Dennis Prager Show - David Bahnsen on Elizabeth Warren
Aired: 2020-01-29
Duration: 01:56


=== Why Vulnerability Backfires (01:56) ===

[00:00:00]  So, just out of curiosity, if it's not her ideas that are sinking her, what is?
[00:00:08]  Ironically, I think she did it to herself, and this is what I mean.
[00:00:12]  I think I have this little theory I've developed recently in politics that a really bad thing you go through may very well be...
[00:00:22]  What solidifies your political future.
[00:00:24]  I think that Jeremiah Wright helped Barack Obama for the simple reason that he survived it.
[00:00:31]  Access Hollywood ended up helping Trump.
[00:00:33]  He survived it.
[00:00:34]  The Indian Native American nonsense from Elizabeth Warren, where she was caught in such an embarrassing lie, well, back in October when I wrote the book, it seemed to me she had survived that escapade and therefore had really become a strengthened and more robust candidate.
[00:00:51]  But she refused to tell the American people what Bernie was willing to tell them, which is that she was going to have to raise taxes to pay for the $15 trillion public spending program.
[00:01:04]  And ironically, of all people, it was Mayor Pete who called her out on it, and she has not recovered from that moment.
[00:01:11]  Oh, that's fascinating.
[00:01:13]  That's what did it.
[00:01:15]  If people sense you're not leveling with them, you're doomed in politics.
[00:01:23]  Exactly.
[00:01:24]  I agree.
[00:01:26]  I think that there's a sense that Trump has been a really interesting learning experience for a lot of people at what brute honesty at times in terms of just saying hard things, whether people like hearing it or not.
[00:01:41]  It doesn't necessarily turn people off.
[00:01:44]  And I think that with Elizabeth Warren...
[00:01:48]  She particularly was vulnerable here, Dennis.
[00:01:51]  Yeah, all right, hold on there, and I want to hear why.
[00:01:53]  That's the point we'll leave.
[00:01:54]  Why was she particularly vulnerable?