1 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: On this episode of news World. I am really excited 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: to be sharing with you some work that makes clear 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: that restoring the America that Works is an idea big 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: enough that it creates the potential for a new American majority. 5 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: And I'm going to spend a few minutes sharing with 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: you what we've learned and sharing with you the key 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: things that have to be done. This is a historic moment, 8 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: and it's a moment worth really thinking about and paying 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: attention to. I've been doing a great deal of work 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: going all the way back to twenty eighteen when I 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: got a call from an old friend, Bernie Marcus, who 12 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: was a co founder of Home Depot. Bernie was really 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: concerned about the country. Ask me, given my background working 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: with Reagan and then developing the Contract with America and 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: the first House Republican majority in forty years, is there 16 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: a way to pull together the big issues, the big themes, 17 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: the concepts that would let us have a real American majority, 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: not a Republican majority, but an American majority. The goal 19 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: was to really think patriotically about how do we solve 20 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: the many challenges that we have as a country, and 21 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: how do we develop enough popular support that people will 22 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: be able to actually get things done, despite the bureaucracy, 23 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: despite the news media, despite all the resistance from different 24 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: interest groups. Well, I've been working on it ever since. 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: It's a big project that's fascinating. And I went back 26 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: and thought about the time I'd spent starting in nineteen 27 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: seventy four when I first met with then Governor Reagan, 28 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: and thought about the times I'd spent with Prime Minister 29 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: Thatcher and the job they had both on which were 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: quite amazing. And working then with John McLaughlin and others, 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: including Dave Winston, we were able to put together a 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: really serious approach that we thought would potentially create a majority. 33 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: And then something happened which frankly changed the world. The 34 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: Biden administration failed so decisively on so many fronts. They 35 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: failed with the effort to create an economy that worked. 36 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: They failed by closing down opportunities for the American oil 37 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: and gas industry, driving the price of gasoline to what, 38 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: as I speak to you now, is already a record high, 39 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: and it is going to go higher. They failed with 40 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: a series of policies which release criminals back onto the 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: street again and again. What we found was that things 42 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: just weren't working parents learned during the whole process of 43 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: dealing with the COVID crisis and having a chance to 44 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: see what their children were actually being taught. They were 45 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: appalled and realized all of a sudden that they didn't 46 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: want their kids taught that stuff. So then you had 47 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: a crisis with education. And people then began to look 48 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: at the challenge of competing with China, and they really 49 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: began to understand that we had a big problem. So 50 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: from that framework, we began to go out and a key, simple, 51 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: old fashioned term showed up, and that is developing the 52 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: idea that we have to restore the America the works. 53 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: Notice it's not conservative, it's not a liberal, it's not republican, 54 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: it's not democrat in the sense that William James, the 55 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: philosopher once said pragmatism was the one true American contribution 56 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: to philosophy. Pragmatism meaning being in touch with reality, allowing 57 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: a reality to inform how you're thinking. Turns out Americans 58 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: are very pragmatic people. You go out and you can't 59 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: find infant formula, you say it ain't working. You're afraid 60 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: to go in the street at night because of drive 61 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: by shootings, carjackings, murderers, robberies. You say it ain't working. 62 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: You watch, literally as I'm talking to you, a caravan 63 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: that may have as many as fifteen thousand people. I 64 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: remember fifteen thousand people in World War Two was the 65 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: size of an entire infantry division. That's the size of 66 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: the convoy currently coming north through Mexico, and which you 67 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: and I both know the Biden administration has no clue 68 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: about how to deal with. So you go from topic 69 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: to topic to topic. And what we discovered, and I 70 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: believe in polling just as Reagan did, because I really 71 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: want to know what the American people want. Because when 72 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: Lincoln said government of the people, by the people, and 73 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: for the people, that does suggest that leadership ought to 74 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: pay attention to the people. What we found was, because 75 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: this is such a total mess, that eighty seven percently 76 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: American people support the concept that we must restore the 77 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: America that works. Now think about that. That's almost nine 78 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: of the very ten people. Now that's a big majority. 79 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: And that's what I describe as potentially the new American majority, 80 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: far broader than the Republican Party, includes a huge number 81 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: of Democrats, includes an amazing number of African Americans, Latino Americans, 82 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: Asian Americans, Native Americans, includes young people that the whole people. 83 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: For a practical reason, go out and fill up your 84 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: car when close to the other week came home having 85 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: just paid one hundred and four dollars and fifty cents 86 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: and she has a sedan that doesn't take that much. Ghastly, 87 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: she was a state of shock. And so people are 88 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: looking around saying, you know, this is a real problem. 89 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: Two of the members of our team have had babies 90 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: recently and they're looking at getting infant formula, and you 91 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: suddenly throw us this is America, some towns in their 92 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: entire states where the shortage resembles the third World. So 93 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: the concept that we want to restore the America that works, 94 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: I think can be unifying and can bring together a majority, 95 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: a massive majority. And so I think in that framework 96 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: that it's really worth exploring in detail. And what you 97 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: find is that it's not just a simple slogan. But 98 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: when you start asking people what are the values that matter, 99 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: you begin to get a consistent pattern. I'm going to 100 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: share them with you. These are I know a fair 101 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: number of numbers. You can see all of us in writing. 102 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 1: If you want to go to American Majority Project dot com, 103 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: and all of this is listed there, and the paper 104 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 1: that was the base of all this is listed there. 105 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: But I want to share them with you and talk 106 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: about them. So in the middle of all of this 107 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: effort to talk about white privilege and to tell young 108 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: seven year old white girls that they're inherently guilty by 109 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: the act of having been born white, all the stuff 110 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: you read about in schools, the kind of biases you 111 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: see in big corporations and at places like Harvard University. 112 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: When you ask people, do you agree with Reverend Martin 113 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: Luther King, Jr. That the content of our character should 114 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: matter more than the color of our skin, ninety one 115 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: percent agree. There's more than nine every ten Americans, which 116 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: tells me that the first answer to every single stupid 117 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: left wing comment by a newspaper reporter or a journalist 118 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: or an interviewer that implies racism should be met by 119 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: quoting Reverend King. Similarly, when we asked the question do 120 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: you favor equal treatment regardless of race when it comes 121 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: to education, jobs, healthcare, and government services, ninety one percent 122 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: want equal treatment for all Americans. Furthermore, despite every effort 123 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: of the left to smear the United States to tell 124 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: us that this is a country where you shouldn't stand 125 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: for the national anthem, you shouldn't say the pledge of allegiance. 126 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: Eighty eight percent of Americans agree that America is a 127 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: good country. That's important because it says to me, there 128 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: is still a very healthy patriotic base upon which you 129 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: can build a new American majority, and the support for 130 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: some specific things. When ask about healthcare price transparency, should 131 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: you be able to know what things cost? And do 132 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: you think if we had healthcare price transparency it would 133 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: help you control costs and increase access to healthcare? Eighty 134 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: seven percent of the American people will say yes. Now 135 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: that says to me, to doctors, to hospitals, to insurance companies, 136 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: to the federal government and state government, we ought to 137 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: be able to tell people what it's going to cost 138 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: him and have them have an informed choice based in 139 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: real information. Despite every effort of the left to attack 140 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: the concept of requiring a photoid, and you'll hear all 141 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: sorts of left wingers say all sorts of terrible things 142 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: about this idea, but the fact is eighty five percent 143 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: of all Americans believe you should require every voter to 144 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: show photoid beforecasting about it. I'll think about that after 145 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: all this talk. The kind of votes in the House 146 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: and Senate where left wing Democrats just go off the 147 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: cliff of trying to block knowing who you are eighty 148 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: five percent of the country. In a common sense way, 149 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: it says, well, of course, you ought to be able 150 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: to prove who you are, otherwise some people will cheat. 151 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: Almost as many eighty four percent believe that the founding 152 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: ideals of America are something worth fighting for. Now, after 153 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: everything we've heard from all of our left wing friends, 154 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: after the New York Times truly historically stupid and accurate 155 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: sixteen nineteen project, after every effort to teach us says 156 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: somehow the constitutions of sale the Founding Fathers don't matter, 157 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: eighty four percent of the country says, wait a second, 158 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: the Founding ideas of America are real and they're worth 159 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: fighting for. A similar percentage, By the way, eighty four 160 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: percent think that parents should be able to see all 161 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: curriculum plans and material for classes their children take. This 162 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: is gonna be one of the great fights for the 163 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: next few years. The Teachers Union committed to radical left 164 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: wing views supporting the worst possible teachers as long as 165 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: the union members basically putting the children last. Having developed 166 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: schools and places like Baltimore where nobody learns anything, those 167 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: unions are now going to find themselves taken head on 168 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: by people who are supporting educational freedom and who believe 169 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: that we should adopt whatever it takes so that every 170 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: young American can learn enough to have a good job, 171 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 1: learn enough to be a good citizen, and learn enough 172 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: to compete in the world with people like the Chinese. Again, 173 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: think about that eighty four versus the Teachers Union. And 174 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: of course the teachers Union uses its muscle and its 175 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: power and the dues that people pay to it in 176 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: order to buy so much influence the Democratic Party that 177 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: historically the Democratic Party is almost a subsidiary of the 178 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: Teachers Union. But the American people believe you should trust 179 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: the parents more than the union. Hi, this is newt 180 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: I will be on talk shoplive dot com Monday, June 181 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: twentieth at six pm Eastern, and I'll be offering autograph 182 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: copies of my new book, Defeating Big Government Socialism, Saving 183 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: America's Future. You can go to the talkshop live dot 184 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: com home page right now and find my book there 185 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: or search my name and get my new book Defeating 186 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: Big Government Socialism. And I'll be live this Monday, June 187 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: twentieth on Talkshoplive dot com at six pm Eastern. Again, 188 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: that's Talkshoplive dot com. I hope you'll join me. Interesting 189 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: me after all this talk about a race and identity, 190 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: eighty three prefer to identify themselves as Americans rather than 191 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: by their racial or ethnic background. I think about that. 192 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: That's more than eight out of every ten Americans believe 193 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: I'd like you to think of me as an American, 194 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: not as a African American or Latino American, or White 195 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: American or Native American or an Asian American. Who just 196 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: think it means an American. Now, that's a pretty good base. 197 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: When asked, should people who believe in the values found 198 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: in the Bible have the right to express them publicly? 199 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: Seventy nine, almost four or every five Americans. So yeah, 200 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: this really matters because on the left there is an 201 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: enormous effort underway to make it impossible to explain Biblical values, 202 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: to explain the core beliefs, and this is going to 203 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: be a major fight of the next few years as 204 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: people who whether you're a Christian or you're Jewish, do 205 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: you have the right to publicly express your beliefs even 206 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: if it's going to make some most secular left wingers uncomfortable. 207 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: The left wing would use government to censor you. But 208 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: the fact is seventy nine percent of Americans believe you 209 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: have that right. Three out of four Americans seventy five 210 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: believe that we could fix healthcare by putting patients and 211 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: doctors in charge instead of insurance companies and big governments 212 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: of US. I think a very important point. Over the 213 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: last thirty or forty years, the bureaucracies, whether it's the 214 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: private bureaucracy of the insurance companies or the public bureaucracy 215 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: of the government, state and federal, have gradually taken over 216 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: more and more control. So an unknown bureaucrat, often without 217 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: a medical degree, who has never seen you as a patient, 218 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: sets up rules and regulations that decide what's going to 219 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: happen to you, when in fact it should be you 220 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: and your doctor, the person is actually looking directly at you, 221 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: who should be able to make those kind of decisions. Interestingly, 222 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: and this will be very controversial given all the talk 223 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: about genders, and the effort by the federal government, which 224 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: is I think totally unc institutional, which is threatening to 225 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: take away school lunch programs from schools that don't follow 226 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: the exact rules issued by the Biden administration. Ironically, despite 227 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: all the efforts on the left, seventy five percent American 228 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: people agree that they're only two genders, male and female. 229 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: Much of that, of course, is a reflection of their 230 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: biblical belief that God created Adam and Eve. He just 231 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: created two, and that deep underlying belief has a practical matter. 232 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: When you're born, we can kind of look at you 233 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: and figure out you're a boy, you're a girl. Goes 234 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: so violently against the transgender, semi religious, secular belief system 235 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: that it's going to be a great shock for left 236 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: wing politicians to learn and for conservative and centrist politicians 237 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: to have the courage to just sign with seventy five 238 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: percent of the country. I mean, it's not twenty five 239 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: far less than twenty believe that we should learn sixty 240 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: three different gender titles. But the fact is that the 241 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: pressures from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and the New 242 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: York Times of the Washington Post, etc. Have all created 243 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: this totally false vision of how the American people believe. 244 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: One of the things I found when I was running 245 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: for office and then candidate Reagan in nineteen sixty five 246 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: called for welfare reform, and Reagan always believed and set 247 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: over and over again that a job is the best 248 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: social program. Well, the American people agree seventy four percent, 249 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: that's basically three out of four believe able bodied adults 250 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: should have to work to receive taxpayer funded benefits such 251 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: as food stamps, healthcare, or welfare. Now, I have a 252 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: particular interest in this topic because, both as a candidate 253 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: in the Contract of America and then as Speaker, we 254 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: passed the most solid conservative welfare reform bill in American history. 255 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: We literally picked up on the nineteen sixty five Reagan 256 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: proposals and thirty one years later we passed them into law, 257 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: and they had a remarkable impact. People went back to work, 258 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: people got better salaries, they began to rise. More children 259 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: left poverty in the last few years of the Clinton 260 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: administration when we had passed welfare reform than any other 261 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: time in American history, and since then, the left, which 262 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: for some reason is deeply anti work. The left loves 263 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: making you dependent on the state. They want you to 264 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: have to reply on the government for money, and the 265 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: result is, I think, a really big challenge. I believe 266 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 1: that one of the first things we should be doing 267 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: is passing work requirements for the very purpose of helping 268 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: people get off of dependency. Learn how to get a job, 269 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: learn how to show up for work, learn how to rise. Furthermore, 270 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: while seventy four percent believe able body adults should have 271 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: to work to receive taxpayer funded benefits, the same number 272 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: seventy believe that we should ensure equality or equal treatment 273 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: and opportunities for all races and gender, not ensure equity 274 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: or equal results and outcomes. Americans are very clear about this, 275 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: and of course, if you look at sporting events, you 276 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: see how deep this pattern is. Americans want the best 277 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: team to win. They don't believe that the Lombardi Trophy 278 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: should be given to every single team in the NFL 279 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,719 Speaker 1: every year so they don't feel bad. You know. They 280 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: don't believe that the Stanley Cups should be given to 281 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: every single team that plays hockey so they don't feel bad. 282 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: Americans instinctively believe that you ought to have an equal 283 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: opportunity an equal chance to get out there, but that 284 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: you should not be trapped into a system where some 285 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: people were automatically going to get results without earning it 286 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: and without trying. That's seventy four percent of the country. 287 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: Almost three out of every four. Seventy one percent believe 288 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: legal immigration is good for America, And we're actually developing 289 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: a movie about American exceptionalism build around legal immigrants. People 290 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: who came to America illegally have had remarkable lives, have 291 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: strengthened the country, and over seven out of every ten 292 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: Americans believe that legal immigration is good for America. At 293 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: the same time, seventy three percent believe illegal immigration is 294 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: bad for the country. So it is totally appropriate to 295 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: favor legal immigration while opposing illegal immigration, and I think 296 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: that's a very important policy development for the future. Finally, 297 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: faced with fentanyl and other drugs, faced with people dye 298 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: from the drug overdoses, seventy percent of the American people 299 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: believe that the drug cartels operating on our southern border 300 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: should be designated as terrorists. People are sick and tired 301 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: of having people in their town, people they know, either 302 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: committing suicide or dying from drug overdoses. And they want 303 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: an effective government. This is part again in the concept 304 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: of an America that works. Part of that works ought 305 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: to be to be able to protect your child from dying, 306 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: to be able to protect your neighborhood from the drug cartels. Now, 307 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: what we found equally interesting was even when you began 308 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: to enter the word republican, the fact is that if 309 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: it was tied to the right big issues, something like 310 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: sixty two percent American people are ready to support those 311 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: issues even with the word republican attached. Now, I believe 312 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: that if we focus on the big solutions, that number 313 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: might grow. But I think it's very important to recognize 314 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: that there's something happening in America that in response to 315 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: the failures of government every level, in response to the 316 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: failures not just to the Biden administration, but the failures 317 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: of bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy, the failures of rules 318 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: and regulations that punish production, that punish work, that punish 319 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: small business, that Americans really do desperately want to restore 320 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: the America that works. In that setting, I think that 321 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: we have a huge opportunity to move ahead, and in 322 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: my mind, having done some of this before, I think 323 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: that there are some specific things that we can do. 324 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: But I will say, as a starting point, if you 325 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: really want to understand a lot more deeply the background 326 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: that I rely on, I'm going to suggest to you 327 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: four books. Claire Burlynski wrote a remarkable small book called 328 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: There Is No Alternative Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. This is 329 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: a brilliant book in which Claire points out that Thatcher 330 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty four believed that she 331 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: was on a crusade to destroy socialism. She described socialism 332 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: as immral, as destroying the very fabric of Britain. She 333 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: once said the problem with socialism as it runs out 334 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: of other people's money to spend. But she really attacked 335 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: it head on as an essentially im moral view of 336 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: the world in which one group would steal from another group. 337 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: So if you were productive and you worked hard, you 338 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: did the right things your whole life, you were in 339 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: constant danger of the government reaching in and either stealing 340 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: your money or setting a set of rules with the 341 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: government told you what you're allowed to do, and the 342 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: government told you the life you're allowed to lead. She 343 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: won that argument, and she had often said first you 344 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: win the argument, then you win the vote. She won 345 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: that argument so decisively that for the last forty years 346 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: there has not been a single openly left wing candidate 347 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. And in fact, Tony 348 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: Blair and bringing the Labor Party back into power, did 349 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: so with what he called New Labor, and new Labor 350 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: was in fact basically Thatcherism. A famous historian, Paul Johnson 351 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: said that Tony Blair was actually psychologically Margaret Thatcher's adopted son. 352 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: He was more like Thatcher than the Conservative leader John 353 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: Major's who replaced her. And I think that's right. So 354 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: I think if you want to see how you can 355 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: fight to fundamentally defeat the left and to win the 356 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: argument about morality and about ideas, Claire Burlenski's there is 357 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: no alternative Why Margaret Thatcher matters. It's a great introduction. Now, 358 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: I will also say that I tell every group I 359 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: talk to they should read Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive. 360 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: It's a remarkable book. It's only about one hundred and 361 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: sixty eight pages. I tell people to buy it and paperback, 362 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: underline it. We read it once a year until they 363 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: thoroughly understand it. And the fact is I first read 364 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: it in nineteen sixty nine. It changed my life. It's 365 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: an amazingly powerful book and I would urge you to 366 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: consider it. And it relates to being effective. And if 367 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: we're going to restore the America the works, I think 368 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: we have to learn lessons from people like Peter Drucker 369 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 1: about what were the things that work, How did America 370 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: become such an astonishingly successful country, and what are the 371 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: basic rules we need to apply to once again take 372 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: off and lead the world and being the most productive 373 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: and prosperous and safe country in the world. Third, if 374 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: you really want to understand how to fundamentally win big arguments, 375 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: Tom Evans wrote a remarkable small book called The Education 376 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: of Ronald Reagan. Evans studied Reagan's eight years at General 377 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: Electric and he noticed that Reagan really learned an immense amount. 378 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: The vice president of employee relations who hired Reagan this 379 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: was at the end of Reagan's movie career, and he 380 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: hired Reagan to come and basically be the public faith 381 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: of a major, massive educational campaign. The problem they faced 382 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: at GE back then was that they had seven unions 383 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: and five of them had literally communist leaders, I mean 384 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 1: people who are openly communist, just like the recently recalled 385 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: district attorney in San Francisco, CHESSA. Bodine. And he couldn't 386 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: negotiate with these communist leaders because they had no interest 387 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: in being reasonable. But what he could do was he 388 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: could so educate their members that they would not vote 389 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: for a strike because they know that it was economically irrational. 390 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: And so they developed a General Electric a remarkable employee 391 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: education program, and they brought in Reagan to help be 392 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: just the pleasant, positive guy that let people relax. Reagan 393 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: made I think something like four hundred and seventy five 394 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: speeches over an eight year period at factories, at all 395 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: sorts of warehouses, talked with blue collar work, took questions. 396 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: It was a great preparation for running for office. And 397 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: in the process he learned a key thing. If you 398 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: educate people and you move the majority, then their leaders 399 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 1: have to follow. And so the leaders of the unions, 400 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: if they were going to survive, had to follow what 401 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: their members believed. It was a remarkably powerful and remarkably 402 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: effective approach, and it had a huge impact on General Electric, 403 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: and it had a huge impact on Ronald Reagan. As 404 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: I said earlier, I first met with Reagan in nineteen 405 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 1: seventy four, and he spent some time teaching me how 406 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: he gave speeches, which was just enormously helpful and shaped 407 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: the whole rest of my career. But even though I'd 408 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: worked with him as a candidate and I worked with 409 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: him when he was president, I'd never fully understood strategically 410 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: how methodical he was until I read Tom Evans book. 411 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: It's not a very big book, The Education of Ronald Reagan. 412 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: I think you'll find it very helpful. And finally, a 413 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: brief commercial from my own book. We have a brand 414 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: new book coming out called Defeating Big Government Socialism. I 415 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: think this is the most important argument we're going to 416 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: have in the next four to six years. We found 417 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: that when we asked the question do you prefer free 418 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: market capitalism or big government socialism, that free market capitalism 419 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: won by fifty nine to sixteen, with the rest undecided. 420 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: When you forced a decision among the swing voters, it 421 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: turned out to be like eighty two to eighteen in 422 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: favor of free market capitalism over big government socialism. I 423 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: think it's very important to get across the America is 424 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: not working, not just because we have you know who 425 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: whacked out president and even more whacked out vice president, 426 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: and a left wing dictatorship in the House, and a 427 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: kind of clumsy, confused left winger in charge of the Senate. 428 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: This is not a personnel problem. This is not about 429 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: the failure of individuals. They believe in a set of 430 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: values which do not work. And if we're going to 431 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: restore the America that works, we're going to have to 432 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: go back and win the argument about why they have 433 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,479 Speaker 1: failed and what the policies would be that would succeed. Now, 434 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: as I said, you can find all sorts of information 435 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: American Majority Project dot com and on our show page. 436 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: We'll have a link see that you can go there. 437 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: We'll also have the four books I mentioned. But in addition, 438 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: I just want to close by giving you a sense 439 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: of the key things that we're working on. And again, 440 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: having worked with John McLachlin, and with Dave Winston and 441 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: Myirah Miller, and with Scott Rasmussen, we've really had very 442 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: very smart students of public knowledge. Also have to mention 443 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: Robert Kahale of Trafalgar, Matt Towrey of Insider, advantage. These 444 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: folks have all been very, very helpful in helping us 445 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: think about these things. Here are some thoughts I have 446 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: based on having spent so many years trying to create 447 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: a majority, having helped create the Reagan sweep of eighty 448 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: and then having helped create the Republican majority for the 449 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: first time in forty years with a contract with America 450 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four. I have seven key starting points. 451 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: One talk about a new American majority, not a Republican majority, 452 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: but learned to plan, think, and act for the American majority. 453 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: That means, too, focus on a new American majority, which 454 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: requires broadening the base rather the base mobilization strategies. All 455 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: too many Republican candidates and consultants focus on how do 456 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: we maximize turnout among people who already for us. But 457 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: this is a new opportunity when you have eighty seven 458 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: percent of the country the thanks, so it's important that 459 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: we restore the America that works. You can reach out 460 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: everywhere and have new supporters. Reaching all of that majority 461 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: requires new thinking about policy, development, language, scheduling, coalition building. 462 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: This is a new world, and as Lincoln said in 463 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: his message to Congress in December of eighteen sixty two 464 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: as our challenges, anew our thinking must be a new three. 465 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: The current crisis of the American system from failing education 466 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: to baby formula shortages, to rising crime rates, to surging gasoline, 467 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: diesel and heating oil prices, to an open and uncontrolled border, 468 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: to an assault in American values by a big government, socialist, 469 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: woke left coalition. These things are so big they require 470 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: big solutions. Now. When I became Speaker, we took on 471 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: solutions like reforming the entire welfare system, reforming the Food 472 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: and Drug administration, balancing the federal budget for four straight 473 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: years in a row. And that means he have to 474 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: have solutions which require broad support, to force change on 475 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: a hostile establishment, and to sustain the change despite vicious 476 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: and ferocious attacks from the left fourth. The American people 477 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: really are frustrated and in pain. They want a movement 478 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: dedicated to practical, workable solutions that will improve their lives. 479 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: One of the reasons Republican governors are doing so much 480 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: better than democratic governors. Republican governors are pretty consistently practical, 481 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: open minded, trying to figure out how to make things work. 482 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: They're not trapped by the teachers Union. They're not trapped 483 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: by left wing ideologues, they're not trapped by handfuls of 484 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: ideological crazies, and so they're actually able to deliver a 485 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: better quality of life. And you can just go from 486 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: state after state that has Republican government compared to the 487 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: mess in New York, or the mess in Illinois, or 488 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: the mess in California, and you can see the difference. 489 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: So the American people and this frustration and this pain 490 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: really want to focus on practical, workable solutions that will 491 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: improve their lives. And that means that the new American 492 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: majority will grow by delivering better results than the big 493 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: government socialists and then explaining the results as fundamental differences 494 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: in principle rather than personal capabilities. Fifth, it's essential to 495 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: remember that politics is the prelude to governing. And I 496 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: must say, as somebody has been active in the Publican 497 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: Party for a long time, this is a major problem 498 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: for Republicans because they have people who think only about 499 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: winning campaigns and don't have any thought about therefore, what 500 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: are you going to do with them? And I am 501 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: totally opposed to the idea that if you can just 502 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: raise enough money to run enough negative ads that's fine, 503 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: it's not fine. People need to know what you're committed to, 504 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: what you're going to do, and then they need to 505 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: hold you accountable for doing it, and then you begin 506 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: to build a long term government. The New American Majority 507 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: passed to like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, 508 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,479 Speaker 1: and Ronald Reagan. They have to develop because they use 509 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: political momentum to create governing solutions that improve people's lives 510 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: and achieve goals of people strongly support six. It is 511 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: essential to stay positive and focused on cultural and political 512 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: issues on which the New American Majority can agree. The 513 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: establishment will do everything again to draw us and de 514 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: fights that distract us from the areas in which our 515 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: new American Majority will dominate. They will also seek to 516 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: focus on every bit of gossip, internal tension, or other 517 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: distraction to minimize our ability to communicate with the American 518 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,959 Speaker 1: Majority about issues that bring us together and motivate us 519 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: to win. Irrelevant or trivial noise is the enemy of 520 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 1: growing a majority. Clarity, consistency, and firmness of purpose are 521 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: the keys to attracting, educating, and holding together a new 522 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: American Majority. Finally, this new American majority grows out of 523 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: the people's desire for a better future and a more 524 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: stable value system. So it is essential for those who 525 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: would lead the majority to be constantly listening to the 526 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: American people and trying to learn how they are thinking 527 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: and how to respond to the extraordinary pressures of our time. 528 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: I believe we're at a historic juncture. I think this 529 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,240 Speaker 1: is what Reagan understood, certainly what Lincoln understood, what FDR understood. 530 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,919 Speaker 1: We now are at a moment in time when if 531 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: we don't fix our country, we could lose it. We're 532 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: at a moment in time, or if we don't fix 533 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: our school system, if we don't fix our commitment to 534 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: manufact acturing here at home, if we don't fundamentally overhaul 535 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: the Pentagon and the intelligence services, we could literally cease 536 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: to be capable of defending ourselves. We're moving from peace 537 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: through strength to survival through strength, because we're in a 538 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: much much more dangerous world than we've been in since 539 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: the end of World War Two. So I hope you 540 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: will find it useful to realize that restoring the America 541 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: that works is a huge idea. It leads to a 542 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: particular kind of creative, solution oriented, pragmatic approaches, and if 543 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: you do it right, there will be a new American 544 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: majority that will totally repudiate big government socialism and lead 545 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: America back into being the freest, the safest, the most 546 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: prosperous country in the world. I hope you found this 547 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: really useful, and I hope you will go to American 548 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 1: Majority Project dot com for any additional information and for 549 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: all the things we're working on and Discovery News World 550 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: is produced by Gingwish three sixty and iHeartMedia. 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