While we all wring our hands over new political winds blowing in the GOP, isolationism, protectionism, nativism, there is a new factional insurgency among Republicans that we should be excited about. And that is the rise of the right wing goth baddie. We will examine the rising Republican star, the congressional candidate shaking up conservative aesthetics. Then a Democrat campaign staffer calls for a trans jihad and general murder of Republicans. And President Trump swings by the Teddy Roosevelt Library to remind us all how terrible this year would have been with a Lib President presiding over America s 250th anniversary.
00:04:48.160wearing a red, white, and blue plaid shirt to admit when he's wrong because the new star
00:04:53.560GOP congressional candidate coming out of Colorado is, in fact, I think it's fair to say,1.00
00:04:59.440nothing lecherous in the observation, she's a goth baddie. This is Kelly Dennison. She just
00:05:06.500won the Colorado second congressional primary, and she is not your typical Republican, at least0.99
00:05:13.300in the way she looks. She's a 27-year-old massage therapist. Her picture that is being posted around
00:05:20.300in the news reports of her victory was actually taken in front of St. Joseph Catholic Parish.
00:05:25.460Great signs. I was in Fort Collins this year. And she probably doesn't have a chance to win
00:05:31.760the race. I think the district is D plus 20 or something like that. But she won the primary.
00:05:37.140She has now won the hearts and minds, the fascination of at least many Republicans on0.96
00:05:41.700the internet. And it made me have to contemplate whether or not Mr. Davies was seeing a trend
00:05:46.820and why it would be that a goth chick would be a conservative Republican. I've noticed this.0.92
00:05:54.020You know, I travel around the country, go to a lot of churches when I'm around the country,
00:05:57.560go to a lot of events. And I've noticed this. I actually, I did not, not on my social media
00:06:01.640feeds, but in real life, I have been noticing more and more goth girls. Like the kind of thing you
00:06:06.280saw in the late 90s, white makeup, dark hair, some piercings, black eyelashes, black clothing.
00:06:14.520I have been seeing them crop up more and more. And you would often imagine them being on the left
00:06:19.440or maybe even the radical left if they weren't totally politically apathetic. But I've been
00:06:23.280noticing them more and more on the right. Why is that? In a way, it makes perfect sense because
00:06:28.480the goth aesthetic rose out of the Victorian era. The best explanation I've heard for the rise of
00:06:34.660the goth aesthetic, which really took on prominence in America during the 80s, punk,
00:06:39.700post-punk, then Hot Topic kind of commercialized it. But it comes from the Victorian era because
00:06:44.880Queen Victoria spent a very, very long time mourning the death of her husband, Prince Albert.
00:06:50.480So she wore a lot of black, and that's what it draws on. And it draws on other cultural
00:06:55.180influences from that era, from the 19th century, the gothic novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
00:07:00.500the kind of culture that is about enchantment the kind of culture that is about the supernatural
00:07:10.240things that are a little uncanny eerie numinous a little bit spooky the kind of culture that takes
00:07:17.220religion seriously what's interesting about the goth aesthetic is in the goth aesthetic you could
00:07:22.660see someone wearing a pentagram or a crucifix you know totally opposite religious views but
00:07:27.820nevertheless taking religion seriously, whether it be in an occult and rather bad religious form
00:07:34.140or in a good religious form, which is in the form of Christianity. I mean, even the word goth0.67
00:07:39.220coming from Gothic, the Goths who sacked Rome, but then the great Gothic cathedrals and then
00:07:45.500into the Gothic novels of the era. And I thought, in a way, this makes perfect sense because
00:07:50.320we live in this world that has been so disenchanted. We live in this world where
00:07:56.380everything is so clinical, everything is mediated by technology, where everything seems so clinical,
00:08:02.040so scientific, so plain, our longings, our desires, our hopes, and our dreams, they're all reduced
00:08:07.600to chemicals firing off in our brains or some other mechanical processes. And human beings
00:08:12.780realize that that doesn't really fully explain the world. It doesn't even come close. It doesn't
00:08:17.520explain the most important things in the world. And so I think we're living in an era, this is
00:08:21.840also why you're seeing a big return to religion, and especially the more sacramental and traditional
00:08:26.480forms of religion, the liturgical kind of religion, the smells and bells kind of religion,
00:08:31.300you're seeing people recognize that we know that the world really is enchanted, and we need to
00:08:36.840re-enchant ourselves with it. We're living post-stupid new atheism. We're now in a world0.99
00:08:43.820where we start to take religion and spiritual matters seriously. Even those gothic novels,
00:08:48.860They're very romantic. It coincides with the romantic era. And we live in a world where we're
00:08:54.760told we're just supposed to have clinical partnerships. I'm going to propose a marriage
00:09:01.260to my partner because we're really good. We help each other, and we're all going to just do the
00:09:06.780dishes, and we're going to be exactly co-equals, undifferentiated, and it's all. It's just so lame.
00:09:14.020and we want romance. We want to be that couple climbing up the Empire State Building,
00:09:20.420taking a knee and proposing on top of a needle above New York City. So we are living at a time,
00:09:27.160maybe I'm reading too deeply into this congressional primary candidate, but I don't
00:09:30.920think I am. I think it's indicative of a broader trend. We're in a time that calls for enchantment
00:09:36.200and romance and religion. We are in an age that calls for the return of the goth baddie,
00:09:43.100and the goth baddie will not be on the left. The goth baddie will be on the side that is looking0.98
00:09:46.500for a return of those things, and that is conservatives and Republicans generally.
00:09:51.080Okay, now let's look at the Democrats. What are they up to? This is something that would come out
00:09:55.540of a gothic novel, a horror novel or a horror movie. A Democrat campaign staffer has just
00:10:02.340called on followers to, quote, kill your local Republican and commit trans jihad. Trans jihad,1.00
00:10:10.100two of our favorite things, transgenderism and Islam. Combine them, what could go wrong?1.00
00:10:16.000They do actually kind of combine in a lot of activism. This person, his name, I guess it's a
00:10:21.800him, but he thinks he's a girl, is Tija De La Ruel. I don't think that's his Christian name,
00:10:29.720but that's the name he goes by. He was a volunteer staffer for Wisconsin Democrat Socialist candidate
00:10:36.340Katrina DeVille. Katrina DeVille. I don't know what Katrina DeVille's real name is because
00:10:41.180Katrina DeVille is also transgender. This Democrat candidate in Wisconsin, also trans.
00:10:49.700So this fella, the staffer, was photographed sitting in front of a dry erase board,0.97
00:10:55.360scrawled with the words, quote, kill your local Republican in black marker. And he says,
00:11:01.100we're going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, which I
00:11:06.740believe has pushed more serial killers on America than any other state in the country.1.00
00:11:15.000Now, this is the trans stuff. The trans people are kind of like the er, evil version of the1.00
00:11:22.160goth baddie. This is like everything goes wrong. This is the villain from the gothic novel.1.00
00:11:27.800But I guess what's really troubling about all of this, this person calling for a trans jihad,
00:11:33.680is how not weird he is. I mean, he's weird. Don't get me wrong. He's weird, but he's not
00:11:42.380weird by the standards of the modern Democrat party. I mean, just listen to the reporting.
00:11:47.140He was working for another tranny, a tranny who it's now not uncommon for a transvestite1.00
00:11:54.640to be in public office. There was a time 10 years ago that would have been completely absurd in both1.00
00:11:59.140parties. Now, there's a transvestite in Congress, sitting in Congress as a member, a Democrat,0.99
00:12:06.160of course. What the left is going to want to do is say that the trans staffer calling for the0.79
00:12:14.440murder of all Republicans is an aberration. This is not what we're about. The Republicans are
00:12:21.500going to pounce on this story, but this is not indicative at all of what the Democrats are.
00:12:26.780And the problem is, it is. There's a big difference. Think about back in the 90s,
00:12:32.200we had like David Duke. There's a similar version of that in the mid-20-teens, which was Richard
00:12:37.580Spencer, who was a kind of more intelligent, more intellectual version of David Duke,
00:12:42.240but still white identitarian who would say Heil victory and had Nazi leanings. What's ironic about
00:12:50.480Richard Spencer is Richard Spencer, I think, is now a Democrat because he says the Republicans
00:12:54.160can't do anything. But whatever. My only point is, whether they were pointing to Richard Spencer
00:12:59.580or David Duke, the Republicans certainly could say, well, no, we're not about that.
00:13:05.180They are advancing views that we don't agree with. So much so that Richard Spencer says,
00:13:10.200I'm done with Republicans. I'm just going to vote for Democrats. At least they're confident.
00:13:13.060But you could say in the 90s, David Duke would be calling for all these things. And it was all
00:13:17.160the Republicans would say, no, no, no. We support colorblind meritocracy. No, no, no. We're the
00:13:23.220party that freed the slaves from those Democrats who own the slaves. No, no, no. We don't have0.50
00:13:26.340anything in common with this guy. He is not one of us. The Democrats can't say that about these
00:13:31.600guys. They can't say that about transgenderism. Obviously, there's a trans-identified member of
00:13:35.440Congress. They've almost uniformly embraced the transgender ideology in recent years,
00:13:39.500and they can't even run away from it now that it's totally unpopular. But furthermore,0.98
00:13:43.280a huge swath of Democrats, prominent mainstream Democrats, have embraced political violence as
00:13:48.500well, including minimizing and excusing and celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk,
00:13:52.600who was the most mainstream Republican. When it says, kill your local Republican,0.98
00:13:57.020we're talking about that kind of guy. So they're totally different scenarios.0.97
00:14:02.980And unfortunately, I'm open to a rebuttal, but unfortunately, it seems to me that,
00:14:08.800what's this person's name? DeVille, Cruella DeVille, I don't know, whatever the
00:14:12.920trans staffer's name is, working for the other trans candidate. That has become the norm. And if0.82
00:14:19.120you get enough drinks, or probably more like hard drugs when it comes to that side, if you got
00:14:24.360enough drinks into even your mainstream Democrats, something tells me they would start defending or
00:14:32.720at least minimizing and justifying political violence. Something tells me they wouldn't be
00:14:39.140so totally opposed to trans jihad. Very, very dangerous. The staffer calling for this violence1.00
00:14:46.800is at most, I'm being as charitable as I can, is at most an exaggeration of the norm.
00:14:54.160David Duke in the 90s, that was a contradiction of the Republican platform.
00:14:58.420This person is at most a slight exaggeration of where normal Democrats are at. Normal Democrats,
00:15:04.520increasingly a contradiction in terms. Now, speaking of trans liberal Democrats trying0.96
00:15:10.080to murder Republicans, we have finally gotten the sentencing for the guy who tried to kill0.95
00:15:14.600Brett Kavanaugh. You remember this? A big story that kind of went away. The person who over
00:15:20.560Kavanaugh's decision to overrule Roe v. Wade traveled across the country, tried to murder
00:15:24.940him and potentially his whole family and his house. We have just gotten the sentencing,
00:15:29.900and it turns out that he too is trans it's always the ones you most expect we'll get to that
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