WEBVTT - The Tudor Dixon Podcast: The DNC in Disarray 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.080 Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, I have Kyle 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.280 Olsen with me from The Midwesterner, and Kyle, I want 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.600 to kind of go through what's happening on the Democrat side, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.800 because everybody says that they're melting down. But there's a 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.480 few key points that I want to get into. And 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.200 one last week we saw that Randy Weiningarten, who is 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:21.760 the president. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.680 Of the American Federation of Teachers, so. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.120 The teachers' union the second largest, right, yes, there's two, yes, Okay. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.920 So we find out that she decided she didn't want 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.400 her appointment to the DNC, which she has apparently had 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.000 since two thousand and nine. She was on the Rules 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.839 and by Laws committee. And it was funny because this 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.720 came out and conservatives were like, wait a minute, we 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.400 didn't know she actually had a position within the DNC, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.240 which I think shocked people somewhat. I don't think people 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.080 were totally stunned by it, but I am stunned by 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:01.160 it because here is somebody who was making decisions about 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.720 whether or not our kids could be in school while 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.680 holding a position with the Democrats who were in charge 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.760 at the time, so a powerful position within their party, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.520 making decisions about the rules of how they run their party. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:21.120 And she's also in charge of funds that come from 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.120 so they're completely siphoned off of what the taxpayers pay 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.040 the teachers. So she's taking public funds and using them 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.840 and funding an organization that puts her on a committee. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.440 I mean, you cannot make this stuff up. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.360 Well, I think it shows the unions, whether it's the 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.720 NEA or the AFT or the UAW or SCIU or 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:47.160 any of them, they run the Democratic Party. Unions run 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:52.480 the Democratic Party, and so for all of the conventions 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.760 and everything that we see on TV, the unions are 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.080 calling the shots. So it's not entirely surprising to me 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.720 to see that she's on a committee because the unions give, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.200 you know, millions of dollars to the party every year 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.720 and and they control it. But I think, I think 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.640 what it shows is that the the A f T 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.800 and the other unions, but the AFT in particular, because 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.359 that's what we're talking about, is a political organization, right, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.240 and they are not about how can what what can 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.200 we do to make sure kids can read, or that 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.760 we increase graduation rates or we close the the you know, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.600 racial gap, or any of those achievement gap, any of 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.360 those sorts of things. They're not They're not concerned by that. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.560 What they care about is political power, electing the candidates 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.920 that are going to serve them, and winning at the 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.720 bargaining table. That's all they care about. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.960 I mean, I would almost argue, though, that that is 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.280 secondary to what they do politically, and it should be first. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.800 Collective bargaining should be first for them. They should be 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.600 trying to get the teachers the best possible wage. But 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.680 I would almost argue that what we've seen with Randy 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.600 Winengarten at the HELM has been that she is pushing 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.720 an agenda more so than taking care of teachers. Even 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.400 when I hear her do these speeches, she's not. I 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.679 have not, and maybe I'm not paying enough attention. You 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.160 can correct me if I'm wrong, But I have not 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.399 heard her out there saying teachers need to be paid more. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.080 I have heard her out there screaming about political rhetoric, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.720 screaming about Ukraine, screaming about President Trump, screaming about keeping 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.200 kids out of school because teachers were having to write 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.080 their own obituaries and all this. I mean, remember that 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.720 when they had teachers writing their own obituaries. But to me, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.080 it's very important to think about her even wanting to 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.040 be on the Rules and Bylaws Committee because you're in 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.520 a position where you think that you can make rules. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.360 And she was suddenly open with us about, yeah, we're 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.120 actually making the rules for the CDC. Remember that. So 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.520 they're making these decisions as to what will happen to 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:06.080 kids during COVID. She somehow had a connection, which obviously 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.560 she's high up in the DNC, so she's high up 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.120 with all the Democrat leaders. So she gets this connection 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.240 with the CDC and she starts making these rules about 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.800 whether or not we can put kids back in school. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.839 She felt like that was her decision. Now, think about 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.080 the fact that she felt like that was her decision 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.880 to make these political decisions because it wasn't medical. It 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.080 was political, and as soon as you have Randy Weingarten 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.760 making the decision, it's not medical at all. So she 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.000 felt like she was in that position. We have a problem, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.520 like you just said, where kids can't read across this nation. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.719 It's not just in certain areas. We have a consistent 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.000 problem across the country, but we also have a problem 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.599 where there have been woke agendas and pushed on our 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.200 kids at our school, and I believe that comes from 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:54.599 her too. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.040 Well, of course it does. That's the culture of the 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.440 Union and the AFT in particular. They have they have 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.159 promoted this concept of teaching the whole child. So it's 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.320 not just a matter of writing and reading and math 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.560 and all of that. It's providing services that most people 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:20.520 would argue families provide, doing laundry, doctor's appointments, those sorts 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.880 of things. Their their their idea is they want the 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.280 school to sort of be the community center and where 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.159 people kids' families live their lives and have all of 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.320 their needs met. That's what they ultimately want. Now in 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.160 terms of salaries, yes, the union cares about salaries, but 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.440 they also care about what they call working conditions, and 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:47.160 that is I mean, I've seen contracts literally that that 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.040 dictate what the room or what the temperature of the 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.320 teacher's lounge is going to be, or what the color 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.120 paint in the teacher's lounge is going to be. This 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.360 is and this is why these a lot of these 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.479 contracts are hundreds of pages long, because they want to 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.520 negotiate about every single thing. And again they're not negotiating 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.320 about well, what are we going to do to make 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:14.240 sure that we instead of a forty percent reading proficiency, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.120 we're going to get to sixty percent or eighty percent. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.200 They're not negotiating about that. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.120 Well, I also think, I mean, you make a great point. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.680 They aren't negotiating because there's no one holding their feet 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.920 to the fire. There's no one saying, well, okay, if 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.000 you don't hit these numbers, then we're going to have 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.560 to reduce the amount of money each school gets. And 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.520 I guess if that's the purpose of the teachers' union, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.240 is that they're going to negotiate dollars, well, then there 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.000 has to be some accountability to if you get these dollars, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.640 then what are you as a union going to do 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.679 to ensure that the people that are doing the jobs 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.000 are accomplishing the goal of the job. Which seems that 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.560 seems to me like teaching one oh one because or 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.919 business one oh one, I would say, because if we 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.200 had people in our own company who weren't completing the task, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.120 they wouldn't get paid. But for some reason in our schools, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.480 if and I'm not saying I'm not talking about any 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.760 specific teachers, but if there is a school that is 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:17.160 failing and there is consistent failure among multiple students, there 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.880 has to be some accountability for that, but there's not. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.800 Right now, how does the system. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.720 Work, Well, it's I think a lot of times it's 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.400 there is not student growth because there's week leadership, and 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.800 the leadership has got to hold the teachers accountable and 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.720 the week leaders don't do that, and so you don't 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.640 see you don't see change. But in terms of what 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.600 the union is really trying to do, I mean, you 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:51.600 go back to the pandemic and Randy Weingarten's objective again 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.679 was about the adults, and it was she was looking 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.400 out for the teachers and the adults in the system 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.320 not and so she wanted to, you know, keep them safe, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.080 and she in her way to do that was to 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.320 keep kids out of the classroom and keep everyone remote, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.840 so then that way that the adults wouldn't get sick. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.920 And she it didn't bother her that there were you know, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.320 there was there were years where kids were falling behind, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.520 they weren't reading, weren't learning how to read, et cetera. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.320 That didn't that didn't bother her. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.440 So Mike Pompeo runs called her the most dangerous person 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.760 in the United States. And I think a lot of 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.600 people thought that was an exaggeration at the time, But 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.840 I would say, look at how long she's been here. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.160 I mean, how long has she been the president of. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.599 The AFT Over ten years, at least. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.800 Over ten years, So this amount of timing. I've seen 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.160 pictures of her with Hillary Clinton that looked like they 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.560 were twenty years ago. So she's been politically active for 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:54.480 a very long time. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:54.920 Sure. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.400 And the reason I say this is because we talk 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.800 about this woke agenda that's being pushed in the schools, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.079 and concern about the woke agenda that's being pushed in 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.840 the schools, and like, oh, could that be coming from 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.040 Randy Weingarten. Well, the reason that she decided she doesn't 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.200 want to be a part of the DNC anymore is 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.959 because she was upset about what happened with David Hogg. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.240 So you all remember David Hogg. He was one of 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.480 the victims in the Parkland shooting. He's one of the 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.040 students was there, he witnessed what happened. He came out 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.880 as an activist for students, and he continued to stay 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.800 as an activist on the Democrat side. And I would 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.719 say that he wouldn't say this, but I would say 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.760 that he leans toward the socialist side, which I would 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.480 also say that, though he wouldn't say that, he did 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.600 just openly endorse the man who is running for mayor 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.840 of New York, who has come out multiple times and 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.679 said he is a socialist. So if you are endorsing 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.520 socialism and you're putting your name on that, then you 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.319 must believe in socialism. And I think, honestly, I do 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.160 think that this is a problem with some of the 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.840 people in David Hogg's generation, that he doesn't realize what 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.480 he's saying is socialism. I think he's so has so little. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.720 I don't think but that the way you just said 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.559 that was he would be bothered if he knew that. No, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:12.280 I think he is. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.920 I don't think he is right. Yeah, absolutely No, I 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.839 don't think that he is in any way bothered by it. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.880 I think he just likes to come out and say 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.800 this is not what I'm for. If I mean, this 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.280 guy has clearly stated that he is a socialist, this 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.440 is Zorin, and he's come out and endorsed him. So 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.560 I do think that that's the direction he's going now. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.160 I say that because the reason that Randy wine Garten 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.760 decided she didn't want to be on the Rules and 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.920 Bilaws Committee anymore was which was June fifth that she 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.720 came out and said this. I think it was June 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:46.160 eleventh that the Rules and Bylaws Committee conveniently said David 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.040 Hogg doesn't fit the requirements to be the vice chairman 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:55.240 of the DNC. He had been elected. They're saying, oh, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.400 something about his gender. He couldn't be because of his gender, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:05.000 and she would have been essentially yes, that wasn't that 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:11.320 wasn't acceptable. So poor poor David Hawk. That wasn't the 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.280 reason though. The reason, I mean that was the technicality 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.120 that they caught him on. So they're like, oh, thank goodness, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.599 we're such a whoa, that's it. We're such a woke organization. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.920 We can come up with a technicality to kick him out. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.360 But that is that is what would you call it. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.880 That's the technicality they used to get rid of someone 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.720 who said he was going to primary primary there candidates. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.520 It's just but it's just so funny. It's like they 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.679 didn't realize he was a white male before, but then 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.280 suddenly when he's like stepping out of line. 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.360 Yes, right, because it's not all a joke. All of 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.680 these checking the boxes is a joke. I mean, look 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.880 at what they ended up doing with Kamala Harris. Well, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.200 I'll say, this is the same thing they did with 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.960 Joe Biden. They're like, oh, you don't actually fit anymore yet, 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.400 let's put you back behind the curtain Wizard of Oz. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.960 So this is what they're doing with David. But she 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.400 must not have loved this. She was not, and she 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.160 openly came out and said she was not happy about 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.760 what they did to David Hogg. And she resigned before 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.880 it was officials, so she would have been on that 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.079 committee discussing the fact that he was going to be 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.040 kicked out, and she resigned on the fifth. He gets 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.000 kicked out on the eleventh. He had come out and 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.280 said he was going to spend twenty million dollars to 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.720 primary people that were not with what they think the 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.240 Democrat Party. What did he say? He said they were 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.160 like weak minded or they weren't strong enough, and he. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.600 Was going to go out socialist enough. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.240 Right, and they were in strong blue districts, so strong 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.839 blue Democrats had been there for a long time. He 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.960 was going to go out there and primary them, and 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:50.240 he has this this organization's called Leaders We Deserve. So 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.840 when he started to become an activist and had like 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:59.360 the March for Lives or something like that, and which 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.040 was like to talk about kids at high school kids, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.280 he then recently, I think in twenty three he created 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:10.360 Leaders We Deserve. And it's significant because in the last 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.560 quarter of twenty four he had projected that he would 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.640 raise a million dollars and in small dollar donations like 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.800 twenty five dollars donations, he ended up with three million 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.880 from just the fourth quarter. So I know that when 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.240 they heard that he was going to primary people, they 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.720 got nervous because to me, that is significant. Right now, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.440 we're hearing that the DNC is in total chaos, that 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.120 they can't raise money, that they don't have any money, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.199 that they're looking for unique ways to bring in money. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.560 But for some reason, this socialist kid brought in three 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.120 million dollars from in smaller dollar donations in three months. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.920 Well, I think what's happening is they're in disarray and 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.520 you've got people like him who are trying to pull 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.200 the party to the left, which is hard to believe 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.440 that it can go any farther left. That's what they're 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.400 trying to do. And I think that there's others who 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.439 realize that if they go farther left, it's going to 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.200 be a total disaster. And so they don't really have 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.360 a leader. And this is really the fundamental problem that 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.520 they have as they're trying to fight President Trump's agenda. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.160 They don't really have a leader. So you sort of 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.560 see these heads kind of popping out. Remember it was 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.960 a couple of months ago, it was Corey Booker, and 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.280 so you see sort that these people kind of you know, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.600 pop up and there's a struggle going on. And so 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.240 you've got you have people like David Hogg who wants 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.760 to throw out these incumbents, which historically they don't do. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.600 It's like they protect the incumbents. They leave those people alone. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.480 You don't want to have to spend money to defend them, 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.400 especially when you are in a situation where you're trying 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.120 to win back the house. So for them, if you 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.880 look at this, I can see why they're mad because 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.560 they're like safe seats. Don't mess with our safe seats. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.520 Let's make sure we woing back. They have President Trump 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.240 in office, it's like their worst nightmare. You know, they 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.000 want to win the House, they want to win the Senate. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.920 And you've got a kid who somehow has fundraising power 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.800 and he's out there every day and he's not going 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.800 to slow down. And he's got the support of the 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.000 teachers union. So now suddenly do they go with him? 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.920 And they are losing their unions and they already lost. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.480 So the public unions are still with them, but the 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.840 non public unions have left them. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.720 Yeah, a lot of the trade unions, yea, the blue 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:33.400 collar trade unions have. But David Hogg, he is he 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.240 has This is not going to sound right, but he 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:41.200 has perfectly exploited what happened at Parkland and leveraged it 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.840 for political purposes, which I think is completely disgusting. But 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:52.560 he has perfectly figured out how to manipulate the media, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.800 how to grow a list, how to raise money, how 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.720 to leverage all of that for his political ends. And 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:06.560 so now what we're seeing is he was elected as 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.680 one of the vice chairs, much to the dismay of 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.720 you know, all of the other people there. They figured 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.240 out how to throw him out, but he's not going away, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:22.880 and I think the other sort of divide or you know, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.280 chaos that's going on in the party is there was 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.240 just this No King's Day protest and it was a 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:34.080 lot of the it was indivisible, it was the Party 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.800 for Socialism and Liberation. It was a lot of far 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.640 left groups that are organizing. And if you look at 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.480 the map that they put out, their major events were 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.440 all in twenty twenty six Senate race states. I mean, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.640 this is not this is not a coincidence about what's 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:59.200 going on. And I believe so you said, what David 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.280 hagg is trying to do. He's trying he's identifying these 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.719 blue districts and he's trying to find candidates that are 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.879 farther left. And I think what's happening is when you 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.520 see the No King's which people sort of laugh and 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.240 you know, laugh it off. You can't laugh it off. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:21.960 Their goal is to organize five percent of the country 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.280 and have their information, have them activated, and if they're 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.359 capable of doing that, that would be a major, major thing. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.600 And No King's Day they organized and they have data 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.080 on three and a half percent of the country. They 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.919 had one of their calls, one of their organizing calls 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.399 by the ACLU, which was involved, they had over twenty 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.600 thousand people on the call. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.920 But see, this is where I okay, So this is 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.560 where I argue that Republicans get to the point where 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.440 they get people in office and they think, okay, we're 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.239 in good shape, and they don't do this. And I mean, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.119 I don't see a lot of events outside of the 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.480 standard Lincoln Day dinner. I don't see big events where 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.600 people get to see speakers and get to feel like 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.080 they're a part of something bigger than them. And that's 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.720 happening on the Democrat side. And people have said to me, 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.280 watch out. Just what you just said, watch out, because 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.240 as they continue to engage people, we're not And I 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.680 just heard this. I was in Detroit a couple days ago, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.320 and I just heard people saying, Hey, there's people over 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.400 on this side of the state that feel like everybody 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.040 was here during the election and now they've kind of 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.120 stepped away and they want more answers, they want more attention. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.760 People do crave attention when you've asked somebody to come 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.959 over to your party and be a part of your party. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.320 And I believe this from our friends over in Dearborn 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.040 and ham Trammick, when you have asked them take a 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.119 step out of what is acceptable in your community and 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.680 come out there and campaign with us and join us. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.080 You better show up again. And that's what they're doing. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:59.040 They're recognizing that, and that's what look after twenty sixteen, 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.840 they got so organized, and that's what people need to understand. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.960 It was malicious, but it worked. They created these nonprofits, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.960 They went out, they started newspapers, they were doing these 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.439 types of these protests. Like you said, everybody's on an 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.960 email list. Now everybody's out there together. They're well funded. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.080 They have these people then in there in their system 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.520 to go out and knock doors so that when those 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.560 center races come around, they win the Senate and we go, 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.000 how did that happen? Because there's not a team on 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.840 our side doing this right? 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.320 Well, I think Republicans, I think conservatives and liberals are 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.879 fundamentally different. I think conservatives generally speaking, are you know, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.120 are independent. They don't want someone telling them what to do. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.040 But I think liberals generally speaking, I mean, it's the 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.720 very premise of a union. It's that we're going to 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.880 have we're going to have someone telling us what to do. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.600 Someone's you know, for the greater good. And so that's 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.720 what we're seeing happening. And so this No Kings thing, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.280 it's it's a collection of you know, all of these 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:10.720 different groups, unions, et cetera. And their goal is to 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.440 affect twenty twenty six. Because if they can affect twenty 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.200 twenty six, they know that's how they stopped Donald Trump. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.960 If if they if the Republicans can lose the majority 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:26.640 in the House and or the Senate, Trump's Trump's legislative. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.919 You know, agenda is on the rocks. And that's what 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.879 it's all about. And so go back to twenty twenty 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.960 what did they do. They isolated the whole George Floyd situation, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.120 and they rallied and they organized, and they quote unquote 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.240 protested over that, and they use that one moment and 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.439 it's the same thing. Now it's the ice raids, and 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.080 it's what happened in Los Angeles, and they they identify 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.560 this one thing that they can rally you know, their 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:02.119 side around, and I think that they are doing it 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.280 very effectively. And I think that Republicans and Conservatives who 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.800 just sort of, you know, laugh it off or dismiss it, 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:15.760 they've got to realize that they that the left is energized. Yes, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.439 they're in disarray, but they're getting organized. And where the 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.439 I think where the DNC and where the Democratic Party 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.040 is sort of falling away. These this no King's indivisible, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.920 et cetera, are filling that void. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.840 Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next. On 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:39.639 the Tutor Dixon podcast, there was a Democrat that was 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.359 recently on Fox and they were asking him, how is 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.800 this happening to the party. Why is it that you're splintering, 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.359 and they are splintering because they do have this faction 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.199 that wants to go further left. I would say that 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.040 they are in a situation where I think that there 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.679 were people who were saying that this was happening to 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.040 the Republican Party in twenty twenty, but I think I 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.600 think that what I see on the Democrat side is 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.680 way worse than what happened in twenty twenty. There were 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.480 arguments in twenty twenty over COVID and something that was 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:14.880 a moment in time. What they're arguing about is truly 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.560 defining them for the long term. So they have this 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.800 group that is like the trans rights group, the social 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.960 issues group, the side that has social issues on there. 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.359 That's all they're focused on and really what we've found 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:34.040 is social issues are not great in elections. They don't 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.480 really help either side. There's very rarely the social issue. 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:42.639 I think marijuana. They won big lely with the marijuana, 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.040