The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 155 - The Kids Are All Right

00:00:00.000 In honor of Mother's Day, let's think of the children.

00:00:04.560 Specifically, is the GOP in danger of losing millennials forever?

00:00:08.280 Absolutely not.

00:00:09.340 We will mine the hidden covfefe in the latest poll numbers

00:00:13.280 and explain why the kids are all right.

00:00:15.900 Well, some kids are all right, actually.

00:00:17.520 The overgrown adult kids, by whom I mean Democrat politicians,

00:00:20.840 they continue to make fools of themselves.

00:00:22.720 That'll be fun, too.

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00:00:34.660 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:35.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:44.660 Oh, this is a big topic.

00:00:46.400 This is a big one.

00:00:47.400 There's some disagreement on the right about this now,

00:00:50.480 whether we're about to lose millennials forever,

00:00:52.600 or if, as I think, everything is just going great for the GOP on young voters,

00:00:59.160 or is about to go right.

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00:03:39.700 Are the kids all right?

00:03:40.820 Are the kids all right?

00:03:42.520 Are those darn kids ruining our country?

00:03:44.080 Or are the kids all right?

00:03:46.420 We're talking about millennials, by the way, for those who are unfamiliar with them.

00:03:50.360 Maybe you've read about them a little bit.

00:03:51.860 Here's just a short informational video produced about millennials by the United States Census.

00:03:57.640 Here it is.

00:03:58.480 A millennial can be defined as anyone born between 1982 and 2000,

00:04:03.320 or anyone who thinks loving Sriracha or Austin, Texas counts as a personality.

00:04:09.140 Millennials crave things like instant gratification, authentic experiences,

00:04:14.080 and for some reason we haven't figured out yet, improv comedy.

00:04:17.880 Here's one millennial who has a parakeet with 9 million followers on Snapchat.

00:04:23.100 Here's another who single-handedly started the hashtags that canceled 12 network TV shows she found offensive.

00:04:30.320 And now I'm told she identifies as a man, so I'm being fired. 0.85

00:04:35.040 Hello, I'm your new announcer.

00:04:36.900 And actually, he was just about done.

00:04:38.720 Thank you and good day.

00:04:40.360 That's incredible documentary footage produced by the federal government, or by Family Guy.

00:04:45.960 I know it's one of those two things.

00:04:48.620 It's too real, though.

00:04:49.440 It could be a documentary.

00:04:50.980 Millennials, they are the much maligned group of people that are my age. 1.00

00:04:55.440 And they're much maligned, mostly rightly so.

00:04:58.620 They mostly deserve the scorn that they get.

00:05:02.300 But I come bearing good news.

00:05:03.740 So Ben wrote a piece at the Weekly Standard last week, and it was observing the leftward trend of millennials,

00:05:09.940 or rather, how the millennials find themselves politically on the left.

00:05:13.420 And that's true.

00:05:14.200 I don't disagree with that part.

00:05:15.720 But as is sometimes the case, Ben is a little more pessimistic about the future.

00:05:20.700 You know, he's not.

00:05:21.920 And I am, like, just shooting off covfefe pistols.

00:05:24.600 I'm so excited, because I think the millennials are making the correct, and the generation after the millennials, 0.66

00:05:29.760 the younger generation, are poised to move to the right.

00:05:34.240 So Ben observes in his piece that the millennials have stayed on the left.

00:05:38.160 They haven't moved, they haven't shifted radically to the right.

00:05:42.280 They've become less religious.

00:05:43.760 They support a lot of gay stuff and pot. 0.56

00:05:45.680 Those are two really big issues for them.

00:05:47.500 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.

00:06:01.220 Not necessarily that they want him to lose a primary, but they want him to be primaried.

00:06:05.120 So that's a terrifying figure, isn't it?

00:06:07.140 82%, what does that mean?

00:06:08.640 Well, it is worth pointing out.

00:06:10.820 This was a survey from five months ago.

00:06:12.500 That was before the North Korea deal, or the North Korea diplomacy, before the hostages got released,

00:06:17.020 before the Iran deal, before the economy has continued to explode, before the Kanye awakening, which has moved some numbers.

00:06:23.700 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.

00:06:31.520 Also in the Weekly Standard last week, another friend of the show, Kristen Soltis-Anderson, wrote a similar piece.

00:06:38.160 Also in the Weekly Standard, it points out that we reacted very harshly to Pajama Boy.

00:06:43.000 Anyway, you remember that guy, this was during the Obama 2012 campaign, and it was that guy who basically just looked like me.

00:06:49.840 He was wearing these little glasses, but he had on a onesie pajama outfit, and he was holding hot cocoa, and he said,

00:06:57.020 make sure to talk about health insurance, teehee, you know, and it was just the perfect picture of this sort of pathetic millennial generation.

00:07:03.740 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.

00:07:13.540 I don't see any of that.

00:07:14.620 I don't really buy that picture at all.

00:07:16.640 I see a much, much rosier picture.

00:07:19.140 Kristen writes in her article, quote,

00:07:20.580 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.

00:07:35.220 It is only in the last decade that a new and dramatic right-left old-young divide has emerged.

00:07:40.780 So, you've got to listen to the wording carefully.

00:07:43.400 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.

00:07:57.960 In 1980, Ronald Reagan versus Jimmy Carter.

00:08:01.380 It was 44 for the Republican, 45 for the Democrat.

00:08:05.180 That's among young voters.

00:08:06.540 1984, the numbers changed dramatically.

00:08:09.100 61 for Reagan, 39 for his opponent, Walter Mondale.

00:08:12.540 That is a 40 percentage surge.

00:08:15.900 A 40 percent surge is only however many percentage points, but a 40 percent surge from that 44 percent for Reagan in 1980.

00:08:23.860 Really big.

00:08:24.640 Why did that happen?

00:08:25.340 We'll get to that in a second.

00:08:26.600 1988, George Bush versus Michael Dukakis.

00:08:31.340 53 percent of young voters went for Bush, 47 for Dukakis.

00:08:34.980 Pretty close.

00:08:35.720 You know, he's still riding Reagan's coattails.

00:08:37.940 1992, George Bush and Bill Clinton.

00:08:39.720 Here is where the Democrats broke away with the youth vote.

00:08:43.260 In part because the economy wasn't doing, you know, wasn't doing great and it was the focus of the campaign.

00:08:49.600 Also, Bill Clinton was young, very charismatic.

00:08:52.260 George Bush Sr., not quite as charismatic.

00:08:54.340 So, that election was 33 to 46.

00:08:57.380 Clinton had a big lead among young voters.

00:08:59.720 Then, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, that lead remained.

00:09:04.660 It actually expanded.

00:09:05.580 Clinton got 55 percent to Bob Dole's 35 percent of the young voters vote.

00:09:11.400 2000, it was evenly split because Al Gore is like the worst candidate in history.

00:09:15.860 So, it's 47-47.

00:09:17.580 2004, John Kerry walked away with it again.

00:09:20.160 56 percent of the young voters went for John Kerry, just 43 percent for George Bush.

00:09:25.840 Then comes Obama.

00:09:27.000 Obama just destroys it.

00:09:28.600 He just obliterates it.

00:09:29.700 66 percent of young voters for Barack Obama, 32 percent for John McCain.

00:09:35.620 That trend maintains during Mitt Romney in 2012.

00:09:39.440 So, that was 60 for Barack Obama, 37 for Mitt Romney.

00:09:42.960 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?

00:09:52.260 Wrong.

00:09:52.640 That's not what happened.

00:09:53.660 It was still a pretty wide gap, but he closed the gap significantly.

00:09:57.180 Hillary only got 55 percent of voters, 18 to 29. 0.99

00:10:00.460 Donald Trump got 36 percent.

00:10:02.180 So, he basically maintained the Mitt Romney amount.

00:10:05.160 He got more than John McCain did.

00:10:07.220 And he was able to siphon off some support from Democrats.

00:10:10.120 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.

00:10:19.600 It's not constantly moving to the left.

00:10:21.360 Something else is going on.

00:10:22.720 Donald Trump also did better among Hispanics relative to his opponent than Mitt Romney.

00:10:27.120 Why do I bring that up?

00:10:28.420 This is an important figure in the millennial story.

00:10:31.380 So, it's not that Donald Trump did very well among Hispanics, but he did relatively better than Mitt Romney did.

00:10:37.100 A lot of this is not so much a generational question as it is an immigration question.

00:10:42.860 So, since 1980, since that Reagan election that we're all talking about, the Hispanic population in America has nearly tripled.

00:10:50.560 It's increased by 2.7 times.

00:10:53.440 Now, that population, which has exploded, is also extremely young.

00:10:58.240 So, 60 percent of those Hispanic immigrants are millennials or younger.

00:11:02.800 So, this huge exploding demographic seriously skews the millennial vote.

00:11:09.000 Also worth noting that even up to the third generation, Hispanic immigrants to America overwhelmingly identify with Democrats.

00:11:16.100 They're between three times as likely and 8.75 times as likely to identify with Democrats.

00:11:22.020 So, this is an overwhelming electoral advantage for Democrats.

00:11:24.720 Even so, Donald Trump did relatively well among that major immigrant group, and that's reflected in part in the millennial statistic.

00:11:32.940 Okay, so what's going on?

00:11:34.020 This gets back to Ronald Reagan.

00:11:35.460 Between 1980 and 1984, we saw a 39 percent surge in young voter support for Ronald Reagan.

00:11:42.420 Why is that?

00:11:43.200 It's because successful presidencies shape public opinion.

00:11:46.440 This presidency, so far, whatever you think of the tweets, whatever you think of the stupid media headlines, it's been very successful.

00:11:55.020 Thus far, it has been very successful.

00:11:56.940 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.

00:12:03.900 You look day for day.

00:12:05.660 Barack Obama, on this day in his presidency, eight years ago, Donald Trump is consistently doing as well or higher.

00:12:11.240 The unemployment rate right now in the United States, across the entire country, is at a 44-year low.

00:12:15.780 How about black unemployment?

00:12:17.960 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.

00:12:24.640 Right now, black unemployment is at an all-time low.

00:12:28.840 It's not at a 44-year low.

00:12:30.460 It's at an all-time low.

00:12:31.420 It's the lowest ever recorded.

00:12:33.120 How about on issues like civil rights?

00:12:35.720 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.

00:12:45.420 There's a huge onslaught to take away our Second Amendment rights.

00:12:48.340 Right now, the NRA is getting more donations than practically ever before.

00:12:52.020 They are getting their donations by the truckload.

00:12:54.160 How about in just the two parties, the Republican National Committee, the Democrat National Committee?

00:12:58.140 The RNC right now has $40 million more in cash than the Democrats have.

00:13:03.380 That is a huge disparity.

00:13:05.860 Why is that?

00:13:06.720 In part, Democrats have no message.

00:13:08.520 What are they going to run on?

00:13:10.460 What on earth could they run on?

00:13:11.680 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.

00:13:24.980 He said this is not what we think.

00:13:26.940 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.

00:13:36.860 The other numbers bear this out.

00:13:39.060 There was a recent poll, I think it's just out today, from Reuters.

00:13:42.780 Maybe it was out last week.

00:13:45.160 Reuters, left-leaning outlet.

00:13:47.060 It shows that millennials are leaving the Democrat Party in droves.

00:13:50.900 So they're leaving the Democrats.

00:13:52.520 Where are they going?

00:13:53.180 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.

00:14:00.880 That poll shows that Democrats could lose up to nine seats in the Senate.

00:14:05.480 That would be colossal, because all of history tells us that Republicans should lose the midterms.

00:14:11.580 Republicans should lose the House, maybe lose the Senate. 0.93

00:14:14.200 They should just lose.

00:14:14.820 That's just what happens when you have one party controlling the White House. 0.80

00:14:19.220 And yet, that's not what we're seeing possibly bear out.

00:14:22.340 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.

00:14:28.440 That would be a mandate to govern.

00:14:30.120 There's a new poll out today by Zogby Analytics, also not a right-wing analysis firm,

00:14:36.600 which says that that blue wave that they'd all been promising us, remember, it's coming, get ready, here comes the blue wave,

00:14:42.100 that it's collapsing.

00:14:43.360 That trust in Democrats is collapsing nationally.

00:14:45.860 And here's the kicker, folks, because support for Democrats nationally has decreased by 4%,

00:14:51.900 but it's been especially pronounced, that collapse has been especially pronounced among millennials and racial minorities.

00:14:59.380 Those very people that we're supposed to be afraid that we're losing forever, they are fleeing the Democrats.

00:15:04.240 Democrats lost 14% of their support among millennials and 20% of their support among black Americans since January, just the last five months.

00:15:16.620 And who knows what those numbers look like more recently, as we've had these extraordinary foreign policy accomplishments,

00:15:22.560 great economic news, and this cultural cracking where you see Kanye West, biggest pop star in the entire country, maybe in the world,

00:15:30.820 saying, yeah, I like Trump, he's my boy, I really like him, he's my brother, I love him.

00:15:36.060 What happens then?

00:15:37.220 What happens when you have even Chance the Rapper, who doesn't like Donald Trump, but he's a very popular entertainer,

00:15:42.280 saying, you know, black people don't have to vote for Democrats.

00:15:45.260 What happens then?

00:15:45.900 This is a cracking of a narrative that has been used to keep people in line for so, so long.

00:15:51.980 And that popular culture is cracking.

00:15:54.040 So overall, support for Trump is, or support for the Democrats, rather, is down 4% nationally.

00:16:01.380 What does that mean?

00:16:02.220 If you take out minority voters and you take out the millennials, that means that the Democrat stalwarts, 0.80

00:16:07.040 the Democrat diehards, are decrepit old white hippies. 0.96

00:16:10.400 And of course that's the case.

00:16:11.820 We see that with Hillary Clinton.

00:16:13.200 We obviously see it with Bernie Sanders.

00:16:15.100 Bernie Sanders is 485 years old right now, I think, you know.

00:16:20.320 Who else do they have?

00:16:21.480 What else do they have?

00:16:22.680 That is their, these are the guys they nominate.

00:16:24.240 Who do they run in 2016?

00:16:25.820 Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, you know.

00:16:29.320 Just the oldest, most boring white people ever. 1.00

00:16:33.300 That's not the narrative that the mainstream media is portraying, but that's what we're seeing

00:16:36.520 reflected in polling, and it's what we're seeing with our own eyes.

00:16:39.180 You know, you can believe your lying eyes sometimes.

00:16:42.660 Conservatives try to be pessimistic.

00:16:44.560 That's just sort of in our nature sometimes, I think, because, and it's not really a pessimism,

00:16:49.620 but that is the tendency.

00:16:51.380 What it really is, is saying, this is a fallen world.

00:16:53.740 Sometimes things get better.

00:16:54.840 Sometimes things get worse.

00:16:56.160 And there is that old, get off my lawn, everything's terrible, kids these days, you know, that attitude.

00:17:01.900 I don't buy it.

00:17:02.760 I think the kids are all right.

00:17:03.880 I think they're doing really good.

00:17:05.180 Millennials grew up in the shadow of George W. Bush's presidency.

00:17:09.340 And I, I like George W. Bush.

00:17:12.880 I support that presidency.

00:17:14.240 But the mainstream media was able to successfully portray it as absolutely terrible, with very

00:17:19.560 little pushback.

00:17:21.520 The White House, the Bush White House, didn't want to fight back.

00:17:25.320 Quite a difference with Donald Trump.

00:17:26.860 He fights back on every little syllable they utter.

00:17:29.300 But they were able to paint it that way.

00:17:31.180 And of course, at the end of the Bush presidency, we had a financial crisis.

00:17:34.480 And so, when millennials think about the Bush years and the Republican Party, they think

00:17:39.340 of economic collapse, and they think of the ridiculous narrative painted by the mainstream

00:17:44.200 media, which is demonstrably untrue.

00:17:47.200 The lies that they spread about Bush with regard to war, with regard to domestic policy,

00:17:51.840 with regard to social policy.

00:17:53.180 But that doesn't matter, because that's what, that's all that people remember.

00:17:56.820 Now we're seeing, huh, maybe that narrative isn't true.

00:17:59.280 You know, the millennials grew up with Barack Obama.

00:18:01.240 The mainstream media depicted him as a god.

00:18:03.060 He depicted himself as a god.

00:18:04.920 He said, I'm going to part the seas.

00:18:07.040 The oceans are going to come if you elect me.

00:18:09.520 And everyone else played along on the world stage.

00:18:11.540 They gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for absolutely no reason.

00:18:14.760 So this is the image that they've been brought up in.

00:18:16.900 And they don't have a long historical memory.

00:18:19.300 Now, the millennials are getting their first taste of economic prosperity.

00:18:24.080 Because they were told, oh, unemployment, 2% or less economic growth.

00:18:28.200 That's the new normal.

00:18:29.440 Get used to it.

00:18:30.080 So that's what they thought.

00:18:31.060 Now they're saying, oh, well, we're blasting past 3% economic growth.

00:18:35.080 Things are going well.

00:18:36.000 Record low unemployment.

00:18:37.580 Ooh.

00:18:38.460 Oh, I guess there is a different way.

00:18:39.940 Maybe that mainstream media.

00:18:41.400 Maybe those guys are liars.

00:18:43.720 Maybe the narrative that they've been telling me isn't true.

00:18:45.980 Oh, I can see that it's not true.

00:18:47.280 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.

00:18:57.940 That is great.

00:18:58.960 My take on the kids these days, it is cool, man.

00:19:01.680 Keep calm and covfefe.

00:19:02.860 Now, I should clarify that.

00:19:05.620 Because the kids, the actual kids, you know, people, teenagers up through their 20s, they're doing all right.

00:19:13.280 I'm pretty pleased with them.

00:19:14.820 The adult kids, the overgrown, buffoonish children who are Democrat politicians, those guys aren't doing that well.

00:19:23.160 So, here's more evidence that the Democrats have absolutely nothing this election cycle.

00:19:28.080 Here is Pat Davis, Democrat running for Congress in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.

00:19:32.920 He just released this ad.

00:19:34.780 The NRA.

00:19:36.320 Their pro-gun policies have resulted in dead children, dead mothers, and dead fathers.

00:19:41.720 I'm Pat Davis, and I approve this message.

00:19:44.340 Because if Congress won't change our gun laws, we're changing Congress.

00:19:49.020 Yeah.

00:19:50.120 Yeah, you tell them, Pat.

00:19:51.540 That, yeah, by the way, in the ad that he ran, it's not bleeped.

00:19:54.860 We had to bleep it because, you know, we have some self-respect.

00:19:59.220 But he didn't bleep it.

00:20:00.520 The first word is the F word. 0.80

00:20:02.500 And this is what you get from Democrats now.

00:20:04.140 It's the same thing as shout your abortion. 1.00

00:20:06.080 It's all they've got is just profanity.

00:20:08.160 As though the popular culture weren't profane, right?

00:20:11.280 As though that's subversive.

00:20:12.500 The whole culture is profane.

00:20:13.740 The thing that's subversive now is to use words that are nice and that aren't, you know, swear words or something.

00:20:20.680 But that's all they've got.

00:20:21.400 They say, F you, F you.

00:20:23.700 That's not an argument.

00:20:25.500 F you is not a political argument.

00:20:27.640 But what else do they have?

00:20:28.580 Everything's going so well.

00:20:30.100 They've been so thoroughly discredited that all they have is F you.

00:20:33.260 It's getting really tedious.

00:20:34.640 Even the left is admitting that it's getting tedious, by the way.

00:20:37.000 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.

00:20:44.420 Saturday Night Live cold opens have just been basically celebrity cameos and the Alec Baldwin very subpar Donald Trump impression.

00:20:52.340 That's all they've been for the last, like, 50 years now at this point.

00:20:56.400 Check out the Mother's Day cold open that we saw this past weekend.

00:20:59.660 You like the show, right, Mom?

00:21:02.020 I do, except for all the political stuff.

00:21:04.860 We get it.

00:21:05.740 All right, thank you very much.

00:21:07.160 This is my mom, Sylvia.

00:21:09.500 Mom, do you ever think that I'd be on SNL someday?

00:21:13.840 No.

00:21:14.960 Awesome.

00:21:15.440 I remember I was in that production of The Crucible in high school.

00:21:19.280 Oh, right, yeah.

00:21:20.420 You know, The Crucible's a lot like the witch hunt against President Trump.

00:21:24.260 Okay, don't love that.

00:21:25.140 Let's go.

00:21:27.320 This is my mom, Cindy.

00:21:29.560 Mom, I love you because you always give me the best advice.

00:21:32.540 Thanks, Luke.

00:21:34.020 Here's some more.

00:21:34.980 Enough with the Trump jokes.

00:21:36.980 Mom, I don't write those.

00:21:39.040 And why doesn't SNL ever talk about crooked Hillary? 1.00

00:21:42.000 Mom, I'm so new here.

00:21:44.040 Please do not do this to me.

00:21:46.140 So even SNL has to admit, and SNL hates this guy.

00:21:50.160 When Donald Trump won the election, they played this long piano song, this ballad,

00:21:57.260 as they were tearfully crying about Hillary losing.

00:21:59.800 That wasn't a joke.

00:22:00.740 They actually did that sincerely.

00:22:02.620 But even they have to admit, gosh, maybe we're going a little crazy with this.

00:22:08.020 Maybe people don't love it when we just screech and whine and yell about politics all the time.

00:22:13.000 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.

00:22:20.960 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.

00:22:28.160 They've had enough of it.

00:22:29.280 Jerry Seinfeld doesn't do Trump jokes.

00:22:30.840 Recently, David Letterman asked Seinfeld on his show, he said, are you doing a lot of Trump jokes?

00:22:35.960 And he said, no, I'm not interested.

00:22:37.260 I want to tell jokes about raisins.

00:22:39.100 Because Trump jokes, they're easy, they're cheap, and the people are sick of it.

00:22:42.200 Another overgrown child, former future President Hillary Clinton, she has not gotten this memo.

00:22:49.400 She didn't get it.

00:22:50.180 She is still going around just whining about how she lost the election, how terrible everything is.

00:22:55.580 Here's a clip of her recently in Australia.

00:22:57.720 The double standard is alive and well, and it is more difficult for women in public positions. 1.00

00:23:07.500 We'll talk about politics, but it's true in business.

00:23:10.420 It's true in the media.

00:23:11.740 It's just true across the board.

00:23:13.540 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.

00:23:36.580 Are you kidding me?

00:23:38.500 Are you?

00:23:40.260 That's your example?

00:23:41.440 You're because you're whining, making all these excuses and saying, I didn't win because it wasn't fair, blah, blah, blah.

00:23:47.260 And the example you're using of the double standard is that women have their hair made fun of.

00:23:52.560 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.

00:24:06.060 But Hillary Clinton lives in this fantasy world where everyone's against her. 1.00

00:24:09.280 People only criticize women.

00:24:10.500 They only make fun of women. 1.00

00:24:11.820 What are you talking about?

00:24:13.440 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?

00:24:20.860 And they're all, no, you're just, you're just, she's, first of all, she's isolated.

00:24:25.800 So everything is just in this really tiny bubble for her.

00:24:28.680 But it's not that it's unfair, Hillary.

00:24:30.660 It's not that other people don't get made fun of and don't get put through the wringer.

00:24:34.640 It's that they deal with it with any bit of grace whatsoever, which you have never, ever been able to do.

00:24:40.380 Hillary Clinton went on, by the way.

00:24:42.280 She said, quote, there is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership.

00:24:49.100 There is this fear.

00:24:50.380 There is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, exercising power. 0.72

00:24:55.440 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.

00:25:03.060 That tells you all you need to know.

00:25:04.440 When the comments are disabled, it's because the people putting up, they know, they're like, oh, this probably isn't true.

00:25:09.780 Oh, this is going to get a big blowback, isn't it?

00:25:12.020 Oh, that, so your first thought is just like, oh, good grief, you know.

00:25:15.780 The second thought is, thank goodness this woman isn't president because she hates her countrymen. 1.00

00:25:19.840 And she's criticizing U.S. foreign policy abroad. 0.79

00:25:22.660 She's criticizing the Iran deal.

00:25:23.960 She's criticizing North Korea.

00:25:25.040 It's very unpatriotic.

00:25:26.660 And it's her never-ending campaign.

00:25:28.640 This is the never-ending campaign, but good.

00:25:30.580 I mean, it's so disgusting.

00:25:32.360 It's so undignified.

00:25:33.900 But keep going, Hillary. 1.00

00:25:35.560 Stay on TV.

00:25:36.560 I hope you do.

00:25:37.420 People don't like this.

00:25:39.020 They don't like, you're turning people off from your own party.

00:25:41.600 That's fine by me.

00:25:43.260 That is absolutely fine by me.

00:25:44.820 There's a good, before we break, I'll draw this analogy.

00:25:48.040 They're trying to get Trump like they were trying to get Richard Nixon.

00:25:51.760 They just hate him.

00:25:52.820 They're trying to get him.

00:25:53.580 And there was a good piece in Bloomberg last week on Watergate.

00:25:56.880 And drawing the parallels, they said, you know, the Democrats won Watergate.

00:26:00.740 They won this political battle.

00:26:02.220 We think of it as a legal battle.

00:26:03.500 It was really a political battle.

00:26:04.560 They won the political fight to get Richard Nixon to resign.

00:26:11.620 And it's because they had huge majorities in the Senate and in the House.

00:26:17.680 So they were able to force him to resign because he couldn't survive an impeachment hearing.

00:26:21.820 Stephen Calabresi has a good piece on how this relates to Donald Trump.

00:26:25.500 He has it in the Wall Street Journal.

00:26:27.560 There's a case, Morrison v. Olson, which is famous both for its opinion and for its dissent.

00:26:34.400 It was after the Watergate debacle.

00:26:37.960 And Scalia dissented here.

00:26:40.140 This was all about the constitutionality of these independent councils, these special councils.

00:26:46.340 Do they have too much power?

00:26:47.340 So Scalia says this is unconstitutional.

00:26:50.380 But even the majority opinion of the court, which has been upheld in Edmund v. the U.S.,

00:26:54.780 Free Enterprise Fund v. the Public Company Oversight Board, it's been upheld.

00:26:58.980 It's said that the special council, the independent council, is limited in scope.

00:27:03.080 We can't have people here who can just do whatever they want and have unchecked unlimited power in the United States.

00:27:08.600 But that's what we're getting in Robert Mueller's investigation.

00:27:12.940 He's indicting all sorts of people for alleged crimes that have absolutely nothing to do with his investigation,

00:27:18.480 which was supposed to be about collusion with Russia during the presidential election.

00:27:23.360 He's got way too much power, and this is almost certainly unconstitutional.

00:27:28.340 What it is an example of is Democrats once again trying to overturn a presidential election.

00:27:33.400 They did it in 72.

00:27:35.060 They're doing it in 2016.

00:27:36.820 Richard Nixon was elected in 1972 by a landslide.

00:27:40.980 He won 49 states.

00:27:42.940 He won almost the entire country.

00:27:44.620 He won 520 electoral votes to 17 for his opponent.

00:27:48.940 Democrats couldn't deal with it. 0.83

00:27:50.080 So a swamp creature policy analyst named Daniel Ellsberg, he stole classified documents,

00:27:56.440 and he gave them to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

00:27:59.460 That's how Watergate broke, is a government bureaucrat stole classified documents

00:28:05.420 and leaked it to the media, which had been trying to get Richard Nixon for decades.

00:28:09.740 But that didn't turn out very well for Democrats.

00:28:11.840 It didn't turn out very well.

00:28:12.740 Sure, they got Nixon out.

00:28:13.940 That's fine.

00:28:14.760 And then in 1980, six years later, they were able to elect Ronald Reagan, and we had basically

00:28:21.000 conservative governance for 28 years.

00:28:23.780 Even the presidency of Bill Clinton was relatively quite conservative.

00:28:26.640 So let's say you're a regular old American who doesn't follow politics religiously.

00:28:32.100 What are you seeing right now?

00:28:34.060 What are you seeing?

00:28:34.700 You're seeing things working.

00:28:36.620 Just look at the embassy in Jerusalem.

00:28:39.000 You're seeing on the walls of Jerusalem, you're seeing, thank you, President Trump.

00:28:42.900 God bless President Trump.

00:28:44.320 That's what you're seeing.

00:28:44.900 You're seeing the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, praising Trump for real leadership.

00:28:49.860 You're seeing in Korea, you're seeing South Korea give Trump credit for peace talks, possible

00:28:53.720 denuclearization.

00:28:55.040 You're seeing a president actually fulfilling his promises.

00:28:57.800 So what does the left do, the desperate left and the desperate anti-Trump right?

00:29:02.960 I think now all that's left of the anti-Trump right is Mitt Romney, basically.

00:29:06.760 What do they do?

00:29:07.480 They criticize how he does all of the successful things he does.

00:29:11.440 So Romney now is criticizing the evangelical pastor, Robert Jeffress, for speaking at the

00:29:19.320 opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

00:29:22.020 He tweeted out, this is Romney, such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens

00:29:28.420 the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

00:29:31.320 And he's saying this because this pastor called Mormonism and Islam heresies, which by the way

00:29:37.360 is the mainstream position of virtually every Christian denomination, and it's the traditional

00:29:41.660 position of the church.

00:29:42.840 So Romney says he's a religious bigot.

00:29:45.860 Religions are exclusive, Mitt, first of all. 0.99

00:29:48.300 So yes, religions say this is the way to heaven.

00:29:51.060 This is the way to have a relationship with God.

00:29:53.040 This is the way.

00:29:53.680 And if you do this religion, then you can't do this religion.

00:29:56.960 If this religion is true, then other religions are not true. 0.99

00:29:59.620 That's just the nature of religion.

00:30:02.100 Religions are exclusive. 1.00

00:30:03.580 They can't all be true at once because they make contradictory claims.

00:30:08.160 So by the way, if this pastor is a bigot, then so is Mitt Romney, isn't he?

00:30:11.560 Because his church makes certain claims about religion and who gets saved and how people

00:30:16.500 get saved.

00:30:17.200 Jenna Ellis pointed this out in the Washington Examiner.

00:30:19.740 I think right now, people are looking at Romney.

00:30:22.900 They're looking at these Trump critics and they're saying, seriously?

00:30:26.040 Donald Trump has done what so many of his predecessors promised to do and refused to do.

00:30:30.460 Trump did it.

00:30:31.140 Took real political courage.

00:30:32.280 And you're knocking him because the evangelical pastor who spoke at the opening is an evangelical

00:30:38.360 pastor.

00:30:39.900 Mitt Romney invented Obamacare.

00:30:41.920 When he ran for Senate, he said, I didn't support Reagan-Bush and I don't want to go

00:30:46.720 back to Reagan-Bush.

00:30:47.700 He ran a terrible 2012 campaign.

00:30:49.980 He refused to take the fight to the president.

00:30:51.880 He refused to fight back at the mainstream media.

00:30:54.300 He tried to swing the election for Hillary in 2016.

00:30:57.120 You're the guy?

00:30:58.060 You're the guy criticizing Donald Trump who's actually doing something to advance the

00:31:02.240 conservative cause and make America great again and improve the country? 0.67

00:31:06.000 And I think people are on the left right now.

00:31:08.700 They're looking.

00:31:09.460 These lefties are looking and they're wondering.

00:31:11.640 You know, we had eight years of a stagnant economy, 2% economic growth, unemployment,

00:31:16.760 underemployment.

00:31:17.800 Now everything is doing a lot better.

00:31:19.360 And these people on the left and these millennials, people who used to be on the left and then

00:31:23.680 maybe they're changing their mind a little, they're looking at their own politicians and

00:31:26.900 they're saying, you told me Trump was Hitler.

00:31:29.680 You told me he colluded with Russia.

00:31:31.880 You promised me that Donald Trump was Satan incarnate and the world would go to hell in a

00:31:36.300 handbasket if he were elected.

00:31:38.200 And now everything's going great.

00:31:39.700 And now the best that you guys have is a porn star with whom Donald Trump allegedly had a

00:31:45.460 consensual dalliance a dozen years ago.

00:31:47.840 That's what you've got.

00:31:49.060 And I think there is a shift going on culturally.

00:31:51.880 Successful presidencies shape public opinion.

00:31:55.380 They are seismic events.

00:31:57.400 The models are only true until they're not true.

00:31:59.840 The models only work until something happens.

00:32:02.960 And in politics, things happen.

00:32:05.060 And in this presidency, the only thing that you know is never say never because it's a

00:32:10.300 presidency of the unexpected.

00:32:13.100 Millennials and young voters have not seen success like this before.

00:32:16.460 So you could say, well, if the last eight years is any indication, they're going to keep

00:32:20.100 moving to the left until something happens.

00:32:22.220 And you know what?

00:32:22.680 I think something is happening.

00:32:23.960 You know what else is happening?

00:32:25.700 We have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:32:27.960 Do you hear that?

00:32:29.080 Do you hear that?

00:32:29.680 That is like bells chiming, birds singing because it is almost time for our next generation.

00:32:35.060 Next episode of The Conversation featuring me, little old me, Michael Knowles.

00:32:38.800 On Tuesday, when is that?

00:32:40.120 Is that tomorrow?

00:32:40.800 That's tomorrow, May 15th at 5.30 Eastern, 2.30 Pacific.

00:32:44.480 I will be taking all of your questions and easing your anxiety by answering you guys live

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00:32:56.400 What else could you ask for?

00:32:57.460 That's pretty good.

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00:33:01.020 This month's episode will stream live on The Daily Wire's YouTube and Facebook pages.

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00:33:31.140 Now, you might notice I sound a little stuffy today.

00:33:33.080 I think it's because, well, covfefe is a hell of a drug.

00:33:37.560 Sometimes it gets lodged up there.

00:33:39.500 It's going to impair my ability to speak, but hopefully we're going to be able to clear

00:33:43.860 that out by tomorrow, so I'll be able to do this just fine.

00:33:46.440 We have an excellent this day in history, a much misunderstood part of American history

00:33:52.500 that doesn't really get covered right now.

00:33:54.460 We will discuss it talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you have to go to

00:33:58.220 dailywire.com.

00:33:58.960 What do you get?

00:33:59.320 You get me.

00:33:59.760 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:34:00.580 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:34:01.400 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:34:02.600 You get the conversation, which I just told you about.

00:34:06.440 Hey, hey, you guys, millennials and racial minorities, they'll probably just uniformly 0.98

00:34:11.840 vote for Democrats, right?

00:34:13.380 Right?

00:34:13.760 Is that?

00:34:14.040 Oh, no, the polling shows that they're moving rightward.

00:34:18.580 Oh, no.

00:34:21.460 I can't drink this down fast enough.

00:34:23.480 I can't drink.

00:34:24.060 As the polls come out, more and more polls come out, more and more great news from the

00:34:28.440 Trump administration, this is going to overflow.

00:34:30.300 Get your leftist years tumbler before you and your family drown.

00:34:33.820 We will be right back with this day in history.

00:34:36.160 Go to dailywire.com.

00:34:37.040 All right.

00:34:49.320 This day in history, I've cleared, I think I've cleared out a little bit of the covfefe.

00:34:52.680 Let's get to this day in history.

00:34:53.900 On this day in history, we still have a little bit of time.

00:34:55.760 In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark at the commission of President Thomas Jefferson

00:35:01.300 launched their expedition to explore the Northwest American continent from the Mississippi

00:35:07.320 River to the Pacific Ocean.

00:35:09.960 I don't know that people really study Lewis and Clark anymore, but it's a pretty crazy

00:35:14.320 part of American history.

00:35:15.700 This happened in just one year after the Louisiana Purchase.

00:35:20.320 So Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory.

00:35:23.300 That doubles the size of the United States.

00:35:25.760 So we now have doubled the country within, you know, just a year has changed the size

00:35:31.460 of the country at this point.

00:35:33.520 And Jefferson says to Lewis and Clark, okay, we need you to explore this unexplored continent

00:35:38.160 and really claim a little bit more land for America, but go see what you can find.

00:35:43.240 The core of discovery, as it was called, Lewis and Clark's group of people, that included

00:35:49.160 45 men and 33 of whom made it the whole journey.

00:35:52.300 Some of them hopped off by choice or circumstance along the way.

00:35:57.320 The Lewis and Clark expedition started up the Missouri River in a 55-foot-long keel boat with

00:36:01.820 two smaller boats.

00:36:03.540 Six months into the expedition, they met Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader,

00:36:11.160 and you know him better as the husband of Sacagawea.

00:36:14.080 I really want to bring this up because of Sacagawea.

00:36:17.960 You might remember, if you've been around the last 20 years, she's the woman on those

00:36:21.960 gold dollar coins, and much has been made of Sacagawea.

00:36:25.540 She was the indispensable part of the voyage.

00:36:28.800 She was really the one who led them.

00:36:30.360 We owe everything to Sacagawea, but she doesn't get the respect she deserves.

00:36:34.060 It was all Sacagawea, right?

00:36:35.780 So we'll get back to her.

00:36:38.300 The Lewis and Clark expedition spent the winter in North Dakota.

00:36:41.060 They crossed through Montana.

00:36:42.040 They passed the rapids of Clearwater and Snake Rivers in canoes.

00:36:47.020 They finally reached the Columbia River.

00:36:48.840 That took them to the Pacific Ocean.

00:36:50.440 They made it there on November 8, 1805.

00:36:54.580 They finally made it all the way west.

00:36:56.480 These two guys were the first Europeans ever to reach the Pacific by land.

00:37:00.900 This is a monumental expedition.

00:37:03.340 It took two and a half years.

00:37:04.440 They brought back a lot of information about the land, and they brought back a U.S. claim

00:37:09.240 to the Oregon Territory.

00:37:12.120 But there's been a lot of revisionism here.

00:37:14.400 So they say about Lewis and Clark's westward expansion, they say that Sacagawea was the guide.

00:37:21.260 Now, actual scholars of the expedition, such as Ella Clark and Margot Edmonds, they say

00:37:25.820 that Sacagawea was not the guide for the expedition.

00:37:29.400 This is perfectly clear.

00:37:30.600 These were incredible pioneers men.

00:37:34.520 These were incredible navigators, Lewis and Clark.

00:37:37.300 They would have made it just fine.

00:37:39.220 Sacagawea did assist a little bit.

00:37:41.060 She helped out with certain trading ventures, but she was not central here.

00:37:45.340 Lewis and Clark also did not consider her central.

00:37:48.000 Lewis and Clark would variously call her squar and savage along the journey.

00:37:51.960 So it wasn't this Disney version of what she was doing.

00:37:58.320 It also gets to the crazy idea that America did not intend to realize itself westward.

00:38:04.320 So now we look back at Western expansion, and the way it's taught in schools is, oh, yes,

00:38:09.880 we had the country, and then they just kept invading other lands and taking it, and they shouldn't 1.00

00:38:13.880 have done it, and they didn't mean to do it.

00:38:15.920 It wasn't, you know, this wasn't part of America.

00:38:17.720 America, there's this idea now that the founders of the country, they actually really wanted

00:38:23.260 to keep America precisely the size that it was, that westward expansion, that wasn't

00:38:28.000 part of the American project.

00:38:29.500 You know, Jefferson just got a good deal on the Louisiana territory, and they just, it

00:38:33.340 kind of happened, but we didn't mean for it to happen.

00:38:35.620 And so all expansionism is bad.

00:38:37.460 We shouldn't do that.

00:38:38.060 We should keep to ourselves.

00:38:39.160 We want to just isolate ourselves from everywhere else in the world.

00:38:43.020 Not true.

00:38:43.660 The entire American project is a project of Western expansion. 0.64

00:38:47.720 It began because a bunch of people in the old world decided to explore the new world.

00:38:52.580 It began because Christopher Columbus wanted to, following his deep religious convictions,

00:38:58.660 wanted to bring the glory of God to a new land and also find some new roots and get some

00:39:03.000 gold for his own civilization.

00:39:05.780 Then, obviously, the pilgrims made it to Plymouth because they were realizing westward.

00:39:10.600 They were conquering and settling down in a new world.

00:39:14.260 How about even in the founding era?

00:39:17.260 George Washington made his entire fortune precisely on western expansion.

00:39:22.120 He made a zillion dollars, roughly, on the Ohio Company, which surveyed land in Ohio, made

00:39:28.260 a lot of money getting land for himself.

00:39:30.380 Until Donald Trump, Washington was actually the wealthiest president in U.S. history.

00:39:34.260 He died with an estate worth $780,000.

00:39:37.220 Now, which doesn't sound like a lot.

00:39:39.940 When you translate that into today's dollars, that would be about $14.5 million.

00:39:45.040 But that actually doesn't tell the whole story because if you factor in relative wealth,

00:39:50.220 so Washington's relative wealth to his countrymen and the rest of the world, a unit of measure

00:39:55.820 called the prestige value of money, then actually his wealth was around $429 million.

00:40:01.580 It's pretty good.

00:40:02.780 He made a lot of money going westward.

00:40:04.360 During the French and Indian War, they were able to recruit soldiers by offering 200,000

00:40:09.760 acres of frontier land for those who joined.

00:40:12.740 Fight for our country, you get to move west because that's the way we're going.

00:40:16.960 Washington himself got 23,000 of those acres for himself in West Virginia.

00:40:21.300 Jefferson was urging westward expansion as early at least as 1786.

00:40:26.000 This was the project.

00:40:26.920 This was moving westward.

00:40:28.440 That's what the country was meant to do.

00:40:30.440 Now, people will tell you today, on the right and the left, some of the isolationists on

00:40:34.020 the right and the lefties who say, oh, we took the land from those Indians who took the land

00:40:39.580 from other Indians before them and who took the land from other Indians before them. 0.94

00:40:42.440 They forget that part.

00:40:43.380 They say, oh, it was unjust.

00:40:44.560 It was unjust acquisition.

00:40:46.480 Robert Frost, I think I may have read this on the show before.

00:40:49.000 Robert Frost got this exactly right in a poem that he read at Kennedy's inauguration.

00:40:53.940 The land was ours before we were the lands.

00:40:59.280 She was our land more than 100 years before we were her people.

00:41:02.520 She was ours in Massachusetts, in Virginia, but we were England's, still colonials, possessing

00:41:07.480 what we still were unpossessed by, possessed by what we now no more possessed.

00:41:13.340 Something we were withholding made us weak until we found out that it was ourselves we were

00:41:18.040 withholding from our land of living and forthwith found salvation and surrender.

00:41:22.100 Such as we were, we gave ourselves outright.

00:41:24.820 The deed of gift was many deeds of war to the land vaguely realizing westward, but still

00:41:29.900 unstoried, artless, unenhanced.

00:41:32.800 Such as she was, such as she would become.

00:41:35.480 This is the American project.

00:41:37.840 Bigger, grander, greater, expansive.

00:41:42.100 This is an American project.

00:41:43.920 We're seeing hints of that come back.

00:41:46.120 We're seeing this is the line that Reagan used.

00:41:48.040 It's the line that Trump used for that same reason.

00:41:50.000 Make America great again.

00:41:52.100 You don't need to be small.

00:41:53.300 You don't need to keep to yourself.

00:41:55.140 This is great.

00:41:56.240 A rising tide lifts all ships and it can bring seismic changes in politics and in people's

00:42:02.240 lives.

00:42:02.600 I think that's what we're seeing here.

00:42:04.020 A very covfefe way to start the week.

00:42:07.200 Come back tomorrow.

00:42:07.860 We have a really cool guest.

00:42:09.800 I was fangirling all day when we pre-taped this interview.

00:42:13.400 Really good guest in tomorrow.

00:42:14.880 I'm going to try to clear all the covfefe out of my nasal cavity in the meantime.

00:42:19.380 Until then, until tomorrow, I will see you and on the conversation.

00:42:23.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:42:24.440 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:42:25.440 See you tomorrow.

00:42:25.780 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 14, 2018

Ep. 155 - The Kids Are All Right

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