Ben Shapiro and Michael J Knowles dissect the 2024 election, where Donald Trump secured the presidency alongside Republican majorities in the House and Senate. They critique Kamala Harris's platitude-filled concession and Joe Biden's Rose Garden press conference, noting internal Democratic blame games regarding campaign duration and performance. Highlighting CBS exit polls showing gains among Hispanic, Black, and younger voters, Shapiro argues working-class Americans rejected "woke" social leftism, exemplified by an effective ad on transgender inmates. Ultimately, the victory signals a decisive shift away from progressive policies, reshaping American democracy under renewed conservative leadership. [Automatically generated summary]
I mean, it's going to be amazing when he declares himself the first female president, just as like the last dig at Kamala.
It's like, you know what, on my way out, you took me out.
So I think that it's going to be the most passive-aggressive press conference pretty much ever, right?
I mean, he's going to come out, he's going to make some sort of statement about how we believe in the peaceful transition up out, like the same kind of...
Nonsense that she was spouting the other day when she conceded yesterday.
But I do think that there are going to be some backhanded slaps at Kamala Harris in her campaign because he is pissed about it and they are dumping all of this in his lap again.
They foisted him out of his nomination and now they're trying to blame him for her losing and he's ticked off his hell about it.
That's what I'm here for.
I mean, I've already vowed publicly that any book that is written by a Kamala Harris campaign insider, I will read.
I will devour those.
That's my junk food, right?
Those are my soap operas.
My wife with British romantic TV. That's my jam.
I mean, I will just read that all day long.
So I'm very eager for this press conference.
It's supposed to happen any moment, which means it'll probably happen about two hours from now since Joe Biden has never shown up on time for a press conference at any point.
But you remember, his name is Joseph Robinette Biden.
And if you recall, he was the actual nominee for the presidency from the Democratic Party until, unfortunately, he suffered brain death on stage with Donald Trump, at which point they shoveled his now maggot-infested corpse out the back door.
But he's still the president, which is super weird.
So, yesterday, Kamala Harris, she did a concession speech to Donald Trump.
We'll get into that in a little while.
And today we are expecting that Joe Biden at some point will wobble out, presumably on a walker with the tennis balls on it, in order to make some sort of statement about Donald Trump having defeated everyone around him, but not him.
And it's going to be fun.
I mean, I'll admit I'm up for it because the recriminations have begun between Team Biden and Team Harris.
And it is delicious.
I have publicly vowed that I will read any book, any piece, anything about the absolute crap show that was the Kamala Harris campaign.
I am here for it.
I want to hear about how Joe Biden wrecked all of this by not stepping out early.
I want to hear from Joe Biden's team about how Kamala Harris is an absolute trash heap of horror at politics and how her campaign was run like just absolute clown car nonsense.
I want to hear how much they hated each other.
I want to hear how Jill couldn't stand Kamala, but was kind of fond of Doug.
I want to hear every bit of gossip.
This is my gossip, girl.
I'm here for every single moment of it.
I've been waiting for it.
I'm enjoying all of it.
Honestly, the amount of winning that I'm currently experiencing, I don't think I can tire of it.
And so that is the first promise that Donald Trump has made that he has not kept in my view, is that he promised I would be so tired of the winning that I would be tired of the winning.
I'm not yet tired of the winning.
I require more winning.
The demand for winning continues to increase even as the supply of winning increases.
Supply must be increased of winning in order to meet demand.
Speaking of winning, the Republicans are poised to keep control of the House of Representatives after winning the Senate.
So there are a couple of bad news pieces, apparently, according to sort of the latest counts in Nevada, the latest count in Wisconsin.
It looks as though the Democrats may retain the seats in both Wisconsin.
I think Wisconsin has been called at this point against Eric Hovde in favor of Tammy Baldwin.
Nevada is still unbelievably tight.
That one may go to a recount considering how tight that particular race is between Sam Brown and Jackie Rosen.
However, Republicans, even without those two seats, end up with 53 seats in the United States Senate because they take Jim Justice's seat, which takes them to 50.
And then they take Bernie Moreno's seat in Ohio, which takes them to 51.
Tim Sheehy's seat takes them to 52.
And Dave McCormick's seat takes them to 53.
So they're at 53 in the Senate right now.
Everything else is, you know, it would be great, but it's gravy because Republicans have a solid, durable majority at 53 seats.
And they are apparently going to retain the House in all likelihood as well.
According to the Wall Street Journal late last night in the House, Democrats' path to take back control narrowed as Republicans outperformed expectations on the strength of Trump's ability to make inroads among working-class Black and Latino voters, especially men, supplementing his support among white working-class voters.
Democrats' hopes for a slew of pickups in California did not materialize, greatly tempering their hopes of flipping the House, which Republicans currently control 220 to 212, with three vacancies.
Right now, very likely that Republicans, again, retain the House majority.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is likely ensconced in that place.
Donald Trump likes Mike Johnson.
Mike Johnson has a good relationship with Donald Trump.
They will work well together.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a victory lap.
He called it a hell of a good day and praised the high caliber Republican candidates that he and other Senate leaders recruited to run.
He deserves to take a victory lap for that because McConnell did have a much broader impact on picking Republicans in the primaries than he has in years prior.
Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, he says everyone's fed up and fired up.
They're fed up about the cost of living, the rising crime rates, the wide open border, the weakness on the world stage.
So that means that Donald Trump is going to re-enter office with a triumvirate.
He'll have the White House, he'll have the House, and he'll have the Senate.
Which, by the way, is better than it would have been had he won re-election in 2020, actually.
Because in 2020, as you recall, the Democrats actually had control of the United States Senate.
So, that would have changed things quite a bit.
Meanwhile, we have new information from the CBS 2024 exit polls.
The swings among pretty much every population are quite astounding.
So Trump actually lost one point among whites.
He gained three points among black voters.
He gained 27 points.
There's a 27-point swing toward Donald Trump among Hispanic voters, according to that CBS 2024 exit poll.
The answer is because you know what Hispanic Americans want?
The American dream.
That would be the reason.
Hispanic Americans, you know, they're traditionally minded when it comes to family and when it comes to things like gender.
They like their church.
They like their community.
They like the American dream, the idea that they get to own property and then increase their wealth in this country.
They want opportunity.
It turns out that the normie American dream is still the thing most people pursue.
It's not the democratic version of the American dream, which is you can strip whoever you want with no consequences.
Here's a government check.
That American dream does not appeal to the vast majority of Americans.
The American dream for the vast majority of Americans is the same thing it was for their parents and their grandparents.
As I said yesterday on the show, 2024, revenge of the normies.
Donald Trump picked up among every age group except for elderly voters.
There was a 13-point swing from 2020 to 2024 among voters aged 18 to 29, largely among young men.
He picked up five points among voters aged 30 to 44.
Among those aged 45 to 64, you know, the people who actually have lots of kids at this point, he picked up nine points among that group.
So between 30 and 64, he picked up five points and nine points respectively in those various age groups.
Harris did better among Democrats.
Trump did one point better among Republicans.
Republicans picked up 10 points with independents.
Late-breaking voters broke toward Trump.
Despite all the media's best attempts to turn Tony Hinchcliffe and his Puerto Rico joke into a national issue, it turns out most people looked at Kamala at the very end.
They're like, you know what?
There is nothing here except for a bad agenda, and we do not like it.
Republicans picked up five points among men.
They picked up seven points among women.
Remember that time that Kamala Harris was supposed to bring the brat, the energy, and the joy to the lady vote?
Yeah, that didn't happen.
And it also turns out that abortion, Americans are beginning to take abortion off the ballot as a chief federal issue.
Because that's precisely what happens under Dobbs.
Dobbs relegates this not to the federal level, but to the state level.
That means that if you have differing views about abortion, you vote to the state legislature based on that.
You vote for a governor or a senator based on that in the state assembly.
You don't vote for your senator or your congressperson or your president based on that because it is no longer a federal level issue, thanks to Dobbs.
So it actually takes a really controversial issue off the table for Republican politicians.
The only places that Kamala Harris increased her turnout are high income people who are white atheists.
Those would be the places.
That's it.
Well, I mean, that's a shrinking base in the United States of America.
It turns out that demographic revolution that the Democrats were talking about back in the 2012 era, turns out it doesn't work quite for you if you decide to treat everybody who's a member of a minority as though they are a San Francisco College of the Arts graduate making $120,000 a year for a job in graphic design.
Turns out that ain't most Americans.
How well did Donald Trump do in this election? - Mm-hmm.
Turns out there are a lot of New York expats who live in New Jersey.
They don't like how New York is looking.
Donald Trump outperformed, by the way, in New York as well.
In fact, Donald Trump lost New York by fewer points than Kamala Harris lost Florida.
Remember that time when this was supposed to wreck the economy?
Remember all the economists, they say that Donald Trump is going to radically increase prices.
Donald Trump is going to be horrible for business.
That had about as much credibility as the 51 intelligence experts who suggested the Hunter Biden laptop was not real.
What happened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
It surged to its biggest gain in two years.
Bond yields and Bitcoin also posted sharp climbs.
The markets are going full-on in.
Stephen Dayton says, quote, the markets are now trading full-on Trump trade.
All three major stock indices advanced to records.
Trump predicted this.
Again, this is not hard to see, okay?
As the co-owner and co-founder of a large business, and we are now a large business here at The Daily Wire, Co-owner and co-founder of that business?
Our business will do much better under Donald Trump.
Not just because of the politics.
It will do better because it is easier to do business in a country where you know the regulatory state is not going to randomly inject itself into the running of your business.
Where you know the tax rates aren't going to wildly change and then become confiscatory of all of the production.
Donald Trump provides a stable, solid economy where the rules don't change except in the direction of loosening restrictions on business, and taxes ain't going to change unless they get lower.
No wonder people are investing.
No wonder people are tossing money into the stock market.
The Dow Jones Industrial soared about 1,500 points.
That is the biggest daily percentage gain since November 2022.
The S&P 500 added 2.5%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 3%.
These numbers are not a shock if you know anything about business.
Of course that's the case, especially because Republicans are now going to be able to make permanent the Trump tax cuts, which were quite good for the economy.
People forget, but if Kamala Harris had won, then the snapback to the prior tax rates probably would have happened, and that would have crimped the growth of the American economy.
Instead, those tax cuts are now going to become permanent.
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Again, we are still awaiting the President of the United States.
Remember that guy?
I know.
We're still awaiting him.
They're prepping his podium and everything.
We'll get to him when he decides to walk out.
The good news is that when he actually leaves the White House, the time from when he leaves the White House door to the time he gets to the podium is a solid couple of minutes, so he should have some notice.
I mean, it's like 20 feet.
The dude doesn't move particularly fast anymore.
In any case, we'll get to him in a moment.
But Kamala Harris, she emerged yesterday to explain that her heart is full.
Wasn't this George H. W. Bush's thousand points of light thing?
Except that actually had a policy proposal attached.
Here she's just talking.
She sounds like some of the worst dialogue from Rings of Power.
Honest to goodness.
That's what it sounds like.
She sounds like she was in the writer's room for Rings of Power and just started cribbing off their notes.
So I think one of the reasons that you're not seeing kind of the fury that you might normally see when Donald Trump wins an election is because no one was all that invested in Kamala Harris.
How would you be invested emotionally in Kamala Harris?
As a giant nothing burger of a human, as an NPC, what exactly about Kamala Harris was the draw?
The answer is that the draw was that she was not the doddering old man, that she was not the dead guy.
That was the only draw.
And it turns out that's not much of a draw.
So when Donald Trump wins the popular and the electoral college, everybody's like, well, Barack Obama was just as responsible for this loss as Kamala Harris.
As we will see, Team Biden is actually blaming Barack Obama, among others, for the loss.
He and his wife have written a statement on Twitter about the 2024 election.
I won't do the Obama voice for all of it, but I'll do it for the very beginning.
So just a warning.
Over the last few weeks, through election night, millions of Americans cast their votes, not just for president, but for leaders at every level.
Now, the results are in.
And we want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory.
This is obviously not the outcome we'd hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues.
But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won't always win out and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.
The good news is these problems are solvable, but only if we listen to each other.
Only if we abide by the core constitutional principles and democratic norms that made this country great.
It's this sort of fib that makes me insane.
Barack Obama did not care one iota for the constitutional structure.
This is a man who, when stymied by Congress, said that he had a pen and a phone and he was going to use them.
Barack Obama led off the era of things like killing the judicial filibuster.
It was Barack Obama who thwarted the comedy of the races in the United States in a unique way.
It was Barack Obama who alienated American from American.
This is in my lifetime.
He made it so much worse.
By every available polling statistic, he made it worse.
When he says we need to listen to each other, Barack Obama has never listened to anything except the sound of his own voice.
So when he says, this is a campaign that termed Donald Trump Hitlerian fascist evil, and now you're saying that you want to get together and have a listen-in conversation?
Well, what I really get the feeling is that now that you're out of power, you want Donald Trump to listen to you after spending years ripping on everybody on the other side of the aisle.
And that is not how it works.
That is not how it works.
Well, the weeping, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth has begun.
And so if we're here to enjoy just a little schadenfreude, well, then we may as well do that.
Sonny Hostin, the women of The View decided they were all going to wear dresses of mourning yesterday.
They wore black into work at The View yesterday, which was enjoyable and also slimming.
So Sonny Hostin lost it yesterday, talked about how she is at risk.
Particularly good to see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here.
Hi, Finn.
How are you, honey?
For over 200 years, America has carried on the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.
And that's not hyperbole, that's a fact.
We're the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders and they do it peacefully.
And we're in a democracy, the will of the people always prevails.
Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory.
And I assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
That's what the American people deserve.
Yesterday, I also spoke with Vice President Harris.
She's been a partner and a public servant.
She ran an inspiring campaign, and everyone got to see something that I learned early on to respect so much, her character.
She has a backbone like a ramrod.
She has great character, true character.
She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
You know, the struggle for the soul of America since our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today.
I know for some people, It's a time for victory, to state the obvious.
For others, it's a time of loss.
Campaigns are contests of competing visions.
The country chooses one or the other.
We accept the choice the country made.
I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win.
You can't love your neighbor only when you agree.
Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.
Bring down the temperature.
I also hope we can later rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system.
It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent.
And it can be trusted.
Win or lose.
I also hope we can restore the respect for all our election workers who busted their necks and took risks at the outset.
We should thank them.
Thank them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes, protecting the very integrity of the election.
Many of them are volunteers who do it simply out of love for their country.
And as they did, As they did their duty as citizens, I will do my duty as president.
I'll fulfill my oath, and I will honor the Constitution.
On January 20th, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.
To all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members, all the people who've been hanging out with me for the last four years, God love you, as my mother would say.
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And I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights.
And now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that.
So again, I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.
I think that going forward, the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off.
Because if you can be the President of the United States, then you should not be prevented from employment in this country.
Because I remember applying for my jobs as a federal prosecutor and there was a box for convicted felons.
In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news.
They should be teaching that in this country.
Teach children tolerance.
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Teach them to think critically.
Well, it would help if we could regulate social media, because one of the biggest offenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations in social media.
For her to be selected as vice president after what I think she would tell you was a very disappointing presidential race, where I think she kind of lost her footing and was listening too much to consultants, frankly.
It didn't really exude who she was.
And then to be vice president and to Step into the most difficult situation in the world where she had to be completely loyal to Joe Biden and respectful of the fact that he had chosen her, but yet maneuver in a situation.
I mean, such political skill.
It is just inspiring people who don't understand what she had to do to get to this moment.
By the way, what did she have to do to get to this moment?
She had to fail up.
So she had to work so hard, so hard to be a terrible candidate who got picked as a vice president, become a terrible vice president who only became a nominee because the president died.
But we actually, we've had a serious plumbing issue at the Daily Wire because every, we have many of these around the office, like many of these leftist tear stumblers.
And it turns out that you can't turn off the leftist tears.
Aw, well, you know, that's very, very sad for the Harry Potter character.
Meanwhile, here is Rachel Maddow.
She has come up with her solution, and it's that apparently Americans hate multiracial, multiethnic democracy, which is weird, since Donald Trump won 46% of Hispanics, according to the latest exit polls.
46%, that is the highest percentage of Hispanics ever won by a Republican Party candidate for the presidency.
Donald Trump won well over 20% of the black male vote.
In the swing states, Donald Trump won about 40% of the Jewish vote.
Let's be honest, it was a terrible night last night.
It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go, for healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.
It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine.
It was an absolute disaster of a night for Melania.
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They are insulting and attacking Bernie Sanders because he said Democrats have abandoned the white working class and now the Latino working class and the black working class.
And the response from I think it was Jen Rubin was, no, the problem is white men blaming others.
They refuse to accept the failure and the direction they've gone has lost in this election.
So, hey, you know, I think if this path continues over the next four years, if J.D. Vance and I believe he probably will end up the next nominee, at least for now, I think he's a chance at winning Illinois.
And with Illinois within eight points of a Republican victor, I think J.D. Vance would close the gap unless Democrats figure out they've gone insane and try and solve that problem.
It's also a massive problem because the truth is that if you look at J.D. or if you look at Trump's economic agenda, their economic agenda is not a sort of like gigantically pro-free market agenda.
So, for example, both J.D. and Trump have endorsed the entitlement state.
They've not really talked about paring back the entitlement state in any serious way.
They might talk about some mean-tested welfare programs.
We're looking at now, I think this is the third presidential election with Trump, where he said, hey, I have a solution to this problem you're concerned about.
And the Democrats have just said, that means you're Hitler.
At a certain point, people say, I recognize Trump is right about this problem.
Alrighty, so meanwhile, as we say, the recriminations among the Democrats, they've broken out, and I'm here for all of them.
The Harris campaign is now going after anyone who criticizes them.
So according to, I believe this is New York Magazine, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign sharply criticized Philadelphia Democratic Party Chairman Bob Brady after he laid blame with them for a lower-than-expected turnout in the city.
Brendan McPhillips, senior advisor to the Harris campaign in Pennsylvania, said in their statement that the team, quote, knocked more than two million doors in the weekend leading up to Election Day, which is two million more doors than Bob Brady's organization can claim to have knocked on.
So they're yelling at each other.
Meanwhile, Team Harris is blaming Joe Biden.
They're saying that they're angry that Joe Biden refused to leave earlier.
One Harris aide said, quote, We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president.
Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.
Another Harris aide said it was clear Biden should have made a graceful exit much sooner, allowing Democrats to hold a primary they believed Harris would have won.
So resounding was the thumping that some of the party's next generation leaders were signaling the need for a deep autopsy of the party's failures to stop the red wave.
Meanwhile, David Poof was leading that particular campaign.
He then, by the way, actually went off of X. He just left Twitter entirely after this comment.
Quote, it was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with Kamala Harris and the amazing staff led by Jen O'Malley Dillon, who left it all on the field for their country.
We dug out of a deep hole, but not enough.
A devastating loss.
Thanks for being in the arena, all of you.
So it's that line, we dug out of a deep hole, but not enough.
So that is Poof saying, we did our best.
To shun the Biden people.
And it's their fault we lost.
And everybody in Team Biden is like, what the F, dude?
And you continued to run this thing into the ground.
You know, Alex Thompson of Politico, he points out, or of Axios rather, he points out, The Democrats are blaming Joe Biden as well.
Again, you want to know why Joe Biden was happy earlier this day in the Rose Garden?
Because he's so happy she lost.
He's so happy.
Because it means that all the people who hated him and who dumped him over, they are losers.
And according to Joe Biden, he beat Trump, so he's a winner.
And they're losers.
That's why he's happy.
Here's Alex Thompson having Team Harris blame Team Biden.
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What you're...
Saying, Karen, is part of the reason why a lot of Democrats are very angry at Joe Biden tonight because they feel that the decision to run again when he was 80 years old was very reckless and a very risky decision, a risky gamble that he lost.
And then he basically swapped out, and he chose Kamala Harris, not just in 2020, but then he chose her, basically gave her a $100 million head start when he endorsed her and gave her his campaign.
And in some ways, while a lot of people want to say, well, Kamala was bad in the interview, and I just mentioned it before, it was a bad interview with The View.
She was bad in the interview with 60 Minutes.
There are a lot of Democrats that are actually much more angry at Joe Biden tonight.
Yeah, I think that's, I mean, just say, yes, then we were, I was expecting that because some felt like if he had dropped out sooner and she would have ascended as the nominee, she would have also had more time.
Okay, I will just note that it is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a very public stab fest, a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States of America and then didn't use him in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Well, I mean, the truth is, it's pretty obvious why they lost.
And you can tell because of how Donald Trump ran.
Donald Trump ran as a policy moderate who wasn't a nut job when it came to things like our boys, girls, or not.
A whole article in the New York Times today called How Trump Won, How Harris Lost.
And one of the things that they point out is that there was an ad that the Trump campaign tried out, and it turned out to be the most successful ad of the campaign.
And it was specifically about the trans issue.
According to this piece from the New York Times, about a week after the September debate, Trump started spending heavily on a television ad that hammered Harris for her position on a seemingly obscure topic, the use of taxpayer funds to fund surgeries for transgender inmates.
Harris said in that 2019 clip used in the ad, quote, every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access.
It was a big bet.
Trump was leading on the two most salient issues in the race, the economy and immigration, yet here he was intentionally changing the subject.
But the ad, with its vivid tagline, Kamala is for they them, President Trump is for you, broke through in Mr.
Trump's testing to an extent that stunned some of his aides.
So they poured more money into the ads, running them during football games.
That prompted Charlemagne the God, host of the Breakfast Club, to express exasperation.
His on-air complaints then gave the Trump team fodder for more commercials.
The Charlemagne ad ranked as one of the Trump team's most effective 30-second spots.
It shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Trump's favor after viewers watched it.
So again, Trump just ran against the social leftism of a disconnected elite class.
All they would have to do is jettison that and maybe they're competitive again, but they don't know which direction to go.
So Matt Iglesias has been a guest on the Sunday special before.
He's sort of a more old-line liberal, I would say.
He put out what he thought was the vision for common-sense Democrats.
Let me read you what he says Democrats should do.
It's nine points.
You'll notice something about them.
One, economic self-interest for the working class includes robust economic growth.
Two, climate change is a reality to manage, not a hard limit to obey.
Three, the government should prioritize the interests of normal people over those of people who engage in antisocial conduct.
Four, we should in fact judge people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.
Five, while race is a social construct, biological sex is not.
Six, academic and non-profit staffers do not occupy a unique position of virtue relative to private sector workers.
Seven, politeness is a virtue, but obsessive language policing alienates normal people and degrades the quality of thinking.
Eight, we're equal in the eyes of God, but the American government can and should prioritize the interests of American citizens.
Nine, public services must be run in the interests of their users, not their providers.
Now, if you nod at every one of those, it's because they're all conservative principles.
So what Matt Iglesias is saying is, if you wish to not lose like Democrats, you might want to run like Republicans.
That happens to be correct.
And there are some in the Democratic Party who are saying just that.
Charlemagne the God, for one.
He says, well, maybe the Democrats are just out of touch.
Meanwhile, for example, New York Democrat Richie Torres, he is saying that the far left helped make Donald Trump happen.
He said on X, quote, Okay,
but then from the left, you have Bernie Sanders from the top rope saying that they need to appeal to the pro-Gaza crowd.
Quote, it should come as no surprise that the Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, would find that the working class has abandoned them.
First, it was the white working class.
Now, it is Latino and black workers as well.
But the Democratic leadership defends the status quo.
The American people are angry and want change, and they're right.
Today, while the rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
They have more income and wealth inequality than ever before.
But then, he can't stop himself.
He can't stop himself.
And he has to go to the far left again.
So if he just stuck to the kind of two Americas, John Edwards, we need more economic redistributionism, I don't think that would work.
That's a more plausible argument than the social leftism.
But then he can't stop himself.
Quote, Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu governments all at war against the Palestinian people.
That is his sop to a bunch of young Gaza protesters.
If Bernie Sanders had been the actual candidate, he would have gotten skunked by Donald Trump.
Skunked by him.
Which is precisely why the Democratic Party in 2020 stopped him from being the nominee.
Bernie Sanders is a befuddled old socialist.
Most old socialists end up on the government dime.
Very few of them end up with a lake house and millions of worshipful followers.
But it's going to be fun to watch the radical and the normie wings of the Democratic Party bang it out against one another.
That'll be really, really fun.
The sort of traditional radicals, however, they have their solution, and their solution is obvious.
You blame the people.
So Media Matters is Angelo Corazon.
Media Matters, the worst organization in America, bar none.
Terrible organization.
Their entire goal is to just take shows like this one off the air because they disagree.
Angelo Corazon, he says that the Trump voters don't believe in democracy, which is weird since they represent 51% of the American public at a minimum.
But at its core, this is a discussion about democracy.
I'm not so blinded to think that they all are deeply pro-democracy.
Many of them don't believe in democracy as a principle, and they want something more autocratic and authoritarian.
But there's another part, a much larger part, that actually believes that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for democracy because they have I validated and internalized the idea that there's an anti-democratic secret cabal that is actually preventing their desires and exercise of democratic power from being implemented and put in place, and that only Trump can restore their power.
Hey, well, guys, I hope you have fun storming the castle with your motley crew of radical racialists and radical socialists.
Really enjoy yourself.
All right, folks, in just a moment, we're going to be talking about the cases against Donald Trump being dropped and left losing their minds over that.