The Michael Knowles Show - August 19, 2026


Ep. 2041 - HUGE Difference Between Radical Left and Radical Right – Primary Election RECAP


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00:01:57.260 Welcome back to the show. A New York State assemblyman, assemblywoman, I suppose I should
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00:03:58.940 close attention to it. It was really important, though, because it tells us the direction that
00:04:04.060 the midterms are looking, and it tells us about the direction of the respective political parties.
00:04:08.780 So I won't get to all the races, but I'll get to a handful of them that are illustrative.
00:04:13.180 Probably the biggest race was the primary for governor of Florida. You had my pal Byron
00:04:18.920 Donald's running down there. Byron Donald's a very Trump loyal MAGA member of Congress,
00:04:25.520 pretty prominent member of Congress. He was running to succeed Ron DeSantis and he faced
00:04:30.960 a few challengers. One was Jay Collins, who was pretty serious candidate, but didn't have the
00:04:37.220 poll numbers to overcome Byron. And then there was the meme candidate who was the favorite of a lot
00:04:42.420 of people on the internet. And he was very eccentric. He was very good at media. That was
00:04:45.900 James Fishback. And when I was at the University of Idaho at a TPSA event with Matt Walsh,
00:04:53.720 we were both hanging out on stage, and someone asked us about this race.
00:04:57.860 He said, Michael, you guys, I forget the exact wording of the question, but something to the
00:05:02.040 effect of you guys are missing the big trend in the Republican Party, which is that candidates
00:05:06.600 like James Fishback are really rising up. James Fishback, who ran this campaign that was pretty
00:05:11.540 overtly racialized, little bit anti-Semitic. It was basically just Twitter, but as a gubernatorial
00:05:20.780 campaign. He called Byron Byrone because it sounded more black or something. I mean,
00:05:26.300 it was all just kind of memes and trollery and provocation. And so anyway, this kid at the
00:05:30.980 University of Idaho said, you guys are missing this big trend in the Republican Party. And I
00:05:34.400 said, I don't think we are. I think actually by bringing up the Fishback campaign, you're
00:05:38.900 underscoring our point that the Republican Party is actually in pretty solid shape and the
00:05:42.820 coalition is pretty strong because Fishback at that point was polling at, I don't know, a few
00:05:46.540 percent, 5% or something. So the results finally come in. As many of the internet eccentrics were
00:05:52.560 expecting a big upset from James Fishback, what's the final score? Final score in a pretty crowded
00:05:57.220 primary was Byron getting about 48%, so almost half the votes. Jay Collins mounts a serious
00:06:04.160 enough challenge, but nowhere near enough to really matter. He got one in four voters. And
00:06:09.500 then James Fishback was a little north of 10%. And then you had a few other guys, eight and a
00:06:14.200 half percent, 4%, 1.6%. So Byron just totally blew everybody out of the water, including
00:06:19.460 James Fishback, who was running as the kind of internet, groiper, alt-right sort of candidate.
00:06:27.420 Okay. There's another race that involved a kind of internet-y, right-wing, fringe candidate.
00:06:33.220 And that was this guy, Dan Bilzerian, about whom, I must confess, I know basically nothing.
00:06:39.260 But he was running as this real, running very racial, anti-Semitic, like those kind of policies.
00:06:46.640 He was running against Randy Fine, who is ardently pro-Israel.
00:06:53.000 He's also very allied with MAGA and solid conservative Republican in Congress.
00:06:59.300 But Randy Fine really irritates the super online types, and Dan Bilzerian excites some of them,
00:07:06.300 I guess. In any case, Randy Fine totally blew Bilzerian out of the water. Randy Fine got
00:07:11.160 54.8%. Dan Bilzerian got 18%. There was another candidate there, Aaron Baker, got 14.5%.
00:07:18.820 So the big insurgency, populist, radical, reactionary campaigns, they didn't do a lot.
00:07:29.020 It's not that they got nothing.
00:07:30.080 You know, one got 10%, one got 18%, but they didn't even come close.
00:07:33.720 And these were decently funded campaigns.
00:07:36.260 Fishback raised $2 million in that race.
00:07:38.040 So he was vastly outspent, but he still did raise $2 million.
00:07:41.560 Okay, that's the right.
00:07:43.580 You had the kind of wacky insurgency, off year, only really, you know, highly motivated voters actually turn up to the polls.
00:07:51.460 And in that, the MAGA coalition totally dominates the more extreme fringe stuff blown out of the water.
00:07:59.020 What happened on the left? Well, there was another race. This is very illustrative. 0.78
00:08:03.080 This is the socialist Angie Nixon running for Senate against Alexander Vindman. Do you remember
00:08:09.280 Vindman? I don't even, I'm not even going to play the clip of Vindman. Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel,
00:08:13.000 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. He was this guy who started off one of the Trump impeachment
00:08:17.900 proceedings because he whined and complained that he didn't like Trump's phone call with Ukraine.
00:08:23.260 And so he made himself into a big spectacle.
00:08:26.100 He testifies on Capitol Hill.
00:08:28.720 And one of the Republicans says, okay, Mr. Vindman, such and such.
00:08:31.280 He said, I'm not, I'm not Mr. I'm Lieutenant Colonel.
00:08:33.400 This guy was really, really annoying.
00:08:34.940 But he was the establishment Democrat candidate in this race against a radical socialist Angie
00:08:41.600 Nixon.
00:08:41.980 And what happened?
00:08:43.160 Nixon trounced him.
00:08:45.020 An 11-point race, over 11 points, 55.75% to 44.25%.
00:08:51.320 Nixon. This was a big upset. Totally trounced the establishment Democrat Vindman, who had
00:08:57.340 military service, who had service at the highest levels of government. And this wacko Nixon, 0.70
00:09:03.500 who, if you've heard of her at all, it was because of this stunt she pulled in the state legislature 1.00
00:09:08.400 when she just shows up as her colleagues are trying to deliberate and vote. She shows up 1.00
00:09:12.460 with a bullhorn and basically has to be dragged out of there. I will not allow you to destroy
00:09:19.620 of democracy!
00:09:20.620 It is a violation of the Constitution!
00:09:22.620 It is!
00:09:23.620 It's a violation of the Constitution!
00:09:26.620 I'm out of order because you're doing a legal leg into the state of court!
00:09:32.620 It is out of order!
00:09:34.620 It is out of order!
00:09:37.620 It is out of order!
00:09:41.620 It is out of order!
00:09:44.620 You are violating the Constitution!
00:09:48.620 Okay, that's it. That woman could become a United States senator. 1.00
00:09:53.300 And this is the big takeaway for me from the Tuesday night primaries.
00:09:57.140 It highlights the big difference between the right and the left.
00:10:01.160 The big difference between the right and the left is not that
00:10:03.880 one side has fringe radicals and the other one doesn't.
00:10:07.540 It's politics. There are always some fringy people.
00:10:09.520 There are always provocateurs. There are always people who say nasty things,
00:10:12.620 who believe radical ideas. That's always true of all sides.
00:10:15.940 The big difference between the right and the left
00:10:18.260 is the fringe, wacky, provocateur, radical candidates on the right barely get any votes.
00:10:29.280 And the fringe, wacky, radical candidates on the left win the nomination. That's the difference.
00:10:35.420 That's the big difference. Yeah, there's all sorts of nasty chatter on the right on Twitter,
00:10:41.080 just like there's all sorts of nasty chatter on the left on Twitter. The difference is the American
00:10:46.580 right is an orderly political coalition that suppresses the kind of wacky extreme fringe stuff
00:10:54.100 and the american left is entirely beholden to its insane radical fringe that's the takeaway
00:11:00.200 that's the big takeaway which is why i know that there are people on the right who want to spend
00:11:04.380 all their time harping on the various ideological differences and the different factions and they
00:11:08.820 want to become very very insular and only talk about the right i i think that's a bad strategy
00:11:13.700 I think that is not prudent. I think that is not called for. I think it is navel-gazing. I think
00:11:19.120 it's a waste of time. Not because we shouldn't police our own, not because we shouldn't be
00:11:24.400 introspective or whatever, but because all that fringe kind of wacky ideological stuff on the
00:11:29.520 right doesn't really show up in the real political order. It doesn't show up in the polls. The
00:11:35.720 The disconnect between X and voters on the right is massive. 0.96
00:11:44.100 Whereas on the left, there is no disconnect whatsoever between the most lunatic leftist
00:11:52.140 on social media and the median Democrat voter.
00:11:55.640 That's the difference.
00:11:56.660 And so the real threat to our political order does not come from the right.
00:11:59.700 It's not that it couldn't come from the right.
00:12:01.200 I guess it could in theory, but it doesn't.
00:12:03.880 It comes from the left.
00:12:05.720 the Democratic Socialists of America are more popular with rank and file Democrat voters
00:12:10.960 than the Democrats on Capitol Hill are. And those Democratic Socialists of America are
00:12:16.660 going to replace those Democrats on Capitol Hill. And frankly, when you drill down into
00:12:20.160 their policies, there's not even all that much difference. The median Republican voter has never
00:12:26.080 heard of Dan Bilzerian and never will and doesn't care. It doesn't matter. It's fine. The knock I
00:12:33.100 will make of the right is that the right is more interested in media clicks. Look, I say this as a
00:12:40.160 podcaster. I am someone who speaks for a living. I write books for a living. I comment on politics
00:12:46.380 and the underlying philosophy and religious and cultural parts of it. And so I get it. I'm part
00:12:52.520 of that on the right. I like to think I distinguish myself in that I care about what's actually going
00:12:58.100 on in the real political order. I actually want to rack up real wins in the political order.
00:13:01.140 I don't just want to do sensationalism. I don't want to do clicks. I don't want to do conspiracy
00:13:05.440 theories. I don't want to do all that kind of stuff. But you see, all of that is all over the
00:13:10.480 political order. The only difference is that the right is still doing a real political project
00:13:16.620 that is mainstream, that is sensible, that we can get behind. And the left has totally given
00:13:22.880 themselves over to the radicals. Keep that in mind in November. Keep the stakes in mind in November.
00:13:28.120 Now, there was one very unfortunate incident.
00:13:32.140 This relates to the Senate race in South Carolina.
00:13:34.560 Obviously, Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly.
00:13:36.580 His sister Darlene was appointed to fill out the rest of his term.
00:13:40.260 But Lindsey Graham is up for re-election, was up for re-election.
00:13:43.380 So his sister Darlene is now running to serve a full term in the Senate.
00:13:48.800 She just had a primary debate, and it did not go well.
00:13:55.160 It did not go well.
00:13:56.000 And there had been a big debate.
00:13:57.500 Should Lindsey Graham's sister take a Senate seat?
00:14:00.180 Should she not take a Senate seat?
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00:15:20.820 time. Darlene Graham in a Senate race against Ralph Norman. Ralph Norman, very solid conservative, 0.66
00:15:29.860 very good conservative rankings, up toward 100% from all the groups that put out those,
00:15:36.160 who is the most conservative legislator, who is the most conservative politician.
00:15:40.180 So he's got a pretty solid right-wing bona fides. And he's in this debate against Darlene Graham.
00:15:46.180 they're asked a question about foreign policy. Here is Darlene Graham's response.
00:15:52.240 On the national security question as well, Senator, are Taiwan and the South China Sea
00:15:57.800 national security issues for the United States? If so, why?
00:16:03.520 I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?
00:16:05.440 Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States? And if so,
00:16:11.040 why or how? I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on national security that I'm not that
00:16:18.140 informed on national security. So, but I do support the military. Okay. Darlene Graham
00:16:28.200 seems like a real nice lady. And I supported President Trump's push to have her fill the 1.00
00:16:35.920 rest of Lindsey Graham's term. Actually, that's perfectly fine. This happens sometimes when
00:16:40.040 senators die, their wife fills out the rest of their term as the person closest to them
00:16:44.300 who is most likely to carry out their wishes for the rest of the term to which they were elected. 0.89
00:16:51.120 Lindsey Graham was not married. He was closest to his sister who he helped raise. So I was cool
00:16:55.200 with that. I think that's fine as long as she's a reliable Republican voice in the Senate and she
00:16:59.460 backs the Republican Party's agenda. I'm cool with that. I don't think that we need to run
00:17:06.060 some campaign for the remaining months of Lindsey Graham's term. Running for a new term, 0.97
00:17:12.140 that's a different issue. A six-year term, I think we want to make sure that we have a real
00:17:19.980 strong conservative Republican informed senator. The Senate, I know that Capitol Hill has outsourced
00:17:26.220 a lot of its responsibilities, but the Senate is supposed to be the greatest deliberative body in
00:17:30.460 the world, and they're supposed to be pretty informed, and they're supposed to be in the
00:17:34.320 initial structure of the Senate, they were supposed to not be beholden to the pathos of
00:17:37.960 the people. They were supposed to be appointed by the states. So it was actually supposed to be a
00:17:41.140 check on the power of pure democracy. After the 17th Amendment, that changed, and senators were
00:17:47.160 popularly elected. But they were still supposed to be a little bit more removed from all the
00:17:52.880 appetitive parts of the government that you get in the House of Representatives. I think it was
00:17:57.600 LBJ who said the difference between the House and the Senate, or sorry, the difference between the 1.00
00:18:01.120 Senate in the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken SHIT. And so that's 0.99
00:18:06.180 how it's supposed to be. And it does not appear that Darlene Graham has the requisite knowledge
00:18:12.780 and formation to fulfill that role. And especially when you got a good candidate like Ralph Norman
00:18:18.100 here, they're running to figure out who's going to go out to a runoff. That's too much. And so
00:18:23.740 in this debate between should Darlene succeed her brother in the Senate or should she not succeed
00:18:29.060 her brother in the Senate, there's actually, I think, a pretty clear third answer, which is it
00:18:34.220 was perfectly appropriate for her to fill out the rest of her brother's term, especially if she's a
00:18:39.140 reliable Republican voice. But probably if you're going to have a new term, the Senate is not
00:18:45.760 supposed to pass as a matter of hereditary inheritance. We don't generally do that in
00:18:51.460 America. But even if you supported a monarchy of some sort, the Senate is not the place for that.
00:18:56.980 probably we want someone who is more fit to be a senator, right? Isn't that the reasonable
00:19:05.140 middle ground here? It's okay for her to fill out the rest of the term, but if you're going to run 0.93
00:19:08.420 for a brand new term, maybe we need a new guy. There's something refreshing about her answer,
00:19:13.880 which is, you know, I really don't know about all that foreign policy stuff, but I just want
00:19:17.320 to make people's lives better, and I support the military. There is something refreshing.
00:19:21.480 She's not a politician. In some ways, I kind of like that because the political class has become 1.00
00:19:25.040 so decayed, but it's too much. I don't think you can become a senator if you say, I don't really
00:19:29.460 know about these major geopolitical issues. I think that admission is basically disqualifying,
00:19:36.920 and maybe Republicans should consider a, no offense to Darlene Graham, but maybe Republicans
00:19:42.220 should consider someone who is acquainted with the issues, because the Senate is a big job,
00:19:47.260 and at least it should be, and you should have people there who have the requisite experience
00:19:51.860 and knowledge to actually do the job. Okay. Now, speaking of the stakes, which is something I'm
00:19:58.220 constantly trying to bring Republicans and conservatives attention to. Because Mike Johnson
00:20:04.560 has the worst job in all of politics because he has to wrangle those Republicans on Capitol Hill
00:20:08.060 and getting Republicans together on Capitol Hill or anywhere else, it's like herding cats,
00:20:13.260 especially in the political class, especially in the pundit class, especially in the activist class.
00:20:17.000 It's like herding cats. These guys are always just trying to settle scores with each other.
00:20:21.860 but there is a real threat. This should have been the lesson when a leftist dating a tranny 1.00
00:20:29.860 murdered our friend Charlie Kirk. This should have been the lesson after the many, 0.99
00:20:36.220 the repeated assassination attempts against President Trump, one of which blew off part
00:20:40.760 of his ear. The lesson is, this should have been the lesson after the leftists were attacking
00:20:46.420 various conservative speaking events on colleges for the last decade,
00:20:49.740 including one of my own at the University of Pittsburgh when two Antifa operatives set off
00:20:53.720 an explosive. And that's not an exceptional case. That's happened a lot. The focus,
00:21:01.820 it's not that we don't want to figure out what we believe and who the best candidates are. We got to
00:21:06.100 do all that, but we got to keep our eyes on the prize. We have to have a 30,000 foot view, which
00:21:09.840 is that the left is nominating their most radical candidates who want to destroy the Constitution,
00:21:16.280 in their own words. We'll get to that in a second. And who want to kill us, who like try to kill us
00:21:22.900 a lot of the time. And then a huge portion of whom the whole Democrat party justifies killing 0.73
00:21:28.360 us, normal Republicans. This happened again. Another tranny tried to murder yet another
00:21:34.400 top Republican. This was 25-year-old Ryan Michael English. He thinks he's a woman. So he calls 1.00
00:21:42.080 himself Riley or Raleigh, Jane, whatever. He's from Massachusetts. He just pled guilty to weapons
00:21:48.620 charges stemming from a plot to assassinate Scott Besson, the treasury secretary. One of the top
00:21:54.740 guys in the administration, Scott Besson, absolute killer, doing a lot of good for the country.
00:22:01.140 Most people didn't hear about this. He pled guilty to this back in March. The story was both
00:22:05.980 suppressed by the media, and it's not really newsy because we know that the left wants to kill us. 1.00
00:22:09.240 In any case, we know that the transvestite community is particularly violent. 1.00
00:22:14.700 So yesterday, a judge sentences English to 73 months and 36 months of supervised release. 1.00
00:22:23.220 So 73 months in prison and then 36 months of supervised release for trying to murder the treasury secretary,
00:22:30.380 considering murdering other members of the administration, and trying to blow up the Heritage Foundation.
00:22:36.220 So he apparently shows up to the Heritage Foundation or plans to show up to the Heritage
00:22:40.240 Foundation, wants to kill a particular person at the Heritage Foundation. It's unclear from
00:22:45.540 the documents who that is. Some of this is coming from reporting from places like Fox News and
00:22:49.460 others. He wants to blow up the main conservative think tank. And they catch him. And okay,
00:22:56.340 he'll get it. He'll get a few years in prison. Okay. Then he'll come out and try to do it again,
00:23:00.680 probably. Got to stay focused. The fact that this is not a major news story
00:23:06.220 is actually about more than the perfidy of the media. Because now we have a lot of independent
00:23:12.420 media. In some cases, we have too much independent media, given some of the nonsense that goes around
00:23:16.380 the internet. But we have outlets that could be reporting on this stuff. And you're not getting
00:23:20.460 a lot of reporting here. Daily Wire ran a report on this yesterday. You're not getting a lot of
00:23:23.940 reporting. You're not getting a lot of chatter about it because we've come to expect it. And
00:23:27.220 in the news business, you want a headline that surprises people. And this headline doesn't
00:23:31.160 surprise people anymore. And I feel like we're a frog getting boiled in water. And we're arguing
00:23:37.660 with all the other frogs. That's actually a fitting example because of the frog avatar,
00:23:41.660 like the Pepe avatar on right-wing social media platforms. But so we're all arguing with each
00:23:45.440 other. Meanwhile, the temperature gets turned up and up and up. You're getting more of these
00:23:48.300 radical socialists who are being nominated for these major offices in an election year where
00:23:53.480 all the political headwinds are against us. Meanwhile, you have their supporters coming out
00:23:57.500 trying to literally murder Republicans. You have their top thought leader, Hassan Piker,
00:24:01.480 openly calling to murder two Democrat senators, sorry, two Republican senators,
00:24:05.660 openly saying America deserves 9-11. You have those very same candidates campaigning with
00:24:10.280 Hassan Piker. And you have some of those candidates and some of those left-wing pundits
00:24:15.100 and some of those left-wing activists and rank-and-file left-wing voters who are coming
00:24:19.280 out and defending all of the violence. And here we are, and we're arguing about whether we should
00:24:25.600 pay more attention to Aristotle or John Locke. I'm all for debates of ideas. I find it very
00:24:29.540 interesting. I love Aristotle and to a much lesser degree John Locke. But guys, you know this is real
00:24:35.800 life, right? You know this is real life. You know these people have guns, and they want to have
00:24:40.040 the guns of political power, the political authority, and they want to use that to punish
00:24:44.180 us unjustly. You know that, right? We got our eyes on the ball. We're nominating decent candidates.
00:24:49.040 Can we focus on where the real threat actually lies?
00:24:51.700 Okay. 0.58
00:24:52.560 Now, turning from the transvestite, speaking of dubious biology, there is a New York City leftist politician who is justifying crime, justifying theft. 0.60
00:25:02.480 You know, the reason that you now can't just go buy ordinary goods at Walgreens or at CVS because they're locked up behind a case because people keep stealing them. 0.77
00:25:13.240 She's justifying that.
00:25:14.700 She's saying there's really no crime at all that when these thugs go in and rob the drug
00:25:20.340 stores, it's actually just a crime of biological need.
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00:26:33.280 New York State Assemblyman Emily Gallagher, 1.00
00:26:36.460 radical leftist assemblyman.
00:26:37.880 If you're only listening to this show right now,
00:26:40.160 close your eyes imagine this person you're right whatever you're imagining whatever you're imagining
00:26:48.380 of the radical woman politician in new york who's defending street thugs whatever you're imagining
00:26:55.480 appearance comportment speech dress whatever you're imagining is totally right here is a speech
00:27:02.000 on what she calls crimes of poverty most of what we saw were crimes of poverty people who were
00:27:09.220 stealing things like toothpaste people who are stealing things like you know
00:27:13.480 soap and that means if you're stealing those things you need them and we are
00:27:19.100 choosing to protect billion dollar companies like CBS and Walgreens over
00:27:26.140 the people who are struggling to get by so I would say that the true crime is
00:27:33.220 is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city that there are people who can be
00:27:41.300 thrown in jail simply for having a biological need and so one of the things that i'm fighting
00:27:47.620 for at the state level is to make sure we pass things like treatment not jail and that we hold
00:27:52.660 the line on the incredible criminal justice reforms that we have done over the last 10 and 20 years
00:27:59.700 that are constantly being threatened by right wing media who are looking to fear monger about
00:28:05.580 people who are actually just in absolute dire strait. They're in absolute dire strait. This
00:28:12.360 is biological need. They commit no crime. You know, the real crime is these corporations that
00:28:17.460 are making the products. This is the kind of language you hear by people who defend Luigi
00:28:21.580 Mangione, where the real criminal is not the murderer, the guy who murders a father in cold
00:28:27.260 blood. No, no, the real crime is an executive at a company running a company. That's the real
00:28:34.740 crime. The real crime is that some people have more money than you do, that some people make
00:28:38.780 products and you don't make products. So let's examine her claim on Justine's face. So first of
00:28:45.080 all, just at a very basic economic level, what she is identifying as the real victim here,
00:28:54.760 the person who she wants to be punished, even, you know, the billion-dollar corporations,
00:29:00.940 they won't actually be punished. I was talking to my friend and colleague, Christina Lewis,
00:29:04.600 here the other day, and she pointed out, she said, well, you know, the thing that's going to happen
00:29:08.340 is if the street criminals keep stealing from the stores, it's not that that's going to punish the
00:29:14.960 billion-dollar corporations. The billion-dollar corporations are just going to have to raise
00:29:17.520 their prices, and the person who gets punished is the law-abiding citizen. So even if you wanted
00:29:22.280 to punish the corporate executive, you're not actually punishing that person. You're punishing
00:29:24.880 the law-abiding citizen whose prices go up because you're robbing the system. But furthermore,
00:29:31.760 let's take the moral point. The moral point is, does a person have a right in poverty to
00:29:40.720 steal the toothpaste? And St. Thomas Aquinas takes up this issue. St. Thomas Aquinas takes
00:29:46.900 it up in the Summa Theologiae, which is, he makes the point, he says, a man who steals bread to
00:29:52.220 feed his family commits no crime. And he commits no crime because if he goes out and steals a
00:29:58.940 Ferrari, he does commit a crime. But if he goes and takes bread, because his family is on the
00:30:02.940 brink of starvation, he takes bread from a store, he actually commits no crime. And the reason for
00:30:07.160 this transcends the debate between the capitalist on the one hand and the communist on the other
00:30:12.300 hand. The reason that the man who steals bread to prevent starvation in his family, that man
00:30:18.040 commits no crime, is because we have private property, and private property is good, and
00:30:24.560 private property is even a right, and private property is definitely conducive to human
00:30:29.620 flourishing. But goods ultimately come from God. We didn't create our lives. We didn't create the
00:30:36.020 world. We didn't create the sun and the trees and the water. And so the goods ultimately come from
00:30:41.400 God. And therefore, there is private property. The capitalist is right about that. But there is
00:30:47.360 also a universal destination of goods. The socialist is not right because socialism,
00:30:53.360 all of leftism is really just a perversion of Christianity. But the hint of an almost kind of
00:30:58.560 correct thing that they're getting at is we do have obligations to our fellow citizens.
00:31:02.600 We as citizens, as members of political community have obligations to one another,
00:31:06.420 just as you have obligations to your kids and to your parents and to your cousins and to your
00:31:11.380 family because the political community is an extension of the family because patriotism is
00:31:17.760 an extension of filial piety. So you actually do have obligations to people. You don't owe your
00:31:22.960 neighbor the shirt off your back. But if you have some extra shirts in your closet,
00:31:28.560 it is possible that you might owe your neighbor that in certain circumstances. That is the
00:31:33.260 classical political conception of this problem. That is the traditional Christian conception of
00:31:38.740 this problem. And this is why the assemblyman's take totally flops here. She says, these are
00:31:43.980 crimes of poverty. First of all, no one needs the toothpaste exactly. But even if they, the
00:31:49.600 toothpaste is a little different from feeding your starving family. But even if you did need
00:31:52.840 the toothpaste, there are many places to get toothpaste in New York City. You can go, one,
00:31:59.260 we have Medicaid. So if you're really poor, you can just access Medicaid for medical services.
00:32:03.680 You can go to food pantries.
00:32:05.680 You can go to homeless shelters.
00:32:07.700 You can go to the many private charities,
00:32:10.040 many, many of which, if not most of which,
00:32:11.700 are provided by the church.
00:32:13.500 There are lots of places to go get toothpaste
00:32:16.740 without stealing it from CVS.
00:32:20.780 When you steal it from CVS,
00:32:22.860 one, that'll probably inflate prices
00:32:24.820 over the long run for the law-abiding customer,
00:32:26.540 but it also just creates disorder.
00:32:28.660 It creates disorder.
00:32:29.980 It breaks social trust.
00:32:31.980 it reduces faith in the justice system if these crimes aren't policed it it just immiserates
00:32:39.460 everybody it is contrary to the common good that's that's the issue and so i think this is really the
00:32:46.060 way to take on the the left when they're when the socialists are on the rise among a lot of people
00:32:51.000 in this country the way to take them on jd vance made this point the other day i thought he was
00:32:54.400 very right about it the way to take them on is not just to keep repeating the same slogans that
00:32:59.580 you heard in 1987 about the free market. We should defend free markets in many cases,
00:33:05.160 but you have to respond to what has changed. You need to respond to what people are thinking in
00:33:11.360 this moment, to what people are feeling in this moment. You have to affirm the good, however
00:33:16.740 little there may be of that, in their inclinations that are drawing them towards socialism. But you
00:33:21.380 need to redirect it away from the evil of socialism toward the good that socialism has
00:33:27.080 perverted, which is the Christian political tradition, the classical political tradition,
00:33:31.960 the American political tradition. That's what you have to do. Yeah, yeah, no, you're right. 0.99
00:33:36.440 Obviously, no one thinks that if a guy and his family are starving on the street and big bread
00:33:43.520 has a loaf of bread in a store window, a big bread with $10 zillion of profits every year,
00:33:47.940 that no one thinks that the man on the street shouldn't be able to have a bite of bread.
00:33:52.940 No one is saying that. But what the left is offering you is not going to solve the problem.
00:33:58.180 It's going to make every problem worse. That, I think, is how you have to answer it.
00:34:02.180 But you can't answer it by burying your head in the sand. Okay, now, speaking of the Democrat
00:34:06.440 socialists, what they're really after is not just health care for all. You know, this is,
00:34:10.900 my takeaway from the primaries last night is the difference between the left and the right is we
00:34:14.380 don't actually vote for the fringe radicals on our side, and they nominate theirs to the highest
00:34:18.880 offices. But what the left will respond to that, what they'll say is, you know, the fringe radicals
00:34:24.460 on the right, they're Nazis. And the fringe radicals on the left, they just want to give
00:34:29.640 people health care. They just want to give people health care and murder Donald Trump and murder 0.98
00:34:35.860 Charlie Kirk and take away people's property and dox a million New Yorkers like Momdani just did
00:34:42.320 to whip up a mob against them and to open the borders and, and, and, and, and. They say,
00:34:47.620 You radicals on the right, you're Nazis and the radicals on the left.
00:34:51.120 We just want to give people health care.
00:34:52.340 Well, what do they actually want to do?
00:34:53.440 We have here Cliff Connolly, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Steering Committee.
00:34:58.480 He's one of the leaders of the DSA, which has now surged to take over the Democrat Party.
00:35:03.340 He says what they're really about.
00:35:04.640 So the two things that we're famous for is our commitment to a program and our
00:35:12.800 hatred of the United States Constitution. And what the program does is it gives us a road map
00:35:20.940 to revolution, and it gives us the obstacle that we finally will have to get over to have a
00:35:26.800 revolution, which is the United States Constitution, the basis of the United States government.
00:35:30.880 And what the minimum maximum program specifically, what that format specifically gives us is that roadmap. It gives us the minimum circumstances under which we would be able to take power and govern, and it gives us the maximum program, which is the goals that we're actually aiming for.
00:35:50.660 It also clarifies democracy as both the end goal and as part of the process to get there ensures the internal party democracy that we want to see in DSA.
00:36:02.180 So it really wraps up the revolutionary tradition of democracy that I think socialism and abolitionism in the United States have always been a part of and aims it at a future that we can live in as a human species.
00:36:18.000 okay there you go he keeps babbling but i think you get the point so he opens up he says you know
00:36:23.160 the thing we're really famous for here is our hatred of the constitution and even i and i know
00:36:28.040 what these people are about but even i assumed he was going to laugh after that they were all
00:36:31.620 going to kind of chuckle oh yeah that's the caricature of the democratic socials you know
00:36:35.560 you know what they say about us it'd be like a right winger saying you know you know what we
00:36:39.000 conservatives are all about right we're all about cigars and misogyny and hoarding a lot of money
00:36:45.460 That's what we're about.
00:36:46.380 Rich Uncle Pennybags.
00:36:47.800 That would be a joke.
00:36:49.040 We would say, ha, that is a caricature of us, but that we're going to joke about.
00:36:54.060 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:36:55.740 He doesn't laugh.
00:36:57.380 There's no chuckle with this guy.
00:36:59.260 He goes, yeah, you know what we're really about is our hatred of the U.S. Constitution.
00:37:03.880 Not one chuckle.
00:37:05.320 Pretty humorless lot, that crew.
00:37:07.160 And he says, yeah, so that's what we're about.
00:37:08.500 We want a revolution to overthrow the constitutional order.
00:37:11.600 And our end goal is pure democracy.
00:37:15.620 And abolition.
00:37:17.140 By abolition, I believe this refers to abolishing prisons.
00:37:20.780 So what we want to do is let all the criminals free.
00:37:22.800 This is just like the French Revolution.
00:37:24.220 One of the central acts of the French Revolution is letting all the criminals out of the Bastille,
00:37:28.820 which the left is always trying to do.
00:37:30.880 They've been openly talking about this at high levels of government.
00:37:32.900 We need to abolish prisons, let the criminals out onto the street, create an anarchist situation.
00:37:39.360 The foot soldiers of the American left are Antifa,
00:37:42.820 who just are street criminals who commit violence, including murder. 0.94
00:37:46.480 And so we're going to let them out on the street.
00:37:47.960 We're going to have radical democracy.
00:37:49.220 And even the democracy point is kind of funny
00:37:51.220 because the word democracy appears a handful of times in the Federalist Papers,
00:37:55.320 which were the sales pitch for the U.S. Constitution.
00:37:59.220 And every time democracy appears in the Federalist,
00:38:02.080 it is in a negative sense.
00:38:03.740 It is as a warning not to get too much democracy.
00:38:06.880 And so this guy is pretty honest.
00:38:08.620 You got to give him points for honesty because he's saying, yeah, what the democratic socialists
00:38:12.700 are about. Look, we've taken over the Democrat party and what we are about is destroying the
00:38:17.520 US constitution. We want a totally radically different form of government. And I think
00:38:22.920 they're right about that. Whereas the American conservatives, even if we disagree on foreign
00:38:29.140 policy a little bit with each other and we disagree on trade a little bit, maybe we disagree
00:38:33.120 on, I don't know, whatever. I think it is fair to say that all of the American conservatives,
00:38:40.720 anyone who would call himself a part of the American right, likes America. Likes America,
00:38:46.880 even if he has a skewed picture of America, as many of the liberals and libertarians and neocon
00:38:51.100 types do, especially, even if they have a kind of skewed view of America, they love America.
00:38:56.100 So that's why they're on the team. That's why it makes sense for there to be a coalition
00:38:59.400 with all these disparate groups. Whereas on the left, they hate America and they think America's
00:39:04.800 evil and they want to destroy it. And you don't need to read very far into Karl Marx to realize
00:39:10.160 that Marx's favorite line of literature comes from Goethe's Faust, which is that everything
00:39:14.300 that exists deserves to perish. And Marx, in his own words, says that he calls for the ruthless
00:39:18.540 criticism of all that exists. So that's what it's about. It's purely destructive.
00:39:23.100 and those guys are being nominated to high offices so yeah okay the very online right you know they
00:39:30.720 kind of they kind of took took a few hits last night in the primary okay we're kind of done with
00:39:35.320 the meme portion of the campaign that's great okay all right now guys um do you want the people
00:39:41.100 who want to kill you to be in high office or not that's really what it comes down to okay you wish 0.53
00:39:45.940 trump had deported some more people okay you don't like the iran war okay you wish gas were a little 0.81
00:39:49.820 cheaper. Okay. I get it. I get it. I'm not even, I don't even mean to minimize that. I get it.
00:39:52.820 I totally get it. You want the people who want to shred the constitution, who follow Hassan Pai 0.97
00:39:57.520 says he wipes his derriere with the American flag and wants to kill senators. You want that guy, 0.99
00:40:01.740 he wants to kill you and your family. You want that guy in office or no? Oh, you don't? Okay. 1.00
00:40:06.660 Vote for the Republicans. Okay. We good? We good? We're all going to be big boys now.
00:40:10.340 We're all going to be adults. Okay, good. I hope so. Now, speaking of these radicals who
00:40:18.300 were not exactly hiding, you know, the DSA has been pretty open about this and now they're being
00:40:22.020 even more open. There was this other guy hiding in plain sight, this radical guy, Jason Arday,
00:40:28.140 who was this academic at Cambridge who plagiarized everything and lied about his entire biography.
00:40:33.960 And he was promoted because of DEI at one of the most prestigious and oldest universities in the
00:40:39.300 world. Very sad end to his story. When he was exposed, he killed himself. Now that's very sad.
00:40:46.480 it. We should pray for him. What's even stranger is there was just a rally of thousands of people
00:40:52.820 who were supporting him and who were furious at the academics who revealed his plagiarism.
00:41:03.640 They were blaming the people who told the truth and who stood up for academic integrity
00:41:09.000 for a fraudster's suicide. We'll get to that in a moment. First, my favorite comment yesterday is
00:41:15.900 from koala nectar9382. He says, I want to start a GoFundMe for myself just to pay my bills and
00:41:21.460 my rent. Seems like a far more legitimate use of fundraising than $800,000 to a murderer. And
00:41:25.840 maybe I'm just a naive fool. No, I think you're right. The whole GoFundMe thing, I mean, look, 0.99
00:41:31.680 most of us probably have contributed to some sort of GoFundMe thing at some point.
00:41:35.040 And sometimes people need it. A family hits hard times, needs expenses. Okay. Yeah, that's a good
00:41:41.880 use of it. But the political GoFundMe thing, I really find distasteful, even if it shows up on
00:41:47.980 the right. But you see it much more on the left, like Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo Anthony just murders
00:41:52.860 this white track runner in cold blood and then raises zillions of dollars to be rewarded for
00:41:57.160 his murder. Same thing with Lindsay Clancy raises almost a million dollars. These crazy women on the
00:42:02.340 internet raise a million dollars for Lindsay Clancy to reward her for strangling her three 1.00
00:42:06.020 kids, a fact that not even she disputes. But you even see it on the right. I think it wasn't Shiloh
00:42:13.260 Hendricks, the gal who said the racial epithets to the Somali guy and the kid and didn't, I think
00:42:18.440 there was a GoFundMe for her and she raised some money. The whole thing though, I find kind of sad
00:42:22.180 because what it reflects is that we as a society, we really, even on the right, we've reduced
00:42:29.300 ourselves to the material. So we think if you like someone, if you support someone, if you want to
00:42:34.900 help someone, if you want to console someone, the only thing we can do is click a button and send
00:42:38.980 digital money. But there's nothing else that we can do. That's the only way that we express
00:42:44.200 support or affection anymore. The idea that for Gen Z, a lot of romance is just boiled down to
00:42:49.740 like OnlyFans. You know, you just, instead of having a, I shouldn't laugh, but instead of having 0.98
00:42:54.220 a love affair or romantic relationship, you just like push a button and send electronic money 0.99
00:42:58.000 to a prostitute. And we just do that. It's all, the only thing that we feel we can do to express 0.99
00:43:03.520 our affection for someone is just to send them digital money. There's more to life than that.
00:43:08.920 Money is good to have, but there's more to life than that. We no longer really seem to believe
00:43:12.960 that. What happened to the spiritual works of mercy? Anyway, we'll come back to that in a
00:43:17.520 moment. First, I do want to get to the R-Day story because it's really, really sad at multiple
00:43:22.580 levels. So this guy, Jason R-Day, I covered him on the show a few days ago. He was this academic,
00:43:27.840 much vetted at Cambridge University, one of the most prestigious schools in the world. And
00:43:33.520 he plagiarized like 180 times. And so, this was revealed. It was revealed by this guy,
00:43:41.060 Kofnas, Nathan Kofnas, who was an academic who exposed the plagiarism. And then when they saw
00:43:46.040 the plagiarism, they saw that he had all of these lies in his biography. He claimed to have run
00:43:50.780 like hundreds of miles in a matter of days to have completed something like 30 marathons in
00:43:57.100 35 days or something just totally absurd. That he was mute until he was 11 years old,
00:44:03.580 illiterate until 18, and then he became this great professor. And he was in some fake field,
00:44:10.980 one of these sociology of the studies of the studies of sociology field. And he was just
00:44:15.620 fed it at the height of wokeness and DEI. There was evidence that the academic journals knew about
00:44:20.460 this, but they just wanted to cover it up. The story was too good. They didn't want to pop the
00:44:24.060 wokeness bubble. And so he was exposed. Now we're post peak wokeness and he gets fired and 0.98
00:44:29.740 he killed himself. He committed suicide. It's really, really sad. But thousands of people in
00:44:36.340 the UK, thousands of people in, I think there was one rally and was this Canada? All these people
00:44:42.740 are demonstrating in support of him and blaming the guy who exposed the reality.
00:44:54.060 No, this was in the UK.
00:44:55.960 This was in the UK too.
00:44:57.120 Even though there's a Canadian flag there.
00:44:58.500 I think this was in the UK.
00:45:03.460 Look at this.
00:45:07.980 Thousands of people attacking the academic who exposed him.
00:45:13.160 Saying, no, you shouldn't have told the truth.
00:45:14.800 We should have had this fraudster.
00:45:15.880 We should have had this hoax artist in the academy.
00:45:18.060 How could you?
00:45:20.500 They're angry at him for telling the truth.
00:45:24.060 And this, this is pretty, pretty dark because it, you have to think, uh, the, the only way to correct, uh, the errors that we're in, we're, we're in this very delusional error, era where, and error where, you know, where we don't know the difference between a man and a woman, where we pretend not to know what objective truth is, or to be able to arrive at objective truth, where we don't know what makes up a country.
00:45:47.660 So we pretend that borders have to be totally open in our countries, but not other people's 0.57
00:45:52.060 countries, where we're in this period of increasing radicalism, Weimar America, where you've got all
00:45:57.420 these, a little bit of radicalism on the right, but a ton of it on the left, getting nominated
00:46:00.740 to high office, just sick, sick stuff. People murdering kids as, you know, and then having 0.79
00:46:06.480 GoFundMes raised for them. And then we have murdering kids as a matter of national policy.
00:46:11.140 And it's just, we're in a period of intense error where we can't acknowledge what a human
00:46:17.020 being is. We're now commoditizing and selling human life. We don't know what a woman is. We're
00:46:20.740 so confused. And there are a lot of people who say, well, look, it's just, we can't unwind it.
00:46:28.240 I understand. It's scary to think if you start to unwind some of these errors, it's just your whole
00:46:33.260 universe will explode. I remember this when I realized that liberalism was just like wrong.
00:46:40.080 I realized this when I was about 19 years old. And when I realized that liberalism itself is just
00:46:44.440 wrong. It just is a misunderstanding of human nature and of how human societies work.
00:46:51.080 It actually shocked me. When I ceased to be a libertarian, it really shocked me because I said,
00:46:55.440 well, now I need to rethink all of these assumptions that I've made about politics.
00:46:58.420 And so I get it. It's very, very scary. But nothing good will come of doubling down on error.
00:47:07.260 Nothing good will come of blaming the guy who told the truth about the academic fraudster.
00:47:10.680 nothing good will come of denying who murdered her kids with lindsey clancy nothing good will
00:47:16.640 come of of burying our heads in the sand the the radicalism and the the dysfunction will only get
00:47:22.860 worse okay before we go speaking of um speaking of spiritual works and you know trying to do
00:47:29.640 things more than money uh there is one last thing i want to do because i got this message from a guy
00:47:33.600 last night, who I guess is a listener to the show. Let's see. Where is he? Hold on. This Twitter app
00:47:41.180 doesn't work that well. Here it is. Okay. He says, I'm in desperate need of prayer. I'm from
00:47:46.000 Louisiana. My daughter is in the pediatric intensive care unit. She has an amoebic parasite
00:47:50.220 that she contracted from swimming in a lake. At this point, it's still not looking amazing,
00:47:54.380 but this morning we received some hope. I need all the prayers a nation can give,
00:47:58.400 and he thought that I could help with that. Can you please put out a prayer request,
00:48:02.080 however you can for my daughter, Lillian.
00:48:03.960 So I just want to do that
00:48:04.940 because I got this email last night
00:48:07.840 and I looked into it.
00:48:08.720 The story is getting a little bit of coverage.
00:48:10.580 But if you could pray for Lillian
00:48:11.760 and her father and family and everything,
00:48:14.120 that would be, I would very much appreciate that.
00:48:15.760 Okay, no member block today
00:48:17.460 because we got to do a very important piece of content
00:48:19.540 that will be coming out soon.
00:48:20.480 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:48:21.040 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:48:21.780 See you tomorrow.
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