1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,359 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live 5 00:00:16,399 --> 00:00:18,440 stream I daily show prep with all of the links, 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,320 become a patron, go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,640 you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,199 right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you 9 00:00:27,239 --> 00:00:30,640 so much for your support. All Right, so I am 10 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:33,240 a giver, and so I would like to offer some 11 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:43,039 advice to democrats. Stop with the everything's Naziism. Everybody I 12 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:46,280 don't like is Hitler. Just stop with that already. I mean, except, 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,840 of course, like when you come across people that are, 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,920 you know, actually Nazis, then okay, yes, say that they're Nazis. 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,799 But this idea that everything is a Nazi, everything is 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,960 a fascist everything, everybody or all these terrible things, like 17 00:01:01,119 --> 00:01:04,200 you're the boy who Cried Wolf. Now, I know we 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,159 don't teach reading, let alone these old stories anymore. So 19 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,640 I will tell you that The Boy who Cried Wolf 20 00:01:10,719 --> 00:01:17,200 is an old old story about some village someplace. I 21 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:20,400 kind of feel like it was Germany. Not that it's Nazi. 22 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:22,640 I'm just saying it feels, okay, maybe like Bavaria. How 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,359 about that? Does that sound better? It's because this is 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,239 like old school. This is like this like bale wolf 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:32,040 time period where wolves would actually enter villages and eat people. Right, 26 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,719 so I'm sure it still happens today. Okay, fine, but 27 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,280 this was a long time ago. And the story is 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:45,519 that this boy in the village would cry wolf and 29 00:01:45,599 --> 00:01:48,040 he would see a wolf, or so he thought. And 30 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:51,400 maybe he first really did think that there was a wolf, 31 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,840 and everybody would freak out, and everybody would race to 32 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,799 his aid, and they would marshal all the resources, get 33 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,280 their pitchforks and stuff. And I mean, they didn't have 34 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,359 firearms back then, they weren't invented, so you know, they 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,280 all raced to his age. And then at some point 36 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,919 maybe he realizes, hey, this is kind of cool. I 37 00:02:12,039 --> 00:02:16,039 like all the attention people are listening to me, Look 38 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,360 at me, I'm on center stage. He was like the 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:26,199 original theater kid, and he would keep doing it because 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,560 he liked the way it made him feel. He liked 41 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,080 manipulating people. He liked to have power and control. This 42 00:02:33,199 --> 00:02:37,400 is very similar by the way to the mindset behind 43 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:42,120 the Salem which trial girls all. It's like a band 44 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,719 of these girls too, I think, if I remember correctly, 45 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,800 in particular, that were the worst. They made up lies 46 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:58,360 about all of their fellow community members and would perform 47 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,520 They would add like they'd fall onto the floor, and 48 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,639 you know, do these like seizures or something, these fake seizures. 49 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:11,560 They would they would act out like, oh, the eyes 50 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:13,080 are rolling in the back of their heads. They had 51 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,280 all these little tricks that they would do in order 52 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,400 to convict innocent people of being witches and then watch 53 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:26,280 them burn or drown or whatever. The power. I'm important, 54 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,800 I'm somebody. Look what I can do to somebody else. 55 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:33,599 It's a pathology. And so the boy cried wolf, cries wolf. 56 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:36,159 He keeps doing it, keeps doing, and eventually what the 57 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,360 village people are like this kid, lying kid, lies all 58 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,240 the time. He cries wolf all the time in there 59 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,080 no wolves. He's just lying. He's doing it for the attention, 60 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:46,080 he's doing it to manipulate us. And so then he 61 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:48,400 cries wolf when there actually is a wolf, and the 62 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:51,639 villagers don't come because they think he's lying again, and 63 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,039 he's not this time and then they eat the wolf 64 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,439 eats him. The moral of the story is, don't live 65 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:03,520 someplace that has wolves nearby. So I would just offer 66 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:06,759 this advice to my friends on the left. Stop with 67 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:11,800 everything's race or everything. Well that too, but everybody's a Nazi. Okay. 68 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,319 The latest example of this was the Elon Musk you 69 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,519 know wave to everybody where he put his hand over 70 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,800 his heart. He's thanking the audience at this Trump rally 71 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:26,480 for voting for Trump and for being part of this 72 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:32,399 movement and for helping, and he's overjoyed and he's happy, 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,360 and he does this thing where he puts his hand 74 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,000 over his heart and he's like, you know, almost like 75 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,480 a fist, like he's grabbing his heart and then he 76 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,319 like then he throws it out and as he does that, 77 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,519 his hand goes out at an incline right in a 78 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,560 in a kind of a wave and his hand is open, 79 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:55,759 palm down, and oh my gosh, it's sick. Kile Hilly, 80 00:04:55,879 --> 00:04:59,800 he's doing the hand sign and he's not he obviously 81 00:04:59,879 --> 00:05:02,720 is why are you, like, why do you do this? 82 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,879 Are you just that neurotic? Okay, yes that's probably the case, 83 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:12,040 but you have to get past this neuroticism. Okay, it's 84 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:18,879 stifling your growth, it's making you miserable. These are Elon 85 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:22,040 Musk who literally went to Israel, which I don't think 86 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,680 that's something that Hitler would do. I'm just neok nots. 87 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,120 I don't think they're going on like the tours of 88 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,759 Auschwitz and stuff. I don't think they're doing that. I 89 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,120 don't think they're going to a Holocaust remembrance ceremony. That's 90 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,040 not it doesn't seem on brand, right. Oh, they just 91 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:46,639 did that so you would know Pete. Now, Yasha Monk, 92 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:53,439 he's of the left. He writes a substack piece or 93 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:57,240 a blog, and he has some other advice which you 94 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,199 may find a little you may find to be a 95 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,759 little bit more helpful if you're of the left, because 96 00:06:01,759 --> 00:06:05,439 he's like speaking to his people here. And the name 97 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,759 of this piece is how not to resist Donald Trump? 98 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,199 How not to do it? Okay, because at this point 99 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,920 it's been eight years, right and we have seen every 100 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,519 kind of resistance approach that they could think of, and 101 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:29,040 they just kept doing it and doing it more and more. 102 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:33,199 I heard I heard somebody say this it was about 103 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,480 something else, but it applies here. Like when the as 104 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,000 texts first, you know, murdered and sacrificed their the first 105 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,360 twenty five babies to on the altar to try to 106 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:46,920 make it rain and it didn't rain. Right, They didn't 107 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,000 turn around and say, hey, maybe we shouldn't sacrifice the babies, like, 108 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,839 oh that didn't work. No, what did they do? They're 109 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:57,000 like more babies, right, don't do that, Okay, don't be 110 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,319 like the Aztecs. Don't you don't think or government for 111 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,920 that matter, because this is what GOVK does too, like, hey, 112 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,000 we threw a million dollars at this problem, and oh 113 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,720 my gosh, the problem got worse. Rather than saying, hey, 114 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,279 maybe what we were doing didn't work. Gov Co always 115 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:16,800 says more money at the problem. Right, don't do that. Okay, 116 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,720 you have misidentified the problem and now that I'm thinking 117 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,680 about it, actually, this tends to be the common thread 118 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,439 is a misidentification of the underlying assumptions, right, Like it's 119 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,959 the same thing with Elon Musk and the Nazi symbol. 120 00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:39,759 Re examine your underlying assumption. You have misidentified him as 121 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:42,720 some sort of Nazi lover, just like you misidentified every 122 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,480 white guy who did the okay sign that oh my gosh, 123 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,079 they must be like, literally, it's been a symbol forever, 124 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,360 and literally it was you were trolled by a bunch 125 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:57,680 of four channers. They injected that lie into the mainstream 126 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,639 media who ran with it, and you have been suckered, 127 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:05,040 like you've been tricked. That was a troll job on you, 128 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:08,600 and you fell for it, okay, And you fell for 129 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,560 it because they know what your underlying assumptions are. They 130 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,439 know what you want to be true. You want this 131 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,560 thing to be true, and so they just give it 132 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,480 to you and then they laugh at you. And the 133 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,279 damage that it does to the society, though, is pretty big. 134 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:26,560 So let me get to the Yasha Monk piece how 135 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:30,800 not to resist Donald Trump. Here's a great idea. 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All right, Sasha Monk, 158 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,799 how not to resist Donald Trump? He is of the left, 159 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,039 and he's talking to his fellow liberals. I guess I 160 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,679 don't know about leftists. Don't know if they're going to 161 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:58,039 follow this, but maybe Okay, He says if Trump had 162 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,799 been elevated to the White House through his series of 163 00:10:02,279 --> 00:10:04,559 This is from twenty sixteen. Okay, so you got to 164 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,039 go back to when the resistance began, right, and look 165 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,320 at the thinking among the leftists as to how could 166 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,679 this have happened? Right? They were in shock. Remember the 167 00:10:14,759 --> 00:10:18,240 White House? Was it the Rose Garden? I guess where 168 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,080 all of the staffers came out there and they were 169 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,039 all weeping, right, remember that famous video. So if you 170 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,120 go back there and you think in the terms that 171 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:31,360 these people were thinking, and Sasha or Yasha Monk rather 172 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,759 was one of them, not that he was at the 173 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:39,279 White House, but this was his thinking too. And so 174 00:10:39,399 --> 00:10:42,360 the thinking is based on this idea that Trump had 175 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,080 been elevated to the White House through a series of 176 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:50,600 unfortunate coincidences. Right, I can't believe this happened. How did 177 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,639 this happen? Right? They couldn't explain it. And so the 178 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:58,360 best way they thought, because of all these unfortunate coincidences, 179 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:01,639 surely not anything that they did, then, the best way 180 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:07,399 to neutralize the danger that he posed to American democracy, 181 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,720 seemingly then was to oppose him in every possible way. 182 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,720 You remember, at the time, Well maybe not. I mean, 183 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,519 if you were listening to me when I was on 184 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,039 the air in Ashville, this is what I was saying 185 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,279 back then, which was Donald Trump is transactional, right, He's 186 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:28,360 a business guy. He is new to politics. He doesn't 187 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,000 know how all of this stuff works. Democrats could have 188 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:36,080 basically run the table on him. Had they just praised him, 189 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,879 had they said, oh, he's fantastic, he's the best Republican 190 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:42,399 governor we've ever or a president we've ever worked with, 191 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,919 he would have probably given them so much and they 192 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,720 just couldn't do it. They just couldn't do it. The 193 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,080 goal back then of the resistance was to stop Trump 194 00:11:55,159 --> 00:12:00,000 from taking over the institutions or becoming sufficiently quote normalized. 195 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:04,679 Remember that we can't normalize this kind of behavior. Can't 196 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,200 let him gain some sort of permanent foothold in American politics. 197 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:12,279 Had that work out for you, by the way, anyway, 198 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,879 Monk says, if only his opponents could withstand this unique 199 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,720 period of acute danger, it was assumed things would go 200 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:27,080 back to normal. The paradigm of total resistance inspired a 201 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:36,720 wide range of tactics. Some were self defeating, others outright delusional. Right, 202 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,600 and he runs through some of them, like the serious 203 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,399 academics that were calling on the Electoral College to elevate 204 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,279 Hillary Clinton to the presidency even though she lost. Remember 205 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:52,559 that one not an insurrection, totally preserving democracy. Cable news 206 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:57,879 hosts on MSNBC spent months and years actually arguing or 207 00:12:57,919 --> 00:13:02,399 insinuating that Trump was an actual Russian agent. Some protest 208 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,559 movements tried to win over hearts and minds, plenty of 209 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,360 others self consciously refused to appeal to anybody who might 210 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:12,600 have voted for the president. This was the predominant feeling 211 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,519 among many progressives that the people who had voted for Trump, 212 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:18,799 many of my friends and acquaintances told me, were irredeemable 213 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:22,679 racists and bigots. Trying to change their minds was futile, 214 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,559 perhaps even morally suspect. The only question should be how 215 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,399 to out mobilize them. Right, people cut off their family 216 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,000 and friends. I can't believe have the country is racist? Right? 217 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:42,559 That whole thing? These are part of the this is 218 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:47,240 the mindset that inspired part of the toolbox of resistance 219 00:13:47,279 --> 00:13:52,120 their tactics, and it didn't work. All right. I hope 220 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,679 you had a happy holiday season, But tell me if 221 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,399 something like this happened at your house. Your family and 222 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,000 friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the living room. 223 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,720 You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, 224 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,360 remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 225 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,440 And then the room gets all quiet. 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The pardons would bring immediate relief to those 242 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,360 currently imprisoned, including Lauren Handy serving fifty seven months in prison, 243 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:20,639 John Hinshaw twenty one months, Jonathan Darnell thirty four months, 244 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:26,679 Herb Garretty twenty seven months, Jean Marshall, Joan Bell, Paulette Harlowe, 245 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:32,360 Bevelyn Williams, Heather Adoni, and Calvin Zastro and all but 246 00:15:32,519 --> 00:15:34,639 Zastro there at the end, all of those I just 247 00:15:34,679 --> 00:15:38,360 read are serving like two years in prison. These were 248 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:42,679 people that were praying in front of abortion clinics and 249 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,120 they were sent to prison for two years. They're all 250 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:53,080 getting pardons. So whatever resistance tactics you guys were using, 251 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:59,759 they did not work. In fact, they pushed more people 252 00:16:00,679 --> 00:16:06,240 into Trump's orbit. And now I was watching I forget 253 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,519 what program it was, but they were talking about how, 254 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,279 you know, being on the Trump train now is cool, 255 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:19,159 Doing the dance is cool, It's fun. And Democrats did 256 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,799 this to themselves. You guys did this to yourselves, like 257 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,639 you are no longer the party of fun. You guys 258 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,159 all growing up, That's what I always like. You guys 259 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:32,399 were the party, you know, of hip. And cool and 260 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:36,000 Hollywood and rock music and all of this. And it 261 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:39,840 was the Republicans that were like biscal conservatism, you know, 262 00:16:40,279 --> 00:16:43,399 anti gays and all of this. That was always the branding. 263 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,399 That is no longer the case. This is what a 264 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,200 realignment of the parties looks like. And when one party, 265 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,919 in this case, the Democrats, are intent on becoming the 266 00:16:53,039 --> 00:16:57,200 skolds of the society. Very few people want to be 267 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:01,600 a part of that, except for the scolds. And I 268 00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:03,720 am as surprised as you are that there are that 269 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:07,319 many scolds. But here we are back to Yasha Monk's 270 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:12,240 piece at his sub steck, he says, getting hundreds of 271 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,880 former judges or military this was another tactic that the 272 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,400 resistance used to get a whole bunch of people to 273 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,759 write letters to denounce Trump, and that that could make 274 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:29,000 a real impact on the public opinion. Right. Spoiler alert, 275 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:32,680 It did not. Right. All it did was undermine all 276 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,759 of those people's credibility. There were the endless attempts to 277 00:17:35,799 --> 00:17:39,720 investigate Trump or impeach Donald Trump right there. There were 278 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,759 congressional investigations into everything from his tax returns remember that, 279 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:49,119 to his COVID nineteen response twenty seventeen, there was the 280 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,440 first impeachment attempt over his remarks about the Unite the 281 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:57,480 Right rally in Charlottesville. People forget they were going to 282 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:01,160 the Democrats were looking to impeach Donald Trump over the 283 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:04,839 lie that he was referring to the neo Nazis when 284 00:18:04,839 --> 00:18:07,720 he said good people on both sides. Almost half the 285 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,079 country still believes that lie, and Democrats were trying to 286 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:15,519 use that lie in order to impeach it. That was 287 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:18,079 the first one. Then there was another one about the 288 00:18:18,079 --> 00:18:23,279 emolument's clause. Remember that that was twenty eighteen. Then there 289 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,160 was the actual first impeachment over the totally perfect phone 290 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,839 call with the Ukrainian president. Then there was the second 291 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:37,680 impeachment six days before he left office. As it turned out, 292 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,519 none of these attempts to oppose Trump was particularly effective. 293 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:45,319 Why because it was all about the branding. It's all 294 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:47,759 about the messaging. This is why it always is hilarious 295 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:49,440 to me when I hear Democrats say, oh, the reason 296 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,880 we didn't win was because our message just didn't get through. 297 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:58,440 Like you control like every avenue for message dissemination. It's 298 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:00,759 not a matter of it not getting out there. It's 299 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:04,400 a matter of people not believing it, people not adopting it. 300 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:07,799 That's the problem you have. It's not that we're not 301 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,480 hearing it. It's that we're not listening to it. We're 302 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:18,200 not obeying it. You know, this was the most predictable 303 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,559 when it came to the practices and demands that flagrantly 304 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,759 broke with the traditions that Democrats claimed to defend. Right, 305 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,480 when you say that only you can save the democracy, 306 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:33,519 and the way to do it is to install Hillary 307 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:37,119 Clinton after the twenty sixteen election, right and throw out 308 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:47,960 the electoral college, right, that's not norm preservation. This was 309 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:56,759 a rejection right the elites, their economic ideas, their ideology. 310 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:01,119 It was so bad when people saw you guys wanted 311 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:07,799 to do, they were repulsed, and people chose Donald Trump. Again, 312 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,599 I forget I saw. I heard somebody else say this, 313 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,319 so I can't claim credit for it, but I apologize. 314 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:15,359 I don't remember who said it. But it's almost like America, 315 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:22,079 like with Donald Trump. America was married to to Donald Trump, 316 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,359 divorced Donald Trump, and you know, took the second husband, 317 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:29,960 and the second husband was so bad that they went 318 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:35,440 back and married the first one. Again. That's that's that's 319 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,400 not a Donald Trump problem. That's a you problem. That's 320 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,480 a you problem. But I don't know if they're going 321 00:20:42,519 --> 00:20:44,759 to be able to, uh to course correct on this. 322 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,799 All of these tactics floundered because they were rooted in 323 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:56,039 a mistaken analysis of the situation. For as Trump's resounding 324 00:20:56,079 --> 00:21:01,720 reelection has shown, his success was not and aberration, which 325 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:03,880 is what the left thought it was in twenty sixteen. 326 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,200 And what they wanted going into twenty twenty. Why all 327 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,680 the impeachments and then later all the indictments, right, what 328 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:17,039 they wanted was the branding twice, impeached twice, impeached twice, impeached, convicted, 329 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:22,160 felon forty seven thousand convictions, whatever, like that's all they want. 330 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,039 They just want to be able to say it. And 331 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,359 it's like there's this belief that if they just speak something, 332 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,119 it becomes true. And that's not the way this works. 333 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:40,680 That's not the way it works. Failure is you and 334 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:47,799 your faulty assumptions running right smack dab into truth into reality. 335 00:21:48,599 --> 00:21:51,599 That's what failure is, all right, if you're listening to 336 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,160 this show, you know I try to keep up with 337 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,319 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 338 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,000 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 339 00:21:58,079 --> 00:22:02,680 multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, 340 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,279 which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 341 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,039 It's an app and it's a website and it combines 342 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,160 news from around the world in one place, so you 343 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,559 can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it 344 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:19,160 out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 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I use 353 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,799 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 354 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,759 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 355 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:53,960 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 356 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,359 more transparent. We're talking about. There was a piece by 357 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,559 Yasha Monk, who is of the left. I don't know 358 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,880 where he falls on the political spectrum, but he writes 359 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,759 a sub stack. It's pretty well regarded among liberals. And 360 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,960 he has this piece called how Not to Resist Donald Trump. 361 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:21,359 Subheadline is mistakes we shouldn't make again. And so these 362 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,079 are you know, warnings to his fellow Democrats. These things 363 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:27,440 that we tried, all of these things, they didn't work. 364 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,759 We need to figure out something else. And at the 365 00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:33,599 beginning of the piece he talks about at the risk 366 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,000 of getting banned here off of the podcasting platforms when 367 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,400 this thing loads up the great replacement theory, which this 368 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,680 was something that liberal demographers wrote about twenty years ago. 369 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,720 This is why Democrats were so giddy. They thought they 370 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:54,640 had you know, demographics as destiny. They had this as 371 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,599 their sort of north star. It's the reason why they've been, 372 00:23:58,759 --> 00:24:02,400 you know, importing all of the new voters from other countries. 373 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,480 There's an idea that if we can get rid of 374 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:09,480 the whites in America, then we will win. Because their 375 00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:15,519 coalition became less and less white. I mean, well except 376 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,079 for the leadership, I mean they all stay white. I mean, 377 00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:21,839 but the idea here is that if you can get 378 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,759 more and more voters onto the roles that are going 379 00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:27,839 to vote Democrat because they're coming from you know, more 380 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,839 socialistic countries, shall we say, but they were the ones 381 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,559 that came up with this was Rui Tsera and this 382 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,240 is where that line demographics is destiny came from. And 383 00:24:39,279 --> 00:24:42,440 this is why you hear not so much anymore, especially 384 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:47,400 now that Trump won with this diverse coalition. But there 385 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,799 was this view that they had adopted that you know, 386 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,400 old white people are dying off and those are the 387 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,799 Fox News viewers, those are the am radio listeners, those 388 00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:03,279 are conservatives, Pupblicans, and so our time is now right 389 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:06,119 and I guess qualifications don't really matter. So the dei 390 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,960 stuff works very well with this philosophy because it's just 391 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,279 like it's like a handoff. It's like, oh, they have 392 00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:14,039 all this power. They didn't earn it, they just got 393 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:15,839 it because of their race and their gender, and so 394 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,240 now when they die, we got it, it's all ours 395 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:22,480 because we're not those two things. Like. Well, though, maybe 396 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,880 the people that had the power they got it through 397 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,640 something other than just right race and gender. There may 398 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,640 be dare I say the word meritocracy, There may actually 399 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,440 have been something like they worked really hard, right, maybe 400 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,440 they engaged in a whole bunch of illegal activity, like 401 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,039 the Kennedy's built a fortune, that kind of thing, you know, 402 00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:46,240 and then they got power, so like that's possible. So 403 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,759 that's that was sort of the underpinning and that has 404 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:53,400 all now collapsed and they're in trouble because they don't 405 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,480 have a leader right now, the Democrat Party, right they 406 00:25:55,519 --> 00:25:58,720 don't have a leader anymore. It's not Harris, I mean, 407 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:05,640 no Paris. Who's the heir apparent for the Democrats right now? 408 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:10,720 Chuck Schumer. It's not Joe Biden anymore, not Barack Obama, 409 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:16,000 Like who's the figurehead? Most strikingly, he says, the narrative 410 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,880 according to which Trump's political appeal is restricted to one 411 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,160 declining demographic segment of the electorate, widely assumed for the 412 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,000 past years to be true even among the country's leading 413 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:31,359 political scientists, has turned out to be badly wrong. Unlike 414 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:36,839 in twenty sixteen, Trump's coalition now drew heavily on latinos, 415 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,799 Asian Americans, Native Americans, and even African Americans. The task 416 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,799 facing Trump's opponents is much more difficult than it seemed 417 00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:48,960 in twenty sixteen. The conviction that the diversification of the 418 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,000 American electorate will eventually deliver inevitable victories to Trump's opponents 419 00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:57,519 now looks hopelessly naive. The most obvious ideas about how 420 00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:01,160 to oppose him have been tested and found to be wanting. 421 00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:04,640 Rather than merely getting through a one time four year 422 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,759 emergency for the Republic, his opponents need to figure out 423 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:10,599 how to defeat a political movement that has appeal within 424 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:14,400 every major demographic group and now threatens to grow into 425 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,480 the dominant force of an entire political era. He sounds scared. 426 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,960 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 427 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:23,039 so much for listening. 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