The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1858 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Joins The Resistance？

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00:01:57.080 All right, a ton to get to. We had the release of more Epstein files. Everyone calls for the

00:02:03.840 release of the Epstein files. We have a ton of Epstein files, and we've known a lot about Epstein

00:02:07.140 since really 2014, 2015, when it was the conservatives who were exposing him, when it

00:02:12.700 was President Trump who was calling for journalists to look into it. At that point,

00:02:15.720 the journalists didn't want to look into it. Then the Democrats ran out of issues. So they thought

00:02:19.740 that was the one issue they could try to get Trump on is painting Epstein more as a Republican scandal

00:02:24.740 than a Democrat scandal. But we keep getting more and more of these files, and it's led to a little

00:02:30.400 bit of a fissure in the Republican Party. So even a pro-MAGA, pro-Trump, conservative firebrand

00:02:38.240 like Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House, has been turning on Trump a little bit.

00:02:43.380 And then Trump has been hitting her. He came out very strongly, hit her. I think he's threatening

00:02:49.000 to primary her. So then as a consequence, you're in this bizarro world where Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:02:55.140 is going on CNN and trying to get the liberal viewers of CNN to like her. 0.84

00:03:01.760 You have a pivot from one of the most rock-ribbed, hardline, populist right-wingers

00:03:07.760 basically doing a mea culpa on liberal TV and saying she regrets some of her right-wing rhetoric

00:03:15.420 and asking us all to get along.

00:03:18.860 I would like to say humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It's very bad for our

00:03:29.020 country. And it's been something I've thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was

00:03:35.280 assassinated, is that I'm only responsible for myself and my own words and actions. And I am

00:03:43.440 committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately, to put down the knives in politics. I really

00:03:50.500 just want to see people be kind to one another. And we need to figure out a new path forward that is

00:03:57.700 focused on the American people because as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we're on,

00:04:03.340 we have far more in common than we have differences. And we need to be able to respect each other with

00:04:10.480 our disagreements.

00:04:12.560 Okay, hold on, hold on. So right off the bat, we have Marjorie Taylor Greene using the rhetoric that I 1.00

00:04:22.220 was making fun of, I think on Friday, certainly last week, that you hear from the libs all the time.

00:04:26.400 The libs always use this phrase, be kind. We just have to be kind to one another. I love kind

00:04:32.280 people. I don't know why, but the K word, kind, is the left-wing slogan du jour. And it's ironic

00:04:38.580 because they wish death on Republicans at a much higher rate than Republicans wish death on them.

00:04:44.260 They disown family members over politics. They're not kind, generally. It's certainly not relative to

00:04:49.120 Republicans. Now you got MTG. She goes on CNN, the liberal channel. She apologizes for being so

00:04:57.880 right-wing. I've contributed to the toxic political culture, and we need to be kind.

00:05:04.000 I'm waiting for her to say trans rights or human rights or something. I'm exaggerating slightly,

00:05:09.160 but she's appealing to a left-wing audience using left-wing rhetoric. And then the most preposterous 0.98

00:05:15.160 part of it, she says, you know, something about Charlie Kirk's assassination pointed out to me

00:05:20.960 that we all have a lot more in common than separates us. That, of course, is the exact

00:05:28.060 opposite conclusion that most of us drew. I've given how many speeches about this? I testified

00:05:33.540 before the Senate about this. I'm not saying anything particularly original. I think the vast

00:05:38.340 majority of Americans realize this. When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, we assumed,

00:05:42.900 we on the right, assumed that the left would say, okay, this is way too far. Charlie Kirk,

00:05:48.220 the most prominent example of civil discourse, trying to hash out our differences through polite

00:05:54.480 conversation, going out to meet people where they are, putting the microphone down to hear them speak

00:05:59.720 and respond respectfully. Wow, this has gone way too far. We're really sorry. We might not have

00:06:06.320 agreed with Charlie on policy, but we're so sorry that he died. There's no excuse for this. That's not

00:06:10.860 what happened. That's not even close to what happened. We saw the left at every level from

00:06:17.020 the normies, the girl you went to high school with, all the way up to elected Democrats, all the way up

00:06:21.400 to people on TV, minimizing it, excusing it, in some cases justifying and even celebrating it.

00:06:29.180 We then had the YouGov surveys come out. The YouGov surveys showing that very liberal people are eight

00:06:35.940 times as likely to justify political violence as very conservative people and that 26% of young

00:06:40.560 liberals justify political violence, many multiples, which you see among young conservatives.

00:06:46.000 So the conclusion from Charlie's assassination is, wow, we actually have far greater differences

00:06:51.480 than I expected. I wanted to go back to the old Ronald Reagan line. Well, we have no enemies in

00:06:57.560 America, only opponents. And what's the difference? Opponents are two people who agree on what ends

00:07:04.020 they desire, but they disagree on methods. We all want to reduce illegal immigration. 0.71

00:07:10.360 We just disagree on how to get there. We all want to reduce the number of abortions. We just disagree

00:07:15.800 on how to get there. We all want America to flourish. We all want a strong country. We all want,

00:07:20.860 no, we all want to tone down the political violence. But no, what we discovered is there are many more

00:07:27.800 people who are enemies, who actually disagree on the ends, who want us dead. We realized this when

00:07:35.040 Democrat analysts on MSNBC, as Charlie was dying, came out and said, well, actually, it's his own

00:07:42.440 hateful rhetoric that led to this. That's what we learned. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people,

00:07:48.980 is going on CNN to say, no, actually, that's not real. Don't believe your lying eyes. We just need to 0.94

00:07:54.740 be kind. We need to sing kumbaya. I'm sorry that I was so right wing. What is this about?

00:08:01.100 Yeah, I'll tell you what this is about. It's about a fight that she's having. She's been 0.95

00:08:06.740 needling at Trump for many months now. Trump finally came out and hit her, and now she's on a different

00:08:11.280 team. And the lesson that you have to take from this, and it's going to be very, very important

00:08:17.120 as we move toward the midterms, as we move toward 2028, as we hear constantly, mostly in the left

00:08:22.860 wing media, about the civil war in the Republican Party, is that politics is not primarily about

00:08:30.780 ideas. Politics is, I'm not being ironic here. I'm not being glib. I am telling you a fact that

00:08:38.840 has been true since man walked out of the cave. Politics is not primarily about ideas. It is

00:08:45.700 certainly not primarily about ideology, which is the modern substitute for religion, which lays at the

00:08:52.140 foundation of all politics. But what politics is about primarily in the day-to-day in very practical

00:08:58.920 terms is people. People who form coalitions to work together to attain power to, we hope, advance the

00:09:09.980 common good. In failed regimes, the people form together in coalitions to amass power to advance

00:09:17.600 their private interests. In functional regimes, people come together in coalitions to attain power

00:09:24.900 to advance the common good of all. But it's about people forming teams to get power. That's what

00:09:31.800 politics is about, okay? And ideas matter. Ideology, unfortunately, in the modern world matters.

00:09:40.380 Ultimately, the ideology is just a substitute for religion, which is a much sturdier foundation of

00:09:44.540 politics. All human conflict, ultimately, is theological, as Cardinal Manning says. But that's

00:09:48.880 what this is about. This is why, look at someone like Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney, on ideas, on issues, 0.98

00:09:57.020 has agreed with Republicans, has voted in Congress with Donald Trump like 90% of the time, probably more

00:10:05.900 than 90% of the time. But she's on the other team. When push comes to shove, at the crucial moment,

00:10:12.720 when it's about which coalition is about to amass power, she sides with the other team.

00:10:18.120 And all of those ideas that she talks about, even the votes that she's taken in Congress,

00:10:22.000 don't really matter. Because when you get to the crucial vote, the vote for the ridiculous January

00:10:27.120 6th commission, the vote for president in 2024, when you get to the crucial vote that actually matters,

00:10:33.120 she's on the other team. The same thing, it would seem, is happening to Marjorie Taylor Greene right

00:10:39.640 now. I hope she pulls back from the brink. I hope she doesn't go full Liz Cheney. But it could happen.

00:10:47.620 It's how Liz Cheney, 90 plus percent conservative voting record, is on the Democrat team. 1.00

00:10:55.300 And it's how John Fetterman, who is a big lib, do not forget, John Fetterman is a big lib.

00:11:00.080 But Republicans really like John Fetterman right now, because he's relatively moderate within the

00:11:04.180 Democrat Party, and he is gumming up their political machine. And at crucial moments,

00:11:08.660 he is defending Trump. He is defending the Republicans and the conservatives.

00:11:12.400 That's how we are kind of claiming him as one of ours, and how the left is claiming Liz Cheney as

00:11:18.320 one of theirs, rightly, and might be claiming Marjorie Taylor Greene as one of theirs. Because politics is

00:11:22.760 about people. So when we talk about, and I harp on this a lot, much more so, I think, than many of my

00:11:29.280 other friends with microphones or who are in office on the conservative side. I say, politics is about

00:11:35.260 coalitions. In fact, she brought up Charlie, the indispensable service that Charlie did. He did a

00:11:41.860 lot of wonderful things for conservatism and for America. But the indispensable service that he

00:11:47.480 performed was he kept a coalition together. He knew who to keep out. He knew who to keep in. He knew how

00:11:53.600 to mollify the antagonisms within the coalition and all the different people who hate each other.

00:11:57.840 He understood what politics is about, which is making teams to gain power to, we hope, advance

00:12:05.180 the common good. That's what's going on. Right now, Marjorie Taylor Greene or Donald Trump or

00:12:11.740 Greene and Trump have decided that they're on different teams. And everyone's going to be

00:12:16.780 scratching their heads trying to figure out how to, well, this is so crazy. Marjorie Taylor Greene's on

00:12:20.880 CNN. It's not that crazy when you recognize that that is what politics is. It's about people.

00:12:26.680 Politics, the most basic definition of it is how people live together. That's what it is.

00:12:33.400 And now we're seeing different teams. The flashpoint in this was the release of the Epstein files. We

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00:14:10.540 files. His words, as I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the fake news media,

00:14:16.260 House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide.

00:14:21.420 And it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical left lunatics

00:14:24.820 in order to deflect from the great success of the Republican Party,

00:14:28.480 including our recent victory in the Democrat shutdown. Good point. It's kind of funny. We now forget

00:14:32.880 about the shutdown. The news cycle moves so fast, we forget the Democrats just single-handedly gave

00:14:38.440 us the longest government shutdown ever in American history. They conceded, at first they argued it

00:14:43.060 was the Republicans doing it. Then they admitted, okay, it was actually just us, and eight Democrat

00:14:46.680 senators voted to reopen the government. We totally forget about that now. Trump goes on.

00:14:50.400 The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the public on Epstein,

00:14:54.660 are looking at various Democrat operatives, Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.,

00:14:58.560 and their relationship to Epstein. And the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are

00:15:02.680 legally entitled to. I don't care. All I do care about is that Republicans get back on point,

00:15:08.380 which is the economy, affordability, quote, because that's a new buzzword, which we are winning big.

00:15:13.820 He goes on. Our victory on reducing inflation from the highest level in history to practically

00:15:19.840 nothing, bringing down prices for the American people. We'll get to the inflation point,

00:15:22.900 because the Federal Reserve in San Francisco just made a massive admission regarding the success of

00:15:28.120 Trump's tariff policy that all the smart economists were saying wasn't going to happen.

00:15:31.540 We'll get to that momentarily. Delivering historic tax cuts, trillions of dollars of investment into

00:15:35.440 America, a record, the rebuilding of the military, securing our border. Okay, he goes on and lists all

00:15:39.380 the great stuff that's been happening. Then he says, this ties in exactly what we were just talking

00:15:45.020 about. Some quote unquote members of the Republican Party are being used, and we can't let that happen.

00:15:52.000 Let's start talking about the Republican Party's record-setting achievements and not fall into the

00:15:55.700 Epstein trap, which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. Make America great again. Okay,

00:16:00.200 the key word here, and it's funny, I hadn't even read the whole, it was a long truth social post. I

00:16:05.200 didn't read the whole thing. And as I read it, I discover Trump is seeing the same point that we

00:16:11.380 were just discussing. He says some quote unquote members of the Republican Party. Why does he put that

00:16:15.400 in quotes? Trump uses quotes in all sorts of creative ways, as a bold face or other things. But here,

00:16:19.880 he's using quotes in a more traditional sense to cast doubt on the meaning of the word. Some members

00:16:27.260 of the Republican Party. Yeah, Liz Cheney is a member of the Republican Party, I guess. She may

00:16:32.380 have left at this point, but even when she was a member. I guess technically she's a member of the

00:16:36.860 party, but at the crucial moment, she works against the party. Right now, I'm just joking. I like Marjorie

00:16:43.900 Taylor Greene. She and I have gotten along great. But as of yesterday, going on CNN, using Democrat

00:16:49.980 rhetoric to apologize for being a Republican, to attack Trump, to flatter Democrats with a

00:16:56.000 completely wrong conclusion about Charlie Kirk's assassination, that's not the kind of thing a real

00:17:00.220 Republican does. That's not the kind of thing a real conservative does. Trump is saying they're,

00:17:04.980 well, he's saying they're rhinos. In a really basic sense, not rhino like you're a little too

00:17:09.540 liberal on immigration. Not rhino like you want to raise taxes. Rhino in a really precise sense.

00:17:15.060 You are a Republican in name, and maybe even in all the votes that don't matter.

00:17:20.360 But at the crucial moment, you don't advance the party's interest.

00:17:25.480 This is Trump's argument against someone like Thomas Massey, who by all accounts, in his ideology,

00:17:31.720 in his principles, he is as rock-ribbed a libertarian conservative as it gets.

00:17:37.560 But at the crucial vote, at the crucial vote, he teams up with Ro Khanna and the Democrats to try

00:17:44.940 to embarrass Trump. At the crucial vote, where is he? That's the point that Trump is making.

00:17:51.200 So why is he flipping on Epstein? Because until recently, well, it's a long story. Until recently,

00:17:57.500 Trump was saying he didn't really want to deal with the Epstein thing. And he said, forget about

00:18:00.740 the Epstein thing. Enough about him. This is a hoax. Let's move on and talk about all my great

00:18:04.340 achievements. But before that, Trump was calling for the release of the Epstein files.

00:18:11.840 And this has led to all sorts of conspiracy theories by Trump's enemies on the left,

00:18:17.180 certainly, and his enemies who are supposedly on the right. Even people who would call themselves

00:18:22.920 very rock-ribbed, they say, oh, it's obvious Trump's being blackmailed. He's being blackmailed

00:18:28.160 by the deep state, or he's being blackmailed by some foreign government, or he's being blackmailed by

00:18:31.660 whoever. But he's being blackmailed. He's compromised. He's this, he's that. And here

00:18:36.420 Trump is, he says, release all the files. I'll give you my view of it. I think that in, what was it,

00:18:42.920 2015, 2016, Trump was one of the early people calling attention to the Epstein scandal,

00:18:50.840 demanding more transparency on the Epstein scandal. I don't think Trump does that if he were seriously

00:18:57.900 implicated in the Epstein scandal. We all know that he and Epstein were friends. We all know they had a

00:19:01.360 long-time relationship, though. They had a falling out at some point. Epstein apparently had friendships

00:19:06.560 with, like, everybody. With foreign heads of state, with American heads of state, you know, Bill Clinton,

00:19:13.680 with major philanthropists like Bill Gates, with major institutions like Harvard and MIT. He was

00:19:18.120 apparently friends with everybody. Stephen Hawking, I think. Everybody. He was a schmoozer. He was a worker.

00:19:23.380 He was an operative. We still don't know. There's a lot to find out about Epstein. But I don't think

00:19:28.140 that Trump, in 2015, if he were seriously implicated in Epstein, he wouldn't have called

00:19:32.460 for that. He wouldn't have called attention to that. So then why did he backtrack? Why did he

00:19:36.340 try to downplay Epstein? I suspect it's because, as we know, he's mentioned in the files. He's probably

00:19:42.200 mentioned in the files many times. And if you're working in the White House Communications Department,

00:19:48.240 you have to think, all right, well, any document that comes out with Trump's name on it,

00:19:53.380 that is going to be used to distract from the issues that we want to talk about endlessly.

00:19:59.020 That's what the Democrats are doing. That's what they're trying to do with the help of some so-called

00:20:01.800 Republicans. And it's going to be spun into a bunch of nonsense. There was a story over the weekend 0.66

00:20:05.820 about Bill Clinton and Donald Trump doing weird stuff together or whatever. And it's just so frivolous,

00:20:14.760 so truly so. Look, I don't like Bill Clinton, but I don't think Trump is his type. Let's put it that

00:20:20.460 way. Not from everything we know about Bubba, I don't think he's into large men with blonde hair.

00:20:27.740 I don't buy it. But that's, I'm sure, what the White House was thinking. The more that we talk

00:20:33.420 about Epstein, the worse it is for us. But something happened, which is because Epstein,

00:20:38.780 as Trump rightly saw in 2015 and 16, because Epstein is such a symbol of the rot, of the corruption of our

00:20:45.860 political class, of the deceit, of the perfidy of our law enforcement, higher echelons, and the deep

00:20:55.060 state, whatever. They don't want to let it go. They want answers. And I totally understand that.

00:21:00.940 I sympathize with that. I think I have a little more of a down-to-earth view of things, which is

00:21:07.740 one of two things is going to be true. Either Epstein is who we're told he is, which is he was

00:21:15.220 just a weird sex freak. He was rich, had a lot of rich, famous friends, and that was it. In which 0.86

00:21:21.260 case, we basically know everything we're going to know about Epstein. Or Epstein was a super-duper spy,

00:21:27.060 a triple agent for every foreign government, and he was James Bond and Jason Bourne rolled up into one.

00:21:33.560 In which case, if that's true, I'm not saying I believe that. If that's true, we will never learn

00:21:37.700 anything more about it. Either JFK was killed by a lone gunman on a grassy knoll, or we will never

00:21:46.500 learn anything else about the assassination of JFK. We've had a law in this country demanding the

00:21:51.600 release of all the JFK files since like 1992. And in violation of executive orders and federal law

00:21:58.720 passed by Congress, the government just hasn't released all of it. You just will not learn

00:22:03.920 anything about it. So what do we take from this? Trump is realizing that he miscalculated. He

00:22:11.100 correctly calculated in the first place. He miscalculated later on. It was a very Washington

00:22:15.700 calculus, which is, well, the more we talk about this, the worse it is for everybody, and especially

00:22:19.200 for us, because Democrats are going to derail us. So let's just not talk about it. But not talking

00:22:23.040 about it undercuts the first calculation, the first argument, and it wasn't working. And not

00:22:28.780 leaning more heavily into Epstein was giving Democrats a narrative, and it was splitting

00:22:32.620 the Republican Party. That is in part how you get people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wants to

00:22:37.740 maintain her rock-ribbed populist cred. Now you have her in this weird realignment siding with CNN 0.99

00:22:43.500 so that she can be on the side of exposing the Epstein scandal, whatever that even means.

00:22:48.940 So I think this is a smart move by Trump. I basically think he should have stuck to his

00:22:52.780 guns going back a decade now. There is no reason. Here, here we go. This is my big bet on here.

00:23:00.580 And I am basically always right on these things. You know how much I hate to say it.

00:23:06.340 I'm laying my flag right now, planting my flag. We will not find anything in the Epstein files that

00:23:14.660 are released that is seriously damaging to Trump. We will not find anything. There will be no credible

00:23:20.980 release. I'm not talking about random emails from like Michael Wolff, you know, fabulous fiction

00:23:27.220 writers. I'm not talking. I'm talking about actual hardcore evidence from the Epstein files. We will

00:23:34.000 not find anything that is seriously damaging to Trump. However, it's become an issue in the Republican

00:23:42.380 Party. It's splitting the coalition, not over ideas, just over people. And politics is about people.

00:23:47.520 Plus, looking ahead after those disastrous elections two weeks ago, assuming the Democrats win the

00:23:52.120 midterms, when the Democrats take the House, they are going to subpoena all of this. They're going to

00:23:56.220 make a big issue. They're going to be investigations. They might force the docs to be released. So it's

00:23:59.440 going to happen anyway. Better for Trump and the White House to get ahead of it now. I totally agree.

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00:25:39.340 psychiatrist Dr. Josef Witt-Dering to unpack one of the most controversial topics in modern medicine,

00:25:45.440 the link between psychiatric drugs and violent behavior. From SSRIs and Adderall to the rise in

00:25:49.580 mass shootings, we dive deep into how these medications affect the brain, whether Big Pharma's

00:25:54.120 citing the full story. Check out this quick teaser.

00:25:56.380 We've done spinal taps. We've done functional MRI scans, which are real-time scans of the human brain

00:26:03.640 kind of firing. Are there any differences between a depressed person and a non-depressed person?

00:26:09.260 No. What about the relation of these kinds of drugs to violent acts and to aberrant ideologies?

00:26:18.600 I've noticed a major uptick in violence from the left, notably associated with transgenderism, 1.00

00:26:26.620 and in the lion's share of these cases. They're on SSRIs.

00:26:31.160 Is it safe for 15 to 20% of our population to be on these drugs? The FDA is sitting on this

00:26:36.320 because they are trying to cover up one of the biggest scandals in modern medical history.

00:26:42.600 That's horrifying.

00:26:43.600 Watch a full episode now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel for the uncensored

00:26:58.760 ad-free version. Subscribe to Daily Wire Plus. Major, major headline out of the Federal Reserve.

00:27:07.380 This is in Fortune. Fed researchers say tariffs actually lower inflation because they're

00:27:13.520 a demand shock that slams employment and economic activity. Okay, so that second part is not good

00:27:18.580 for Trump. The first part is really good for Trump, and it's really good for Scott Besson,

00:27:21.580 the Treasury Secretary. And it's really good for the right-wingers who flew in the face of the

00:27:28.520 liberal consensus and all the elite, smart, really clever people in their own party.

00:27:34.440 Because when some of us were pointing out that tariffs can be good, tariffs serve a purpose.

00:27:41.160 When some of us were not, you know, 33rd degree free traders initiated into the Gnostic cult of 0.69

00:27:49.220 liberal trade policy. When some of us said, you know, there's actually a reason that countries

00:27:53.240 use tariffs. Even despite the revisionist history that says that St. Ronald Reagan, you know,

00:27:59.220 was allergic to tariffs and would never countenance such heresy and vile evil.

00:28:05.720 Reagan himself instituted certain tariffs. A bunch of other countries did. This is why Trump,

00:28:09.660 when he was running, I think it was the first time, he said, hey, if tariffs are so bad,

00:28:12.640 how come every other country has them? How come we're the only country that doesn't have them?

00:28:17.280 And so the argument was not that tariffs are the greatest economic policy ever,

00:28:21.460 that they are a fit-all, you know, solution to the entire economy. No, he just said tariffs do serve

00:28:28.220 a purpose. And all the geniuses in the liberal side, but also on the liberal side of the American

00:28:33.960 right, all the free trade absolutists, they would come out and say, actually, you know,

00:28:39.120 actually tariffs just don't work. Because I learned that in my seventh grade social studies class,

00:28:42.900 tariffs don't work. And they lead to higher prices because the prices are passed on to the consumers.

00:28:47.500 And that's why they're inflationary and meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh.

00:28:52.080 And Trump came out with his team, including very, very intelligent, accomplished financial

00:28:56.260 professionals like Scott Besson, the treasury secretary, and said, actually, that's not true.

00:28:59.680 Oh, you're going to find out. That's completely ridiculous. They're all inflationary. 0.97

00:29:04.760 Well, here we have it. The Federal Reserve coming out and saying, actually, wow, this is kind of

00:29:10.860 weird. Not only did the tariffs not contribute to inflation, they were deflationary. I should

00:29:19.080 have pulled the clip. Scott Besson, when all of these geniuses on the left and the right were

00:29:23.880 coming out hitting him over the tariff policy, he said, that's not true. Tariffs are deflationary,

00:29:29.180 or they can be deflationary. That is what happened. They were proven right.

00:29:37.140 Contrary to what everyone in both parties was saying, the tariff policy, the Trump economic

00:29:42.680 policy was proven right. Now, there's a caveat here, and it's a pretty big caveat because the

00:29:47.780 economy right now is a little bit shaky. The stock market is doing really well, but it's only really

00:29:51.700 because of seven Silicon Valley stocks. The underlying market is much, much shakier than that. We're

00:29:56.880 probably due for a recession, not because of the Trump policies. That's been building for years at

00:30:01.040 this point, and the Trump policies may or may not contribute to that, not just because of tariffs.

00:30:07.040 The big problem, the big economic problem when Trump came into office was inflation,

00:30:12.760 the massive inflation under Joe Biden. We called it Bidenflation. Trump's policy reduced inflation.

00:30:19.260 Now, the cope here is, and a legitimate caveat is, the reason they reduced inflation is because they

00:30:26.720 were a massive shock to demand for goods that hurt employment numbers and that hurt economic activity.

00:30:34.420 That all could be true. That all could be true. And the warning to the White House here is,

00:30:39.700 you have to get that under control. Looking ahead to the midterms, especially after the pre-midterm

00:30:45.780 elections, those elections in New York and New Jersey and Virginia, you have to make sure that

00:30:50.240 as people seriously are hurting in this economy, that is real. They're not really hurting from

00:30:55.960 inflation, but they are hurting. You need to make sure that you button up the employment problem

00:31:01.840 and the broader economic growth. You have to do that. However, I do think this is good news for them.

00:31:08.920 This is a major notch in the Trump-White House corner of the scoreboard because they were right.

00:31:18.900 Because they tried something different, contravening what everyone else was saying,

00:31:24.360 and they were right. And all the geniuses now look like idiots. 1.00

00:31:28.380 So there are still major economic problems that the White House has to confront. 1.00

00:31:31.940 But the fact that they were right should give us a little bit of confidence that they might be able

00:31:39.560 to pivot and then focus on the other problems. Because dealing with an economy for the global

00:31:44.340 hegemon is a little bit of a game of whack-a-mole. You fix one problem, that creates other problems.

00:31:48.780 Then you have to go fix those problems. That's going to exacerbate still more problems. Obviously,

00:31:51.920 that's going to happen. It's very important, though. So it's a good sign heading in.

00:31:57.700 Very important heading into the midterms, that people feel as though the economy is going well

00:32:03.100 and will continue to go well. Don't forget, the market sets prices based on what they think

00:32:07.820 is going to happen. It's not even about what's going on today. It's certainly not what goes on

00:32:11.940 yesterday. It's what the market expects to happen tomorrow. So you need people to feel,

00:32:17.980 forget about just the eggheads and all the investors. You need people, broadly voters,

00:32:22.740 to feel as though things are getting better. That's always true. To some degree, it's always

00:32:28.480 the economy stupid, as James Carville said in 92. But it's especially true here because one of the 0.99

00:32:34.920 big promises of this presidential term is that we are going to have a golden age. That adjective

00:32:41.340 chosen intentionally, an age that will result in material prosperity, also spiritual prosperity,

00:32:49.140 also cultural prosperity. But material prosperity is part of that. You have to have people believing

00:32:54.760 that that is the case. Can the White House thread that needle? I don't know. They inherited very

00:32:59.920 serious economic problems, and they're trying a novel method, and I hope it works. Now, speaking of

00:33:05.620 things getting better or worse, a devastating clip. It's almost funny in how devastating it is.

00:33:10.860 From a 100-year-old World War II veteran in the UK who was brought on Good Morning Britain to remember

00:33:18.260 his fallen comrades. And it was supposed to be a feel-good story. We fought, we're the greatest

00:33:23.200 generation, and we fought the greatest war ever, and we solved all the world's problems for now and

00:33:26.880 forever. And isn't this great? And you should remember how great that was. That's what they

00:33:30.420 expected the segment to be. And instead, this is what they got.

00:33:36.800 What does Remembrance Sunday mean for you? What is your message?

00:33:42.620 My message is, I can see in my mind's eye, there was rows and rows of white stones of all the hundreds

00:33:51.900 of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for what? A country of today. No, I'm sorry.

00:34:01.220 But the sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now.

00:34:07.860 Oh, well, I'm sorry.

00:34:09.300 What do you mean by that, though, at this point?

00:34:12.660 What we fought for, and what we fought for was our freedom. We find that even now, it's

00:34:20.940 darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.

00:34:27.320 Absolutely devastating. And you can hear the interviewers, they want it to be a happy, 0.68

00:34:35.300 feel-good morning segment. So they say, oh, you know, well, sorry you feel that way, but you know,

00:34:39.680 hey, come on, it's a morning show. He goes, no, no. We fought for freedom and things are worse

00:34:46.920 today than they were when we were fighting. Things are not great right now. And what does

00:34:53.140 that mean? What conclusion are we supposed to take? People are going to take the wrong conclusion

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00:37:34.000 your place in Daily Wire history right now. My favorite comment yesterday is from Stray1239,

00:37:39.720 who says, we got digital Ouija boards before GTA 6. So true. So true. Not great for the culture.

00:37:44.420 This 100-year-old World War II veteran, he says, I look at all those rows and rows of white headstones,

00:37:52.560 all my fallen comrades. The sacrifice wasn't worth it. Things are worse today than they were then.

00:38:00.360 He says, we were fighting for freedom. So what were they fighting against? It's easy, especially for the

00:38:07.060 younger viewers and listeners, it's easy to forget, especially because our schools don't teach history

00:38:12.500 anymore. At the time that, in this case, Britain was fighting, but us too, obviously. At the time

00:38:20.080 the allies were fighting, there were twin evils, twin awful ideologies that were rising up in Europe.

00:38:29.300 Even different varieties of the ideologies, but you had communism from the left, which was wreaking

00:38:34.360 havoc on Europe, which just before the Second World War nearly conquered Iberia. You nearly had the 0.99

00:38:40.180 Bolsheviks conquering Iberia. They were raping nuns, then killing them. They were killing priests, 1.00

00:38:44.460 burning people, shooting at Christ, just grave evils that happily was pushed out of Iberia. 0.99

00:38:50.760 But then you also had the rise of Nazism. And so you had communism makes an idol out of class.

00:38:56.880 You had Nazism, which makes an idol out of race. Both Nazism and communism were trying to destroy the

00:39:02.760 church and taking very active steps to destroy the church. In the case of, well, communism had been

00:39:07.160 trying to destroy the Catholic church and Christianity broadly for a very long time.

00:39:11.500 And then Nazism was taking very particular steps to kidnap the Pope, kill the Pope.

00:39:16.040 Hitler wrote to Francisco Franco, said, I consider the Pope my personal enemy,

00:39:19.700 plans to eradicate the church in Germany, all the rest. You have these awful ideologies.

00:39:24.460 And then you have the Anglosphere, Britain and the US, which says, okay, we're going to go in

00:39:30.200 and we're going to, we're going to first beat Nazism after there was a split between the Nazis and the

00:39:35.960 Soviets. Okay. We're going to first beat Nazism. Then we're going to fight this war to beat communism.

00:39:39.060 And we beat Nazism and then we beat communism. And then what happens? Our societies fall apart.

00:39:49.360 And if you're this 100 year old World War II vet, you're looking at this, you're saying,

00:39:52.920 we fought, my comrades died 80 years ago. And now Muslims have taken over my country. They're 1.00

00:40:00.200 raping the girls of our country. They're given a free pass to do so. We've had all sorts of hostile 1.00

00:40:06.140 foreigners invade Europe, thanks to Germany, actually, thanks to Angela Merkel in Germany. 0.97

00:40:11.660 But all throughout Europe, you're seeing the erosion of the freedoms that we thought we were fighting

00:40:16.540 for. You're seeing women in the UK arrested for praying across the street from abortion clinics.

00:40:22.920 And that's not because of communism, exactly. That's not because of fascism or Nazism, exactly.

00:40:30.320 It's because of the third ideology, liberalism. I guess really you would say fourth ideology,

00:40:38.260 because at play, the minor player in World War II was fascism. Communism makes an idol of class.

00:40:44.460 You had a Nazism makes an idol of race. Fascism makes an idol of the state. 0.79

00:40:49.300 And then you have liberalism, which makes an idol of the individual, individual autonomy.

00:40:57.740 And what we all thought, what we were told, not just after the Second World War, but after the end

00:41:02.560 of the Cold War, we were told liberalism had won. Liberalism had emerged victorious. This was the

00:41:09.100 final solution, to use a charged phrase from World War II. This was the final solution to our political

00:41:15.020 problems. This was actually the end of history. This was it. No more changes to ideology. No more

00:41:22.800 traditional conflicts. This is it. We're going to have an era of global peace. This is where the idea

00:41:26.980 of just unfettered global trade governed by these international, non-state, exactly, institutions,

00:41:34.180 that's where that emerged from. We're all going to sing kumbaya because history's over.

00:41:37.920 But liberalism failed, too. That's the issue. It's not that Nazism would have been better. 0.97

00:41:46.680 Certainly would not have. It's not that communism would have been better. Certainly would not have.

00:41:52.300 It's not that fascism would have been. Fascism was the weakest of those three. It's not that that

00:41:56.440 would have been better. That wouldn't have either. But liberalism failed, too, because ideologies fail. 0.68

00:42:03.700 Because, to use a phrase, pardon the jargon, from Michael Oakeshott, great British political

00:42:10.680 philosopher, ideology is the formalized abridgment of the supposed substratum of rational truth contained

00:42:16.220 in the tradition. Formalized, so it's, you know, you can write it down on a piece of paper.

00:42:22.820 Abridgment, you're shrinking it, you're minimizing it, of what we think is the substratum,

00:42:31.760 the operative layer of purely rational truth that we would otherwise get in the tradition.

00:42:38.540 This is why, as all of these ideologies are back in play, communism on the left,

00:42:45.000 pretty over communism. Look at our guy in New York. A little hint of a rise of Nazism, whether it's, 0.62

00:42:52.620 Nazism's a dead ideology, as Chris Ruffo pointed out. But there are little ironic hints of it again.

00:42:57.880 Or fascism, you know, people joke, oh, maybe the fascists weren't so bad, whatever.

00:43:01.760 As there are all these rise, and then the liberals are tripling down, what is called for

00:43:06.760 is an alternative. Because all of these ideologies have failed. The failure of liberalism is so tragic

00:43:14.080 that it's bringing a 100-year-old World War II veteran almost to tears on television when he says,

00:43:18.920 wow, look at our country, it's worse off today than it was in the 30s and 40s.

00:43:22.860 What is called for is an alternative to all of those ideologies. An alternative to the habit in

00:43:33.140 modernity of formalizing, abridging, rationalizing, abstracting from the tradition. What is called for

00:43:41.280 is a more classical kind of conception of politics, classical political behavior. Dare I say, a

00:43:47.640 recognition that politics is not primarily about ideas, certainly is not primarily about ideology,

00:43:53.200 but is about people and the common good of the people who are all living together.

00:43:57.640 A common good that we can understand and advance much more sturdily in light of the sturdier

00:44:04.020 political resources, namely tradition, what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead.

00:44:09.420 Was it Chesterton or Burke? I don't know. Either way, they're both wonderful writers. And religion,

00:44:17.440 which is the fundament of all politics. That's what's being called for. This is why another one

00:44:22.740 of the buzzwords that you're hearing these days is post-liberalism. And post-liberalism is this term

00:44:28.680 Adrian Vermeule pointed out the other day. It's a purely negative term. It's kind of like

00:44:33.560 Protestantism in the sense that when you say someone is Protestant, that tells you something,

00:44:37.700 tells you it's not Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, but you don't really know. Is it Baptist? Is it

00:44:41.620 Methodist? Is it Anglican? Is it Presbyterian? Is it all those groups disagree with each other?

00:44:45.800 It's just saying it's not something. Post-liberalism is more a description. It's the conclusion that

00:44:51.720 that guy came to, that great World War II veteran who says, well, liberalism failed.

00:44:57.640 What do we do now? We need something else. There's one story I have to get to. I know I'm out of

00:45:04.220 time, but I don't care. Really, really sad story in New York City. A very shy teen leapt to death

00:45:12.480 from New York City's Regis High School. This is a very prestigious high school in New York

00:45:17.120 because he was about to be punished for offering a controversial opinion in an ethics class.

00:45:24.140 Listen to this. This kid was in an ethics class. They were discussing utilitarianism,

00:45:32.420 a modern rationalist ideology advanced by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, which says that

00:45:38.520 what we should pursue is the greatest good for the greatest number.

00:45:43.620 So the way we should think about ethics is not whether an act is moral or immoral in itself.

00:45:49.700 That would be Kantian ethics, deontological ethics. It's not that we should think about

00:45:54.780 the whole person who cultivates habits of virtue that allow him to make proper ethical judgments

00:46:02.900 when they present themselves in their complexity, which is too great to merely prescribe all of it

00:46:07.700 in a manifesto. That would be virtue ethics coming from Aristotle. No, no. This modern form which says

00:46:13.480 the way that we determine the morality of actions is by calculating the greatest good for the greatest

00:46:17.520 number. So you could justify anything. By utilitarian ethics, you could justify genocide,

00:46:22.760 murdering babies, and all. And we do, actually. And this kid, we don't know what the opinion was,

00:46:27.740 but he offered a contrary opinion. And he was going to be punished for that. And he was so afraid

00:46:33.520 of being punished, this shy 16-year-old teenager, that he leapt to his death from Regis High School.

00:46:40.740 Pascal Emmanuel Gobri, who is a great tweeter, great writer, but you might follow him on Twitter.

00:46:46.400 He's a very thoughtful guy. He responded to this. He said, we live in a totalitarian society.

00:46:53.420 I think he's totally right. And this is a point I've made on the show. I made this at least a year

00:46:58.900 ago, maybe more than that. I said, it's funny, we think of totalitarianism as communism or Nazism,

00:47:04.940 but liberalism is totalitarian too. In as much as it seeks to control every aspect of your life.

00:47:17.460 You're not allowed to think certain ways. It controls what you post on Instagram. You better

00:47:21.920 post that black square when George Floyd dies. Otherwise, you might be ostracized. You might be 0.95

00:47:26.640 guilty of wrong thing. You better, hey, you better trance your kid. Otherwise, maybe the state's

00:47:33.200 going to come in and take your kid from you. You better not express any controversial views. In this

00:47:38.640 case, in a class on a terribly wrong ethical point of view, to contradict that would be a good thing.

00:47:46.380 That shouldn't be controversial at all. Utilitarianism should be controversial.

00:47:49.160 If you do that, you're going to be punished. You're going to leap to your death in some cases.

00:47:53.780 That's totalitarian. And another one of these buzzwords that goes around these days

00:47:57.260 is authoritarian. We say that the left is authoritarian. Not exactly. The left says that

00:48:03.680 the right is authoritarian. That's also kind of silly because even on the right, we're pretty 0.60

00:48:10.160 live and let live, pretty laissez-faire. Frankly, we should probably be a little more authoritarian,

00:48:14.660 whatever that word is to mean. Because authoritarian means that the government is strong

00:48:20.680 in a limited number of areas. Hey, we're not going to tolerate Satan displays in the public courthouse.

00:48:29.560 We're not going to tolerate the Satan club going into the elementary school, as we see.

00:48:33.920 We're not going to tolerate transgenderism in public life. We're just not going to tolerate that. 1.00

00:48:39.440 But what you do in your own home, we're not going to concern ourselves too much.

00:48:42.880 You can have your opinions. You can discuss your opinions. But in certain limited areas,

00:48:47.940 we're going to maintain cohesion. We're going to insist upon that. That's authoritarian.

00:48:53.700 Totalitarian is when you get kids to rat on their parents to the state.

00:48:59.900 Totalitarian is when the political order tries to control every single thought you have. And if you

00:49:05.240 contradict it in even the mildest of ways, you're going to be impelled to leap to your death.

00:49:08.380 That's totalitarian. That is another ironic failure of liberalism.

00:49:14.340 We thought liberalism was the opposite of totalitarianism. Actually, in the final count,

00:49:20.280 in the final calculation, they seem pretty similar. Okay. Speaking of high school kids,

00:49:25.100 I want to get to this very strange headline, which is not surprising to me, but it's surprising to a lot

00:49:29.980 of people. That 12th grade girls are less likely to want to get married now than boys. First time we've

00:49:35.680 ever seen that. But I don't have time, so we're going to have to get to that tomorrow because

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 17, 2025

Ep. 1858 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Joins The Resistance？

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