Did the fabled blue wave materialize for the Democrats? No, it did not, but why? What can we make of that and other election-related topics? Also, in that same vein, Florida voted to restore voting rights to felons. I think that was the right call.
00:03:48.520Their up-and-coming rock stars lost, many of them.
00:03:51.340So, when you consider that, it seems clear to me that there is still an obstacle in the way for Democrats.
00:04:00.340That even though—now, of course, the rabid Trump haters, the really loyal Democrats, they're going to get those people.
00:04:07.020But it seems like there are plenty of people who don't really like Trump, aren't necessarily big fans of the Republican Party, yet are hesitant about supporting Democrats.
00:04:18.800I think that there are many reasons for this, but let me just point to a few.
00:04:28.320Number one, the hatred for white men that you see on the left.
00:04:37.280I do, in fact, think that this is a problem for the Democrats.
00:04:42.040It's because there are around 100 million white males in America, and they don't especially like being constantly cast as the villain.
00:04:49.640And this liberal use of white man as a pejorative has the, I would think, not very surprising effect of alienating white men who aren't huge fans of having their identity reduced to an insult.
00:05:01.660And to compound the problem on top of that, plenty of non-whites and non-men actually don't hate white men nearly as much as Democrats seem to think and want and expect.
00:05:10.840And this may shock them to learn, but actually a significant number of women love men and appreciate men.
00:05:16.640So resentment towards, open resentment and contempt for 100 million Americans is, let's say, distasteful to most of those 100 million and to a good portion of the other 225 million.
00:05:30.800So I think that's a problem for Democrats.
00:06:00.200There are many left wing celebrities who came out in favor of O'Rourke and he lost.
00:06:07.620And then many more who were, you know, trying to mobilize voters to manufacture this big blue wave, which did not materialize.
00:06:14.020So I think it turns out that that, in fact, people don't really care that much what what Oprah or Taylor Swift or George Clooney thinks.
00:06:21.100Most people are saying to themselves, you know, or I should say most people are not going to say to themselves, hmm, I really like Marsha Blackburn's policies.
00:06:29.460But then again, I also really like that song, Shake It Off.
00:06:31.860So I think I'll vote for the other guy.
00:06:35.520So Democrats have massively overrated the ability of famous people to move the needle.
00:06:40.060And I think actually there's plenty of reason to believe that the needle might be moved in the opposite direction.
00:06:46.220And then the third thing, and this is really big, especially in this particular election.
00:06:49.760And I think this, more than anything else, explains why the Democrats not only didn't gain control of the Senate, but actually lost seats in the Senate.
00:06:58.680I think the number one reason for that for sure is Kavanaugh, which was, you know, the Democrat treatment of Kavanaugh.
00:07:04.980And I said this going into the I said this week, I said that this is going to be a big problem for the Democrats.
00:07:11.140The Democrat treatment of Brett Kavanaugh was not only one of the most vile smear campaigns in modern American history, but I still think, and I think clearly this has been vindicated, this perspective, that it was also one of the greatest political blunders in modern American history.
00:07:25.920Because it turns out that a lot of people do not really like to see somebody dragged through the mud and destroyed vindictively, maliciously on unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo.
00:07:39.960Most people do not actually delight, as Democrats seem to do, in the personal destruction of innocent men.
00:07:45.540And I think on top of that, you know, men, when they watch these kinds of witch hunts unfold, the first thing that men think is, well, we feel really bad for the man who's being targeted.
00:07:59.080But then also we think, well, what if that was me?
00:08:01.960And then women, I think, see this, and they think to themselves, what if that was my son?
00:08:08.040What if that was my, you know, my brother or my husband?
00:08:13.380And so Democrats insist that we believe all women, but normal people know that sometimes women are lying, and sometimes men are not lying.
00:08:23.840And so the more that they try to force us to see it the other way, I just think it doesn't work.
00:08:30.000Imagine if the Kavanaugh soap opera had never happened.
00:08:35.860I think Democrats may well have won the Senate in that case.
00:08:38.620Now, the fourth obstacle for Democrats, I think, and I would just put this under the broad category of madness.
00:08:48.460The Democrat Party has become associated with, rightly, I think, madness.
00:08:59.280So there are plenty of people who look at that, and they are viscerally, instinctively, on a gut level, repelled by it, because it just seems crazy to them.
00:09:15.000They don't want to be associated with these violent mobs who are throwing Molotov cocktails and everything.
00:09:20.680Polls show that over 80% of Americans are fed up with political correctness, and the fact that the Democrat Party owns political correctness and is sort of the arbiter of political correctness, that's a problem for them, because almost everyone hates it.
00:09:37.060And then the gender identity stuff, too.
00:09:38.500I've been saying for years that this is a bigger problem for Democrats than I think they realize.
00:09:43.120No, I don't think there are very many people who are going to the polls, and the number one thing on their mind is that they want to oppose the liberal gender identity crusade.
00:09:54.960Okay, so it's not the thing that's foremost on people's minds, but it is there.
00:10:01.440It's something that people think about.
00:10:03.120And when you've got one side of the political aisle insisting that men are women, and that, in fact, if a grown man wants to come into the locker room with our daughter or our wife when they're undressing,
00:10:19.980and when you've got one political party that's making that case, I think that has the effect, again, of viscerally repelling a lot of normal people,
00:10:29.560who may otherwise agree with Democrats on other issues, and maybe aren't big fans of Trump or whatever.
00:10:36.800And then the fifth big thing, of course, is the Trump, the Trump hate.
00:10:42.260Democrats have so much hatred for Trump and are so consumed by it that it's getting to the point where you have to really hate Trump as well to that extent on that same level,
00:10:55.940with that same fury and passion, or the Democrats are going to alienate you.
00:11:03.640They say Trump is Hitler, and they demand that we all see it exactly that way, where there's no gray area, there's no room in between.
00:11:11.120And that's scaring a lot of people away.
00:11:12.860And this leads into another point, where Democrats are consumed by hatred for Trump.
00:11:19.260Even more than that, the Democratic base insists that its representatives be consumed by hatred for Trump.
00:11:27.300So that is going to be an even bigger problem for the next two years for Democrats, I believe.
00:11:33.920They now control the House of Representatives.
00:11:35.740So they have the ability now to launch investigations and to file subpoenas and to look at Trump's tax returns and do all that kind of stuff.
00:11:47.580And they've already made it clear that they plan on doing all of that.
00:11:51.220If they want to go for impeachment, they could try to go for that as well.
00:11:54.360And they're not going to be able to help themselves.
00:11:57.480The wheels of government are going to grind to a halt even more than they've already been at a halt for the last several decades.
00:12:03.520They're going to grind to a halt, and there's going to be total dysfunction, even more dysfunction, as Democrats in the House spend the next two years focused entirely on their vendetta against Trump.
00:12:23.020Just look at what they did to Kavanaugh.
00:12:45.580And so think about that, and then think about that times 100 for the next two years, because I think that's what we're in store for.
00:12:54.520It is—it's not going to be good for the country to have even more dysfunction in government and to have a political party that is focused only on destroying the president.
00:13:07.200It's going to be very bad for the country.
00:13:08.280But politically, I think it may be the best thing that could have happened to Trump, actually, maybe sort of counterintuitively.
00:13:16.500I think once we get past the 2020 election and the results are in, I think we may look back and say to ourselves that the thing that sealed the deal was Democrats taking control of the House in 2018.
00:13:30.200Because people are—just consider how sick people were when they saw the Democrat behavior towards Kavanaugh and how fed up people were.
00:13:45.940And these were—and there were a lot of people that were fed up and sick with—fed up with it and sick of it, who even maybe said to themselves, you know, maybe Kavanaugh is guilty.
00:13:57.900But this is just way overboard, and I can't support it.
00:14:01.780So I think there are going to be a lot of people who look at what the Democrats are going to do over the next two years and are going to say, yeah, you know what?
00:14:13.560I don't want this to be the sole focus of our political system for years.
00:14:21.580I think people are going to get sick of it, and the Democrats are not going to be able to help themselves, and they're going to shoot themselves in the foot.
00:14:41.800I said, elections are important, but no matter who wins, 99.999% of your daily life and existence will be completely unaffected by the results today.
00:15:03.860They were incensed at the notion that their lives don't necessarily hinge on the machinations of politicians.
00:15:10.120They were mad that I would dare suggest that they exist apart from election results and that their existence will continue on, basically unimpeded, no matter who's in office.
00:15:22.140Many people told me that I'm just a privileged, cishet man, and I'm clearly speaking from a position of bigotry and cruelty, et cetera, and so forth.
00:15:32.180But I posed the question several times, and I could not really get a good answer.
00:15:37.100I said, okay, give me some specific examples of ways that your life is directly, substantially, quantifiably harmed by the politicians in office.
00:15:47.680And since most of the people that were objecting were liberals, I could make it more specific, and I said, okay, we've had Republicans have controlled the government for two years, controlled Congress, controlled the executive branch.
00:16:03.740They've been appointing judges and everything.
00:16:06.180So tell me, over these last two years, how have you been directly and personally harmed?
00:16:31.640Health care, clean water, breathable air, freedom from violence, education, the well-being of our neighbors, the future of our climate, trade with other countries, tax rates, ability to obtain contraception, Social Security.
00:16:44.240And they said that, yeah, 99% of your life isn't affected if that 99% does not include any of those things, implication being that Republicans have hurt us on all of the levels that were just outlined there.
00:16:58.880Now, of course, the suggestion that a person has not been able to breathe or drink water since Republicans took office is obviously, let's say, a bit of an exaggeration.
00:17:12.880One might even call it a hysterical lie.
00:17:15.300And it does bring up the question of how are you still alive after two years of this, if you haven't been able to breathe and you haven't gotten a break from violence, you haven't been able to drink or any of that for two years.
00:17:30.660So it seems like you have actually survived somehow, in spite of all that.
00:17:35.780Now, but this echoes the utterly hysterical, delusional claims from many other people who say that their lives have been hanging in the balance and have been greatly harmed by what's been going on in Washington.
00:17:54.740Now, if these were unborn children responding, then I would have to agree, because unborn children, their lives really do hang in the balance depending on what laws are passed.
00:18:07.700But as for born people in modern America, my point is simply that our well-being does not substantially hinge on what politicians say and do.
00:18:20.060And the fact that despite all of the hand-wringing, despite all of the panic from Democrats and liberals, Trump got into office, we had Republicans controlling Congress, and things worked out okay for them.
00:18:35.860Like, they're still alive, they're still living their life, they don't live in a dictatorship, despite what they claim, because they can do what they want, they can say what they want, they can carry about however they want.
00:18:51.640In fact, we've learned that they can even go in the streets and throw rocks and burn buildings, and they won't necessarily even get arrested for that.
00:19:00.460They've got arguably more freedom than they should have, which only proves my point, that yes, elections are important, and politicians have the ability to cause harm, yes, but not nearly to the extent that we seem to think, judging by our reaction to elections.
00:19:24.200Because every election, the side that loses will act as though life as they know it is over, but then life continues.
00:19:35.180And most people just continue on, and in their daily lives, they wouldn't really even be able to tell who's in control of the government or who got elected to office,
00:19:48.480because it really has no bearing on most of what they do throughout their life and throughout their day.
00:19:54.300I said 99.99% of what you do throughout your day, you know, based on that, you wouldn't even be able to tell who's in office.