1 00:00:17,679 --> 00:00:21,320 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dashinski, 2 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:23,960 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,559 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr LST. 4 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,039 Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and if you want 5 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,679 to support our work, go on head over to the Federalist dot com and 6 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,240 you can get a subscription to the premium version of our website as well. 7 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:41,799 I'm joined today by Christopher Bedford. Chris, thank you for stopping by the 8 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:45,240 show on such a busy week. It is a busy week. It's a 9 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,079 busy house. I mean you might hear some background noise. I'm not alone. 10 00:00:49,119 --> 00:00:55,439 There's also a dishwasher and a washing machine, and three animals. Well 11 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,000 I might fight each other at any moment. At least you're cleaning the dishes. 12 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:03,399 That's the good news. Another good news. But I'm I'm a winner. 13 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,040 Good work, Chris. All right, so we're recording this on Wednesday, 14 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,480 as we've had, you know, not quite twenty four hours to process 15 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:15,280 the results of the off year election that happened on Tuesday. Now, Chris, 16 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:22,920 I was not even slightly surprised by a single state result that came out 17 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,799 of last night. I don't think I was particularly surprised by any of the 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,560 margins. I mean, I expected Republicans to underperform. What did you make? 19 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,719 Where is that? It was disappointing night for a couple of reasons. 20 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:38,599 I think basically, I was gonna say, I think basically it's important for 21 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:44,560 both of us to explain why we were right. Okay, sure, I'm 22 00:01:44,599 --> 00:01:49,799 getting I'm kidding Virginia. Well, I mean, it was generally just a 23 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:55,799 summer of an evening, but there I no excitement was expected. The only 24 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:02,920 thing that really sticks with me is Ohio which pass an absolutely disgusting death bill 25 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:13,240 or an amendment to the constitution. That it makes me wonder a number of 26 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,560 the fifty seven percent of voters who supported the amendment of the Issue number one 27 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:22,879 for the Ohio Constitution may have had no idea quite what they were voting for. 28 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 The Issue number one wrapped itself in the language of civil rights and talked 29 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:37,680 about health and choice and doctor's understandings of things and rights and all this and 30 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,080 that. And Ohio's pastors who have a outsized voice compared to a lot of 31 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,919 other states. There's a lot of religious practices in Ohio were silent on the 32 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:54,120 issue. They were not talking about it, which is pathetic cowardly. But 33 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:58,400 there's got to be a sizeable corporate, a sizeable part of the voters of 34 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:01,599 Ohio that has said, yeah, I think that I would like to have 35 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:07,639 abortion as an option until birth. I would like parents taken out of the 36 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,840 equation for underage their underage daughters getting an abortion. And I don't think the 37 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:15,560 parents should be able to get involved with hormone treatment for children. And I 38 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:20,120 would like this to be part of my state's constitution. I mean, Bato 39 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,039 Sodoma gomoron an apology at this point, like, hey, I'm sorry, 40 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,000 I'm always your parents are always harder on the elders than they are on the 41 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:31,400 younger siblings. It's just it's it's dreadful. And I know that a lot 42 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,000 of different tactics for you is we talked about the civil rights stuff, which, 43 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,439 by the way, the right should copy. There's a lot of different 44 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:40,960 things that the right could set up or that not just on hodifying the state 45 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,120 constitutions with airy fairy language, things that protect life. You'd have to get 46 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,520 some buy in from the pro life movement to say, hey, we're going 47 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,960 to set this in fifteen weeks or whatever. We're gonna put in line with 48 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,759 Europe somewhere between twelve and fourteen weeks Western Europe. But there was also the 49 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:03,120 Democrats really high this tactic in Colorado and have since repeated it successfully all over 50 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:09,240 the country where they get They put a popular ballot measures with the youths, 51 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,599 with people who might otherwise be very informed voters. On the ballots. They 52 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:21,240 had Issue number two was legalizing marijuana, which I guess for the Ohioans that 53 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:26,439 have never been to a state that's le marijuana still sounds like a good idea 54 00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:30,319 to them, as if police funny. I haven't seen the survey of people 55 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:35,600 who changed their opinion post legalization. I'm actually really curious now that you mentioned 56 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:40,879 that. I haven't thought of that before. I mean, it's it's nothing 57 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,240 that the legalizers of promise has come true. The revenues are far below, 58 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:53,079 the cartels have expanded, the other drug crimes have prooriphorated dramatically, and city 59 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,839 life has become worse. I mean, it's kind of like the guy who 60 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,480 invented the cotton gin and said we don't need to have slaves anymore, right, 61 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:01,439 and it's like we can afford a whole lot of persal lives now just 62 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,480 backfires. It didn't lead to any of the promises that were go for, 63 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,639 but Ohioso voted for it. What was interesting is that fifty fifty seven percent 64 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:16,560 of those voters backed the marijuana amendment or issue excuse me, and then fifty 65 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:23,000 seven percent backed death bill. And there's got to be a connection between that 66 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,519 turnout. But now, I mean, they've they've got in the constitution. 67 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:33,839 That was the point Kentucky was kind of expected. We talked to us about 68 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,720 it, talked to us about the McConnell factor in Kentucky. That was one 69 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:40,879 of the first things Sean Davis tweeted that. He said, you know, 70 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,839 McConnell's last he checked it real clear, was like negative thirty nine favorability rating. 71 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,600 He was one of He is actually by these accounts, by some of 72 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,839 this this polling, the single most unpopular politician in America. Sean went and 73 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,959 found a bunch of headlines that directly tied Daniel Cameron, who was a McConnell 74 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,839 aid, to Mitch McConnell. So to some extpt voters. We're seeing this, 75 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,120 how heavily do you think that influenced the decisions some of those voters made? 76 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:10,759 Love Sean, I'm going on the Ingram angle. I think with him 77 00:06:10,759 --> 00:06:14,680 tonight. I might have just gotten myself canceled from it with a snoody response. 78 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:19,120 But I don't think people went in there and like saw this thirty seven 79 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:26,720 year old charismatics attorney general and said no because McConnell. It's like they didn't 80 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:31,600 really go in there and see Andy Basheer, this forty six year old son 81 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,519 of a former governor, and say no because of Joe Biden. It's finding 82 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:43,079 Republican's best efforts to do so. Butchers has popularity. Another way that Youngkin 83 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:48,199 has popularity in Virginia, they are members of the opposing party that aren't able 84 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:54,199 to do anything. Actually, young Kin could do a lot more because it 85 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,480 least until January, he had control of the Republican Senate. I say Senate 86 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:02,040 and control the House. He couldn't pass that much. The governor of Kentucky. 87 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:06,879 It's not a particularly powerful position in the first place, and Republicans have 88 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:14,240 veto proof majorities in the legislature. They can do whatever they want regardless. 89 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:19,519 So he's he's got name recognition from back when Kentucky was a Democratic state, 90 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:26,319 or at least leaned a lot more like that. And he's painting himself as 91 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:29,600 a moderate. I don't think sim of his positions are particularly moderate, but 92 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:33,800 he's done that and he hasn't really done anything negative, and he's right because 93 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,360 of that, is just very popular in the state. And it was a 94 00:07:38,519 --> 00:07:43,000 hard election to run against him. They ran a good campaign, but in 95 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,600 the day the Republican legislators running for re election in Kentucky beat the governor's ticket. 96 00:07:48,519 --> 00:07:51,199 He tried the governor's ticket to trail it well, and they were also 97 00:07:51,279 --> 00:07:55,360 outspent. So again, when we're talking about these spending numbers, I'm looking 98 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,639 at ad impact. So they by their calculations. In the Kentucky governor race, 99 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,759 Democrat spent forty seven point eight million, Republicans spent twenty nine point two 100 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,439 million. That's not a close margin at all. On issue one it was 101 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,319 twenty four point four million to sixteen point three million. That is again not 102 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,800 a close margin of spending at all. That means when you have this especially, 103 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:20,600 I mean it's kind of reversed in Kentucky, you have a red state, 104 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:26,199 but in Ohio you have a fairly red state where public opinion on abortion. 105 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:31,000 A lot of conservatives feel comfortable in Ohio. They don't feel comfortable after 106 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,919 Dobbs, and so you have Democrats blanketing the airwaves with you know, misleading 107 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,240 at best, false narratives. One thing I think it's always worth mentioning with 108 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:45,120 Issue one is that even the Toledo Blade published an editorial, not just like 109 00:08:45,159 --> 00:08:48,399 a random opinion column, but an editorial saying, we is the Toledo Blade 110 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,360 support quote a women's right to choose, and we think Issue one is overly 111 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:58,240 broad and detrimental. It actually is a really poorly written Even if you're you 112 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:01,000 know, ardently pro choice, you're going to be glad about this, but 113 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:03,840 just the way that they wrote it was ridiculous. And I think it will 114 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,279 have ramifications outside of just a abortion clearly. But when you have all of 115 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:15,000 those factors and then you let Dems outspend you on an insane level, conservative 116 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,639 donors don't want to pitch in. Clergy doesn't want to pitch in. Governor 117 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,320 DeWine came in sort of late on the issue. A lot of pro lifers 118 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,679 feel it just was. It seems to me, Chris, like we're a 119 00:09:24,759 --> 00:09:28,440 year and a half post Dobbs. Now roughly what did they think was going 120 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,519 to happen? I mean, the pro lifers tried to get the constitutional amendment 121 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,639 threshold moved up to sixty percent precisely because they you know, it ended up 122 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,840 at fifty seven percent. It would not have won if they had won that 123 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,320 August ballot measure. But they always knew that it was it was probably going 124 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,399 to be upwards of fifty percent. It's really dangerous to have a constitutional amendment 125 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,480 that can go through a majority. I mean usually have a simple majority for 126 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:58,720 the least important decisions like congressman or somebod who's there. So that's a few 127 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:03,279 short years. Yeah, the Democrats outspent Republicans in Kentucky where they won, 128 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:09,360 and in Virginia where they won, in Ohio where they won, and that's 129 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,600 certainly got a big part to plant and different people didn't step up at the 130 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:18,639 right time. I was actually like kind of I was surprised to see our 131 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:26,159 bishop and Arlington, Virginia so signed a letter with the Bishop of Richmond telling 132 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:30,399 faithful Catholics, Hey, I know that people go to the ballots with a 133 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,000 lot of different issues and a lot different things they care about, but not 134 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,879 all issues are equal. And the Gothic Church teaches that life is paramount, 135 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,360 and Catholics are called and expected to vote against evil. In the selection, 136 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:48,000 it was the Democrats have gotten so extreme on a lot of In Virginia, 137 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,679 there was no issue won. It was the governor had promised that if he 138 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,320 had the legislature, he would pass a fifteen week abortion ban, and that 139 00:10:56,399 --> 00:11:01,240 was enough to make generally a political Bishops could often say to vote against evil. 140 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,879 Do this unfortunately didn't translate down to the pulpit in a lot of different 141 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:09,960 places, the parish priests. Most people don't read letters from the bishop. 142 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,039 Facebook Etholics, even if you're even if you're going to church every Sunday and 143 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:20,279 every Holy Day and you're donating, you're not always going to get that letter. 144 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,000 So not everyone is as special and well informed as Christopher Bedford. Well, 145 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:28,039 I get their press releases. That's how I said. I didn't. 146 00:11:28,519 --> 00:11:31,559 It wasn't talked about, and I'm part of a fairly conservative church, but 147 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,639 it was not talked about, so uh, there was there was. There's 148 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,639 some people who have pushed in the right direction. But it's just a hard 149 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:41,679 fight, and I think Republicas need to be more careful in the language and 150 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,879 also they need to hit differently in their advertisement. I mean, if you 151 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:52,440 look, so, the Democrats in Kentucky and Virginia had some really pwinying advertisements 152 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,519 out. Some of them said they had victims of rape from older members of 153 00:11:56,519 --> 00:12:01,840 their family stepfathers or fathers, staring direct way into the camera pointing the finger 154 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,440 at Republicans. These are real people. I just saw their Republican ads and 155 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:11,559 it was like a horny actor who looked like a dad from a sitcom wearing 156 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,840 a burglar mask, being like, I'm able to burgle your house because this 157 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:22,320 Carterman's Week on Crime. And it's like, well, real examples do abound. 158 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,639 Why not talk to the parents of the girl who was executed in the 159 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:31,919 park in Fairfax. 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There's 183 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:28,039 an interesting DA race over in Allegheny County where the guy who would originally run 184 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,960 as a Democrat against a sort of soft on crime prosecutor someonhen he framed as 185 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,440 a soft on crime prosecutor actually ended up running as a Republican after he lost 186 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:43,759 the primary and beat the other Democrat on a sort of tough on crime from 187 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:46,360 a tough on crime position. And Chris, that brings me to my next 188 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,320 question, which is, you know, was this all bad for Republicans. 189 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:56,279 I still have this take from last year in the midterms that there was the 190 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:01,879 media's narrative was redwave. You know, they want the excitement of a red 191 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:05,279 wave, and then it was suddenly like Republicans got routed. Republicans are just 192 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,440 you know, the everyone now knows the Republicans are crazy bigots, they're you 193 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,440 know, blah blah blah, and it's it's easy for you and I, 194 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,240 I mean, we're constantly critical of the Republican Party. I feel like, 195 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:22,480 you know, my primary existence in life is to criticize the Republican Party for 196 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,639 doing such a disservice to conservatism so often. But then at the same time, 197 00:15:28,039 --> 00:15:31,639 you know, it was Virginia is a blue state. We think of 198 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,600 Virginia as sort of a swing state. Virginia is a freaking blue state that 199 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:39,320 glen to be a parpal state. And whatever is exciting people at the moment 200 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,200 can change it. So critical race there is exciting people, then you end 201 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:46,440 up with the Republicans doing well. And the ability to abort your children at 202 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,320 sixteen weeks is what excites you. Blows my mind, by the way, 203 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,519 And like any husband can tell you this or a member of a family, 204 00:15:56,039 --> 00:16:00,759 how obvious it is when a woman is twelve weeks pregnant or thirteen weeks pregnant, 205 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:07,639 fourteen weeks pregnant. It's been like months of them acting insane and feeling 206 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:12,320 physically ill. It's like this whole thing, like sixteen weeks fifteen weeks. 207 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,559 It's like what they don't know talking about you don't know, you haven't had 208 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:19,879 here anyways. I don't think we need to get into that because also that 209 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,039 is different for everyone, and I just don't see you as the authority. 210 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:32,519 I'm sorry, Gus Well definitely not on that sometimes. Sorry, Emily. 211 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,240 As a woman, you're not allowed to speak to men's experiences of living with 212 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:40,200 women, your lived experience. No, you're I shouldn't have done that, 213 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,879 and I apologize, and I hope that. Yeah, this center my experience. 214 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:52,200 It's a dark place where a light for the GOP is that a Democrat 215 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:59,919 won the Alleghany County attorney or attorney generally also didn't lose the Mississippi governorship, 216 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,119 which a lot of the lever No. I mean I saw, like I 217 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,240 know, obviously it was never gonna happen, but there was so called mainstream 218 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:11,960 media credits coverage saying this could be it, this could be the The media 219 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:17,119 always says that I picked something like Ted Cruz is going to get toppled by 220 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,839 Whiffle Boy or something and it just never happens, or Pink Shoe Lady is 221 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:25,960 going to turn Hex's blue or uh but there was some good stuff. I 222 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:32,920 mean, Loudon County, Uh Soros prosecutor Buddha was was booted. That was 223 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 nice. Broom County, New York, lass A I think his name is 224 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,720 Matt Ryan Sorows backed prosecutor was was knocked out. You know, Virginia, 225 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:51,799 despite like glosses, the Falcons did admirably. I mean, Virginia went pretty 226 00:17:51,839 --> 00:18:02,079 strongly for Joe Biden for president. Republicans won every ingle district in Virginia where 227 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,640 Joe Biden won by less than ten points, so a single digit win by 228 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:10,200 Joe Biden. They hailed every single place that voted for Donald Trump, and 229 00:18:10,279 --> 00:18:14,920 they needed to I think, get one Senate seat in a place where he 230 00:18:15,039 --> 00:18:18,799 had won by double digits and two House seats in a place where he'd won 231 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,559 Biden had won by double digits, and they weren't able to get get it 232 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:27,359 all together. So they're very close maybe in two years time, having a 233 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:36,000 four years time, having a trifecta of Republican control and a safety you could 234 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,839 fairly we could argue whether it's purple or blue. But that's not terrible, 235 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,759 and I mean, I know it's like a disappointment to the mega downers out 236 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:48,160 there who really hate Trump and thought that if young thing could just win this 237 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,359 election, then Trump wouldn't be the nominee. It's like, very m dumb, 238 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:53,720 Well, where do you stand in this? I actually also I am 239 00:18:53,720 --> 00:19:00,200 curious where you're standing on this Trump question, because I definitely saw people people 240 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:03,759 floating this idea that you know Trump. There were differing points on this, 241 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,640 you know. Patrick Grafeni had a different point than some like people in the 242 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,759 activist space on what it means to have Trump at the top of the ticket 243 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,599 for Republicans, What it means for a Republican party that sort of goes full 244 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,480 Trump that let's say you had candidates, let's say Daniel Cameron went full Trump. 245 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,119 Is that what puts him over the edge against Bashir? What do you 246 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,000 make of that? The Trump factor in off your elections here? I don't 247 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,440 really know what to make of it. Cool and I've seen his proponents being 248 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,640 like, this is proof that you only win when Trump is here. And 249 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:44,039 I've seen other people saying like this is proof that if they hadn't gotten so 250 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,400 clo cosey with Trump and done these endorsements, then GP would have the governorship 251 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:57,000 of Kentucky, and I don't really see enough facts there to draw definitive conclusion, 252 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:03,200 but I will say that while reading the court transforms back and forth between 253 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,799 Trump and the judge in New York made me think, man, he's still 254 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:11,839 got it when he's just going on about how Aberdeen's the most beautiful place in 255 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:14,759 the world. They've got phenomenal fossil fields, they got great oil fields out 256 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:17,319 there. So I have some big plans maybe from of old mayble to do 257 00:20:17,319 --> 00:20:19,240 a very smart thing, and the judges like, shut up this yelling at 258 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:25,240 him. It was kind of annoying just to do a quick side tangent that 259 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:30,079 all of the coverage of drums days in court in New York have been about 260 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,519 like, oh, look at this back and forth between him and the judge, 261 00:20:32,519 --> 00:20:37,319 as opposed to how the hell did a prosecutor who's so partisan that they're 262 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:42,960 leading chance of lock him up managed to break through the statute of limitations with 263 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:48,559 a totally bs claim that well, the crime is old, there's new evidence, 264 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:55,519 so there isn't and charge the leading candidate for the GOP nomination with a 265 00:20:55,559 --> 00:21:00,559 crime that had no complainants and no victims. It's like that should be like 266 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:04,119 the source of the coverage. But I guess I will take them back and 267 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,200 forth. It's kind of nice and a dark day to have something there just 268 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,480 making fun of a judge and driving them nuts. Well, and I have 269 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:14,599 to say, as somebody who is so very open to the idea that Donald 270 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:19,319 Trump is a serial white collar criminal, as he's basically you know, explained 271 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:25,559 in public in different ways at this point, it's such a libs, such 272 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:29,519 a lib h. Every time I look into these judges on the cases, 273 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,720 my jaw drops. It's just like these people have been so I guess unprofessional 274 00:21:34,839 --> 00:21:40,960 is the word in like, really judge day, Well, it looks like 275 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,279 a fruit basket. The brow tie, the bow tie is just a but 276 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:52,279 a symbol, Chris, of the mental h ideology governing this man's like judicial 277 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,160 they did he ride his unicycle to work? Yeah, it's just yeah. 278 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,839 I mean, you're calling him a clown and that seems apt in this case. 279 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:03,200 And there's just zero you hear nothing about it in the press. And 280 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,160 every time, like again, as somebody who in these stories, I'm like, 281 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,440 okay, well, you know, is he probably misrepresenting assets? Sure? 282 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:15,839 Is it illegal? Sure? Is everybody in New York real estate doing 283 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,039 that. Sure, but I look at him on a basis of real estate 284 00:22:19,079 --> 00:22:23,119 in general. My mind is so very open to this possibility. And then 285 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,279 I start digging into the cases and I'm like, oh my gosh, this 286 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,480 in normal times, this is the headline, Like this stuff is insane. 287 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:36,960 And the worst for Democrats is they're too stupid to know it's going to backfire. 288 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:40,240 I mean, they did this in twenty sixteen. They tried to boost 289 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,160 Trump because they thought, surely one of the things is so popular. The 290 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,559 buyern York had a good point that is kind of just based on a really 291 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:49,880 bad law, the New York ty In generally that there is no victim. 292 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,440 I mean it's so let's say he's totally guilty, and we all know the 293 00:22:55,519 --> 00:22:59,519 victim, taxpayers, the victim or some I mean yeah, like Donald Trump 294 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:06,599 routinely inflates everything that's like kind of a stick. But everyone was paid back, 295 00:23:07,079 --> 00:23:10,640 like the loan was paid. There's no victim. It's like, what 296 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,160 are you are you prosecuting? It's not even an astatus of limitations. I 297 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,839 just don't know one's talking about it. What other elections can we talk about? 298 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,119 I guess we have Ohio, very sad, tangent, really awful. 299 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:29,000 Yeah, well so, I mean one thing that I wanted to ask you 300 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 you will, Yeah, one thing I wanted to ask you, though, 301 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:34,480 Chris is As I was thinking about this today, I was like, there's 302 00:23:34,599 --> 00:23:37,039 there's actually kind of a disconnect here. I was thinking about this in the 303 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:41,119 context of Rashida Talib, and this is going to be controversial and make people 304 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,759 mad. But on the question of censoring Rashida Tsalib, which happened on Tuesday 305 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:49,119 night, a couple of Republicans didn't vote to center her, most did, 306 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,279 and a couple of Democrats I think twenty two Democrats joined with the Republicans in 307 00:23:53,480 --> 00:24:00,559 censuring Rashida Talib over a video she posted that included a chant of the Ripper 308 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,920 to the Sea, which is essentially a call from an erratic for an eradication 309 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:10,440 of Israel, which people then will say is a call for genocide. Racheated 310 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,599 till you tried to say, of course, that's not what I mean, 311 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:15,039 et cetera, et cetera. You know, I don't want to give her 312 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:18,279 the benefit of the doubt at this point, but what I will say, 313 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,480 she does exactly what she means it's not a dog whistle, it's open. 314 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:26,480 Yeah. I think that's your ears. What I'm thinking though, as I 315 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:32,279 was considering this, I was like, this woman is elected to represent the 316 00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:40,480 people of Dearborn Heights and a heavily Muslim area where we saw or terrorists, 317 00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:45,000 then the representative should represent the terrorists. That's exactly what I'm saying, because 318 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:51,079 the broader problem is that the United States has allowed people who have a bitter 319 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,480 hatred of the West to basically pick at its carcass uh and to enjoy all 320 00:24:56,519 --> 00:25:00,480 of its fruits while poisoning it from within. And while you know, trying 321 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:06,640 to say we need to fight for X, Y and Z priorities, blah 322 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,480 blah blah, we don't believe that in American exceptionalism. We're not going to 323 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:12,119 vote for people who believe in American exceptions and we're going to elect people like 324 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,200 Rashida to leave, et cetera, et cetera. I actually think with this 325 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,480 is going to sound again like a crazy connection with a portion. Republicans will 326 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,319 say, we just need to spend more money, we just need better messaging. 327 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:32,160 But they also say, and rightfully so, what happens when we send 328 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,240 millions of students through the filter of higher education for decades. Wow, can 329 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:41,240 you imagine? Can you imagine how liberal, how Marxist these students are going 330 00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:45,000 to be. Well, it's not twenty twenty three, and we've gone through 331 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 twenty twenty, the summer of twenty twenty, the entire year of twenty twenty. 332 00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:52,319 The people of Kenosha can tell you how liberal those students are going to 333 00:25:52,319 --> 00:25:56,519 be. And I just think, at what point do Republicans recognize that these 334 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:00,920 policies are are not popular. There isn't an election oral trick. There is 335 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,759 an electoral magic that's going to get the pro life cause elected or make it 336 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:11,039 helpful on the ballot. When people actually are are hostile to these causes, 337 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,759 that means really that the initiative has to be persuasion and then you can sort 338 00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:19,759 of start to expect electoral returns. I thought we were talking about Moss. 339 00:26:21,599 --> 00:26:23,000 Well we were, but then I moved to a I'm from Lost. Now 340 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:33,000 the question Republican positions, conservative positions are unpopular because the to what extent here's 341 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,720 my question, people Dearborn Michigan are very conservative. Well, it depends that 342 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,440 short lived the Lions, like the Republicans like, man, we're really close 343 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:49,240 with all these Muslim Muslim immigrant parents on parental rights and LGBTQ stuff in schools, 344 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,319 and it's like we're a happy family. And then this, I mean, 345 00:26:53,599 --> 00:26:56,519 they were fighting teachers unions. They were fighting the teachers unions on the 346 00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:59,160 crazy books. And by the way, I don't think that's going to be 347 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,880 fundamental device. Well, of course, I don't think that's going to go 348 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,839 anywhere. I don't think it means that they're gonna start voting for Republicans. 349 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:06,960 But I do think it means that you're gonna have a whole lot of problems 350 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,119 if you're trying to teach gender queer in dearborn. But seriously, Chris, 351 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,759 I mean, we have at what point do we say the liberal takeover of 352 00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:21,039 America has happened? Like this country is no longer a country. It's not 353 00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:26,519 two thousand and eight. You don't just have to message abortion right because the 354 00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:30,359 country after Roe fell, it was sort of fertile ground for the left to 355 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,319 come in and say, yeah, well, they have to contend with some 356 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,880 things, to contend with some realities. Abortion has not. There's all these 357 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,920 abortionists out there like waving their head and be like see see, if only 358 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,079 you'd always run on a boarding babies, the Democratic Party would be trumphant. 359 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:52,839 That's not really true, Like Democratic candidates were losing on when they made abortion 360 00:27:52,880 --> 00:28:00,319 a central issue until Dobs essentially, and even those Democrats Medaglaciers pointed us out 361 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,960 in his earlier today, even those Democrats that turned out to be correct, 362 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,839 who said, hey, if you don't vote for a vote against me is 363 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:14,240 a vote for repealing jobs. And like I just was recurrent. It's still 364 00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:18,960 it didn't help them even when it seemed close. But now now it is 365 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,480 a motivating issue for people because there's suddenly somebody that their state legislators can control. 366 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:32,799 And the pro life movement has to contend with the reality that most Americans 367 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:36,640 are comfortable with abortion in the first trimester, like the majority of Americans are. 368 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:38,599 There's a lot of persuasion that needs to go into that. But I 369 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,680 mean a lot of the pro life movement. Yeah, the pro life movement 370 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,720 is young, the pro life movement is vibrant, But the pro life movement 371 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,559 in some ways had become like a kid's parade. That's cool, it's nice, 372 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:53,880 it's nice to go see it. But it was unprepared for the end 373 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,559 persuasion and the hard knuckle politics that were necessary and to throw the money around. 374 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:06,400 The money is completely absent because Democrat donors are completely united against life and 375 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,039 Republican donors don't really care about it. They want to keep the good times 376 00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:14,359 rolling. It's the base that doesn't. But they have to contend with that. 377 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,880 And the Product movement has really shot themselves in the foot in a couple 378 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:23,880 of places, like in Michigan, where I believe that it's murder at one 379 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,519 month, I believe it's murder. At two months, I believe it's murder 380 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,680 at three months. The American people don't support my position. So I have 381 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,480 to choose something, and I believe it's murder in the case of rape. 382 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:37,799 Yeah, and the republic the American people have to, the Republicans have to, 383 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,400 the Conservatives, the Product movement has to choose something. In the American 384 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,839 voter, there's in charge of the costensibly in charge of the country that we 385 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,640 live in. It's comfortable with the American voter basically across the board demands exceptions. 386 00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:55,880 If Ohio hadn't been so ardent in pushing a bill that was pushes in 387 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,359 the No exceptions, Bill, I think it's misrepresented. Then I would have 388 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,680 kept a lot more Republican support. Maybe that number wouldn't would still have passed, 389 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,480 but it wouldn't have been fifty seven percent. 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It's popular with 413 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,759 the American people, but does it also poison the pro life cause because it 414 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,000 seeds like if you really believe it's a human life, then what do you 415 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:07,400 mean or there are exceptions? Is that something that plants a seed in the 416 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:13,759 minds of you know, politically generally disengaged or mildly engaged people that or rebobably, 417 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:19,920 I actually believe this right, they don't actually believe it's that's the worry. 418 00:32:20,039 --> 00:32:21,920 I mean, I can't remember. I'm going to get the numbers a 419 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:27,480 little bit wrong. But in Michigan you had a potentially popular push to get 420 00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:32,920 an abortion restrictions on and the pro life groups threatened to primary Republicans who voted 421 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,480 for I think it was like a fifteen week ban or something, just so 422 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:42,720 that there's not enough. But you lose credit, you lose A front of 423 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,920 ours described it as this, if you really believe that abortion is murdered, 424 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:52,480 you and I do, and you know there are ten babies in the attic 425 00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:57,519 of a burning house and you can run up there and save six. Are 426 00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,400 you going to say, no, I need to save them all, or 427 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:06,160 either I save them all or I save none of them. Get that fifteen 428 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,359 weeks or something on the books, and then work from there, use the 429 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,839 language of the civil rights, try to get these amendments in there, and 430 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:16,440 then work from there change hearts and minds. The American people are not with 431 00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:21,079 us. I mean, the average person is not going to say, they're 432 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:22,920 going to say, of course I'm not for this, of course I'm not 433 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,160 for that. Of course I'm not for this crazy democratic thing. But they 434 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:29,160 don't actually associate those decisions with the Democrats, and they don't actually realize sometimes 435 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,440 what they're voting for. And there's a decent constituency of Americans, not decent, 436 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,759 but a large number the people who think it's moortion is great. I 437 00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:42,079 have you noticed the shit? Yes, absolutely, and they believe hamas is 438 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:45,079 great. I mean I shouldn't sayfe of the mother to health of the mother, 439 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,200 yes, something that's in the Ohio, that's the Ohio thing. Yes, 440 00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:53,440 and it's life of the mother is very clear. It's a clear distinction, 441 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:59,119 uh, health of the other. I mean we're in an age for 442 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:04,039 medical procedures and suicide. Suicide is allowed in Canada if your mental health is 443 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:07,839 poor, your economic health is poor. Yep. So health of the mother 444 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,679 means on demand yep. Today. And that's been a shift that I've seen, 445 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,639 and the right's been failing to box back. And unfortunately the right's going 446 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:22,079 to have to make a decision that we're only to save six out of ten 447 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:27,719 babies as opposed to none, because the voter is simply not at this point, 448 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,880 and I hope to change that. Behind behind the Catholic Church's position, 449 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,599 which is no abortion perious. It's incredibly daunting, and I think it's you 450 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:42,039 know a lot of different things. You know. Some people will say it's 451 00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:47,039 because Demps have a as Molly Hemingway is documented and rigged like an incredible get 452 00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:52,320 on the vote mail in ballot about harvesting operation that dwarfs what Republicans have, 453 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,360 and Republicans are playing catch up. Some people will say the same with online 454 00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:00,119 fundraising and small dollar fundraising. Some people will right fully point out that, 455 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:06,039 you know, conservative donors need to step up because live donors are incredibly motivated 456 00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:10,079 and they're increasingly like ultural wealthy. There aren't a whole lot of pro life 457 00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:14,880 ultra wealthy people, and certainly not political donors, so there are I mean, 458 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,880 there are a lot of factors here. I do think last night, 459 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:21,599 as we're talking on Wednesday, was more complicated than the media is making it 460 00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:24,440 out to be. But I also think Chris, it is at some point 461 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,760 it's time to sort of understand that the prediction the Republican the conservative prediction that 462 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,199 was made and got up man at Yale, God and man at Yale, 463 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,519 and you know, in the decades since was accurate. It was right, 464 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,400 and that's come to pass. And there's there are arguments that are going to 465 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,800 be need to be made at a much much much deeper, longer term level. 466 00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:52,199 Well, we need to smashblies, need to step up and smash the 467 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:58,440 university systems, bold callers, not pale pastels. Yeah, and the creatures 468 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,559 and the clergy you need to step about. And Vince and I were talking 469 00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:07,880 about this earlier on w n A L the it's it's it's totally normal and 470 00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:13,719 white Catholics and Protestants feel terrified at the idea of a candidate speaking at their 471 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,199 church. Were talking about politics and the pulpit, probably as a result of 472 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,599 civil rights and things like that. The black churches do not the times. 473 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,880 A lot of those black churches are not really voting for the GOP. So 474 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:30,119 there's like there's a there's a courageousness and talking about the issues that they think 475 00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:36,000 will impact their their parishioners. That is lacking. And a lot of other 476 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:39,000 kind of more maybe more conservative Republican leaning churches and ought to be. These 477 00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:45,000 are issues that are important. It should be talked about by pastors and priests, 478 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,960 and dare the I R s to come at them and then try to 479 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,639 defund, try to take away the taxing status of the Catholic churches or the 480 00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:54,960 Lutheran churches that are willing to speak out on this. I think that we 481 00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:59,840 need some more courageousness because he's I mean, Ohio shows we are living in 482 00:37:00,039 --> 00:37:02,000 arch times. We already knew that. We talked about that a lot, 483 00:37:02,079 --> 00:37:07,079 but that was really dark. It's just part of a eight constant should now 484 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,639 not not some awful Supreme Court decision that our politicians are too afraid to take 485 00:37:12,679 --> 00:37:20,119 down, but the constitution that's that should be a wake up call and hit 486 00:37:20,159 --> 00:37:23,360 these issues hard, talk about them the way that Donald Trump talked about it 487 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:29,840 when he put Hillary Clinton on the defensive in Las Vegas train. The candidates 488 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,639 raise the money and be willing to compromise. I mean, it's ugly, 489 00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:44,960 but it's true compromise. You're ugly? No response, Yeah that's right, 490 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:52,960 I got you ugly twice? Yeah ugly? Oh well, you know, 491 00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,840 I have to look at myself in the mirror every day. It's a heavy 492 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,400 burden. Rub it in. You're already dealing with enough, all right. 493 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:06,400 Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, Thank you as 494 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,000 always for joining us, and thanks for your election breakdown too. Are you 495 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,519 you've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emili Jrshinsky, 496 00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:16,599 Culture editor here at the Federalist. We'll be backset with more. Until 497 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:27,079 then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the friend. I earn the 498 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:32,239 fame, Boice the reason, and then it faded away