00:11:28.360Now, some Republicans, some conservatives are going to say, well, this is good because it gives us an opening.
00:11:33.560We can even try to pick off some of the moderate liberals, the center-left people who will say that they didn't leave their party, their party left them.
00:11:41.420There are a lot of these guys, true neocons in the sense that they were Democrats until very, very recently.
00:11:47.620I mean, one example, one person who's made himself a real face of this is someone like
00:11:52.740James Lindsay, who I think he voted for Obama.
00:12:23.160He said, hey, this socialist stuff, I'm not saying I'm going to be a Republican now, but my vote is up for grabs.
00:12:28.100Now, we'll get into his logic and reasoning in a second.
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00:13:51.880Borrow better. Because of the now dominance of socialism in the Democrat Party,
00:13:58.300Bill Maher, no less a liberal than Bill Maher, says his vote is up for grabs.
00:14:04.500And finally, new rule, Donald Trump has told one trillion lies.
00:14:08.680But when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that's not one of them.
00:14:15.180And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.
00:14:20.000It gives me no pleasure to have to do this.
00:14:22.140I'd much rather keep going the good vibes from my summer vacation.
00:14:52.440And all I heard all vacation was, oh, my God, you're a Republican now.
00:14:55.980No, that's not what I said. I said in play. And here's why. Because not a week goes by
00:15:03.240where I don't read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party.
00:15:08.740And then when that face opens its mouth, the communist manifesto or some other crazy
00:15:14.980comes out. Okay. Now notice, even in this creed de coeur that you're getting from Bill Maher,
00:15:20.860he's still not willing to say okay i'm gonna vote republican even as the socialist candidates take
00:15:27.920over the party even as as he says they open their mouths and out comes the communist manifesto
00:15:32.320even still he's not willing to say okay i'm gonna vote republican now he just says look my vote's
00:15:37.220just like kind of in play because these guys are making me a little uncomfortable i just wish
00:15:41.640we could go back to that amiable liberalism of yesterday and you hear this from a lot of these
00:15:49.520guys, who are on the disillusioned center left, as well as the people who actually did make the
00:15:53.940flip, who said, you know what? Look, I voted for Obama. I voted for Hillary. But transing the kids,
00:15:59.960that's a bridge too far. So now I guess I'm on the right. But I'm still a liberal. I just wish,
00:16:07.780you know what they wish? They wish that we could go back to 1998. That is what that faction wants.
00:16:15.680They say, you social conservatives, you're all crazy. He makes a joke there about Bible camp
00:16:18.920because Bill Maher is famously an, infamously an atheist. But he says, look, I'm not one of these
00:16:23.720crazy conservatives. I'm not one of those conservatives, you know, one of these guys
00:16:26.960who are half fascist probably, you know, these guys who go to church all the time and like give
00:16:31.100to charity and don't want to murder babies and think that marriage has a meaning and it means
00:16:35.740what it's always meant everywhere for all of history all the time. But look, I'm not one of
00:16:40.020those crazy guys. I just want to go back to the liberalism of 1998, which is nostalgia,
00:16:47.680which is history after a few drinks. What you have to ask yourself, if you are a disillusioned
00:16:53.920Democrat who has either come over to the right in recent years or who's thinking about coming
00:16:57.860over to the right, who is scandalized by the socialists in the Democrat party, what you have
00:17:02.500to ask yourself is, how did it happen? How did it happen? How did the socialists seemingly overnight
00:17:12.160take over the Democrat Party? I think there are a few reasons. One is mass migration. You've
00:17:19.080actually changed the demographics of the country, and the people you've brought in are more likely
00:17:22.900to align with Democrats, and they're more likely to push these elements of the Democrat Party,
00:17:28.080including economic socialism, race socialism, the kind of racial grievance, sexual grievance,
00:17:33.680all the rest of that. So migration is a big part of it. And it goes even deeper than that.
00:17:39.960it's the very principles of liberalism. The principles that undergird the liberalism that
00:17:47.480you supported before it went a little too far, those very principles are what has led with
00:17:54.520inescapable logic to the radicalism that you now abhor. That's the issue. The example that I
00:18:01.420frequently cite because it's so clear is that you might say you love feminism, but you hate
00:18:08.840transing the kids. But given the principles of feminism, the central principle of which is that
00:18:14.900men and women are basically the same, they might look a little different. They might not look a
00:18:18.680little different. I don't know if you've seen feminists lately, but they might have some
00:18:23.180superficial differences, but they're basically the same. Woman needs a man like a fish needs a
00:18:27.660bicycle. That principle leads necessarily to the LGBT movement, at least the LGB movement.
00:18:36.440You say, well, if men and women are basically the same, then the way a man interacts with a woman is no different or should be no different than the way a man interacts with a man or a woman interacts with a woman.
00:18:45.480And if you accept the LGB kind of movement, the premises of that, which is that our sexual behavior and our sexual identity has no reference to biology or to any differences that you find in nature or certainly not to teleology.
00:19:03.940If you accept that, then that leads necessarily to redefining marriage.
00:19:09.180And if you accept that, you've now enshrined in law that there's really no difference between men and women, all the way down to the fundamental political institution, then it ain't so hard to get to transgenderism.
00:19:18.960In fact, it's necessary to get to transgenderism.
00:19:21.000And if transgenderism is true, that a man can be born in a woman's body, or a man can become a woman, or a man might as well be a woman, then of course you should trans the kids.
00:19:29.120that's just that that's just following an idea to its logical conclusion well the same thing is true
00:19:35.640more broadly of liberalism the problem here is not just that the left went a little too far
00:19:41.940if you rewound the clock to 1998 as bill maher and a lot of these guys the the true current
00:19:49.120neocons and all the rest want to do why do you think that you wouldn't just end up right back
00:19:55.320where we are 28 years later. Why do you think history would stop? Why do you think that we
00:20:02.080would stop following ideas further and further and further? You can't stop history. The conditions
00:20:08.100that led to 2026 liberalism were already present in 1998 liberalism, as they were in 1968 liberalism,
00:20:16.220as we might say they were in 1789 liberalism, or even further back.
00:20:20.660Just as the central premise of feminism is that men and women are basically the same,
00:20:25.320So, too, the premise of liberalism is that the individual is almighty.
00:21:08.560Some use the folk etymology of poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning blood-sucking leeches.
00:21:13.500So politics is, of course, many, many blood-sucking leeches.
00:21:16.120But the real etymology of it comes from the polis, that we live together in society.
00:21:20.360And so man is not essentially an individual autonomous creature that fell out of a coconut tree, to quote that great philosopher Kamala Harris, but man is a social creature, a political creature.
00:21:31.960And so man as an individual must be understood within the context of man as a social animal.
00:21:39.020That is classical political philosophy.
00:21:41.180That is conservatism understood for all of history until very recently.
00:21:47.780And so what the liberals are going to argue, like Bill Maher, is that we need to double down
00:21:53.840on liberalism to stop communism. They think that these are antitheses or something. They're not.
00:22:00.920They're not opposites. They're actually two sides of the same coin. Communism, in many ways,
00:22:07.140is a radically individualist political ideology. A friend of mine who's kind of a Marxist,
00:22:14.220kind of like a right-wing Marxist guy. He's a very interesting thinker, very smart guy.
00:22:18.140He made this point to me 15 years ago. He said, you know, Michael, if Karl Marx were alive today,
00:22:21.380he'd be in the Tea Party. I said, what? It's a shocking statement, but it kind of makes sense.
00:22:26.220Inasmuch as communism, fascism, Nazism for that matter, socialism, all these isms,
00:22:35.240they emerge historically and intellectually from liberalism, from the revolutionary ideologies of
00:22:41.840the 17th and 18th centuries. And what they all have in common is they all begin at least with
00:22:48.500the individual. So liberalism begins with the individual and then tries to just maintain this
00:22:54.780untenable position of making the individual primary in all of politics. That's not possible.
00:23:01.760That's incoherent because we have to live in society. Socialism and communism follow that
00:23:06.520idea a little further and say, well, no, the individual is primary, but in order to do things
00:23:11.320in politics, we need to lump all those individuals back together in a collective. That's the symbol
00:23:16.220of fascism too, the idea of collecting all of the individuals into the strong bundle of sticks,
00:23:20.680the fascis. But all of those ideologies misunderstand how politics is actually to
00:23:27.640work and how we can actually defend the legitimate rights of the individual, which is through all of
00:23:34.360those mediating social institutions, the fundamental institution being the family,
00:23:39.300Followed by civic associations, local government, the interplay between enterprise and the public authority, the church, which also relates both to business and the civil authority, larger jurisdictions like counties and states, all the way up in a process of subsidiarity.
00:24:02.840this is all pretty basic Catholic social teaching, which is being maligned right now by liberals for
00:24:06.800very stupid reasons, all the way up to the national government or to the imperial government,
00:24:11.840for that matter, if you live in an empire. That's the key. That's what they're missing.
00:24:18.160So if you don't like that liberalism has led seemingly overnight to socialism and to communism,
00:24:27.440If you don't like that liberalism, sometimes more quickly than at other times,
00:24:32.440leads to this sort of radicalism, this anarchism, this terror.
00:24:36.260It happened pretty fast during the French Revolution, which is the liberal revolution,
00:25:18.680if you cannot explain to me how socialists became more popular in the democrat party
00:25:26.000than the elected democrat officials many if not most of whom are overt socialists at this point
00:25:32.280if you can't explain to me how that happened then why should i listen to your political prescriptions
00:25:36.360on anything else because i can explain to you how that happened i can explain to you how liberalism
00:25:41.620leads to socialism and fascism and communism all the other isms i can explain that to you
00:25:46.560And I think this is why you're seeing a return on the right now to that more classical political philosophy.
00:25:53.220A little less chitchat about some, you know, pundit who wrote a book 20 years ago and a little more chitchat about Aristotle and Cicero and St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas and Donozo Cortez and all these other great political philosophers.
00:26:08.480Because of their understanding of politics is much more durable.
00:26:12.780And that means that you're going to talk about the individual in its proper context,
00:26:16.940but you're also going to talk about things like the common good.
00:26:19.260You're going to talk about things like objective truth.
00:26:21.300You're going to talk about things like morality.
00:26:23.540You're going to talk about the relationship between the religious order and the state,
00:26:28.240which is always and everywhere present.
00:26:30.380That's been true since man first walked out of the cave.
00:26:34.020You're going to have to talk about these things because otherwise,
00:26:37.400and this is what the socialists and the communists prey on,
00:26:39.720Otherwise, you're going to be a vulnerable individual who is now detached from family, from religion, from church, from enterprise increasingly, from civic associations, from patriotism, from love of country, from any sense that you can know anything about the moral order.
00:26:58.220a radical sort of skepticism because we're so afraid of authoritarianism that the individual
00:27:03.320is going to be entirely vulnerable and his rights are going to be squashed. And the only people who
00:27:07.800benefit are going to be the radical leftists. That's what you're seeing play out. Maybe we
00:27:12.460need an alternative. Bill Maher doesn't just need his vote to be up for grabs. Bill Maher needs to
00:27:17.620recognize, maybe we can talk about this on his show or on my show. He needs to recognize that
00:27:22.700you got to go back a little further than 1998. Okay. Speaking of radical policies,
00:27:27.760the Cambridge City Council has just voted to restore racist gunshot detectors because their
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00:28:36.320morality, what kind of life you want to live, kids, all the way down to liturgical preferences.
00:44:41.460Why not assign them to those children's parents?
00:44:44.900Well, because there's a divergence of interest between parents and children.
00:44:49.640And I think it's likelier that young people, not people who are raising families, will
00:44:57.120have the best insight into the interests of children.
00:45:02.100Whereas you, if you were awarded five proxy votes.
00:45:05.860I think it's absurd to imagine that a 24-year-old recent college graduate has a better assessment of the interests of my own children than I do.
00:45:16.760And I say this with all due respect to 24-year-old recent college graduates of whom I hope to be the parent of in nine years or so.
00:45:23.980I think parents generally confuse the interests of their family with the interests of their children.
00:45:32.100And part of our goal, I think, as parents, but also as a society, is trying to make sure that children aren't the hostages of their parents as much as we rely on parents to raise them.
00:47:47.760when I hear that. And I actually don't wish, despite his voice and the words that he's saying,
00:47:52.860I legitimately, I sincerely don't wish to cast any undue aspersions on him.
00:47:59.560But this doesn't sound good. It sounds bad when you say it like that. And yet, in his defense,
00:48:06.160that is the inevitable consequence of following liberalism to its conclusion. If liberalism is
00:48:12.160all about the individual, then yeah, we need to protect the rights of the individual children
00:48:19.840who are held hostage by the oppressive bonds of their mommy and daddy. That's not my view.
00:48:27.740But my view does not emphasize the individual. I'm not a liberal. I'm not one of these new
00:48:31.860neocons, the neo-neocons. I'm not a classical liberal. I'm not a new liberal. I'm not a middle
00:48:36.840of the road liberal. I'm not a liberal. I'm a conservative. And so I don't think the fundamental
00:48:41.540unit of society as the individual. I think it's the family. That's the fundamental unit of
00:48:46.020politics. Politics means multiple people. So you can't, the fundamental unit of politics can't be
00:48:51.420a single person. That's not politics. It begins with the family. You are not born like falling
00:48:58.080off a coconut tree. You were born into a family, not merely with rights and entitlements, but with
00:49:02.720obligations to the family in a community of love. You were born literally as a product of love.
00:49:08.700and our loves have an order to them the vice president got in big trouble for talking about
00:49:16.940this was roughly a year ago that there's an order to love you have greater obligations to your
00:49:22.500children and to your parents than you do to some guy on the other side of the world or some
00:49:26.080professor sitting in his ivory tower at yale and and liberalism totally undermines that
00:49:33.120totally reverses that. And we see this borne out in social science, that the libs actually say
00:49:39.540they care more about people far, far away than they do to those close to them, which is why
00:49:44.020they're more likely to cut off their family, which is why they're more likely, what do they
00:49:48.420call it, going no contact, which is why they're more likely to be really nasty to all the people
00:49:53.100that they actually interact with in their communities and social media than they are
00:49:58.340to people on the other side of the world. And for conservatives, it's the opposite.
00:50:01.800We can sometimes seem like we don't care that much about the abstract person on the other side of the world, but we do care about people in our communities visibly much more.