Ep. 155 - The Kids Are All Right
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In honor of Mother s Day, let s think of the children. Specifically, is the GOP in danger of losing millennials forever? We ll mine the hidden covfefe in the latest poll numbers and explain why the kids are all right.
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In honor of Mother's Day, let's think of the children.
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Specifically, is the GOP in danger of losing millennials forever?
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We will mine the hidden covfefe in the latest poll numbers
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The overgrown adult kids, by whom I mean Democrat politicians,
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There's some disagreement on the right about this now,
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whether we're about to lose millennials forever,
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or if, as I think, everything is just going great for the GOP on young voters,
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We're talking about millennials, by the way, for those who are unfamiliar with them.
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Here's just a short informational video produced about millennials by the United States Census.
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A millennial can be defined as anyone born between 1982 and 2000,
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or anyone who thinks loving Sriracha or Austin, Texas counts as a personality.
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Millennials crave things like instant gratification, authentic experiences,
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and for some reason we haven't figured out yet, improv comedy.
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Here's one millennial who has a parakeet with 9 million followers on Snapchat.
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Here's another who single-handedly started the hashtags that canceled 12 network TV shows she found offensive.
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And now I'm told she identifies as a man, so I'm being fired.
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That's incredible documentary footage produced by the federal government, or by Family Guy.
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Millennials, they are the much maligned group of people that are my age.
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So Ben wrote a piece at the Weekly Standard last week, and it was observing the leftward trend of millennials,
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or rather, how the millennials find themselves politically on the left.
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But as is sometimes the case, Ben is a little more pessimistic about the future.
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And I am, like, just shooting off covfefe pistols.
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I'm so excited, because I think the millennials are making the correct, and the generation after the millennials,
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the younger generation, are poised to move to the right.
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So Ben observes in his piece that the millennials have stayed on the left.
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They haven't moved, they haven't shifted radically to the right.
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And his piece cites this survey that came out in January that 82% of Republican voters between the ages of 18 and 24 want President Trump to be primaried in 2020.
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Not necessarily that they want him to lose a primary, but they want him to be primaried.
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That was before the North Korea deal, or the North Korea diplomacy, before the hostages got released,
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before the Iran deal, before the economy has continued to explode, before the Kanye awakening, which has moved some numbers.
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Also, this is just one random survey, monkey survey, which did not release its methodology, so forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of it.
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Also in the Weekly Standard last week, another friend of the show, Kristen Soltis-Anderson, wrote a similar piece.
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Also in the Weekly Standard, it points out that we reacted very harshly to Pajama Boy.
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Anyway, you remember that guy, this was during the Obama 2012 campaign, and it was that guy who basically just looked like me.
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He was wearing these little glasses, but he had on a onesie pajama outfit, and he was holding hot cocoa, and he said,
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make sure to talk about health insurance, teehee, you know, and it was just the perfect picture of this sort of pathetic millennial generation.
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But, Kristen says that we reacted too harshly, we've heaped too much scorn on millennials, and Republicans need to chase them, or we're going to lose them forever or something.
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Ronald Reagan was able to win an enormous share of the youth vote for his re-election campaign in the 1980s, and as recently as the election between George Bush and John Kerry, young voters were still somewhat narrowly divided between the two political parties.
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It is only in the last decade that a new and dramatic right-left old-young divide has emerged.
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So, you've got to listen to the wording carefully.
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We can just run through really quickly in the last, since 1980, how the young voter breakdown, 18 to 21, or in some cases 18 to 29, when those data were not available, how the young voters broke, Republican versus Democrat.
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It was 44 for the Republican, 45 for the Democrat.
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61 for Reagan, 39 for his opponent, Walter Mondale.
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A 40 percent surge is only however many percentage points, but a 40 percent surge from that 44 percent for Reagan in 1980.
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53 percent of young voters went for Bush, 47 for Dukakis.
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You know, he's still riding Reagan's coattails.
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Here is where the Democrats broke away with the youth vote.
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In part because the economy wasn't doing, you know, wasn't doing great and it was the focus of the campaign.
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Also, Bill Clinton was young, very charismatic.
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Then, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, that lead remained.
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Clinton got 55 percent to Bob Dole's 35 percent of the young voters vote.
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2000, it was evenly split because Al Gore is like the worst candidate in history.
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56 percent of the young voters went for John Kerry, just 43 percent for George Bush.
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66 percent of young voters for Barack Obama, 32 percent for John McCain.
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That trend maintains during Mitt Romney in 2012.
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So, that was 60 for Barack Obama, 37 for Mitt Romney.
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And Donald Trump, now, if these are to be believed that the millennials are moving further and further away, you would expect Donald Trump to do even worse among millennials, right?
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It was still a pretty wide gap, but he closed the gap significantly.
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Hillary only got 55 percent of voters, 18 to 29.
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So, he basically maintained the Mitt Romney amount.
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And he was able to siphon off some support from Democrats.
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Donald Trump did better among millennials relative to his opponent than either John McCain or Mitt Romney, which shows that this trend is not inexorable.
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Donald Trump also did better among Hispanics relative to his opponent than Mitt Romney.
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This is an important figure in the millennial story.
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So, it's not that Donald Trump did very well among Hispanics, but he did relatively better than Mitt Romney did.
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A lot of this is not so much a generational question as it is an immigration question.
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So, since 1980, since that Reagan election that we're all talking about, the Hispanic population in America has nearly tripled.
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Now, that population, which has exploded, is also extremely young.
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So, 60 percent of those Hispanic immigrants are millennials or younger.
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So, this huge exploding demographic seriously skews the millennial vote.
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Also worth noting that even up to the third generation, Hispanic immigrants to America overwhelmingly identify with Democrats.
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They're between three times as likely and 8.75 times as likely to identify with Democrats.
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So, this is an overwhelming electoral advantage for Democrats.
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Even so, Donald Trump did relatively well among that major immigrant group, and that's reflected in part in the millennial statistic.
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Between 1980 and 1984, we saw a 39 percent surge in young voter support for Ronald Reagan.
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It's because successful presidencies shape public opinion.
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This presidency, so far, whatever you think of the tweets, whatever you think of the stupid media headlines, it's been very successful.
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Donald Trump's approval rating has been consistently higher than Barack Obama's for a long time now at their relative points in the presidency.
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Barack Obama, on this day in his presidency, eight years ago, Donald Trump is consistently doing as well or higher.
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The unemployment rate right now in the United States, across the entire country, is at a 44-year low.
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Because the line they always use, the Democrats always use, they say, well, it's only helping the rich white men, and it's not helping.
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Right now, black unemployment is at an all-time low.
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The NRA right now, there was this huge media onslaught of David Hogg and the kids in Florida, and all of it was being funded by Hollywood and New York.
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There's a huge onslaught to take away our Second Amendment rights.
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Right now, the NRA is getting more donations than practically ever before.
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They are getting their donations by the truckload.
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How about in just the two parties, the Republican National Committee, the Democrat National Committee?
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The RNC right now has $40 million more in cash than the Democrats have.
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Dick Morris, who is a Republican strategist, but he also advised President Clinton, he says that there is no blue wave coming, that there is a red wave coming, and that red wave is going to be red because of the Democrat blood in the water.
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And by the way, lest you think that I'm just putting a positive spin on this, it's just hopeful thinking, I just blew too many lines of covfefe before the show and I'm overdosing on it, that's not the case.
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There was a recent poll, I think it's just out today, from Reuters.
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It shows that millennials are leaving the Democrat Party in droves.
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A new poll from Morning Consult, that's another left-leaning outlet, it shows that the Democrats are in trouble in November, in the midterm elections.
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That poll shows that Democrats could lose up to nine seats in the Senate.
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That would be colossal, because all of history tells us that Republicans should lose the midterms.
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Republicans should lose the House, maybe lose the Senate.
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That's just what happens when you have one party controlling the White House.
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And yet, that's not what we're seeing possibly bear out.
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If we were able to pick up seats in the Senate, if we were able to hold the line in the House, that would be colossal.
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There's a new poll out today by Zogby Analytics, also not a right-wing analysis firm,
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which says that that blue wave that they'd all been promising us, remember, it's coming, get ready, here comes the blue wave,
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That trust in Democrats is collapsing nationally.
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And here's the kicker, folks, because support for Democrats nationally has decreased by 4%,
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but it's been especially pronounced, that collapse has been especially pronounced among millennials and racial minorities.
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Those very people that we're supposed to be afraid that we're losing forever, they are fleeing the Democrats.
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Democrats lost 14% of their support among millennials and 20% of their support among black Americans since January, just the last five months.
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And who knows what those numbers look like more recently, as we've had these extraordinary foreign policy accomplishments,
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great economic news, and this cultural cracking where you see Kanye West, biggest pop star in the entire country, maybe in the world,
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saying, yeah, I like Trump, he's my boy, I really like him, he's my brother, I love him.
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What happens when you have even Chance the Rapper, who doesn't like Donald Trump, but he's a very popular entertainer,
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saying, you know, black people don't have to vote for Democrats.
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This is a cracking of a narrative that has been used to keep people in line for so, so long.
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So overall, support for Trump is, or support for the Democrats, rather, is down 4% nationally.
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If you take out minority voters and you take out the millennials, that means that the Democrat stalwarts,
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the Democrat diehards, are decrepit old white hippies.
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Bernie Sanders is 485 years old right now, I think, you know.
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That is their, these are the guys they nominate.
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Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, you know.
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Just the oldest, most boring white people ever.
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That's not the narrative that the mainstream media is portraying, but that's what we're seeing
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reflected in polling, and it's what we're seeing with our own eyes.
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You know, you can believe your lying eyes sometimes.
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That's just sort of in our nature sometimes, I think, because, and it's not really a pessimism,
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What it really is, is saying, this is a fallen world.
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And there is that old, get off my lawn, everything's terrible, kids these days, you know, that attitude.
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Millennials grew up in the shadow of George W. Bush's presidency.
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But the mainstream media was able to successfully portray it as absolutely terrible, with very
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The White House, the Bush White House, didn't want to fight back.
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He fights back on every little syllable they utter.
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And of course, at the end of the Bush presidency, we had a financial crisis.
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And so, when millennials think about the Bush years and the Republican Party, they think
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of economic collapse, and they think of the ridiculous narrative painted by the mainstream
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The lies that they spread about Bush with regard to war, with regard to domestic policy,
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But that doesn't matter, because that's what, that's all that people remember.
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Now we're seeing, huh, maybe that narrative isn't true.
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You know, the millennials grew up with Barack Obama.
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And everyone else played along on the world stage.
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They gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for absolutely no reason.
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So this is the image that they've been brought up in.
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Now, the millennials are getting their first taste of economic prosperity.
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Because they were told, oh, unemployment, 2% or less economic growth.
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Now they're saying, oh, well, we're blasting past 3% economic growth.
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Maybe the narrative that they've been telling me isn't true.
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Because Donald Trump is using his gigantic platform just on Twitter, which is bigger than the New York Times platform, to point out all the times that they lie.
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My take on the kids these days, it is cool, man.
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Because the kids, the actual kids, you know, people, teenagers up through their 20s, they're doing all right.
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The adult kids, the overgrown, buffoonish children who are Democrat politicians, those guys aren't doing that well.
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So, here's more evidence that the Democrats have absolutely nothing this election cycle.
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Here is Pat Davis, Democrat running for Congress in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.
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Their pro-gun policies have resulted in dead children, dead mothers, and dead fathers.
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Because if Congress won't change our gun laws, we're changing Congress.
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That, yeah, by the way, in the ad that he ran, it's not bleeped.
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We had to bleep it because, you know, we have some self-respect.
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As though the popular culture weren't profane, right?
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The thing that's subversive now is to use words that are nice and that aren't, you know, swear words or something.
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They've been so thoroughly discredited that all they have is F you.
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Even the left is admitting that it's getting tedious, by the way.
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The Saturday Night Live cold opens that if anyone still watches it, no one still watches it, but we sometimes see the clips on the news.
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Saturday Night Live cold opens have just been basically celebrity cameos and the Alec Baldwin very subpar Donald Trump impression.
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That's all they've been for the last, like, 50 years now at this point.
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Check out the Mother's Day cold open that we saw this past weekend.
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Mom, do you ever think that I'd be on SNL someday?
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I remember I was in that production of The Crucible in high school.
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You know, The Crucible's a lot like the witch hunt against President Trump.
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Mom, I love you because you always give me the best advice.
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And why doesn't SNL ever talk about crooked Hillary?
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So even SNL has to admit, and SNL hates this guy.
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When Donald Trump won the election, they played this long piano song, this ballad,
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as they were tearfully crying about Hillary losing.
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But even they have to admit, gosh, maybe we're going a little crazy with this.
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Maybe people don't love it when we just screech and whine and yell about politics all the time.
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Even Jimmy Kimmel, speaking of screeching and whining every single night, Jimmy Kimmel admitted this to deadline to the trades paper out here in Hollywood.
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He said that he's going to steer his jokes away from Trump jokes at an upcoming show business industry event because people have had enough.
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Recently, David Letterman asked Seinfeld on his show, he said, are you doing a lot of Trump jokes?
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Because Trump jokes, they're easy, they're cheap, and the people are sick of it.
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Another overgrown child, former future President Hillary Clinton, she has not gotten this memo.
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She is still going around just whining about how she lost the election, how terrible everything is.
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The double standard is alive and well, and it is more difficult for women in public positions.
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We'll talk about politics, but it's true in business.
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Because there are expectations about women's appearance that are deep in our collective DNA so that people feel free to comment, either favorably or unfavorably, about hairstyles, clothing, fashions, and all the rest of it.
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You're because you're whining, making all these excuses and saying, I didn't win because it wasn't fair, blah, blah, blah.
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And the example you're using of the double standard is that women have their hair made fun of.
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When you ran against Donald Trump, the man who possesses the most mocked hairdo in maybe the history of the world, everyone, since the 80s, people have been making jokes about Donald Trump's hair.
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But Hillary Clinton lives in this fantasy world where everyone's against her.
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How about all of the statues that went up in New York showing Donald Trump's grotesque body, allegedly grotesque physique, and all of the cartoons?
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And they're all, no, you're just, you're just, she's, first of all, she's isolated.
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So everything is just in this really tiny bubble for her.
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It's not that other people don't get made fun of and don't get put through the wringer.
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It's that they deal with it with any bit of grace whatsoever, which you have never, ever been able to do.
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She said, quote, there is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership.
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There is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, exercising power.
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However, okay, so by the way, when you look for the video of this on the internet, where they put this up, the comments are disabled.
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When the comments are disabled, it's because the people putting up, they know, they're like, oh, this probably isn't true.
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Oh, this is going to get a big blowback, isn't it?
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Oh, that, so your first thought is just like, oh, good grief, you know.
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The second thought is, thank goodness this woman isn't president because she hates her countrymen.
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And she's criticizing U.S. foreign policy abroad.
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They don't like, you're turning people off from your own party.
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There's a good, before we break, I'll draw this analogy.
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They're trying to get Trump like they were trying to get Richard Nixon.
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And there was a good piece in Bloomberg last week on Watergate.
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And drawing the parallels, they said, you know, the Democrats won Watergate.
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They won the political fight to get Richard Nixon to resign.
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And it's because they had huge majorities in the Senate and in the House.
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So they were able to force him to resign because he couldn't survive an impeachment hearing.
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Stephen Calabresi has a good piece on how this relates to Donald Trump.
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There's a case, Morrison v. Olson, which is famous both for its opinion and for its dissent.
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This was all about the constitutionality of these independent councils, these special councils.
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But even the majority opinion of the court, which has been upheld in Edmund v. the U.S.,
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Free Enterprise Fund v. the Public Company Oversight Board, it's been upheld.
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It's said that the special council, the independent council, is limited in scope.
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We can't have people here who can just do whatever they want and have unchecked unlimited power in the United States.
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But that's what we're getting in Robert Mueller's investigation.
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He's indicting all sorts of people for alleged crimes that have absolutely nothing to do with his investigation,
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which was supposed to be about collusion with Russia during the presidential election.
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He's got way too much power, and this is almost certainly unconstitutional.
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What it is an example of is Democrats once again trying to overturn a presidential election.
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Richard Nixon was elected in 1972 by a landslide.
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He won 520 electoral votes to 17 for his opponent.
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So a swamp creature policy analyst named Daniel Ellsberg, he stole classified documents,
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and he gave them to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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That's how Watergate broke, is a government bureaucrat stole classified documents
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and leaked it to the media, which had been trying to get Richard Nixon for decades.
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But that didn't turn out very well for Democrats.
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And then in 1980, six years later, they were able to elect Ronald Reagan, and we had basically
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Even the presidency of Bill Clinton was relatively quite conservative.
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So let's say you're a regular old American who doesn't follow politics religiously.
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You're seeing on the walls of Jerusalem, you're seeing, thank you, President Trump.
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You're seeing the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, praising Trump for real leadership.
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You're seeing in Korea, you're seeing South Korea give Trump credit for peace talks, possible
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You're seeing a president actually fulfilling his promises.
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So what does the left do, the desperate left and the desperate anti-Trump right?
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I think now all that's left of the anti-Trump right is Mitt Romney, basically.
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They criticize how he does all of the successful things he does.
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So Romney now is criticizing the evangelical pastor, Robert Jeffress, for speaking at the
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He tweeted out, this is Romney, such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens
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And he's saying this because this pastor called Mormonism and Islam heresies, which by the way
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is the mainstream position of virtually every Christian denomination, and it's the traditional
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So yes, religions say this is the way to heaven.
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This is the way to have a relationship with God.
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And if you do this religion, then you can't do this religion.
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If this religion is true, then other religions are not true.
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They can't all be true at once because they make contradictory claims.
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So by the way, if this pastor is a bigot, then so is Mitt Romney, isn't he?
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Because his church makes certain claims about religion and who gets saved and how people
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Jenna Ellis pointed this out in the Washington Examiner.
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I think right now, people are looking at Romney.
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They're looking at these Trump critics and they're saying, seriously?
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Donald Trump has done what so many of his predecessors promised to do and refused to do.
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And you're knocking him because the evangelical pastor who spoke at the opening is an evangelical
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When he ran for Senate, he said, I didn't support Reagan-Bush and I don't want to go
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He refused to fight back at the mainstream media.
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He tried to swing the election for Hillary in 2016.
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You're the guy criticizing Donald Trump who's actually doing something to advance the
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conservative cause and make America great again and improve the country?
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These lefties are looking and they're wondering.
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You know, we had eight years of a stagnant economy, 2% economic growth, unemployment,
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And these people on the left and these millennials, people who used to be on the left and then
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maybe they're changing their mind a little, they're looking at their own politicians and
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You promised me that Donald Trump was Satan incarnate and the world would go to hell in a
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And now the best that you guys have is a porn star with whom Donald Trump allegedly had a
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And I think there is a shift going on culturally.
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The models are only true until they're not true.
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And in this presidency, the only thing that you know is never say never because it's a
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Millennials and young voters have not seen success like this before.
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So you could say, well, if the last eight years is any indication, they're going to keep
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We have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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That is like bells chiming, birds singing because it is almost time for our next generation.
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Next episode of The Conversation featuring me, little old me, Michael Knowles.
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That's tomorrow, May 15th at 5.30 Eastern, 2.30 Pacific.
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Every query that has burned in your hearts will be resolved.
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Best of all, it is an extra hour-long dose of little old me.
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Plus, Alicia Krauss will be there too, which will be very nice.
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Now, you might notice I sound a little stuffy today.
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I think it's because, well, covfefe is a hell of a drug.
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It's going to impair my ability to speak, but hopefully we're going to be able to clear
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that out by tomorrow, so I'll be able to do this just fine.
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We have an excellent this day in history, a much misunderstood part of American history
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We will discuss it talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you have to go to
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You get the conversation, which I just told you about.
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Hey, hey, you guys, millennials and racial minorities, they'll probably just uniformly
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Oh, no, the polling shows that they're moving rightward.
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As the polls come out, more and more polls come out, more and more great news from the
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Trump administration, this is going to overflow.
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Get your leftist years tumbler before you and your family drown.
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We will be right back with this day in history.
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This day in history, I've cleared, I think I've cleared out a little bit of the covfefe.
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On this day in history, we still have a little bit of time.
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In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark at the commission of President Thomas Jefferson
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launched their expedition to explore the Northwest American continent from the Mississippi
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I don't know that people really study Lewis and Clark anymore, but it's a pretty crazy
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This happened in just one year after the Louisiana Purchase.
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So Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory.
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So we now have doubled the country within, you know, just a year has changed the size
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And Jefferson says to Lewis and Clark, okay, we need you to explore this unexplored continent
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and really claim a little bit more land for America, but go see what you can find.
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The core of discovery, as it was called, Lewis and Clark's group of people, that included
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45 men and 33 of whom made it the whole journey.
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Some of them hopped off by choice or circumstance along the way.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition started up the Missouri River in a 55-foot-long keel boat with
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Six months into the expedition, they met Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader,
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and you know him better as the husband of Sacagawea.
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I really want to bring this up because of Sacagawea.
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You might remember, if you've been around the last 20 years, she's the woman on those
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gold dollar coins, and much has been made of Sacagawea.
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We owe everything to Sacagawea, but she doesn't get the respect she deserves.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition spent the winter in North Dakota.
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They passed the rapids of Clearwater and Snake Rivers in canoes.
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These two guys were the first Europeans ever to reach the Pacific by land.
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They brought back a lot of information about the land, and they brought back a U.S. claim
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So they say about Lewis and Clark's westward expansion, they say that Sacagawea was the guide.
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Now, actual scholars of the expedition, such as Ella Clark and Margot Edmonds, they say
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that Sacagawea was not the guide for the expedition.
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These were incredible navigators, Lewis and Clark.
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She helped out with certain trading ventures, but she was not central here.
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Lewis and Clark also did not consider her central.
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Lewis and Clark would variously call her squar and savage along the journey.
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So it wasn't this Disney version of what she was doing.
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It also gets to the crazy idea that America did not intend to realize itself westward.
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So now we look back at Western expansion, and the way it's taught in schools is, oh, yes,
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we had the country, and then they just kept invading other lands and taking it, and they shouldn't
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It wasn't, you know, this wasn't part of America.
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America, there's this idea now that the founders of the country, they actually really wanted
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to keep America precisely the size that it was, that westward expansion, that wasn't
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You know, Jefferson just got a good deal on the Louisiana territory, and they just, it
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kind of happened, but we didn't mean for it to happen.
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We want to just isolate ourselves from everywhere else in the world.
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The entire American project is a project of Western expansion.
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It began because a bunch of people in the old world decided to explore the new world.
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It began because Christopher Columbus wanted to, following his deep religious convictions,
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wanted to bring the glory of God to a new land and also find some new roots and get some
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Then, obviously, the pilgrims made it to Plymouth because they were realizing westward.
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They were conquering and settling down in a new world.
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George Washington made his entire fortune precisely on western expansion.
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He made a zillion dollars, roughly, on the Ohio Company, which surveyed land in Ohio, made
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Until Donald Trump, Washington was actually the wealthiest president in U.S. history.
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When you translate that into today's dollars, that would be about $14.5 million.
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But that actually doesn't tell the whole story because if you factor in relative wealth,
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so Washington's relative wealth to his countrymen and the rest of the world, a unit of measure
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called the prestige value of money, then actually his wealth was around $429 million.
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During the French and Indian War, they were able to recruit soldiers by offering 200,000
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Fight for our country, you get to move west because that's the way we're going.
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Washington himself got 23,000 of those acres for himself in West Virginia.
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Jefferson was urging westward expansion as early at least as 1786.
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Now, people will tell you today, on the right and the left, some of the isolationists on
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the right and the lefties who say, oh, we took the land from those Indians who took the land
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from other Indians before them and who took the land from other Indians before them.
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Robert Frost, I think I may have read this on the show before.
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Robert Frost got this exactly right in a poem that he read at Kennedy's inauguration.
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She was our land more than 100 years before we were her people.
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She was ours in Massachusetts, in Virginia, but we were England's, still colonials, possessing
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what we still were unpossessed by, possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Something we were withholding made us weak until we found out that it was ourselves we were
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withholding from our land of living and forthwith found salvation and surrender.
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The deed of gift was many deeds of war to the land vaguely realizing westward, but still
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We're seeing this is the line that Reagan used.
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It's the line that Trump used for that same reason.
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A rising tide lifts all ships and it can bring seismic changes in politics and in people's
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I was fangirling all day when we pre-taped this interview.
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I'm going to try to clear all the covfefe out of my nasal cavity in the meantime.
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Until then, until tomorrow, I will see you and on the conversation.
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