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Glenn Youngkin scored a major upset in Virginia, winning back the governor's mansion for Republicans on a sophisticated campaign focused on education, parental rights, and a return to normal from the public health tyranny of the past 600 days.
He ran on a culture-war, conservative campaign, bucking the usual Beltway GOP talking points.
And from that shocking win, establishment Republicans have learned absolutely nothing.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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Republicans can't win for losing.
They can't learn anything, seems to me.
Major win in Virginia.
Major, major win on a very specific issue.
Education.
On these real culture war type issues.
The crazy racial theories being pushed in schools.
The crazy sexual theories being pushed in schools.
This lunatic, Terry McAuliffe, this thug, saying parents have no rights to raise their kids.
And so here's the takeaway from the House GOP. This was the House Republican Establishment Twitter account.
Said, quote, and this is posting an article about Glenn Youngkin's win.
Americans don't want socialism.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
I hate socialism.
I think socialism is a wicked confederacy, a pest, a plague that seeks to steal the very gospel itself.
I don't think any Christian can subscribe even to moderate socialism.
I am now just paraphrasing multiple popes, okay?
Socialism is a really, really bad thing.
Not every bad thing is socialism.
Okay?
It's like a square and a rectangle.
All squares are rectangles.
Not all rectangles are squares.
All of socialism is bad.
Not all bad things are socialism.
You think Terry McAuliffe is a socialist?
Terry McAuliffe is a corrupt corporate democrat.
He's a Clinton apparatchik.
He did not run on socialism.
The reason Glenn Young can beat him is not because of socialism.
It's because of kooky racial theories that the left was pushing.
It's because of psychotic sexual theories that the left was pushing.
It's because of justice and the right to raise your kids.
Socialism?
No.
Do you know why?
The reason the establishment GOP talks about socialism is because it's perfectly safe.
It's economic, okay?
And you don't have to touch on any of those culture war issues.
No one's going to call you a racist or a sexist or a phobe or whatever for opposing socialism.
But it completely misses the point.
It completely misses what time it is, which is what we can expect from the establishment Republicans.
It's pathetic, though.
I don't know who wrote that tweet.
Probably just some social media staffer.
But this is the opinion of many in the establishment who don't want to talk about this stuff.
Say, ooh, if we talk about critical race theory, gosh, maybe some people might call us racist.
It won't be legit, but they might.
They call us sexist or phobic if we talk about the trans issue.
Let's not talk about the trans bathrooms.
Let's not talk about the curricula that teach three-year-old Johnny that he can really be Jane.
Let's not talk about the curricula now in schools across the country, and especially in Virginia, that say that white people are born evil and they're irredeemably evil and racist and bigoted.
Let's just not touch that.
Even though that's the only thing that parents care about and the only thing that motivated this Youngkin victory, let's just not...
Can we just please talk about socialism?
No.
Socialism is not the point.
And it's not what we're fighting against.
Yes, the horrible economic policies are bad.
Yes, there are a handful of Democrats who call themselves socialists and who openly embrace it.
But what we're fighting against is a corrupt liberal establishment, a techno, public health, bureaucratic, crooked establishment that is pushing insane theories on people and taking your kids away.
Focus on that.
They're going to try to steal the Youngkin victory.
I'm not talking about the Democrats.
I'm talking about the establishment Republicans.
They're going to try to steal it and say, the way that we win in 2024 is by just running Mitt Romney 3.0, 4.0.
How many times has Romney run at this point?
The way that we win is just by talking about cutting corporate taxes.
No, it's not.
That's not how Yunkin won.
That's not how we're going to win.
contrary to popular cowardice, the way you're going to win, the way you're going to sway the suburban voters, the suburban moms, and by the way, the way you're going to sway racial minorities, the ones that you're going to win, the way you're going to sway ordinary people is not by talking about corporate tax cuts.
It's going to be by talking about our kids and what the left is trying to do to our kids and the racial and sexual division they're pushing in this country and the way they're upending not just all of our American traditions and way of life, but our very understanding of nature itself.
Take a lesson.
Take a lesson, House GOP. This is tough love.
I love you.
We're in the same team and everything, but maybe pull out a notebook and take a lesson.
Here's a great article I read.
This is my single favorite article from the Yunkin Victory.
I drove in this morning smoking a cigar.
I wanted to keep the celebration going.
It's like 30 degrees here when you're driving around Nashville.
I don't care.
Windows down, smoking the cigar.
Headline.
Is the Daily Wire...
Hold on, I've got to read this in a different way.
Is the Daily Wire responsible for Glenn Youngkin's win?
Well, what if we are?
Is the Daily Wire...
Well, there's plenty of blame and credit to go around in any election.
Many believe the election came down to one thing.
A Daily Wire story.
So what if it did?
I wish I still had my cigar on me.
That's how cool I feel.
That's how cool I think a lot of us conservatives feel.
Not because we pulled some dirty trick, but because we exposed a real problem.
There were multiple real problems going on in Virginia, specifically in Loudoun County.
And they were really big stories that the New York Times and the Washington Post did not want to cover.
About kids being victimized in schools because of transgender policies.
Or at least the cover-up was because of transgender policies.
About the kooky racial theories, about all of it.
About Terry McAuliffe saying parents have no right to their kids' education.
And this is my favorite part at the end of the article.
Oh, they quote me in the article.
That's great.
Glad they did.
This is the final line of the whole piece.
Many consider it unethical for media outlets to function as an apparatus of a political campaign.
First of all, the Daily Wire does not function as an apparatus of any political campaign.
We do something that the left-wing media don't do.
We actually just go report the stories and tell the truth.
But if it is unethical for media outlets to function as an apparatus of a political campaign, has someone considered telling CNN? Oh boy, someone should tell the New York Times and the Washington Post and ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, all of them.
Beyond the media.
How about Facebook?
How about Twitter?
How about Google?
Which, especially during 2020, intervened in unprecedented ways.
To suppress bad news for Democrats and to promote bad news, even if it was fake news, for Republicans.
Yes, I think there is.
Look, I don't want Daily Wire to take all the credit for this, okay?
Obviously, Glenn Youngkin ran a really good, really sophisticated campaign.
Chris Ruffo, for instance, set the stage on this education issue by really exposing people to critical race theory.
The native Virginian, Matt Walsh, went to his school board in his state, Commonwealth, because he's a native Virginian.
The parents really did the yeoman's work.
They're the ones who showed up to these school boards, right?
We covered that story, but it was the parents who were leading the charge.
It was the parents who made it a story, who refused to let these guys off the hook.
And the libs could not be angrier about it.
There's a lesson here.
The lesson is not that we need to keep running against socialism.
Yeah, run against socialism when socialism's on the ballot.
But don't pretend that every bad thing is socialism.
We need to just keep running on tax cuts and being really nice.
No, no, that's not what happened.
That's not how Youngkin won.
You want the lesson for 2022?
You want the lesson for 2024?
Yeah, talk about the bad economy.
Yeah, talk about the crazy COVID lockdowns.
Yeah, talk about all of that.
But focus on things that matter to people.
Look, I like low taxes.
I do.
I don't want my taxes to go up.
I hate giving more money to the government.
But if you told me, okay, Michael, the government's doing two things right now.
They're going to raise your taxes a little bit, and they're also going to pervert your child.
It's not even close.
Who cares about the dollars and cents, man?
We're talking about not only the person that I am most interested in his future, but we're talking about the future of the country.
Focus on the things that matter.
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Jameel Hill is some left-wing blue checkmark.
She was responding to, as the left is wringing their hands and rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over the Yunkin victory in Virginia.
Someone, another left-wing blue check, Sahil Kapoor, goes...
The story of tonight?
McAuliffe is running a bit ahead of Biden among non-white voters in Virginia.
He's behind a few with white men, but he's getting clobbered by white women.
White women.
And then Jameel Hill responds.
She goes, white women.
Reporting for duty.
They did this in 2016.
They did this in 2018, especially with the Stacey Abrams.
The white women didn't show up for the Democrats like they're supposed to.
We own those white women.
They didn't show up.
I hate those white women.
They're so white.
Evil.
And white.
They're just stopping progress.
They're terrorists.
They're insurrectionists.
They're a threat to our democracy.
My...
Response to Sahil Kapoor, Jameel Hill, all of the libs right now who are focusing all of their ire on white suburban women.
Keep it up.
Oh, please keep it up.
Please.
Jameel, I want you to run on this.
I want all the libs to run on this in 2022 and 2024.
Vote for us.
We hate white women.
Vote for us or else you're a racist.
Vote for us, you're an evil insurrectionist, you awful white people.
Please run on that.
Please.
Please.
Didn't work out very well for you this time in Virginia, did it?
The racial hatred that you are ginning up didn't work out very well for you, did it?
In a blue state.
So how's that going to work out in the midterms?
How's that going to work out in 2020?
I think that'll work out very well for us.
Because the idiot establishment Republicans, they're going to run the worst campaigns you can imagine.
They are.
They're going to run on, mark my words, they're going to run on socialism!
It's socialism!
Okay, so they're going to try to lose it, basically.
They're not going to really, but they're going to do everything in their power to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
So we're relying on you, Jamil.
We're relying on you, Democrats.
Please make this about pushing vicious racial theories and insane sexual theories.
Make this about taking our kids away.
Please, I beg you.
It's going to make Virginia look like child's play.
And it comes down to education, because we view education in this narrow way of your reading, writing, and arithmetic in the classroom, but education is so much more.
This is why, since at least the 1960s, the left has been marching on all the political offices, marching on all the centers of political power, but they've also been really marching on the English department, right?
They've been marching on the classrooms.
Why did they make such a focus about taking over the universities and the high schools and the middle schools and the elementary schools?
Because they know that campuses and classrooms are a crystal ball.
They're a crystal ball.
They tell you what your country's going to look like in 20 years.
They focus on these impressionable young minds because education is about making citizens.
It's about giving us a certain understanding of our freedom.
So if they can control that, they're going to control the country within a generation.
That's what they have done.
This is why critical race theory, the way that history is taught, the way really that everything is taught, is such a focus of theirs.
Sonny Hostin, who is one of the cackling hens on The View, Sonny Hostin came out and said the CRT thing is really tough.
The Democrats need to defend CRT. And she's just sorry.
If white kids feel a little bad about learning about systemic racism.
Now the message is that white parents are being ignored when they complain that their children are uncomfortable learning about racism.
That their white children don't want to be uncomfortable.
Well, let me tell you something.
Black kids around this country are stigmatized and are made to feel uncomfortable.
Every single day.
And I don't think it's too much to ask white parents to allow their children to learn about the very real history in this country that is still very prevalent, the systemic racism that is still very prevalent in our country.
What is so wrong with learning the real history of our country?
Let me take it into a...
And I'm sorry if little white kids feel a little uncomfortable when they learn about it.
So, this is the left's line.
They keep going back and forth.
They keep saying CRT isn't real, or CRT is only being taught at Harvard Law School, but it's not taught anywhere else.
And then when that doesn't work, they say, actually, CRT is being taught everywhere, and it's really good.
And CRT is just about teaching the real history of slavery.
Let me ask you something.
When you went to school, assuming you're not, I know this audience has a huge age gap, you know, or a huge age range.
So there are some people who are 12 years old listening to this show.
There are some people who are 82 years old.
For the people who are at the middle to older end of that age range, before critical race theory came around, did you learn about slavery?
Did you learn about slavery in the classroom?
I bet you did.
Did you learn about the Civil War?
Did you learn about Jim Crow?
Did you learn about Reconstruction?
Did you learn about the Civil Rights Movement?
Yeah, of course you did.
Of course you did.
Learning about the history of slavery is not the same as critical race theory.
Critical race theory is an analytical framework developed explicitly by Marxists, a derivation of critical theory, which I write about at great length in my book, Speechless, That views America as intrinsically unjust.
That views white supremacy as the defining characteristic of America that affects and pervades every aspect of life.
That views even our most basic economic system as a product of white supremacy, which is why it all needs to be ripped out root and branch.
That's critical race theory.
That's very different than learning about, hey, there was a slave trade.
Actually, there was a slave trade in Africa that then Western colonists began to participate in, and that existed in America for a certain period of time, and actually much less time than it did virtually anywhere else in the world.
And actually outside of the West, slavery continues to exist.
It predated slavery in the West, or it was at least coterminous, and it has existed long after slavery in the West.
The problem is not kids learning about the truth about our history.
It's that CRT is teaching them falsehoods about our history, and it's teaching them falsehoods about systemic racism.
You remember Ibram Kendi, the Mac Daddy hustler of CRT today and these racial theories.
Ibram Kendi had to delete his tweet because he realized his tweet a couple days ago undermined his entire thesis.
He said there were a bunch of white kids who lied about their race on their college applications and pretended to be black or Native American and they had an easier time getting into schools.
And so he had to delete that because he said, oh crap, I just totally undermined my theory.
There is systemic racism.
There's legal racism in this country.
But it's not the kind that Sonny Hostin thinks it is.
There is legal racism in this country against white people and Asian people when they apply to college and jobs.
It's called affirmative action.
Now you might say, we support affirmative action.
We support that racial discrimination to make up for whatever grievance there was in the past.
Okay, fine.
Well then be honest about that view.
But don't tell me that the legal racism in this country and racial discrimination is against black and Native American people.
It's not.
The legal racial discrimination is in favor of black and Native American and other people.
And it is against white people and, for whatever reason, Asian people.
Okay?
Now, you might say, well, that's...
That's just the legal racism, but there's a broader issue of systemic racism.
This is what Ibram Kendi tried to do when he was doing damage control for his whole theory falling apart.
He said, well, but there are disparities of outcomes between white people in America and black people and Hispanic people and Asian people and Native American people.
And so the only explanation for those disparities of outcomes is that white supremacy is keeping the black man and other people down.
Of course, that's not the only explanation.
Here's a simple, I mean, this is the most basic one that I think is pretty undeniable.
Fatherlessness.
Fatherlessness is a big predictor of your outcomes in life.
And right now, 70% plus of black babies in America are born out of wedlock.
That would be one explanation.
Decisions in certain communities.
Culture in certain communities.
That would be another one.
There are other factors too.
Look, I'm a conservative.
I'm not even denying that history has an impact on the present.
I know some people try to pretend that history doesn't matter at all, even some people on the right, but I'm not saying that.
What I am saying is this specific theory that is being taught to kids of pervasive white supremacy and legal racism, it's just bogus.
Throw that away with the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy, okay?
That ain't real.
And so we don't want our kids learning lies in school.
We want them learning the truth.
We don't even want them learning everything.
You know, that's kind of the middle ground here.
Let's just teach them everything.
Let's open up the curriculum.
Let's just...
And they can pick and they can choose.
No.
Let's just teach them how to think, not what to think.
No, you've got to teach people what to think.
If you don't tell people what to think about...
The Civil War began in 1860.
That's telling people what to think.
You've got to teach them facts.
Abraham Lincoln said this.
He did this.
It's teaching them what to think.
Only then can they know how to think about these broader issues.
The problem right now is the left is teaching them what to think, and the things they're teaching them what to think about are false.
They're lies.
It's perverting the way that they come to think, how to think about the country.
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The left's racial grievance narrative is false.
That's why we want it out of the classroom.
Not because we're afraid of our history, because it's just patently absurd.
Here's the most preposterous example of it in recent days.
Colin Kaepernick.
You know the whiny former football player who cashed in on racial grievance and made a gazillion dollars doing it?
Colin Kaepernick has a movie app that opens up on him comparing playing in the National Football League to being a chattel slave.
What they don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic.
Before they put you on the field, teams poke Pride and examine you.
Searching for any defect that might affect your performance.
No boundary respected.
No dignity left intact.
Come on, boy, hurry up.
Look at that shape there.
Look at this.
Mr.
Farmer, I got your bid.
30.
James, 30 to you.
100.
So, next one coming up.
Best one we got.
500.
600.
Look at this here.
Come on.
Who wants this?
700.
There we go now.
1,000.
1,000.
I'm telling you what I want here.
I heard you.
Okay, so you see all these football players transformed into chattel slaves in the antebellum South.
And the NFL, they're just like the slave owners.
Slave auctions.
Brings up a pretty basic question.
If the NFL is like an antebellum slave plantation, why has Colin Kaepernick spent the last six, seven years begging them to take him back?
Why...
If the NFL is slavery, then why has Colin Kaepernick been begging to be a slave and whining when they don't want to enslave him?
Did slaves in the antebellum South, did they have multi-million dollar contracts?
Did they spend their whole lives training and just trying, desperate to be slaves on some plantation?
I don't think so.
Now, what's funny, Colin Kaepernick opens up the movie and he's dressed like this sort of clown version of Malcolm X, you know, like Marx observed.
History repeats itself first.
First is tragedy, then is farce.
We're in the farce portion of this sort of thing.
What Colin Kaepernick is observing is that for slaves and for football players...
The primary thing that matters is your physical health.
For football players, it's a primarily physical job.
There's a little mental aspect to it, too, a little bit of strategy.
But it's mostly you've just got to be big and strong and fast and tough and well-coordinated.
And so I guess that's true for physical laborers who were slaves.
I guess that's true for all sorts of physical laborers.
And Colin Kaepernick's very offended by this.
Athletics is about physical excellence.
Unfortunately, Colin Kaepernick was not sufficiently excellent to remain in the football league for very long.
Fine.
Not everyone is.
Very, very few people are.
If Colin Kaepernick is upset that he didn't pursue a more intellectual field, maybe he regrets having a physical career.
He wishes that he were a paper pusher or something.
He had a desk job.
Well, okay.
Then he should have spent his life cultivating his intellect, I guess.
But he certainly hasn't done that.
There are many football players who are pretty intellectual, actually.
Colin Kaepernick is not one of them.
And these theories are having serious ramifications for justice.
A story came out just the other day.
A group of forensic anthropologists...
Are now arguing that trying to identify the race, the racial ancestry of skeletons, is a terrible thing.
And they are urging their peers to stop doing the practice.
So a forensic anthropologist is someone who looks at a dead body, looks at skeletons, and comes to conclusions about the people that those skeletons were.
Right?
This is the height.
This was the weight.
This is the sex.
This is what they looked like.
And the point of forensic anthropologists is to give people, to give investigators all of that information so that they can come to certain conclusions about how they ended up as skeletons.
But the woke forensic anthropologists say ancestry estimation contributes to white supremacy.
They're using critical race theory, by the way.
They're invoking critical race theory.
They say that they need to continue to situate and contextualize our challenge to the use of macromorphoscopic traits, you know, physical traits, as well as introduce critiques of craniometric and dental morphological analysis, head size and teeth, in ancestry estimation.
How dare you come to racial conclusions about skeletons?
What they're upset about is that different races of people look different.
Now, it's a fact, right?
Anyone with eyes can tell that different races of people look different.
This is important, by the way, if you're trying to figure out who got murdered, who murdered who, to come to conclusions about criminal justice.
But this is very bad, because then we're suggesting that then the races have some physical differences.
Obviously it's absurd, but it gets to a real difference in strategy here.
We all want a flourishing just society.
The left wants to get to a flourishing just society by denying reality.
The right wants to get to a flourishing and just society by dealing with reality and grappling with reality and not denying truths, even if they're politically incorrect and inconvenient.
The left thinks the way that we're going to deal with racial problems is by denying that they exist, is by denying...
On the one hand, denying that race exists at all, and then on the other hand, exclusively focusing on race, but only when it's conducive to their argument.
That's not going to work.
There was one of the forensic anthropologists, San Jose State anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss, said, quote, if forensic anthropologists abandon determining race, then they are going to be doing victims and their families a big disservice and are basically engaging in a dereliction of duty.
Right, but what the woke people are going to say is, yeah, but it's worth it.
Yeah, it's too bad.
Victims of crimes and their families are, unfortunately, they're not going to have justice.
But at least then we can keep our head in the sand and deny these problems.
I don't think that's going to help anybody.
I think that's not very compassionate.
I think it's going to make problems worse.
Speaking of things to pretend to be offended by, a NASCAR driver is in a lot of trouble.
There's this NASCAR driver.
This NASCAR driver came out And he used a word you're not allowed to say.
Take a listen. - Well, he drills my ass coming out of four for no reason.
I mean, where was he going?
What was he gonna do, spin me out?
He was trying to do a Harvick is what he was trying to do.
For what, for second place?
To do what?
He wasn't gonna transfer through with that?
Just fricking retarded, man.
So stupid.
I don't understand these guys.
I should beat the out of them right now is what I should do, but that doesn't do me any good either.
I've already had to pay enough fines in my lifetime.
I'm sure I'll get another one.
Spoken like a true NASCAR driver.
Really blunt, really direct.
He didn't get in trouble for saying, I'm going to go beat the SHIT out of somebody.
No, that's fine.
Talking about how he's going to go beat somebody up, that's totally fine.
But he said a word you're not allowed to say.
He said the word, retarded.
That's the R word some people are now calling it.
Because he was saying, this guy did something that was a little stupid, a little slow, he shouldn't have done that.
That was retarded, and you're not allowed to say retarded anymore.
Why not?
Why not?
What does retarded mean?
Retarded means slow.
It's literally what the word means.
But we're not allowed to say that, because some people...
Or a little slower, right?
This is a fallen world.
We've all got defects.
We've all got problems.
None of us is born perfect.
And so some people deal with that, and that's a challenge in their lives.
What we're seeing play out right now is something called the euphemism treadmill.
That's what the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker dubbed it.
It's this idea that Certain phrases and words will change over time and political correctness has really taken this to a sort of insane extreme because the condition that they describe is undesirable or difficult or painful and so you just have to constantly paper over with a new euphemism.
You see this especially with a mental deficiency.
So over the years, people with mental handicaps have been called simple, simpletons, idiots.
That was a clinical term.
Moron, retarded, handicapped, handicapable.
It's going to keep changing.
It's not going to help anybody.
It's not going to fix anything to keep changing all of those words.
But it's going to keep changing.
Creating all of these euphemisms so that we can ignore things.
For the left, what you say is much more important than what you do.
The left, around the West, and in this country as well, openly advocate killing retarded people in the womb.
Iceland bragged a couple of years ago.
They said, we've eliminated Down syndrome.
We've eradicated Down syndrome.
They didn't find a cure for Down syndrome.
They just kill all the Down syndrome babies in the womb.
They will kill them.
In this country...
There are doctors who will, I guess most, if not all of the doctors, will say when you're pregnant, they'll say, okay, we're going to do a scan to see if your kid has, and they'll use whatever euphemism.
But what they're really saying is, we're going to scan to see if your kid's retarded, and then if your kid's retarded, you can kill him if you want.
This is ghastly.
This is ghastly stuff.
So the conservative response to this is, one, I don't want you scanning to see if my kid's retarded.
I'm going to love my kid no matter how my kid turns out.
If he's got six fingers and 12 toes and has some mental handicap and looks, I don't care.
I love my kid.
And the left, you know what the left is going to say to that?
How dare you use the word retarded?
Say, you're going to kill him!
What are you talking about?
I'm using a word to describe a reality and I want to love all of these people.
But you're saying, no, no, don't say the word.
Don't describe the reality.
But kill people that you don't like.
Kill people who you find undesirable.
It's a very important lesson about political correctness.
And really just for the left's program broadly.
What you say is much more important than what you do.
Often what you say is a way to excuse really evil, heinous actions.
This is very offensive.
This is very wrong.
Some left-wingers are waking up to this.
By the way, Van Jones, who is a left winger, he goes on CNN all the time.
I actually kind of get a kick out of Van Jones, especially because he got caught on a hidden camera one time admitting early on in the Trump presidency, admitting that the Russia hoax was a hoax and it was a nothing burger.
And he had to kind of walk it back because he didn't mean to say that publicly.
Van Jones just came out reacting to what happened in Virginia.
And he said he fears, hey, listen, fellow Democrats, I'm just putting this out there.
I think we might be coming off as a little annoying and a little out of touch.
I think that the Democrats are coming across in ways that we don't recognize, that are annoying and offensive and seem out of touch in ways that I don't think show up in our feeds when we're looking at our kind of echo chamber.
And I think that this is a message here.
Better late than never, Van.
You're on a mission of mercy to your fellow Democrats by telling them this, because yes, They are coming off as annoying and offensive and extremely out of touch.
And in a way, it's not their fault.
I mean, it is.
You know, they did this.
They're responsible for their actions.
But it's an easy trap to fall into.
They are in their own echo chamber.
Not in the same way that we talk about political polarization and everyone, because of social media, is only hearing from people they agree with.
No, it's because of a much bigger social problem.
The left controls everything.
So, if you're a right-winger in this country, no matter what kind of little tiny bubble you're in, and you only go to dailywire.com ever, and you don't look at any other way, and you only talk to Republicans, even still, you will have to be exposed to left-wing views.
There's no way around it.
It's like a fish in water.
It's like the air that we breathe.
Liberalism, leftism, progressivism, it's all there.
And so you look at a billboard, you see it.
You look at a movie preview, you see it.
You talk to your friends and family, you see it.
And you know what their arguments are.
And you look on big tech, you look in the schools, you look everywhere, you see it.
The left does not have that misfortune, but really that advantage.
At a deeper level, that advantage.
Because the left has no clue what we think.
And there have been social scientific surveys to back up this idea.
They have no clue how they come across.
This is why they're always so shocked when they lose.
That's why they don't really believe it when they lose.
Sometimes we don't believe it when we lose an election, like in 2020, when they changed all the election rules right before the election, and then a bunch of ballots came in at 3 in the morning.
I think we had some reason to question it, but generally when we lose, we accept it.
In 2012, we lost.
In 2008, we lost.
The left doesn't do that.
They're still fighting the 2000 election, the 2018 gubernatorial election, the 2016 presidential election.
They're still going to be fighting this thing in Virginia.
They...
It just does not compute to them because they are almost never exposed to what about half the country thinks.
Van Jones referred to the annoying, out-of-touch, offensive Democrats on CNN. One of them, one of the most prominent ones, is his colleague on CNN, Brian Stelter.
Brian Stelter just went on a nine-minute monologue about what Donald Trump could possibly do over the next couple of years.
I'm not going to subject you to all of it.
We don't have time on the show to get to all of this.
I am going to punch in, though, right around the six and a half minute mark, okay, where he's just whipping himself up into a frenzy of what Donald Trump is going to do if we don't stop him.
Common ground erodes, largely because there's no common media ground anymore.
It's as if America has been swallowed up by QAnon conspiracy theories.
Freedom of expression feels trampled, muffled.
And remember, as all of this is happening, as democracy deteriorates in 2024, Trump's enablers claim they are the ones protecting democracy.
They think, or at least they pretend, that they are upholding the Declaration of Independence.
They cloak their autocratic actions in the language of the Founding Fathers.
They claim to be the most patriotic Americans of them all.
And this narrative is advanced 24 hours a day by the ABC, the apps, the broadcasters, and the commentators who justify stomping all over the Constitution as an attempt to save it.
The country is on pins and needles.
Landlords board up downtown windows.
Maybe looting starts.
Shooting starts.
I'm not saying that all of this will happen, but I'm saying it could.
We know it could happen because it has all happened before.
Almost everything I have described has already happened.
It has.
Brian, you're right.
It has already happened in one form or another.
But I think you're getting the source of that problem a little wrong.
I think you might be engaging in what psychologists call projection.
There's no neutral, you know, middle ground media landscape anymore.
There are lies that are being pervaded.
They're pervading the culture.
Business owners are boarding up their windows.
There's political violence in the streets.
Brian Stelter is pretending this could come from Republicans.
It did come from Democrats on the media front for the past 50 years, on the violence front for 2020, from BLM, from Antifa, not from Trump.
The so-called deadly insurrection didn't kill anybody.
They pretended that the lying media said that it killed Officer Brian Sicknick.
It turned out that was a lie.
New York Times and Washington Post had to retract it.
All of that violence came from the left.
He doesn't see it.
He says, we can't even trust each other anymore.
We delegitimize the opposition in Trump's future America.
In the right's media echo chamber, growing ever more extreme, the words Democrats and criminals are conflated constantly.
So the other side loses legitimacy bit by bit by bit.
The GOP media is on board with this.
They're on board with the power grab at all costs, driven by fear of a changing country.
Fear propelled by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, who bring up things like caravans right at key moments during the election.
And all of this in 2022 helps the GOP regain control of the House.
Members of the January 6th Sedition Caucus are now in control of the body that completes the Electoral College process.
Some Democrats fret about what's going to happen in 2024.
They worry if the insurrectionists will have the upper hand next time.
But remember, in Trump world, up is down and day is night.
And Trump keeps saying the insurrection was Biden's election.
You know, in this horrible, scary future, the Republicans are going to delegitimize their opposition and say that they have no right to participate in the democracy.
And they're all insurrectionists.
Brian, do you listen to yourself?
He doesn't listen to himself.
Every single thing that he is accusing Republicans of doing and really predicting that Republicans will do in the future, he himself is doing to his political opponents.
Right now, and he's not even aware of it.
Jennifer Rubin, the former pretend conservative columnist, now she basically admits she's a liberal columnist at the Washington Post.
She tweeted out, quote, I realize critics say Dems have gone too far left, but that does not compute.
The agenda is very popular.
They simply haven't gotten over the finish line yet.
Here it is.
Here it is, folks.
I don't think she's being cynical here.
I think she really believes this.
I think the left really believes this.
Of course the agenda is popular.
If something just went wrong.
Because the agenda must be popular.
Because it is their agenda and it's progressive and they see the future and they know the way to utopia and it's going to be great.
And everyone knows it.
So the only way that they can lose an election...
Is if something went wrong, there was a problem of understanding or interpretation, or if there was fraud.
This is why they can't concede elections.
Sometimes Republicans don't want to concede elections, especially when they upend all the rules right beforehand.
But much more often, it's the left that won't concede the elections.
Because they can't, because they have to win.
The agenda, by definition, their agenda must be popular, no matter what the parents in Loudoun County say.
Some smart Republicans are seeing this situation for what it is.
Someone down there in Florida, like Governor Ron DeSantis, who is now embracing this popular revolt, not just against one party, but really against a kind of ruling class.
He's embracing, let's go Brandon.
When you look at the Biden, the Brandon administration in terms of what they're doing.
Do you know how that started?
Like it was.
You have the media, they're hand-wringing over this.
It was at a NASCAR race, and they're doing an interview with a driver, I guess his name was Brandon.
And the crowd starts chanting very colorful language about Joe Biden.
And it was obvious that that they were doing.
And, you know, it is what it is.
First of all, they said way worse about Trump for four years.
We know that.
But so they're chanting this.
And so you have a reporter from NBC who knows that's what they're saying.
And she's trying to cover for Biden.
So she says, yeah, they're chanting, let's go, Brandon.
Wow.
And that was a lie.
And it was a lie.
And so this chant, I think, has taken on a life of its own because it exposes the dishonesty of these corporate reporters and what they do every day to try to lie.
This is what DeSantis is getting that a lot of people don't get.
Let's Go Brandon is not primarily about Joe Biden.
They say F Joe Biden too, but the Let's Go Brandon chant is not primarily making fun of Biden.
It's making fun of the media because the media lied about the F Joe Biden chant.
And so now we're turning our ire on the media and on the whole establishment.
And it's not the socialist policies of Joe.
It's not.
It's about this whole blob.
It's this ugly thing where Joe Biden is a part of it, but it's much, much bigger than that.
And that's why it's bringing in many more people than just your average, regular, rock-ribbed Republican.
Learn the lessons, people.
Learn the lessons, establishment Republicans.
This is a big opportunity.
There is a big popular uprising right now.
Are we going to take that into 2022 and 2024 and actually do something and change the situation in this country for the better?
Or are we going to stay mired in the past?
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