Ep. 307 - Trump Is More Principled Than His Critics
Summary
As fake conservatives send leftists to mock pro-lifers at CPAC, environmentalist Congresswoman AOC guzzles fossil fuels, and Democrats double down on anti-Semitism and racial bigotry, one thing has become abundantly clear: President Trump is more principled than his critics. Then we will discuss what a documentary about Michael Jackson molesting little kids can tell us about our political culture.
Transcript
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As fake conservatives send leftists to mock pro-lifers at CPAC,
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environmentalist Congresswoman AOC guzzles fossil fuels,
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and Democrats double down on anti-Semitism and racial bigotry,
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President Trump is more principled than his critics.
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Then we will discuss what a documentary about Michael Jackson molesting little kids
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and it reveals one of the shocking truths to a lot of people on the right and the left.
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All we have heard on the right and the left is Donald Trump.
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It has become very clear within the last few weeks.
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Donald Trump is far more principled than his critics, to the right or the left.
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Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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I, unfortunately, wasn't able to get out there this year.
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I used to love going to CPAC when I was younger.
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The only thing I didn't like about it is a couple times he went blue.
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He used swear words in public, which I just don't like.
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Look, I'll talk like a sailor if I'm at the bar hanging out with the guys or something.
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I don't like it broadly when people do that in public.
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People should have discipline with their words.
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If you're not disciplined with your language, then you might not be disciplined in your thinking or your behavior either.
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That's the one criticism I have of this speech.
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I don't like it when people who are in dignified positions use swear words in public.
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Look, you've probably seen him on the internet.
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Where he went right to the heart of the matter with Democrats.
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He identified the problem with the Democrat Party.
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The problem with the up-and-coming, fresh-faced Democrats.
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Right now, we have people in Congress that hate our country.
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And we can name every one of them if they want.
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When I see some of the things being made, the statements being made, it's very, very sad.
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And find out, how did they do in their country?
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Somebody would say, oh, that's terrible that he brings that up.
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Now, if you don't know what he's referring to here, he's referring to freshman representative
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He said, there are Democrats in Congress who hate our country.
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You can't make that statement unless you can back it up with facts.
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Ilhan Omar has defended nine men who tried to join ISIS from the United States.
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She blamed the U.S. for a terrorist attack on a Kenyan mall in 2013.
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She blames the United States when terrorist attacks happen.
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On the broader topic, so he defends it with that obvious, specific,
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example, say there are Democrats who don't support our country, who hate our country.
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They protest the American flag and they endorse protests of the American flag.
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You just have to go to that NFL protest from a couple years ago.
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They protest the flag itself, the symbol of the country itself, and Democrats are pleased
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to back them up, pleased to support them for it.
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You know, as I said, he used a little salty language in there.
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It may be the case that our culture is so degraded that you sort of have to do this to win over a crowd.
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I've heard a lot of people tell me they loved it.
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Oh, I loved when he used his real language like the real people use.
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I mean, that's a sad thing for the culture, but I guess I can understand it if that's where the culture is.
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Broadly, he goes on in this speech for two hours.
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People don't appreciate, just as a technical show business aspect of his speeches,
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To speak for two hours is very hard, especially if you want to keep people engaged.
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And people were engaged with every second of that.
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Now, those of us who have been paying attention have known all that for a long time.
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But the one question that remained that I still hear people say, even supporters of the president,
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they say, yeah, but he doesn't have any principles.
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This weekend, this CPAC, showed that Donald Trump is more principled than his critics.
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I'll go after his critics on the right for a second.
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I have refrained from criticizing Bill Kristol.
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I listen to his podcast sometimes, conversations with Bill Kristol, which I usually enjoy.
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I have to bring it up because Bill Kristol has made himself the news story.
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He was probably the main face of never-Trump and still is.
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He started a website called The Bulwark with Charlie Sykes.
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And the motto of The Bulwark is conservatism conserved.
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The argument being we're the real conservatives and the Republican Party and Donald Trump
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and people who support the Republican president, they're fake conservatives.
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And I entertained this argument because while I thought it was a wrong argument,
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The logic basically was we're so conservative that we live in this totally pure, esoteric, ethereal realm
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We would never soil our principles by engaging in the reality of politics.
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Now, you might say that that is an unprincipled position in itself, which I would say.
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That never-Trump argument completely dissolved.
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Because what The Bulwark did was they sent a leftist reporter, Molly Jongfast, to report on CPAC.
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They'd say, oh, you're going to want to pay attention to Molly Jongfast's reports.
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This wasn't some random freelancer who went off script.
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She filed a piece for The Bulwark called, CPAC is Definitely the Bad Place.
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In that piece, you can read it yourself, she attacks pro-lifers.
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She refers to them as anti-choice, almost exclusively, if not exclusively.
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She attacks the Reagan administration over its policy in Latin America.
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She attacks Charlie Kirk for being a high school dropout, a college dropout, who then
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goes and lectures college students about free speech on campus.
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I believe, I'm not sure of this, I believe Molly herself is a college dropout.
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So it's kind of weird for her to make that attack.
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Uh, they attack Seb Gorka, they say, Seb Gorka, who lectured the crowd about how socialism
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And Democrats have not just embraced late-term abortion, they've now embraced killing babies
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Senate Democrats voted against a bill that would offer medical treatment to babies who
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National Democrats voted to kill babies after they are born.
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She attacks this as somehow bad, somehow wrong.
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Specifically, Mike Lindell, who's the MyPillow guy, who sponsors a lot of conservative media.
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She attacks him, for, I guess, for sponsoring conservative media.
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She attacks the RNC, an RNC chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel.
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And then she attacks John Batchelor, who's a radio host, who's conservative, he's been battling
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cancer, and she attacks him for looking ugly and old.
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I think after the blowback, she finally had to delete that tweet.
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So, the principled, never-Trump stance was, we're going to conserve conservatism.
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The principled, never-Trump, conservatism-conserved idea was they were going to get a ton of interest,
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a ton of attention by sending this leftist reporter.
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But my question now is, once you've alienated pro-lifers, Reaganites, Second Amendment supporters,
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young conservatives, anti-socialists, conservative media sponsors, Fox News, and the RNC, and talk radio,
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Because the only people who will want to read this are those suffering from Trump derangement
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syndrome, which is exclusively left-wing, with the exception of the dozen never-Trumpers
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And the left is never going to read an outlet that calls itself conservatism-conserved.
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They might invite you on MSNBC to go attack the president, but that's it.
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And by the way, after all of this, after it was clear what Molly Jong-Fast did, Mr. Crystal
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came out and tweeted, quote, thanks to Molly Jong-Fast for triggering so many snowflakes on the
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right with her mordant, yes, gasp, heterodox dispatches from CPAC 2019.
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He's acknowledging all of that, and he's celebrating it.
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However, this is obviously not conservatism-conserved.
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Ironically, what it actually is, is liberalism liberalized.
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I'm not just making a little cute play on words.
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And this has been a project of many people on the right for a long time.
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They don't want to conserve the conservative tradition.
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They are liberals who want to make liberalism a bigger tent, who want liberalism to be more
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liberal, who want liberalism to engage with free speech or whatever.
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Bill Crystal said a couple years ago, he said, he said, let's rebrand the GOP as the liberal
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party because, because we're the real liberals and, and we're the cool guys and liberalism is
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That's, ironically, Donald Trump is actually doing the bulwark's mission.
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Donald Trump is actually conserving conservatism.
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He's saying there is an alternative to liberalism.
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Conservatism is not just another form of liberalism.
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That is much more honest and that is much more principled, what the Trump critics on the
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And I think they've, they finally exposed that.
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I don't know how they could expose it in any more obvious fashion than to send a leftist
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It's not just the right that has fewer principles than Donald Trump.
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So we see this most clearly with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our favorite, the socialist from Yorktown Heights.
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She said, quote, I'll try to do a, we're like the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
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So what she is saying is we need to have zero greenhouse gases.
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We need a full transition off of fossil fuels within 10 years or else the world will end or else it is not okay to have children.
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You have to ask yourself if it's moral to have children in this world.
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So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lives in the city with the greatest subway system in the world.
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And according to her federal filings, she listed over 1,000 Uber, Lyft, and Juno transactions during her campaign.
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Guess where her campaign headquarters was located?
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And the 7 train can take you anywhere because the 7 train connects to a bunch of other lines so you can get all around.
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She lived a one minute walk away from the 7 train.
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To put that into perspective, Max Rose, who's another freshman Democrat from New York,
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And he only spent them on 329 rides during his campaign.
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So she used way, way multiples, multiples more than this.
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After the primary, AOC set her sights outside of New York.
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Only, actually, on October 12, 2018, on that day alone,
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And what I'm pointing out here is not that she shouldn't take Ubers,
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What I'm pointing out is she doesn't believe what she's saying.
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If she really thought that the world were going to end because of greenhouse gases,
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she would take the subway, which is one minute away from her headquarters.
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She wouldn't fly all over the country to raise money.
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What she is saying is, do as I say, not as I do.
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And some have said, well, you know, people, someone tweeted at me.
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They said, Ralph Nader campaigned for seatbelt laws
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at a time when there weren't a lot of seatbelts in cars.
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Well, Henry Ford took trains at a time when he was building automobiles.
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It is hypocritical for her because she's saying the world will end
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She says, this is destroying earth, imperiling the future of the human race.
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And she obviously doesn't believe it because environmentalism is a sham.
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Now, this is to make AOC probably not the worst of the Democrat congressmen these days
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because she is not explicitly defending killing babies after birth
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I want to get to Ilana Omar in a second, which is what she is doing.
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But first, I want to talk about just the Democrat tenor.
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when you call them out on their double standards, on race, on the environment, on whatever,
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what do they, they just, they don't have an argument.
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So what they immediately do is call you Hitler.
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This is what happens when you don't have an argument.
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That's how you know they're losing the argument.
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Here is Elie Mistal on MSNBC using this ridiculous tactic.
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I feel in my heart that you might have a reaction.
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Mark Meadow, I don't know why members of Congress can't say this because they have to work with the man,
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Mark Meadow is so racist that he needs to be put on display at the African American History Museum
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I am so sick of Republicans thinking that the only racist people left in America are David Duke and Louis Farrakhan, all right?
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White people have been held in bondage and oppression in the new world for 400 years.
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My own counsel will I keep on who is to be called racist, all right?
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So when these people, when these white Republicans try to tell me, and Bagger Vance standing behind her,
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when these people try to tell me who is racist and who is not racist, they need to understand that I do not care.
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What I care about is what their policies are and what their actions are.
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It is not true that white people don't get to have an opinion about something because of the color of their skin.
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It's not true that black people don't get to have an opinion about something because of the color of their skin.
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Thinking people can hold opinions about anything, and they should.
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And this is the issue because the Democrats are no longer thinking.
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Leftism has become a psychological twitch more than a coherent ideology.
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Fifty years ago, liberals would say this about conservatism.
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Conservatism is just a psychological twitch, not a philosophy.
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It has happened to leftism because of the denial of truth, because of the denial of reality, because now they say all that matters is the reality of oppression.
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This is a hysterical denier of reality, a refusal to engage with reality.
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You see, we talked about AOC on her environmentalism, how she has no principles.
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She says, I'm this high-minded, principled environmentalist.
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She's driving around gas-guzzling Ubers all over the place.
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For that woman to say that Donald Trump has no principles.
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But on the race issue, two Democrats have this problem.
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Over the weekend, Ilhan Omar, that freshman representative, got into a spat with another Democrat colleague, Nita Lowy.
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Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman Lowy.
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I should not be expected to have allegiance, pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee.
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The people of the fifth elected me to serve their interest.
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What she's saying is that Jews have a double allegiance to Israel and to the U.S.
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It's not just a normal criticism of a country, which would be fine.
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To criticize Israel just like you would criticize France or Great Britain or China or whatever, that is acceptable.
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Ilhan Omar has a special hatred for Jews and for Israel.
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She said, I pray that Allah wakes up people to the evils of Israel.
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That is language that you reserve for special contempt.
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That's not just the same as criticizing some other country.
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Arthur Schlesinger, a liberal historian, used to say,
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anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the left.
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Now we're finding out anti-Semitism is the anti-Semitism of the left.
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They can't answer even their own colleagues who call them out for it.
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You can't only, my opinion's right because of the color of my skin.
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Stop challenging my opinion because I can't defend my opinion.
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That's what they're saying because they have no argument.
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I've never thought that the left had principles.
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But I, I sort of thought maybe in their own really narrow way, they're, they're following a principled position.
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A naked power grab for socialism under the guise of environmentalism.
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A naked power grab for censorship under the guise of racism or anti-racism.
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And there you have Donald Trump, the reality TV star, casino owner, real estate developer from New York.
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A guy that you shouldn't expect to have principles.
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We will get to why CNN thinks he's Hitler in a second.
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Then obviously we have to talk about that Michael Jackson documentary and the political lessons that we can learn from a pop star molesting little kids.
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So, CNN decides that they're going to finally have to react to this CPAC speech.
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He exposed people in this country who hate this country.
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He specifically, using real examples, he has exposed his critics on the right through his success, through his effective conservative administration.
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So, what is the last argument that CNN can possibly make?
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It's the argument that every dumb freshman college kid makes before he learns that the first person to invoke Adolf Hitler in an argument loses the argument.
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Sam, the idea of preserving heritage taps into historically darker times, certainly.
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Not only that, though, you say what we heard from the president in those remarks also could pose a national security concern.
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On a personal level, preserving our heritage, reclaiming our heritage, that sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s.
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How the hell are they still allowed to operate?
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I thought they were just a sort of mild-mannered conservative policy wonk think tank.
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If you mention heritage, you think of your family heritage, your national heritage, your religious heritage.
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It's kind of funny because there was a clip floating around of Joe Biden saying exactly the same thing as Trump.
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I wonder if this lady would say that Joe Biden is another Hitler.
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If the left had principles, they would argue with the points that Donald Trump is really making.
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If the left had principles, they would say, we don't want to preserve our national heritage because we don't like our national heritage, because we don't like our nation.
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As Barack Obama said, I want to fundamentally transform the country.
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And Obama, at his best, was making an honest argument.
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But the left isn't doing that anymore because they don't have any principles, because they're total hypocrites.
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And then the other thing that they do is they gaslight.
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So they tell you that reality, as Donald Trump observes it, is not reality, and that fantasy is reality.
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But on a national security level, the president talks about preserving our heritage as a catch-all for implementing policies that misallocate resources.
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He pretends that there are massive flows of illegal immigrants coming over our borders and is spending billions of dollars on a border wall emergency instead of paying attention to real national security threats.
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He sounds a lot like despotic leaders that have talked about white heritage and white nationalism around the world and is putting resources in the wrong place and pretending that there are foreign people trying to influence our country in a way that just isn't accurate.
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He sounds a lot like people who talk about white nationalism.
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She says that there's no such thing as a foreign invasion.
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Donald Trump is pretending that foreigners are entering our country.
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We're at relative record highs of illegal aliens pouring across our border.
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And then when you consider that this has been a problem for 40 years, you have 11 million, 12 million illegal aliens here.
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Then she says, Donald Trump says that those illegal aliens want to influence our politics.
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When you go to the DMV in places like California, they have motor voter laws.
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They just register you to vote when you get your driver's license.
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An illegal alien can get a driver's license in many places.
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Why do you think Democrats want this flow of illegal aliens anyway?
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Because statistically, they are overwhelmingly likely to vote for Democrats.
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I think some people get angry because I don't criticize Donald Trump as much as they would like me to.
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I don't say, oh, he passed this policy this way instead of this way.
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If we're talking about the dignity of office, if we're talking about integrity,
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if we're talking about actually accomplishing something in politics,
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Like at the bulwark, which is sending leftists to mock pro-lifers?
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Who obviously do not believe the things that they are preaching?
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The ones who say, I need to take away your political system.
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We need to utterly transform the republic and remove your political liberty
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in the name of the sun monster, which I don't even believe in.
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Donald Trump seems to be the guy in politics right now
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I think maybe it's because they got a little wrapped up with anti-Trumpism
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and they forget that politics is a really tough game.
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Politics attracts pretty gross people sometimes.
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He actually does what he says he's going to do.
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I don't think he should use swear words in public.
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But I don't think the man's presidency should go down over a couple swear words.
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Likewise, I don't think his presidency should go down
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because the FBI doesn't like him or the DOJ doesn't like him
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or because he was going to build a hotel in Russia three years ago
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or because he was a real estate developer in New York.
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I really, I hope that the people who obsess about principles,
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the reality of where the principles lie right now.
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I think it's clear that Donald Trump is doing the most admirable job.
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Before we go, we've got to talk about Michael Jackson
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because this shows you a very important lesson about celebrity
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and how our politics has gotten to where they are,
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how the mainstream media have been able to twist reality in the way that they have.
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And it all comes down to a weird pop star who molested kids.
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here's just a quick clip of the accusers in this documentary
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And Wade, you got on the stand and you testified on his behalf
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and vehemently denied that any sexual activity had taken place.
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but it's a combination of still lots of fear wrapped up with shame.
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My whole life, my whole career would fall apart.
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He always made me believe that I wanted everything that we did sexually
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There's a lot of threats that are thrown my way
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The documentary itself, I watched it last night,
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Why they believed that a guy who regularly slept in the same bed as little kids
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Why the parents brought their kids to sleep with this man.
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especially at famous people, especially at rich people.
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We've seen a lot of those false allegations in the last couple years.
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Jussie Smollett lobbed a completely false accusation of a hate crime
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Because they're politically powerful right now,
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We saw those ridiculous allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
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However, Vanity Fair lays out some essential points in this case.
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Here's what we know for a fact about Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson slept over 30 consecutive nights
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at the boy's mother's house and father's house.
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Five boys that slept with Michael Jackson in the same bed
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Chandler, Geordie Chandler, correctly described the,
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the discoloring on the underside of Michael Jackson's genitals.
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The hallway leading to Michael Jackson's bedroom
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so that any footsteps would produce a lot of ding-dong noises
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and there would be a warning that people were coming.
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Michael Jackson kept an extensive collection of pornography
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fingerprints of the boys that he slept in the same bed with
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No one ever saw Michael Jackson sleep with a woman.
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and the fathers of two boys who accused Michael Jackson
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because they have all of the celebrity with them.