The Michael Knowles Show - February 24, 2020


Ep. 499 - To Bern Or Not To Bern


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Bernie Sanders wins Nevada. Joe Biden's lead in the polls is gone. Will he bounce back? And what about South Carolina? Will he still be able to win there next week's primary? All that and much more on today's show.

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00:00:37.920 As Bernie Sanders racks up victories all around the country,
00:00:41.160 conservatives struggle with whether to root for the radical socialists so Trump can sweep all 57 states plus Greenland in November,
00:00:48.260 or whether it would be better to root for one of the also-rans on the off chance Bernie could somehow win.
00:00:54.340 We will examine the conservative case for Bernie.
00:00:58.340 Then, Pete Buttigieg has a prepubescent boy come out as homosexual on stage at a campaign rally.
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00:01:17.280 Bernie wins Nevada.
00:01:19.600 Are you feeling the burn?
00:01:20.860 We will figure out if we should feel the burn.
00:01:22.480 And by the way, we're going to add a new feature for the people watching in the DAILYWIRE app or the DAILYWIRE website.
00:01:28.240 While you're watching, if anything occurs to you, some brilliant thought, some pressing question,
00:01:33.560 feel free to write that in, and we'll try to get to it live on the show,
00:01:37.280 because there's a lot that happened over the last few days, namely the socialist revolution sweeping Nevada
00:01:43.680 with 88% of precincts reporting.
00:01:48.400 88%, by the way.
00:01:49.680 The Nevada caucus happened days ago, but because of this chaos in the caucus system,
00:01:55.500 we still only have 88%.
00:01:57.340 Still, 88% reporting.
00:02:00.380 Bernie is crushing it.
00:02:02.060 He definitely won Nevada.
00:02:04.020 Bernie got 47.1% of the popular vote there.
00:02:08.820 For comparison, Joe Biden got less than half of that at 21%.
00:02:14.140 Buttigieg got 13.7%.
00:02:17.200 Liz Warren got a pathetic 9.6%.
00:02:21.080 And then everybody else followed afterward.
00:02:23.680 That means that in the way the delegates break down,
00:02:27.040 Bernie got 13 delegates.
00:02:29.120 Joe Biden got two delegates.
00:02:31.520 Buttigieg got one.
00:02:33.100 And Focahontas got zero.
00:02:35.340 Nobody else got anything.
00:02:36.320 Worth pointing out, too, Mike Bloomberg was not in the Nevada caucuses.
00:02:40.720 He also won't be in South Carolina.
00:02:43.180 And then he expects to sweep the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday
00:02:47.500 when you have a bunch of different states voting.
00:02:49.700 We'll see how that goes.
00:02:51.780 Joe Biden came in second place, right?
00:02:53.940 But he's still only got two delegates.
00:02:55.700 This should have been a pretty good state for him.
00:02:57.400 It didn't play out that way.
00:02:59.160 Joe Biden has been saying that South Carolina is going to be his firewall.
00:03:04.380 So South Carolina is happening next week on the 29th.
00:03:08.440 He's lost.
00:03:09.860 He's lost his massive lead.
00:03:12.000 Okay.
00:03:12.240 He was crushing it in South Carolina.
00:03:15.160 According to the RealClearPolitics average,
00:03:17.280 which is sort of the average of all the top polls,
00:03:20.380 Joe Biden is now at 24.5% in South Carolina.
00:03:25.020 Bernie's at 21.5%.
00:03:26.920 They're running neck and neck in South Carolina.
00:03:29.500 South Carolina, Joe Biden was supposed to run away with that state.
00:03:32.760 Bernie wasn't supposed to be anywhere near him.
00:03:35.440 Last October, Joe Biden was at 38.3% in South Carolina.
00:03:40.380 Bernie was at 9.7%.
00:03:42.460 So Joe Biden had a 4X lead on Bernie Sanders there.
00:03:47.620 And yet after Iowa, after New Hampshire, after Nevada,
00:03:51.740 all of a sudden that lead has completely disappeared.
00:03:54.940 Bernie's running second and really they're running neck and neck.
00:03:58.200 This shows you an important rule in politics.
00:04:00.200 It's a rule that I don't know that I've seen it violated in presidential politics.
00:04:05.500 And yet people always forget it.
00:04:07.760 You don't win by losing.
00:04:11.240 The left and the right forget this rule all the time.
00:04:13.560 Okay.
00:04:13.700 We see evidence of this repeatedly.
00:04:15.320 No one learns the lesson.
00:04:16.700 Rudy Giuliani tried this.
00:04:18.760 2008.
00:04:19.280 Rudy Giuliani was running for president,
00:04:20.740 but he decided he wasn't going to win Iowa.
00:04:23.600 He wasn't going to win New Hampshire.
00:04:24.700 He wasn't going to win South Carolina.
00:04:25.580 But he's going to win Florida.
00:04:27.300 So we're going to lose all the first states, but then Rudy's going to come out of nowhere
00:04:31.020 and magically win Florida.
00:04:32.340 That did not happen.
00:04:35.040 Mike Bloomberg, same thing.
00:04:36.600 Mike Bloomberg now is saying, okay, well, I'm not going to, I'm not going to even be in Iowa
00:04:40.860 or New Hampshire or Nevada or South Carolina, but then the big states come along and I'm magically
00:04:45.980 going to win it.
00:04:46.600 And Bloomberg has incinerated well over half a billion dollars at this point.
00:04:51.540 Still unlikely that that happens.
00:04:54.040 Never Trump made this argument.
00:04:55.280 Never Trump made the argument in 2016 that conservatives should not vote for Donald Trump
00:05:01.600 because it would be better if Hillary won and then, you know, some bad things happened,
00:05:07.720 but then don't worry because four years later, we're going to come back better than ever.
00:05:12.260 But that wouldn't have happened.
00:05:14.240 The incumbent always has an advantage in reelection and politics is based on momentum.
00:05:20.940 It's not based on, okay, we're going to strategically lose.
00:05:26.320 And then you guys are going to win and get a bunch of victories for the next few years.
00:05:30.200 But really by losing, we're secretly winning because that way, next time we're going to come
00:05:35.660 back and we're going to clobber. 0.90
00:05:36.800 You can't predict that.
00:05:39.020 That's not how it works.
00:05:40.360 And by the way, you know, the people who make these bets, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden,
00:05:46.620 they're not very good at predicting the next six months.
00:05:49.540 Forget about the next six years or so.
00:05:52.320 So Bernie Sanders right now has absolutely no business polling as well as he does.
00:05:59.060 And yet he's almost at the top of the chart.
00:06:02.360 South Carolina is relatively conservative and heavily black in terms of the voting demographics.
00:06:08.360 Bernie is a Northeast socialist who had about two black supporters until the day before
00:06:13.880 yesterday, right?
00:06:14.700 That was Joe Biden's whole case.
00:06:16.500 When you really boil down Joe Biden's case for his nomination to its crassest level, his
00:06:21.660 case was, I can get black voters and no one else can in this race right now. 0.70
00:06:26.220 And yet all of a sudden Bernie starts to do that.
00:06:29.460 Why?
00:06:30.120 Why is Bernie starting to pick up these, this diverse coalition?
00:06:33.460 It's because people like to pick a winner and Bernie right now is winning.
00:06:39.560 So the delegate count for, for everything, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, right now it stands
00:06:43.380 at Bernie Sanders, 34, Pete Buttigieg, 23, Joe Biden, eight, Liz Warren, eight, Klobuchar,
00:06:51.840 seven.
00:06:52.240 So right now Biden, who was the front runner is more or less tied with Liz Warren and Amy
00:06:57.120 Klobuchar.
00:06:57.780 That's how badly he's doing.
00:06:59.380 And the big question that comes up for conservatives, given all of that, given the fact that Bernie
00:07:04.960 right now is running away with the nomination, should conservatives feel the burn?
00:07:11.820 We will get to that because there's some major debate going on, but I have strong feelings
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00:08:37.820 Should conservatives feel the burn?
00:08:41.320 Yes.
00:08:42.440 Yes, we should.
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00:08:48.720 This brings up a difference of opinion.
00:08:51.140 Some conservatives say that we should back Bernie because he's a 200-year-old insane socialist
00:08:57.860 and Trump is going to win every single state if he gets the nomination.
00:09:01.560 The other side of this is because some conservatives say we shouldn't back Bernie because anything
00:09:08.500 can happen.
00:09:09.180 The fact that Donald Trump got elected president tells you anything can happen in politics.
00:09:13.140 And if somehow Bernie became president, that would be so devastating and horrible for the
00:09:17.140 country.
00:09:17.600 We can't even risk it.
00:09:18.920 It would be better for the Democrats to nominate a candidate who is more likely to beat Trump
00:09:24.080 than for them to nominate Bernie Sanders.
00:09:26.460 I think that is not very sound reasoning.
00:09:30.780 I think we got to feel the burn.
00:09:32.700 Why?
00:09:33.200 I am afraid of Bernie's popular support.
00:09:35.700 Unlike Mike Bloomberg or Hillary Clinton or John Kerry or Al Gore, Bernie actually does
00:09:41.860 have popular support.
00:09:44.000 They're like real people who show up to his rallies.
00:09:46.440 However, his support is different from Trump's support.
00:09:51.700 Trump also had popular support.
00:09:53.000 That's why some conservatives now are a little nervous about Bernie.
00:09:56.120 In 2016, Trump supporters were not hardcore ideologues.
00:10:01.540 Trump supporters in 2016, I would say, were your kind of run-of-the-mill conservative people.
00:10:12.320 Maybe they wouldn't even describe themselves as conservative with a capital C.
00:10:15.440 They just love their country.
00:10:17.020 They want better trade deals.
00:10:18.700 They feel they've been cheated by, definitely by the left and really by both parties.
00:10:22.360 And they like that he fights back.
00:10:24.080 And they like that he talks straight.
00:10:25.920 And they voted for him.
00:10:28.740 They like that he's strong.
00:10:29.520 Now, the hardcore ideologues in 2016 who were conservative liked Ted Cruz or they liked Rand
00:10:38.120 Paul.
00:10:38.440 They liked people with these fully fleshed out, coherent views of the world that were based
00:10:43.960 on years and years of research and reading, right?
00:10:46.040 That's where the hardline ideologues went.
00:10:49.100 That wasn't Trump.
00:10:51.180 Bernie's supporters are the hardcore ideologues.
00:10:54.360 Okay, Bernie's supporters are actual socialists.
00:10:56.660 The people working for his campaign talk about how they've got gulags and they're going to
00:11:00.160 line up the neoliberals and put them in front of a firing squad if Bernie gets elected.
00:11:04.980 Those are real quotes that you can see on video.
00:11:09.180 There aren't that many hardcore socialist ideologues in America.
00:11:14.500 There are too many for us to feel comfortable.
00:11:16.940 There are more than we'd like there to be.
00:11:18.260 But there aren't all that many.
00:11:20.320 So when you look at just the base of support, Bernie's base is much narrower, much more
00:11:26.140 off-putting, much less in line with the American tradition than Trump's base of support.
00:11:31.420 The other difference is that in 2016, Trump came out of nowhere.
00:11:37.060 Okay, nobody took him seriously.
00:11:39.520 Nobody thought he was going to get the nomination.
00:11:41.720 He was a silly sideshow, right?
00:11:44.320 So the Democrats and the Republican primary candidates, they were preparing their oppo files
00:11:49.820 on Ted Cruz, on Marco Rubio, on Jeb Bush, on all of the candidates that were more in
00:11:59.040 the normal line, right?
00:12:00.800 So when Trump got the nomination, they were just, they didn't know what to do.
00:12:04.520 They didn't have a lot of good oppo.
00:12:06.060 They got some video clips.
00:12:07.300 They got the Access Hollywood tape.
00:12:09.020 But we all knew about those kinds of things, right?
00:12:12.720 They didn't show us anything we didn't know.
00:12:14.360 Oh yeah, Trump makes comments about women.
00:12:16.700 Well, he's been doing that in the public eye for 40 years, right?
00:12:19.460 They didn't get any good stuff.
00:12:20.840 They didn't get any private business scandals.
00:12:23.500 They actually had to get the federal government to spy on the Trump campaign and they still
00:12:27.580 came up empty-handed.
00:12:29.960 So Trump comes out of nowhere.
00:12:32.540 He wins the nomination.
00:12:36.020 Bernie doesn't come out of nowhere.
00:12:37.680 Bernie comes from 50 years in politics.
00:12:43.440 So the oppo file on Bernie Sanders is massive.
00:12:49.360 Okay, Bernie is very well known among political nerds, right?
00:12:52.740 But he's not known like an international celebrity and reality TV star and real estate mogul and
00:12:58.260 guy who's been in the press for 40 years, okay?
00:13:00.160 He's been in politics.
00:13:01.280 He's been in government, mostly obscure, getting nothing done.
00:13:04.360 Now, the Trump team knows about Bernie, okay?
00:13:08.760 Bernie was the big threat in 2016.
00:13:11.340 Bernie almost got the nomination in 2016.
00:13:13.660 So the Trump team has been building that oppo file in a way that the Democrats were not
00:13:17.260 doing that on Trump going into 2016.
00:13:22.040 And Bernie keeps making new fodder for that oppo file.
00:13:25.840 So he was on 60 Minutes last night, doubling down on his support of Fidel Castro.
00:13:30.200 I want to get to that in a second.
00:13:31.040 First, a question just came in from the live chat from JS.
00:13:35.340 The question is, is Bernie's campaign just run on envy?
00:13:40.220 Yes, it is.
00:13:41.700 That's the way to put it.
00:13:42.720 Winston Churchill said that socialism is the gospel of envy and the creed of ignorance.
00:13:48.600 That's all it is.
00:13:49.720 And what the left manages to do, because the left always flips everything exactly backwards,
00:13:53.840 is they've managed to convince you that envy is a virtue.
00:13:57.780 It's the same way that they now celebrate pride.
00:13:59.580 Pride is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins, right?
00:14:02.780 It's the, it goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
00:14:07.380 Pride is like, it caused Satan to fall from heaven.
00:14:09.600 It's like the worst thing you can possibly have.
00:14:11.700 And yet they've made pride into the greatest virtue and they celebrate it for a whole month.
00:14:15.440 It's the same thing with envy.
00:14:16.880 They've convinced you that if you work hard and are satisfied with what you have and are
00:14:23.200 selfless and charitable, that you're a sucker, you're an idiot, you're a dupe, you're actually
00:14:27.040 sort of evil if you advocate that kind of system.
00:14:30.640 But if you covet other people's goods and you want to steal all their money and property,
00:14:35.240 somehow you're generous and charitable, right?
00:14:37.380 It's, it's backwards. 0.84
00:14:38.400 It's incoherent.
00:14:39.120 But as sweet little Lisa pointed out when we were discussing whether Bernie Sanders,
00:14:44.580 we should feel the burn or not feel the burn.
00:14:46.360 She said, you know, Mac, people do like free stuff.
00:14:49.800 People do like free stuff.
00:14:50.960 You know, that is, that is the fear of the, of the Sanders campaign.
00:14:55.000 And he's really tapping into that.
00:14:56.360 But I think people will still see through it because he keeps making such huge mistakes.
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00:16:19.100 Bernie Sanders is on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.
00:16:21.840 And Anderson Cooper, to his credit, brings up this question from Bernie's, I don't know,
00:16:27.800 20, 30, 40 years ago.
00:16:29.360 He's been saying the same thing for a long time.
00:16:31.340 He defends these communist thugs, these dictators who slaughter their own people, including Fidel 0.85
00:16:38.560 Castro.
00:16:39.020 And he says, hey, Bernie, you probably want to take back some of your support for Fidel
00:16:42.580 Castro, don't you?
00:16:43.640 And what does Bernie do?
00:16:44.960 He absolutely doubles down on it.
00:16:47.200 Back in the 1980s, Sanders had some positive things to say about the former Soviet Union
00:16:52.340 and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
00:16:54.600 And everybody was totally convinced.
00:16:56.200 He is explaining why the Cuban people didn't rise up and help the U.S. overthrow Cuban leader
00:17:01.420 Fidel Castro.
00:17:02.360 He educated the kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society.
00:17:06.340 We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba.
00:17:09.300 But you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad.
00:17:13.100 You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did?
00:17:15.860 He had a massive literacy program.
00:17:18.200 Is that a bad thing?
00:17:19.440 Even though Fidel Castro did it?
00:17:20.920 A lot of dissidents imprisoned in Cuba.
00:17:22.900 That's right.
00:17:23.380 And we condemn that.
00:17:24.540 Yeah, yeah, we condemn that.
00:17:25.920 But you know, look, Castro, you can't say Castro is so bad.
00:17:28.940 What?
00:17:29.080 You're telling me Stalin was that bad?
00:17:31.000 He was, he never did any good thing in his whole life.
00:17:34.080 Come on.
00:17:35.180 He kissed his mother one time.
00:17:36.580 Come on.
00:17:36.960 He's not a, he's a good guy.
00:17:38.300 As usual, Bernie Sanders is completely misrepresenting history here.
00:17:41.860 But this is one of these lines that, that communist useful idiots would, have been used since the 60s.
00:17:49.140 And certainly since the 80s when Bernie was doing it.
00:17:52.100 They say, well, when Fidel Castro took over, he instituted a literacy program.
00:17:58.240 Sort of.
00:17:59.340 Not really.
00:18:00.760 When Fidel Castro took over, Cuba had a very high literacy rate.
00:18:03.680 The image they want to present is that the Cuban people were totally ignorant, didn't know how to read completely. 1.00
00:18:09.340 And that's why they were oppressed.
00:18:10.720 And then this man of the people, Fidel Castro, comes in and teaches them to read.
00:18:13.900 That's not what happened.
00:18:15.480 As early as the 1950s, well before Fidel Castro got into power, Cuba had a relatively high literacy rate.
00:18:21.920 It was about 80%.
00:18:22.960 Then Fidel Castro comes in and he institutes a literacy program, but it wasn't to teach people to read.
00:18:29.420 Relative to the region, everybody already knew how to read.
00:18:31.560 He instituted the literacy program as part of a broader political strategy to brainwash the people.
00:18:37.980 It wasn't to teach them how to read.
00:18:39.300 It was to indoctrinate them into communism.
00:18:41.780 Guess what they were reading in the literacy program, all right?
00:18:44.400 It wasn't Hayek.
00:18:45.340 It wasn't Adam Smith.
00:18:46.840 It wasn't John Locke.
00:18:48.460 It was communism.
00:18:50.660 And why would you make it one of your first priorities to institute a literacy program when pretty much everybody already knows how to read?
00:18:58.220 It's because he had to brainwash the people.
00:19:00.000 And the brainwashing didn't even work.
00:19:01.740 I've visited Cuba.
00:19:02.680 I've talked to Cuban people about the Castros.
00:19:05.720 Not one single Cuban person likes Fidel Castro, okay?
00:19:10.180 The only people who like Fidel Castro are useful idiot communists in the West, specifically in the United States, specifically the future nominee of the Democratic Party.
00:19:21.560 This is very good news that Bernie is backing Fidel Castro.
00:19:27.940 Again, these kind of, the more cautious conservatives, the more risk-averse conservatives are the ones who say, this is so bad.
00:19:34.120 We've got a nominee now who's, for the Democratic Party, who says he kind of likes Fidel Castro.
00:19:38.980 It's a good thing.
00:19:40.140 Why?
00:19:40.380 Because I know that the vote is nine months away, but something tells me Trump just won Florida, okay?
00:19:46.800 If Bernie is the Democratic nominee, he ain't going to win Florida.
00:19:50.840 There's a lot of Cubans in Miami, okay?
00:19:53.160 Another story just came out of the Daily Beast.
00:19:55.120 It said in the late 1970s, Bernie Sanders defended Iran's taking of American hostages.
00:20:02.120 He actually defended, through a party that he was affiliated with in Vermont, defended the Iran, Iranian seizure of Americans. 0.88
00:20:08.520 Right now, let's play out all the scenarios.
00:20:11.200 Right now, if, if Bernie wins the nomination, the Democratic Party will be in chaos and he will most likely lose the general election because he's simply too radical.
00:20:21.180 And his base isn't wide enough.
00:20:23.940 That's one scenario.
00:20:25.000 Second scenario, if Bernie catches momentum but loses the Democratic nomination, the Democratic Party will be in even greater chaos and that will certainly weaken them in the general election.
00:20:36.860 You thought the Bernie bros stayed home in 2016, wait until 2020.
00:20:41.520 All right, then, then the third aspect of this, beyond sort of merely partisan considerations, what helps the Republicans, what hurts the Democrats,
00:20:49.840 a Trump versus Bernie fight is maybe the clearest choice America's ever had.
00:20:54.520 It's an honest choice and it's good in self-governing republics to have honest choices.
00:21:00.500 You've got Trump who is a symbol of the American original businessman and you've got Bernie Sanders who is a lifelong ne'er-do-well communist propagandist who's never held down a real job in the private sector in his whole life.
00:21:16.940 All of which means conservatives should be feeling the burn.
00:21:20.540 And by the way, Bernie Sanders is not even the most radical candidate in the race.
00:21:26.020 I know he seems like it because on the surface he says the most radical things and he's got the craziest looking hair and he's like a thousand years old and he waves his arms around all the time.
00:21:36.180 Bernie may be the most radical candidate when it comes to economics and government.
00:21:40.220 But when it gets to cultural questions, which don't forget, that's where a lot of our politics lives.
00:21:46.300 When it comes to cultural questions, there's another candidate who is at least as radical.
00:21:51.020 That candidate is Pete Buttigieg, my least favorite candidate in the race.
00:21:54.620 There was an amazing and horrifying moment on the campaign trail for Pete just the other day.
00:22:00.260 We'll get to that in a second.
00:22:03.320 I want to give people a little context, though, because no one knows anything about Pete Buttigieg, right?
00:22:07.720 That is another guy who really came out of nowhere.
00:22:09.660 I don't know how the oppo file on him is.
00:22:11.540 It's not like Bernie Sanders had been in politics for 50 years.
00:22:14.360 Pete Buttigieg is like 12 years old himself.
00:22:17.260 But Buttigieg is now portraying himself as the moderate candidate in the race.
00:22:22.720 He's no moderate.
00:22:23.540 He's, you know, he's got a nice haircut and he's a clean cut boy from the Midwest and he speaks in a very balanced way.
00:22:30.780 He's no moderate.
00:22:32.940 Pete Buttigieg's father was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society.
00:22:40.020 For those who don't know, Gramsci is sort of little known except among people who spend time studying communism.
00:22:45.940 Antonio Gramsci is one of the most famous communists in history.
00:22:49.580 He was a communist philosopher in Italy.
00:22:52.300 He was the leader of the Italian Communist Party.
00:22:55.260 He had a huge influence on what you would call neo-Marxism.
00:22:59.420 So bringing Marxism from the realm of the economic into the realm of the cultural as well.
00:23:06.020 A very, very important philosopher in the history of Marxism.
00:23:10.440 Buttigieg's father, not just some kind of moderate Midwest guy, he was a devotee of Gramsci.
00:23:18.380 He was the president and founding member of his society.
00:23:23.400 Now you might say, well, that was his father.
00:23:25.180 Pete's totally different.
00:23:26.200 Is Pete totally different?
00:23:27.600 There's a big irony in this Democratic primary, which is that Pete Buttigieg for a lot of his life was a great admirer of Bernie Sanders.
00:23:34.900 Pete Buttigieg in 2000, when he was still in high school, wrote an essay praising Bernie Sanders.
00:23:40.560 And this is an important moment because Bernie is mainstream now by definition because Bernie almost won the nomination in 2016 and he likely will win it this year.
00:23:51.720 But that's only because the Democratic Party has recently swung very, very far to the left.
00:23:56.840 In 2000, Bernie Sanders was a joke.
00:23:59.320 He was a punchline.
00:24:00.520 He was the most radical guy in the U.S. government.
00:24:03.380 And moderate Pete, good old Midwestern Pete, wrote an essay in high school praising him.
00:24:09.980 Pete Buttigieg is a smart guy, okay?
00:24:11.440 It's not like he was just some dummy when he was in high school.
00:24:14.300 The guy was, what, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard educated.
00:24:16.860 You can, McKenzie, he's radical, he's distasteful, he's dishonest, but he's a smart guy.
00:24:22.440 He knew what he was doing and I think he probably knew what he was doing even then.
00:24:25.460 So, Buttigieg, total fake moderate, actually quite a radical.
00:24:30.420 And there was a disgusting and radical scene at a Pete Buttigieg rally over the weekend.
00:24:36.620 Tells us a lot about Pete, but more importantly, because I actually don't care that much about Pete.
00:24:41.180 Doesn't look like Pete's going to win the nomination.
00:24:43.040 It gets to a bigger topic, which is our cultural identity crisis.
00:24:49.120 Why we've got the rise of woke identity politics.
00:24:52.660 What identity politics really means.
00:24:56.040 One of Pete Buttigieg's producers took a question from a gay nine-year-old.
00:25:02.900 Is there, what does that mean?
00:25:04.340 What does it mean to be a gay nine-year-old before you've gone through puberty?
00:25:07.340 I couldn't really tell you.
00:25:09.500 Here's the question.
00:25:10.680 The next question comes from Zachary, age nine.
00:25:14.520 Oh, wow.
00:25:16.300 And this is a really touching question.
00:25:19.000 He says, thank you for being so brave.
00:25:21.460 Would you help me tell the world I'm gay too?
00:25:24.540 I want to be brave like you.
00:25:26.800 Wow.
00:25:31.000 That question tells you a whole lot about the state of the Democratic Party.
00:25:35.580 And Pete Buttigieg's answer tells you even more.
00:25:38.260 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:26:28.120 A child who has not yet gone through puberty wants to come out as gay on a presidential campaign stage on national television. 0.59
00:26:40.200 And the Democrats cheer him on.
00:26:45.520 They're so excited.
00:26:46.380 You hear that.
00:26:47.020 We've got a fun, a really touching, amazing question from a prepubescent child who wants to make bold sexual declarations on national television.
00:26:55.720 Woo! 0.99
00:26:56.740 Yeah!
00:26:57.560 Hooray! 0.97
00:26:59.160 Never mind that the kid almost certainly doesn't know what gay means.
00:27:03.180 He definitely doesn't know what gay means.
00:27:04.840 He might have some inclination that it refers to sexual attraction between members of the same sex.
00:27:10.920 What on earth could he possibly know about the significance of that statement?
00:27:14.880 He's nine years old.
00:27:16.860 Most 19-year-olds don't know quite what that means.
00:27:21.120 People who are struggling with their sexuality, they don't know all of the implications of that.
00:27:25.060 So you're saying a nine-year-old does?
00:27:26.280 I mean, we protect kids from this kind of stuff for a reason.
00:27:33.340 All right, kids are too young to understand the complexities and consequences of sexual decisions.
00:27:40.060 That's why we have an age of consent.
00:27:41.700 The reason that it's illegal to sleep with a 16 or 17-year-old is because we've decided as a society that 16 and 17-year-olds are still too young to understand all of the implications, all of the consequences, all of the complexities that go along with sexual decision-making.
00:27:59.620 So we protect them from that.
00:28:01.800 This is why it requires an ID if you want to go buy a Playboy.
00:28:05.120 Anyway, we've decided, you know, even if you're in your teenage years, you still are too young.
00:28:11.700 We have to, you have to be protected from making sexual decisions, some of which will last your whole life.
00:28:17.340 You know, if you're, just to get to the age of consent thing, let's say you're 15, 16 years old and you have a one-night stand.
00:28:23.200 That one-night stand can have psychological consequences on you for the rest of your life.
00:28:27.400 And of course, it could have other consequences like STDs and pregnancy.
00:28:32.080 How much more so should we apply those kind of protections to a nine-year-old prepubescent child as we would to a 16 or 17-year-old teenager?
00:28:47.300 Buttigieg, to his credit, seems pretty uncomfortable with this question because he realizes how creepy and weird this is that you've got the whole of this Democratic crowd saying,
00:28:56.560 yeah, yeah, nine-year-old, make bold claims about sex. 0.90
00:29:01.020 Yeah, we love hearing that.
00:29:02.600 So Buttigieg stumbles around at first.
00:29:04.840 He's a little uncomfortable to answer it.
00:29:06.560 Stammers, stumbles.
00:29:08.500 Then he decides, you know what?
00:29:10.980 I'm in this thing.
00:29:11.920 It's 2020.
00:29:12.740 This is the Democratic Party.
00:29:13.980 I want to be president.
00:29:15.060 So he eventually just embraces it and gives the kid a shout out.
00:29:19.800 Zachary, if you're here and you want to give a wave, let me know.
00:29:25.380 Hey! 0.99
00:29:35.380 Love is love!
00:29:37.540 Love is love!
00:29:39.380 Love is love!
00:29:41.420 Love is love!
00:29:43.220 Love is love!
00:29:44.900 This is the dark side of sentimentality.
00:29:48.680 And we increasingly, as a culture, are giving ourselves over to sentimentality.
00:29:54.760 We're abandoning our use of reason.
00:29:56.900 We are abandoning our logic.
00:29:59.080 We're abandoning rigorous analysis.
00:30:01.180 And we're just giving over to sentimentality.
00:30:04.180 How you feel.
00:30:05.240 If it feels good, do it.
00:30:07.720 My truth is the only truth that matters.
00:30:10.180 And it's certainly more important than the truth.
00:30:12.060 That kind of sentimentality.
00:30:14.880 Love is love, which is the mantra used to defend redefining marriage, is a ridiculous political mantra.
00:30:22.500 It doesn't mean anything.
00:30:26.200 Because what it's saying, I guess it means something.
00:30:28.380 What it just means is ridiculous.
00:30:29.500 It means that all types of love are exactly the same.
00:30:33.660 That's what it means.
00:30:34.080 Love is love.
00:30:34.680 All love is the same.
00:30:36.600 This was very useful when they were trying to redefine marriage during the Obergefell decision and other previous legislative battles.
00:30:43.380 But on its face, it's absurd.
00:30:45.280 Because not all love is the same.
00:30:46.760 We know this.
00:30:47.460 Love between, love for your spouse is a lot different than love for your brother.
00:30:53.880 Unless you read Slate Magazine.
00:30:55.300 Then maybe it's a little more confusing.
00:30:57.480 Love for your child is different than love for your co-workers.
00:31:01.460 Love for your family, right, is different than love for your friends, even.
00:31:07.520 Love is different depending on the context.
00:31:11.800 Love is a very complex thing.
00:31:14.220 In this case, the way we discuss love and sex should be very different for adults as for children.
00:31:23.140 I mean, imagine applying the same sort of sexual mantras that we apply to adults, consenting adults,
00:31:29.760 as we do to nine-year-old children.
00:31:32.820 But love is love sentimentality sacrifices all of that on the altar of the sexual revolution.
00:31:39.180 So, Pete, who hesitates at first, and then they get the slogan going, and then they're all given away into this political moment.
00:31:47.400 And Pete calls the kid up on stage, and he gives him advice that is so typical of the modern Democratic Party and the modern left,
00:31:57.900 but which is ultimately so destructive.
00:32:00.220 So let me tell you, let me tell you a couple things that might be useful.
00:32:05.000 The first thing is that it won't always be easy, but that's okay, because you know who you are.
00:32:14.260 And that's really important, because when you know who you are, you have a center of gravity that can hold you together
00:32:22.080 when all kinds of chaos is happening around you.
00:32:25.400 That's the first thing I want you to know.
00:32:26.760 There it is. There it is. That's the mistake.
00:32:30.260 You know who you are.
00:32:34.060 This is maybe the key to our sentimentality epidemic, is this idea of authenticity.
00:32:41.280 As long as you're authentic to yourself, then you will be firmly grounded in reality.
00:32:46.860 You know. You might not know anything else about the world.
00:32:49.300 You might not know anything about arithmetic, or you might not know French, or you might not know history,
00:32:53.980 but you know who you are, and therefore we will orient everything else to this self-knowledge.
00:33:01.620 Except nine-year-olds don't know who they are.
00:33:06.040 Most 29-year-olds don't know who they are, but nine-year-olds certainly don't know who they are.
00:33:11.420 That's why you have education.
00:33:13.200 That's why you grow up.
00:33:14.360 That's why you go through your teenage years.
00:33:15.960 That's why you go through puberty.
00:33:17.120 You change during all of these moments.
00:33:20.200 The idea that you are exactly who you were when you were nine years old is totally absurd.
00:33:26.640 But beyond that sort of minor point is Pete's bigger point, which is even crazier.
00:33:35.320 Pete's larger point is that who you are is defined by the sum total of your sexual desires.
00:33:43.180 It's not just Pete making this point.
00:33:45.020 The whole left makes this point.
00:33:46.280 That who you are is just who you want to sleep with.
00:33:53.420 In this case of sexual identity politics.
00:33:56.140 Or in the case of racial identity politics, you could say who you are is your skin color.
00:34:01.360 That's who you are at bottom.
00:34:02.780 Or in the case of gender politics, similar to sexual politics, who you are is based on your genitals.
00:34:09.420 Or now that we have transgender theory, now it's not based on your genitals. 1.00
00:34:13.040 Very, very confusing.
00:34:13.920 All identity politics, all of it, is absurd because it mistakes part of our identities with the whole of it or with the essence of it.
00:34:24.580 In a rightly ordered society, in the traditional society, our identities are much more firmly rooted than that.
00:34:32.340 Okay, so in a rightly ordered society, our identity is rooted in, okay, I know who I am.
00:34:36.480 I know Michael, that's me, that's who I am.
00:34:38.940 I am born into a family, in a community, in a country, and ultimately my identity is, at bottom, religious because I am man made in the image of God, who is identity itself.
00:34:53.480 Very firmly rooted.
00:34:54.580 Okay, when God is talking to Moses, Moses says, who shall I tell people that you are?
00:35:00.940 God says, I am that I am.
00:35:03.800 Which is to say, I am being itself.
00:35:08.240 I am identity.
00:35:09.760 And you're made in my image.
00:35:11.100 And if you trace your identity to me, you're going to be pretty firmly rooted.
00:35:15.160 And then we've got other identities that come downstream of that.
00:35:18.300 I'm an American.
00:35:19.060 I have a national identity.
00:35:20.140 I'm a New Yorker.
00:35:21.360 I was born in New York.
00:35:22.460 I'm a Knowles.
00:35:24.160 I'm born into a family.
00:35:25.780 That's the traditional view, okay?
00:35:27.320 It's the most solid identity you can get.
00:35:29.420 But what happens when you rip all of that away?
00:35:33.580 When you rip, you certainly rip away the ultimate identity because people are denying traditional religion.
00:35:40.680 They're denying God.
00:35:41.940 They're saying, okay, forget about it.
00:35:42.900 We can't even think about that.
00:35:44.200 But they're not just getting rid of that.
00:35:46.040 They're getting rid of national identity, right?
00:35:47.540 You've got guys like Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden saying, oh, an American is whatever I say an American is.
00:35:53.380 People who are foreign nationals are actually more American than Americans, right?
00:35:57.220 They've got all the Democratic candidates saying, we pretty much have to rip away our national borders, take down the wall, decriminalize illegal crossings.
00:36:05.100 So get rid of national identity.
00:36:06.560 How about family identity?
00:36:08.280 Increasingly, the state is encroaching on the role of the family, saying families can't do certain things.
00:36:12.340 Families can't raise their kids certain ways.
00:36:14.020 Families can't teach their kids certain things. 0.53
00:36:15.840 If you're ripping away the family itself and all of this is done on the thesis that once you rip away all of those, your religious identity, your national identity, your cultural identity, then you get the self and you'll be more firmly rooted in yourself, which is your true identity.
00:36:32.080 Except that the opposite happens.
00:36:34.580 When you rip away all those other identities, you are more isolated from yourself than ever.
00:36:39.200 That's why you have this loneliness epidemic.
00:36:41.740 That's why you have all of these sorts of crazy crises that are happening right now.
00:36:49.580 And we are having a cultural identity crisis.
00:36:53.440 So the result of that is that the supposedly moderate Democrat in the presidential race is trotting prepubescent kids on stage to tell them that they are the sum total of their sexual desires,
00:37:05.740 all to the raucous applause of Democratic primary voters.
00:37:09.740 That is some radical stuff.
00:37:13.120 Before we get on to AOC's expensive dress, which is something of a controversy even among conservatives,
00:37:18.840 I want to take a question from the live chat from J.H.
00:37:22.500 Hi, Michael.
00:37:24.360 What do you think of the rumors that Bloomberg wants Hillary as VP on his ticket and the likelihood that he would be Epstein'd at his coronation?
00:37:32.100 Of all the stupid political decisions you could make, I think picking Hillary Clinton as your VP would be the top one. 1.00
00:37:44.280 Have you ever thought of a more dangerous position to be in than with Hillary just waiting for you to get suicided at the top of the ticket? 0.93
00:37:55.560 Even if she weren't going to suicide you, let's try to be fair for a moment and say that doesn't happen.
00:38:02.640 Typically, you don't want to pick a VP whose just single ambition in life is to have your job and who is one heartbeat away from your job.
00:38:11.420 Probably not a good idea.
00:38:12.320 Mike Bloomberg is a very smart man, so I think he wouldn't make that mistake.
00:38:15.300 Although he's run one of the dumbest political campaigns in recent history, as we may have time to see in a second.
00:38:21.140 So, I don't know, maybe he'll make that mistake.
00:38:23.340 In which case, I'd like to say that I'm very, very sorry to hear of the imminent suicide of Mike Bloomberg.
00:38:28.800 I didn't even know he was depressed.
00:38:30.300 Let's get on to AOC.
00:38:32.340 AOC went on The View.
00:38:33.920 AOC went on The View and wore an expensive dress. 0.99
00:38:38.480 Not like a $10,000 dress, but a dress that was like maybe $500.
00:38:41.380 And she's getting a lot of flack for it from the conservative Erica Nurnberg. 1.00
00:38:48.920 Tweets out, don't you love it when an avowed socialist wears a $580 dress from Ricky Freeman?
00:38:55.100 I mean, who doesn't need a sequined leopard dress to be an effective congresswoman? 1.00
00:39:01.560 Obviously pointing out the hypocrisy.
00:39:03.200 AOC is this class warrior.
00:39:04.540 She says everyone has too much money and yet she's wearing an expensive dress. 0.99
00:39:07.600 But then the plot thickens because someone found out that the dress was recently on sale for only $280.
00:39:14.660 But then the plot thickens even more because AOC made this kind of vague denial.
00:39:18.760 It wasn't a specific denial, so I don't believe it.
00:39:20.900 But she said, yeah, look, sometimes I rent my clothing.
00:39:24.040 Sometimes I get it at thrift stores.
00:39:26.120 So, hey, stop picking on me.
00:39:28.340 She doesn't say anything in particular about the dress itself.
00:39:30.680 She's just making these vague comments, most of which I don't really believe.
00:39:34.520 It's not really a denial so much as a dismissal.
00:39:38.080 Now, a lot of conservatives are defending AOC.
00:39:40.700 They're saying, oh, this is, come on, this is a dumb thing to attack her for. 0.98
00:39:43.680 Yeah, politicians wear expensive clothing.
00:39:45.560 Come on, it's not even that expensive.
00:39:47.300 Well, who doesn't have $600 dresses? 1.00
00:39:49.740 A lot of people don't have $600 dresses, but that's beside the point.
00:39:54.360 The point is not how much the dress cost.
00:39:56.880 The point is AOC's hypocrisy.
00:39:59.780 Okay, first of all, for all of the people that AOC constantly invokes, the marginalized, the people who don't have two nickels to rub together, $580 or $280 is a lot of money to spend on a dress.
00:40:13.480 But beyond that, the point is that AOC's political philosophy boils down to castigating people for their wealth.
00:40:23.920 Right, she's the one who says billionaires shouldn't exist.
00:40:27.200 And if you are going to base your whole political philosophy on castigating people for your wealth, you need to be able to explain why you are allowed to indulge in certain expensive luxuries, but other people are not.
00:40:40.020 Okay, I do not begrudge AOC her sequined $600 dress, but she and her fellow class hustlers need to answer this one simple question.
00:40:51.500 How much money are people allowed to have or to spend?
00:40:56.380 How much?
00:40:57.060 Just give me a number.
00:40:59.360 All right, if that's your philosophy, that there's a cap and above a certain point people are not allowed to have the money or spend the money, then just give me a number so that we know what we're dealing with here.
00:41:08.020 But she won't answer it because the number is always changing and the number is always changing because her net income, her net wealth is always changing.
00:41:16.740 Same thing with Bernie Sanders.
00:41:19.400 Conveniently, the amount of money that you're not allowed to have her spend is always just a little bit more money than they have. 0.99
00:41:25.540 Bernie Sanders, you can track it on Twitter, castigates the millionaires and the billionaires for his whole political career.
00:41:31.640 All of 2016 was about the millionaires and the billionaires.
00:41:34.980 And then Bernie made a million dollars.
00:41:38.020 And he could no longer deny that he was a millionaire.
00:41:41.020 And do you know, like the very day that he became a millionaire, the millionaires were okay.
00:41:46.000 And it's actually the billionaires who were the bad guys.
00:41:48.320 And he stopped talking about the millionaires and the billionaires.
00:41:50.100 It was just the billionaires.
00:41:53.040 Be consistent.
00:41:53.980 Any political view that is playing on envy, that is castigating whole classes of people because they happen to have a lot of things is bad in and of itself.
00:42:06.300 But when you're cynically moving the goalposts because you are getting wealthier and wealthier and wealthier and you keep hustling based on envy, that's even worse than all of that.
00:42:17.260 So it's cynical, it's vicious, it promotes envy, and I'm very pleased that AOC is getting criticism for it.
00:42:24.780 It's a totally fair attack. 1.00
00:42:26.100 Before we go, I have to bring up these stupid billboards that Mike Bloomberg is using.
00:42:29.820 You know, evidence that Bloomberg could make the horrible political decision to pick Hillary as his VP.
00:42:35.960 Bloomberg put these billboards up in Nevada, I believe.
00:42:40.000 The billboards were part of Mike's novel, wild, wacky campaign where he puts pictures of his face on a meatball and that's supposed to win him the presidency.
00:42:48.960 And the billboards all just made jokes about Trump.
00:42:53.640 So one said, Donald Trump cheats at golf.
00:42:57.140 Mike Bloomberg doesn't.
00:42:58.380 The other one said, Donald Trump's wall fell over because a part of the border fence collapsed, like a little portion of it, and they're fixing it now.
00:43:08.940 And the third one is my favorite.
00:43:10.980 Donald Trump eats burnt steak.
00:43:14.000 Mike Bloomberg likes his medium rare.
00:43:17.200 Yeah, that's how you're going to appeal to the people.
00:43:19.880 That's how you're going to make yourself a man of the people is make fun of the president for eating his food.
00:43:25.940 In a way that most people eat their food, frankly, and then say that you have a much more refined palate, even though most people don't eat their food that way.
00:43:34.940 Doesn't work.
00:43:35.720 Doesn't work for two reasons.
00:43:37.960 I mean, someday, poli-sci classes are going to teach full semesters on Mike Bloomberg's campaign as evidence of what not to do.
00:43:47.240 The first reason this doesn't work, Bloomberg gives Trump top billing in all of the signs.
00:43:55.220 It's Donald Trump does this.
00:43:57.460 Donald Trump doesn't do this.
00:43:58.840 And then Mike Bloomberg, very tiny at the bottom.
00:44:00.820 But it's actually just an ad for Donald Trump, okay?
00:44:05.500 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
00:44:08.320 And if you're making your opponent the focus of everything, you're losing.
00:44:12.780 This is why, traditionally, politicians don't name their opponents.
00:44:16.880 They always say, what my opponent said was blah, blah, blah, because they don't want to give the opponent free press.
00:44:21.320 But that's what Mike Bloomberg is doing.
00:44:22.600 He's spending half a billion dollars to give Donald Trump more press.
00:44:25.200 Donald Trump, who's got more publicity, maybe, than anyone who's ever lived, other than Alexander the Great, you know, a few other people.
00:44:32.520 The second problem here is it's just incredibly condescending to say, oh, you overcook your steak.
00:44:39.980 First of all, most people don't get to eat steak that much, just generally speaking, because steak is expensive.
00:44:44.640 But when people do eat steak, I would wager that the majority of people eat their steak medium to more cooked.
00:44:52.660 Now, I don't, because I come from the same place as Mike Bloomberg does in New York.
00:44:57.980 So, in New York, we like to eat our steak where it's barely cooked at all.
00:45:01.140 It's mooing, right? 0.85
00:45:02.040 It's completely red, if not black and blue.
00:45:05.020 But for most of the country, I don't think that's the case.
00:45:07.680 When I travel around a lot of different places, a lot of places won't even let you order something rare or, you know, totally rare.
00:45:15.200 So, Bloomberg is saying, I'm so much better than you.
00:45:17.120 I've got so much better taste.
00:45:18.280 Not a good way to appeal to voters.
00:45:21.120 You know, Donald Trump is able to make sort of the opposite appeal.
00:45:25.720 He says he loves fast food.
00:45:27.340 And he actually does love fast food.
00:45:28.520 He's got a long record of this.
00:45:30.000 But the Bloomberg campaign, it's schizophrenic on this.
00:45:31.960 The other day, they tweeted out and said, Mike Bloomberg loves eating at Subway.
00:45:35.280 No, he doesn't.
00:45:36.080 Bloomberg's never eaten at Subway.
00:45:37.560 They're trying to pretend this.
00:45:38.340 And then on the other hand, they're saying, oh, but he only eats a steak medium rare.
00:45:40.860 He only eats it topped with foie gras.
00:45:42.740 He would never eat that gruel like President Trump and overcook it.
00:45:47.080 Oh, not a good way to win.
00:45:49.180 Polls show a drop in likability after that debate that took place.
00:45:53.780 The one debate that he was in where he just absolutely got torn limb from limb.
00:45:57.080 And so it would seem like it's Bernie's game.
00:46:00.460 This is risky.
00:46:01.980 We could have a socialist as the president.
00:46:04.180 But I think it's a risk that conservatives should cheer on because it's honest.
00:46:08.120 And I think it gives us the best chance of winning every state plus Greenland.
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