1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Buck Sexton Show. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: I'm here in the Freedom Hunt with my good friend 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: mister Ryan Grdusky. The National Populist Newsletter is his work 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: these days over at sub Stack. You should subscribe. You 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: should check it out. He is excellent. It is well 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: worth your time and your subscription. And also he's got 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: some books and other cool things he can tell us about. 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: But mister Gurdusky, how are you, buddy good? How's it going? 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: I'm pretty good. So how are you feeling about the 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: state of Republican politics these days? Good? One broad question. 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I think overall you're we're at this very 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: weird precipis where we have a lot of older people 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: in the party, or a lot of older thoughts in 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: the party, and we have a new right emerging that's 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: trying to make peace with I think the fact that 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: the party has changed a lot in the last twenty 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: five years in the sense of where our bases. You know, 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: we would always count on suburban, usually white voters on 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: issues like crime and the economy as the bread and 20 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: butter of the party that gets us elected. That base 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: has moved substantially. It's now more working class. It's slightly 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: more ethnically diverse than it used to be, and that 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: change in our electorate requires a change in policy that 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: is uncomfortable for people who are kind of born and 25 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: bred in the Reagan era. And there are some politicians 26 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: who are still trying to get it and trying to 27 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: figure out a way forward with it, and are still 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: uncomfortable with things like spending on things like infrastructure, or 29 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: trying to change the way the trade works in the economy, 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: or who are still extremely hawkish on foreign events. I mean, 31 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: we still talk some politicians still talk about Russia as 32 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: if it was the Soviet Union and not as it is, 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: which is a second rate country that and even take 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: over a Ukraine. And I think that that is really 35 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: kind of the precipice of where do we go. I 36 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: think on things like immigration and on other parts of 37 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: the Trump coalition, the party has change substantially. Certainly on education, 38 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: we've moved considerably. When the governor of Utah and most 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: liberal Republicans in the country, who has his pronouns and 40 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: his Twitter bio is banning transgender surgery for minors, you 41 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: can see the party has substantially changed on some things. 42 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: But I think those are the two bigger questions that 43 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: go forward into the upcoming presidential election. The presidential election 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: really becomes the decision maker for where the party is moving, 45 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: So we'll see where it's going in the next year. 46 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: How do Republicans win enough of the white working class 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: vote in the next election that they actually win the 48 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: presidential election. Well, I think they have to do a 49 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: couple of really hard lessons. I think one is on healthcare. 50 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: We just don't have an answer on healthcare, and it 51 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: is our biggest, biggest, biggest black hole as a policy thing. 52 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: It is the number one issue for over the number 53 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: two issue in our spar for independent voters. It's a 54 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: huge issue for working class voters, white especially, who just 55 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: can't afford the way the healthcare is run, and they 56 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: don't trust the upheaval that would come with the promise 57 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 1: of a simple theory market system that does not promote conference. 58 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: People don't like that immense amount of change. Why they 59 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: didn't like Obamacare, But now that Obamacare has been the 60 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: law of the land for a decade and is you know, 61 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: the de facto way we do healthcare, any promise of 62 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: upheaval and uncertainty is going to breed discomfort. So I 63 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: think that that's a major, major, major question. I think 64 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: that's part of the reason that Donald Trump won so 65 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: many of their confidences, that he said I'm gonna take 66 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: care of everybody. No, he didn't have a policy solution 67 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: for it, but he didn't sit there and say, we'll 68 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: just make the market take care of everything. That kind 69 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: of answer appeal to somebody who lives credit card through 70 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: credit cards, you know, paycheck my paycheck, and I can 71 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: I ask you something this By the way, I know, 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: I want to get back to the policy part of this, Ryan, 73 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: but the your your perception, I'll just share my perception 74 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: of when people thought about healthcare. I always think that 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: that there's a there's a sloppiness in the way that 76 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: it's discussed. You know, people say, oh, I want healthcare, 77 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: and what they really want is some kind of a program, 78 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: usually a card that they're given that promises some degree 79 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: of subsidized access to actual healthcare providers. Right, But there's 80 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: the whole system in place. It's not just like, well, 81 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: I get healthcare now, It's like, well, you have to 82 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: make appointment to see a doctor. I have to go 83 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: to the doctor. I have to get it paid for, 84 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: you have to get the insurance. You know. I actually 85 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: believe from what I see, and I increasingly try to 86 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: step away from the big healthcare modelists much as much 87 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: as I can afford to as much as I can, 88 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: that healthcare as it is actually delivered to people is 89 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: constantly getting worse. That's that's my perception. Maybe I'm wrong. 90 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like, go ahead, Yeah, there's 91 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: three prongs to it. There's actual health of people in 92 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: this country, and we are a remarkably unhealthy nation. We 93 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: are too fat. I scream constantly. We were too effing 94 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: fat as a country. It is extraordinarily problematic. It is 95 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: why the less the Left's push to make fat being 96 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: fat a positive attribute is so so incredibly problematic. I 97 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: think our obesity is part of the reason why our 98 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: healthcare is so incredibly expensive. The fattest, sorry, the thinnest 99 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: state today, Colorado, is fatter than the fattest state in 100 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: the country was in nineteen ninety, which was Mississippi. That 101 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: is how fat we are. We have move the trajectory 102 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: so much where our thinnest state is fatter than our 103 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: fattest state was in nineteen ninety. So it is health health. 104 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: Part of healthcare is living healthy. Secondly as access to 105 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: a doctor, which is in some parts of the country horrendous. 106 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: In rural communities it is abysmal. And then the third 107 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: of it is the cost. And I think the cost 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: part of it is not so much. What you said 109 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: is access to healthcare is very problematic. But what people 110 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: don't like is the idea of a single mother getting 111 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: cancer at forty years old and never being able to 112 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: recover economically from that. And those are the three and 113 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: so when Bernie Sanders speaks to voters, he speaks about 114 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: those people who need catastrophic care in those extreme circumstances. 115 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: There are multi pronged issues that are problematic with our 116 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: healthcare system that really need to be answered if we 117 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: had you know, there are other countries in the world 118 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: that smoke a lot more than us. There's all other 119 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: countries in the world that you know, eat a lot more. 120 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: You know, eat probably as much food as we do. 121 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: Is a different type of food that are much thinner 122 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: and live longer. And we are now and I think 123 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: what year three or year four of life expectancy continually 124 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: declining for almost every demographic in this country. There's a 125 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,239 Speaker 1: single demographic I think maybe Asians but probably not either, 126 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: that have seen their life expectancy grow over the last 127 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: five years. And you know, and then there's other abuse 128 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: and deaths of despair and whatnot. But those are the 129 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: three big things. Access, healthy living and and then the 130 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: cost of healthcare. And I don't think that and I 131 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: think that the problem is is that the healthy living 132 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: is the problems that a lot of people have, is 133 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: that require sacrifice. It requires you not going to get 134 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: uber eats at three o'clock in the morning when you 135 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: don't want to or you know, and probably not having 136 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 1: a federal government that doles out money for fatty meats 137 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: and terrible grains and seed oils and whatnot. And then 138 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: the other part of it is access to finding a doctor, 139 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: and then the costs of you know, car accidents and 140 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: king But so here's where, here's where I see a 141 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: big problem in the medical system right now. I mean, 142 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: first of all, I believe that because of COVID and 143 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: not just some of the some of the most egregious 144 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: things like the way the medical community. I know it's 145 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: not every doctor, so please, I don't need the I 146 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: don't need doctors who are like I wasn't with this, 147 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: I know, but the overall medical system in this country, 148 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: every major hospital system, the CDC, the NIH right all 149 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: the hospital the medical bureaucracy were basically vaccine fascists. I mean, 150 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: they completely lost their minds. But also on the issue 151 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: of even mandatory masking, which still goes on in medical 152 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: facilities in places like New York to this day, I 153 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: think they've lost a lot of a lot of credibility 154 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: with people who are capable of thinking for themselves and 155 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: caring about results and reality instead of what they're told 156 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: to care about. But I also think that there's been 157 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: this growing problem for a while that because healthcare has 158 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: become so bureaucratic and systematized by an unwieldy and political 159 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: and very politically driven system, that you now have a 160 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to go into medicine. Who 161 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: are the people you want to go into medicine? And 162 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: I don't think people talk about this very much, but 163 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: any doctor that I know personally will say, given what 164 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm dealing with now, and maybe they're at the end 165 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: of their career, you know, or there there mid to 166 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: late career doctors are saying the amount of paper, bureaucracy, 167 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: threat of lawsuits, all this stuff just makes it so 168 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: that it's certainly no longer a pathway to financial security 169 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: for a lot of people. You know, being a GP 170 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: is not you know, then the notion of like the 171 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: doctor who drives the BMW and lives in the big 172 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: house and goes to country club, that's not reality anymore. 173 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: But it's a lot worse than that. I I think 174 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: that there are a lot of doctors who are who 175 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: are saddled with so much debt that they lead kind 176 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: of miserable lives into their fifties. And you're like, I 177 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: don't know if I want to mortgage my twenties, thirties 178 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: and forties so that one day I can do healing 179 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: work and actually make a good living. Yeah, GP will 180 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: make a one hundred thousand dollars with a million dollars 181 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: a debt and a million dollars in legal coverage on 182 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: top of it per year, which is extremely expensive. But 183 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,959 Speaker 1: there's a lot of money to be made in medicine, 184 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: in selling a pill and not in eating some broccoli. 185 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: And that's ultimately the biggest problem. And when major corporations 186 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: are given both food corporations and pharmaceutic corporations are given 187 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: money constantly by the federal government to push it out. 188 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: Then that is where the problems grow. And for all 189 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: those people who have huge concerns about, you know, about 190 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: getting a shot, I completely understand why their concerns would 191 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 1: be there, and some of them are probably valid, but 192 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: they are oftentimes in some of the fattest counties in 193 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: this country. Don't sit there and say to me, I 194 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: care about a healthy lifestyle when you weigh three hundred pounds. 195 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: It is not it is you know. The problem with 196 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: a lot of conservatives, I always say, is that they'll 197 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: sit there and say, I love you know, beautiful European 198 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: architecturally designed cities, and then they live in a suburb 199 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: with a cookie cutter house on a road that has 200 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: fifteen lane seats to the New York's Walmart. They'll sit 201 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,599 Speaker 1: there and say, I care all out my healthcare, so 202 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: I won't get a vaccine, but I eat garbage food 203 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 1: and I live a garbage lifestyle. And you know, I 204 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: would signed this to someone who was running for governor 205 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: of Texas. I won't say his name, but remember governor 206 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: of Texas, and we had a conversation, I said, people 207 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: live in East Texas and West Texas, Republican voters live 208 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: a decade shorter than people who live in Austin and Dallas, 209 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: the Democratic voters. You lose your own voters three election 210 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: cycles earlier simply because of our healthcare system. Now it's 211 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: not just that. I mean, there's drugs, are their cigarette smoking, 212 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: there's lifestyle habits, but all of those things are giant factors. 213 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: And when you look at the enormous drop in life 214 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: expectancy for working class people living credit cardback credit on 215 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: healthcare is a big, big, big issue that the Republicans 216 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: so far will not even venture in. And I think, 217 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: to their own I think it's their own problem. And 218 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: I don't have a healthcare solution. I'm not a policy wonk, 219 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: but I think that the answer of, oh, the free 220 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: market will just take care of it if we just 221 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: give it a chance. Maybe that's true, but the uncertainty 222 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: that comes with that is so uncomfortable for most average 223 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: show people who don't understand a lot of policy situations, 224 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: that it is to our detriment that we don't have 225 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: a more nuance solution. And look, you and I in 226 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: the last five minutes. I've probably talked more about it 227 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: than any Republican on a major platform has in the 228 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: last five years. Well, this is my concern from an 229 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: electoral perspective. Also is looking back at twenty eighteen, which 230 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: was the delayed Blue Wave. Remember election night, it was 231 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: like ah and then it actually no, they the Democrats 232 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: picked up a lot of seats. It was a very 233 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: strong Now they didn't win the Senate, but it was 234 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: a very strong House election for Democrats, and overwhelmingly from 235 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: what I remember, it was healthcare was actually the issue 236 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: that was a huge problem for Republicans in swing states 237 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: or swing districts. Why didn't they go Why didn't they 238 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: go to the Republican They with the Democrat because there 239 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: was this you know, Trump was still talking about repealing Obamacare, 240 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: and there was a big fight then over healthcare. And 241 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: I worry that in remember that was when you know 242 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 1: McCain and a skinny repeal and all that stuff was 243 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: going on. 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You should 278 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: subscribe to a substackt the National Populace newsletters, very informative 279 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: on politics and a range of issues. All right, Buddy, 280 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: Joe Biden definitely the Democrat nominee, probably or not so much. Definitely, 281 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: I don't see so the Democrats recently as they were 282 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: changing their electoral process in the primary, so South Carolina 283 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: because it was too white, Iowa, New Hampshire, So that's 284 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: South Carolina. Then I forget Iowa somewhere along, but oh no, 285 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: I was way back in South Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and 286 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: I think some one other state. And that is purposely 287 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: created in such a way that the Democratic Party is 288 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: going to lock out the Bernie bro far left grouping. 289 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: If this stays for the first stable future, there will 290 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: not be a progressive nominee. And this absolutely protects Biden 291 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: because the number one contributor to electing a Democrat nominee 292 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: for president is black, especially older Black women in the 293 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: Deep South. That every Democrat nominee relies on that voting 294 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: block for delegates, whether it be Hillary Obama, Biden, Clinton, 295 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, everyone besides John Kerry, who wrapped up the 296 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: nomination before Super Tuesday, has always relied on the black 297 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: Southern boat, especially if older Black women who are not progressive, 298 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: they don't like somebody like pe Buddha Jedge. I don't 299 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: know if they would even warm up to somebody like 300 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: Gavenusom though maybe, but that isn't That is the elector 301 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: that will controls the nomination process the Democratic Party, and 302 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: they love Joe Biden, and Joe Biden has secured there's 303 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: no one who's going to replace him, they'd have to 304 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: lose like the first or seven states and have a 305 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: real comeback attempt in a way we have never seen. 306 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: So I don't I don't foresee it any other way. 307 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden unless something happens, like he dies, he is 308 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: going to one of the nominee. And Kamala Harris is 309 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: somebody who do you think could not be by the 310 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: Democrat Party pushed aside, either as vice president or right 311 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: a situation where you're going to have Biden if Biden 312 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: says he's not going to run, or if Biden says 313 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: he is going to run and he's gonna he's gonna 314 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: have a different vice president on the ticket though, or 315 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: either of those situations that you think the Democrat Party 316 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: could manage and abide aside. He's not gonna push Kamal aside. 317 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: You're not going to see the white male president push 318 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: a black female, the first black female vice president, to 319 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: the side. It will never, ever, ever happen. There was 320 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: an interesting Twitter threat I read recently about the number 321 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: of federal judges and cabinet members Biden has selected. And 322 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: I think something like only five percent of all federal 323 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: judges and he's broken records for federal judges are white 324 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: men and like an enormous percentage versus the whole population 325 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: or black women. He is specifically tried to appeal to 326 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: that base over and over and over and over again 327 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: in every possible way that he can, including pushing discrimination 328 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: laws against white people with the farmers, with farmers getting 329 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: their money from the federal government, and aid with COVID relief. 330 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: A lot of governors were pushing where black women especially 331 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: got the first shot. Uh, that's that's just not never 332 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: going to happen as far as I could see, unless 333 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: he was replacing it with an even more extreme black 334 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: female candidate. It's never going to replace Kamalawum. If something 335 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: happened to Joe Biden and he could not run for 336 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: whatever reason, you would you would see a you know, 337 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: a free ferral. You would see Gavin news some run. 338 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 1: You would see maybe Gretchen Whitman run. You'd see definitely 339 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: the governor of Illinois, who was one of the richest 340 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: people in the country run. He probably spent a billion 341 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: dollars to run Um and then would see what happened. 342 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: But unless something happens to Joe Biden, you're not going 343 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: to see him Kawa. 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Trump de santists, how's it looking right now? 389 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: Breakdown for us, like if this was the super Bowl 390 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: and you were assessing each team's advantages, weaknesses and how 391 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: they stack up. How does a Trump desantist super Bowl 392 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: look to you? Well, from what I've heard from people 393 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: close with the Trump campaigns, they've kind of already kind 394 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: of conceded that New Hampshire and Iowa they may lose, 395 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: and they're putting all their work into South Carolina. It 396 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: is the state that has decided every Republican primary primary 397 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: election except for one twenty twelve when New Gangridge won it, 398 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: and I think that's where he feels he could rebound 399 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: in case. Iowa voters is a caucus, so it's all 400 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,719 Speaker 1: about organization, something that the Trump campaign was never famous for. 401 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: And New Hampshire is independent voters. They're swingy voters. They 402 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: kind of do what they want to do, and Trump, 403 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: according to the latest polls, area is extraordinarily unpopular among 404 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: especially college educated Republicans in New Hampshire. So I think 405 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: a lot of energy is going to be spent into 406 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: South Carolina de Santis. De Santis is There was a 407 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: great article in National Review. I think I can remember 408 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: who wrote it, Daniel something or other. But we don't 409 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: know a lot about DeSantis on a national level. We 410 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: know a lot of US As governor Florida on certain 411 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: culture war issues like immigration and education, he's been pivotal, 412 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: but I don't know that destants as a trade policy. 413 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: He voted for TPP. That's all I know he vote. 414 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: We have no idea really what his position is on military, 415 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: on foreign policy. There's a lot of open questions, and 416 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: I don't know what the team necessarily looks completely like 417 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: if he does does make a run. I think as 418 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: of right now, there's only two real candids versus Trump 419 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: and Descantis. I don't think that anyone so far who 420 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: is even you know, put their heads out say I 421 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: want to run like a Nicky Haley type, has any 422 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: chance in the world I gotta. I got a call 423 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: from one of Nicky Haley's consultants and they were like, 424 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: we're at nine percent in South Carolina. This is so great. 425 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: I go, she was governor there. Yeah, that's your best 426 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: date and your nine percent you're in real serious trouble, 427 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: Like you're not making traction with every anywhere. Um. I 428 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: think it just depends on now who else makes run. 429 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: The problem of running for president for voters is that 430 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: it's such a profitable business. Now there's no incentive not 431 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: to run for president. So we may see a calcar 432 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: of like clown Is that? Is that the the the 433 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: the clown car of candidates which we certainly had back 434 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. I think it was nineteen of them, 435 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: which was just maybe it was even twenty. It was crazy. 436 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: But if we even have six or seven candidates, does 437 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 1: that a dramatically favored Trump in your mind in terms 438 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: of the primary structure. Not necessarily, because once you lose, 439 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: once you go into Super Tuesday, which is at that 440 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: point only fifteen states have voted. After Super Tuesday, basically 441 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: it falls apart. There's it's very, very very rare in 442 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: American politics for it to be a competitive election after 443 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: Super Tuesday. Hillary and Bernie was a rare exception. I 444 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: didn't clear the field by Super Tuesday. Trump and Cruz. 445 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: Super Tuesday, Trump had the nomination, even though Cruz kept fighting. 446 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: It was it was over. They been saying, Wisconsin, Indiana, 447 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: these states will stop him. It was over. After Super Tuesday, 448 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: John Kerry clear the field. Bush clear the field from McCain. 449 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: So it's more than likely that the nomination is wrapped 450 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: by Obama. Hillary was a rare exception, but it is 451 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 1: more than likely wrapped by Super Tuesday. So the first 452 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: fifteen states that hold the competition will decide the nomination. 453 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: If Trump lose, like you know, I don't know half 454 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: of the states and to Super Tuesday, maybe he keeps going. 455 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: But if he loses these delegate rich winner take all 456 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: states like Florida, UM, and UH and doesn't do well 457 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: in a place like Texas, which has hundreds of of delegates, 458 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: it is very hard to see him want to go 459 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: to the nominating floor and lose there. And it's a 460 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 1: huge repudiation for former president. So I think that I 461 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: think that you know, time will only tell, but it 462 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: is just a big it's a big question to Santa's 463 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: or not de Santas or Trump and h and certainly 464 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,239 Speaker 1: if you would like to be either. Canada right now 465 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: the trajectory is into Santa's favor, according to every pole 466 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: that's out there. But once again, we're very very early 467 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: in the process. He's not even a nominating that's not 468 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: early in the process. Where are do you think that 469 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 1: in the In the one of the scenarios you outline there, 470 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: Let's say Trump is doing very poorly in the Republican primary. 471 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: It's clear it's not going to happen for him. Do 472 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: you think he'd run third party? Just because so several 473 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: states I think called a sore loser state, so a 474 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: loser law rather where if you run in a primary, 475 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: you cannot run independent in a general. States like Texas 476 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: have that law. There's other states that probably will consider 477 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: it very quickly if he's if he talks about doing that. 478 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: But also it's very hard to then get on the 479 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: ballot you run in twenty twenty four. The first elections 480 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: are in January, February March. By May, you have to 481 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: be on the ballot in most of these states. This 482 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: is why the third party candidates really are decided by June, 483 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: Trump did not Trump. Part of the reason Trump did 484 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: not win Wisconsin last time was because the Green Party 485 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: was denied ballot access in Wisconsin and the Libertarian Party 486 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: was not. Had they been denied, had they had ballot 487 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: access in such a tight state, it would have been 488 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: likely that he might have won that state. But it 489 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: is a very very very hard thing to do to 490 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: change gears from a Republican primary process to trying to 491 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: get ballot access. Last second, I don't think it's ever 492 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: been done. Some states it's easier to do. Maybe he 493 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: get ballacces in like New Hampshire or you know, some 494 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: of the easier states, but it would be very very 495 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: very difficult. Certainly not capable of doing it nationwide. Certainly 496 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: not a couple of capable of doing it in some 497 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: major states. So he could try, but I have a 498 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: hard time seeing how that's possible. Now, how do you 499 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: stack up Trump versus Biden if in fact that is 500 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: what the contest becomes. So these elections that are redos, 501 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: like redo elections, oftentimes do not favor the challenger the 502 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: second time because you're telling voters to acknowledge that they 503 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: made a mistake the first time. There's one major exception, 504 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: which is New Hampshire's first congressional district. It's on the east. 505 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,479 Speaker 1: It's a small district in the east sid of New 506 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: Hampshire congressional race where the two same two people ran 507 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: for a decade against each other and every two years 508 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: to flip back and forth with Those kinds of cases, though, 509 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: are rare where people sit there and say no, I'll 510 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: give you another shot, And usually they're in swing districts 511 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 1: that are just trying to emerge. I don't ever see 512 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: it really statewide except for Bill Clinton and Arkansas's governor. 513 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: But most of the time, if someone loses and then 514 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: tries to run again, voters do not give them the 515 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. Now, the economy's bad, who knows 516 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: where the world will be in a year and a 517 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 1: half from now. Maybe Trump can emerge. The problem with 518 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Joe Biden, for both candidates, is that 519 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the country has made their opinion 520 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: about him. There's not a huge swing factor where all 521 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: of a sudden you wake up and say, you know, 522 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: let me give this guy a second chance. I haven't 523 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: heard enough from him. YadA YadA, YadA. Maybe his positions 524 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: or untrue. And I think a problem from the Trump 525 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: campaign perspective if I was on that campaign is do 526 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: you remember there was a Sean Hannay interview in twenty 527 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: twenty where they asked, Seawan asked Trump, what's your term agenda? 528 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: And he didn't have an answer. I didn't see that though, 529 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: but he did. It was it was a famous interview. 530 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: He said what's your second term agenda? And Trump had 531 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: no answer for it, and there was no in twenty twenty, 532 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: there was no Republican itinerary that because of Jared Kushner 533 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: personally said that he wasn't he would you say? No answer? 534 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: Did he just say, like, probably doing the best things, 535 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: the most amazing all the things. It was a word salad. Okay, yes, 536 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: it was a salad of like no, it's a very 537 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: It was a very embarrassing answer, but it was no ant. 538 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: He couldn't answer. And then like a couple we started 539 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: came back on the show and Sean asked him the 540 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: same question again and he had, like, you know, we're 541 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: gonna keep making America grid against something like that. Um 542 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: but certainly no answer on COVID, certainly no answer on 543 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: whatever if the question if the campaign's theme, as it 544 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: seems right now is things were perfect right before twenty 545 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: twenty um, it leaves a lot to be desired. It 546 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: is not a very ambitious position to be in, and 547 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: not one where if you felt you know that your 548 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: life wasn't perfect in twenty nineteen or twenty eighteen, or 549 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: things weren't great, or the Boarder War wasn't built, or 550 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: whatever the cases, it leaves a lot to be decided. 551 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: It is not very forward looking, and that was what 552 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: Trump was so great about in twenty sixteen was it 553 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: was a very forward looking campaign with tangible, objective goals. 554 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: And I think that's really what's missing right now from 555 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign that I think should be there, that 556 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: it is not. Let's take a moment here for our 557 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: sponsor at the Tunal Ofth The Towers Foundation Tunleth the 558 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: Towers has been honoring America's heroes ever since the tragedy 559 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven. The Foundation honors fallen and severely 560 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: injured heroes and their families with mortgage free smart homes. 561 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: This year alone, hundreds of gold star and fallen first 562 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: responder families with young children, and our nation's most severely 563 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: injured veterans and first responders are receiving homes. 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But the messy and chaotic 579 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: and just completely bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, well, obviously it 580 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: was all those things, but I also got us out 581 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan when I had said along that by the 582 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: time people are actually voting on this, the Biden administration 583 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: won't be saying, yeah, we screwed up the withdrawal. They're 584 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: gonna be saying we withdrew from Afghanistan, and memories will 585 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: be a little hazy about the way in which it 586 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,719 Speaker 1: was done, and they will just say we got us 587 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: out of that war. The only thing I say that 588 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: maybe might not work in the Biden plan is I 589 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: heard the story. I don't know if it's true or not, 590 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: but I heard that the Taliban started selling weapons to 591 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: Russia that we left over there to combat Ukraine. So 592 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,719 Speaker 1: could be where all of a sudden, I mean, if 593 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: we're all of a sudden fighting American weapons that we 594 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: left over Afghanistan, it will be uh, it would not 595 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: be the one that's bad. That's a bad look, to 596 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: be sure. You know, it's interesting, Brian Ryan, Um, when 597 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: I was there, sorry, when I was there, Um, back 598 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: in uh in Afghanistan twenty ten, Afghanistan was providing like 599 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: ninety percent of the world's opium. That was where you 600 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: were getting. You know, there were some that was being 601 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: grown in South America and Peru and some in Mexico 602 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: and the cartels were transporting all this stuff in the States, 603 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: but Afghanistan was the one stop shop for all the 604 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: criminal syndicates all over the world basically to get you know, 605 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: opium from from the poppy plants. And it's interesting I 606 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: wonder how it how it has changed the financial realities 607 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: of the Taliban because with fentyl, which obviously has been 608 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: as a chemical process, you don't have to grow it anymore, 609 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: and you have a much more potent drug, much more 610 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: easy to transport, much harder for I think it's much 611 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: more difficult for like, um, you know, in a variety 612 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: of ways to transport it and everything else than fentanyl 613 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: would be. I don't know if dogs that was super 614 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: It's easier to smell heroin than it would be to 615 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: smell the pill former fentanyl. But I think it's changed 616 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: the game dramatically for how the Taliban can actually fund itself, 617 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,719 Speaker 1: so selling arms would Yeah, I'm they're still growing poppies, 618 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: obviously they're still selling it, but it's not the same 619 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: as it used to be. Right, Well, I'm just saying 620 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: is the problem with doing I mean, I think we 621 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: should have gone out of Afghanistan a decade ago, but 622 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: that would look like a black eye. And I just 623 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: don't think that foreign policy is the high profile thing. Now, 624 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: if you know, a terrorist goes off in the United 625 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: States that came through the southern border, considering we're capturing 626 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: the fifty, you know, a month, it feels like or 627 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: a quarter in our southern border suspected terrorists on the 628 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,839 Speaker 1: watch list, we'll see what how foreign policy has looked 629 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: at from that state. I just don't think it is 630 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 1: a high priority, you know. And the bigger problem is 631 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,839 Speaker 1: is that for most Republicans, they have been more they 632 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: have not learned to be less hawkish. I mean, you 633 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: have miss McConnell, who I don't hate Miss McConnell, but 634 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: Miss McConnell did say over and over again Ukraine's the 635 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: number one issue for Americans. And there's not a single 636 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: American really, you know, outside of Washington, d you see, 637 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: or in the military industrial complex that feels that way. So, 638 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: you know, luckily, I mean, here's the thing is that 639 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: when we have a candidate and nomination process, you're going 640 00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:00,320 Speaker 1: to see the complete splintering of Republicans on it issues. 641 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: So where Republicans or where the priority is on foreign policy, 642 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,800 Speaker 1: Let's say it happens by November, you will see a 643 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: hawkish canon like Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley really gained some traction, 644 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: it is not. And if Republicans really don't have the 645 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: stomach for long military engagements, as they don't, because for 646 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 1: the last twenty years, the people who have paid the 647 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: price of military adventurism has only been read State America, 648 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: it's been read County America. Then I have a hard 649 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: time seeing these hawkish views gaining any traction and seeing 650 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: these candidates who have these hawkishus getting any intraction. And 651 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: if you see even in Congress right now or the Senate, 652 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: the candidates who have a more i'll say quote unquote 653 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: debbish position or a hesitant position on foreign engagements certainly 654 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: have increased their numbers in the Congress in a way 655 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: that we would have never seen twenty years ago. So 656 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: that's optimistic to see. So that's how I have very 657 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 1: hard time seeing how they're going to gain traction in 658 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: the presidential and I think that's just not a high 659 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: priority and lessening dramatic changes. But listen, Russia invading Ukraine 660 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: did not change it to make it a high enough issue. 661 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,839 Speaker 1: Why didn't inflation hurt Biden more because the number one 662 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: projection of inflation is the gas pump. And well two reasons. One, 663 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 1: because gas was going down, it's the number one sign. 664 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 1: And secondly, for many parts of this country that are 665 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: suburban areas, it is almost too wealthy to be heavily 666 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 1: impacted by inflation. Now maybe it's starting to you're starting 667 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: to see like sixty something percent of Americans over one 668 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year paycheck by paycheck. But the 669 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: comfortable middle upper middle class of the suburbs that used 670 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: to vote Republican on issues of crime and issues of 671 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: the economy are too wealthy and too safe to be impacted. 672 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: So culture issues are a higher priority to them than 673 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: they use to be, and that is why they genuflect 674 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,360 Speaker 1: to BLM and trans rights and everything like that to 675 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 1: show their fellow white college educated neighbors mostly how wonderful 676 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,280 Speaker 1: they are as people. And it's that great insular sorting 677 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,879 Speaker 1: that Charles Murray talked about in his books that has 678 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 1: prevented really the upper middle class of America to see 679 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: the anxieties of working class people. They don't, they're never 680 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: around them. I mean, it's just you know, if you 681 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: know people who are not rich, they're not billionaires, but 682 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: they are certainly upper middle class. How many people they 683 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: live around don't have a college degree. What colleges did 684 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 1: they go? Did they go to community college? Very few 685 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: of them did, unless they just started making their money 686 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: their children certainly not So this great sort has definitely 687 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 1: not seen people with people with anxiety. Economic anxiety are 688 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 1: not end social anxiety over things like immigration are not 689 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,399 Speaker 1: around those who feel that way. What do you think 690 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: is the area of greatest weakness for Democrats? That if 691 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 1: Republicans are effective in messaging, they can gain the most 692 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: ground for the next election cycle. Immigration certainly very very 693 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 1: very high, But the two major things are going to 694 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: be I think that they're going to have to walk 695 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: away from the conversations over national abortion ban. I just 696 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: think it's too toxic and they're going to have to 697 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: walk away. Even though they have state restrictions or fine, 698 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: a national abortion ban is too toxic. People view it differently, 699 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be I think the 700 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 1: area they can make the most progress, and especially among 701 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: working class communities, is crime and immigration. I think that 702 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: crime is the key to winning over large segments of Asians. 703 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: You know, I had a friend who's an Asian activist. 704 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 1: I guess the Asian community activists who lifelong Democrat was 705 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: getting thousands of them to vote Republican in the New 706 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:01,520 Speaker 1: York election for governor and very successful winning Asian Republican 707 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 1: seats throughout New York City. But sat there and said, 708 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: we need commercial show what's the crime? We see it 709 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 1: on our phones every day and we know that no 710 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 1: one wearing a Maga hat is hitting our Asian grandmas. 711 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: It's they can read fbiatistics better than a white college 712 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:22,840 Speaker 1: educate a person who probably can. So it's uh so, 713 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,879 Speaker 1: I think the crime and immigration on the two biggest things, 714 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 1: especially as the refugeene asylum crisis is hitting. You know. Ever, 715 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: there was a story I don't know if you saw 716 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: us in Rhode Island where teachers were crowdfunding to pay 717 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 1: off a cartel member who were bringing in students into 718 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 1: Rhode Island to pay off their cartel feesee that headline. Yeah, So, 719 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,560 Speaker 1: I mean this has hit such a precipice when New 720 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 1: York City is buckling, and this is only going to 721 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 1: get worse over the next year, where local communities are 722 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: genuinely affected. And I really do think that aside from 723 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,800 Speaker 1: the cartel hell crime that's coming in, you're going to 724 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: see a possible either terrorists attack, thwarted or possibly successful. 725 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,880 Speaker 1: You're having too many people come to this border, fifty 726 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,839 Speaker 1: a quarter, sixty a quarter who are on the terrorist 727 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: watch list. This is going to some of them are 728 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: going to get through, and who knows who they are. 729 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,759 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying could be a nine eleven but 730 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: it could certainly be a San Bernardidas type situation. It's 731 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: not that difficult for something to execute. And we'll say, 732 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I think the immigration now crime are the 733 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,320 Speaker 1: two biggest, two biggest. Thanks for working class people to 734 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,880 Speaker 1: start moving and even some suburban people in places like 735 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,040 Speaker 1: Long Island or you know, some suburbs in some other 736 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 1: big areas. Ryan, your dusk. Everybody's a very wise man. 737 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,879 Speaker 1: Follow him on a sub stack the National Populist newsletter. Ryan, 738 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, buddy. We'll have you back. 739 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us, ye