Speaker 1: There are forty days left until Donald Trump, at the
Speaker 1: noon hour on January twentieth, raises his right hand and
Speaker 1: swears the oath. This is the warning, the thirty five
Speaker 1: words that George Washington swore, the only oath that was
Speaker 1: written into the Constitution by our founding fathers, the one
Speaker 1: that Abraham Lincoln took, Teddy Roosevelt, Fdr. Ronald Dragon Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: I do solemnly swear to preserve, protect, and defend the
Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States. Of course, Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: not do that. He tried to overthrow the government, and
Speaker 1: in the end a plurality of Americans forty nine percent
Speaker 1: said no big deal. And so he will take office,
Speaker 1: and he will sign pardons, and every seditionist who participated
Speaker 1: in the riot, in the coup and the insurrection will
Speaker 1: walk out of prison, not just free, but a maga hero,
Speaker 1: a martyr. On July fourth, twenty twenty six, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: will be on the north portico of the White House
Speaker 1: watching the fireworks explode over the Washington Monument two one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago. And the men, mostly men
Speaker 1: who were revered from that moment when the shot was
Speaker 1: heard around the world, when the revolution began. They will
Speaker 1: be compared to the January sixth criminals, and the comparison
Speaker 1: will be made from the White House. The age of
Speaker 1: desecration is underway and Donald Trump's presidency will need to
Speaker 1: be opposed effectively, fiercely, and in a sustained manner. The
Speaker 1: Democratic Party as it is is flat on its back,
Speaker 1: and there are some lessons to be gleaned from how
Speaker 1: people are responding to Donald Trump in these early days
Speaker 1: that preface his return to power. The Canadian example is fascinating.
Speaker 1: Now Here is what Justin Trudeau said in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's threat to impose a twenty five percent
Speaker 1: tariff on every good coming across the Canadian border. I
Speaker 1: just drove across that border the other day. The traffic
Speaker 1: was backed up for two and a half hours, tractor
Speaker 1: trailers trying to bring commerce from the Canadian side to
Speaker 1: the US side. This is what global trade looks like,
Speaker 1: and it has made our countries too of the richest
Speaker 1: in the world. But Trudeau is correct when he says
Speaker 1: a twenty five percent tariff on Canadian goods would be
Speaker 1: devastating for Canada, every Canadian, and in fact, many many
Speaker 1: millions of Americans, the three million American jobs that are
Speaker 1: dependent on it, the border stateonomies Michigan, New York, Ohio.
Speaker 1: All of these economies are interlinked. So this threat by
Speaker 1: Trump to instigate a massive trade war disrupting the trillion
Speaker 1: dollar economy in North America is a very serious thing. Now,
Speaker 1: what Justin Trudeau did is proof that most people drown
Speaker 1: not because they can't swim, rather because they panic. And
Speaker 1: the very unpopular Canadian Prime minister either panicked or saw
Speaker 1: an opportunity to rehabilitate his low pole standings by going
Speaker 1: toe to toe with Trump. Now there's a strategic maxim
Speaker 1: that applies here. It's by the Chinese strategic master Sun Su,
Speaker 1: and it says, when outmatched, bring the tiger to the cave.
Speaker 1: If you think about it, hunting a tiger which can
Speaker 1: jump twenty two feet in a single leap and run
Speaker 1: it over forty miles an hour in the wide open,
Speaker 1: it's a very difficult endeavor if you're a single person.
Speaker 1: But if you can lure the faster, the stronger, the
Speaker 1: more fearsome tiger to an enclosed space, his advantages will
Speaker 1: be diminished. Thus the maxim went outmatched, bring the Tiger
Speaker 1: to the cave. But for Justin Trudeau, the cave was
Speaker 1: not Mara A Lago. He went to mar A Lago
Speaker 1: as a supplicant, not as a G seven peer. He
Speaker 1: went for politics and he got his ass handed to him.
Speaker 1: And now he has been taunted because Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: contempt for weakness, he has no empathy for it whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And all of this accumulated up through the manifest disrespect
Speaker 1: that Trump showed to our ally Canada, into every Canadian
Speaker 1: when he tweeted this the other night. Now, the leader
Speaker 1: of the Canadian opposition is a man named Pierre Palief.
Speaker 1: He is likely to be the next Canadian Prime minister.
Speaker 1: Now he's a member of the Conservative Party, but he's
Speaker 1: not the best Conservative politician in Canada. That's Doug Ford.
Speaker 1: He's the premier or the governor of Ontario, and Ontario
Speaker 1: is where Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America.
Speaker 1: And this is what Doug Ford said responding to Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's tweet targeting Justin Trudeau.
Speaker 2: Last night at six point thirty five, we received the
Speaker 2: the biggest threat we've ever received from our closest friends
Speaker 2: and ally from President elect Trump that they're threatening to
Speaker 2: put a twenty five percent tariff on all goods coming
Speaker 2: across the border into the US in Mexico. What I
Speaker 2: found unfair about the Commons is to compare us to Mexico.
Speaker 2: Now I can tell you Canada is now Mexico.
Speaker 1: Remember the tweet was sent after midnight. Here's what the
Speaker 1: leader of his party, Pierre Polyeff said, Mister Trudeau.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 2: And missus Freeland were not.
Speaker 3: Ready a new full arm plan, and we need a plan,
Speaker 3: a plan to put Canada first.
Speaker 1: Notice what none of them are doing, which of course
Speaker 1: is sticking together. No, not as Conservatives, as Canadians, because
Speaker 1: the threat isn't so much a threat against the Conservative
Speaker 1: Party in Canada, but against the country. And yet the
Speaker 1: leaders of the party that wishes to take power cannot
Speaker 1: put the interests of the country first. They got to
Speaker 1: take a shot at Justin Trudeau. Now they're not criticizing
Speaker 1: Trudeau for the appeasement for the meeting. What they're criticizing
Speaker 1: him for doing is not appeasing Trump fast enough. And
Speaker 1: this is the problem with the philosophy of appeasement. It's
Speaker 1: the philosophy that says I will feed the crocodile and
Speaker 1: hope he eats me least. But in the end, it
Speaker 1: is a strategy that gets you eaten by the crocodile.
Speaker 1: And that is what must be avoided because in forty
Speaker 1: days there must be an opposition to Donald Trump. Let
Speaker 1: me show you this video of Chuck Schumer. This is
Speaker 1: the highest ranking Democrat in the United States right now.
Speaker 1: For the next two years. He will command the overwhelming
Speaker 1: amount of resources as he has in the twenty four
Speaker 1: cycle and in the twenty two cycle, and in the
Speaker 1: twenty cycle, and in the eighteen cycle and in the
Speaker 1: sixteen cycle. He is the general who has maneuvered the
Speaker 1: Democrats into their current predicament. How is he going to
Speaker 1: do communicating against Donald Trump? Let's watch everybody. Wasn't that
Speaker 1: a great rollcal Now, just let me hear you if
Speaker 1: you're ready for president Kamala Harris simple truth is not
Speaker 1: good enough. And yet he will remain the Senate leader,
Speaker 1: the Democratic leader, Jamie Harrison, Well, what he said is
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party needs to hold on to its pronouns,
Speaker 1: to its identity politics, to bad brand Donald Trump ate.
Speaker 1: It is it really what we want to lose democracy
Speaker 1: over all of these identity politics issues, because there's something
Speaker 1: that should be appreciated. That's happening in America right now.
Speaker 1: There is a confluence. There is a great capitulation that
Speaker 1: is occurring by America's power class. They are getting in line,
Speaker 1: as we talked about, and as I predicted, as quickly
Speaker 1: as they possibly can. At the same time, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is not backing down from any of the threats that
Speaker 1: he is making. And what this is creating is a
Speaker 1: frustration and a rage and an anger, the same type
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine that created the Tea Party movement,
Speaker 1: and the question in this moment, as we see the
Speaker 1: millennial cheers, the widespread praise for vigilantism, for an assassination,
Speaker 1: cold blooded man was shot in the back on a sidewalk, unarmed,
Speaker 1: allegedly by a privileged twenty six year old of a
Speaker 1: family more powerful and more wealthy than most every American
Speaker 1: can conceivably comprehend. And he killed a man, gunned him
Speaker 1: down like an animal, and put aside whatever you may
Speaker 1: think of the American healthcare system. I'd like to show
Speaker 1: you a clip between Piers Morgan and Taylor Lorenz, the
Speaker 1: former New York Times and Washington Post star, and Piers
Speaker 1: Morgan is going to ask a question that seems quite
Speaker 1: appropriate to me, and the question he's going to ask,
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you, now.
Speaker 3: Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about
Speaker 3: the execution of another human being? Aren't you supposed to
Speaker 3: be on the caring sharing left, where you know you
Speaker 3: believe in the sanctity of life. I do believe in
Speaker 3: the sanctity of life, and I think that's why I felt,
Speaker 3: along with so many other Americans joy.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you know.
Speaker 3: Because it's seriously I mean execution.
Speaker 2: Maybe not joy, but certainly not no, certainly not empathy.
Speaker 1: The American system is binary, meaning there has traditionally been
Speaker 1: two choices. Third parties have played a role in determining
Speaker 1: the outcome, but the choice is binary. Two great political parties,
Speaker 1: and both of these parties have changed, transitioned, swapped big
Speaker 1: parts of the population between them over many years. One
Speaker 1: party was the segregationist party until it became the Integrationist Party,
Speaker 1: and the other party picked up the segregationist detritus. So
Speaker 1: there is a lot of dynamism between the parties. Now.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump in forty days, with all of his threats
Speaker 1: and all of his bluster and all of his authoritarian
Speaker 1: zeal is looking for an excuse to deploy the military
Speaker 1: to do whatever. He's made the threats, and I've talked
Speaker 1: about it for two NonStop years. So today I'm not
Speaker 1: going to warn about Donald Trump. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: warn about his threats because we talk about them every day.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about a different threat and the
Speaker 1: choice the American people will surely made, because they've made
Speaker 1: it so many times in the past, we know what
Speaker 1: it will be and we don't have to wonder about it.
Speaker 1: If Taylor Lorenz of Hobart College and Greenwich kinetic when
Speaker 1: she talks about her pain and suffering with her shit
Speaker 1: eating grin from ear to ear, talking about well, excuse
Speaker 1: me my lack of empathy for the gundown man murdered
Speaker 1: like a fucking animal on a New York sidewall, the
Speaker 1: American people will do what the German people did some
Speaker 1: eighty years ago. They will look between two terrible, noxious choices.
Speaker 1: They will look to the left and they will see
Speaker 1: Taylor Lorenz, and they will see her as an extension
Speaker 1: of the chaos and the riots and the defund the police,
Speaker 1: and the cheering for the murder of babies and savagery
Speaker 1: and all of the extremism that she represents, and then
Speaker 1: they'll look at Trump, and they'll look back at her,
Speaker 1: and they'll look at Trump. And in this country, the
Speaker 1: choice will be Trump to protect the society from the
Speaker 1: likes of that, and there will be no exception to
Speaker 1: that choice. The American people will make it every single time.
Speaker 1: What has always been understood in America by anybody who
Speaker 1: gets the history of the country, who appreciates it's the
Speaker 1: national fabric, the culture, the character. America will never be
Speaker 1: a far left Jacobin's society. The threat of it, though,
Speaker 1: will give us a fascist one. And here we are
Speaker 1: across social media. The fire is too big to ignore,
Speaker 1: the calls to a savage mayhem of vigilantism, the decay
Speaker 1: of order. The morality that Taylor Lorenz is talking about
Speaker 1: is not morality.
Speaker 3: It's evil.
Speaker 1: And the American people will choose an evil to fight it.
Speaker 1: And that evil has a name and it has power.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal, forty days. The Democratic Party needs to
Speaker 1: stand for something, and it needs to fight for something.
Speaker 1: My idea is that the cause should be the United
Speaker 1: States America, our ideas and our ideals, because when they
Speaker 1: have been embraced. They are undefeated. People ask what they
Speaker 1: should do in this moment. Read, Learn, know your history.
Speaker 1: This is the most important speech ever given on American soil.
Speaker 1: Watch it this recreation of it, the Gettysburg Address.
Speaker 4: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
Speaker 4: upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
Speaker 4: dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Speaker 4: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
Speaker 4: whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
Speaker 4: can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield
Speaker 4: of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
Speaker 4: of that field as a final resting place, where they
Speaker 4: who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Speaker 4: It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Speaker 4: But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate,
Speaker 4: We cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
Speaker 4: who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power
Speaker 4: to add or detract. The world will little note nor
Speaker 4: long remember what we say here, but it can never
Speaker 4: forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
Speaker 4: rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which
Speaker 4: they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Speaker 4: It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
Speaker 4: the great task remaining before us, that from these honored
Speaker 4: dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
Speaker 4: they here gave the last full measure of devotion. That
Speaker 4: we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
Speaker 4: died in vain, that this nation under God shall have
Speaker 4: a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people,
Speaker 4: by the people, for the people shall not perish from
Speaker 4: the earth.
Speaker 1: It matters today as much as it did then, because
Speaker 1: the contest for the survival of this republic, as we're
Speaker 1: about to find out, is an enduring one. This is
Speaker 1: the morning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the morning, and
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