The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 276 - The Left Is Moving Further Left

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, 1.00

00:05:30.800 legal, and rare.

00:05:31.980 This was Hillary trying to both bring the progressives with her and say, 1.00

00:05:35.240 we're going to have a lot of legal abortion, but bring the conservatives with her too, 1.00

00:05:39.220 the blue dogs, and say, but we shouldn't have too much abortion. 1.00

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? 1.00

00:05:48.400 If abortion is not morally similar to murder, if it's just a tonsillectomy, basically, 0.76

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. 0.54

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 0.99

00:07:21.080 Nancy Pelosi's office and protest her own Speaker of the House. 1.00

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. 1.00

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? 1.00

00:08:28.940 She doesn't know where she's going to get the money. 0.79

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.93

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. 1.00

00:11:50.440 Well, I guess that's just a perennial true statement.

00:11:53.120 Hillary Clinton could never get elected. 1.00

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. 0.84

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? 1.00

00:15:41.880 Because you don't care if we kill all those little black babies? 1.00

00:15:44.500 You just don't want your precious little babies to be killed? 1.00

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, 0.55

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 0.99

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 0.98

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. 0.96

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. 0.96

00:24:43.580 I'm a masochist over Brooklyn schools, resegregating to have blacks only schools and, and black 0.93

00:24:50.360 curriculum, specifically black curriculum. 0.90

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. 1.00

00:25:18.240 Because when the craft beer factories shut down, when Brooklyn hipsters with stupid mustaches 1.00

00:25:24.740 can't sip overpriced subpar beer, they are going to weep. 1.00

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. 0.91

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. 0.95

00:26:43.820 They're not so smart anymore.

00:26:44.920 But that's what they're saying. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.56

00:27:14.240 Colin Kaepernick, who's a schmucky left-wing, mediocre football player who decided to cash 0.90

00:27:28.300 in and make zillions of dollars on race hustling. 0.96

00:27:31.000 That guy, he's the same as Harriet Tubman, a gun-wielding Republican who transported slaves 0.52

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 0.62

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.95

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. 0.88

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, 0.86

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. 0.54

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. 0.83

00:32:25.920 These are not just words scribbled by some very old Jews. 0.96

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. 0.86

00:32:39.580 It's why their politics has become coarse and miserable, and they screech, and they scream, 0.99

00:32:45.000 and they yell out, and they wear simulacra of genitalia on their heads. 0.99

00:32:49.700 It's why the left can't laugh anymore. 0.97

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. 0.86

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. 1.00

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. 0.75

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, 0.61

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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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00:46:43.160 On the Ben Shapiro Show today, President Trump assumes the bully pulpit to push for his border wall.

00:46:48.380 Democrats declare Trump an unprecedented threat to the Constitution.

00:46:51.680 And Whoopi Goldberg has some advice for Ocasio-Cortez pooping.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 08, 2019

Ep. 276 - The Left Is Moving Further Left

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