1 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,839 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jashinsky, 2 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:23,359 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:23,359 --> 00:00:26,960 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr LST. 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,199 Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and if you want 5 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:33,520 to support our work, please head over to the Federalist dot com sign up 6 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,560 for the Federalist Community, where you subscribe to the premium version of our website. 7 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,359 Now I am joined today by Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the 8 00:00:41,399 --> 00:00:46,320 Common Sense Society, who has some thoughts on Mike Johnson, apparently a real 9 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:55,039 human American man, even though he sounds like a fictional corporate squash playing character. 10 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:58,640 It's just a haircut, Mike Johnson. The haircut looks like he plays 11 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,200 a little squash for sure. You are one of the only people in America 12 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:06,959 who has thought deeply about the question of Mike Johnson. Well, first, 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,359 I want to get to First, I want to get to that little hustle 14 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:12,359 you dropped in inut of the intro. Oh, go over there, support 15 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:18,640 the work. I respect the hustle. Did you see the the Twitter pictures 16 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,040 of George Santas earlier today, just hanging out at the Congressional Bank. I 17 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:26,359 do lobby, just talking to tellers. You mean on X. I don't 18 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:30,480 know what Twitter is. I don't Yeah dot com that re routes to Twitter 19 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:34,840 dot com. I don't know if you've noticed that, but uh, I 20 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:38,239 love that hustle. Like none of his colleagues want to talk to him, 21 00:01:38,239 --> 00:01:42,879 No one's buying his bs. So he's down at the Congressional Bank like on 22 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,879 a Monday afternoon, is hanging out on the lobby for like half an hour 23 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,280 longer talking to Taylor's telling them he's going to put them into Kevin Smith movie. 24 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,760 I guess he's And it's just like that guy does not turn off. 25 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:57,599 I forget that you're a former tech executive, which is how you know where 26 00:01:57,599 --> 00:02:00,680 its like rerouting. You threw me off first. I was like rerouting, 27 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:05,599 Where did he learn that word? In your stint as a tech executive? 28 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:09,439 You learned? I get I learned most of my vocabulary from eminem. But 29 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:13,560 you do actually have thoughts on Mike Johnson. Actually, Chris wrote a piece 30 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:19,439 for Fox News dot Com on the Mike Johnson Speakership from a perspective that actually 31 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:23,319 you won't hear in many places unless you are hearing it ad nauseum from the 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,280 left, just from a very different vantage point, which is immediately they pivoted 33 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:30,479 to this guy's a full theocrat. It was like the Daily editor, an 34 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,199 editor over at the Daily Costs, which is still a thing. I had 35 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,800 no idea that was still a thing. Yeah, still around. Tweeted something 36 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:42,199 yesterday because Mike Johnson said he believed he's on the floor of the House, 37 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,159 and he said, I believe, you know, according to scripture, according 38 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:46,560 to the Bible, that we are all, that God has chosen all of 39 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:50,759 us to be here at this moment, that God has chosen you, that 40 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:53,800 he chooses our leaders. And the editor from Daily cost witted like he's already 41 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:00,840 gone full theocrat. Never loved that. It was so was so refreshing to 42 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:06,919 hear his opening speech compared to like the Frank Luntz written Kevin McCarthy's speech is 43 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,800 like, when I am the Speaker of the House, I like to look 44 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,800 at this painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, which I hadn't realized that toother 45 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,360 speech was like actually just totally in the imagination of this German immigrant, like 46 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:23,159 one hundred years later and it's just like the boat is just this diverse collection 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,840 of the American people, and like that was Kevin McCarthy's speech, like diversity 48 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,000 in fake paintings and his opportunity and freedom and the entrepreneurs and usually they're like 49 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,319 and the first step to re routing the Republic and trying to fix it is 50 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:38,919 we're going to read the Constitution on the floor of the house. It's like, 51 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,439 okay, no one cares. And the people who wrote the Constitution understood 52 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:47,400 that it was an entirely insuab unsuitable document for emoral people. It would not 53 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,919 work. So to hear the Republican come out and to immediately be talking about 54 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:57,240 scripture, to say that the thing that brought him to tears was not like 55 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,439 the black guy in the Indian and possibly the woman in the fake painting. 56 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:05,039 It was the sculpture of Moses on the in the house chamber that he just 57 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:10,319 noticed when he was sitting there late one night doing speaker tempore when everyone else 58 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,520 was sleeping, as like a junior freshman job that they do. And he 59 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:20,319 talked about his family and not just like thanks to my family, it's like, 60 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,800 yay, it really sucks to be the kid of a congressman. There's 61 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,639 not a lot of pluses to it. It's difficult to be a way. 62 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,639 You know, my wife wasn't here. She can't even be here because she 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,040 has to fly in, and it was pretty short notice. He got elected. 64 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:39,759 But if you look at him, if you listen to the way that 65 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,800 Republicans talk, and you listen to the way Democrats launch attack ads, you 66 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,920 would be shocked to find out that there hasn't for decades been a social conservative 67 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:54,360 and Republican leadership. They don't care. Miss McConnell doesn't care at all. 68 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,040 I mean, he literally called for a truce and the culture wars during the 69 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:00,360 last election, which is funny. It makes me think it's like the culture 70 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,360 wars in his head are like nineteen eighties or seventies, when even the sixties, 71 00:05:05,519 --> 00:05:08,959 like New York cops are breaking up gay bars and stuff. It's like 72 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,480 the culture war is not an offensive action from the right. The left is 73 00:05:12,519 --> 00:05:16,120 in the right, Christian in American trenches, like bashing Christian bakers over the 74 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,399 head. The culture wars a defensive action entirely, not even Christian bakers. 75 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:26,160 I mean at this point, they're coming after secular people who just told the 76 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,399 wrong side of the un use the brown hounds. 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I mean, you see this from McConnell again, being like, 111 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,600 oh, somebody actually wants to talk to who would want to talk to me? 112 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:22,360 Excuse me, Mike Johnson. These people are They pushed the social observances 113 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,519 at the back. They blame them for electoral losses. Sometimes they have people 114 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,560 like Carl Rove I obviously didn't mention in the Fox News op ed because he 115 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,399 works there, who come out there and like, I could use the social 116 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:37,200 conservatives for something. Yeah, I'm gonna make George W. Bush say a 117 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,399 bunch of things, and you know, maybe we'll say we're gonna teach absidence 118 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,759 in schools, which is like, how dare you teach kids not to have 119 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:48,879 sex? It's insane? But that did not make them actually people who really 120 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:54,000 cared about that coalition and were easily ready to drop it. And you see 121 00:08:52,399 --> 00:09:01,440 the rot that exists in Republican leadership, or the lack of attention being paid 122 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:07,399 to it, manifests itself every few cycles. Where candidates are trained, nominees 123 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,799 are trained, they're walked through their talks to They can answer questions about taxes, 124 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,519 they can answer questions about corporations, they can answer questions about Ukraine, 125 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,639 they can answer questions about Israel, but they absolutely flub as soon as they're 126 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:22,639 asked a question about abortion. They are so thankful that no one wants to 127 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,960 talk about marriage anymore. There's just been an atrophy of even the understanding of 128 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,720 these issues amongst Republican leadership. And it was unfill display when the House Representatives 129 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:37,960 passed a gay marriage bill a number of months ago, where you had like 130 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,720 thirty something Republicans who voted for it, including the chairman of the House Freedom 131 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:46,279 Caucus. And some of those people are intellectually honest. They've thought about the 132 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,120 issue and they think that you know, anyone who wants to pay the little 133 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,039 fee and get in line at the courthouse can get married. Other ones just 134 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,320 hadn't thought about it, and it was really clear. They're like, oh, 135 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,080 isn't that an issue from the nineties, Like, no, it's a 136 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,000 two thousand year old institution. Wait, my voters think that this is a 137 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:05,840 sacred thing and not just not just a way to pay your taxes differently or 138 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:13,200 have access to different economic rights. And the Speaker of the House Freedom Caucus 139 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:15,919 Chairman Perry, ended up in the awkward position of voting for it and then 140 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,679 having to lobby his Senate Republicans not to pass the ability voted for. And 141 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,279 that's just an example of people who hadn't thought about it. And this is 142 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:26,919 why he's like, I know, it blew everyone's mind. My social conservatives 143 00:10:26,919 --> 00:10:31,519 loved Donald Trump, who's obviously someone who had not spent his decades in public 144 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,799 life thinking deeply about these things, but came to it. Seemed clear to 145 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,960 me before his debate in Las Vegas against Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, the 146 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,879 last debate, that someone had been like, hey, let me tell you 147 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:46,679 what late term abortion is. And because of that, he went on the 148 00:10:46,759 --> 00:10:50,879 offensive against Hillary Clinton, whereas most Republicans were like, oh, safe legal 149 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,879 rare, I mean, I'm personally against it, but I don't want to 150 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:56,120 talk about it, and my donors don't want to talk about it. My 151 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:58,879 top dollar donors don't want to talk about it. And it's a losing issue 152 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:03,720 and court and yeah, there's anything to avoid it. And Trump is like, 153 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:07,039 you know what this is. She's a nasty woman. This is awful 154 00:11:07,159 --> 00:11:09,559 like and she made that. He made there to try to defend that, 155 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,399 and then he was the I think I also surprised a lot of people who 156 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,879 just get their kind of basic ideas about what the GOP stands for, from 157 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:20,320 what their talking points for Democrats attack heads. He was the first president to 158 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:28,559 ever go to the March for Life ever and so far the last the and 159 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,039 and that's why people liked him. And I know it made people who were 160 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,279 very comfortable being in a controlled opposition, like David French, feel uncomfortable that 161 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:43,039 the social Conservatives moved towards a brash and probably not always moral New York guy. 162 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,080 He was not part of their movement, but he was fighting for them 163 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,320 and they were that thirsty for it. But they've been kept out of this 164 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,360 leadership. So in Mike Johnson, who's like just friends with everyone, I 165 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,679 guess hasn't made enemies in Capitol Hill. He's a vice chair of the House 166 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,759 Republican Conference, right yeah, and a former chairman of the publicanst His committee 167 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:05,399 Study Committee, which was has long been a leadership thing. But still it's 168 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:11,840 disupposedly coming up with good ideas, uh from Louisiana. So it kind of 169 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:15,000 puts down Scalis's anger a little bit and have him been stabbed in the back 170 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,720 by his own fellow leaders when he when he got in line to get the 171 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,399 speakership, he was able to sail through. Well, he was. I 172 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,600 was, I remember laughing. I was. I had to sit in the 173 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:28,679 Fox fan for two hours yesterday waiting for a chance to talk. But we 174 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:31,519 ended up they ended up going with the entire vote. But once ken buck 175 00:12:31,639 --> 00:12:33,720 voted for him, I was like, that's the most ordinary son of a 176 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,039 gun in Congress. Like ken Buckers says, yes, we're only on the 177 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:39,759 bees. This guy is gonna win. Yeah, so let's just you know, 178 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,960 put me on TV, put me in coach. But ken Bucks had 179 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,480 a weird arc and over the last like six months, yes, it was, 180 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:52,879 he's been uh, he's been curmudgeingly, he's been a roller coaster yeah, 181 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,080 but he voted for him and everyone's like, oh great. And also 182 00:12:56,159 --> 00:12:58,519 of course there was a lot of just fatigue. People were sick of the 183 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,080 chaos. It was starting to look bad. Mac Eate's people are like super 184 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:07,200 pumped, like this is what we planned all the long. It's just funny 185 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:09,399 that the things that they've been grasping for because they didn't really have a I 186 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,919 haven't had an end goal for detail the hostage situation, Like they knew they 187 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,600 wanted to create a hostage situation, but they they didn't quite have the demands 188 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:20,639 yet. He endorsed what Scalie and Emma along the way at different points, 189 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:26,519 like people who would have been less I would say friendly to his cause than 190 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,240 McCarthy, like his actual ideological cause than Kevin McCarthy. I was talking to 191 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,240 one of his guys last week and the Ukraine funding was possibly getting held up, 192 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:37,919 and he's like, this is why we did it. Like no one 193 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:41,879 believes you. I mean someone might believe another beer sometimes you might even believe 194 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:46,879 you, but I don't believe you, and in your heart of hearts don't 195 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:50,960 believe you either. It's like when Trump would tweet something and you know it 196 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:54,639 was just emotional and it was a hilarious tweet. But then like two weeks 197 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:00,559 later, something happens that would be like his preferred outcome, but it had 198 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,279 absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he tweeted about it. People would 199 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:07,840 be like, Trump is playing four dy chess. Yes, that's exactly what 200 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:11,480 was happening in Matt Gates's office. Sometimes maybe Trump did a little bit of 201 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:13,799 that, And I don't really think that Gates woke up. And it's like 202 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:20,039 the House Representatives has not had a social conservative Speaker of the House for decades. 203 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,480 We need someone who came out boldly against Laurence v. Texas. And 204 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:33,679 two three, this is Mollie Hemingway encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, 205 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,960 Issues, etc. Every day you get in depth interviews with host Todd 206 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,840 Wilkin, asking expert guests substantive, thought provoking questions on all of the important 207 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,320 news and issues of our day. The expert guests are in culture, law, 208 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:54,960 ethics, philosophy, theology, and apologetics. Expert guests expansive topics, 209 00:14:54,120 --> 00:15:03,480 always extolling christ issues, et cetera. And you know, this is an 210 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,600 important thing and it highlights a serious problem in the GP. The GP's had 211 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:11,679 for decades where these guys get it backseat, and especially since I initiate, 212 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,480 you break these guys read the polls, they read who's the exit polls, 213 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,840 they read who's voting for the Republican Party, and they're not often as the 214 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:26,120 college educated. They've gone more and more towards the Democratic Party. The high 215 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:28,200 earners have gone more and more towards the Democratic Party. The people with advanced 216 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,159 degrees have gotten really strongly towards the Democratic Party. So when you do a 217 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,039 lot of these tax cuts, I know you say, like the rising tide 218 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,639 lifts all ships, they just don't really personally impact a lot of the voters 219 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:43,559 who are coming out for the Republican Party. What else is driving them? 220 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:48,960 And kind of a what Tucker talked about at the Daily Car News Foundation Gaiah 221 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,159 the day. You know, people who want to leave a country for their 222 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,519 children that kind of looks somewhat like the country that they grew up in is 223 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:58,559 a large part of that group. Social conservatives fall strongly into that. And 224 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,759 for Republicans have known, you know, take a look at mtt Romney. 225 00:16:02,799 --> 00:16:07,360 They've known that if you don't get these voters to show up, you lose, 226 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,600 but that's never translated into a winning coach, into them getting the right 227 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,799 seat at the table. And this was a mistake the Democrats made because people 228 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,600 forget this. But the moral what became the Moral Majority, was originally activated 229 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,279 as a political force for the first time in modern American history by Jimmy Carter, 230 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,840 Baptist moral Man for all of his other political failings and such, to 231 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:34,600 someone who he represented them, and they came out and they were very politically 232 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,480 active for him, and he rewarded them with Squad Diddley Squad. But they 233 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:41,080 were at this point already active, and Reagan was like, come on my 234 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,440 ship, we'll do this, and that's how it ended up becoming this much. 235 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:47,879 There's also a lot of the leaders wanted this, but that's one of 236 00:16:47,919 --> 00:16:51,120 the things that swayed this whole group to the right. And now for the 237 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:53,440 decades, a lot of them haven't realized this, but they've been homeless. 238 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:57,600 The Republicans don't care, don't want to talk about it. The Democrats hate 239 00:16:57,639 --> 00:17:02,720 them, so they definitely can't go there, all right, And because of 240 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,119 that, they get kind of treated get they get treated honestly worse than the 241 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,599 Democratic Party treats the black cock black voters where it's like, yeah, where 242 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:12,759 you're going to go, right, well, yeah, go vote for the 243 00:17:12,759 --> 00:17:18,559 other guy. Absolutely they won't. So they take them for granted and they 244 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,119 give them like, yeah, yeah, you can have a vice presidency, 245 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,799 I guess, but they don't really take them very seriously and they don't take 246 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:27,200 their needs that things are actually helped the versus and the same it's true for 247 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:33,359 the GP with social content. So this might not shift overnight. I mean, 248 00:17:33,839 --> 00:17:36,680 as we've seen, the Speaker of the House is not a very powerful 249 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,440 position. Well, it may also be a kiss of death for somebody like 250 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,799 Mike Johnson, who, by the way, I do not know Mike Johnson 251 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:45,359 personally. I don't think I've ever talked to Mike Johnson. Sarah's interviewed him 252 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,799 a bunch of times. I've met him briefly. So the reason I say 253 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:52,880 that is the Speaker of the House position. You know, when Paul Ryan 254 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:56,759 took over, he was in fairly good standing with the right flank. People 255 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:02,960 distrusted him, but they could talk to him, they could have conversations with 256 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:10,599 him, and you know, it became and it became so toxic so quickly. 257 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,039 People were able to talk to him because he was just a breath of 258 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:17,640 fresh air, it seemed after John Painter, right well, who didn't talk 259 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,440 to you, Yes, you didn't like you. And and Kevin McCarthy, 260 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,599 of course, famously we've covered this, like probably too much here had a 261 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,599 great relationship with the Freedom Caucus, and that in and of itself kind of 262 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,920 ended up splitting the Freedom Caucus into the kind of Marjorie Taylor Green camp and 263 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,119 then the Gates camp on the issue of McCarthy and the speakership. But Chris 264 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,519 does Mike Johnson. I mean, I think first of all, people should, 265 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,519 especially people that are favorable to Mike Johnson. You're gonna have to give 266 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:49,319 the man some grace. And I hope he is conveying that to people right 267 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:55,400 now that like, you cannot be Speaker of the House and not talk to 268 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,079 the Centrists. You have to to I mean the sense you help put in 269 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:04,000 there, Scalise is going to be, you know, at one point an 270 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:11,400 ally to him, but also someone who could exercise undue control or influence over 271 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,319 him. His fundraising is I mean, anyone who's got speaker next to his 272 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:18,759 name's got a good fundraising game. But he's obviously going to be pretty new 273 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:22,240 to this. It's some people are worried that he's already decided to take on 274 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:27,119 Kevin McCarthy's fundraiser. I don't know how worrying that is, because I don't 275 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:32,400 know. I've worked with a lot of development people and generally speaking, they 276 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,680 don't run the policy side of things, and Kevin McCarthy's funders are raised a 277 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,160 lot of money, and that's one of the things that John McCarthy. Yeah, 278 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,799 the question is like how much of McCarthy's staff he's going to keep, 279 00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:47,279 because staff do you run a lot of things. How much a lot of 280 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:49,920 members are to the right of their staff in the GOP, and staff really 281 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:55,519 guide them and move them back. It's very common to see manipulation from staff 282 00:19:55,519 --> 00:20:00,839 to soften the Republicans politicians position significantly more likely than it is and I've seen 283 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,799 it and it's great when you see it, see staff dragging someone to the 284 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,200 right. And I feel like that's actually been happening more often over the last 285 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,920 several years because of the work of some of the folks like CPI have been 286 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:15,480 doing a Conservative Partnership Institute have been doing to try and get good staff in 287 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:21,319 there. You're paid to say that, never a dime. I'm paid in 288 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:26,119 veer and sandwiches. That's is that not your currency? That magazine for Young 289 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,440 Americans for Freedom on that current, Yeah, that's a powerful compensation for you. 290 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,480 This week on the Word of the Lord Indoors Forever, we are rolling 291 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:41,960 right along in our adventures and acts with almost persuaded Paul Sales for Rome, 292 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:49,119 a fateful decision, Paul's I Told you so, and approaching Land Join me, 293 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:53,359 pastor Will Whedon for the Word of the Lord Indoors Forever, your daily 294 00:20:53,480 --> 00:21:00,000 fifteen minute verse by verse Bible study on demand, listen at the Word Indoors 295 00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:10,920 or your favorite podcast provider. So there actually is something really immediately important about 296 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:14,480 Mike Johnson's speakership, which is that they have so little time to fund the 297 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:18,759 government and they have Ukraine funding. It's got a disaster looming right right here, 298 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:22,839 and the motion to vacate is right there. So there's still the one 299 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:27,519 person motion of vakate. It looks like the handshake agreement was the unless you've 300 00:21:27,519 --> 00:21:30,160 heard something differently. Basically, what I've heard is and I think it's the 301 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,119 same thing you've heard that it was a handshake agreement on the vote that basically 302 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:40,000 the same rules package that McCarthy agreed to back in January was on the table 303 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:45,079 with Mike Johnson, meaning the motion of a kate is still just related to 304 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,880 one member, which is what it was before Pelosi changed it, although it 305 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,279 had never really been used that way before Matt Gates did it. And they 306 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:56,000 have to fund the government. They don't want to do online buses. There's 307 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,160 Ukraine funding that the Republican base does not want to see. Mike Johnson opened 308 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,440 up the door to a slush fund or negotiate with Johnson a skeptical of it, 309 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,680 yes, And this is I think this is why you see Bill Crystal 310 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,559 freaking out yesterday. Who cares? Yeah, who is Billy Crystal cares about 311 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:17,400 Ukraine? And that's why I care about Bill Crystal. But Bill Crystal cares 312 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:22,920 about you. This is why he's because Mike Johnson has signaled that he's skeptical 313 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,359 of the Ukraine funding. So you saw some neo cons yesterday just losing their 314 00:22:26,559 --> 00:22:30,599 minds over Mike Johnson. In addition to the atheists losing their minds over Mike 315 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,359 Johnson, the people who think that the government should have a god, and 316 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,960 that god is atheism, a hole in the soul just on top of a 317 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,759 pyramid, and he's going to come under attack. And you've seen that immediately. 318 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,680 I mean, John Ward had this peace out. I don't know it 319 00:22:47,759 --> 00:22:52,960 was Business Inside or Yahoo or something to CNN saying that I think it was 320 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:59,279 Yaho actually as d ORCS saying that this is a persecutor of sexual minorities, 321 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:06,720 which is just a really weird phrase us since since sex is a choice, 322 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:12,039 but every everywhere you went, which is that Mike Johnson is now under fire 323 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:18,119 for essentially saying that home's actually something that you do, or racist something that 324 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,440 you is, but something that you are, something that you Yeah, there's 325 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,519 a big split that people don't want to talk about anymore. Because the marriage 326 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:29,559 fight is supposedly over over whether or not you're born that way. They just 327 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,240 repeat it over and over again, just like love is love and you're expected 328 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:34,599 to agree. Boys, girl, girls, boy born this way, Love 329 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,759 is love, repeat after me. He didn't buy that, but all of 330 00:23:38,759 --> 00:23:45,119 his One of the reasons why the Republicans have so thoroughly fled the field on 331 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:51,680 social conservative values is because it is a hard fight That's why people who just 332 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,440 have it as like a like, yeah, I'm socially conservative, right, 333 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,000 don't ever actually get anything done in that because it has to be really central 334 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,480 for you to be willing to take all those arrows. If you care more 335 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:07,720 about stopping campaign financial reform, or lowering corporate taxes and regulation, or getting 336 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:11,079 money to fund American defense, then you don't have time to take on this 337 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:17,400 massive battle for the soul of America and the foundation of our republic. It's 338 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,880 just strong families and maybe skipping on the human sacrifice and things like that. 339 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,160 So the media taxes viciously, I mean within minutes, because I'm sure they've 340 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:32,599 been writing them all day since he showed up. Minutes of Johnson becoming elected 341 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,440 speaker, the articles came out, and there was not a single one of 342 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,559 them that said the frame that as Mike Johnson is someone who believes that his 343 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,079 Christian value should reform his policy. They were all like, Mike Johnson is 344 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:45,720 an anti gay bigot who will take away. One of them says Mike Johnson's 345 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,240 pro life. They're all saying Mike Johnson is anti abortion. There's not one 346 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,680 of them that says Mike Johnson wonders why we should re sending Actually, one 347 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,119 of them, John Wortsbez, wonders why we should send one hundred million dollars 348 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:02,079 to a foreign government when our own country is so clearly billion in distress. 349 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,119 Billion. Yeah, is so clearly in distress. They're all like, he's 350 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,079 skeptical. He just doesn't he doesn't want to fund Ukraine. It's like they're 351 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,279 all framed in the negative. Republicans are used to that, but it's going 352 00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:18,119 to be an absolute pileon on Republican members for this. And I hope that 353 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,440 he's willing to get through that. And I hope that he doesn't have a 354 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,920 lot of experience in leadership none, which is probably why he was elected. 355 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,599 I hope that he's able to have a successful tenure because this is the first 356 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:36,000 seat at the table that people represent what the base really cares about have had, 357 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:40,119 or a good section of the base cares about, have had in decades. 358 00:25:40,599 --> 00:25:41,559 Yeah. I mean, I think two things can be true at once. 359 00:25:41,599 --> 00:25:51,519 One is that there's been disproportionate energy devoted to this speaker question in the 360 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:55,240 media, like they were so hysterical of the fact that the House didn't have 361 00:25:55,279 --> 00:26:00,000 a speaker for three weeks and even Republicans the obsession with who's holding the speakership. 362 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:03,039 I think there's been some disproportionate attention devoted to that over the last six 363 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:07,920 months, even though it has been an interesting proxy battle over the sort of 364 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,599 establishment with some different layers. You know, where are where's Thomas Massey falling 365 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,359 in this? All of that At the same time, well, I mean 366 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,359 in terms of like how the Freedom Caucus itself ended up splitting over McCarthy like 367 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:26,640 those another speaker candidates, is actually pretty interesting at the same time, you 368 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,359 know, as disproportionate as that was, the Speaker does have power and they 369 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,000 do need to, you know, figure out what they're funding. By the 370 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:37,359 end of the year. There is a shutdown on the line, and you 371 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,039 know, I don't think either of us is going to freak out hysterically if 372 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:45,559 the government shuts down, but you know, there are political consequences to that, 373 00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:48,519 and there are political questions that need to be answered about what we're funding, 374 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:51,240 when we're funding it, how much we're funding it too. So Biden 375 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:53,880 is right now shopping around this one hundred billion dollar aid package. It's a 376 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,960 joint package to Israel in Ukraine. If you want to fund Ukraine, you 377 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,680 have to fund Israel. If you want to fund Israeli, you have to 378 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,759 find you It's about one war. We've always been at war of that which 379 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:08,680 is yes, which is that one hundred billion dollars sixty sixty one billion of 380 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,839 it would go to Ukraine. And so that's why when Mike Johnson steps in, 381 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,039 I have some quotes from him. He has an f from Republicans for 382 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,440 Ukraine, which is like the weird nums rackt. He've said, Yeah, 383 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,000 we should not be sending another forty billion dollars a broad when our own border 384 00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:27,440 is in chaos, American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, gas prices 385 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,519 are at record highs, and American families are struggling to make ends meet without 386 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,440 sufficient oversight where the money will go. He said that back in May. 387 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:37,640 In February, he said, American taxpayers have sent over one hundred billion dollars 388 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,559 an aid to Ukraine in the last year. They deserve to know if the 389 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,920 Ukrainian government is being entirely forthcoming and transparent about the use of this massive sum 390 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,839 of taxpayer resources. So he's now the chief negotiator on behalf of the Republican 391 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,920 Party in terms of government funding. And that's going to be a that is 392 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,440 what this city is going to be obsessed with, and it is the work 393 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,839 of the city over the next couple of months, the next two months. 394 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:07,559 And he, you know, is going to be in a position with immense 395 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:12,279 pressure from the base, but immense pressure from k Street, immense pressure. 396 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:18,240 What if one of the establishment Republicans uses the motion of vacate to get rid 397 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:19,880 of Mike Johnson because he doesn't want to fund Ukraine, because it's the most 398 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,519 important thing in the world. So something that's definitely possible. I mean, 399 00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:30,839 hey, y'all, this is Sarah from the Sarah Carter Show. Thanks for 400 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,799 listening to the Federalist or Radio hour. 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Yeah, I agree, But since so little 424 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:32,640 things actually make me happy that I read in the news these days, I'm 425 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,960 still just going to ride this way for a second. You know what take 426 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:41,039 away, You know, if if what percent of the country can have a 427 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,400 voice as the Speaker of the House for a couple of months in Mike Johnson, 428 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,599 like people who are actual probably thirty percent of the country, like actual 429 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:56,799 conservatives, you know, anti woke and Christian, and you know, a 430 00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:00,279 group of people that legitimately does not have much voice in media, even though 431 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,920 the left things that they do. I'm telling you, like there actually aren't. 432 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,279 If you're traveling through the green rooms of Washington, DC and New York 433 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:11,599 City, there aren't a lot of people that were super happy when the Dobbs 434 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,680 decision came down. It's wildly out of whack with the proportion of the country 435 00:31:15,759 --> 00:31:18,960 that was happy when the Dobbs decision came down. There aren't a lot of 436 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:25,920 people who are genuinely like social conservatives. There are people who might sometimes talk 437 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,200 about social conservatism, but don't have any principled stands on social years ago, 438 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,559 I was on the set with a lot of the people that you will see 439 00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:41,440 on these shows now attacking that Republicans watch, attacking the woke stuff in this 440 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:44,359 on campus. And I just have a memory that's a little longer than a 441 00:31:44,359 --> 00:31:48,640 few months. So I remember five years ago, four years ago, being 442 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,160 on set with these same people. Well, they're like, I've got my 443 00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:53,160 June Pride bracelet on. Yeah, I've got this. I mean, it's 444 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,240 only been two years since the RNC decided to celebrate I mean, granted, 445 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,079 I get it, like half of the and SEE staff are gay, but 446 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,599 decided to celebrate Pride month. I understand they're just trying to make the staff 447 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:07,960 happy, but that's not the support structure of your voter. Your voter. 448 00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:12,720 Your job is to be the party, not like you want to have like 449 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:15,400 a litle staff party, fine, but like you represent the party when you're 450 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,200 talking publicly. And to their credit, they reverse course and didn't do that 451 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:27,880 again. But uh yeah, DC and much of conservative media are not on 452 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,240 the side of where the voters are. I mean, I would there's probably 453 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:34,200 not a lot of people over at the Daily Wire who think that way, 454 00:32:34,279 --> 00:32:39,319 at least in the public spots, that the social conservatism is just atrophied. 455 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,400 And in my opinion, you and I have talked about this a lot offline. 456 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:49,400 It is a seriously missing part of the Republican coalition. A reason why 457 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,400 we always seem to be losing is because it's been given away the vote. 458 00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:58,920 It's a problem that the Republican leadership's main concern to deregulation, lower taxes in 459 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,640 the war. And and because that, you see that the foundation of this 460 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,000 country breaking. And you know, there was some article I saw from a 461 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:13,799 let's call himself k file and skin. Yeah, he came over to my 462 00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:16,000 house once as a guest of Benny when he was at BuzzFeed. It was 463 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:22,680 like, so just I didn't I didn't like the guy. I've never met 464 00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:25,160 him. Vegetarian, I was growing, I don't eat meat. Betty should 465 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:30,240 have no better. But Buz he was out there being like my dogs are 466 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,200 pushes a crazy idea that that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope. It's 467 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,400 like, no kidding, and you can you cannot argue that it is not 468 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:45,839 anymore. You just leaders lying where and this don't say the unil children in 469 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,680 the name of science Obergerfeld, twenty fifteen. That happens by what twenty seventeen, 470 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,400 The don't Say Gay Bill should be called the don't talk about your sex 471 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,519 life to nine year old's bill. They don't say gaybill that he brought nationally 472 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,799 the floor of a national version of the Florida One should be called the taxpayer 473 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:07,719 money shouldn't go towards drag Queen Story Hour. But it's so, it's so 474 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:13,280 infiltrated the culture, this left wing insanity that I mean nowadays, this week 475 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,800 I see Notre Dame, an ostensibly Catholic school, arguing that it hosting a 476 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:23,079 drag queen story Hour is academic freedom. So I think we might maybe disagree 477 00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:28,079 on that, But these are our humiliation exercises for the American people. It's 478 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:34,400 rituals to humiliate us. When when when a Catholic university says it's academic freedom 479 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,159 to have drag queens that they're they're they're telling you, I think you're stupid 480 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:44,639 and not worth responding to. And when Republicans and Democrats in the media say 481 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,480 they say the same thing, it's just they humiliate you. And I think 482 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,880 it's that missing part of the coalition has a huge part of why Republicans, 483 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,320 even when they win elections, fail to change the country. The Watch Dot 484 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:05,719 on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski every day Chris helps unpack the connection between 485 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,320 politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. Fifty six percent of 486 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,719 adults feel behind on retirement. Are you one of them? People are living 487 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,920 longer, which means people need more saved up. Make sure to not fall 488 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,719 trapped to a guide that tells you when you should retire, because everyone's situation 489 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,679 is different. 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But 495 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,400 seriously, as both of us have like run in these circles for long enough 496 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,519 to realize that even when people say they support X, Y and Z, 497 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:58,519 a whole lot of them don't and this country is not broadly socially conservative anymore. 498 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:01,079 It may have been years ago, and we understand that, but that 499 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:06,840 is a hugely important part of the Republican Party, that a huge amount of 500 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,719 the constituents of the people who are supposed to represent their voters are in that 501 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,360 camp, and that is not a camp that has a serious, sincere voice 502 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,599 in political leadership. And the Washington College social conservatism, they called it Christian 503 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:25,000 values and then you people, and actually Jefferson was a bast Okay, yeah, 504 00:36:25,039 --> 00:36:30,280 they called it the republicanism, smaller Republicanism. Yeah right. They like 505 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:36,960 to cite Jefferson and Franklin as proof that the founders were not devoutly Christian men 506 00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:40,039 without Christian and it's just like, name me a third, name me a 507 00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:45,119 third of that group. They can't. And even Jefferson wrote that we need 508 00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:52,440 to spread schools throughout the country for the spreading of Christian values and virtues so 509 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:59,480 that this republic can survive. Even he understood intellectually the necessity for these values 510 00:36:59,519 --> 00:37:05,400 to be part of the American fabric in order for the American people to live 511 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:12,760 freely in without tyranny, to live to be able to operate a representative government 512 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,679 that doesn't fall into tyranny, requires virtue, and it's really just taking a 513 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:21,480 backseat. And it's a it's a damn shame. Sure is well, it's 514 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:25,920 Mike Johnson's moment and probably the biggest challenges to him holding fast his values. 515 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,760 We'll come from other Republicans, as we will know, but Mike Johnson, 516 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,400 good luck to you. Chris rere late for lunch, got speed. You've 517 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,719 been listening to another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. Emily Dashinsky, culture 518 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,559 editor here at the Federalist. We will be back soon with more. Until 519 00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,239 then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the friend