Ep. 1978 - Election Results Prove Trump Is Still the King Of The Party
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kinsley talks about the defeat of pro-Israel candidate Thomas Massey in the Republican primary in Kentucky, and why he thinks it was all about Israel. He also discusses the implications of the shooting at a mosque in San Diego.
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Libertarian star Thomas Massey goes down in the Kentucky GOP congressional primary
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alongside Brad Raffensperger in the Georgia gubernatorial primary.
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this on the heels of Bill Cassidy in the Louisiana Senate primary, as well as five
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state legislators in Indiana. What did all the losing candidates have in common?
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Was it ideology, libertarians, or neocons, or traditionalists? Or was it some particular issue
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or other, immigration, taxes, foreign policy? Was it opposition to Israel? No. All those things
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definitely factored into the races around the country, but only one thing united all of the
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losing candidates in the recent elections. And that is that Trump wanted them out and he got
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what he wanted in every single case. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Horrific shooting at a mosque in San Diego. There's a lot of
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misinformation about that going around social media. It was a couple of neo-Nazi teenagers
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who did it, but the details are even weirder the more that you look into them. Okay, biggest story
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in the right-wing political world today, Thomas Massey goes down in Kentucky. This was a pretty
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big one. And I thought he was going to lose. I thought he was going to lose for a few reasons
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that we'll get into momentarily. But the main reason I thought he was going to lose yesterday
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morning, a friend of mine here at the Daily Wire came into my office, said, Michael,
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do you think Massey's going to lose? I'm one of the more electoral politics interested people
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around these parts, worked on some campaigns. I like the horse race. I like the machinations
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of politics. So anyway, they were testing me out. They said, do you think Massey's going to lose?
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And I said, yes. I said, why? I said, because he's acting like he's going to lose. His recent
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comments, his recent attitude toward the press, toward the GOP, toward the president. I thought,
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this is a guy who looks like he is setting up the next step. Whether that means he's going to run
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for president in 2028, whether that means that he is going to do what every single white man in
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America under the age of 75 does, which is start a podcast. I said, it looks to me like he is
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preparing to lose. And that is what happened. He went down. It was not particularly close.
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It was a nine point swing. So he was right on the brink of a double digit loss. And the moment
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that is going viral from Massey's concession is when he walks out and takes one last shot
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at the people he now views to be his chief political adversaries.
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I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede. And it took a while to
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find ed galrine in tel aviv i did get the call through though i have i have called and conceded
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the race um we've been honorable the whole time and we're going to stay that way i love this
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contrast he comes out he goes hey yeah my my opponent who won is a dirty rotten sellout
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controlled by the dastardly Jews over in the Middle East. But listen, we want to keep it
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classy. We want to conduct ourselves a dignity here. And look, in Massey's defense, a lot of
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pro-Israel donors did dump a lot of money into this race. Massey has increasingly made opposition
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to Israel and the funding of Israel a big part of his campaign. Though the situation is complicated
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because one of Massey's big donors is a big pro-Israel guy. He's a pro-Israel billionaire,
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Jeff Yass. So even that is a little bit strange. But obviously, the way that Massey is viewing this
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is that he was taken out of the race by pro-Israel forces. Now, even there, you say, well,
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is it okay for pro-Israel donors to dump a lot of money into a race? And I'd say, well,
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big politics attracts big money. I mean, that's a facet of American politics. But
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I think that, well, obviously, Massey and a lot of his supporters are going to put all the blame
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here on the pro-Israel forces. And I don't think that quite explains it, especially within the
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context of the other races that occurred last night, and within the context of the race that
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happened last Saturday, and within the context of the race in Indiana that occurred just a few
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weeks ago. It seems to me that there were other forces at play. And here's my evidence of this.
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had massey opposed israel but voted on the the crucial votes that trump wanted him to vote on
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on the big beautiful bill or even i don't know in the house speaker election or even on this
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thing or that thing had had he done that i think that trump would have continued to back him
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because massey comes from the libertarian wing of the party but he had a lot of cred with
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conservatives and Trump had previously endorsed him. So it seems to me, this is the hypothetical
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you have to ask yourself. Had Massey voted for the big, beautiful bill, which is the signature
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piece of legislation that Trump wanted this year. Had Massey not increasingly voted against the
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party, you know, his record on voting with the party two terms ago was 95%. Then last term it
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was 91%. This term it's been 77.7%, which is way below the median GOP congressman who is still at
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95%. Had Massey done all of that and still said, look, I don't want to support Israel. I don't
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want to fund Israel. There are plenty of GOP congressmen who voted against funding bills for
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Israel. The question you have to ask yourself is, if that were all the case, but he were still
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anti-Israel, would Massey have his seat today? And I think the inescapable conclusion is yes,
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he would. Obviously, that was a factor in the race, but I think Trump would have still backed
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him. Because then you look at the other candidates who went down, including last night, like Brad
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Raffensperger in Georgia. Israel was not the issue in that race. The 2020 election was the issue in
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that race, where Raffensperger became a darling of the left because he was positioning himself
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as the man upholding the constitution against the predations of that awful, terrible autocrat
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Donald Trump. And he went down, and he went down real hard. You look at Bill Cassidy,
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The issue in that race wasn't Israel, wasn't even really the 2020 election.
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Trump felt he was unreliable and that he had opposed him too much.
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You look at the Indiana state legislators who went down.
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Trump went after five of those state legislators.
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That had nothing to do with foreign policy or the big, beautiful bill or the 2020 election.
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So the only common thread that you're looking at here is opposition to Trump, which is why
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this was my prediction, well, yesterday, certainly, and in the days before that,
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I said that the question that this election is going to answer, this election is really
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going to be a referendum on whether or not Trump still has control of the GOP.
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And I said, if Massey goes down, it's going to be evidence, chiefly,
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that Trump still has an ironclad grip on the GOP, which is pretty impressive.
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Look, Trump took over the GOP 10 years ago, a little over 10 years.
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it was really when he was coming down that escalator 2015. That was a hostile takeover
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of the GOP. The business class hated him. The policy wonk bow tie think tank class of the
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conservative movement hated him. The conservative media hated him. Everybody hated him, and he took
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over the party. Ten years later, now almost halfway through his second term, when he should
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be a lame duck, he is still flexing his muscles. So all of these candidates, Massey, Cassidy,
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the state legislators, Raffensperger, they're all going to blame some issue or other.
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But in the context of all of them going down, I don't see how you can deny that the chief
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issue here is that they put themselves in opposition to Trump, some of them increasingly
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so. I mean, Massey, you can love Massey. You can say he had a great voting record,
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at least until relatively recently. You can say he had a great voting record even
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up through the present. But the thing you can't deny is they put themselves increasingly in the
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case of Massey in opposition to Trump and Trump took them out, which means this is still Trump's
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party. And that's going to have massive consequences. So the partisans, the supporters
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of the people who went down last night, Massey being the most prominent of them, but all the
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others too, what they are going to argue now is, okay, well, Trump won the battle, but he's going
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to lose the war because he took out all of our good candidates in the primaries, but now we're
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going to be in an even worse spot in the general election. And some of these cases, I don't think
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that's true. I mean, I think in this district in Kentucky, nobody seriously thinks it's going to
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go to a Democrat. But we'll get to the Texas Senate race in a second because Trump just made
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a fairly shocking endorsement. He endorsed the challenger who has some PR problems against the
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incumbent, John Cornyn. So all these guys, maybe Raffensperger, maybe in Indiana, they're going to
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say, well, okay, you took out our good candidates in the primaries. Now we're going to be in an even
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worst spot in the general election. I don't buy that really, but that's going to be their argument.
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They're going to say Trump, maybe he's shrunk the political coalition. He's alienating the
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libertarians. He's alienating the moderates. He's alienating this, that, and the other thing.
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They're all going to make those arguments. But what you can't say is that Trump isn't still the
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chief influence. And then the other consequence that this is going to have, not just necessarily
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for the midterm elections, but looking at 2028 is, it is now clearer than it has ever been
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that barring some global financial crisis, barring entry into World War III,
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barring Trump's approval within the GOP just collapsing, which obviously it has not,
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the 2028 nominee is going to be picked by Donald Trump. That's it. That's how it's going to go.
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Barring some massive change, and two years, two and a half years is a long time,
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barring some massive change, Trump is going to pick the nominee, which helps to explain another
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thing that we'll hopefully get to today if we have time, which is the ways in which the Vice
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President J.D. Vance, who's the heir apparent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who's also
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very prominent in the Trump administration and who's getting a lot of plaudits from the
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conservative movement, that's going to dictate how they are going to run against each other or
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by all evidence in tandem with one another. It's about Trump. It's still about Trump. I remember
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10 years ago, at the beginning of this whole journey, people kept trying to make the argument
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and say, it's really not about Trump. It's about this issue. It's about immigration.
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It's really not about Trump. It's about foreign policy. It's really not about Trump. It's about
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this, that, or the other thing. And I think the inescapable conclusion from the standpoint of
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just nuts and bolts electoral politics is, no, it really is about Trump. It really is.
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it actually is about Trump. This guy is an American original, sui generis. He's the guy.
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Maybe a world historic figure, that remains to be seen in the history books, but he is the guy.
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And he won last night. You can be furious at that. You can think he made bad endorsements.
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You can pull your hair out and rinse your garments. But he won. He got exactly what he
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wanted in every single one of these races. And the way he got it is that the voters gave him
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what he wanted. The Republican primary voters, the base of the party gave him what he wanted.
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And so for the people who got these predictions wrong, forget about their desires, just the people
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who got these predictions wrong, I think what you have to conclude is they do not have a good sense
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of where the actual GOP is. They're confusing the GOP for a social media platform. They're
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confusing the GOP for podcasts. They're confusing the GOP for cable news, for that matter. But
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those are different things. This is a reaffirmation amid a time of some confusion
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that there actually is a distinction between hardcore on-the-ground politics and the political
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media, and the podcasts, and social media, and the pundit class, and on and on and on.
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Okay, now, I mentioned that very contentious Senate race in Texas.
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very, very lengthy Truth Social post, so I won't read the whole thing. It says,
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the highly respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First patriot and someone
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who's always been extremely loyal to me in our amazing MAGA movement is running for U.S. Senate
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to represent a place I love. And I won big three times with 6.4 million votes in 2024,
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the most votes in the history of the state by far. I'm the man. I'm the man. I know Ken well.
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I've seen him tested. He's a winner. So he goes on about how great he is. We're going to make
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America bigger, better, stronger than ever before. Then he goes on and he says, look, I like the
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incumbent, John Cornyn. We've gotten along, but he's voted against me too many times. He's opposed
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me too many times. He hasn't been a strong enough supporter. And so I'm going with Paxton.
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For those who have not followed this race all that closely, this is an unbelievable political
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coup by Ken Paxton. Once again, when I'm analyzing primaries, I've tried to,
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So in my role here as a political analyst, conservative pundit, I've tried to be a little
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bit objective. Even if I might have a preference for this candidate or that candidate, I've tried
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to be a little bit objective to try to understand what is going on with the nuts and bolts of the
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party. I always try to do that in the primaries. Obviously not in the general elections. I'm on
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our side. I'm not on the Democrat side. But in the primaries, I'm trying to see exactly what's
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going on here. And this was an amazing political coup because all of the scuttlebutt coming out
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of the White House was that Trump was going to endorse Cornyn. Cornyn is a little more moderate,
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a little more centrist, a little more diplomatic in his speech, a little he's opposed to the
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president sometimes. And he was going to go with him because we just need that reliable incumbent
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vote in the Senate. Ken Paxton's got this bad PR because of some personal scandals. And so
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you know, that was too risky. Even if the base likes Paxton more than they like Cornyn,
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you know, Trump was going to play the safe bet here. That was all the scuttlebutt coming out
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of the White House. And then Ken Paxton did something amazing. Paxton comes out and he says,
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hey, I'm going to drop out of the Texas Senate primary. I'll just drop out of the race if my
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opponent, John Cornyn, and the Senate leadership abolish the filibuster to pass the Save America
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Act. The Save America Act, which requires voter ID to prove that you're actually a citizen if
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you're going to vote. Very simple. He says, look, I'll drop out of the race. This isn't about me.
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This is about the issue. This is about the people. This is about the sovereignty of our country.
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So I'll tell you what, I'll drop out of the race if Cornyn, my opponent, and the Senate leadership
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blow up the filibuster to pass this bill that's an 80-20 issue, more than an 80-20 issue.
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The vast majority of Americans across every demographic think we should have voter ID.
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That's his chess move. He goes, okay, now it's your turn. Where are you going to move?
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And it was so beautiful because as Paxton was on the brink of losing, he says, hey,
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if you just support the president's agenda, I'll back out. It was such a dare. It was such a risky
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move because Cornyn and the Senate leadership wouldn't do it. Because of that, all of a sudden,
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Paxton has positioned himself to say, look, I'm the Trump guy. And hey, Trump, these guys that
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you're about to endorse, they won't do what needs to be done to pass one of the most basic aspects
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of your agenda. One of the easiest political wins. Now, abolishing the filibuster is not an easy
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political win. But the Save America Act, that's an easy political win. And what he was essentially
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saying to Trump is, hey, you're going to back this guy. This guy won't do the bare minimum
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to support your agenda. Why would you ever back him in the primary? And it worked.
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It was just even take out the substance of the Save America Act and just the political
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machinations here were so brilliant. This was an, regardless if you like Cornyn, if you like
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Paxton, probably more people like Paxton in the conservative base. But regardless of what you
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think about them, this was an absolute political masterstroke. He ripped that endorsement right
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out of John Cornyn's hands. Trump was on the brink of handing him over the endorsement.
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And Ken Paxton comes in there like the roadrunner and just rips it right out of his hands.
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And it worked. Cornyn now, he's reeling from this. It's hard to see how he comes back from it.
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there's still a chance there's still a chance that the voters in texas buck the president's
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endorsement but after this record massey cassidy the raffensperger in georgia the five legislators
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in indiana it's hard to see how that actually happens especially because trump's playing on
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all these different issues it's not just one it's not just the 2020 election or israel or
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redistricting or this or that. He's playing on all of them, and he's winning on all of them.
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It looks like a kill shot to Cornyn's reelection chances. It's a very gutsy endorsement.
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And who knows? There is a chance, the kind of establishment Republicans are saying,
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well, Paxton's got too much baggage, and now James Tallarico, who we call the gay Pete Buttigieg,
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now he's going to win in Texas. I'm not convinced of that. They say this every year.
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They always say, oh, Beto O'Rourke, he's going to flip Texas purple.
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There was that Colin Allred, the guy who ran against Ted Cruz,
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the football player who wanted to put boys in girls sports.
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And so I think Paxton could win against Tallarico.
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I think he's, right now, Tallarico, he's getting the Beto treatment.
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The political media are building him up to be something more than he is.
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They say, well, you know, we have this problem because our whole party is so woke and full
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We'll just run an ordinary looking white guy, ostensibly straight, and all, here's the cherry
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James Tallarico, whose statements are much closer to what you'd expect from the Antichrist
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than they are from Christ. Total subversion of Christian teaching every step of the way
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when it comes to life, when it comes to gender, when it comes to marriage, so on and so forth.
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So I think Cornyn would beat Tallarico. I think Paxton would beat Tallarico.
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Very, very gutsy move. Okay, enough of the inside baseball. Let's get back to the libs.
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he was that UnitedHealthcare CEO who was murdered in cold blood by Luigi, Luigi Mangione. And then
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the left, a lot of the left rallied to Luigi's defense. Brian Thompson, not a politician,
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not passing policies. He was an executive at one of the health insurance companies,
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and he was murdered in cold blood. And a lot of the left came out and said he had it coming.
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Here are some classic demo of the of the party.
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Millennial women, liberal women describing how it was such a good thing that Thompson was murdered.
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They need to learn to not be like their dad and enjoy the blood money.
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was that what was that i didn't get that what you said um i'm standing on business
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brian thompson i don't give a flying so by the way that first woman who's speaking she has a
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press pass so this is a journalist this isn't just a random activist though there's really
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no difference on the left anyway she says yeah i said what i said yeah i don't care about this guy
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i don't care that he got murdered and then that other woman even worse can you imagine this she
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said, yeah, his kids are better off without him. Maybe it's just because I have little kids now.
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And in politics, now all conservatives have a target on our backs quite demonstrably.
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That is about the worst thing I've ever heard anybody say. That is about the most repulsive,
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vomit-inducing thing I have ever heard anybody say. This guy, this business executive,
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that's just like ordinary business executive was murdered in cold blood he's got little kids who
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are going to have to grow up without their father and with the knowledge that their father was
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murdered taken from them and with the knowledge that a lot of the mainstream left supported that
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or excused that or dismissed that and these kids when they're crying themselves to sleep every
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single night these kids who are going to have massive trauma for the rest of their lives
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are told by relatively ordinary women, not just the fringe, that it's actually good that their
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dad was murdered. It's good. It's good for them. That's as horrible a thing as you can possibly
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imagine. And it's not abnormal. I guess the part that makes it even more horrible is it's not
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abnormal. I'm trying to think of the most charitable view I can take of these women.
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and the most charitable view I can possibly take
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these women in particular are probably all on SSRIs,
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because these liberal women are totally nuts
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and part of the SSRIs is that they blunt emotion
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and they basically turn liberal women into psychopaths.
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so much so that these women, one, some activist chick, one, a member of the press, what's the
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difference? Say, oh, yeah, I'm glad. I'm really glad that those kids had their dad murdered. I'm
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really glad. It's good for them. Enjoy the blood money, kids. The ads, what is blood money? The
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guy ran an insurance company, and I know some people don't like insurance companies. You all
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buy insurance, though, and you like insurance companies when they pay out, and it's just a
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business. You don't want there to be insurance? Should there not be insurance now? Look, there's
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some companies we don't like, but some companies are kind of annoying. We complain when the doctor's
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office makes us wait too long in the waiting room. We don't like going to the dentist either,
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okay? But we don't want to get rid of dentists. So you say, hey, kids, I'm glad your dad got
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murdered. And also you, kids, you are doing something immoral. Enjoy the blood money?
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just kicking little orphans, little kid orphans. That's what the left is doing.
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And look, this relates to what we were talking about just moments ago on the primaries.
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There are a lot of people who love Thomas Massey. I've liked Thomas Massey over the years. I've
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liked a lot of things he's done. I don't love the turn he's taken recently, especially in
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opposition to the president. But okay, whatever. Libertarians, they're always, look, we love our
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libertarian friends. They're kind of annoying sometimes. They're always, they got to be the
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sole vote against something, and they don't really accomplish all that much in politics.
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And sometimes they kind of preen and puff themselves up. But whatever. Libertarians
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are an important part of the conservative coalition. But I love Thomas Massey compared to
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all of these libs, all of these Democrats. Or let's take a totally different kind of Republican,
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Brad Raffensperger. Yeah, he's kind of annoying, and he went kind of squishy,
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and he appealed to the liberal media and, okay, sure.
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compared to the Democrats or the five guys in Indiana
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The real fight here, the real fight is against the left.
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and then wants to mock your kids when you're dead.
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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.
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the neocons the radical interventionists who are liberal imperialists really alternately how the
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libertarians are super annoying and misunderstand human nature alternately how the business
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republicans sell out the country because they encourage mass migration alternately on and on
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and on and on i can i can give you all sorts of reasons why these random republicans irritate me
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those are primary squabbles and then we need unity and a lot of what trump is demonstrating last
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night, whether your candidate won or your candidate lost. What he is demonstrating is
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he wants unity within the party. And unity is a good thing. Some people come out and they say,
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in a petulant and, dare I say, childish way, they'll say, well, I don't want a guy who's
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going to go along with the party. I want people who are independent, maverick, who buck the party,
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who, yeah, okay, maybe, occasionally, maybe. Unity is a virtue. Unity is a virtue. You want
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to take this all the way down to the level of religion in the Nicene Creed, which all Christians
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should recite and most Christians do recite. There are four marks of the church, one holy Catholic
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and apostolic, and the first mark of the church is unity. Unity is a good thing. In your own family,
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do you want unity or do you want division? Do you want anarchy? Do you want people constantly at
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odds with each other? Do you want everything to be some bare knuckle brawl and debate over what
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we're going to have for dinner tonight? Or do you want unity within your family? Do you want unity
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within your polity? Do you want unity on a sports team? On a sports team, do you want everybody just
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out for their own? And, you know, when the shortstop disagrees with the catcher, the shortstop's going
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to do what he wants to do and the catcher's going to do what he wants to do? No, because then your
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team loses. Unity is very important. You want to be moving in the right direction. You want the
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right strategy. You want the right manager making the right calls. You want all those things. And
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you can disagree over that and you can kind of duke it out. But you need unity because, not to
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put too fine a point on it. The mainstream left wants to kill you and then mock your children
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when you're dead. Keep your priorities straight. Okay. Now, speaking of violence,
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as horrific shooting at a mosque in San Diego, this happened a couple of days ago.
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I killed three people. A security guard was killed. Apparently the security guard and a
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father of eight, this guy, Amin Abdullah, father of eight. Imagine what a great country would be
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If everyone were having eight kids, this guy, he, according to police, prevented more deaths,
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Eight kids going to grow up without a father, along with a grocery store owner and another
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The guys who killed them were teenagers, and they were apparently neo-Nazis.
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So what we know, details are still coming out, but they were wearing swastikas and the
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But what gets especially weird here is, I'm not going to say their names, but one of the neo-Nazis
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has a Hispanic name, which you don't, I don't know. I don't think Hitler would have been
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all that welcoming of some Quechua-speaking indigenous from Latin America. It's kind of odd
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to have a non-white neo-Nazi. And then the other kid, I think these guys were like 17 years old.
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one of them, I guess he was a white guy. There were some rumors going around that one of them
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is kind of trans, but I don't see a lot of support for that. He didn't have long hair.
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Then the way that he did his hair, it kind of seemed like he wasn't even totally white,
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but maybe he is white. I don't know. Just like we were talking about in the races last night
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and over the past couple of weeks, what is the unifying thing here? What helps to explain what
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really motivated them. Well, the obvious symbols they're wearing are the neo-Nazi symbols. You
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say, okay, they're these extremely radical right-wing Nazis. But according to their social
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media posts and diaries or all of their writing, they really hated the Jews, but then they attacked
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a mosque. That's kind of strange. That doesn't make total sense. They were neo-Nazis. One of
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them at least wasn't white. They wanted to start a race war. I guess the guys killed themselves in
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the car. The parents of one of the shooters called in, said, my kid is suicidal. So was it a suicide
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pact? What was it? The clearest thing that I can see is that these guys spent all of their lives
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online. We don't know very much about the Hispanic named killer, but one of the guys,
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I won't say his full name, but his first name is Cain. And this is kind of significant. We say
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nomen est omen, the name of this guy who commits the primordial murder, Cain, who murders Abel.
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His name is Cain, and he apparently attended high school online. So some of the reporting was,
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he was just about to graduate high school, but he wasn't going to a high school. All these
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kind of shooter kids are usually loners and weirdos. But this guy wasn't even attending
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the high school. He was doing it online. And when you look at the real radical ideologies,
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the violent ideologies on the left and on the right, it seems to me the common thread is always
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that this grows up online. And as a country increasingly lives in the virtual world,
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you're going to get a lot more disorder, a lot more dysfunction.
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uh dangerous too we were talking i think it was last week about how high school kids are drinking
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less and people are celebrating that but i said it's actually a bad thing you don't want the high
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school kids to be drinking less because this what that signifies is not that they're less prone to
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vice what that signifies is they're socializing less in any case very very uh sad story so
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obviously we should pray for the people who died uh we should you know pray that there's not a rise
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and vigilante violence or the spread of radical ideologies. But I think the core of this is
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we need to pray that we stop being a virtual society, a virtual society in which we ignore,
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obviously, the bonds of charity that unite us to our neighbors, but in which we begin to live
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in virtual reality in ways that are contrary to reality. Chris Rufo wrote a good piece in
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City Journal, this was a couple months ago now, in which he pointed out that neo-Nazism,
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like Nazism as an ideology, is not a living ideology. It's dead. Nazism was destroyed in
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the 1940s. And so it's not that people can't call themselves Nazis, or it's certainly not that
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people can't oppose others of being Nazis. They do that all the time. If you're slightly to the
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right of Zoran Mamdani, you're called a Nazi these days. But it doesn't really mean what it
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would have meant in the 1940s. It's kind of a hyper-real ideology. There's a lot of incoherence
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between what these teen shooters were writing and what they were actually committing, what they
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seem to have accomplished, what they were getting at. Was it homicidal? Was it suicidal? Was it
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anti-Jewish? Was it anti-Muslim? Are they Nazis or are they non-white? Well, just to bring it
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full circle. How do you have a non-white neo-Nazi? You only have a non-white neo-Nazi
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in a world in which the body no longer really matters to identity. A theme that we've talked
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about through the rise of the transgender ideology, a theme that we've talked about
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through the rise of looks maxing, the theme that we've talked about through the decline of
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socializing among teens and 20-somethings. You can only have a non-white neo-Nazi in a world in
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which the body doesn't matter as much, in which your identity can be totally divorced from your
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your physical reality, which will always lead to disorder and ultimately to a kind of a suicide,
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which is literally what you get at the San Diego shooting. Okay. Speaking of trends among the
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various generations, really disturbing viral video that people think is cute, a viral trend
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to be boycotted. I wonder, yeah, corporate, I don't know if they have responded to this event.
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And I'm not opposed to a boycott, mostly because Panda Express isn't that good.
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If this were Arby's, heaven forfend, it would never be. It would never be Arby's kicking out
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right-wingers. But if it were, I would be more loath to boycott them because their food is so
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delicious. But Panda Express, I could give up Panda Express, that's fine. Okay, speaking of trends,
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a couple of millennials who just look the most millennial you could possibly imagine.
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They have gone viral on TikTok for this little demonstration. People ask them,
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when are you two having kids? Here's their answer.
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They point to a stack of books, picture books of them traveling everywhere. Japan, Indonesia,
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Paris. Look at them. They're taking pictures on balconies. And they took a big picture of
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their paella. Look at all the tasty, exotic food that they got when they traveled to Costa Rica.
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Of course, you can get all of this food in virtually any American city now. But no,
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look at how, look, why would you want to have kids when you could take a picture on another beach?
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This is the most millennial TikTok. Some are calling it the most millennial TikTok that
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has ever been published. Every generation has its inclinations and its vices and its virtues.
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So you think of the greatest generation, that's the name Tom Brokaw gave to the generation that
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lived through the depression and fought World War II. And you say, okay, what typifies the
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greatest generation? What were they after? What motivated them? What inspired them? What did they
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want? And the thing that defines that generation, and it's the reason Brokaw called them the
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greatest generation, is sacrifice. Some sacrifices that were foisted upon them without their consent,
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like the Great Depression and World War II, I guess you would say. But in some cases,
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they volunteered. They signed up to fight in World War II. They were a generation that really
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prioritized and valued sacrifice. After them, you get the silent generation. That's Joe Biden's
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generation. And the silent generation, what defines them? Basically nothing. That's why
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they're called the silent generation. They were a kind of keep your head down generation.
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He was brought along by the radicalism of his party, but he was never the avant-garde of that.
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And he would just kind of go along with where his party went because he was an institutional man.
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And then he ended up being vice president and president.
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And nothing he did really mattered because he didn't have any particular vision.
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But he was a guy who just wanted to defend institutions, have safety, security.
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the thing the boomers were after is material wealth. This is why the boomers don't understand
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the millennials. So you don't want a car. You don't want a house. This is crazy. We need to
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get a big house. We got to get a nice car and lots of cars. And the boomers, who were forged
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initially in the cultural revolution of the 1960s, they really came of age in the 80s.
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And there, that's when they became yuppies. That's where they started pursuing material wealth,
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this. Goals, okay. And the millennials want experiences. That's what the millennials want.
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And they say, this is better than the boomers. Your car is going to rust. Your house is going
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to fall apart. But these experiences, man, they're irreplaceable. That's what I want.
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I don't need fancy stuff. So in a way, the millennial view is an improvement over the
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boomer view. The millennial view was that we want these things that are unique, that can only be had
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by me, that are immaterial. They're not really immaterial because all these trips are very
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expensive. But they're immaterial in the sense that we just have these memories that we build
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together. We live really exciting lives. Now, the Zoomers, I think, are defined by a desire for
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authenticity. That's what they want. They don't really care as much about experiences. They don't
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go out and socialize. They don't really care about material wealth. They're not getting their
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driver's licenses. They don't want to buy a car. They don't want to buy a house. They're kind of
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dropping out of society. They're sort of loners. But what they want is authenticity. They want to
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be most truly themselves. And if my authentic life is just chilling on my own, I'm going to do that.
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if my most authentic life is pretending to be the opposite sex, if I think that's really truly me,
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I'm going to do that. Divorced of material consequences. You see that on the gender
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ideology and eschewing material and physical goods. But also even divorced from experiences,
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socializing, going somewhere. It's really, really all just about me, me, me, me, me.
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Gen alpha, I don't know. They're still pretty young. But let's zoom in on the millennials here
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And it's why I don't even get all into the like,
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He goes, Michael, are you as down on the boomers
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I mean, like the boomers made horrible choices
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And in some ways they ruin the country, but like, they're my parents.
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I don't, I'm not into intergenerational warfare.
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If I had to pick a lane of conservatism, I'm probably closest to a traditionalist.
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And, you know, we want to correct the vices of the previous generation.
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But when you see the silent generation looking at the greatest generation saying,
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There was way too much upheaval with their generation.
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because they're the totally forgotten generation.
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Millennials say, okay, I want an immaterial experience.
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I want an immaterial good, which is an experience.
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but they don't, they don't want the real immaterial good. The real immaterial good
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is spiritual. It's, it's religion. Ultimately, that's what's, that's what all of the generations
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since we got kicked out of the garden of Eden till the end of time, that's the one thing that
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they're all going to kind of be lacking if they try to replace the ultimate good, who is God,
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the sumum bonum with anything else. They're going to, they're going to lean and say,
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I want something a little more immaterial, but they don't quite get to the spiritual reality.
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I want something that builds, that grows, kind of like the boomers. I want stuff. Okay, but the
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stuff is going to rust. I want sacrifice. Okay, but the sacrifice has to be for something good,
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and it can be for your family. It can be for your country. But the only sacrifice that's
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ultimately going to be sanctifying is a sacrifice that unites yourself to the sacrifice of Christ
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on the cross. They all miss it a little bit, and now we make fun of the millennials because they
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miss. And the real sad thing for them is they have given up kids. They've largely given up
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having kids. To bring it full circle, they say, we don't want to have kids so that we can go to
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brunch, have that experience, and then go travel to Cabo, and we're going to have that experience.
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And I travel all the time. I travel all the time. I've been to a lot of places around the world,
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and I really like it. A week of travel in the most exotic location is not worth five minutes
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with your kids, even when your kids are kind of annoying. It's just a sublimity that is very
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difficult to express. And to give that up for experiences is not just a mistake that they'll
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come to regret. It is a social suicide. Okay. So much more to get to. So much more to get to.
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Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak absolutely killed it. Just destroyed an Ohio liberal lawmaker
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We'll have to get to the dynamic in Washington tomorrow
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because I forgot to assign work from home Wednesday.
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