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| Carlos Jesus Calzadilla. | |
| He is the president of the Young Progressives of America. | |
| He's a freshman at Long Island University and he is the true grassroots of the left. | |
| He is my guest now. | |
| Carlos, you're a young man. | |
| I spoke to you on the streets at the Women's March. | |
| I told you that you were one of the few Trump protesters that could actually hold a conversation, so you earned a trip to come on to the Infowars broadcast and talk about it. | |
| Tell me about yourself. | |
| What got you started in politics? | |
| What made you become the president of the Young Progressives of America? | |
| Okay, well, first of all, I want to thank you, Owen, for having me on your show. | |
| I think it's great for us to have these conversations. | |
| So how I started in politics was I was actually very young. | |
| My parents lived in Cuba under dictatorship, and politics was always something that was talked about at home. | |
| However, I loved history and I developed a big understanding of American history and a lot of political views. | |
| I was especially very anti-war. | |
| Anti-establishment. | |
| I mean, I think I still am. | |
| And of many aspects, I believe that the status quo has completely failed the American people. | |
| Now, I was around since 13. I was having these views. | |
| I was very against the wars that we were waging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Middle East, and of the income inequality. | |
| And from there, it progressed until Bernie Sanders ran for president, which is when I... For me, I had hope that maybe we can change the system. | |
| Before that, I thought I couldn't believe in any politicians. | |
| I thought that we really couldn't change the system. | |
| I also thought that maybe I was one of the few people my age that even thought this way. | |
| However, when Bernie started his campaign, it really gave me hope that there's millions of people out there that also think the same and that also want to change the system. | |
| Now, I physically got involved. | |
| That was early in the beginning of 2016 when I started volunteering for Bernie Sanders. | |
| And then it progressed through the summer when I became a field organizer for Tim Kanoa for Congress. | |
| We ran against Debbie Wasserman Schultz of the Democratic primary. | |
| We had an amazing grassroots campaigns. | |
| We had most individual contributions of any congressional campaign in American history. | |
| And after that was over, I actually went to... | |
| At LIU, I was a freshman. | |
| I came in on the first day of school. | |
| They locked out over 400 professors in which I, on my first day of school, I gathered over 40 students and we started protesting inside the campus, leading and organizing walkouts for a week and a half until we were finally able to win. | |
| And ever since, I've been constantly in marches and protests for activism and these very important causes. | |
| And right now, I consider myself being part of this resistance. | |
| In the Trump era, we have a lot of things that are becoming unstable. | |
| I think right now what's worrying is what little failing democracy we have is eroding, a lot of freedom of speech, and these very important issues about income inequality, which I've been an activist ever since, and I'm the president of Young Progressives of America, an organization we've created here on campus, and we intend to expand across the country. | |
| Now, there's an old saying. | |
| It says, if you're not a liberal by the age of 20, you don't have a heart. | |
| If you're not a conservative by the age of 30, you don't have a brain. | |
| And it's funny because hearing you talk... | |
| I can relate to so much of that, especially when I was your age. | |
| You talk about anti-establishment. | |
| You talk about corrupt politicians. | |
| You talk about getting money out of politics. | |
| And it's amazing to me because you latched on to Bernie Sanders as your candidate when the people that had that same sort of sentiment on the other side latched on to Donald Trump. | |
| So let's kind of go down now the political issues that you see. | |
| Obviously, you protested Trump at the Women's March. | |
| You just said that you're still going to be part of the Trump resistance. | |
| What is it about Donald Trump that makes you want to resist so much? | |
| What is it about Donald Trump that makes you want to go out on the streets and protest? | |
| So there's many, many reasons. | |
| And I think that the general right now in the public is... | |
| His attitude towards minority groups, immigrants, especially right now Muslims. | |
| I think this Muslim ban is something that is outrageous. | |
| And I know you guys are going to say, oh, it doesn't specifically say Muslim ban, although Trump has said it's a Muslim ban. | |
| And even Rudy Giuliani, he said on, I believe on Fox News, actually said that. | |
| Trump called them up and said, how can we make a muzzle ban legal? | |
| And they came up with this language. | |
| So that's one of the main reasons. | |
| Another one is the economic aspect that many people aren't realizing how dangerous it is giving more tax breaks to billionaires. | |
| Deregulating Wall Street. | |
| I mean, I was just read that. | |
| Trump wants to roll back Dodd-Frank, which already was a weak piece of legislation that would protect people and the economy from the reckless actions of Wall Street. | |
| Now what we're seeing is an attack on freedom of speech. | |
| And a perfect example is on the EPA employees, that they had a gag order. | |
| They couldn't update their social media, couldn't speak to the public. | |
| Scientists weren't able to... | |
| Even conduct our own research because funding was cut. | |
| I mean, these are things that I think even whether you're on the left or on the right, you want to protect freedom. | |
| You want to protect freedom of speech no matter who. | |
| I will defend anyone's freedom of speech, whether on the right or the left. | |
| But we're seeing with Trump an extremely authoritarian regime. | |
| And my parents lived in a dictatorship, and the parallels are very scary. | |
| Well, I will say that you made some fair points as far as Donald Trump and the economic thing. | |
| There are people that we talk to that actually have similar thoughts that Wall Street getting bigger isn't necessarily a good thing for the middle class. | |
| There are people who think that the Trump administration could see the collapse of the dollar even, so that's some stuff that's being looked at as well. | |
| As far as the Muslim ban, you kind of got into the semantics of it. | |
| And this is a list that was put together by Barack Obama. | |
| Let's keep that in mind. | |
| So, you know, there's kind of some semantics involved, but I understand where people are coming from. | |
| They don't want to see the ban. | |
| Maybe they agree that the national security is an issue it's addressing. | |
| Maybe they don't think it's a reasonable enough risk in order to imply this sort of thing. | |
| But let's get more into this because what I'm seeing now, and you talk about resistance, you talk about... | |
| regime that you view as the Trump administration. | |
| What I'm seeing right now, though, is that the current actions of the left, and you've seen it at UC Berkeley, is only digging a hole. | |
| The protests are only going to put your side of the policies, your side of the politics in a hole. | |
| What can you guys do to quit digging this hole? | |
| Now, this is my opinion. | |
| You might not see it that way. | |
| I just feel like middle America, that seeing the people, and I'm not pointing at you, obviously, but the people of your side of things that are violently protesting against Trump, I feel like this is hurting your cause from the political left ever having a chance at politically taking What are your thoughts on that? | |
| So my response to this is that there's extremists in every single side. | |
| But you talk about what happened at UC Berkeley and other instances at... | |
| But we should also remember that just recently a Trump supporter in Canada killed five people at a mosque. | |
| We should also remember that a mosque in... | |
| I have to stop you right there. | |
| I do not believe that that is actually a vetted true story. | |
| There are still investigations into that, but go ahead. | |
| Well, I mean, he was known to be an alt-right. | |
| You can tell he wasn't a radical jihadist. | |
| He was a white nationalist who committed this crime. | |
| Now, I understand that there's extremists on both sides. | |
| And we were talking before that the alt-right is also and does not represent the whole conservative right-wing movement. | |
| And we need to clarify that, that there's extremists on the right as well. | |
| There's going to be violent people everywhere. | |
| However, you can't paint the whole movement with that same brush. | |
| Let me remind you that the KKK endorsed Donald Trump. | |
| That does not mean that everyone... | |
| Now, stop right there. | |
| I'm sick of this getting into the KKK. People say KKK, KKK, KKK. You can't point to one KKK member in any of these crowds. | |
| The Democrats started the KKK, Carlos. | |
| In fact, the last time the Democrats were as mad as they are right now, they started the KKK. That's what I'm thinking. | |
| You know what? | |
| And here's the thing, Carlos. | |
| We got 60 seconds left. | |
| And this is what I'm going to say. | |
| Because you're a smart guy. | |
| You come on here. | |
| And you can actually hold your own in a debate. | |
| And I think that you make some good points. | |
| But... | |
| You need to find a way to reshape your movement. | |
| Protesting is not the issue. | |
| Keep this in mind. | |
| Four years is a very short amount of time. | |
| You're a young guy, but four years is a short time. | |
| You guys can try to actually do this politically, but I think that protesting Trump is not the way to go. | |
| Final words from Carlos. | |
| Of course. | |
| So what I advocate is to take over the political process and take over local offices. | |
| I also believe that inside the Democratic Party there needs to be a shift completely away from corporate influence. | |
| I want to quickly say that when I mention the KKK, What I'm saying is that I don't label everyone that voted for Trump racist just because the KKK endorsed them, just like just because there's some violent people on the left in a protest. | |
| You can't say that we're all rioters, we're all just whining around. | |
| When you look at the Boston Tea Party, that's what founded—this country was founded on protests and on rioting. | |
| So we have to look at things. | |
| In an objective way, there's people who want to take over the political process, who want to rid corruption, which is what I want to do. | |
| We want to restore economic policies that help the middle class middle out, not trickle down like Donald Trump is now proposing, which is going to hurt the middle class even more. | |
| It's going to increase income inequality. | |
| It's going to hurt democracy even more. | |
| Well, I say we wait and see. | |
| Carlos Calzadilla from the Young Progressives for America. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Owen. | |
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