The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Sep 18, 2021
Aired: 2021-09-18
Duration: 11:31


=== Winning the Cold Civil War (04:28) ===

[00:00:00]  Dan Bongino.
[00:00:02]  Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
[00:00:03]  I'm Dan Bongino.
[00:00:05]  This is a really profound article I read this weekend.
[00:00:07]  I want to get right to it.
[00:00:08]  It asks a pretty bold question.
[00:00:11]  Are we already in a cold civil war with the left?
[00:00:14]  And if we are, why haven't many on the right woken up?
[00:00:18]  To that effect.
[00:00:19]  Now, I don't think that's many in my audience who've been woken up to this a long time ago, but there are many in the DC swamp who still believe that the left views us as just people with bad ideas.
[00:00:28]  They don't.
[00:00:29]  They don't.
[00:00:29]  How many times do I have to say this?
[00:00:31]  The left does not view us as people with bad ideas.
[00:00:34]  They view us as bad people with ideas.
[00:00:36]  There's a huge difference.
[00:00:37]  Bad people with ideas.
[00:00:39]  They don't care what your ideas are.
[00:00:41]  They see you as bad people.
[00:00:43]  That is important.
[00:00:45]  You must understand the distinction.
[00:00:48]  Here's the article by Thomas D. Klingenstein at American Greatness.
[00:00:53]  It's called Winning the Cold Civil War.
[00:00:56]  Goes through the steps.
[00:00:59]  And step number one is Cold Civil War.
[00:01:02]  We have the American left and us.
[00:01:04]  Folks, first step is recognizing that we are in a Cold Civil War.
[00:01:09]  It is zero-sum.
[00:01:10]  You have one side, us.
[00:01:13]  When I say zero-sum, that means that whatever is right on one side has to be wrong on the other side.
[00:01:19]  Whatever is taken here has to be given there.
[00:01:23]  These things can't exist at the same time.
[00:01:26]  Okay?
[00:01:26]  There is no overlapping of the circles here.
[00:01:29]  Does everybody understand that?
[00:01:31]  This is not the Democrat party of the 50s, where the overlapping circle between the right and the left was what?
[00:01:37]  Well, we all love America.
[00:01:38]  We all want our kids to grow up in a prosperous country.
[00:01:41]  That is not what's happening anymore.
[00:01:44]  Maybe for some Democrats who are moderate, but the liberal left hates this country and wants to see it go away.
[00:01:50]  Stat!
[00:01:51]  They just do.
[00:01:53]  You must accept that.
[00:01:54]  It is critical you accept that.
[00:01:56]  Because we believe in things like liberty, free and fair elections, judging people by their character, not their skin color or their religion.
[00:02:04]  The left does not believe that.
[00:02:07]  Those two things cannot exist.
[00:02:09]  Here, getting back to the piece, from this American Greatness piece.
[00:02:13]  He says, winning this cold civil war requires two fundamental understandings.
[00:02:18]  First, you must understand that you are, in fact, in a war.
[00:02:23]  Wartime requires very different rhetoric, strategy, and people than peacetime.
[00:02:28]  Trump is a wartime leader.
[00:02:31]  Second, you must understand your enemy, what it wants, and how it goes about getting what it wants.
[00:02:38]  What our enemy wants is the destruction of the American way of life.
[00:02:42]  It goes about it by trying to force everyone to say, America is systemically racist.
[00:02:47]  If it can convince us of this falsehood, it will be well on its way to overturning the American way of life.
[00:02:56]  Folks, we got to recognize we are in a cold civil war for liberty and freedom and the future of this country.
[00:03:02]  There are people that want to take the liberty and freedom of others away.
[00:03:06]  Everything from mandates to teaching our kids CRT, which is the taking away of their freedom because they're not free.
[00:03:11]  They're supposed to be treated differently if they're white because they're oppressors.
[00:03:15]  You treat an oppressor differently than you treat someone who's oppressed, whether they're oppressing or not.
[00:03:19]  They want to take your liberty and freedom away.
[00:03:21]  We have to recognize we are in fact in a war for the spirit of this country.
[00:03:25]  We still have people up in Congress and the Senate, the Mitt Romney types, this loser up in Illinois, Adam Kinzinger, a total zero, who just don't get it.
[00:03:35]  They believe if they play tiddlywinks with the left and roast s'mores with them around a campfire and sing campfire songs, they believe the left will leave us alone.
[00:03:43]  They really love America too.
[00:03:44]  They don't!
[00:03:46]  A lot of moderate Democrats, yes, do, and just see the world a little differently.
[00:03:51]  That is not the radical left.
[00:03:52]  They hate you.
[00:03:54]  They see you as bad people with ideas.
[00:03:58]  There's a difference.
[00:03:59]  That's why I'm constantly saying new rules, folks.
[00:04:02]  The new rules are we win, you lose.
[00:04:05]  You want to play by the old rules?
[00:04:06]  Oh, let's sit around and discuss the debate, the value of liberty and freedom.
[00:04:11]  They don't care.
[00:04:12]  They don't care.

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[00:04:18]  They're killing and destroying this country.
[00:04:22]  We got to recognize their motives, too.
[00:04:26]  Recognize it's a war and recognize their motives.
[00:04:28]  Their motives on the left are totalitarian power.
[00:04:31]  That is their motive.
[00:04:32]  Stop pretending it's anything else.
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[00:06:37]  I used to say on this show, you can go find it yourself, my episodes and my entire library are still there, that I really believe the free market would find the solution to corporate censorship and elsewhere.
[00:06:48]  And I used to use the line often and I meant it.
[00:06:52]  I used to say, I'm not willing to trade the power of corporations I can get away from for the power of a government I can't.
[00:07:02]  This is a little deeper than I intended this section, but.

=== Shift From Libertarianism (04:25) ===

[00:07:05]  My logic there was, I don't want the government to try to do anything to stop YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook.
[00:07:12]  That was my position.
[00:07:14]  I'm not here to run away from it.
[00:07:16]  I'm not here to pretend it didn't happen.
[00:07:18]  But that was my position for a long time.
[00:07:21]  I had a very libertarian leaning.
[00:07:22]  The free market will figure it out eventually.
[00:07:27]  You know, with discussions with people I've had, like Michael Knowles and others, Other, you know, thought leaders around the movement.
[00:07:35]  Ladies and gentlemen, I've changed my position significantly.
[00:07:39]  Because the government now has taken a subordinate role.
[00:07:43]  The government now avoids complications of violating the Bill of Rights, your right to assemble and your right to speak, by deputizing private industry and letting them do it themselves.
[00:07:54]  They wink at a nod to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and they've ushered in a new era of censorship addressed in this piece.
[00:08:00]  And that must be stopped.
[00:08:01]  And if that's with government power, then we have to do it.
[00:08:05]  And I'm sorry to many of my friends who think that liberty is in letting the free market try to solve an existential human rights problem.
[00:08:16]  It's not.
[00:08:18]  It isn't anymore.
[00:08:21]  Here, from the piece.
[00:08:23]  This addresses this, from the American Greatness piece.
[00:08:25]  In a traditional totalitarian regime, the government uses arbitrary violence to control every aspect of public and private life, all the way down to little league.
[00:08:33]  In America, the government does not control everything.
[00:08:36]  Pay attention here, it's important.
[00:08:37]  But today, through the power of the purse and the courts, the government influences a lot.
[00:08:42]  And where the government leaves off, the cultural business complex takes over.
[00:08:45]  Yes!
[00:08:46]  Yes!
[00:08:47]  Here's how the left is doing it now.
[00:08:49]  And why traditional, you know, straight, you know, air quotes, liberty, because it was not liberty.
[00:08:54]  I was wrong.
[00:08:55]  Where the traditional, oh, leave the government out of it, the free market will figure out, has totally failed us.
[00:08:59]  The government has figured out they can practice a new form of socialism.
[00:09:02]  They don't need violence.
[00:09:04]  They don't need to steal your business straight out the government like they would in the Soviet Union, right?
[00:09:09]  The government's figured out, if they regulate your business to death, And they tax it to death.
[00:09:14]  They own it already.
[00:09:15]  It's what Kevin Williamson in his book, uh, what is it?
[00:09:18]  The Idiot's Guide to Socialism or whatever it was.
[00:09:20]  I forget, but it's a good book.
[00:09:22]  It's not a huge fan of mine, but I don't care.
[00:09:23]  Good ideas are good ideas.
[00:09:25]  He says, we don't need to practice old style socialism in the United States where we, the government just takes your business and controls the means of production.
[00:09:33]  If it imposes a bunch of rules that make no sense and then taxes all of your income, it owns it anyway.
[00:09:40]  And then, When you start a business that they don't like, what do they do?
[00:09:44]  They just use the private sector to take you down.
[00:09:48]  That doesn't happen, does it?
[00:09:50]  I used to be involved with Parler a long time ago.
[00:09:53]  It's funny, I remember the government didn't come in like communists and get rid of Parler.
[00:09:59]  They just used the private industry to do the dirty work for them.
[00:10:02]  Remember AOC and Ro Khanna tweeting out, hey, AWS, Google, Apple, be a real shame if you got rid of Parler, we get a nod.
[00:10:12]  And they did.
[00:10:13]  You think the free market's going to solve that?
[00:10:15]  The free market in this case was not free and the free market were accomplices to the crime.
[00:10:22]  Here's the third part of this piece.
[00:10:23]  It's fantastic.
[00:10:24]  Again, covers the new rules, I've said.
[00:10:26]  The new rules are we win, you lose.
[00:10:28]  Put aside your old, oh, we can't use government to fight back.
[00:10:32]  Government's an inherently bad thing.
[00:10:34]  It usually is.
[00:10:36]  But what else do you want to use?
[00:10:37]  The free market that's allied against you?
[00:10:39]  Do rights matter or not?
[00:10:43]  The piece says, how should Republicans respond?
[00:10:45]  What should we do about all this?
[00:10:47]  The essential thing, as I've tried to stress, is for Republicans to understand that we're in a war, and act accordingly.
[00:10:52]  War is not a time for too much civility, compromise, or for imputing good motives to the enemy, like Adam Kinzinger and Mittens Romney do.
[00:11:01]  I threw that in there.
[00:11:02]  Our generals must fight as if the choice were between liberty and death.
[00:11:08]  This is no time for sunshine patriots.
[00:11:13]  Amen, Brother Thomas.
[00:11:16]  You either understand that this fight is critical and existential or you don't.
[00:11:22]  You want to sit down and, you know, write white papers all day?
[00:11:25]  You go right ahead.
[00:11:26]  We're going to go out and win elections and take our government back.
[00:11:29]  The Dan Bongino Show.