right now someone has to change the compass to the Republican Party.
00:35:18.440 It has plenty of money, right?
00:35:19.840 It raised, what, $340 million last election.
00:35:22.340 That's not bad.
00:35:23.480 But if you don't spend it wisely, if you spend it lazily, if you're unimaginative, if you're
00:35:28.260 not fighting your enemy on the battlefield that they're on, you're destined to lose.
00:35:32.740 And I think right now there is a lot of that feeling that the Republicans haven't changed
00:35:40.620 the compass one bit.
00:35:41.600 They haven't reset the GPS and they're headed sleepwalking into another failed election.
00:35:46.720 Now, Donald Trump may have something to say about that.
00:35:48.620 He's pretty determined.
00:35:51.160 He's going to have a lot to say.
00:35:52.920 The question is, from what platform?
00:35:56.060 That's right.
00:35:56.400 And, you know, the RNC, you're talking about raising over $300 million.
00:36:00.620 I mean, that's great if you're a bank.
00:36:02.420 That's right.
00:36:02.860 If you're running a political party, that money should be highly energized with great velocity
00:36:08.540 and trajectory on target.
00:36:12.260 It is none of that.
00:36:13.520 No, it isn't.
00:36:14.520 Listen, history shows that.
00:36:15.820 The facts show that.
00:36:17.080 You talk to voters in the Republican Party.
00:36:19.040 They feel that way.
00:36:20.800 It's not opinion.
00:36:22.020 That is a fact that the Republican National Committee has been underperforming.
00:36:26.220 And somebody has to make a change or they'll wake up on the morning after the 2024 election
00:36:31.200 feeling the way they do right now.
00:36:33.360 John Solomon, it is always great to have you with us here on The Great America Show.
00:36:37.220 Thanks, my friend.
00:36:37.980 Appreciate it.
00:36:38.660 Great to be with you, Lou.
00:36:39.540 Thank you.
00:36:40.440 John Solomon, folks.
00:36:41.780 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:36:43.660 Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America Show, Congressman Corey Mills from the great
00:36:47.960 state of Florida.
00:36:48.740 We'll be talking about the Republicans need to do to take back this country and our government.
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