The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1978 - Election Results Prove Trump Is Still the King Of The Party

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00:00:14.520 Libertarian star Thomas Massey goes down in the Kentucky GOP congressional primary

00:00:19.420 alongside Brad Raffensperger in the Georgia gubernatorial primary.

00:00:24.200 this on the heels of Bill Cassidy in the Louisiana Senate primary, as well as five

00:00:29.920 state legislators in Indiana. What did all the losing candidates have in common?

00:00:35.500 Was it ideology, libertarians, or neocons, or traditionalists? Or was it some particular issue

00:00:43.060 or other, immigration, taxes, foreign policy? Was it opposition to Israel? No. All those things

00:00:52.120 definitely factored into the races around the country, but only one thing united all of the

00:00:58.120 losing candidates in the recent elections. And that is that Trump wanted them out and he got

00:01:04.240 what he wanted in every single case. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:22.120 Welcome back to the show. Horrific shooting at a mosque in San Diego. There's a lot of

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00:01:44.280 in the right-wing political world today, Thomas Massey goes down in Kentucky. This was a pretty

00:01:51.700 big one. And I thought he was going to lose. I thought he was going to lose for a few reasons

00:01:56.460 that we'll get into momentarily. But the main reason I thought he was going to lose yesterday

00:02:01.640 morning, a friend of mine here at the Daily Wire came into my office, said, Michael,

00:02:06.020 do you think Massey's going to lose? I'm one of the more electoral politics interested people

00:02:14.600 around these parts, worked on some campaigns. I like the horse race. I like the machinations

00:02:19.380 of politics. So anyway, they were testing me out. They said, do you think Massey's going to lose?

00:02:22.860 And I said, yes. I said, why? I said, because he's acting like he's going to lose. His recent

00:02:28.240 comments, his recent attitude toward the press, toward the GOP, toward the president. I thought,

00:02:32.820 this is a guy who looks like he is setting up the next step. Whether that means he's going to run

00:02:37.880 for president in 2028, whether that means that he is going to do what every single white man in

00:02:42.520 America under the age of 75 does, which is start a podcast. I said, it looks to me like he is

00:02:47.360 preparing to lose. And that is what happened. He went down. It was not particularly close.

00:02:52.500 It was a nine point swing. So he was right on the brink of a double digit loss. And the moment

00:02:59.140 that is going viral from Massey's concession is when he walks out and takes one last shot

00:03:05.640 at the people he now views to be his chief political adversaries.

00:03:10.900 I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede. And it took a while to

00:03:16.820 find ed galrine in tel aviv i did get the call through though i have i have called and conceded

00:03:30.600 the race um we've been honorable the whole time and we're going to stay that way i love this 0.90

00:03:37.740 contrast he comes out he goes hey yeah my my opponent who won is a dirty rotten sellout 1.00

00:03:44.280 controlled by the dastardly Jews over in the Middle East. But listen, we want to keep it 1.00

00:03:48.740 classy. We want to conduct ourselves a dignity here. And look, in Massey's defense, a lot of

00:03:56.320 pro-Israel donors did dump a lot of money into this race. Massey has increasingly made opposition

00:04:02.680 to Israel and the funding of Israel a big part of his campaign. Though the situation is complicated

00:04:08.600 because one of Massey's big donors is a big pro-Israel guy. He's a pro-Israel billionaire,

00:04:13.700 Jeff Yass. So even that is a little bit strange. But obviously, the way that Massey is viewing this

00:04:19.640 is that he was taken out of the race by pro-Israel forces. Now, even there, you say, well,

00:04:27.080 is it okay for pro-Israel donors to dump a lot of money into a race? And I'd say, well, 0.56

00:04:32.560 big politics attracts big money. I mean, that's a facet of American politics. But

00:04:38.020 I think that, well, obviously, Massey and a lot of his supporters are going to put all the blame

00:04:44.380 here on the pro-Israel forces. And I don't think that quite explains it, especially within the

00:04:51.140 context of the other races that occurred last night, and within the context of the race that

00:04:56.140 happened last Saturday, and within the context of the race in Indiana that occurred just a few

00:05:01.560 weeks ago. It seems to me that there were other forces at play. And here's my evidence of this.

00:05:06.340 had massey opposed israel but voted on the the crucial votes that trump wanted him to vote on

00:05:16.420 on the big beautiful bill or even i don't know in the house speaker election or even on this

00:05:23.400 thing or that thing had had he done that i think that trump would have continued to back him

00:05:29.140 because massey comes from the libertarian wing of the party but he had a lot of cred with

00:05:34.280 conservatives and Trump had previously endorsed him. So it seems to me, this is the hypothetical

00:05:39.440 you have to ask yourself. Had Massey voted for the big, beautiful bill, which is the signature

00:05:43.680 piece of legislation that Trump wanted this year. Had Massey not increasingly voted against the

00:05:49.620 party, you know, his record on voting with the party two terms ago was 95%. Then last term it

00:05:54.680 was 91%. This term it's been 77.7%, which is way below the median GOP congressman who is still at

00:06:00.260 95%. Had Massey done all of that and still said, look, I don't want to support Israel. I don't 0.60

00:06:05.700 want to fund Israel. There are plenty of GOP congressmen who voted against funding bills for

00:06:09.300 Israel. The question you have to ask yourself is, if that were all the case, but he were still

00:06:13.780 anti-Israel, would Massey have his seat today? And I think the inescapable conclusion is yes,

00:06:18.680 he would. Obviously, that was a factor in the race, but I think Trump would have still backed

00:06:26.460 him. Because then you look at the other candidates who went down, including last night, like Brad

00:06:31.680 Raffensperger in Georgia. Israel was not the issue in that race. The 2020 election was the issue in

00:06:37.740 that race, where Raffensperger became a darling of the left because he was positioning himself

00:06:43.800 as the man upholding the constitution against the predations of that awful, terrible autocrat 0.86

00:06:48.700 Donald Trump. And he went down, and he went down real hard. You look at Bill Cassidy,

00:06:54.040 The issue in that race wasn't Israel, wasn't even really the 2020 election.

00:06:59.500 Trump felt he was unreliable and that he had opposed him too much.

00:07:03.220 You look at the Indiana state legislators who went down.

00:07:06.460 Trump went after five of those state legislators.

00:07:08.340 He took them all out.

00:07:09.820 That issue was redistricting.

00:07:11.740 That had nothing to do with foreign policy or the big, beautiful bill or the 2020 election.

00:07:16.740 So the only common thread that you're looking at here is opposition to Trump, which is why

00:07:22.340 this was my prediction, well, yesterday, certainly, and in the days before that,

00:07:27.260 I said that the question that this election is going to answer, this election is really

00:07:32.420 going to be a referendum on whether or not Trump still has control of the GOP.

00:07:37.980 And I said, if Massey goes down, it's going to be evidence, chiefly,

00:07:41.160 that Trump still has an ironclad grip on the GOP, which is pretty impressive.

00:07:46.780 Look, Trump took over the GOP 10 years ago, a little over 10 years.

00:07:51.020 it was really when he was coming down that escalator 2015. That was a hostile takeover

00:07:55.660 of the GOP. The business class hated him. The policy wonk bow tie think tank class of the

00:08:03.720 conservative movement hated him. The conservative media hated him. Everybody hated him, and he took

00:08:07.760 over the party. Ten years later, now almost halfway through his second term, when he should

00:08:14.120 be a lame duck, he is still flexing his muscles. So all of these candidates, Massey, Cassidy,

00:08:23.840 the state legislators, Raffensperger, they're all going to blame some issue or other.

00:08:28.980 But in the context of all of them going down, I don't see how you can deny that the chief

00:08:33.900 issue here is that they put themselves in opposition to Trump, some of them increasingly

00:08:39.520 so. I mean, Massey, you can love Massey. You can say he had a great voting record,

00:08:44.920 at least until relatively recently. You can say he had a great voting record even

00:08:48.140 up through the present. But the thing you can't deny is they put themselves increasingly in the

00:08:56.660 case of Massey in opposition to Trump and Trump took them out, which means this is still Trump's

00:09:01.340 party. And that's going to have massive consequences. So the partisans, the supporters

00:09:09.260 of the people who went down last night, Massey being the most prominent of them, but all the

00:09:13.300 others too, what they are going to argue now is, okay, well, Trump won the battle, but he's going

00:09:18.020 to lose the war because he took out all of our good candidates in the primaries, but now we're

00:09:23.800 going to be in an even worse spot in the general election. And some of these cases, I don't think

00:09:29.120 that's true. I mean, I think in this district in Kentucky, nobody seriously thinks it's going to

00:09:32.680 go to a Democrat. But we'll get to the Texas Senate race in a second because Trump just made

00:09:37.180 a fairly shocking endorsement. He endorsed the challenger who has some PR problems against the

00:09:43.860 incumbent, John Cornyn. So all these guys, maybe Raffensperger, maybe in Indiana, they're going to

00:09:49.720 say, well, okay, you took out our good candidates in the primaries. Now we're going to be in an even

00:09:53.500 worst spot in the general election. I don't buy that really, but that's going to be their argument.

00:10:01.420 They're going to say Trump, maybe he's shrunk the political coalition. He's alienating the

00:10:05.200 libertarians. He's alienating the moderates. He's alienating this, that, and the other thing.

00:10:08.600 They're all going to make those arguments. But what you can't say is that Trump isn't still the

00:10:16.020 chief influence. And then the other consequence that this is going to have, not just necessarily

00:10:19.540 for the midterm elections, but looking at 2028 is, it is now clearer than it has ever been

00:10:24.520 that barring some global financial crisis, barring entry into World War III,

00:10:30.940 barring Trump's approval within the GOP just collapsing, which obviously it has not,

00:10:35.940 the 2028 nominee is going to be picked by Donald Trump. That's it. That's how it's going to go.

00:10:42.420 Barring some massive change, and two years, two and a half years is a long time,

00:10:46.020 barring some massive change, Trump is going to pick the nominee, which helps to explain another

00:10:50.400 thing that we'll hopefully get to today if we have time, which is the ways in which the Vice

00:10:55.020 President J.D. Vance, who's the heir apparent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who's also

00:10:59.040 very prominent in the Trump administration and who's getting a lot of plaudits from the

00:11:02.820 conservative movement, that's going to dictate how they are going to run against each other or

00:11:07.200 by all evidence in tandem with one another. It's about Trump. It's still about Trump. I remember

00:11:12.780 10 years ago, at the beginning of this whole journey, people kept trying to make the argument

00:11:17.760 and say, it's really not about Trump. It's about this issue. It's about immigration.

00:11:22.040 It's really not about Trump. It's about foreign policy. It's really not about Trump. It's about

00:11:25.940 this, that, or the other thing. And I think the inescapable conclusion from the standpoint of

00:11:30.000 just nuts and bolts electoral politics is, no, it really is about Trump. It really is.

00:11:37.220 it actually is about Trump. This guy is an American original, sui generis. He's the guy.

00:11:46.440 Maybe a world historic figure, that remains to be seen in the history books, but he is the guy.

00:11:51.940 And he won last night. You can be furious at that. You can think he made bad endorsements.

00:11:58.840 You can pull your hair out and rinse your garments. But he won. He got exactly what he

00:12:04.900 wanted in every single one of these races. And the way he got it is that the voters gave him

00:12:11.880 what he wanted. The Republican primary voters, the base of the party gave him what he wanted.

00:12:18.600 And so for the people who got these predictions wrong, forget about their desires, just the people

00:12:24.200 who got these predictions wrong, I think what you have to conclude is they do not have a good sense

00:12:30.500 of where the actual GOP is. They're confusing the GOP for a social media platform. They're

00:12:37.200 confusing the GOP for podcasts. They're confusing the GOP for cable news, for that matter. But

00:12:42.540 those are different things. This is a reaffirmation amid a time of some confusion

00:12:50.080 that there actually is a distinction between hardcore on-the-ground politics and the political

00:12:57.460 media, and the podcasts, and social media, and the pundit class, and on and on and on.

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00:14:52.440 very, very lengthy Truth Social post, so I won't read the whole thing. It says,

00:14:55.640 the highly respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First patriot and someone

00:15:00.200 who's always been extremely loyal to me in our amazing MAGA movement is running for U.S. Senate

00:15:04.080 to represent a place I love. And I won big three times with 6.4 million votes in 2024,

00:15:09.340 the most votes in the history of the state by far. I'm the man. I'm the man. I know Ken well.

00:15:15.280 I've seen him tested. He's a winner. So he goes on about how great he is. We're going to make

00:15:20.460 America bigger, better, stronger than ever before. Then he goes on and he says, look, I like the

00:15:24.980 incumbent, John Cornyn. We've gotten along, but he's voted against me too many times. He's opposed

00:15:28.980 me too many times. He hasn't been a strong enough supporter. And so I'm going with Paxton.

00:15:32.840 For those who have not followed this race all that closely, this is an unbelievable political

00:15:40.320 coup by Ken Paxton. Once again, when I'm analyzing primaries, I've tried to,

00:15:47.420 So in my role here as a political analyst, conservative pundit, I've tried to be a little

00:15:55.460 bit objective. Even if I might have a preference for this candidate or that candidate, I've tried

00:15:59.060 to be a little bit objective to try to understand what is going on with the nuts and bolts of the

00:16:04.200 party. I always try to do that in the primaries. Obviously not in the general elections. I'm on

00:16:08.720 our side. I'm not on the Democrat side. But in the primaries, I'm trying to see exactly what's

00:16:12.600 going on here. And this was an amazing political coup because all of the scuttlebutt coming out

00:16:19.640 of the White House was that Trump was going to endorse Cornyn. Cornyn is a little more moderate,

00:16:24.440 a little more centrist, a little more diplomatic in his speech, a little he's opposed to the

00:16:28.380 president sometimes. And he was going to go with him because we just need that reliable incumbent

00:16:33.660 vote in the Senate. Ken Paxton's got this bad PR because of some personal scandals. And so

00:16:39.080 you know, that was too risky. Even if the base likes Paxton more than they like Cornyn,

00:16:43.300 you know, Trump was going to play the safe bet here. That was all the scuttlebutt coming out

00:16:48.320 of the White House. And then Ken Paxton did something amazing. Paxton comes out and he says,

00:16:55.360 hey, I'm going to drop out of the Texas Senate primary. I'll just drop out of the race if my

00:17:03.960 opponent, John Cornyn, and the Senate leadership abolish the filibuster to pass the Save America

00:17:10.300 Act. The Save America Act, which requires voter ID to prove that you're actually a citizen if

00:17:15.960 you're going to vote. Very simple. He says, look, I'll drop out of the race. This isn't about me.

00:17:20.980 This is about the issue. This is about the people. This is about the sovereignty of our country.

00:17:24.700 So I'll tell you what, I'll drop out of the race if Cornyn, my opponent, and the Senate leadership

00:17:31.080 blow up the filibuster to pass this bill that's an 80-20 issue, more than an 80-20 issue.

00:17:36.180 The vast majority of Americans across every demographic think we should have voter ID.

00:17:40.740 That's his chess move. He goes, okay, now it's your turn. Where are you going to move?

00:17:44.900 And it was so beautiful because as Paxton was on the brink of losing, he says, hey,

00:17:50.400 if you just support the president's agenda, I'll back out. It was such a dare. It was such a risky

00:17:58.140 move because Cornyn and the Senate leadership wouldn't do it. Because of that, all of a sudden,

00:18:06.280 Paxton has positioned himself to say, look, I'm the Trump guy. And hey, Trump, these guys that

00:18:12.720 you're about to endorse, they won't do what needs to be done to pass one of the most basic aspects

00:18:19.060 of your agenda. One of the easiest political wins. Now, abolishing the filibuster is not an easy

00:18:24.480 political win. But the Save America Act, that's an easy political win. And what he was essentially

00:18:29.100 saying to Trump is, hey, you're going to back this guy. This guy won't do the bare minimum

00:18:34.480 to support your agenda. Why would you ever back him in the primary? And it worked.

00:18:41.460 It was just even take out the substance of the Save America Act and just the political

00:18:46.940 machinations here were so brilliant. This was an, regardless if you like Cornyn, if you like

00:18:52.420 Paxton, probably more people like Paxton in the conservative base. But regardless of what you

00:18:57.700 think about them, this was an absolute political masterstroke. He ripped that endorsement right

00:19:03.160 out of John Cornyn's hands. Trump was on the brink of handing him over the endorsement.

00:19:08.000 And Ken Paxton comes in there like the roadrunner and just rips it right out of his hands.

00:19:12.660 And it worked. Cornyn now, he's reeling from this. It's hard to see how he comes back from it.

00:19:19.420 there's still a chance there's still a chance that the voters in texas buck the president's

00:19:26.060 endorsement but after this record massey cassidy the raffensperger in georgia the five legislators

00:19:34.940 in indiana it's hard to see how that actually happens especially because trump's playing on

00:19:39.560 all these different issues it's not just one it's not just the 2020 election or israel or

00:19:45.680 redistricting or this or that. He's playing on all of them, and he's winning on all of them.

00:19:51.800 It looks like a kill shot to Cornyn's reelection chances. It's a very gutsy endorsement.

00:19:59.220 And who knows? There is a chance, the kind of establishment Republicans are saying,

00:20:03.820 well, Paxton's got too much baggage, and now James Tallarico, who we call the gay Pete Buttigieg,

00:20:08.300 now he's going to win in Texas. I'm not convinced of that. They say this every year. 0.99

00:20:12.560 They always say, oh, Beto O'Rourke, he's going to flip Texas purple.

00:20:16.640 He's going to flip Texas blue.

00:20:18.340 Who was the next one?

00:20:19.200 There was that Colin Allred, the guy who ran against Ted Cruz,

00:20:21.440 the football player who wanted to put boys in girls sports. 0.84

00:20:25.820 All Red's going to beat Cruz.

00:20:27.560 Oh, this is it.

00:20:28.280 This is the one.

00:20:28.700 It never really seems to happen.

00:20:31.380 And so I think Paxton could win against Tallarico.

00:20:34.360 I think Tallarico is a paper tiger.

00:20:36.740 I think he's, right now, Tallarico, he's getting the Beto treatment.

00:20:41.480 He's getting the Buttigieg treatment.

00:20:43.840 The political media are building him up to be something more than he is.

00:20:47.620 They see the nuts and bolts on paper.

00:20:49.340 They say, well, you know, we have this problem because our whole party is so woke and full

00:20:53.400 of DEI and radical and the voters hate us.

00:20:55.620 Well, I know what we'll do.

00:20:56.480 We'll just run an ordinary looking white guy, ostensibly straight, and all, here's the cherry 0.77

00:21:02.180 on top.

00:21:02.660 He says he's a Christian.

00:21:03.760 That'll fool him. 0.89

00:21:05.400 James Tallarico, whose statements are much closer to what you'd expect from the Antichrist

00:21:09.020 than they are from Christ. Total subversion of Christian teaching every step of the way

00:21:14.420 when it comes to life, when it comes to gender, when it comes to marriage, so on and so forth. 1.00

00:21:20.960 So I think Cornyn would beat Tallarico. I think Paxton would beat Tallarico.

00:21:26.380 Very, very gutsy move. Okay, enough of the inside baseball. Let's get back to the libs.

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00:23:47.460 and he was murdered in cold blood. And a lot of the left came out and said he had it coming.

00:23:52.100 Well, here are some some Luigi stans.

00:23:55.040 Here are some classic demo of the of the party.

00:23:59.520 Millennial women, liberal women describing how it was such a good thing that Thompson was murdered.

00:24:08.580 I said I said what I said. 0.66

00:24:10.300 I don't give a.

00:24:11.060 His children are better off without him.

00:24:13.380 They need to learn to not be like their dad and enjoy the blood money.

00:24:17.660 was that what was that i didn't get that what you said um i'm standing on business

00:24:24.860 brian thompson i don't give a flying so by the way that first woman who's speaking she has a

00:24:30.320 press pass so this is a journalist this isn't just a random activist though there's really

00:24:36.520 no difference on the left anyway she says yeah i said what i said yeah i don't care about this guy

00:24:41.260 i don't care that he got murdered and then that other woman even worse can you imagine this she

00:24:44.160 said, yeah, his kids are better off without him. Maybe it's just because I have little kids now.

00:24:51.020 And in politics, now all conservatives have a target on our backs quite demonstrably.

00:24:56.940 That is about the worst thing I've ever heard anybody say. That is about the most repulsive,

00:25:03.980 vomit-inducing thing I have ever heard anybody say. This guy, this business executive,

00:25:12.560 that's just like ordinary business executive was murdered in cold blood he's got little kids who

00:25:19.000 are going to have to grow up without their father and with the knowledge that their father was

00:25:21.900 murdered taken from them and with the knowledge that a lot of the mainstream left supported that

00:25:28.440 or excused that or dismissed that and these kids when they're crying themselves to sleep every

00:25:33.360 single night these kids who are going to have massive trauma for the rest of their lives

00:25:36.960 are told by relatively ordinary women, not just the fringe, that it's actually good that their

00:25:45.860 dad was murdered. It's good. It's good for them. That's as horrible a thing as you can possibly 1.00

00:25:51.060 imagine. And it's not abnormal. I guess the part that makes it even more horrible is it's not

00:25:58.660 abnormal. I'm trying to think of the most charitable view I can take of these women. 0.98

00:26:01.880 and the most charitable view I can possibly take 0.97

00:26:04.760 is to blame it on the SSRIs.

00:26:07.920 That's the most charitable view 0.93

00:26:09.060 because these women, just statistically,

00:26:11.420 these women in particular are probably all on SSRIs,

00:26:14.600 all on these psych drugs 1.00

00:26:15.600 because these liberal women are totally nuts 1.00

00:26:17.340 and the way that we deal with that now 1.00

00:26:18.800 is not telling them no

00:26:19.780 and it's not trying to help them

00:26:21.000 and it's not trying to point them

00:26:21.960 to things that will be helpful to them.

00:26:23.800 It's just we drug them

00:26:25.320 and part of the SSRIs is that they blunt emotion 0.99

00:26:29.140 and they basically turn liberal women into psychopaths.

00:26:31.880 so much so that these women, one, some activist chick, one, a member of the press, what's the 0.98

00:26:39.040 difference? Say, oh, yeah, I'm glad. I'm really glad that those kids had their dad murdered. I'm

00:26:44.220 really glad. It's good for them. Enjoy the blood money, kids. The ads, what is blood money? The

00:26:49.240 guy ran an insurance company, and I know some people don't like insurance companies. You all

00:26:53.880 buy insurance, though, and you like insurance companies when they pay out, and it's just a

00:26:57.440 business. You don't want there to be insurance? Should there not be insurance now? Look, there's

00:27:02.800 some companies we don't like, but some companies are kind of annoying. We complain when the doctor's

00:27:07.720 office makes us wait too long in the waiting room. We don't like going to the dentist either,

00:27:11.700 okay? But we don't want to get rid of dentists. So you say, hey, kids, I'm glad your dad got

00:27:16.560 murdered. And also you, kids, you are doing something immoral. Enjoy the blood money? 0.95

00:27:21.860 just kicking little orphans, little kid orphans. That's what the left is doing. 0.90

00:27:28.820 And look, this relates to what we were talking about just moments ago on the primaries.

00:27:33.740 There are a lot of people who love Thomas Massey. I've liked Thomas Massey over the years. I've

00:27:38.120 liked a lot of things he's done. I don't love the turn he's taken recently, especially in

00:27:42.260 opposition to the president. But okay, whatever. Libertarians, they're always, look, we love our

00:27:46.440 libertarian friends. They're kind of annoying sometimes. They're always, they got to be the

00:27:51.000 sole vote against something, and they don't really accomplish all that much in politics.

00:27:54.840 And sometimes they kind of preen and puff themselves up. But whatever. Libertarians

00:27:59.340 are an important part of the conservative coalition. But I love Thomas Massey compared to

00:28:06.400 all of these libs, all of these Democrats. Or let's take a totally different kind of Republican,

00:28:12.140 Brad Raffensperger. Yeah, he's kind of annoying, and he went kind of squishy,

00:28:15.800 and he appealed to the liberal media and, okay, sure.

00:28:20.040 I love Brad Raffensperger.

00:28:21.800 Brad Raffensperger is Charles Martel to me

00:28:23.840 compared to the Democrats or the five guys in Indiana

00:28:28.600 or Bill Cassidy or what have you.

00:28:31.140 The real fight here, the real fight is against the left. 0.99

00:28:36.540 The left, which wants to kill you 1.00

00:28:38.360 and then wants to mock your kids when you're dead. 1.00

00:28:41.960 That's the fight, okay?

00:28:43.280 And so the GOP, we have squabbles, we have fights, that's why we have primary contests. We are much more intellectually and ideologically diverse than the left. The left, which is uniformly progressive, and we duke it out. And I can tell you 10 ways till Sunday how awful the neocons are. I've said that many times.

00:29:00.340 the neocons the radical interventionists who are liberal imperialists really alternately how the

00:29:06.660 libertarians are super annoying and misunderstand human nature alternately how the business

00:29:11.280 republicans sell out the country because they encourage mass migration alternately on and on 0.83

00:29:16.100 and on and on i can i can give you all sorts of reasons why these random republicans irritate me

00:29:21.720 those are primary squabbles and then we need unity and a lot of what trump is demonstrating last

00:29:29.800 night, whether your candidate won or your candidate lost. What he is demonstrating is

00:29:35.340 he wants unity within the party. And unity is a good thing. Some people come out and they say,

00:29:41.080 in a petulant and, dare I say, childish way, they'll say, well, I don't want a guy who's

00:29:45.760 going to go along with the party. I want people who are independent, maverick, who buck the party,

00:29:49.720 who, yeah, okay, maybe, occasionally, maybe. Unity is a virtue. Unity is a virtue. You want

00:29:57.720 to take this all the way down to the level of religion in the Nicene Creed, which all Christians

00:30:03.060 should recite and most Christians do recite. There are four marks of the church, one holy Catholic

00:30:07.900 and apostolic, and the first mark of the church is unity. Unity is a good thing. In your own family,

00:30:14.200 do you want unity or do you want division? Do you want anarchy? Do you want people constantly at

00:30:19.820 odds with each other? Do you want everything to be some bare knuckle brawl and debate over what

00:30:23.980 we're going to have for dinner tonight? Or do you want unity within your family? Do you want unity

00:30:27.360 within your polity? Do you want unity on a sports team? On a sports team, do you want everybody just

00:30:32.440 out for their own? And, you know, when the shortstop disagrees with the catcher, the shortstop's going

00:30:36.960 to do what he wants to do and the catcher's going to do what he wants to do? No, because then your

00:30:39.740 team loses. Unity is very important. You want to be moving in the right direction. You want the

00:30:44.700 right strategy. You want the right manager making the right calls. You want all those things. And

00:30:48.500 you can disagree over that and you can kind of duke it out. But you need unity because, not to

00:30:54.000 put too fine a point on it. The mainstream left wants to kill you and then mock your children 0.99

00:31:00.160 when you're dead. Keep your priorities straight. Okay. Now, speaking of violence, 1.00

00:31:08.360 as horrific shooting at a mosque in San Diego, this happened a couple of days ago.

00:31:12.840 I killed three people. A security guard was killed. Apparently the security guard and a

00:31:18.280 father of eight, this guy, Amin Abdullah, father of eight. Imagine what a great country would be

00:31:23.180 If everyone were having eight kids, this guy, he, according to police, prevented more deaths,

00:31:28.800 but he was killed.

00:31:30.300 Eight kids going to grow up without a father, along with a grocery store owner and another

00:31:34.640 guy.

00:31:35.020 They were all killed.

00:31:36.180 They were killed by two teenagers.

00:31:40.740 The guys who killed them were teenagers, and they were apparently neo-Nazis.

00:31:44.720 So what we know, details are still coming out, but they were wearing swastikas and the

00:31:49.620 Sonnenrad, which is another neo-Nazi symbol.

00:31:53.180 But what gets especially weird here is, I'm not going to say their names, but one of the neo-Nazis

00:31:59.020 has a Hispanic name, which you don't, I don't know. I don't think Hitler would have been

00:32:05.680 all that welcoming of some Quechua-speaking indigenous from Latin America. It's kind of odd 0.99

00:32:13.360 to have a non-white neo-Nazi. And then the other kid, I think these guys were like 17 years old.

00:32:21.220 one of them, I guess he was a white guy. There were some rumors going around that one of them

00:32:27.340 is kind of trans, but I don't see a lot of support for that. He didn't have long hair.

00:32:32.180 Then the way that he did his hair, it kind of seemed like he wasn't even totally white,

00:32:35.020 but maybe he is white. I don't know. Just like we were talking about in the races last night

00:32:40.480 and over the past couple of weeks, what is the unifying thing here? What helps to explain what

00:32:46.420 really motivated them. Well, the obvious symbols they're wearing are the neo-Nazi symbols. You

00:32:51.340 say, okay, they're these extremely radical right-wing Nazis. But according to their social

00:32:58.640 media posts and diaries or all of their writing, they really hated the Jews, but then they attacked

00:33:05.100 a mosque. That's kind of strange. That doesn't make total sense. They were neo-Nazis. One of

00:33:11.680 them at least wasn't white. They wanted to start a race war. I guess the guys killed themselves in 0.99

00:33:16.840 the car. The parents of one of the shooters called in, said, my kid is suicidal. So was it a suicide

00:33:23.960 pact? What was it? The clearest thing that I can see is that these guys spent all of their lives

00:33:30.000 online. We don't know very much about the Hispanic named killer, but one of the guys,

00:33:35.740 I won't say his full name, but his first name is Cain. And this is kind of significant. We say

00:33:43.220 nomen est omen, the name of this guy who commits the primordial murder, Cain, who murders Abel.

00:33:50.480 His name is Cain, and he apparently attended high school online. So some of the reporting was,

00:33:55.860 he was just about to graduate high school, but he wasn't going to a high school. All these

00:34:01.220 kind of shooter kids are usually loners and weirdos. But this guy wasn't even attending

00:34:06.300 the high school. He was doing it online. And when you look at the real radical ideologies,

00:34:13.320 the violent ideologies on the left and on the right, it seems to me the common thread is always

00:34:17.940 that this grows up online. And as a country increasingly lives in the virtual world,

00:34:23.760 you're going to get a lot more disorder, a lot more dysfunction.

00:34:27.240 uh dangerous too we were talking i think it was last week about how high school kids are drinking

00:34:33.820 less and people are celebrating that but i said it's actually a bad thing you don't want the high

00:34:36.900 school kids to be drinking less because this what that signifies is not that they're less prone to

00:34:42.560 vice what that signifies is they're socializing less in any case very very uh sad story so

00:34:49.480 obviously we should pray for the people who died uh we should you know pray that there's not a rise

00:34:55.840 and vigilante violence or the spread of radical ideologies. But I think the core of this is

00:35:00.520 we need to pray that we stop being a virtual society, a virtual society in which we ignore,

00:35:10.040 obviously, the bonds of charity that unite us to our neighbors, but in which we begin to live

00:35:16.800 in virtual reality in ways that are contrary to reality. Chris Rufo wrote a good piece in

00:35:21.280 City Journal, this was a couple months ago now, in which he pointed out that neo-Nazism,

00:35:26.180 like Nazism as an ideology, is not a living ideology. It's dead. Nazism was destroyed in

00:35:32.480 the 1940s. And so it's not that people can't call themselves Nazis, or it's certainly not that

00:35:36.820 people can't oppose others of being Nazis. They do that all the time. If you're slightly to the

00:35:40.480 right of Zoran Mamdani, you're called a Nazi these days. But it doesn't really mean what it

00:35:46.980 would have meant in the 1940s. It's kind of a hyper-real ideology. There's a lot of incoherence

00:35:52.240 between what these teen shooters were writing and what they were actually committing, what they

00:35:57.660 seem to have accomplished, what they were getting at. Was it homicidal? Was it suicidal? Was it

00:36:02.600 anti-Jewish? Was it anti-Muslim? Are they Nazis or are they non-white? Well, just to bring it

00:36:12.300 full circle. How do you have a non-white neo-Nazi? You only have a non-white neo-Nazi

00:36:15.960 in a world in which the body no longer really matters to identity. A theme that we've talked

00:36:20.940 about through the rise of the transgender ideology, a theme that we've talked about 0.91

00:36:25.000 through the rise of looks maxing, the theme that we've talked about through the decline of

00:36:29.780 socializing among teens and 20-somethings. You can only have a non-white neo-Nazi in a world in 0.63

00:36:35.880 which the body doesn't matter as much, in which your identity can be totally divorced from your 0.79

00:36:39.500 your physical reality, which will always lead to disorder and ultimately to a kind of a suicide,

00:36:44.780 which is literally what you get at the San Diego shooting. Okay. Speaking of trends among the

00:36:50.500 various generations, really disturbing viral video that people think is cute, a viral trend

00:36:56.640 of millennials who don't have kids bragging about all of their fancy travel. There's a lot more to

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00:38:49.180 I did not pick the comment yesterday. I had the producers do it. Let's see if they did well. This

00:38:53.660 is from MagaMag4547, who says, has Panda Express responded to this event? If not, I think they need

00:39:01.220 to be boycotted. I wonder, yeah, corporate, I don't know if they have responded to this event.

00:39:07.480 And I'm not opposed to a boycott, mostly because Panda Express isn't that good.

00:39:14.460 If this were Arby's, heaven forfend, it would never be. It would never be Arby's kicking out

00:39:18.600 right-wingers. But if it were, I would be more loath to boycott them because their food is so

00:39:23.060 delicious. But Panda Express, I could give up Panda Express, that's fine. Okay, speaking of trends,

00:39:28.560 a couple of millennials who just look the most millennial you could possibly imagine.

00:39:34.200 They have gone viral on TikTok for this little demonstration. People ask them,

00:39:39.700 when are you two having kids? Here's their answer.

00:39:46.400 They point to a stack of books, picture books of them traveling everywhere. Japan, Indonesia,

00:39:54.320 Paris. Look at them. They're taking pictures on balconies. And they took a big picture of 0.99

00:40:00.760 their paella. Look at all the tasty, exotic food that they got when they traveled to Costa Rica.

00:40:08.540 Of course, you can get all of this food in virtually any American city now. But no,

00:40:13.080 look at how, look, why would you want to have kids when you could take a picture on another beach?

00:40:19.600 This is the most millennial TikTok. Some are calling it the most millennial TikTok that

00:40:24.200 has ever been published. Every generation has its inclinations and its vices and its virtues.

00:40:33.360 So you think of the greatest generation, that's the name Tom Brokaw gave to the generation that

00:40:37.840 lived through the depression and fought World War II. And you say, okay, what typifies the

00:40:42.960 greatest generation? What were they after? What motivated them? What inspired them? What did they

00:40:46.280 want? And the thing that defines that generation, and it's the reason Brokaw called them the

00:40:50.060 greatest generation, is sacrifice. Some sacrifices that were foisted upon them without their consent,

00:40:55.820 like the Great Depression and World War II, I guess you would say. But in some cases,

00:40:59.240 they volunteered. They signed up to fight in World War II. They were a generation that really

00:41:03.240 prioritized and valued sacrifice. After them, you get the silent generation. That's Joe Biden's

00:41:08.600 generation. And the silent generation, what defines them? Basically nothing. That's why 0.59

00:41:13.400 they're called the silent generation. They were a kind of keep your head down generation. 0.95

00:41:17.840 They wanted safety.

00:41:19.180 They wanted security.

00:41:20.360 They supported institutions.

00:41:21.960 They weren't too radical.

00:41:23.760 Kind of like Joe Biden.

00:41:25.020 He was brought along by the radicalism of his party, but he was never the avant-garde of that.

00:41:29.400 And he didn't really believe anything.

00:41:30.640 And he would just kind of go along with where his party went because he was an institutional man.

00:41:34.640 Worked in the Senate for 750 years.

00:41:36.640 And then he ended up being vice president and president.

00:41:38.820 And nothing he did really mattered because he didn't have any particular vision.

00:41:42.040 But he was a guy who just wanted to defend institutions, have safety, security.

00:41:44.880 Okay. 0.98

00:41:45.480 What about the boomers?

00:41:46.300 the thing the boomers were after is material wealth. This is why the boomers don't understand 0.96

00:41:50.280 the millennials. So you don't want a car. You don't want a house. This is crazy. We need to 0.58

00:41:55.540 get a big house. We got to get a nice car and lots of cars. And the boomers, who were forged

00:42:01.300 initially in the cultural revolution of the 1960s, they really came of age in the 80s.

00:42:08.900 And there, that's when they became yuppies. That's where they started pursuing material wealth,

00:42:15.000 this. Goals, okay. And the millennials want experiences. That's what the millennials want.

00:42:20.580 And they say, this is better than the boomers. Your car is going to rust. Your house is going 0.94

00:42:24.620 to fall apart. But these experiences, man, they're irreplaceable. That's what I want.

00:42:28.960 I don't need fancy stuff. So in a way, the millennial view is an improvement over the

00:42:33.240 boomer view. The millennial view was that we want these things that are unique, that can only be had

00:42:40.500 by me, that are immaterial. They're not really immaterial because all these trips are very

00:42:44.980 expensive. But they're immaterial in the sense that we just have these memories that we build

00:42:48.180 together. We live really exciting lives. Now, the Zoomers, I think, are defined by a desire for

00:42:54.600 authenticity. That's what they want. They don't really care as much about experiences. They don't 0.99

00:42:58.020 go out and socialize. They don't really care about material wealth. They're not getting their

00:43:01.100 driver's licenses. They don't want to buy a car. They don't want to buy a house. They're kind of

00:43:03.680 dropping out of society. They're sort of loners. But what they want is authenticity. They want to

00:43:07.760 be most truly themselves. And if my authentic life is just chilling on my own, I'm going to do that.

00:43:12.320 if my most authentic life is pretending to be the opposite sex, if I think that's really truly me, 0.87

00:43:16.660 I'm going to do that. Divorced of material consequences. You see that on the gender 0.93

00:43:23.520 ideology and eschewing material and physical goods. But also even divorced from experiences, 0.84

00:43:31.120 socializing, going somewhere. It's really, really all just about me, me, me, me, me.

00:43:35.600 Gen alpha, I don't know. They're still pretty young. But let's zoom in on the millennials here

00:43:39.600 because they think that this is a virtue.

00:43:42.320 Every generation, in a way,

00:43:43.500 seeks to correct what they perceive

00:43:48.120 to be the downsides of the previous generation

00:43:49.900 and do something that they view as better.

00:43:52.100 Obviously, that's what they want.

00:43:53.720 And it's why I don't even get all into the like,

00:43:55.880 okay, boomer, down on the boomer kind of talk.

00:43:57.800 I was on Tucker's show,

00:43:58.720 whenever it was like almost a year ago now.

00:44:01.360 And he gave me a layup question.

00:44:03.340 He goes, Michael, are you as down on the boomers

00:44:04.900 as everybody is?

00:44:05.720 I said, not really. 1.00

00:44:06.720 I mean, like the boomers made horrible choices 0.99

00:44:08.500 And in some ways they ruin the country, but like, they're my parents. 1.00

00:44:11.100 You know, I like the boom.

00:44:11.880 I like my parents.

00:44:12.580 I don't, I'm not into intergenerational warfare.

00:44:14.760 I'm, I like tradition.

00:44:16.200 If I had to pick a lane of conservatism, I'm probably closest to a traditionalist.

00:44:19.860 So I like that.

00:44:20.660 And, you know, we want to correct the vices of the previous generation.

00:44:22.980 Okay, fine.

00:44:24.280 But when you see the silent generation looking at the greatest generation saying,

00:44:28.220 we don't want upheaval. 0.74

00:44:29.260 There was way too much upheaval with their generation.

00:44:31.460 We want security.

00:44:32.360 The boomers saying, you guys were too safe.

00:44:35.000 We want expressive individualism.

00:44:36.800 We want a cultural revolution.

00:44:39.700 We want to get a lot of material wealth.

00:44:41.840 We want all this stuff. 1.00

00:44:42.960 Millennials, I forgot about Gen X

00:44:45.000 because they're the totally forgotten generation. 0.93

00:44:46.900 Gen X probably wants flexibility.

00:44:48.560 They want to just be kind of cool,

00:44:50.060 go with the flow.

00:44:50.720 They want flexibility. 0.92

00:44:53.200 They're the least defined generation. 0.93

00:44:55.600 But the millennials are wrong here too. 0.91

00:44:58.760 Millennials say, okay, I want an immaterial experience. 0.55

00:45:01.300 I want an immaterial good, which is an experience.

00:45:03.440 but they don't, they don't want the real immaterial good. The real immaterial good

00:45:10.000 is spiritual. It's, it's religion. Ultimately, that's what's, that's what all of the generations

00:45:14.720 since we got kicked out of the garden of Eden till the end of time, that's the one thing that

00:45:19.460 they're all going to kind of be lacking if they try to replace the ultimate good, who is God,

00:45:23.440 the sumum bonum with anything else. They're going to, they're going to lean and say,

00:45:27.980 I want something a little more immaterial, but they don't quite get to the spiritual reality. 1.00

00:45:31.560 I want something that builds, that grows, kind of like the boomers. I want stuff. Okay, but the 0.99

00:45:39.680 stuff is going to rust. I want sacrifice. Okay, but the sacrifice has to be for something good,

00:45:45.120 and it can be for your family. It can be for your country. But the only sacrifice that's

00:45:49.020 ultimately going to be sanctifying is a sacrifice that unites yourself to the sacrifice of Christ

00:45:52.840 on the cross. They all miss it a little bit, and now we make fun of the millennials because they

00:45:58.140 miss. And the real sad thing for them is they have given up kids. They've largely given up

00:46:02.740 having kids. To bring it full circle, they say, we don't want to have kids so that we can go to

00:46:08.880 brunch, have that experience, and then go travel to Cabo, and we're going to have that experience.

00:46:13.600 And I travel all the time. I travel all the time. I've been to a lot of places around the world,

00:46:19.380 and I really like it. A week of travel in the most exotic location is not worth five minutes

00:46:26.060 with your kids, even when your kids are kind of annoying. It's just a sublimity that is very

00:46:30.920 difficult to express. And to give that up for experiences is not just a mistake that they'll

00:46:38.620 come to regret. It is a social suicide. Okay. So much more to get to. So much more to get to.

00:46:45.040 Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak absolutely killed it. Just destroyed an Ohio liberal lawmaker

00:46:51.640 on this fraud issue with facts and logic.

00:46:53.420 We'll have to get to that tomorrow.

00:46:54.780 We'll have to get to the dynamic in Washington tomorrow

00:46:57.860 because today is work from home Wednesday.

00:47:00.300 And I once again forgot.

00:47:01.620 I'm once again asking for your moral support

00:47:04.820 because I forgot to assign work from home Wednesday.

00:47:06.560 So we'll see what the producers have planned

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 20, 2026

Ep. 1978 - Election Results Prove Trump Is Still the King Of The Party

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