1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: It is the seventh of January twenty twenty five, and 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: there are thirteen days remaining until the noon hour, when 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will step forward, raise his hand, swear the 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: thirty five word, and then receive the twenty one gun 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: salute to the President of the United States, and all 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: of the attendant ruffles and flourishes. Hail to the Chief 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: will be played, and the forty seventh President of the 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: United States of America will stand before the nation and 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: deliver an inaugural address that will shock the conscience of 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: this country. 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: Democracy means nothing to people who cannot comprehend what lies 13 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: beyond it. When Emmanuel McCrone says, can you imagine that 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: ten years ago the leader of a social media network 15 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: would be interfering in European democratic. 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: Elections and he must stop. 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: Yes, the president of the French Republic should understand that 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: people ten years ago foresaw it. The German Chancellor, Olaf 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: Schultz has said he's not worried. What he said, and 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: this is incredible, is that Germany, a nation of seventy 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: four million, could never fall under the sway of a 22 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: man who lies. The German Chancellor's position is it couldn't 23 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: happen in Germany, Maga or the fall of democracy or 24 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: whatever from the German Chancellor's perspective. Now it's an American thing. 25 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: But let me be the first to remind the German 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: Chancellor if I may, it can happen in Germany and 27 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: it has. What is it that I'm talking about having 28 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: happened in Germany? Is it the end result of the Holocaust, 29 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: the annihilation of the Jews? 30 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: It's not. 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: What happened in Germany is the story of someone saying 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: something outrageous and then making it come true. Germany is 33 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: the story of what happened next, and next after that, 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: and next after that, until it exceeded the bonds of 35 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: human imagination. The man who saved the world, Winston Churchill, 36 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: in his private reflections, wondered if it was too late. 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: It came that close. If nobody can imagine what it 38 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: is like to live in a society without freedom, then 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: it becomes impossible to appreciate what freedom is. What Elon 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: Musk senses right now is weakness. He knows in this 41 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: moment that when he calls for the destruction of the 42 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: governing coalitions in Germany or in the UK, or in Norway, 43 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: or in France or anywhere else that he's calling for 44 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: a toppling. 45 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: Of an entrenched order. 46 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: The people don't hear it as a call to ending democracy, 47 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: and they don't see it necessarily as a rich American 48 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: by way of South Africa interfering in their government. What 49 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: they say is someone who's willing to tell the truth 50 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: about entrenched powers that, just like a lot of the 51 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: American people, they want to burn down. People have always 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: heard and responded to the sirens song of the greatest 53 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: lie ever told, which is the one at the heart 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: of the trumpy and maga message, which is that you 55 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: are born better than someone else, and that you're owed something. 56 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: You have an entitlement because you're you, and you have 57 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: a right to look down on someone who's lesson, who 58 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: owes you, and who's taken from you. The German AFT 59 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: party that Elon Musk is celebrating and saying must take 60 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: power is a party rooted in Germany's darkest and most 61 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: evil past. It is filled with Neo Nazis, and it 62 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: is led by a person who questions the Holocaust and 63 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: questions whether the SS was a criminal organization at all. 64 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: How did this happen and what will it take to 65 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: defeat it? Well, the first requirement is honesty. James Carville 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: could not be more wrong in his diagnosis about the economy. 67 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: He was perfectly correct for a long time about the 68 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: election around what was happening. But no, this was not 69 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: an economic election. This was an honesty election. And the 70 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: Democratic Party lost an honesty election to the biggest scumbag 71 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: who's ever held a political office in American history, and 72 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: the most prolific liar in American history. They lost to 73 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: that man because of their dishonesty on the three core issues. 74 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: The American people were hurting, and Democrats called it Bidenomics 75 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: and said it was better than the New Deal when 76 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: they compared Joe Biden to Franklin Roosevelt. Bidenomics was great 77 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: if you were Elon Musk. But forty percent of the 78 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: country doesn't have four hundred dollars, and no one talked 79 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: about that. Kamala Harris didn't give a speech talking about 80 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: the consolidation of power and economic interest in monopoly in 81 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,679 Speaker 1: the country. Everywhere there is a tyranny of big bearing 82 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: down on little the ordinary American who has dreams and 83 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: aspirations and opportunity and does not wish to be a 84 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: serf in Elon Musk's oligarchy. 85 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: None of that was talked about. 86 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: Democrats will continue to lose to Donald Trump until they 87 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: face the awful reality that they lost on the question 88 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: of honesty. The only way to beat him is by 89 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: offering better and better means reform and renewal, and it 90 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: means the type of visionary thinking that makes rome for 91 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: the poets and the visionaries at the table who can 92 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: imagine what it is like to live as an ordinary 93 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: American at the end of the twenty first century. The 94 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: competition of self interest for power benefits only one. 95 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: Person ever, Donald Trump. 96 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: In a campaign between two sides over avarice competing for 97 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: power for their friends, the American people will always pick 98 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: the side that does a better job of lying to 99 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: them about law and order. 100 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: That will never be the Democratic Party. 101 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: Opportunity for ordinary people is what made the Democratic Party great. 102 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: Losing connection with those people in favor of an out 103 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: of touch elite cloistered in America's biggest cities making tens 104 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars a year, has wrecked that party. 105 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: Those people can't see the dignity of labor, appreciate a 106 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: hard day's work by the fireman or the plumber. And 107 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: the same is true in France and Germany and all 108 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: of the people who will gather together at Davos that 109 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: Elon Mosk has put a target on the back of 110 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: and said they must go with the lie that is 111 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: as dangerous today as it was eighty years ago. 112 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 2: It never changes this idea. 113 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: You are better than someone else and owed by that 114 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: person something that you don't deserve, which is to take 115 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: from them their liberty, their happiness. 116 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: Because it makes you feel better when they fail and 117 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,679 Speaker 3: when they fall, and when you can blame it all 118 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: on something as simple as their skin color, because yours 119 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 3: is the best. 120 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: It's all nonsense, just as it has ever been. A 121 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: great storm is coming. With the death of Jimmy Carter, 122 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 1: the last of the greatest generation presidents has passed. Within 123 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: the next decade, there will be no combat veterans who 124 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: live of the Second World War. So let me share 125 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: with you this terrifying reality. I wonder if an awful 126 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: momentum has been reinitiated. Every century of human existence has 127 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: been deadlier than the last. The eighteenth century was deadlier 128 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: than the seventeenth. In the nineteenth more so than the eighteenth, 129 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: the Industrial Revolution improved the efficiency of killing until a 130 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: moment when the power of the sun was harnessed and 131 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: unleashed over a city, and in that moment humanity had 132 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: the ability to extinguish God's creation. Eighty years have passed 133 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: in the world, understood, even through the fierceness of war 134 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: and hatred, that indeed we stood seconds from midnight. But 135 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: now it's all been forgotten. Now no one can remember, 136 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: and the people who should remember have forgotten how to 137 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: talk about all of the things that are worth defending, 138 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: and so they all sound like a version of Emmanuel Macrone, 139 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: lost in wondering how could it be that a man 140 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: who runs a social media site who has the power 141 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: to take on nation in states. I'll tell you, mosielle 142 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: pus it on. It's simple. It's just like before. And 143 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: France should be acquainted with this history. Fascism rose not 144 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: because it was powerful or true, but because what it 145 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: opposed was rotten, weak and corrupt. And that's with this 146 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: moment shares with that moment, and it's why it's so dangerous. 147 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: This is the warning. 148 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. 149 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 150 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 2: Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. 151 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: Welcome to the community.