1 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: On this episode of news World, I'm going to discuss 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: the three great challenges that will define America's future. I 3 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: decided that it was really important to understand historically where 4 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: we're at as a country and the challenges we have 5 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: to meet if we're going to be successful. I frankly 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: got to that by thinking about the last period, starting 7 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: with Reagan. And let me just say, I think these 8 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: three great challenges are pretty straightforward, and they each relate 9 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: to each other. The first one is to focus on 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: the values and goals of the American people, to really 11 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: meet what Lincoln meant when he said government of the people, 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: by the people, and for the people. And to understand 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Lincoln's proposition that with popular sentiment, anything as possible. Without 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: popular sentiment, nothing is possible. Lincoln understood this, Frank Mondona, 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Roosevelt understood it. Reagan understood it. And if you go 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: back to the founding fathers, it's very significant that when 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: they wrote the Constitution, they thought that it had to 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: be adopted in the States, that there had to be 19 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: public debate, and the greatest political pamphlet of all time, 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: the Federalist Papers, were in fact written to influence public 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: opinion and to convince people. And Margaret Thatcher's term, first 22 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: you win the argument, then you win the vote, and 23 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: the Federalist Papers was a deliberate overt effort to win 24 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: the argument. So America was founded on this notion that 25 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: the people matter, the people's voice matters, and the people's 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: beliefs matter. Second, we really need solutions that are as 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: large as our problems. One of our difficulties has been 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: that even when conservatives have won control, we haven't been 29 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: prepared to have the kind of scale of change and 30 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: to embed that change in the beliefs and the values 31 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: of the American people so that we have a great 32 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: deal of popular support for that. And so you have 33 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: to have both understanding of what the American people believe 34 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: in and solutions that they can support that are as 35 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: large as the problems we're trying to solve. And then third, 36 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: you have to communicate with and reach the American people 37 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: despite the almost certain opposition of the media. And this 38 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: has been true historically over and over again. That's why 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: you end up, for example, with the Federalist Papers, which 40 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: were very widely distributed by the founding fathers to get 41 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: the adoption of the Constitution It's why Lincoln would consistently 42 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: reach out, often writing letters to the editor as president, 43 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: because newspapers in his time were the key thing. That's 44 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: why Franklin Dolna Roosevelt developed radio fireside chats to reach 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: directly to the American people past the news media. It's 46 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: why Trump, example, was so capable of using social media, 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: and why in his day Reagan, who had been, after all, 48 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: a professional actor in movies, a professional actor on television, 49 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: a communicator of enormous capacity, and he used that ability 50 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: to reach to the American people in a series of 51 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: speeches that reshaped American history and move people. It's important 52 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: to notice these three are interactive. That is, you have 53 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: to have the support of the American people, you have 54 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: to have big solutions, and you have to be able 55 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: to communicate them so the American people understand them despite 56 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: the hostility of the news media. All three have to 57 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: work together in a synergistic system. I'm going to go 58 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: into each challenge in some detail, but first let me 59 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: explain how this concept was developed in my mind and 60 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: why I decided to do this particular podcast. I was 61 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: working with Joe Gailord on a new book which is 62 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: coming out in June March to the majority, and we 63 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: really went back. Joe and I had both gotten active 64 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: politics in the late sixties and early seventies, and we 65 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: ended up working together. And remember that when we finally 66 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: won control in nineteen ninety four, the House, Republicans had 67 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: been in the minority for forty years, and I have 68 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: to tell you, as we were putting together what we 69 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: had done to try to win, it was kind of exhausting. 70 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: Remember that, first of all, I had to run three times. 71 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: I lost in nineteen seventy four in the middle of Watergate. 72 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: Then I came back and I lost in nineteen seventy six. 73 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: With Jimmy Carter, a Georgia Democrat, at the head of 74 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: the Democratic ticket. I got forty eight point five percent 75 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: the first time, forty eight point three percent the second time. Finally, 76 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight, I won a congressional seat. I 77 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: arrived in Washington to a defeated Republican Party, which had 78 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: been shattered both by the Watergate disaster, which took Nixon's 79 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: enormous sixty percent victory against McGovern and ended up with 80 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: Nixon resigning two years later. Then it was further decimated 81 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: by the Ford Reagan primary fight, which went on all 82 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: the way to the convention. And so the party that 83 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: I joined in nineteen seventy eight was really exhausted as 84 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: leadership was exhausted. They'd seen their friends get defeated. They 85 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: had a sense of almost hopelessness, and I said, you know, 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: why don't we create a working group to plan for 87 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: a majority. We've been a minority at that point twenty 88 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: four years. Well. I was asked by the Congressman Guy 89 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: vander Jack, the chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee, to 90 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: chair before I was even sworn in in December of 91 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: seventy eighty, said, why don't you chare a committee and 92 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: do it. It's a great idea. Now I want to 93 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: report we failed in nineteen eighty, eighty two, eighty four, 94 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: eighty six, eighty eight, ninety and ninety two. So by 95 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 1: the time we finally won, we put sixteen years into 96 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to become a majority. And 97 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: in that process, as Joe and I we're going back 98 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: and putting together March to the Majority as a book. 99 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: We got a little bit exhausted because we were reporting 100 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: failure after failure, and we were reminding ourselves. How hard 101 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: we worked wasn't like we were ropidoping. We were trying 102 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: with all of our effort, with everything we had to 103 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: win every two years. We just weren't succeeding. And yet 104 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: at the same time, going back and looking at that 105 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: period seventy eight to eighty six or so, we were 106 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: reminded of the extraordinary achievements of President Ronald Reagan, Prime 107 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul the Second. And 108 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: I'd had the great opportunity to work with Bill Brock 109 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: as the Republican National Chairman to bring the Thatcher team 110 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: when she won in seventy nine. We brought her team 111 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: over to brief our folks on what she had done 112 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: right and how she had won. The three of them, Reagan, Thatcher, 113 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: and Pope John Paul the Second worked as a team 114 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: to defeat communism and to expand freedom, and they were 115 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: a remarkably successful team. I also have to point out 116 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: that as we went back and went through it all, 117 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: the first Capitol Steps event was not the nineteen ninety 118 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: four contract with America. In fact, the first Capitol Steps 119 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: event was nineteen eighty Withnald Reagan. The first contract was 120 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: not nineteen ninety four. The first contract was with Reagan 121 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty because Reagan had the courage something with 122 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: other Republicans Canada had done in modern times. He had 123 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: the courage to actually bring together the party, to brand 124 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: himself as a Republican, and the result was that his 125 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: coattails were enormous when he won the largest electoral vote 126 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: majority against an incumbent president in American history. The fact 127 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: is we picked up twelve Senate seats. Now nobody thought 128 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: we were going to pick up twelve Senate seats. We 129 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: hadn't been a majority in the Senate since nineteen fifty four, 130 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: and the result was that all of a sudden, Howard 131 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: Baker went from being minority leader to majority leader. He 132 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: jumped from forty one senators to fifty three senators. In 133 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: the House, the cotails were enormous, where we picked up 134 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: thirty five seats in nineteen eighty, but the problem was 135 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: that the Republicans in the House had collapsed so deeply. 136 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: There were only one hundred and fifty seven House Republicans 137 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: when nineteen eighty started, so even when they picked up 138 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: thirty five seats, they ended up because one person turned 139 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: out to be an independent. They ended up at one 140 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one Republicans and were still a minority, 141 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: but they were a big enough minority that you could 142 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: combine them with traditional conservatives, mostly in the South, and 143 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: so conservative Democrats plus the expanded Republican minority were able 144 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: to pass Reagan's tax cuts and pass Reagan's program. Now, 145 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: Reagan actually meant his campaign, and this is a very 146 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: important difference between all too many politicians and the folks 147 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: who were changing history. Reagan campaigned on what he actually 148 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: wanted to do. He promised a three year tax cut 149 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: because he believed that tax cuts would work. He promised 150 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: deregulation because he believed the deregulation would work. He promised 151 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: rebuilding americans social belief in themselves so that American civic 152 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,319 Speaker 1: pride would be bigger, because he believed civic pride was important. 153 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: He promised welfare reform because, as he put it, the 154 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: best social program is a job. And he achieved extraordinary changes. Now, 155 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: the result was that Reagan had three historic goals. I 156 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: think people don't realize how really successful Reagan was. He 157 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: had three great historic goals. First, to restore the American economy, 158 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: it collapsed under Jimmy Carter. We had terrible inflation, we 159 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: had terrible job loss. We had the worst of all worlds, 160 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: a deep recession with high inflation. Reagan restored the American 161 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: economy through tax cuts, through reform of the regulatory process, 162 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: and just by being in favor of entrepreneurs, by making 163 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: people feel good about themselves, by making you feel like 164 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: it was your patriotic duty to out and create jobs. 165 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: And it worked, and the Reagan boom actually lasted, I think, 166 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: up until two thousand and seven. In two thousand and eight, 167 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: second he set out to defeat the Soviet Empire. Now 168 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: people thought that was looney Tim's. They thought it was impossible. 169 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: In fact, when Reagan wanted to say in Berlin, mister Gorbaschev, 170 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: tear down this wall, every senior advisor told him not 171 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: to say it. The CIA said the Sivie Union would 172 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: last thirty or forty more years. Reagan would look silly, 173 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: and he just ignored them. He said, this is what 174 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: I want to do. I'm the president, I'm going to 175 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: do it. And of course he said that, and within 176 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: a couple of years, the Soviet Union literally disappeared. In 177 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: December of nineteen ninety one. He also wanted to rebuild 178 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 1: American civic pride. It was no accident that Lee Greenwood's 179 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: God Blessed the USA came out in nineteen eighty four, 180 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: became a very, very popular song and sort of captured 181 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: the spirit of Reaganism. And yet Reagan, in his farewell Address, 182 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: which I recommend everyone to read, says in January of 183 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, you know the one thing I regret 184 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: is we were not able to turn around American history teaching, 185 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: and our young people are not being taught to be patriots, 186 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: and it is a really dangerous thing. And he called 187 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: on parents to teach their children. He didn't adopt the 188 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: scale of change that was needed to take on the 189 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: left as it took over our universities and our colleges 190 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: and our schools, but he did recognize those enormous problem 191 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: and candidly. We failed to respond to that farewell address, 192 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: and today we are paying for not having heated Reagan's 193 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: warning as the schools have become more and more left wing, 194 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: more and more anti American, more and more engaged in 195 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: teaching anti white racism, more and more in teaching that 196 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: seven year olds are to decide what gender they belonged to. 197 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: I mean the degree to which we have lost the 198 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: schools both in effectiveness, when you have, for example, twenty 199 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: three schools in Baltimore City in which not a single student, 200 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: not one out of over two thousand, can do mathematics, 201 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: when you have children being taught things that are absurdly wrong, 202 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: factually false, and being taught a set of beliefs that 203 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: are crazy. So Reagan in that sense left us, and 204 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: we didn't pick up the gauntlet that Reagan gave us. 205 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: But interestingly, as we went back through doing March the Majority, 206 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: we realized how much Reagan, who was rallying America against 207 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: the left, had Margaret Thatcher as an ally, and she 208 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: was even more decisive. There's a remarkable small book by 209 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: Claaria Berlinsky called There Is No Alternative Why Margaret Thatcher matters? 210 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: And she matters because she understood how immoral socialism was, 211 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: how destructive socialism was, and she understood the key concept 212 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: that first you win the argument, then you win the vote. 213 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: And she set out methodically to destroy the left as 214 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: a moral force. Even more than Reagan. Thatcher was a 215 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: programmatic conservative. There's a great scene where She's at her 216 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: first great leadership meeting once she had become the first 217 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: female leader of a Britain party. And she's there and 218 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: she's at the podium and she says, people ask me 219 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: what our platform is, and she pulls out of her purse, 220 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: which must have been a huge purse, I X the 221 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: Constitution of Liberty, which is a really big book, and 222 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: she slams it on the mantle. She says, this is 223 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: our platform. We are for freedom, and she meant it, 224 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: and Britain was in much worse shape than the US. 225 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: Thatcher had a much bigger and deeper programmatic impact, and 226 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: had Britain continued down the road that Thatcher had, lower spending, 227 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: lower government, less regulation, tax cuts to encourage entrepreneurship, a 228 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: work ethic that was at the core of Thatcherism, as 229 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: it was at the core of Reaganism. Had they continued there, 230 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: Britain today would have been a much much better system. 231 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: People would be much more profitable, and their lives would 232 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: be much better. However, in both America and in Britain, 233 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: once the great heroic leaders left, the forces of the 234 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: old order began to come back and began to push 235 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: a direction that began literally in both cases, as soon 236 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: as their successor showed up, John Majors did not understand Thatcherism, 237 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: and he promptly began moving the Conservative Party away from 238 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: the kind of vigorous, entrepreneurial, pro growth model that Thatcher 239 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: believed in. Similarly, George H. W. Bush was a very patriotic, 240 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: very nice man, but did not have a clue what 241 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: Reaganism was about, which is why even though he won 242 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: Reagan's third term in nineteen eighty eight, came from nineteen 243 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: points behind to beat Ducaucus by asserting pure conservatism. Ducucus 244 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: collapsed because the Bush campaign convinced the country that Ducaucus 245 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: was a radical liberal and the country didn't want to 246 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: go from Reagan to a radical liberal. And they actually 247 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: switched from being nineteen points down in May to winning 248 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: fifty four to forty six, which meant they had switched 249 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: every fourth American vote to George HW. Bush from Ducucus 250 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: in a five month campaign. But Bush didn't understand his 251 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: own victory. His greatest single moment had been at the 252 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: convention saying that they're going to want me to raise 253 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: taxes and I'm going to say no, and they're going 254 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: to come back and say they want me to raise taxes, 255 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: and I'm going to say no. And finally I'm going 256 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: to say, read my lips, no new taxes, which had 257 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: actually been written by a Reagan speech writer. Well, he 258 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: that didn't understand it, didn't really mean it, or thought 259 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: of it all as just being sort of political language, 260 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: as distinct from Reagan, who did mean it and did 261 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: campaign on what he believed and stuck very firmly to 262 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: what he believed. And in fact, at one point, when 263 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: Jim Baker, the chief of staff, proposed a tax increase 264 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: in a cabinet meeting, President Reagan took his glasses off, 265 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: looked at Baker and said, Jim, if you really believe 266 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: what you just said, why are you in this administration? 267 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: And Baker was promptly turned to his top staff person 268 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: and said, we'll never bring up a tax increase again. 269 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: So he understood it. I think had the Democrats tried 270 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: to blackmail Reagan the way they did blackmail George H. W. 271 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: Bush in nineteen ninety, he would have said to him, fine, 272 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: let's go to the country, let's have a referendum. If 273 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: the country votes for a tax increase, I'll sign it. 274 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: But unless you can convince the country to vote for 275 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: a tax increase, I'm not signing it. Bush didn't understand that. 276 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: He didn't understand how central these symbols were to conservatism. 277 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: And I was faced with a major decision in my 278 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: career because I was the youngest member of the leadership. 279 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: I had just become the Republican whip in nineteen eighty nine, 280 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: and I'm in a room where every single member of 281 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: the leadership signs on with Bush for a tax increase, 282 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I think this isn't going 283 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: to work. I think it breaks your word, I think 284 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: it endangers your presidency, and I can't be for it. 285 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: And so everybody else walked out into the Rose Garden 286 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: to endorse the president's tax increase. I walked out of 287 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: the West Wing to go back to the Capitol to fighting. 288 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: I believe firmly that that decision to stand up for 289 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: principle was the key to our winning in nineteen ninety four, 290 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: because it said to the American people we were serious 291 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: about changing government, we were prepared to take on the establishment, 292 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: even in our own party, and we were going to 293 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: fight for real change. And the energy that came from 294 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,640 Speaker 1: that I think made it possible for us to win, 295 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: and that's a key part of what we covered in 296 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: March to the majority of how do we finally learn 297 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: how to win now? I have to say that the 298 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: years that we were working on this, we really worked 299 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: to grow a big enough Republican Party. The House Republican 300 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: Party just wasn't big enough. It was like a college 301 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: football team playing in the Super Bowl. And so through 302 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: go Pack we ended up with fifty five thousand tapes 303 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: audio tapes back then, the sign of how long ago 304 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: this was went out every month, so that candidates across 305 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: the country, activist campaign managers, posters all got new ideas, 306 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: new solutions, all of them based, frankly, standing on Ronald 307 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: Reagan shoulders and Margaret Thatcher shoulders. And there was always 308 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: a cultural change in the Republican Party from a minority 309 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: mindset of managing the decay to a majoritarian mindset of 310 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: profoundly changing the direction of the country, being in effect 311 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: a revolutionary party. And the result was that we were 312 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: communicating pure Reaganism and the party was changing, and by 313 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four we had an absolute majority of the 314 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: party committed to the kind of changes we wanted. Now 315 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: in that process, by the way, because we followed our 316 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: first principle, which is listening to the American people, believing 317 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: in government of the people, by the people, and for 318 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: the people. The issues we put in the contract were 319 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: so popular, all of them were seventy percent or better 320 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: and in terms of support by the American people that 321 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: we had Democrats vote for every single them. And when 322 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: we passed welfare reform, half the Democrats voted with us 323 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: because welfare reform was so popular with the American people 324 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: that they couldn't go back home and vote against it. 325 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: And again, entrenching your solutions in the values and beliefs 326 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: of the American people is a key part of this, 327 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: and then communicating them clearly. Despite the news media. Remember 328 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: that when I first got elected, Time magazine had a 329 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: cover that showed me, this is a Christmas After the 330 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: election in November, they had a cover that showed me 331 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: a scrooge holding tiny tims broken crutch. It wasn't enough 332 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: to steal this crutch, it was broken, and it was 333 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: entitled how mean will gingriish as America be to the poor? 334 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: Newsweek came up the following week and had me as 335 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: a doctor Zeus figure and the cover was entitled The 336 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: Gingrich that Stole Christmas. But what the American people got 337 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: out of that was I was for welfare reform. Well 338 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: guess what the American people were for welfare reform. So 339 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: that ability to communicate despite the media was a big 340 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 1: key to how we got things done. Now, I think 341 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: it's also important recognize that, like Reagan, we actually implemented 342 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: the values we campaigned on. We said we were for 343 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 1: welfare reform, and we got it. We said we're for 344 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: a big capitol against tax cut, and we got it. 345 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: We said we're going to reform the House, and we did. Finally, 346 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: we said we'd balance the federal budget, and for the 347 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: only four times in your lifetime, we passed balanced budgets, 348 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: which were popular because we listened to the American people. 349 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: We talked with the American people, We figured out what 350 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: they would and would not accept. We didn't try to 351 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: pass things they opposed deeply, and we did try to 352 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: pass things they thought made common sense. Unfortunately, after nineteen 353 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: ninety eight, the GOP reverted to a sort of pre 354 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: Reagan norm and became a party dedicated to managing the 355 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: welfare state. It inherited from liberals, and that led to 356 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: the rise of the Tea Party movement the frustration of 357 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: the Republican base because Reagan and the nineteen ninety four 358 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: House GOP were genuine revolutionaries seeking to profoundly repudiate the 359 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: left and to restore American values, limited government and the 360 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: rule of law. After an eighteen year interim, another revolutionary 361 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: came along who was deeply committed to an anti left agenda, 362 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: and that was Donald Trump. And Trump assaulted the left, 363 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: terrified them. Much of their hatred of him as based 364 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: on his fearless repudiation of their values, and even more 365 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: than Reagan, Trump in some ways is more like Thatcher 366 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: and that he was prepared to go head on at 367 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: these people. Reagan was pleasant at a great personality. He 368 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: was a hard man to hate. Trump is aggressive in 369 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: your face and was an easy man for the left 370 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: to go crazy about. And yet, despite Trump's remarkable achievements, 371 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: Congressional Republicans lost control in twenty eighteen. The Senate GOP 372 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: lost seats in both twenty eighteen, twenty twenty. In twenty 373 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: twenty two. Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy, who had understood the Reagan Revolution, 374 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: who had understood and worked in the Contract with America Revolution. 375 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: McCarthy was applying Reagan Nite principles, listening to the American people, 376 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: developing solution, communicating directly with the American people. He was 377 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: deliberately reaching out and recruiting veterans, women, minorities, and the 378 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 1: result was they won fourteen seats in twenty twenty while 379 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: the Senate was losing seats. They won nine seats in 380 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two while the Senate was losing seats. McCarthy's 381 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: now speaker and because he's following the formula I just 382 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: gave you. One, make sure you understand what the American 383 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: people want and what they believe in. Two find solutions 384 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: worthy of their effort, and three make sure you communicate 385 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: directly to them. Despite the hostil of the news media, 386 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: eighty six percent of his bills have had Democrats vote 387 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: for them. He's in the process right now of holding 388 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: a joint conference with the Democrats to study artificial intelligence. 389 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: He is, in fact, deeply committed to finding a way 390 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: to come together, and he now has a whole number 391 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: of Democrats who agree with him that Biden should be 392 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 1: negotiating on the debt ceiling, not just standing firm, and 393 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: this is all a matter of starting with what the 394 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: American people believe in. The American people overwhelmingly want a 395 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: debt ceiling which begins to cut spending, and they oppose 396 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: the debt ceiling which does not. The American people want 397 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: parental rights and are opposed to people who aren't for 398 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: parental rights. You go down a whole list of these things, 399 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: as you know, at the America's New Majority Project dot com, 400 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: which you can see at our website, America's New Majority 401 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: Project dot com. We list all sorts of issues on 402 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: which the country has actually unified, where you can actually 403 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: begin to understand a Lincoln kind of approach to popular sentiment, 404 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: and you can understand what government of the people, by 405 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: the people and for the people would be like, and 406 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: you can draw a sharp contrast with coercion by the 407 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: elites for the elites to the American people. And I 408 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: think this is going to become a major issue in 409 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four between a left which wants to coerce 410 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: us on transgender issues, coerce us on taxes, coerce us 411 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: on anti white racism, coerce us on keeping the order 412 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: open and having millions of people flood into America, coerce 413 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: us and releasing prisoners back into the population so that 414 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: they can carjack, kill, rape. I mean, it's amazing what's 415 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,719 Speaker 1: happened in our biggest cities, all of them Democrats, as 416 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: they keep putting criminals back on the street. And Washington, 417 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: the police chief said the average murderer had committed eleven 418 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: crimes before they finally killed somebody, and yet they were 419 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: back on the street. So you have this divide coming 420 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: that I think will be a real choice for the 421 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: American people. The first four months of the Republicans under 422 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: Speaker McCarthy's leadership has been amazing. But as we think 423 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: about twenty twenty four and beyond, what we need is 424 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: more than temporary victories. America faces two huge historic challenges. First, 425 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: our institutions are just decaying. I mean, when you have 426 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: a school system where twenty three schools have zero students 427 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: capable of doing math. And by the way, Chicago is similar, 428 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: other cities are similar. This is not a Baltimore problem. 429 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: This is an inner city teachers' union will left wing ideas, 430 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: craziness kind of approach, no discipline, no structure, no real ability, 431 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: which means people who can't read and write. Are now 432 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: teachers who can't read and write, so they can't teach 433 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: reading and writing. I mean, the whole thing is a disaster. 434 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: And we see these institutions decaying in the Pentagon, you 435 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: see them decaying across the federal government. You see them decaying, 436 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 1: for example, with our transportation system. And so this is 437 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: a huge challenge of how do you take on large 438 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: bureaucracies that are decaying. Second, we are deeply split on values. 439 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: There is an aggressive twenty to twenty five percent minority 440 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: which wants to use power of the government to coerce 441 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: the rest of us into a series of values none 442 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: of us believe in. You know, here are the sixty 443 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: gender terms. You should memorize it if you're going to 444 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: go to Stanford. Here is the argument that seven year 445 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: olds can decide what their gender is. Here is the 446 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: argument that if you're white, you're by definition somebody that 447 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: is a racist, and therefore we all have to be 448 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: opposed to you. By the way, way, while we are 449 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: resegregating and having black only events, but that's not considered racism. 450 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: You go down this list of things, you realize that 451 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: there's a huge values gap and there's a huge performance decay, 452 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: and those two have to be met and have to 453 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: be challenged now. To get these two fixed, the scale 454 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: of change we need to get America unified and back 455 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: on track to being the most exceptional nation industry really 456 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: reforces us to learn how to operate in these three zones. 457 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: I've been describing, what is that the American people really want? 458 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: How do we offer them solutions big enough that they 459 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: feel they're getting what they want? And then how do 460 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: we communicate with them despite the news media's hostility. This 461 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: is not new. The founding fathers had to do it. 462 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 1: Jefferson had to do it, Jackson did it, Lincoln did it, 463 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: McKinley did it, FDR did it, and O. Reagan did it. 464 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: And in some way you could argue that both Lyndon Baines, 465 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: Johnson and Obama did it on the left. But in 466 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: every case it involves the same capability. What is it 467 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: the American people want? How do you offer them solutions 468 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: that they decide they want, and how do you make 469 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: sure that they know about it despite the news media. 470 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: I think it's very important to recognize that the contract 471 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: Republicans almost broke through. If you go back and look 472 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: at the things we worked with Clinton on our ability 473 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: to build a bipartisan majority, the number of things from 474 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: welfare reform to tax cuts, to FDA reform, to Medicare reform, 475 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: to telecommunications reform to balancing the budget. For four straight 476 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,479 Speaker 1: years we were very close to breaking through, and then frankly, 477 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: the party fell back into sort of a traditional management 478 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: style that didn't involve changing things and didn't involve listening 479 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: to American people. Trump almost broke through. The changes he 480 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: got were enormous, but the total hostility of the system 481 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: trying to destroy him was one of the most extraordinary 482 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: events in American history. I don't know any other president, 483 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: except maybe Lincoln during the Civil War who had the 484 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: kind of beating that Trump has en now for seven years. 485 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: But the key to the changes is beyond personality. The 486 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: key is to recognize one, what do the American people want? 487 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: And there I recommend you go and look at America's 488 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: New Majority Project dot com because we're finding example after example. Two. 489 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: We have to offer solutions large enough. And by the way, 490 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: I think the rise of the school choice and the 491 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: idea that money follows the student, not the institution are 492 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: huge changes that are going to profoundly change the whole 493 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: process of education in America and make it much more competitive, 494 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: much more capable, and students are going to learn much faster, 495 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: and it's going to be much more traditional values and 496 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: not sort of left wing nutcake ideas. So there are 497 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: a series of solutions like that. The Pentagon needs to 498 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: be dramatically overhauled. Our medical system has to start, frankly, 499 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: with transparency. If we just knew price and quality, we 500 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: would get dramatically better care at substantially lower cost. Finally, 501 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: we have to constantly work. Whether it's podcast or it 502 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: is Facebook, or it is speeches or it's on television, 503 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: we have to communicate with the American people so they 504 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: understand both what the left is trying to do and 505 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: that there is an alternative that will work. And we 506 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: have to do all three because they synergistically reinforce each other. 507 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: I think it's really really important that we understand how 508 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: desperate it is for America to get back to institutions 509 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: that work, that have the values of the American people, 510 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: that are supported by the American people, and to have 511 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: political leaders who understand that their power comes from the people, 512 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: not from the elites. Finally, you have to ask what 513 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: can you do? Way you do a lot. If you 514 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: saw recently the boycott of bud Light was a significant 515 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: historic event, it was just individual people saying no, I'm 516 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: not going to put up with it anymore. If you 517 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: look at the efforts that are underway to develop new media, 518 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: the approach of people who are developing pro American history 519 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: programs for children, you see a really dramatic improvement in 520 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: the number of options that are available for learning. When 521 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: you look at the reform efforts that are beginning to 522 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: underway to rethink the Defense Department, the intelligence community to 523 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: recognize that if we're going to compete with China, we 524 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: just have to be more agile and move much more 525 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: aggressively and faster. There are hopeful signs and there are 526 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: real conversations underway across the country. So I am an 527 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: optimist like Reagan. I believe that the American people in 528 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: the end are bigger than their problems. I think that 529 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: they are bigger than those who would oppress them and 530 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 1: coerce them. And I believe that in the end we 531 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: will in fact get back to the rule of law. 532 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: We will in fact get back to listening to the 533 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: American people, and we will develop solutions bigger than the 534 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: challenges we're faced. And that's why I wanted to share 535 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: these ideas with you. Thank you for listening, and I 536 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: hope you found this useful. News World is produced by 537 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: gingrisweet sixty and iHeartMedia. Our executive producer is Guernsey Sloan 538 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: and our researcher is Rachel Peterson. The artwork for the 539 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: show was created by Steve Penley. 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