Aug. 31, 2024 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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But first, but first, is President Kamala Harris inevitable?
To answer that question is our dear good friend Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, making his second appearance this month and padding his all-time stat total as one of our top five guys here in terms of appearances made.
Mark, great to have you back.
I think between you and Lou Moore, we've got a powerful one-two punch for the folks tonight.
Thank you very much, James.
It's always great to be on with you, and I agree.
These are very important issues we're talking about, especially during this very exceptional election campaign.
Is it not?
I mean, I have said this many times.
I'll say it again.
I can remember about a year ago, about a year ago right now, and all the way through Christmas and New Year's of 23 saying, folks, you're going to see things in 24 you've never seen before.
I mean, this is going to be a year unlike anything in American political history.
And certainly it has been.
It has been in so many ways, ways that I can't even fully recount now because things have happened and shifted so many times.
But, you know, the trials of Trump and the felony convictions and the assassination attempt and this, I mean, the most democracy dies in darkness, so they tell us, the most undemocratic coup I have ever seen, installing as a nominee for one of the two parties, a person who's never received a vote for president in her life.
And I understand there has to be a mechanism if someone is incapacitated or dies.
I mean, there has to be, I understand that, but this was a coup plain and simple.
They knew that Biden was suffering all of these infirmities before that debate, and it was all structured.
We've talked about that.
But I will tell you this, if Biden was six points ahead instead of six points behind after that debate, he would still be in there.
And that's all there is to that.
So, yes, it has been an unprecedented year, but that is what we are here to talk about now.
Without any further ado, let's turn the program over to you, Mark.
You think that Kamala Harris is increasingly likely to be elected president.
Let's start there.
Yes, I do.
And one of the reasons I think that was her remarkable acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
What struck me most strongly about that speech was how she positioned herself as a patriot in that speech.
Much of what she said in that speech could have been written and spoken by speechwriters and by Ronald Reagan when he was president.
I have not heard any Democrat in recent years talk so quote-unquote patriotically as Kamala Harris did in that speech.
I'm just going to read just or just quote just a few lines of that.
She said, on behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with, people who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out for one another on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination for president of the United States.
With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive at battles of the past, a chance to chart a new way forward, not as any member, as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.
She said, you can always trust me to put country above party itself, to hold sacred America's fundamental principles.
I will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations.
Now, that's the way Ronald Reagan used to talk.
Now, that rhetoric is spoken by her in a way that is surprising for many people who, of course, say she's a left.
She is a leftist.
But that's the point, is that America has been a leftist country or has been moving in that direction for many years, even when Ronald Reagan was president.
Anyway, the parallels are very striking.
And because her speech is really aimed at reassuring people who want to hear a patriotic message, because she already knows she can count on the support of, for want of a better word, the left or the liberal side in America, this will resonate with a lot of people.
And it's very hard for people who call themselves patriotic, conservative, to criticize her for what she said in that speech.
I'm not saying this is sincere or honest, but the point is that message will resonate with a lot of people who want reassurance, who want to believe that this is the greatest country on earth, and who don't want to hear criticism by people who say, no, there's big, big, big problems in America.
They want to hear things are great or we might have trouble, but this is the greatest country on earth and we're going to move ahead to the future.
In other words, we're going to continue the trajectory that America's been on for 40, 50 years.
And the Republican Party has a confused answer to that.
And anyway, this is one of the reasons why it's very hard to see how she can fail to really win unless something dramatic happens.
And as you know, a lot of dramatic things have been happening in this campaign.
And so it's still not certain.
But there's momentum in the Harris campaign that there's not in the Trump campaign.
And that's why at this point, it certainly looks like Harris will win, a point that's confirmed by increasingly by polling data as well.
Well, if you go back to you set the table expertly, as you always do, we're going to spend the rest of this hour unpacking so many different aspects to what you just laid out.
But there is no doubt that at the time of that debate, and I was talking to Congressman Stockman a few days ago, and just how everything, in hindsight, you look at it now, how everything was just so perfectly planned out by the Democrats, how they have just utterly outmaneuvered the Republicans and setting that debate up so early to give them plenty of time to replace Biden before the convention and so much more.
We got into that in a recent interview.
And they have eviscerated Trump's lead.
In the battleground states, in the national polling averages, it's all gone.
However, I would submit that Trump is in much better standing at this point, August 31st, than he was on this day in 2020 or even 2016, the election he won.
He is in better shape.
I mean, he's within the margin of error.
It's literally within, you know, I don't care if Harris wins the national vote by 20 points.
All that matters is these five or six swing states.
So that's it.
So that's where people have to focus.
So he is in better shape now than he was at this point in either of the last two presidential cycles.
But with that being said, I do agree with your assessment that her speech was good.
Did she mean any of it?
Certainly not.
Certainly not.
But the Democrats were smart enough to say, listen, we've got, as you mentioned, all the left-wing vote locked up.
Let's try to entrance some of these moderates or uncommitted or independents or whatever, conservatives who don't like Trump.
Let's give them this rhetoric and see if we can skate in.
And if they do, and if they do, and if that's effective, you're going to see, I think, the most radical left-wing administration in the history of America.
And I don't think it'll even be close, writing for countercurrents.
Jim Goad submitted this, since most voters are so dumb, it's a miracle that they can even fill out their ballot.
And since they wouldn't understand the issues even if politicians were honest about them, most presidential campaigns amount to little more than flagrantly deceptive PR blitzes.
And I think that's exactly what we're seeing here, Mark.
And they're counting that they can rod the crest of the novelty of this woman being put in just a few weeks before the election all the way through November.
And if it's effective, hey, more power to them because they were smarter than the opposition.
And we've got to be as smart and as ruthless and as cunning as our enemies are.
Well, yes, that's true.
But candidates coming to the fore through a media blitz is nothing new in American history.
That's an old story.
In 1940, the loose media empire.
Hold on, I promise we'll pick it up right there.
I hear the music.
We've got to take our first break.
We are talking about the ascension of Kamala Harris, now the frontrunner to be the next president of the United States and how and why that happened and what Mark Weber thinks about it.
We'll pick it up right there, these PR blitzes.
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american heritage school in american fork back with mark weber talking about the current political conditions as we sit here at the end of august very beginning of september
This election is really coming fast now.
When Mark was on a few weeks ago, we were looking at this thing in wide screen, regardless of who wins the current election.
What is the future for our people and our nation and all of this?
And we looked at historical precedents and tried to extrapolate that.
It was a fascinating conversation, as it always is when Mark is on.
But tonight, we are talking about the current, the here, and the now.
And yes, Mark, obviously, PR Blitzes and trying to fashion public opinion around a candidate is a tale as old as time.
But I don't know if this one doesn't take the cake.
I don't know if there isn't a little bit something extra going on here because I would submit to you, and we've mentioned this on several shows in recent months, but Kamala Harris was so far to the left.
She was huge, so hugely unlikable in the 2020 presidential campaign cycle when she ran in the Democratic primaries.
She was in all of those debates on the Democratic primary debates in 2019.
She finished dead last in the field and was polling at, I believe, 0%.
She didn't even make it to New Hampshire and Iowa in the early contest of 2020 because she had no support.
But because she was a non-white woman, she gets tapped as VP.
And now, as we've seen, the rest is history.
But she was running a very far-left campaign in 2019.
And now she is repackaged and rebranded as a Reagan acolyte, which is interesting.
And I guess, you know, as Jim Goad said, American people are so stupid that they may buy this.
It seems like right now they are buying it.
Now, Trump still has two months to set the record straight on this.
But I think one thing I would also point to, Mark, and then get back to your thoughts on this PR blitz and how it's helping her and how it's been done in the past, but the economy, the economy, literally, the Democratic message, without any exaggeration when Biden was still in the race, was the economy is great under Biden.
And now that Kamala Harris, she's running as if she wasn't part of that administration, she's running as if she's the challenger to Trump's incumbency.
It went from the economy is great under Biden to Kamala Harris is going to fix our terrible economy.
And nobody's supposed to notice that.
I mean, what is going on here?
Well, in many ways, James, the public understands that neither candidate is really very sincere.
That's just taken for granted now by everyone.
And flip-flopping on the issues is nothing new.
It's true of Donald Trump as well.
I mean, I was going to say in 1940, Wendell Willkie was the media made him a big figure, and he got the Republican nomination in 1940, even though up until 1940 he had been a registered Democrat, even though he had never held any office whatsoever.
But the Time magazine, Life Magazine, the Life Time Newsreel effort boomed him as a candidate, and he got the nomination and did reasonably well.
Actually, did much better than the Republicans did four years earlier.
But there's nothing new.
And Donald Trump essentially could never have gotten the traction he did if he wasn't known from the show, the television show, The Apprentice.
But the big reason people are rallying around, or Democrats are rallying around Kamala Harris, is because they don't want Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump, in a sense, got the nomination in 2016 because millions of people didn't like what the Democratic Party and the trajectory of America stood for.
That's why this election is really an election about whether you believe in the trajectory of America, not just people don't care really, particularly the specific issues that Kamala Harris might be flip-flopping on or squishy on and so forth.
What they basically think is with Kamala Harris and her entourage, you could say, in office, in power, America will sort of continue as it has been for the last 50 years.
Again, the push to the left isn't something that just Democrats have been guilty of.
Republicans have been guilty of it themselves, including even Ronald Reagan.
It was Ronald Reagan who signed Martin Luther King Day into a national holiday.
I mean, Republicans are guilty of this themselves, and all they do end up doing is to affirm the trajectory only belatedly, only after it's already in place, and then say they promised to embrace it and make it even better.
But they don't return to what the situation had been before.
But both parties are guilty of this.
I mean, and so that's not a big issue.
The big issue is basically, who do you think is going to provide more reassurance or stability for the future?
And millions of people, even though they are not happy, they don't really trust Donald Trump to chart any reliable way to the future.
Donald Trump has a lot of defects.
He's gone back and forth himself.
Up until 2010, he gave more money to the Democratic candidates than the Republican candidates.
You will remember, Mark, of course, that Warren Bailock did an expert treatment on the differences between Trump in 2020 when he was, excuse me, 2000, Trump of 2000, when he was challenging Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination and how left-wing he was compared to what he came back as is a repackaged candidate in 2016.
But at least there was a decade plus there.
I mean, what we're seeing with Kamala Harris is a shift over a few weeks.
I understand that that is not necessarily anything new, but it is, in fact, noteworthy.
But I would go back to the economy, though, if for no other reason than the economy is usually the one thing that will get an incumbent replaced.
If it is bad and you're suffering inflation and you're suffering higher prices, that is normally something that people just will not tolerate.
And she is getting an absolute free pass, even though she was a part of the whole Biden administration, obviously, for the last four years when all of this has occurred.
And it looks like people are willing to overlook that as well.
Normally, if, you know, this was going to be a very big cloud for Biden, but she has basically been able to absolve herself, has even been a part of this administration, and just be this new, shiny new thing in politics.
Yes, well, that's all true.
Yeah, of course.
And the economy is how most people vote.
But it's more, I think, a sense of kind of which candidate seems more reliable over the next four years.
Donald Trump has a lot of flip-flops of his own, a lot of defects of his own.
You know, polls show now that if the election involved only men, Donald Trump would win handily.
If the election involved only women, Kamala Harris would win without any further ado.
Donald Trump, well, to put it bluntly, is very offensive to many women.
Many women don't like the way he talks.
It's not the way any American politician of any party would have ever talked, just in the sort of insulting way he personalizes his attacks in American history.
This is almost unknown in American history.
To make fun of people because they're fat or to make fun of, talk about how he's better looking than another candidate would have been considered just out of bounds by all Americans 30 years ago and before.
But now, all that goes because the media has, and Donald Trump benefits from this kind of media-driven kind of.
I was going to say, actually, I think it's an attribute for him at this point because, you know, people are so tired of the other side that they like someone who will dish it back to them.
Well, yeah, it gets attention, but it makes Donald Trump look unreliable.
And Donald Trump himself, as people who try to follow his own, who have followed his campaign know, he's gone back and forth on all sorts of things.
At one time, as you indicated, but didn't say explicitly, he thought the ideal vice presidential candidate would have been Oprah Winfrey.
I mean, he was in favor of a national health care plan when he ran for president in the year 2000.
Now he doesn't even talk about Obamacare, which he promised to repeal and replace.
Now it's just not even talked about.
There's many other examples about Donald Trump.
My point is, each of the candidates has defects, but there's not Kamala Harris herself, but what she represents, the Democratic Party or Continental, even the support of many Republicans in general and so forth who don't like Donald Trump because he's not, you don't know what he'll actually do.
That makes Harris look more reassuring, I think, to millions of Americans.
But I think what's really going on is something much, much deeper.
You said earlier that you think Harris is not sincere when she says America is the greatest nation, greatest country on earth.
Why not?
Well, what makes you think she's not?
She says we're a great country because a person like me with a mother born in India and a father born in Jamaica, I've gotten to the point where I'm the nominee for the presidency of the United States.
She says that's proof that America is a great country.
That's what she means by that.
That's what a lot of people think they mean by it.
What do Republicans mean by it?
Well, it's a little unclear.
They talk about they want a country to be great again.
Well, what does it mean exactly to be, quote, great?
They're very vague about defining that precisely.
Well, I think certainly Kamala Harris is talking exclusively about the post-1965 America and not the historic America that you and I see it as being and what it is not anymore.
And the Republicans, of course, are too afraid to cater to their base.
And we'll talk about this with our friend Lou Moore in the next hour.
James, that's the critical point is when we talk about America or we, what are people really talking about?
When Ronald Reagan had the backing of what was president, most white people assumed he wanted to keep America a kind of white, basically Christian, Western kind of society, in which, yeah, people who are not European Americans would do okay, but it would essentially still be our country.
And by that, I mean white Americans.
Kamla Harris has gone one step further.
He says, I want a country for all Americans.
And that's a quick, quick time out, Mark.
Pardon another interruption, brother, but we are going to take a quick break.
We're going to come back.
Fascinating conversation.
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We're at the halfway point of this hour with Mark, and so we'll recap just a few things we've covered before continuing on, talking, of course, about the likelihood of a Kamala Harris presidency and what it means and how she got here.
Now, I think somewhat interestingly, she didn't get a huge or the post-convention spike in polling that some might have expected.
She seemed to have absorbed most of that before the convention.
So that's relatively good news for Trump, I guess.
But she has taken over the Battleground States.
She has taken over the lead in the poll.
She is the frontrunner.
Trump's still in better position now than he was in 2016 and in 2020 on this day, August the 31st.
But, you know, Kamala Harris has been able to do this as the least known presidential nominee in history, going from far left in 2020 to Ronald Reagan's daughter, I guess.
And now she's a centrist and a patriot.
Classic bait and switch, but as Mark said, obviously, that's nothing new.
If you're looking at this, and I want to be very clear, I don't want people to read between the lines and what I'm saying and what I'm getting at.
Of course, you know, Trump, when I heard that Trump was first running in 2016, the first thing that came to my mind was, oh, this guy, this was the guy who called Pat a Nazi in 2020 and was doing all of this, and I didn't think anything of it.
And then I started listening to what he said, and I was like, well, we don't have any other horse in this race, so what the hell?
Maybe he's sincere.
I'll vote for him just in case.
What else am I going to do?
And he was at that point still a relatively blank canvas upon which we could project our dreams and hopes and desires.
And a lot of time has passed since 2016, so we could debate the pros and cons of Trump.
And we have for a decade now.
A lot to be said there, a lot lacking.
But if you want to make a case, if you want to make a case to still support Trump, I think you could say that the left is still our greatest enemy.
They're going to come for us.
There's no doubt about that.
I think they would have come for us in this Biden administration if Trump hadn't re-emerged as a frontrunner.
They focused all their attention on either putting him in prison or killing him.
That attention would have otherwise been gone to putting in some UK Kier Stormer type of legislation here in the States.
So he's a shield for us in that way.
A lot of folks getting appointed, not just to the Supreme Court.
Trump is better on the courts, better on Ukraine, better on the economy, better on immigration.
I think you could argue the platform is good.
This little 20-point, very small platform that Trump has put forth is good.
Does he mean any of it?
Is he any more sincere than Kamala?
Believe me, that can be debated.
I think here's where I land on this, Mark.
Here's where I land personally.
I will vote for Trump for a third time for two reasons.
Not because I believe in him, not because he's my hero, not because I believe that our cause is his or anything like that.
Number one, I will vote for him to deny the left the pleasure of seeing Kamala in.
One of the things that I have enjoyed the most as a political commentator was watching the wailing and the gnashing of teeth in November of 2016 when Hillary was denied.
That is a petty reason, I will admit, but I will vote for that reason.
And because I think more practically, the unhinged overreaction of Trump's enemies has been a driving force of polarization in American politics.
And if we can keep him active and around for another four years to instill further chaos into the system, I think we need the system to break.
And I think he is an agent of chaos, and their overreaction makes him that.
So those are my reasons there.
Mark, how would you respond to that?
James, you gave very succinctly and very well some reasons to vote for Trump, but they're exactly the reasons why he's likely to use.
You called him, you said you're voting for him in part because he's an agent of chaos.
That's not what most Americans want.
I agree with that.
They want an agent of stability.
They want an agent of reassurance.
And Trump is not that man.
That's one of the reasons why, oddly enough, Kamala Harris seems more, quote-unquote, conservative in the sense that if you want things to be stable, if you want things non-chaotic, you would vote for Harris.
That's one of the reasons why it's hard to see how a man who you yourself say is an agent of chaos is going to get to win the election.
He won the election in 2016 because he was the anti-establishment person.
Nobody knew quite what he would do, but he called out the people in power.
That was a great thing.
That was a good, it was a necessary thing.
It was a valuable thing.
But as president, he, I mean, you can argue about it, how much he really changed.
One of the things that I think almost all Trump supporters will agree is he didn't do anywhere near what he should have or what he promised he was going to do.
And he's disappointing in that way.
But anyway, to go back to your point, that's exactly the point I'm trying to make.
If the choice is between somebody who is a flip-flop party apparatchic member of the Democratic establishment and who represents continuity, it's Kamara Harris.
If you want an agent of chaos, a man who's you don't know what he'll say one day or the next, yeah, you might vote for Trump.
But most Americans don't want that.
They want stability.
They want reassurance.
But now, how about this, though, Mark?
I mean, again, I'm not trying to make a case for Trump per se because I'm a big Trump supporter.
I'm just looking at this objectively.
And my question is, as always, what's best for our people?
You know, is it better for us that Kamala comes in and we take our medicine and whites have this great awakening?
If that's the case, then I'm all for that.
But sometimes worse is just worse.
And I don't know for sure that her getting in and worse being better is going to be the way it goes because if they stack the Supreme Court, as they could do if they control both houses of Congress and the presidency, if they end the Philippines, if they try to go after D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and put in four more permanent Democratic senators, they're going to come down on why it's like nothing we've ever seen before.
And again, if that's what's good for us, if that's what it takes, then bring it on.
I guess, you know, frankly, after November, we're not going to have to worry about it because whatever's going to happen will happen and then we can get on with it regardless.
But it's just hard to know because I will tell you, there is, and we talked about this the last time you were on, there's no consensus even amongst this audience, which is, you know, March is in lockstep on so many issues.
But as to what's better for us with this election, you'd be shocked to find pro-white or white advocates who think that, hey, you know, we need to get on with it.
And by that, I mean we need Kamala to get on with it.
When you say what's better for us, what do you mean by us?
What you really mean is European Americans.
You mean white Americans, really.
Of course.
You're not talking about all Americans.
And neither Trump or Kamala Harris as president is going to change the basic demographic shift that's already been in place for many years, and which both Republicans and Democrats, including Trump, say that they like.
Trump isn't against that.
He's never objected to that.
In fact, the Republican convention recently was a celebration of American diversity, if you will.
It was a celebration of the third worldization of America.
So what's really necessary and what is happening anyway, no matter who wins, is what's dying is not America, but an illusion about America, an idea of America that was never really quite true anyway, but is now increasingly obviously untrue.
The idea that we can have a first world country, even if the population is a third world one.
Look, I'm in California.
Voting for Trump or Harris here is almost meaningless.
It's like voting for Trump or Harris in Hawaii.
It's going to be overwhelmingly for Harris.
And that demographic shift that happens, has happened already in California and in many other states, is happening all across the country.
And as long as white Americans still think that somehow, if they just get the right candidate, they can turn things around.
If they can just sort of get the right policies, it's going to turn around.
That's a delusion.
That's a fantasy.
And so what's necessary, what's important is for Americans to be realistic, especially our people, to be realistic, to be grounded in reality, not in wishful thinking, not in delusion.
As Gregory Hood wrote in his article for Amrin recently, Under the Surface, he writes again about the way he channeled Pat Buchanan's 1992 Culture War speech about the Democrats being a bunch of cross-dressers trying to appear as moderate when they were anything but that was 92.
Gregory Hood writes this week, delegates to the convention talking about the Democratic Convention, which you've been talking about, Mark, worked hard to look moderate.
Delegates flew American flags, chanted USA, and held USA signs.
Tim Waldz played up his exaggerated army record, and the DNC brought out the football team that he coached, well, assisted, coached.
And Kamala Harris even claimed to be for border security.
I guess, you know, what do you expect from the media?
The media, the Democrats figured out that they could win a campaign in 2020 with Biden not leaving his house, much less doing interviews.
Kamala Harris is not doing interviews.
She did one with CNN.
It was a powder puff interview.
They're going to run cover for her.
And that's also something that is certainly not to be unexpected.
Gregory Hood writes with the media covering for her.
He agrees with Mark Weber that Kamala Harris is favored to win.
Whites argue about ideology and what is good for the country.
Non-whites don't.
It's all about what's good for them.
We have got to learn that lesson.
And yes, when I say what's best for us, I mean our people.
That is all I mean.
And that's all that I care about.
One more segment with the great Mark Weber.
We're going to turn the show over to him.
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One more segment with Mark Weber, IHR.org.
I want to give Mark all the time that we have left to flesh out his thoughts and the things that he wanted to share about this topic this hour.
But first, I will just read one more excerpt from Gregory Hood's excellent piece at Amrin.com, Under the Surface, talking about forget how they are being packaged by the media and their handlers, but let's take a closer look at who these people really are by way of their record.
And he focuses on Tim Walz in this excerpt.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz serves as the pathetic white sidekick straight out of a TV commercial.
This is not just the usual problem of sticking to cliches and avoiding specifics.
Vice President Harris refuses to list policies at all.
No center-right candidate could wage such an empty campaign and count on the media for adoring coverage and protection from scrutiny.
Now, of course, we knew she would have that.
They always have that.
But looking into Walls again, and we did a whole hour on him when he was first announced as the running mate to now presidential nominee, Kamala Harris.
We know that Tim Walz pushed to turn Minnesota into an abortion-safe haven just one day after the Supreme Court.
They didn't overturn Roe versus Way.
They kicked it back to the states.
But his first executive order as Minnesota governor was to establish a diversity, inclusion, and equity council.
He designated himself as the chair of the One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
He founded on his own volition an LGBTQ club for high school boys.
Now, that's weird.
You know, this whole thing, he's a genius for saying that Vance is weird.
That's weird to me.
He signed legislation into Minnesota law in March of 2023, allowing illegals to obtain driver's licenses, which opened the door for another 81,000 aliens in Minnesota, signed legislation into law giving state-funded health care and free college tuition to illegals as governor.
He has signed a bill making Minnesota a trans refugee state, no age limits for minors who could receive gender-affirming care, so-called gender-affirming care, created a snitch line for COVID mandate violators.
I could go on and on and on.
And Kamala Harris is right there with him on all of that stuff.
So this is who they really are.
I mean, you know, but does it matter?
I mean, is it better for us that that happens and then they come after us?
Because she's already said she's going to use the government to come after hate speech and haters and all of that.
And we know who she's talking about.
But, you know, I could be sold on that.
I mean, I'm not saying it's not.
Maybe it is.
I'm an agnostic on that question because I just don't know.
I do know that I want to deny them the satisfaction, and I like Trump as an agent of chaos.
I'm very much in the minority where most Americans don't, but I do.
And I think that's because I want the country to break apart.
I want us to be bought.
I want there to be a secession.
And I think Trump helps us in that way.
But, you know, again, that's not the majority of Americans.
Of course, the majority of Americans aren't very smart either.
Mark, the rest of the show is yours.
Well, you've covered so much ground here.
I mean, the real question is what's really at stake here?
And what really is at stake is our vision of the future.
What's the vision of future that both candidates offer and what even people who call themselves conservative offer?
The conservative message is really a pretty anemic one.
It wants to go back to what they call restoring our freedoms.
Well, exactly what does that mean?
Very few people who call themselves conservative really want to go back to 1930 or 1950 even.
They all claim that they want to go back, but exactly to what?
Because when it comes down to actual policies, they're not in favor of going back to those America of those years.
What they want to go back to is basically a white America.
In 1950, America was something like 85% a white country.
Today, it is either a majority or very close to being a majority non-white country.
Would people rather have a conservative government in a country like Honduras or South Africa or a liberal society in a country like Denmark or Norway?
Well, the answer is pretty obvious.
Conservatism continues.
It doesn't, it fails time after time.
They don't win because the priorities are all wrong.
The priorities of limited government or individual freedom are not the most important things in any society.
In many ways, Americans have more freedom as individuals than they ever used to have.
Men can marry men.
They didn't used to be able to.
There's lots of individual freedoms we have, in a sense, that we didn't used to have.
America used to have a motion picture industry that was essentially censored until the 1960s.
Was that better or worse?
I mean, it's much more open-ended now than it was then.
But see, those aren't the most important things.
People don't die for individual freedom.
They die for their people, for their heritage, and for the future of their children, not anybody's children, not everyone.
They die for, they sacrifice for something more important than that.
Yes, that's right.
And the answer of Republicans or even most conservatives is a very evasive or flabby one when confronted with these ultimate questions.
It doesn't matter if America, who lives in America.
They have this idea.
Many people seem to have this idea that there's something magic about America just because it's got a constitution or whatever reason.
No, it's made by the people who are here.
It was settled and built by Europeans, by people who wanted it to be a European or a white country.
If it had been settled by Chinese, it'd be a very different country.
If the majority population had been black, it'd be more like Haiti.
America has been, quote unquote, great, not because of this or that policy, not because the government was large or small, but because it was settled, built, maintained by European Americans.
That's more critical than focusing on individual freedom or some of these other issues or limited government.
Those are all secondary, really, to the health and welfare and well-being of any people or any nation.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are enjoying this conversation, and undoubtedly you are, how could you not?
It's Mark Weber.
Stay tuned for the next hour.
We are going to continue it.
We're going to continue it with Lou Moore, who was Ron Paul's presidential campaign manager.
He was also congressional chief of staff.
And there's a lot more to him than that.
He's going to be making his debut appearance on the program tonight.
And I just am very much excited to be able to present him to you.
And we're going to talk about this.
We are going to talk about some of the things Mark just hit on.
But unlike hearing it from me, I'm just a political commentator.
We're talking about hearing it from a gentleman who is very much and has been a savvy political operative in the GOP system.
And that certainly, you know, credentials carry weight.
They do.
And Mark Weber's credentials carry weight as a scholar and as a historian.
And so we try to give you the best of the best.
Mark, yes, look, I mean, you could make a case for or against Trump, even some of our own people, for or against Kamala, not because they like her issues or believe in her or have any faith in her, but only because they think that it will bring about, It will wake us up from this stupor that we've been in.
And there is some credence to that argument.
I am not saying I'm on Trump's bandwagon.
I mean, I could vote for you, and Trump's going to win, and I would frankly rather.
But Trump would win Tennessee 70-30 no matter what I do.
So it doesn't really matter who I vote for.
Everybody's got to make their own minds up about that.
But anyway, I've stated my opinion tonight.
Mark, a minute left.
It's yours, my friend.
It's just that I just want to conclude by saying it's changing anyway.
There's already, as you indicated by the next guest is coming on and many other people, there's a greater and greater awareness that whether the government is limited or not limited or the old divisions and categories of right and left or conservative and liberal are really less, really trivial compared to this fundamental question of who we are.
What kind of vision for our people do we have or for the future of the country?
And that's going to change anyway, if Kamala Harris is elected or if Trump is elected.
The division in America, this division is fundamentally a big division over what does it mean to even be an American?
What kind of country do we want?
And that will become greater in the months and even years ahead.
If Trump is elected, it'll be a real ride and it'll be a real coaster ride if Kamala Harris is elected.
And these issues will become even more acute, even more strong.
Our work right now isn't political.
Our main job right now is educational.
And that is happening.
It's already going a long way.
And it'll go even faster.
And it can happen much more quickly.
It will happen much more quickly in the months ahead.
It's a little bit like in the months, in the years just before America declared independence, the mood of the country changed, of the 13 colonies changed radically.
In 1774, the vast majority of Americans were still loyal subjects of the British Empire, of the British crown.
And they hoped that they could somehow work out something with Britain.
That changed in 1776.
In the space of just basically a few months or a year, people said, no, we're not British.
We're Americans.
We want our own country.
This question of identity is really crucial, and it can change.
I think it will change in the months and years ahead.
If in some unintentional way, Kamala Harris, her election is going to wake us up, then I'm all for it.
I'm seeing through a glass darkly right here at the end of the summer on that issue.
But whatever is best for our people is what I want, and that's all that I want.
And in the meantime, I encourage you to support the work of the people upon whose shoulders we stand, like Mark Weber, Institute for Historical Review, ihr.org, catches weekly roundup.
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Every week it's exceptional.
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Mark, Godspeed, brother.
We'll talk again soon.
I'm sure before the election.
Thank you very much, James.
It's great being on with you again.
As always, stay tuned for Lou Moore, former campaign manager for Ron Paul and his presidential bid.