May 22, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, you know, if the doo-wop's back, that means we're back and we are back now.
One segment short this hour, ladies and gentlemen.
We were troubleshooting some stuff.
Look, I'll tell you the truth.
We got blown up.
Somebody blew up the studio, but we're still back.
They threw a bomb through the window.
We must really be hitting the nail on the head when they go to those type of lines.
Yeah, they started shoots up with Uzis and everything else.
Just too much truth out of Keith Alexander and Sam Dixon.
So this second hour will be three segments instead of four.
But that's better than zero by my math.
And anyway, welcome back.
So Sam Dixon, the first hour, the second of a two-part series on the Brown versus Board of Education.
Debacle.
And now, though, we go to Brad Griffin.
Now we're going to switch into good news mode, we think.
Brad Griffin, the editor-in-chief of Occidental Descent, he's back with us tonight to discuss encouraging post-Trump trends within the Republican base.
But Brad's a lot more than just the proprietor there at occidentaldescent.com.
It's one of my daily reads.
He's an amateur historian, but he gives a lot more truth in his historical reviews than the professionals do.
I can tell you that much.
And he covers a cross-section of issues that just a wide variety that makes his website one of my stops on, as I mentioned, a daily basis.
So Brad, welcome back to the show.
Thanks for being patient.
How are you tonight?
Oh, doing good.
Thanks for having me back.
It's been a while.
Always a pleasure, my friend.
Yes, you've been with us since nearly the beginning, and I'm thankful for that friendship and that partnership.
So you have been covering, I think we had you on earlier this year in February when it was still sort of taking form.
But now we are, in fact, a full half year into the post-Trump America.
And you have been writing pretty extensively about the realignment of the GOP base.
What do you mean by that?
What's going on, not with the Republican Party itself, but with the voting base of the GOP?
Well, I mean, I mean, this has been extensively covered in the press, and there's all kinds of shows about this.
The people who, the voters who are Republicans are different from what they were 10, 15 years ago.
10, 15 years ago, The Republican Party had a lot more college-educated voters, a lot more suburban voters, voters who are a lot more moderate in the sense that they are socially liberal.
And that group of, I mean, for the longest time from like the Reagan era down until Trump, that group was like the dominant faction in the Republican Party.
But since starting around, I don't know if I'd say starting, it's really always been going in this direction, but especially since 2006, 2008, when Obama became president.
When Obama became president, the Democrats were able to actually win white working class voters, or were at least competitive in congressional districts where white working class voters were predominant.
But that has completely changed over the last 15 years with, like I said, white working class voters becoming trending much more Republican, white college-educated, suburban, professional voters who are socially liberal leaving the Republican Party and joining the Democrats.
So now you've got this weird situation, James, where if you turn on MSNBC or CNN, you'll see a lot of the people who used to, we used to associate with the Republican establishment, people like Nicole Wallace or Bill Crystal or neocons like Max Booter staring back at us, and they're on the Democrat side now.
So it's just been a the party coalitions have shifted.
The Republicans have become much more working class.
And as a result of that, you know, the issues that the Republican base cares about has changed tremendously and in a positive way.
That's basically the gist of it.
Brad, this is Keith.
What I've noticed is that the neocons definitely have come out and shown their true colors that they're really Democrats.
You know, but then the neocon movement has always been described by Pat Buchanan and others as all chiefs, no Indians.
Does anybody know a neoconservative truck driver?
I doubt it.
But on the other hand, you know, the educated suburbanites, well, I don't see educated suburbanites really going over to the Democrats, at least not in Memphis.
What you see is people that are around the colleges and whatnot, the type of people that were like low-hanging fruit for the Democrats have gotten more left-wing and progressive.
But they were really never in our camp to begin with.
In fact, I doubt whether ever if very many of them are voting.
I think what may be happening is that millennials that have been marinating in left-wing education incubators for most of their lives have come out now and they're voting.
Do you think that's a possible explanation or not?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's definitely part of it.
If you look at, you know, where are the Democrats thriving?
Where are they doing good these days?
And it's not only is it college towns, like, of course, Madison, Wisconsin being a classic example, but it is also where they've done extraordinary lately is places which are traditional, traditionally Republican areas, which are on the affluent in or highly educated, a lot of professional class voters.
Places in like, for example, it was extensively covered the suburbs of Georgia.
And it really happened all over.
It was the suburbs of Kansas City, suburbs of Nashville, Suburbs, of course, especially around Dallas, Fort Worth, all throughout, especially through the Sun Belt.
Now, it varies from place to place.
And, of course, we ought to distinguish here.
There's different kinds of suburbs.
But generally speaking, the Democrats are the party of the wealthy now.
Virtually all of the wealthiest congressional districts in the country are represented by Democrats.
And that's a big change.
The class of people who are voting Republican, the class of people who are voting Democrats has flipped over the last 10 years.
It's been a really, and with that, you're seeing the Chamber of Commerce, for example, supporting the Democrats.
You're seeing Wall Street is fully in support of Democrats now.
And it's just, and of course, a few days ago, I think over the, not a few days ago, last month over the Major League Baseball issue in Georgia, you had all these hundreds of CEOs and Wall Street law firms and Hollywood celebrities and who's who's list of the rich and the elite came out and condemned Georgia as a racist state for the voting right, the voting election integrity law.
Blocking the trend, basically.
Yeah, but yeah, it is absolutely the worst, though.
I mean, the worst, like you said, the worst, but we're going to where you were speaking of.
The worst part of the Democrats are these younger, left-wing, highly educated millennials who tend to come from upper middle-class families, and they're downwardly mobile.
And so they, you know, their parents might have been wealthy, but they can't, but, you know, they're working at Star, they've gone to college, they're working at Starbucks or working as an Uber driver.
And like, there's so many of them because the college-educated population has expanded.
There's not enough jobs to go around.
So they're being radicalized in all these.
And that's the kind of people who join ASFA and who support Black Lives Matter.
That's where they come from.
Look, I went out to dinner last night and ate at a new restaurant, a restaurant that I'd never been to before.
And it was staffed with blonde-haired, blue-eyed girls that were either late high school, college age, and that.
And I could tell from the chatter that they were liberals, that they had bought into a lot of the wokeness, and they were probably the daughters of wealthy people, but they're working as servers in a restaurant now.
It's like we are now having diminished opportunities, but we're okay with that.
You know, these are the type of people that before became junior executives or under affirmative action would have become junior executives.
A lot of the wealthy people are trying to replace them with affirmative action hires, and I don't think it's working out too well.
For example, I know of one young man who works for a legal temp agency, and what he does for $35 or $40 an hour is basically what associates in big law firms used to do, but now they are recruiting minorities to be associates in these big law firms, and they're just not up to par.
They cannot do the document review tasks and things that are called, they're called upon to do.
So they're farming that out.
I think that may be a factor in this too, that they're, you know, we've got a new group of wealthy people on the make, and they're minorities.
Hold on a minute, ladies and gentlemen, we're back with Brad Griffin, editor-in-chief of Occidental Descent, OccidentalDescent.com.
It's one of my daily reads.
Make it one of yours.
We're talking about post-Trump trends within the GOP base.
It's encouraging.
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Just a jackknife has old Maggie Heathbe and it keeps it out of sight.
You know when that shark bites will its teeth be scarlet billows start to spread fancy glows where's old Maggie Heath be so there's never a trace of it
Down the sidewalk, ooh, Sunday morning, lies a body just oozing light, and someone's sneaking round the corner, could that someone be Mack the Knife?
Well, keeping it in the theme tonight of the mid-1950s, where America took its precipitous decline for the worse, there's Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife.
And let me tell you a little story about that song.
So on my honeymoon, way back in 2006, we're in the piano bar and they let me sing a song.
My wife wanted me to sing Brown-Eyed Girl on her honeymoon.
I did sing that.
But then after that, I did so good on Van Morrison.
We were talking about Van Morrison last week with David Duke on the show.
Did so good all that.
Let me sing one more.
I sing Mac the Knife and nearly sunk the ship.
That's how good it was.
Well, see, Bobby Darren was really a throwback.
He's a throwback to the pre-rock and roll pop music of the 50s, which was swing music.
He was actually a swing artist, not a rock and roll artist.
But he died a modernist death.
I think he died of a drug overdose.
But not before he married Sandra Dee, and that's what matters.
Well, anyway, we're back with the Brad Griffin OccidentalDescent.com.
So Brad, you know, one of the things I love about Brad's work is he always backs it up with facts, with graphs, with charts, with polls, with talents.
I've never seen anybody research history the way that Brad does.
My hat's off to you, Brad.
And Brad asks, you know, what could we have done?
You know, we've been asking ourselves for years, what could we do to wake up the normies?
And as Brad mentioned on a recent post at Occidental Descent, the right thing was to do nothing and let the left go full woke.
And that's bringing everybody.
It's radicalizing in the best possible way, the best possible definition of the term.
It's radicalizing the Republican base.
But Brad, of course, you share my misgivings with regard to the Republicans could just lay in wait.
The Chamber of Commerce Republicans, the neoconservatives, it could be business as usual.
For them in the midterms, the left could have gone so far off the ground.
What can we do to hijack the party?
All right, take it away.
Go, Brad.
What do we do to hi?
We basically, the funny thing is, we basically already have in that like the Republic.
Well, I mean, the Republican establishment is like a cornered rat now.
We saw Liz Cheney go down the other day, and I think she has like a 7% approval rating in the Republican Party nationwide, and 80% of the Republican Party agreed with ousting her.
How in the world did the people in Wyoming keep electing her and her father?
People like that have nothing to do with Lynn.
It's a different day.
It's a different day now.
She went, I mean, for a while there, for a while there, she opposed the first impeachment.
So for like, she was like a snake in the grass.
She was pretending to be pro-Trump and kind of smucked by that way.
And then after, you know, after the so-called insurrection, you know, they used that.
The Republican establishment thought, you know, this is how we're going to get Trump.
We're going to impeach Trump.
We're going to take back the party.
Everything's going to go back to the way it used to be.
And they made their move.
And like, when they made their move, they found out much to their dismay that everything that had happened had only radicalized the Republican base even more than it had been a year before.
And so like they it was a gross miscalculation and they've been like they're getting purged.
They're killed in the polls.
Now here's the important thing.
You were like, Akeith is asking, how do we hijack the Republican Party?
And the thing is, is that at the grassroots level, because of this change in the electorate, because of the change in the issues, the mean Republican voters become much more like us across all kinds of issues.
On immigration, for example.
Immigration is the number one issue now, and support for amnesty amongst Republican voters is way down.
On guns, support for gun control amongst Republicans has declined significantly since El Paso.
Trade.
The majority, I think, of Republican voters are skeptical free trade now.
If you look at foreign policy, the top priority of Republican voters is keeping, protecting American jobs at homes.
You look at, say, white racial identity or, you know, people are much more, whereas before, before like the George Floyd thing and going back for decades, people were complacent.
People are anxious now and feel like they're, I mean, we talked about this the first, I think, the first episode we did back in February when I was talking about these polls, that more evidence has come out since then.
There's been other surveys, and it's confirmed that the average Republican voter feels under attack for being white now because of all the systemic racism stuff that the Democrats and Biden are pushing, the domestic extremism stuff that they're pushing.
Every time they turn on the TV and they hear about the insurrection and domestic extremism and how they're racist and how they're guilty of murdering George Floyd because everyone's complicit, that's, you know, people feel under attack and rightly so.
Let me ask you this, if I could, Brad.
Can we come up with an alternative slate of Republican candidates, people that think like you and me and James, and basically send out this message.
If you find yourself listening to a TV or radio ad about a Republican primary candidate, that's telling you important information.
That's telling you that that's not the person to vote for.
You've got to vote for the person without the money.
And this is actually a good question for Brad because Lauren Witzke is next up.
So you could do a lot worse on a radio show than have Sam Dixon, Brad Griffin, Lauren Witzke, ours one, two, and three.
Lauren Witzke obviously came a little bit short in her bid for U.S. senator out of Delaware, but she did win the Republican primary.
But you do not have Republicans like Paul Gosser, who just spoke at Taylor Greene.
Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.
Now, I'm not saying there are people, but Gozer did speak at the Nick Fuentez conference.
You've got Taylor Greene.
So, of course, the base has always been to the right of the establishment leadership, but I think now it's even more pronounced.
And now you're even having some cracks in the middle of the city.
And you're also finding that those people are no longer contributing to the Republican Party, and the Republican Party is panicking.
Well, the Republican Party is gone.
I mean, the Russell Moores, the David French's, the Bill Crystals, they're gone.
They're fully gone now.
But so anyway, will there come a day, Brad, where the Republican establishment actually mirrors its base in a really in-your-face way?
Yeah, I mean, that's what you're seeing right now.
You're seeing literally the death of the Republican establishment.
All these people, you know, the people we used to associate with Republican establishment, they're being toasted.
Liz Cheney has, I think she's like three times as more as popular amongst Democrats as Republicans.
Mitt Romney is more popular amongst Democrats than Republicans.
George W. Bush is more popular amongst Democrats than Republicans.
They're being purged.
Would you say they're being purged?
Yeah, well, I mean, the bottom line is they've done shrunk.
It's because so many of the composition of the party, the composition of the party has changed in that the people who used to make up that wing of the party have become Democrats or independents or have died.
And a ton of working class voters have come on.
So like if you think of the Republican base, if you go back to like say 2012, 2016, you had the social conservative religious right type.
That was the base.
And the Republican establishment was the suburban moderates.
Well now half the Republican base, half are newcomers and another 25% are what used to be the Republican base and about 16% are the Republican establishment voters.
So like they just are drowning.
They just they don't have they demographically don't and it's not just it's not just Liz Cheney being driven out like of her leadership post.
And Lauren, okay, Lauren Whitzke, she won the primary in Delaware.
That's a tough state for a Republican, but she won the primary.
You have Mark McCloskey, who's the St. Louis lawyer who's running Missouri.
You have Mo Brooks here in Alabama who's running.
It is the time is, I told James last time that I wish he would run for Congress because I think this could be his year.
I think he'd run for Congress.
I hope he would run for Congress in Alabama.
What we did, Brad, we keep talking back about this show we did.
I mean, you've obviously made appearances on this program, countless appearances over the years, but that one in February was when I remember because we were talking about this poll that had come out that was really the first time we had concrete evidence about the trends within the GOP base.
I mean, the GOP base, again, yes, there was always a difference between the base and the leadership, but now, now it's become so pronounced and so much so that they've actually driven away a lot of the neoconservative contingent and are reshaping the party in a way that I've certainly never seen in my life.
Right.
I mean, if you think of the Republican, it's the Republican Party, imagine like a traffic jam.
Imagine like one car online, that'd be the GOP establishment.
A car behind that, that'd be the old base, and then two cars colliding it behind it, and that's where we're at now.
Well, we got one more segment with Brad Griffin.
Better late than never.
We lost the first segment of this hour.
The first time in 17 years, the segment was just lost to the radio.
But anyway, we're making up for lost time now.
Brad's going to stay with us a little bit longer than he was scheduled for.
We got one more segment with him.
It's coming up next.
We're going to continue on this topic.
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Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
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Wear a cement bag just drooping on down.
Oh, that cement is just.
It's there for the weight of dear.
Five will get you ten little Maggies back in town.
Not to hear about Louis Miller.
He disappeared, babe.
After drawing out all his modern cash.
And now, Maggie, he spends just like a star.
Could it be a voice done or something rash?
Ooh, the mine forms are right, babe.
Not that Maggie back in town.
Obviously, a big finish at the end of that number.
I can nail it, folks.
I'm not lying to you.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you what, I'll make a deal with you.
Our next conference we do, we'll have Brad come back and speak again.
He's knocked it out of the park at one of the TPC conferences in the past.
We'll get that piano player that we all know and love so much.
I'll sing it for you next time we get together.
I promise you that.
And my song to Three Coins in a Fountain will be featured too with Keith's own special lyrics.
Well, anyway, we can't go back to the future, but we can make the future better than the past.
Yes, we can.
Believe it.
If you will it, it is no dream, right, Keith?
Look, this is, I feel like playing Elvis's If I Can Dream.
That's what I feel like now.
I really feel like the dawn may have broken.
If we can get a full slate of candidates for every congressional senatorial post that comes up in the next election, have Santa Claus bring them a bag of a couple of million dollars, which it takes.
That's what we're going to make having the money to run ads poison.
That's what we need to do.
All right, we'll see.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
But first, let's deal with the here and now and what's happening as we speak, as the world revolves around us.
Brad, occidentaldescent.com, ladies and gentlemen, you got to be there.
You got to be there every day.
So again, the Republican base is shifting.
Brad has documented it with facts, with charts, polls, data, and reason.
But of course, the GOP, there is a section of the GOP, Brad.
I can't even say it is the predominant section anymore, but the Mitch McConnell section would love nothing more than to revert back to business as usual with the donor class, with the Chamber of Commerce class, and take advantage of the Democratic Party's woke overzealousness to lead them back to power.
On the other hand, you have, interestingly, a lot going on with Israel.
I mean, this just goes to show that there is that element of the GOP still in control of things.
The GOP is still slavishly devoted to Israel, whereas the Democrats, who are woke on all things except for this, they are actually based with regards to Jewish supremacy.
So that's a little anomaly there.
So it's not a settled question.
Yeah, I actually gave a shout out to Dr. Duke the other day.
I noticed that Newsweek had published an article about how Princeton University had come out against Jewish supremacy in Israel.
And I was like, oh, my God, the world just is changing in 2021.
We got, you know, the woke crowd, and I've been teasing people on my website about this.
The woke crowd is totally against systemic racism and white supremacy, and they've discovered Israel.
Well, no, there's really been a change, Brad, if they offer Dr. Duke a tenured professorship at Princeton.
Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, it's not just that.
It's a bunch of things.
The phrase demographic replacement that Tucker Carlson brought that on his show, and things have changed enough so he can even talk about that.
And also, the topic of anti-whiteness is just all over conservative media now.
You would rarely hear the term anti-white used.
It was used last night on Tucker Carlson's show again.
And I see it all over sites like the Federalist and stuff like that.
And that's just a reflection of this racial anxiety that's going through the GOP base.
It's completely changed.
And there's good news.
I mean, at the grassroots level is where there's the best news.
But it's also in fundraising because corporations have cut the GOP off and small dollar donations is replacing that.
So things are coming together.
You have the electorate.
You have the money.
You have even on all these sites, people are talking about creating a new working class GOP and what kind of policies that would mean.
There's ferment.
There's real ferment in that direction.
The only thing that has changed, the obstacle is you have all these Republican senators who are in the 70s and 80s, and it's a huge age divide in the GOP.
But a lot of these people are retiring this year.
That's another key thing we haven't brought up.
Like Roy Blunt in Missouri is retiring.
I think, is it Lamar Alexander retiring?
I believe he is.
It's also Portman and Ohio.
All of Mitch McConnell's squad, Mitch McConnell's Republican establishment squad are retiring.
And they're being in a lot of these states, you've got more people who look like Josh Hawley are challenging in these races.
In Alabama, you know, we're going to have Mo Brooks who's going to run.
So there's reasons.
There's reasons for optimism at every level, except at the conservative think tank level, the donor class, the money level.
Yeah, the money level, the party strategists.
That's what the problem is.
It's not at the base.
At the basis, things are getting a lot better.
Well, we're beginning to see just a little bit of identity politics for white people, which used to come up.
Total poison.
Now it's cropping up.
You saw it with Tulsi Gabbard, actually, who mentioned anti-white racism.
We'll talk to Lauren Witzki about that in just a moment.
But, okay, so here's the question, Brad.
So Trump came in.
This is the legacy of Trump.
This all stems back to Trump.
Trump upset the apple cart, and he drove a lot of these neoconservatives mad, and now his base is re-energized.
And here's what we've got.
And we see the trends, the trends.
Now, we have to safeguard the fact that the old guard of the GOP takes advantage of this and steers it into their favor in the midterms.
But if that does not happen, can you see a world not too many years from now where people like Josh Hawley, for lack of a better example, if it is rewarding to be pro-white, if the path to prosperity, if the path to electoral success is mentioning pro-white politics, can you see people like Hawley or like some of these others, like Goser, completely embracing pro-white politics?
I mean, there's already been like stabs in that direction.
There was, you know, the brief thing where they rolled out the Anglo-Saxon caucus before Republican establishment types got freaked out about it and they rolled that back.
But I mean, just the fact that something like that is even in the conversation isn't.
Well, mention that.
Mention that, Brad.
Actually, break that down if you can.
We have a couple of minutes remaining.
Break down what was going to be.
It was still born, but it was there.
It was in the works, the America First Caucus, because they mentioned, in no uncertain terms, Anglo-Saxon politics.
Yeah, and European architecture.
And it was clearly just a dog whistle to this kind of emerging reactive sense of white identity.
And, you know, Goser went and talked to Nick Fuentes' conference.
That's another example.
So there's a thaw on that.
There is a clear thaw on that.
The Republican base is much more racially anxious now than it was in the past.
The wokeness is wokeness has become the centerpiece of GOP messaging, and all wokeness is anti-whiteness.
So if you're going to oppose anti-whiteness.
I want to toss it.
Sorry for the interruption, my friend, but I want to toss it back to Keith for a final word, too.
But tell me if I've got this right.
The reaction to Trump was anti-fun Black Lives Matter, and the reaction to anti-fun Black Lives Matter is identity politics within the white community of the Republican base.
Is that correct?
It is definitely ahead of it.
In fact, right before I just came on the air, I just posted this new poll out on Black Lives Matter, which shows white support for it has dropped like a rock, even below what it was at the beginning of 2020.
And it's a clear, you can see the trend.
I mean, it's straight down for Black Lives Matter with whites.
And support for the police as well.
I mean, if you want any kind of measure, if you wanted any kind of measurement of whites are becoming more racially conscious, more racially anxious, hardening racial attitudes, whether it's guns, any issue is showing up in the polls.
It would not have happened.
What I was going to say, it wouldn't have happened if the left had not been pushing it.
It's like a variation on Trotsky's famous quote, you may not be interested in the revolution, but the revolution is interesting in you.
You could put here, you may not be interested in race, but race is interested in you.
The left has chosen that battlefield to fight on, and we've got to find Republicans that will answer the call and fight them back.
70% of Republican voters don't even believe Joe Biden is a legitimate president.
It's incredible.
It's incredible.
Support for truth.
Even issues which were way out there, like secession, support for secession is way up in polls.
In places like Idaho, which you just have right now on your blog, Idaho.
Right, right.
And Idaho.
And also in Virginia, some counties want to join West Virginia, I want to say.
Right.
Yeah, so like it's a real ferment going on out there.
And we've just been accelerating with Biden in there.
Every time Biden comes out and says the words systemic racism, that's just hardening white.
That's a godsend to Republicans.
Brad, yes or no answer.
Yes or no answer.
OccidentalDescent.com.
Got to get that out one more time.
OccidentalDescent.com.
You can't argue, I don't think, effectively, that we're better off now than we were in 1950.
But would you say we're better off now than we were in 2000?
Oh, definitely.
Well, I mean, in terms of where our movement's going, yes.
Unquestionable.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brad Griffin is a good friend of ours, known him for years and years and years, know his wife, know his family.
Great guy, occidentaldescent.com.
His fingers on the pulse.
Absolutely.
He's got his finger on the pulse more, or at least as much as anybody I know.