The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 276 - The Left Is Moving Further Left


Summary

For the first time in history, a majority of Democrats identify as liberal. We ll analyze what the Democrats' leftward lurch means for American politics. Plus, New York City institutes socialist health care, Brooklyn resegregates its schools, and the New York Times frets about how the government shutdown is affecting craft beer producers.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 For the first time in history, the majority of Democrats identify as liberal.
00:00:04.860 We will analyze what the Democrats' leftward lurch means for American politics.
00:00:09.240 Then, New York City institutes socialist health care,
00:00:12.620 Brooklyn resegregates its schools,
00:00:14.740 and the New York Times, in the New York Timesiest articles ever,
00:00:18.160 frets about how the government shutdown is affecting craft beer producers.
00:00:23.120 Know the horror!
00:00:24.420 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Oh, you know, when this shutdown was just affecting my tax returns and border security and the Coast Guard,
00:00:41.560 and that I could handle. That I could handle.
00:00:44.640 But now that it's affecting craft beer producers, Mr. President, please, you have to end it.
00:00:49.640 And the madness! I can't...
00:00:51.920 If I can't drink new, pretentious, usually not-that-great-tasting beers,
00:00:57.440 what is this country for? What are we winning?
00:01:01.300 Talk about a Pyrrhic victory. We'll get to that in a second.
00:01:03.900 But first, we have to talk about this new Gallup poll
00:01:06.360 showing that Democrats are lurching to the left.
00:01:10.260 We talk about this all the time in modern politics.
00:01:13.520 We say the parties are becoming so polarized.
00:01:16.380 The two sides, the left and the right, are becoming so polarized.
00:01:20.540 That isn't exactly true.
00:01:22.380 One side is becoming polarized, and it seems to be the left.
00:01:26.460 It seems to be the Democrats.
00:01:27.900 This new poll from Gallup shows most Democrats now identify as liberal
00:01:33.160 rather than moderate or conservative.
00:01:36.480 You might say, oh, wow, Democrats are liberal, Michael.
00:01:38.640 Wow, this is shocking.
00:01:39.720 Breaking. Stop the presses.
00:01:41.020 This actually is pretty surprising.
00:01:42.680 As recently as 2008, only 38% of Democrats identified as liberal.
00:01:48.360 Others would say, oh, I'm a moderate Democrat or even some conservative Democrats.
00:01:52.640 This used to be true of the Democrat Party.
00:01:54.960 There were the progressives, and there were the blue dogs,
00:01:57.620 and the blue dog Democrats.
00:01:59.200 Now, I guess the closest thing would be a guy like Joe Manchin in West Virginia,
00:02:03.360 although even he is basically a progressive Democrat.
00:02:06.820 Just on a few issues, he has to tack a little bit to the right,
00:02:11.280 something like Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, for instance.
00:02:13.940 Otherwise, his constituents will throw him out of office.
00:02:16.020 But now we're seeing the Democrats are solidly, for the major part, liberal.
00:02:21.600 This is the first time since Gallup started tracking this,
00:02:24.100 so it may be the first time in history, which I suspect it is.
00:02:26.820 Gallup's been tracking this since the 1990s.
00:02:29.680 But what happens on the Republican side?
00:02:31.620 On the Republican side now, you see 73% of Republicans identify as conservative.
00:02:36.880 So many more Republicans identify as conservative than Democrats identify as liberal.
00:02:41.960 But what you've got to track here is the change,
00:02:43.860 because this basically hasn't changed at all.
00:02:46.400 It hasn't really changed since last year.
00:02:48.520 And even if you go back to 2008, it's only ticked up three percentage points.
00:02:52.720 Back in 2008, 70% of Republicans identified as conservative,
00:02:57.120 whereas only 38% of Democrats identified as liberal.
00:03:01.360 What does this mean for American politics?
00:03:03.820 It means that while right now all the talking heads, New York Times,
00:03:07.620 the pundits, want you to focus on Trump, how Trump is changing American politics,
00:03:12.660 how he's totally thrown the rule book out.
00:03:14.600 It's all different now.
00:03:15.920 The actual change that's going on is on the left.
00:03:19.420 The actual change is in the Democrat Party.
00:03:21.720 When you look at how Donald Trump has governed the country,
00:03:24.760 is there anything shocking?
00:03:26.600 You coming completely out of left field?
00:03:29.060 Not really.
00:03:30.080 He's governing as a fairly conservative Republican.
00:03:33.760 Not totally conservative Republican, but fairly conservative.
00:03:37.820 On some issues, a little more center-right.
00:03:39.860 On others, he's solidly conservative.
00:03:42.120 There's nothing new about that.
00:03:44.240 I guess he's more conservative in many ways than George W. Bush,
00:03:47.400 or his father, George H. W. Bush.
00:03:50.060 But he's basically on line with Ronald Reagan.
00:03:52.520 He's modeled his entire campaign after Ronald Reagan.
00:03:55.320 Make America Great Again is a line he took from Ronald Reagan.
00:03:58.440 Although Ronald Reagan said it more nicely because he had the word let's in front of it.
00:04:02.080 He said, let's make America great again.
00:04:04.120 And Trump, obviously, in the imperative, do it, do it or else.
00:04:06.640 Make America great again.
00:04:07.920 But basically, he's within the regular conservative Republican mold.
00:04:11.860 The change that's happening right now is a generational change.
00:04:15.200 And that's why you're seeing these new characters who are entering Congress.
00:04:18.980 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Julian Castro, not in Congress.
00:04:25.480 But you see all these up-and-coming Democrat politicians who are much more left-wing.
00:04:33.520 This is an age gap.
00:04:35.480 Don't be fooled by the outlier, which is Bernie Sanders, who's 350 years old.
00:04:39.580 This is a big age gap.
00:04:40.920 And you're seeing a big fight breaking out now within the Democrat Party.
00:04:45.340 Now, how is this happening?
00:04:47.080 Why, all of a sudden, do you see even people like Nancy Pelosi look conservative
00:04:51.420 compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
00:04:53.760 I don't think it's some big seismic event that's happened.
00:04:57.920 I think what's happening with these people, give them credit, give Alexandria Ocasio credit,
00:05:02.340 give Ilhan Omar or whoever credit, they are taking progressivism to its logical conclusion.
00:05:09.060 They are taking the Democrat Party to its logical conclusion.
00:05:13.120 For decades now, the Democrats have been ferreting out conservatives, ferreting out moderates,
00:05:18.040 and these guys are taking it to where it ultimately will go.
00:05:21.680 How does a blue dog make any sense in today's Democrat Party?
00:05:25.780 Just that one issue, Hillary Clinton talked about it in 2008, that abortion should be safe,
00:05:30.800 legal, and rare.
00:05:31.980 This was Hillary trying to both bring the progressives with her and say,
00:05:35.240 we're going to have a lot of legal abortion, but bring the conservatives with her too,
00:05:39.220 the blue dogs, and say, but we shouldn't have too much abortion.
00:05:42.520 We shouldn't.
00:05:42.940 It's not a good thing, but we're going to still have it.
00:05:45.500 If abortion is morally similar to murder, why should it be legal?
00:05:48.400 If abortion is not morally similar to murder, if it's just a tonsillectomy, basically,
00:05:53.100 why should it be rare?
00:05:54.200 That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
00:05:56.400 The difference here is that the GOP is intellectually diverse.
00:06:01.960 The right, broadly, has a lot of pieces to it.
00:06:06.020 So you've got the neocons, the neoconservatives.
00:06:09.500 You've got the traditionalists.
00:06:11.060 You've got the libertarians.
00:06:12.900 You've got the religious right.
00:06:14.640 You've got more populist elements.
00:06:16.940 You've got all of these things going on, and they don't agree on everything.
00:06:20.480 They kind of disagree on many issues, on the market, on free trade, on religion, on culture.
00:06:27.900 They disagree on so many things.
00:06:29.920 How do they all come together on the right?
00:06:31.760 They came together largely because of what was called the conservative movement.
00:06:35.540 They came together largely because of William F. Buckley Jr., who had a philosophy or a practice
00:06:42.600 called fusionism, where you fuse together these different parts of what could be conservatism
00:06:47.740 into a coherent governing coalition.
00:06:49.680 That's why we have intellectual diversity.
00:06:52.280 What does the left have?
00:06:53.800 They just have progressivism.
00:06:55.800 They have progressivism and the last remnants of blue dog conservatives.
00:07:00.120 And they've been going away for decades and decades now.
00:07:02.760 Now you're finally seeing that turn, that pivot, and the majority are progressive and liberal.
00:07:08.160 What is this going to look like?
00:07:09.520 The first question it raises is, can the Democrat House push a unified agenda?
00:07:15.440 I don't know.
00:07:16.060 I mean, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first congressional action when she got elected was to take over
00:07:21.080 Nancy Pelosi's office and protest her own Speaker of the House.
00:07:24.820 How is that going to work?
00:07:25.940 I mean, right now, just to use Ocasio as sort of the epitome of this new, young, progressive
00:07:32.460 coalition, she's pushing something called the Green New Deal.
00:07:36.500 This amounts to a federal takeover of the economy.
00:07:39.380 There's nothing short of that.
00:07:40.760 This is the federal government coming in and getting its hand in just about every sector
00:07:44.760 of the economy.
00:07:45.600 It would ban fossil fuels in most things by 2030.
00:07:49.460 It would mean that we have to power our homes on renewable energies like wind and solar,
00:07:55.200 which is a complete pipe dream.
00:07:57.500 It is like powering them on unicorns and gumdrops.
00:08:00.600 It's obscenely expensive.
00:08:02.340 It's not efficient whatsoever.
00:08:04.280 But within this Green New Deal, it sounds like it's just talking about the environment.
00:08:08.800 There are all these other insane progressive platforms like a basic income, so just guaranteed
00:08:15.840 money from the federal government, single-payer health care, socialist medicine, and handouts
00:08:21.720 to left-wing groups and to unions, and it will cost an estimated $40 trillion over the
00:08:26.960 course of 10 years.
00:08:27.800 Where is she going to get the money?
00:08:28.940 She doesn't know where she's going to get the money.
00:08:30.560 She doesn't have an answer to that.
00:08:32.140 That is the kind of radicalism that we're seeing.
00:08:34.580 But this is not, I really want to stress this, this is not some new crazy thing that Alexandria
00:08:40.260 Ocasio-Cortez invented.
00:08:41.680 This has been building as the logical conclusion of progressivism since Woodrow Wilson, and
00:08:47.220 we'll actually get to that on this day in history.
00:08:49.400 Today is the anniversary of Woodrow Wilson announcing his 14 points program at the end
00:08:56.280 of World War I, and we're going to see how that laid the roadmap out for progressivism.
00:09:00.420 It brings us exactly where we are.
00:09:02.220 Now, are certain older Democrats a little more conservative?
00:09:06.160 They are, but they don't make a lot of sense.
00:09:07.880 They're pretty incoherent.
00:09:08.780 Now we have a choice.
00:09:09.660 You know, we've got this government shutdown going on, and Cabot Phillips, whom I love
00:09:14.680 over at Campus Reform, he went out to college campuses, and he wanted to ask them what they
00:09:20.080 thought of Donald Trump's quotes on illegal immigration and the government shutdown.
00:09:25.760 And the big spin here is they weren't really Trump's quotes.
00:09:29.380 They were quotes from Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton.
00:09:33.640 And then the kids are all shocked when they find out that the quotes that they hate from
00:09:36.580 Trump really came from Democrats.
00:09:38.500 Here he is.
00:09:39.660 I'm going to read a few quotes here from President Trump talking about the need for the southern
00:09:43.080 border wall.
00:09:44.100 First quote, we should spend money to build a barrier to prevent illegal immigrants from
00:09:47.960 coming in.
00:09:48.780 Another quote, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the U.S. undetected, undocumented,
00:09:53.300 and unchecked.
00:09:54.120 Quote, illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.
00:09:56.680 Until the American people are convinced, we will stop future flows of illegal immigration.
00:09:59.820 We'll make no progress.
00:10:01.140 When you hear quotes like that, what's your reaction to them?
00:10:03.800 It's divisive.
00:10:04.520 I think America is a land of opportunity, a place for inclusion.
00:10:08.660 I just really think it's kind of hateful speech in general.
00:10:12.440 It's just a negative message.
00:10:13.720 Like when he talks about illegal immigrants, it's just one rude to talk about people like
00:10:18.480 that.
00:10:18.740 It kind of underlies a lot of things about discrimination and people and their prejudices and things like
00:10:24.080 that.
00:10:24.300 So I feel like that stuff is touchy to talk about.
00:10:26.660 There are racial biases kind of sort of deep embedded in there.
00:10:29.880 In a word, I'd say it's more jingoist.
00:10:31.940 Well, I think his demeanor overall is just unacceptable.
00:10:34.920 I think just the way that he's referring to people across the wall is very dehumanizing.
00:10:39.980 So rhetoric like that is not helpful?
00:10:41.880 No, not at all.
00:10:42.680 What if I told you these were from Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton?
00:10:46.920 How about that?
00:10:48.000 How about that?
00:10:48.840 So the point of the video, it's a funny video because the point of the video is that these
00:10:53.040 kids all hate Donald Trump and then so they hate anything he says and then they find out
00:10:57.280 it's Democrats and then they're kind of surprised.
00:10:59.800 That's funny.
00:11:00.460 That's totally funny.
00:11:01.880 I think there's something more interesting going on here though, which is what this video
00:11:05.900 shows is not how kids are hypocritical and how they just hate Trump as a knee-jerk reaction.
00:11:12.120 I think what it shows is how radically the Democrat Party has changed in just 10 years or even
00:11:17.260 less than 10 years.
00:11:18.840 Look, politicians, especially the Clintons and Obama and Schumer and Pelosi, they'll just
00:11:24.660 say whatever is politically convenient, right?
00:11:27.420 That's what they do.
00:11:28.280 They change with the wind as long as they follow their progressive base.
00:11:32.560 What this shows now, I think, is even if you tell those kids, I mean, you can actually
00:11:36.160 see some of them as the video goes on.
00:11:39.540 They say, well, okay, but this is what I think now.
00:11:42.060 And that's really the point.
00:11:44.220 Chuck Schumer of 2006 could never get elected with this Democrat Party.
00:11:48.840 Hillary Clinton could never get elected.
00:11:50.440 Well, I guess that's just a perennial true statement.
00:11:53.120 Hillary Clinton could never get elected.
00:11:54.620 But she certainly couldn't get elected now with the position she held in 2008.
00:11:59.280 This is the same thing going on all throughout the Congress and throughout the country.
00:12:03.780 This party, this Democrat Party is much further left.
00:12:06.880 It's not a shared problem.
00:12:08.120 It's not a, oh, both sides are to blame.
00:12:10.100 It's not.
00:12:10.920 It is the Democrat Party uniquely is moving far to the left.
00:12:15.160 And frankly, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world.
00:12:17.440 It's bad because it poses a danger to the country if they get into power.
00:12:21.060 But it's good in that it gives Americans a choice.
00:12:24.760 They have a clear choice.
00:12:25.780 At least they're being honest.
00:12:27.100 We used to say, oh, these Democrats, they're hiding their true objectives, which are socialism
00:12:32.120 or, you know, socialist health care, or their true objectives on marriage, which is to redefine
00:12:38.080 marriage, or their true objective on abortion, which is abortion on demand without apology.
00:12:42.740 And now they're being honest about it.
00:12:44.420 This is, in many ways, the point of the conservative movement when Bill Buckley started it in the
00:12:48.580 1950s was to give Americans a choice, not an echo.
00:12:51.880 That's what Barry Goldwater said when he was running for president.
00:12:56.060 Now we have that choice.
00:12:57.780 Trump tonight is going to be giving a speech on the government shutdown and border security.
00:13:02.440 He's going to be giving a speech.
00:13:03.680 Now the Democrats want to give a response to that speech.
00:13:06.120 Chuck and Nancy want to give a response to that speech.
00:13:09.180 Unprecedented for an Oval Office speech.
00:13:11.720 A lot of conservatives are complaining about this.
00:13:14.060 A lot of Democrats are complaining that Trump is giving his speech in the first place.
00:13:18.360 I think it's a great thing.
00:13:19.180 I think this is, one, it's a good thing because it's reality TV.
00:13:22.860 This is the politics we've elected.
00:13:24.260 But, two, it's good for our democratic system to hear both sides and at least we have an
00:13:29.080 honest choice.
00:13:29.680 And if we go down for it, which I hope we don't, at least you can say, well, people were presented
00:13:34.940 the information and unfortunately they voted away our great country.
00:13:38.700 Some lefties just on the Trump speech itself are very upset that Donald Trump is speaking
00:13:43.860 from the Oval Office.
00:13:44.860 Every president gives Oval Office addresses and the news networks always cover it.
00:13:48.380 But because the mainstream media uniquely hate Donald Trump, they're actually calling for
00:13:53.080 the speech either not to be covered or even to be censored.
00:13:56.280 Here are that dynamic duo from CNN, Fredo Cuomo and Don Lemon.
00:14:02.520 Do you think it should be, I don't know, a delay of some sort?
00:14:07.420 And then you can, because people believe it.
00:14:09.740 People, the president will say what he has to say.
00:14:12.140 People will believe it whether the facts are true or not.
00:14:14.440 I guess it's a chance you take with any president, but this one is different.
00:14:18.040 And then by the time the rebuttals come on, we've already promoted propaganda, possibly,
00:14:23.600 unless he gets up there and he tells the truth.
00:14:25.880 He has his right to make the argument to the American people.
00:14:28.560 And by the way, wanting barriers along the border is not propaganda.
00:14:33.500 No, no, no.
00:14:33.900 It's not immoral.
00:14:34.760 It's not wrong.
00:14:35.820 The facts of.
00:14:37.400 Do you think it should be, I don't know, a delay of some sort?
00:14:41.720 And then you can see right now, it zooms in on Chris Cuomo's face.
00:14:47.720 Do you want a delay of some sort?
00:14:48.960 And you just see his eyebrows furrow.
00:14:51.180 I think that they employ Don Lemon at CNN just to make Chris Cuomo look reasonable.
00:14:56.480 So he's there and at least Chris Cuomo, to his credit, says, no, we shouldn't delay it.
00:15:01.340 But that's Don Lemon.
00:15:02.400 Don Lemon representing the new school of the Democrat Party.
00:15:06.200 Chris Cuomo, the whole Cuomo family, representing an older school of the Democrat Party.
00:15:11.060 Chris Cuomo's brother is Andy Cuomo.
00:15:13.180 He's the governor of New York.
00:15:14.540 But their father, Mario Cuomo, was the governor, I think, for, you know, 75 years in New York.
00:15:21.160 Very long-term governor.
00:15:22.400 He was a likely Democrat presidential candidate.
00:15:25.320 He's actually the one who invented the Democrat stance, the moderate Democrat stance on abortion,
00:15:31.060 which is, I support abortion even though I'm opposed to it personally.
00:15:34.860 Again, which makes no sense.
00:15:36.400 Why are you opposed to it personally?
00:15:37.940 Because it's morally equivalent to murder.
00:15:39.640 So why do you support it publicly?
00:15:41.880 Because you don't care if we kill all those little black babies?
00:15:44.500 You just don't want your precious little babies to be killed?
00:15:46.720 Doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:15:48.000 But you see that right there on CNN, that difference between the new Democrats of Don Lemon,
00:15:53.380 the old Democrats of Chris Cuomo.
00:15:55.240 And those new Democrats, they're not just calling for progressive programs.
00:15:58.420 They're calling for censorship.
00:15:59.580 They're calling for delays.
00:16:00.840 They're saying this guy is different, so we've got to treat him differently.
00:16:04.680 The networks, by the way, are playing into this.
00:16:06.480 It's not just the hysterical people on CNN.
00:16:09.440 It's the mainstream news networks are taking Democrat talking points, hook, line, and sinker
00:16:14.060 in the run-up to tonight's speech.
00:16:15.840 President Trump set to make his case for a border wall as the government shutdown enters
00:16:20.840 its 18th day.
00:16:22.620 Democrats fighting back, saying the speech will be nothing but malice and misinformation.
00:16:27.720 Democrats are clearly concerned about the nation only hearing one side of this argument
00:16:31.820 and not getting the facts.
00:16:33.520 They are demanding equal time tonight to respond, saying in a statement, quote, if the president's
00:16:38.400 past statements are any indication, it will be full of malice and misinformation.
00:16:43.480 Democrats have vowed to fight any attempt to bypass Congress with legal challenges.
00:16:47.780 Hold on, let me guess.
00:16:48.300 They also allege that if the president's past statements or any indication...
00:16:51.340 What will it be, guys?
00:16:51.780 ...is addressed tonight will be full of, quote, misinformation and malice.
00:16:55.240 Oh, malice and misinformation.
00:16:56.620 I didn't see that one coming.
00:16:57.560 Did you see that one coming?
00:16:58.800 What's astounding about this is not that the networks are playing up Democrat talking
00:17:03.880 points, but the Democrat talking point here is not about something that has happened.
00:17:08.640 It's not reacting to a speech that has already been given.
00:17:12.080 It's predicting the future.
00:17:14.260 It's predicting what the man will say, saying, you know, in the future, Donald Trump is going
00:17:18.800 to speak with malice and misinformation.
00:17:20.740 And then the networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, those guys are covering this as though this is not
00:17:27.500 only fact, but fact in the sense that it has already happened.
00:17:30.840 It hasn't already happened.
00:17:32.020 It's happening tonight, but they're already covering it because whatever the Democrats
00:17:34.900 say must be true, even if it hasn't happened yet.
00:17:37.900 So they're all playing into this.
00:17:39.100 We'll see what happens tonight.
00:17:40.000 We might get a speech and a response.
00:17:42.240 If we do, that's fine.
00:17:43.080 We might just get the speech from the Oval Office.
00:17:45.300 It'll only last about seven or eight minutes.
00:17:47.180 It will be a typical Oval Office broadcast.
00:17:51.260 I love it.
00:17:51.840 I'm glad that we're having this.
00:17:53.480 This is a debate fundamentally about not just, are we going to protect this border?
00:17:58.840 Are we going to have a wall?
00:17:59.820 Are we going to have this budget?
00:18:00.880 Are we going to open the government?
00:18:02.160 This debate in its essential components boils down to, do we still love our country or do
00:18:08.540 we not still love our country?
00:18:10.660 I'm not speaking hyperbolically.
00:18:12.460 This is not some exaggeration here.
00:18:15.240 Do we love our country or not?
00:18:16.840 You have one side saying that we have a serious problem in historic drug epidemic because of
00:18:23.720 drugs pouring over our border.
00:18:25.420 A lot of crime, people being killed, people being raped.
00:18:28.660 According to Fusion and Amnesty International, 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross
00:18:33.320 that southern border illegally are raped and sexually assaulted.
00:18:36.520 You've got the question of whether this country can decide who gets to access its welfare programs,
00:18:42.200 who gets to access its schools, what language people in this country are going to speak,
00:18:46.360 who gets to vote in this country, who is counted for the representation in the Congress.
00:18:52.920 Right now, the representation in the Congress is based on the census.
00:18:56.860 It's based on legal and illegal alike.
00:18:59.340 So you've got, even if in certain places illegal aliens aren't voting, they're being counted
00:19:04.300 for representation.
00:19:05.700 Do we get to govern ourselves?
00:19:08.100 Do we love our country?
00:19:09.580 Do we want to protect our country and build a wall and deal with border security?
00:19:14.100 Or, as the Democrats want, do we want to let our country be washed away because we don't
00:19:18.940 like it very much?
00:19:20.000 Do we want a totally new people to come in, a totally new culture to come into this country,
00:19:25.300 a totally new system of government where we don't get to protect our borders, where we
00:19:28.880 don't only count the rights or the votes, rather, of citizens, where we don't only use
00:19:33.540 taxpayer money to protect citizens, to protect the people here who are paying into it, who
00:19:37.760 are our countrymen, who are tied to us by the bonds of countrymen and citizens?
00:19:41.080 Which is it?
00:19:42.020 Do we love our country or do we want a different country?
00:19:44.980 Do we want our country and to protect our country?
00:19:47.220 Do we want to abolish the idea of our country altogether and just have something new with
00:19:51.960 open borders or whatever?
00:19:53.800 Which is it?
00:19:54.300 That's the debate.
00:19:55.640 It's a real debate.
00:19:56.940 I'm not trying to get here on my soapbox and just vilify the other side, although I think
00:20:02.780 the other opinion, the opinion of not protecting our country, should be vilified.
00:20:08.080 Those are actually the stakes.
00:20:11.280 That's the honest debate we're going to have.
00:20:12.960 And I hope we have it totally honestly.
00:20:14.860 I hope that the networks cover Trump's speech and I hope that the Democrats give whatever
00:20:18.420 response they possibly can.
00:20:20.200 I think they should get their awful ideas out in the open because I think that this country
00:20:24.920 still will choose to love itself.
00:20:27.600 I think this country still will choose to protect itself.
00:20:31.140 I think this country still will choose to be a country.
00:20:33.920 I think ultimately Republicans have the winning hand here.
00:20:36.360 We shouldn't be afraid of airing Democrats' views in public.
00:20:39.660 It really helps us when we air their radical views.
00:20:42.520 We show the American people who they are and we can reject them both at the ballot box and
00:20:48.400 in terms of the pressure that's coming from this government shutdown.
00:20:52.440 The way that you know that the government shutdown is going pretty well for Trump and the Republicans
00:20:57.520 is how it's being covered in the New York Times today.
00:21:00.560 I try never to cover the New York Times, but I suppose I have to every once in a while just
00:21:05.220 to see what the other side thinks.
00:21:06.240 The lead article in the New York Times, the number one article when you go to their website
00:21:10.600 is this, quote,
00:21:11.820 Shut down ripples across nation affecting farmers, homeowners, even craft brewers.
00:21:19.840 So that now, now they've since changed the headline when you go to the article itself.
00:21:23.800 So, uh, they probably realized how absurd that is because, you know, not craft brewers.
00:21:30.720 No, no, of course not.
00:21:32.680 That's ridiculous.
00:21:33.600 By the way, how is this affecting craft brewers?
00:21:35.580 It's because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Explosives is not approving
00:21:39.640 new beer labels.
00:21:41.020 So you can only have the seven zillion hipster Brooklyn beers that are already on the market.
00:21:45.680 You're not going to get that seven zillionth and one until the government reopens.
00:21:49.180 I'm sorry.
00:21:49.860 You can get through it.
00:21:50.880 Talk to your therapist.
00:21:52.100 Talk to your friends and loved ones.
00:21:53.680 Also, mortgage applications are being delayed because the federal government is involved
00:21:57.700 in mortgage business.
00:21:58.900 Public companies now are having some trouble possibly raising capital because the federal
00:22:03.740 government is so heavily regulating the economy.
00:22:06.960 The Secret Service obviously is not being paid for its work and farmers right now are having
00:22:11.140 trouble applying for federal subsidies because parts of the federal government are shut down.
00:22:16.760 Few people are really feeling this pain.
00:22:18.500 There was this poll that came out from Rasmussen.
00:22:20.680 Six percent of Americans say this shutdown is really hurting them.
00:22:24.180 Twenty-one percent of Americans don't know the government is shut down.
00:22:27.380 Those are good numbers for us.
00:22:28.600 Those are good numbers for Donald Trump.
00:22:30.340 We're on day 17 right now.
00:22:31.900 This is the second longest government shutdown ever, and yet nobody's really feeling the pain
00:22:36.020 from this.
00:22:37.040 For those who are, for the people applying for mortgages and the craft beer people and the
00:22:43.380 farm subsidy people, this raises a question that's very uncomfortable, actually, for the left.
00:22:48.500 Which is, why is the federal government so heavily involved in all of those things?
00:22:53.640 Why is the federal government heavily involved in craft beer?
00:22:57.560 Why is the federal government, and why are we giving all these subsidies to farmers to pick
00:23:02.380 only certain industries over other industries?
00:23:04.660 Why is that?
00:23:06.280 Maybe this government shutdown, as I predicted before it happened, is showing us how much
00:23:11.480 government we don't need.
00:23:12.920 As Ronald Reagan said, you'll be surprised how much government you'll never miss.
00:23:16.620 Maybe it's saying, well, as we're having a big debate here between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:23:21.520 who wants the government basically to take over the whole economy, and conservatives who say
00:23:26.180 we should deregulate, we should shrink the size of the government, we should shrink the
00:23:30.800 onerous regulations on people.
00:23:33.000 I think this government shutdown is showing us which side should win in that argument.
00:23:37.140 We don't need all this government.
00:23:38.900 It doesn't, it's, it's onerous, it's, we have a way overinflated bureaucracy,
00:23:44.500 it's racking up enormous debt that will be a drag on our economy, that is a generational tax
00:23:49.340 and generational theft.
00:23:50.800 Why do we need all of that?
00:23:52.440 The Trump administration, by the way, has directed the IRS, in case this government shutdown
00:23:56.820 goes through March and April, which it certainly, almost certainly will not, but if it does,
00:24:00.940 it's directed the IRS to pay people's tax refunds out, which raises another question.
00:24:05.780 If the government can just arbitrarily run and stop things, even during a shutdown,
00:24:10.600 then what is this shutdown?
00:24:11.880 What's, what is this about?
00:24:13.980 It's about showing how unwieldy the federal government is, and, and it's about raising this
00:24:19.720 question of why won't the, the Democrats fund our border security?
00:24:24.420 So much of this thing has been malleable.
00:24:26.240 This will stay open.
00:24:27.500 This won't stay open.
00:24:28.380 This can, this can, the parks can remain open.
00:24:30.580 Your tax returns will come in.
00:24:32.040 Your flights will be fine.
00:24:33.540 Then what is this really about?
00:24:35.180 It's about this central question.
00:24:36.960 Why won't Democrats protect our country?
00:24:39.760 We've got another crazy story from the New York Times today because I'm a glutton for punishment.
00:24:43.580 I'm a masochist over Brooklyn schools, resegregating to have blacks only schools and, and black
00:24:50.360 curriculum, specifically black curriculum.
00:24:53.400 We'll get to that.
00:24:54.300 We'll get to Bill de Blasio pushing socialist healthcare in New York, and we'll also get
00:24:59.620 to this day in history.
00:25:00.400 But first, I'm sorry.
00:25:02.400 You have to go to dailywire.com.
00:25:04.220 It's 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
00:25:06.160 You get me.
00:25:06.600 You get the Andrew Klavan show.
00:25:07.340 You get the Ben Shapiro show.
00:25:08.300 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.
00:25:09.380 You get Matt Walsh.
00:25:10.260 You get to ask questions in backstage.
00:25:11.920 You get another kingdom.
00:25:12.960 You get so much stuff.
00:25:14.060 But this is what really matters.
00:25:16.680 This right here.
00:25:18.240 Because when the craft beer factories shut down, when Brooklyn hipsters with stupid mustaches
00:25:24.740 can't sip overpriced subpar beer, they are going to weep.
00:25:29.880 And then you're going to get these craft leftist tears tumblers.
00:25:32.660 And they're really good.
00:25:33.460 They're really local brewed.
00:25:35.180 They taste vaguely of kombucha.
00:25:37.560 They're really good.
00:25:38.740 This is the only vessel that can handle them.
00:25:40.460 The only vessel approved by the FDA, which, by the way, is shut down.
00:25:43.900 So you're not going to get any new vessels approved by the FDA anytime soon to handle
00:25:47.540 those leftist tears.
00:25:48.520 Go to dailywire.com.
00:25:49.620 Get it.
00:25:50.060 We'll be right back.
00:26:00.460 Also in the New York Times today, a major article right there in the front part of the
00:26:04.760 website, quote, I love my skin.
00:26:07.960 Why black parents are turning to Afrocentric schools.
00:26:14.360 Before, you could basically dismantle this entire argument for resegregation just from
00:26:20.500 the headline.
00:26:21.160 But let's go on.
00:26:21.980 It opens up.
00:26:22.920 While New York City schools are deeply segregated, some black families are choosing an alternative
00:26:28.100 to integration.
00:26:30.540 By the way, just to get you through that, the alternative to integration.
00:26:35.120 Is segregation.
00:26:36.840 What they're saying is black families are choosing segregation.
00:26:40.540 You know, the New York Times is, maybe they're a little confused about language.
00:26:43.820 They're not so smart anymore.
00:26:44.920 But that's what they're saying.
00:26:45.820 They're saying black families are choosing segregation.
00:26:47.760 The first paragraph, quote, I love myself.
00:26:50.960 The group of mostly black children shouted in unison.
00:26:53.900 I love my hair.
00:26:55.020 I love my skin.
00:26:55.860 When it was time to settle down, their teacher raised her fist in a black power salute.
00:27:01.040 The students did the same.
00:27:03.240 And the room hushed.
00:27:04.600 As children filed out of the cramped school auditorium on their way to class, they walked
00:27:09.480 by posters of Colin Kaepernick and Harriet Tubman.
00:27:14.240 Colin Kaepernick, who's a schmucky left-wing, mediocre football player who decided to cash
00:27:28.300 in and make zillions of dollars on race hustling.
00:27:31.000 That guy, he's the same as Harriet Tubman, a gun-wielding Republican who transported slaves
00:27:36.940 through the Underground Railroad to their freedom.
00:27:40.560 Colin Kaepernick, schmucky Nike spokesman, Harriet Tubman, one of the great heroes of
00:27:47.460 American history, transport slaves to their freedom.
00:27:50.320 They're the same thing.
00:27:51.300 That's why they walked past the photos of them right on the same wall.
00:27:55.780 The article goes on.
00:27:57.040 Though Afrocentric schools have a uniquely comprehensive approach, many of New York's
00:28:00.800 1800 public schools have specialized themes.
00:28:03.260 There are engineering, math, and culinary schools.
00:28:05.860 Others have Albanian, Urdu, or Bengali bilingual programs.
00:28:10.200 And some are just about how cool blacks are and how you should love yourself and how great
00:28:15.360 that schmucky Nike spokesman is.
00:28:18.040 Unbelievable the way that they make these category errors on the left.
00:28:21.880 They're saying, look, some schools specialize in engineering, some schools specialize in math,
00:28:28.340 and some schools specialize in radical black racial ideology.
00:28:33.840 Those aren't the same thing.
00:28:34.700 So engineering, math, literature, performing arts, those are academic categories.
00:28:42.820 Black is the color of a skin.
00:28:45.820 Those are not like categories.
00:28:48.260 Actually, the left gets everything exactly backwards.
00:28:52.620 So what this new resegregation program mixes is the worst of the left, race hustling, identity
00:28:58.340 politics, and the self-esteem movement, and replacing education with ideological indoctrination.
00:29:04.600 The problem with this starts right from the first words of the article.
00:29:09.040 I love my skin.
00:29:11.060 Why?
00:29:12.280 Why do you love your skin?
00:29:13.480 I don't love my skin.
00:29:15.060 I like, oh, I'm sorry.
00:29:16.300 I should say I love my skin because it protects my body and keeps me from diseases and keeps
00:29:23.160 me from infections and means that I'm not just a walking hunk of raw flesh destined to
00:29:28.140 die within minutes.
00:29:29.180 So I like my skin for that reason.
00:29:30.900 Why do you like your skin?
00:29:32.020 Why do you love your skin?
00:29:32.980 It's your skin.
00:29:34.320 There's nothing to love about that.
00:29:36.040 Even look at all that.
00:29:36.820 I love myself.
00:29:38.900 I love my hair.
00:29:39.880 I love my skin.
00:29:41.220 My hair has served me well.
00:29:42.580 I'm not an Adonis of a man, so any luck I've had in picking up the ladies, I can probably
00:29:46.780 attribute to my locks.
00:29:48.860 That's really probably my main physical gift.
00:29:51.580 I don't love my hair.
00:29:52.800 Why do you love your hair?
00:29:54.220 What the left does is it is idolatry.
00:29:57.880 It makes idols out of meaningless things, and it perverts, therefore, not just religion,
00:30:03.540 not just really what we talk about with idolatry, but therefore culture and therefore politics.
00:30:08.980 Don't love your skin.
00:30:10.260 Don't love your hair.
00:30:11.220 Don't love yourself.
00:30:11.980 Why do you love yourself?
00:30:13.180 There's this whole movement now.
00:30:14.540 The self-esteem movement is what birthed it, but it's the self-love movement, the self-care
00:30:20.160 movement, and the reason that people are drawn to this is because of a God-shaped hole
00:30:24.980 in your heart.
00:30:25.660 I hate to use what has become a cliche, but it's because people long naturally for the transcendental,
00:30:31.840 for the metaphysical, for the divine.
00:30:34.120 We realize, to use technical terms, that in this world, everything is contingent.
00:30:39.180 Things decay.
00:30:40.260 Things die.
00:30:41.120 Nothing is enduring and lasting in our physical world, and so we long for metaphysical things.
00:30:46.240 We long for God.
00:30:47.260 We long for the unmoved mover who is not contingent, who is the creator of the universe.
00:30:52.640 That's what we long for.
00:30:53.960 All of human history, every culture, every civilization has longed for that.
00:30:58.460 That's a part of our human nature.
00:30:59.960 And what either people who are trying to play and deceive you or very ignorant people do
00:31:09.700 is that they try to replace that transcendental longing with physical things.
00:31:13.640 They say, instead of turning that love that you should have for God, for the metaphysical,
00:31:18.300 you should turn that in on yourself.
00:31:20.200 But that is the sin of pride.
00:31:22.160 I mean, that is why pride is the queen of all sins.
00:31:24.980 That's why Satan falls like lightning from heaven, because of the sin of pride.
00:31:30.340 This is why the image that John Milton gives us of Satan is that Satan births from his own pride,
00:31:36.580 from his own narcissism, from his own head.
00:31:39.180 He births sin, and then he has an incestuous relation with his narcissistic daughter's sin,
00:31:46.840 and that creates death.
00:31:48.200 This is the image.
00:31:49.180 This is what pride does.
00:31:50.400 It's why for all of the history of our civilization, we talk about pride as the queen of all sins.
00:31:57.660 We now have pride parades, not just for gay pride, but for all other sorts of pride.
00:32:01.440 We now have the self-love, the self-care.
00:32:03.560 Self-love, self-care, pride are, as they manifest themselves in our culture, a terrible, terrible thing.
00:32:10.960 Don't do it.
00:32:11.800 If you try to just love yourself as the be-all and end-all,
00:32:14.880 you will hate yourself, and you will hate the world, and you will be very miserable.
00:32:18.480 If you try to be proud, you will be very miserable, because pride goeth before destruction,
00:32:23.660 and a haughty spirit before a fall.
00:32:25.920 These are not just words scribbled by some very old Jews.
00:32:29.500 This is eternal and enduring wisdom.
00:32:32.280 This is why, by the way, the people who engage in this race hustling,
00:32:35.760 why the people who engage in this self-segregation are miserable.
00:32:39.580 It's why their politics has become coarse and miserable, and they screech, and they scream,
00:32:45.000 and they yell out, and they wear simulacra of genitalia on their heads.
00:32:49.700 It's why the left can't laugh anymore.
00:32:51.560 It's why it has no humor.
00:32:52.760 It's because, essentially, there is a sin of pride that they are embracing.
00:32:57.640 It's very bad.
00:32:58.880 We should tell them not to do this.
00:33:00.840 We should tell them that they can't segregate themselves, that they can't go off.
00:33:07.080 And I'm not just talking about a black school.
00:33:09.220 I'm talking about the segregation that occurs throughout all of our culture,
00:33:12.680 through these constantly dividing, disparate, intersectional groups.
00:33:17.720 Tell them, no, sorry, ain't going to happen.
00:33:20.520 The color of your skin doesn't make you special.
00:33:22.920 You, in yourself, are not perfect.
00:33:25.040 You're not totally perfected.
00:33:27.900 You're not utterly deserving of love.
00:33:30.060 You are defected, and you, therefore, need love, and you need grace,
00:33:34.240 and you need mercy, and you need justice.
00:33:37.080 And you need the transcendental.
00:33:38.660 That's the only way we're going to do it.
00:33:40.260 I know it's very unpopular to talk about things in this way,
00:33:44.200 in our very materialist, shallow society.
00:33:46.900 But it's the only way we're going to get back to any sense of the normal.
00:33:51.740 Also in New York, I guess this is a New York-heavy show today,
00:33:54.760 Bolshevik Bill de Blasio, the mayor over there, has jumped the gun.
00:33:58.440 Forget Ocasio-Cortez.
00:34:00.020 Forget Bernie Sanders.
00:34:01.760 Forget all of the other socialist health care schemes.
00:34:04.460 Bill de Blasio is just doing it himself.
00:34:06.040 Here he is on Morning Joe.
00:34:07.460 You are about to do something pretty remarkable in New York City.
00:34:13.500 Why don't you tell us about it?
00:34:15.000 Yeah, Joe, this has never been done before in this country in this kind of comprehensive way.
00:34:19.820 It's going to be, for the first time, a guarantee of health care.
00:34:24.060 We're going to guarantee health care for New Yorkers who need it.
00:34:27.060 And we have now in New York City something that we can build on.
00:34:32.820 We have a public option that we're ready to make much bigger, a public health insurance option that can reach the hundreds of thousands that are right now not in any kind of health insurance.
00:34:45.200 We also have a way to provide direct health care to a lot of our neighbors who happen to be undocumented.
00:34:51.440 They're still part of our community.
00:34:52.700 They need health care.
00:34:53.540 Their families need health care.
00:34:54.640 We recognized that, obviously, health care is not just in theory a right.
00:35:01.400 We have to make it in practice a right.
00:35:03.020 And we're doing something about that here in this city.
00:35:05.160 So there's so much wrong here.
00:35:07.620 Health care is not a right.
00:35:09.500 There's no right.
00:35:10.680 You don't.
00:35:11.660 What would it even mean for health care to be a right?
00:35:14.020 Health care requires medicine.
00:35:16.100 Health care requires discovery, innovation.
00:35:18.160 It requires doctors' labor.
00:35:19.720 It requires expensive equipment.
00:35:21.280 It requires visits to hospitals.
00:35:23.380 How on earth could that be a right?
00:35:25.160 If health care is a right, then what is a right?
00:35:27.320 A right is meaningless.
00:35:28.320 It doesn't have any meaning.
00:35:29.400 Health care is a commodity.
00:35:30.900 Health care is a good and a service that we want, and goods and services cost things.
00:35:35.920 And so the question Bill de Blasio is honestly trying to answer is, how do you pay for health care?
00:35:41.620 He's using dishonest language of rights to do it, but there's a lot wrong there.
00:35:46.640 The trouble with socialist medicine is the trouble with socialism.
00:35:49.740 Eventually, you run out of other people's money.
00:35:51.640 The other fear here is that, ultimately, when the government has enough control over that sector of the economy,
00:35:57.220 it has control over your health care, and therefore, it has control over your health care decisions.
00:36:02.360 It can decide if you get the surgery or you don't get the surgery.
00:36:04.980 It can decide if you get the medicine or you don't get the medicine.
00:36:07.240 It can decide nobody gets the medicine, and you have nothing that you can do about it
00:36:11.000 because the government controls the whole thing.
00:36:13.220 That's one of the great fears of socialist health care.
00:36:15.800 All of that said, I would be much more comfortable if every mayor in every liberal town in America
00:36:23.400 did exactly what Bill de Blasio did because then maybe we wouldn't need this national one-size-fits-all solution.
00:36:32.560 If it could be the case that all these liberal towns that want to destroy themselves,
00:36:36.980 that want to damage their citizens, and they want to hurt their economies,
00:36:40.700 and they want to hurt their health care systems,
00:36:42.400 if they want to make socialist medicine, and they just do it, and they leave me alone,
00:36:47.280 I can deal with that. I can live with that.
00:36:48.880 It pains me because New York is my native place. It's my home.
00:36:52.800 And so that pains me to see that happen to my own place.
00:36:56.320 But that would be much better than if we had some one-size-fits-all.
00:37:00.660 All of a sudden, we take over a sixth of the entire American economy.
00:37:05.080 Now, the trouble here for socialist health care,
00:37:07.980 we've been lamenting this for a long time as conservatives,
00:37:11.860 is when these things start to gain steam, once you see cities start to pass these things,
00:37:16.180 they take over very quickly.
00:37:17.780 New York is often a leader here.
00:37:19.720 You'll remember, in the olden days, I'm old enough to remember,
00:37:22.780 you used to be able to smoke in restaurants and hotels and things like that.
00:37:26.380 Then all of a sudden, one day, you couldn't.
00:37:28.200 And New York was the first one to institute these smoking bans on a wide scale in a big place.
00:37:33.340 And all of a sudden, it took off all over the country.
00:37:35.380 You could see this happening now.
00:37:37.680 So you've got the good part of federalism,
00:37:39.640 which is it protects us from the wildest left-wingers.
00:37:42.720 But then over time, it builds consensus.
00:37:44.800 This is one of the purposes of federalism.
00:37:46.920 And so you could see that come to the national level.
00:37:50.420 I'll talk about this a little more when we get to Woodrow Wilson.
00:37:53.740 An element of the conservative movement has always been lost causes.
00:37:59.800 I was listening to a symposium from the New Criterion on Russell Kirk.
00:38:03.540 And Russell Kirk would talk about this.
00:38:05.520 That conservatism is not primarily about profit and making a profit and profiting all the time.
00:38:12.040 It's really fundamentally about loss.
00:38:14.760 It's about looking at what we've lost, what we can still gather as a remnant from our civilization,
00:38:19.680 which is going away from us, which we're losing, especially in this modern era.
00:38:24.280 And that's what I'm looking at when I see Bill de Blasio say these things.
00:38:27.360 When I see national candidates get a lot of play because they talk about socialist health care,
00:38:33.140 you think, gosh, this is not looking good for us.
00:38:36.260 This is not looking good down the road.
00:38:37.880 We've got to fight it, even though we know the deck is stacked against us,
00:38:41.260 even though we know we're probably going to lose.
00:38:43.820 But maybe we won't lose this fight.
00:38:45.560 We'll see what happens when we get to Woodrow Wilson.
00:38:47.380 I do have to point out Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the left-wing justice on the Supreme Court.
00:38:52.620 She's now very old.
00:38:54.020 She's in her 80s.
00:38:55.700 She has now missed two days at the job.
00:38:58.860 She's missed two days at the court, missed oral arguments.
00:39:01.660 This is the first time in her entire career that that's the case.
00:39:04.740 She was nominated by Bill Clinton, I believe, in 93.
00:39:08.720 So she's been on the court for a long time.
00:39:11.140 And she has missed it because she's recovering from cancer surgery.
00:39:15.220 Now, she's had two prior cancer surgeries in 1999 and 2009.
00:39:20.960 She's never missed a day on the court for that.
00:39:23.020 This recent one, they removed lumps from her lungs.
00:39:27.200 This was after she cracked some ribs from a fall.
00:39:30.320 Things are not looking good for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:39:32.520 And this, I wish her well.
00:39:34.000 I'm not even going to make jokes about her dying.
00:39:35.880 I think that's in poor taste.
00:39:37.840 But this will just show you what 2019 looks like.
00:39:42.140 If Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health does not recover,
00:39:44.480 if she finds that she has to retire from the court,
00:39:47.040 or her maker decides that she has to retire from the court,
00:39:51.240 then that is going to be the dominant story of 2019.
00:39:54.300 There will be nothing else.
00:39:55.440 We saw this with the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing.
00:39:58.620 We're seeing this now with the possibility of Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaving the court.
00:40:04.000 Because the Congress and the executive, to some degree, have given so much of American governing power over to the Supreme Court,
00:40:14.040 the Congress constantly is deferring to the court to make laws.
00:40:19.540 And then the executive has done this too.
00:40:22.940 George W. Bush, when he signed McCain-Feingold, which was awful legislation to regulate political speech,
00:40:29.000 he even intimated that he thought it might be unconstitutional, but he was leaving it for the court to decide.
00:40:34.000 All three branches of government have the duty to uphold the Constitution.
00:40:38.280 All three branches of government should stop things when they seem unconstitutional.
00:40:42.340 And unfortunately, the Congress and the executive haven't done that.
00:40:45.400 The court really matters.
00:40:46.560 Also because the court has so run roughshod over the Constitution for so very long that now there is a movement for the past 50 years or so of returning to the Constitution,
00:40:59.600 of being more rigidly accurate, of being textualists, interpreting the text to mean what it meant when it was written.
00:41:07.220 This is going to be the major fight.
00:41:09.080 It looks like Kavanaugh is a little bit squishy, unfortunately.
00:41:12.500 Roberts, we know, is a big squish.
00:41:14.240 But if President Trump were to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the left-wing Supreme Court justice, with an originalist, that would be a huge switch in the swing of the court.
00:41:24.080 It would be the story.
00:41:26.040 If you thought Kavanaugh was bad, that was a cakewalk compared to what you'll see in 2019.
00:41:30.420 So a lot of this year in politics, we're talking about the wall.
00:41:33.260 We're talking about shutdowns.
00:41:34.260 We're talking about the 2020 Democrat primary.
00:41:37.460 We're talking about more tax reform, maybe entitlement reform.
00:41:40.580 All of that is going to go out the window if Ruth Bader Ginsburg is off the court.
00:41:44.280 It will all be about the court.
00:41:45.880 So gear up.
00:41:46.700 If you liked the Kavanaugh fight, get ready for this one.
00:41:49.460 I mean, it was so bloody.
00:41:50.320 It was so brutal.
00:41:51.380 But I will point out, it was very good for Republicans.
00:41:53.920 It was very good for Donald Trump.
00:41:55.560 If the midterms had been held right after that Kavanaugh fight, we would have kept the House.
00:42:00.100 It was so good for us in public opinion polls.
00:42:04.280 So we'll see what happens.
00:42:05.680 But as with everything in the Trump presidency, get ready for a crazy reality show.
00:42:12.280 This is simply going to take it.
00:42:14.600 Season three or season four, as it is, is going to be totally at the next level.
00:42:19.960 This day in history.
00:42:21.180 This day in history.
00:42:22.140 In 1918, Woodrow Wilson announced his 14 points for the end of World War I.
00:42:28.800 So they're in World War I.
00:42:30.180 Woodrow Wilson, in many ways the inventor of modern progressivism in American politics,
00:42:34.860 he announces his 14 points for what was going to happen after the war and how the world order
00:42:39.380 was going to move forward.
00:42:40.760 This was assailed by conservatives who pointed out rightly that God only needed 10 points.
00:42:47.160 Woodrow Wilson needed 14.
00:42:48.400 Whenever these things go on longer and longer, you realize that they're getting worse and worse.
00:42:54.760 Look at the Constitution of the United States.
00:42:56.820 It fits onto that beautiful yellowed piece of parchment.
00:42:59.840 Look at the Constitution of the European Union.
00:43:01.960 I think it's about 7 zillion pages long.
00:43:04.520 When these things go on, they get too in the detail.
00:43:07.180 They get too technocratic.
00:43:09.860 They're probably not going to work.
00:43:11.380 They're probably not going to protect human freedom.
00:43:13.500 He announced his points all around the world.
00:43:17.200 He was dropping it as propaganda.
00:43:19.640 The sticking point was the 14th point which established the League of Nations.
00:43:24.100 A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose
00:43:28.900 of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great
00:43:33.980 and small states alike.
00:43:35.860 The American people didn't like this, especially conservatives and Republicans didn't like this.
00:43:39.940 They didn't like the idea that we were giving up our sovereignty to these supranational,
00:43:44.300 international institutions that were going to now govern us.
00:43:47.980 We were no longer going to be a free country.
00:43:49.520 You heard this all the time in this era, in the progressive era.
00:43:53.300 Oh, the presidency, it's too big for one man.
00:43:55.960 Oh, the Constitution is not fit for these complicated times.
00:43:59.140 Does that sound familiar?
00:44:00.200 You have had, since the era of Wilson, progressives trying to push socialist health care, trying
00:44:05.560 to push all of the same programs that they're pushing now.
00:44:08.620 And the reason I bring this up, the reason this is so important at this moment in politics
00:44:13.300 is because at that time it was a lost cause, conservative cause, the cause of freedom, the cause
00:44:19.180 of our country was a lost cause.
00:44:21.360 You saw socialism lighting a fire all around the world.
00:44:24.200 You saw the Russian royal family fall.
00:44:26.320 You saw communists take over what then became the Soviet Union.
00:44:31.100 You saw it burning like a disease throughout Europe.
00:44:33.980 You saw communists in the streets and socialists in the streets in America.
00:44:38.640 It looked, you heard journalists say when they looked at the Soviet Union, I've seen the
00:44:43.400 future and it works.
00:44:44.820 This was simply it.
00:44:46.040 This was the way to progress.
00:44:47.560 There was no stopping it.
00:44:49.660 And then we stopped it.
00:44:51.780 And then the conservatives stopped it.
00:44:53.020 When the conservative movement came around, Bill Buckley said that a conservative is one
00:44:57.240 who stands athwart history yelling, stop.
00:45:00.360 And when that conservative movement came around, it was a lost cause.
00:45:04.080 Progressivism was going to win.
00:45:05.440 Communism would win.
00:45:06.700 The Soviet Union would remain strong.
00:45:08.840 Conservatism was a lost cause.
00:45:10.380 It was made fun of, mocked as a lost cause by the media, by leftist academics and politicians.
00:45:16.140 And then we won.
00:45:16.800 And then the Berlin Wall fell down.
00:45:18.100 And then we rejected Woodrow Wilson's 14 points.
00:45:21.400 And then we, actually, it ended up killing Woodrow Wilson.
00:45:24.300 He suffered a stroke.
00:45:25.360 He was so outraged and shocked when the United States rejected entrance into the League of
00:45:29.620 Nations, when we wouldn't give up some of our national sovereignty in that way.
00:45:34.420 These are lost causes.
00:45:35.680 They were lost causes all the time.
00:45:36.980 They've been a lost cause.
00:45:38.080 Socialism has been a lost cause for conservatives for 100 years.
00:45:41.500 And yet we've made it 100 years.
00:45:43.360 Maybe we can make it 100 more.
00:45:45.000 So I wouldn't let it get you down.
00:45:46.260 It is a lost cause.
00:45:47.180 We're looking, we're looking the death right in the barrel.
00:45:50.280 We're looking anti-Americanism right, right in the barrel.
00:45:52.760 And we're probably going to lose, except maybe we won't.
00:45:55.120 And that's why we keep fighting, because we've won those battles before.
00:45:58.420 And I love that President Trump is sticking strong on this shutdown.
00:46:01.620 We should stick strong on all of these things.
00:46:03.540 And if we go down, so what?
00:46:04.980 We gave it a good fight.
00:46:06.420 But maybe we'll win.
00:46:07.340 We've done it before.
00:46:08.040 Okay, that's our show today.
00:46:09.040 We've got a lot more to get to, but too bad.
00:46:10.940 Tune in tomorrow.
00:46:11.700 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:46:12.760 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:13.840 I'll see you then.
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