1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: There seems to be a great deal of confusion understanding 2 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: what's happening, what's playing out among the many commentators on CNN, 3 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: MSNBC and across the cable news landscape. They don't know 4 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: how to interpret the results of the New Hampshire and 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: Iowa caucuses. They can't figure out the contradictions the high 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: turnout in New Hampshire the low turnout in Iowa. Specifically, 7 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: they can't understand the divide in the Republican Party between 8 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: its two halves, the larger dominant MAGA half and the 9 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: smaller minority mainstream Republican half. About forty five percent of 10 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: Republicans voted for Nikki Haley. They don't want Donald Trump 11 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: to the Magan nominee. But what most commentators don't get 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: is they think the threat that America faces, and specifically 13 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: them and their children, is from the left, not from 14 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: the fascist right. This is one of the great mirages 15 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: in American politics. At the most, there are ten looney 16 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: left members in Haqum Jeffreys Caucus. The far left has 17 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: no real power in America. The places where it does 18 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: assert influence Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles have become disasters 19 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: and the law and ordered disaster in those cities has 20 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: become fodder for Trump's great propaganda machine playing out on 21 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: Fox News. This dynamic has always been true in America. 22 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: As the old quote goes, when fascism comes to America, 23 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross, 24 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: and at the core those elements are very much present 25 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: in Donald Trump's Maga movement. All fascist movements come to 26 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: power and to fruition through a coalition of conservatives and fascists. 27 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: The Conservatives, without exception, as the coalition forms, believe they 28 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: can manage the fascists, that they can control the rubs 29 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: in their midst John Kennedy talked about this. He warned 30 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: the foolish men who saw power by trying to ride 31 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: the back of the tiger, only to wind up inside. 32 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: There are perfect examples of this type of cynicism, at 33 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: least the fhanic Josh Holly Ted Cruz, some of the 34 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: most highly educated people in the country who have succumbed 35 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: totally to their ambitions for power and have thus discarded 36 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: every principle they held to pay lip service to a 37 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: man they know to be a fascist, a man for 38 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: a long time they thought they could control, but cannot. 39 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: And today, as is always the case, the Conservatives who 40 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: thought that they would be the proud horsemen of a 41 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: movement that they rode to power on the back of 42 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: the fascists, wind up under its jack boot. Always the 43 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: first thing do when they come to power is devour 44 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: the conservatives in the coalition that helped bring it to power. 45 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: There's an interesting phenomenon about politics about elections. Were introduced 46 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: to the concept as children in school where there are 47 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: class president elections, and the rules are very simple, aren't they. 48 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: The person who gets the most votes wins the election. 49 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: American politics has always been simple to understand. The political 50 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: parties are trying to build majorities. Therefore, they want more, 51 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: not less people to vote for them. They want to 52 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: build a big tent that can accommodate differences of opinion, 53 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: where there's room for dissent. How do you square that 54 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: functional reality with what Marjorie Taylor Green said, Let's look 55 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: at it. 56 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: This is a true change for the Republican Party. It 57 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: says that not only do we support President Trump, we 58 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: support his policy and any Republican that isn't willing to 59 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 2: adapt these policies, we are completely eradicating from the party. 60 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 2: So it's up to Nikki Haley what she does. 61 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: She wants to purify the party and thus to shrink it. 62 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 1: Membership in MAGA is on maga's terms. The requirements are 63 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: strict yet simple obedience to the leader. That's it. There 64 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: is no room for dissent. And it stands to reason 65 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: if that is the ethos of a political party, how 66 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: will they approach issues of dissent, freedom of speech, freedom 67 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: of worship, freedom of conscience should they take political power again? 68 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: What does it mean to eradicate? What is the nature 69 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: of that word? Has it been used in history before 70 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: and applied to people? It has, and it has triggered 71 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: some of the darkest moments in all of human history, 72 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: the Nazi genocide, the atrocities in Serbia and Bosnia Rwanda. 73 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: Look at these images because these are the pictures of eradication. 74 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: This is not a word that we find normally in 75 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: American politics. And words matter because the word eradicate is 76 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: usually a place to vermin to infestations of termites or rats. 77 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: And what do you do to an infestation? You eradicated? 78 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: Now can that word be connected to the infestation of immigrants? 79 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: That the Maga movement talks about all the time, that 80 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: tries to make subhuman, that attempts to strip their humanity away. 81 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: Eradicate is a dehumanizing word, and purposely so, and we 82 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: should beware that word. In an error where the leader, 83 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: who must never be disputed to remain unpunished in the 84 00:07:51,480 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: party is talking about locking up political photos, retribution against 85 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: all of those who opposed him, the use of the 86 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: powers of the state to enforce his ideology on all 87 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: of us. A political party that doesn't care about growing 88 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: is either dying or committed to a different type of 89 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: project Entirely. The Maga Party is big enough to take 90 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: power in America if the ball bounce is right. The 91 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: other half of its coalition is apathy. A growling, angry, cynical, 92 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: and apathetic culture that infects our politics is all that 93 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: smaller party needs. Their conviction, plus the indifference of a 94 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: majority in the country, gives power to people who have 95 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 1: no intention of ever giving it back. And those people 96 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: believe in the dogma of followership. They believe in the 97 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: dogma of control, and they are utterly radical and deeply 98 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: detached from the high ideals and ideas of the United 99 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: States of America. Liberty is not their motivation. Freedom is 100 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: not their calling. Control and power are very different things. 101 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: They intend to exercise it from self interest. They intend 102 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: to exercise it from the prism of self interest. They 103 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: intend to take as much as they can because none 104 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: of them are on your side. And in the end, 105 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: when you hear the words eradicate, when you hear your 106 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: fellow countrymen talked about like enemies, remember this. No patriot 107 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: can love their country while hating half of the people 108 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: in it. Fascists are no patriots, and all true American 109 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: patriots despise fascism because fascism is like a cancer, a 110 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: cancer that assaults freedom and the dignity of the human being. 111 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: Which is why words like eradicate should never be used 112 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: by an American member of Congress who's talking about political 113 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: dissent in a free nation.