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so much for your support. All Right, so I am
a giver, and so I would like to offer some
advice to democrats. Stop with the everything's Naziism. Everybody I
don't like is Hitler. Just stop with that already. I mean, except,
of course, like when you come across people that are,
you know, actually Nazis, then okay, yes, say that they're Nazis.
But this idea that everything is a Nazi, everything is
a fascist everything, everybody or all these terrible things, like
you're the boy who Cried Wolf. Now, I know we
don't teach reading, let alone these old stories anymore. So
I will tell you that The Boy who Cried Wolf
is an old old story about some village someplace. I
kind of feel like it was Germany. Not that it's Nazi.
I'm just saying it feels, okay, maybe like Bavaria. How
about that? Does that sound better? It's because this is
like old school. This is like this like bale wolf
time period where wolves would actually enter villages and eat people. Right,
so I'm sure it still happens today. Okay, fine, but
this was a long time ago. And the story is
that this boy in the village would cry wolf and
he would see a wolf, or so he thought. And
maybe he first really did think that there was a wolf,
and everybody would freak out, and everybody would race to
his aid, and they would marshal all the resources, get
their pitchforks and stuff. And I mean, they didn't have
firearms back then, they weren't invented, so you know, they
all raced to his age. And then at some point
maybe he realizes, hey, this is kind of cool. I
like all the attention people are listening to me, Look
at me, I'm on center stage. He was like the
original theater kid, and he would keep doing it because
he liked the way it made him feel. He liked
manipulating people. He liked to have power and control. This
is very similar by the way to the mindset behind
the Salem which trial girls all. It's like a band
of these girls too, I think, if I remember correctly,
in particular, that were the worst. They made up lies
about all of their fellow community members and would perform
They would add like they'd fall onto the floor, and
you know, do these like seizures or something, these fake seizures.
They would they would act out like, oh, the eyes
are rolling in the back of their heads. They had
all these little tricks that they would do in order
to convict innocent people of being witches and then watch
them burn or drown or whatever. The power. I'm important,
I'm somebody. Look what I can do to somebody else.
It's a pathology. And so the boy cried wolf, cries wolf.
He keeps doing it, keeps doing, and eventually what the
village people are like this kid, lying kid, lies all
the time. He cries wolf all the time in there
no wolves. He's just lying. He's doing it for the attention,
he's doing it to manipulate us. And so then he
cries wolf when there actually is a wolf, and the
villagers don't come because they think he's lying again, and
he's not this time and then they eat the wolf
eats him. The moral of the story is, don't live
someplace that has wolves nearby. So I would just offer
this advice to my friends on the left. Stop with
everything's race or everything. Well that too, but everybody's a Nazi. Okay.
The latest example of this was the Elon Musk you
know wave to everybody where he put his hand over
his heart. He's thanking the audience at this Trump rally
for voting for Trump and for being part of this
movement and for helping, and he's overjoyed and he's happy,
and he does this thing where he puts his hand
over his heart and he's like, you know, almost like
a fist, like he's grabbing his heart and then he
like then he throws it out and as he does that,
his hand goes out at an incline right in a
in a kind of a wave and his hand is open,
palm down, and oh my gosh, it's sick. Kile Hilly,
he's doing the hand sign and he's not he obviously
is why are you, like, why do you do this?
Are you just that neurotic? Okay, yes that's probably the case,
but you have to get past this neuroticism. Okay, it's
stifling your growth, it's making you miserable. These are Elon
Musk who literally went to Israel, which I don't think
that's something that Hitler would do. I'm just neok nots.
I don't think they're going on like the tours of
Auschwitz and stuff. I don't think they're doing that. I
don't think they're going to a Holocaust remembrance ceremony. That's
not it doesn't seem on brand, right. Oh, they just
did that so you would know Pete. Now, Yasha Monk,
he's of the left. He writes a substack piece or
a blog, and he has some other advice which you
may find a little you may find to be a
little bit more helpful if you're of the left, because
he's like speaking to his people here. And the name
of this piece is how not to resist Donald Trump?
How not to do it? Okay, because at this point
it's been eight years, right and we have seen every
kind of resistance approach that they could think of, and
they just kept doing it and doing it more and more.
I heard I heard somebody say this it was about
something else, but it applies here. Like when the as
texts first, you know, murdered and sacrificed their the first
twenty five babies to on the altar to try to
make it rain and it didn't rain. Right, They didn't
turn around and say, hey, maybe we shouldn't sacrifice the babies, like,
oh that didn't work. No, what did they do? They're
like more babies, right, don't do that, Okay, don't be
like the Aztecs. Don't you don't think or government for
that matter, because this is what GOVK does too, like, hey,
we threw a million dollars at this problem, and oh
my gosh, the problem got worse. Rather than saying, hey,
maybe what we were doing didn't work. Gov Co always
says more money at the problem. Right, don't do that. Okay,
you have misidentified the problem and now that I'm thinking
about it, actually, this tends to be the common thread
is a misidentification of the underlying assumptions, right, Like it's
the same thing with Elon Musk and the Nazi symbol.
Re examine your underlying assumption. You have misidentified him as
some sort of Nazi lover, just like you misidentified every
white guy who did the okay sign that oh my gosh,
they must be like, literally, it's been a symbol forever,
and literally it was you were trolled by a bunch
of four channers. They injected that lie into the mainstream
media who ran with it, and you have been suckered,
like you've been tricked. That was a troll job on you,
and you fell for it, okay, And you fell for
it because they know what your underlying assumptions are. They
know what you want to be true. You want this
thing to be true, and so they just give it
to you and then they laugh at you. And the
damage that it does to the society, though, is pretty big.
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how not to resist Donald Trump? He is of the left,
and he's talking to his fellow liberals. I guess I
don't know about leftists. Don't know if they're going to
follow this, but maybe Okay, He says if Trump had
been elevated to the White House through his series of
This is from twenty sixteen. Okay, so you got to
go back to when the resistance began, right, and look
at the thinking among the leftists as to how could
this have happened? Right? They were in shock. Remember the
White House? Was it the Rose Garden? I guess where
all of the staffers came out there and they were
all weeping, right, remember that famous video. So if you
go back there and you think in the terms that
these people were thinking, and Sasha or Yasha Monk rather
was one of them, not that he was at the
White House, but this was his thinking too. And so
the thinking is based on this idea that Trump had
been elevated to the White House through a series of
unfortunate coincidences. Right, I can't believe this happened. How did
this happen? Right? They couldn't explain it. And so the
best way they thought, because of all these unfortunate coincidences,
surely not anything that they did, then, the best way
to neutralize the danger that he posed to American democracy,
seemingly then was to oppose him in every possible way.
You remember, at the time, Well maybe not. I mean,
if you were listening to me when I was on
the air in Ashville, this is what I was saying
back then, which was Donald Trump is transactional, right, He's
a business guy. He is new to politics. He doesn't
know how all of this stuff works. Democrats could have
basically run the table on him. Had they just praised him,
had they said, oh, he's fantastic, he's the best Republican
governor we've ever or a president we've ever worked with,
he would have probably given them so much and they
just couldn't do it. They just couldn't do it. The
goal back then of the resistance was to stop Trump
from taking over the institutions or becoming sufficiently quote normalized.
Remember that we can't normalize this kind of behavior. Can't
let him gain some sort of permanent foothold in American politics.
Had that work out for you, by the way, anyway,
Monk says, if only his opponents could withstand this unique
period of acute danger, it was assumed things would go
back to normal. The paradigm of total resistance inspired a
wide range of tactics. Some were self defeating, others outright delusional. Right,
and he runs through some of them, like the serious
academics that were calling on the Electoral College to elevate
Hillary Clinton to the presidency even though she lost. Remember
that one not an insurrection, totally preserving democracy. Cable news
hosts on MSNBC spent months and years actually arguing or
insinuating that Trump was an actual Russian agent. Some protest
movements tried to win over hearts and minds, plenty of
others self consciously refused to appeal to anybody who might
have voted for the president. This was the predominant feeling
among many progressives that the people who had voted for Trump,
many of my friends and acquaintances told me, were irredeemable
racists and bigots. Trying to change their minds was futile,
perhaps even morally suspect. The only question should be how
to out mobilize them. Right, people cut off their family
and friends. I can't believe have the country is racist? Right?
That whole thing? These are part of the this is
the mindset that inspired part of the toolbox of resistance
their tactics, and it didn't work. All right. I hope
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currently imprisoned, including Lauren Handy serving fifty seven months in prison,
John Hinshaw twenty one months, Jonathan Darnell thirty four months,
Herb Garretty twenty seven months, Jean Marshall, Joan Bell, Paulette Harlowe,
Bevelyn Williams, Heather Adoni, and Calvin Zastro and all but
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they were sent to prison for two years. They're all
getting pardons. So whatever resistance tactics you guys were using,
they did not work. In fact, they pushed more people
into Trump's orbit. And now I was watching I forget
what program it was, but they were talking about how,
you know, being on the Trump train now is cool,
Doing the dance is cool, It's fun. And Democrats did
this to themselves. You guys did this to yourselves, like
you are no longer the party of fun. You guys
all growing up, That's what I always like. You guys
were the party, you know, of hip. And cool and
Hollywood and rock music and all of this. And it
was the Republicans that were like biscal conservatism, you know,
anti gays and all of this. That was always the branding.
That is no longer the case. This is what a
realignment of the parties looks like. And when one party,
in this case, the Democrats, are intent on becoming the
skolds of the society. Very few people want to be
a part of that, except for the scolds. And I
am as surprised as you are that there are that
many scolds. But here we are back to Yasha Monk's
piece at his sub steck, he says, getting hundreds of
former judges or military this was another tactic that the
resistance used to get a whole bunch of people to
write letters to denounce Trump, and that that could make
a real impact on the public opinion. Right. Spoiler alert,
It did not. Right. All it did was undermine all
of those people's credibility. There were the endless attempts to
investigate Trump or impeach Donald Trump right there. There were
congressional investigations into everything from his tax returns remember that,
to his COVID nineteen response twenty seventeen, there was the
first impeachment attempt over his remarks about the Unite the
Right rally in Charlottesville. People forget they were going to
the Democrats were looking to impeach Donald Trump over the
lie that he was referring to the neo Nazis when
he said good people on both sides. Almost half the
country still believes that lie, and Democrats were trying to
use that lie in order to impeach it. That was
the first one. Then there was another one about the
emolument's clause. Remember that that was twenty eighteen. Then there
was the actual first impeachment over the totally perfect phone
call with the Ukrainian president. Then there was the second
impeachment six days before he left office. As it turned out,
none of these attempts to oppose Trump was particularly effective.
Why because it was all about the branding. It's all
about the messaging. This is why it always is hilarious
to me when I hear Democrats say, oh, the reason
we didn't win was because our message just didn't get through.
Like you control like every avenue for message dissemination. It's
not a matter of it not getting out there. It's
a matter of people not believing it, people not adopting it.
That's the problem you have. It's not that we're not
hearing it. It's that we're not listening to it. We're
not obeying it. You know, this was the most predictable
when it came to the practices and demands that flagrantly
broke with the traditions that Democrats claimed to defend. Right,
when you say that only you can save the democracy,
and the way to do it is to install Hillary
Clinton after the twenty sixteen election, right and throw out
the electoral college, right, that's not norm preservation. This was
a rejection right the elites, their economic ideas, their ideology.
It was so bad when people saw you guys wanted
to do, they were repulsed, and people chose Donald Trump. Again,
I forget I saw. I heard somebody else say this,
so I can't claim credit for it, but I apologize.
I don't remember who said it. But it's almost like America,
like with Donald Trump. America was married to to Donald Trump,
divorced Donald Trump, and you know, took the second husband,
and the second husband was so bad that they went
back and married the first one. Again. That's that's that's
not a Donald Trump problem. That's a you problem. That's
a you problem. But I don't know if they're going
to be able to, uh to course correct on this.
All of these tactics floundered because they were rooted in
a mistaken analysis of the situation. For as Trump's resounding
reelection has shown, his success was not and aberration, which
is what the left thought it was in twenty sixteen.
And what they wanted going into twenty twenty. Why all
the impeachments and then later all the indictments, right, what
they wanted was the branding twice, impeached twice, impeached twice, impeached, convicted,
felon forty seven thousand convictions, whatever, like that's all they want.
They just want to be able to say it. And
it's like there's this belief that if they just speak something,
it becomes true. And that's not the way this works.
That's not the way it works. Failure is you and
your faulty assumptions running right smack dab into truth into reality.
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more transparent. We're talking about. There was a piece by
Yasha Monk, who is of the left. I don't know
where he falls on the political spectrum, but he writes
a sub stack. It's pretty well regarded among liberals. And
he has this piece called how Not to Resist Donald Trump.
Subheadline is mistakes we shouldn't make again. And so these
are you know, warnings to his fellow Democrats. These things
that we tried, all of these things, they didn't work.
We need to figure out something else. And at the
beginning of the piece he talks about at the risk
of getting banned here off of the podcasting platforms when
this thing loads up the great replacement theory, which this
was something that liberal demographers wrote about twenty years ago.
This is why Democrats were so giddy. They thought they
had you know, demographics as destiny. They had this as
their sort of north star. It's the reason why they've been,
you know, importing all of the new voters from other countries.
There's an idea that if we can get rid of
the whites in America, then we will win. Because their
coalition became less and less white. I mean, well except
for the leadership, I mean they all stay white. I mean,
but the idea here is that if you can get
more and more voters onto the roles that are going
to vote Democrat because they're coming from you know, more
socialistic countries, shall we say, but they were the ones
that came up with this was Rui Tsera and this
is where that line demographics is destiny came from. And
this is why you hear not so much anymore, especially
now that Trump won with this diverse coalition. But there
was this view that they had adopted that you know,
old white people are dying off and those are the
Fox News viewers, those are the am radio listeners, those
are conservatives, Pupblicans, and so our time is now right
and I guess qualifications don't really matter. So the dei
stuff works very well with this philosophy because it's just
like it's like a handoff. It's like, oh, they have
all this power. They didn't earn it, they just got
it because of their race and their gender, and so
now when they die, we got it, it's all ours
because we're not those two things. Like. Well, though, maybe
the people that had the power they got it through
something other than just right race and gender. There may
be dare I say the word meritocracy, There may actually
have been something like they worked really hard, right, maybe
they engaged in a whole bunch of illegal activity, like
the Kennedy's built a fortune, that kind of thing, you know,
and then they got power, so like that's possible. So
that's that was sort of the underpinning and that has
all now collapsed and they're in trouble because they don't
have a leader right now, the Democrat Party, right they
don't have a leader anymore. It's not Harris, I mean,
no Paris. Who's the heir apparent for the Democrats right now?
Chuck Schumer. It's not Joe Biden anymore, not Barack Obama,
Like who's the figurehead? Most strikingly, he says, the narrative
according to which Trump's political appeal is restricted to one
declining demographic segment of the electorate, widely assumed for the
past years to be true even among the country's leading
political scientists, has turned out to be badly wrong. Unlike
in twenty sixteen, Trump's coalition now drew heavily on latinos,
Asian Americans, Native Americans, and even African Americans. The task
facing Trump's opponents is much more difficult than it seemed
in twenty sixteen. The conviction that the diversification of the
American electorate will eventually deliver inevitable victories to Trump's opponents
now looks hopelessly naive. The most obvious ideas about how
to oppose him have been tested and found to be wanting.
Rather than merely getting through a one time four year
emergency for the Republic, his opponents need to figure out
how to defeat a political movement that has appeal within
every major demographic group and now threatens to grow into
the dominant force of an entire political era. He sounds scared.
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