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3:27

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3:29

man. How are you? Hey, I'm doing

3:31

well. Good to be back with you, Don.

3:33

Well, I'm glad you're back. You know, big

3:36

picture. We're seeing my father

3:38

actually take on global challenges head on.

3:40

He's doing exactly what he said

3:42

he was going to do. You've been

3:45

talking about this for years. What's

3:47

your big picture assessment of the Trump

3:49

agenda as we near the first

3:51

100 days? Well, first

3:53

of all, Don, he's doing exactly what he said

3:55

he was going to do. I mean, let's let's

3:57

be honest. He was painting in big, bold, bright

3:59

colors. through the campaign. I mean there's

4:02

there were no questions about what

4:04

he was going to do when

4:06

he won. I mean tariffs, deportation,

4:08

doge, drill baby drill, and the

4:10

American people chose him in a

4:12

rather definitive way. And the other thing

4:14

too that I think Don that has

4:16

really become very apparent to me watching

4:18

your dad in this first term and

4:20

now obviously is he's beginning his second.

4:23

It's what I call public arena

4:25

morality. And by that I mean, he's

4:27

not lying to the American people. He's

4:29

not making false campaign promises and telling

4:32

them stories. And then he gets into

4:34

office and does something completely different or

4:36

doesn't even bother to try and fulfill

4:39

those campaign promises. In fact, he sets

4:41

out this very bold agenda during the

4:43

campaign and immediately day one, within hours

4:45

of being sworn in, immediately begins to

4:48

put that agenda into motion. And

4:50

the other thing that I've noticed about

4:52

your dad, it didn't dawn on me

4:55

in May of 2015. It dawned on

4:57

me in February of 2016 that

4:59

this was the guy who was

5:02

going to pursue Americanism. And

5:04

by that I mean an agenda

5:06

that put the American people first

5:08

and last in all things. And

5:10

to me, your dad has taken the moral

5:12

imperative of nationalism. And I mean that

5:15

is Lincoln, Gandhi, Churchill, that form in

5:17

which. You don't need the haters coming.

5:19

I'm saying, oh my God, how dare

5:21

you. I want to define that very

5:23

quickly. But the whole idea of the

5:25

moral imperative of a national leader is

5:27

to actually prioritize the interest of

5:29

the nation's people. And that's what

5:32

your dad is doing. And I think we've

5:34

had a lot of immoral leadership on both

5:36

sides of the aisle for decades. And your

5:38

dad has said enough of this.

5:40

we're going to actually have leadership

5:42

in DC that actually prioritizes the

5:45

interests of the American people, the

5:47

nation, on all things, whether it's

5:49

immigration, whether it's foreign policy, whether

5:51

it's trade deals, whether it's energy policy.

5:53

And so, you know, he has begun a

5:56

bold agenda, and I cannot wait to

5:58

see the success that will happen. What

6:00

does it say to you though?

6:02

I mean, you said it, like

6:04

he's just, he's actually doing the

6:06

things he said he was gonna

6:09

do. I mean, this is the

6:11

stuff that people voted for. Maybe

6:13

there's some short-term pain with some

6:15

of that for long-term benefits, because

6:17

we've sort of sold out our

6:20

country for the last century, you

6:22

know, making bad decisions to get

6:24

reelected in three weeks at the

6:26

expense of our children's future in

6:29

50 years. But what does it

6:31

say about our country, our country,

6:33

our system, our elected officials? that

6:35

you have this level on the

6:37

trade deals. I just want to

6:40

remind people, we haven't had a

6:42

trade surplus in 50 years. 1975.

6:44

The staggering thing to me, Don,

6:46

is that we are such a

6:49

vibrant country with such a strong

6:51

economy that we have done as

6:53

well as we have for the

6:55

last 50 years. And your dad

6:57

is now standing up and saying,

7:00

hey, I didn't start this trade

7:02

war, if that's what you want

7:04

to define what's taking place. I

7:06

didn't start this. but I am

7:08

going to end it. This was

7:11

not a preemptive tariff. This is

7:13

a reactive one. And I think

7:15

what's been staggering to me really

7:17

looking at this over the last

7:20

few weeks in real close detail

7:22

is that American leadership, if you

7:24

even want to call it leadership,

7:26

let this linger as long as

7:28

it did as they let it

7:31

happen over 50 years and put

7:33

us, I think, in a precarious

7:35

situation in many ways for our

7:37

future as you were saying. You

7:40

know, we want to win in

7:42

a few weeks or a few

7:44

months and you know, the hell

7:46

with the future. This is something

7:48

where I think your dad in

7:51

many ways won in the nicotine.

7:53

Like this is an existential crisis

7:55

when you look at these trade

7:57

deals and where we were headed

8:00

not only on national security issues,

8:02

but what does the future prosperity

8:04

of this country look like? And

8:06

your dad's standing up and saying, we're not gonna

8:08

put up with this anymore for the sake of

8:10

the country now, but for the sake of the

8:12

future of the country. And I think what's

8:15

gonna be interesting, I mean, you look at

8:17

specifically China. I mean, we're hundreds of billions

8:19

of dollars in a trade deficit with a

8:21

country that has made it very clear. that

8:23

they want to displace us, that they want

8:25

to displace us on the international stage, and

8:27

their vision for the world is much different

8:29

than ours. So for the sake of the

8:31

country, but I would argue, Don, for the

8:33

sake of the free world, people have

8:35

better be cheering on your dad that this

8:38

tariff war is successful, and I think

8:40

it'll be relatively short-term, but it

8:42

should be successful, because our manufacturing

8:44

base has been the arsenal of freedom and

8:46

democracy for the rest of the world. So

8:48

for the sake of the free world, I

8:50

sincerely hope that this is successful. Yeah, it's

8:53

sort of wild in the last week or

8:55

two weeks since even they started talking about

8:57

these things. You go back, you see clips

8:59

of Nancy Pelosi 30 years ago, 25

9:01

years ago, talking about doing exactly this

9:03

because how critically important it is for

9:05

America. I'd argue it's much more important

9:08

now because those deficits have grown so

9:10

much more. Barack Obama, same thing. You

9:12

know, Warren Buffett talking about essentially like,

9:14

hey, this is what you need to

9:17

do. I think that was from the,

9:19

you know, early 90s to be able

9:21

to save America, but no one actually

9:23

had the balls to actually do it.

9:25

But those same people are now in

9:28

total hysteria. What changed with the Democrat

9:30

Party that they could actually understand how

9:32

important this stuff is, but they no

9:34

longer care? Well, first of all,

9:36

the Trump derangement syndrome is a real mental

9:39

illness, for which there is no cure. So

9:41

anytime your dad mentions anything, whether it is,

9:43

I think this is just common sense, what

9:45

he's doing. I think his agenda is a

9:48

return to common sense on a whole host

9:50

of fronts, whether it's on some of the

9:52

social issues, you know, men are men, women

9:54

are women. We cannot survive with a massive

9:56

trade deficit. I'm still shocked we have as

9:59

done as well. we have over the last 50 years, but

10:01

your dad's approached all this, I think, is just basic common sense. Like,

10:03

we're gonna level this out. This hasn't been free trade. I mean, that to

10:05

me is one of the biggest lies that I think we've experienced for decades.

10:07

Like, what do you mean by free trade? This is deeply unfair. And we've

10:09

been screwed by our allies. I mean, we went out of our way, Dawn,

10:11

and especially in the post-World World War II era, to allow some of these

10:14

bad trade deals and tariffs and tariffs and all that to rebuild, to rebuild

10:16

economies and all that to rebuild economies and all that to

10:18

rebuild economies in rebuild economies in Europe to rebuild economies

10:20

in Europe to rebuild economies in Europe to rebuild economies

10:22

in Europe to rebuild economies in Europe, because we first,

10:24

because we first of we first of we first of

10:26

we first of, first of all, the world after

10:28

World War II, during World War II, and then

10:30

we allowed them to rebuild their economies with these

10:32

unfair trade deals. And now your dad's saying, hey,

10:34

we don't live in that post-World War

10:37

II era. We actually have a real

10:39

existential threat from China. And the American

10:41

people are not going to put up

10:43

with you subsidizing you, first of all,

10:45

not only on your defense, but allow

10:47

you to go down crazy roads on

10:49

your social welfare programs and idiotic green

10:52

new deals like Germany has done. And I

10:54

think the real response from the Democrats

10:56

is, you know, if Trump says it,

10:58

it must be wrong. I mean, that's

11:00

literally their knee jerk reaction of, well,

11:03

Trump said it, then I'm going to

11:05

fight with it to the nail.

11:07

And I think they've come completely

11:09

detached from reality and common sense.

11:11

I'm going to fight with it

11:13

to the nail. And I think

11:16

they've come completely detached from reality

11:18

and common sense. And I think

11:20

the American people are seeing through it

11:22

again. you know, well paid, you know, I

11:24

want to say professional pundits, but you know,

11:26

it's sort of hard to be a

11:28

professional or, you know, an expert when

11:31

you haven't been right about anything in,

11:33

you know, 20 years on the air.

11:35

But you know, they talk about like

11:37

we're abolishing free trade. Like we've never

11:39

had free trade. Like these countries. Exactly.

11:41

You know, had tariffs on us that

11:43

we didn't have on them. They continue

11:45

to do it. It's very open. It's

11:47

what they know. And you know, but

11:49

they say, well, it's only a minor

11:51

tariff because, you know, Canada with the

11:53

dairy products. They have like, well, it's

11:55

a 3% tariff on the first case of

11:57

milk or whatever it is. And then for.

11:59

for the truckloads of stuff, it's 237%.

12:02

And that's not fair. You know, with

12:04

free trade or friends like that, who

12:06

needs enemies? That doesn't seem at all

12:08

a guarantarian, but it's almost, are they

12:10

just lying to the people again? Or

12:13

do they not even understand that these

12:15

things have been a reality and grossly

12:17

unbalanced for far too long? Well, I

12:19

mean, they're flat out lying. Either it's

12:22

based on ignorance or it's obviously intentional,

12:24

neither of which are good scenarios. But

12:26

yeah, I mean, like your dad has

12:28

said. Our friends and allies have been

12:30

screwing us for decades. And first of

12:33

all, they expect us to come to

12:35

their national defense and basically protect them.

12:37

And then for that, as thanks for

12:39

that. We're gonna screw you on trade

12:41

deals. And your dad's like, we're not

12:44

doing this anymore. Like this isn't fair

12:46

to the country. It's not fair to

12:48

the American people. It's not fair to

12:50

the American taxpayer. Well, we've experienced. And

12:52

again, I go back to Dawn. When

12:55

you start to really dig into these

12:57

numbers, it's staggering to me. how we

12:59

have done as well as we have

13:01

over the last 50 years. You're not

13:03

supposed to be able to do this.

13:06

So how did we do that? Was

13:08

it just innovation? Was it just, you

13:10

know, a paper economy? I mean, part

13:12

of it is we are robust. I

13:14

mean, we have an incredible country. You

13:17

have an incredible economy. But when you

13:19

think about what we could be, what

13:21

we could become. I think it's pretty

13:23

incredible. When your dad talks about a

13:25

new golden age, I think people need

13:28

to understand that this present moment, which

13:30

by the way, 50 countries plus have

13:32

decided almost immediately to come to the

13:34

negotiating table and say, hey, we're going

13:36

to try and work this out as

13:39

quickly as possible. I think you're going

13:41

to see this this painful period, if

13:43

you will, and I don't even think

13:45

it's that painful. I think we had

13:47

more pain back in 22 and 23

13:50

in the stock market. I think this

13:52

relative pain is going to pass pretty

13:54

quickly and then I think people six

13:56

months are year. year from now are

13:59

going to go, this is absolutely incredible,

14:01

which by the way, Don, I think

14:03

is hugely important because I think if

14:05

your dad's plan and I think it

14:07

will work by the summer of 26 coming

14:09

into the midterms, I think that's going to be

14:12

huge for us keeping the house. So the fact,

14:14

and this is the other thing that I don't

14:16

think people can understand. Like, well, these these terrorists

14:18

that he has imposed are punitive

14:20

well above and beyond what these countries are doing.

14:23

Well, yeah, what do you think he's going to

14:25

do? Like he wants to end these tariff

14:27

and trade wars immediately, he's going to pull

14:29

out the big stick and he wants to

14:31

make it as painful as possible to bring

14:33

them to the negotiating table as quickly as

14:35

possible to settle these issues as quickly as

14:37

possible because it's gone on long enough

14:40

and I think your dad also realizes

14:42

he's thinking politically but he's also thinking

14:44

I don't have all the time in

14:46

the world. Yeah, like, that's the reality.

14:48

Right. You brought up, well, you don't

14:50

even have three years, right? You got

14:52

midterms, right? You talked about that. You

14:55

saw, you know, in Wisconsin, I guess

14:57

they got voter ID done, but, you

14:59

know, a state that we won by a

15:01

pretty sizable margin, you know, not

15:03

enough people showed up, and so

15:05

you have a Supreme Court that's

15:07

controlled by, you know, not just

15:10

radical communist. you know, talk about

15:12

midterms and I guess the need

15:14

for people to stay engaged, not

15:16

just when trumps at the top

15:18

of the ticket, but for the future

15:20

of our country. Yeah, no, absolutely.

15:22

I mean, this is, this is, I

15:25

think Wisconsin in some ways was a

15:27

wake of call. I don't want to

15:29

read too much into it. I definitely

15:31

think there was a little bit of

15:33

burnout on our side. Democrats, the left

15:35

were desperate to change the narrative. I

15:37

mean, when you realize how much money

15:39

port, port, port, port, port, Right, that's what

15:41

a couple months before we thought it was

15:43

to be 50 million. I think it topped

15:45

out a hundred million plus like just an absolute

15:48

delo's tsunami of money about 60% of

15:50

that went to Susan Crawford and about

15:52

77% of that was out of outside

15:54

the state. So 46 47 million was

15:56

from outside the state because they realized

15:58

we need to change the narrative. have a

16:00

moment here, the left realize this, and we're

16:02

going to seize the moment. And so people

16:05

want to read a lot into this. I

16:07

do think that there was a little bit

16:09

of burnout on our side. Our people showed

16:11

up in greater ways than they had showed

16:14

up in the last Supreme Court race in

16:16

Wisconsin. It just wasn't enough. But I think

16:18

it should wake us up a little bit.

16:21

I mean, I just want to remind people

16:23

for perspective that there were four things that

16:25

night that I thought were obviously on the

16:27

ballot. Florida, the two Florida races, we won

16:30

those. Voter ID in Wisconsin, we won that

16:32

and we lost the Supreme Court race. But

16:34

we won three out of four, so let's

16:36

have a little perspective. At the same time,

16:39

I think we need to get back to

16:41

the fundamentals. We saw some of this last

16:43

year in which people realize we got to

16:46

do more voter registration. We have to do

16:48

some more absentee ballot generation among mental low

16:50

propensity voters and we need to actually do

16:52

an absentee ballot early vote push. We know

16:55

where the battle is going to be next

16:57

year in the top 20 House districts that

16:59

are going to decide the majority. I would

17:02

argue it would behoove us to actually put

17:04

some real money above and beyond what we

17:06

think is necessary. It needs to be industrial

17:08

levels of voter registration, absentee ballot generation, and

17:11

then ABEV push in the top 20 House

17:13

districts to make sure that we keep the

17:15

House. And historical trends have been that the

17:17

president loses houses. how seats in this first

17:20

term in the first midterm, I think that

17:22

we have the ability to hold the line.

17:24

I've looked at some of the numbers, but

17:27

it's not going to just happen. And the

17:29

other thing too, Dawn, that I think we

17:31

need to start thinking about, your dad has

17:33

the ability to bring to the table to

17:36

the voting booth people that are Trump only

17:38

voters. And just even looking at some of

17:40

the numbers and say Arizona. It's between 70

17:43

and 100,000 that we've identified as kind of

17:45

Trump-only voters. We've got to go back and

17:47

say, how do we make these people more

17:49

consistent voters and communicate to them? Donald Trump's

17:52

agenda can only be successful if he keeps

17:54

the House in 2026, because he doesn't. He'll

17:56

get impeached. There'll be all kinds of investigations.

17:58

The agenda goes sideways. And so I think

18:01

we've got to start... talking to a lot

18:03

of these people now. If you want Donald

18:05

Trump's agenda to be successful to him, for

18:08

him to have all four years to be

18:10

successful, he has to keep the house in

18:12

the midterms. And I hope that we can

18:14

defy the odds, maybe add a couple seats.

18:17

But if nothing else, even if we keep

18:19

the house by a few seats, that's a

18:21

win. Now, do you see, you know, sort

18:24

of the turmoil at the Democratic fundraising, apparatus,

18:26

Ag Blue, you know, I don't think it's

18:28

a coincidence that the second USAID and all

18:30

the NGOs that were probably kicking back to

18:33

all the Democrat party, you know, I don't

18:35

think it's a coincidence that we figure out

18:37

all that stuff, the top seven people, you

18:39

know, at this billion dollar fundraising apparatus that

18:42

allows them to outspend us, you know, five,

18:44

sometimes 10 to one on all of these

18:46

congressional races, and, and, frankly, everything else down

18:49

the enough of that gets figured out in

18:51

the two years to take some of that

18:53

huge advantage that they have that's probably, you

18:55

know, largely fraudulent off the table? I hope

18:58

so. I mean, obviously, House Republicans are on

19:00

it. I don't hold my breath when House

19:02

Republicans do much of anything. You know, I

19:05

hope the state AGs step up to the

19:07

plate. I have long suspected that Act Blue

19:09

is a fraudulent money laundering operation, not only

19:11

from the smurfing. I think there's been a

19:14

lot of big donors that have pumped in

19:16

small donations and people have taken and stolen

19:18

identities. I think if we can get to

19:20

the bottom of it, I would not be

19:23

surprised if there's been a lot of foreign

19:25

money that has been laundered through Act Blue.

19:27

So when people say, oh, the Democrats have

19:30

figured out how to beat you on the

19:32

small dollar donor front, I have questions. I

19:34

have questions that if in reality they actually

19:36

have or if this has been a fraudulent

19:39

money laundering operation coming into the midterms. I

19:41

would also argue again with Elon Mosk and

19:43

Doge, you know, it's kind of funny to

19:46

me, Don, how it started waste fraud and

19:48

abuse. Wait a minute, we have ruled a

19:50

bureaucrat. Wait a minute, we might have a

19:52

slush fund money laundering operation with our government

19:55

that the left has been using to fund

19:57

their NGOs, friends and families. So when you

19:59

see some of these. funding mechanisms for the

20:01

left starting to break apart at least fractures

20:04

in the foundation. I have hopes that in

20:06

the midterms they're not going to have nearly

20:08

the amount of funding that they've had in

20:10

the past to do some of their voter

20:12

registration to do some of their actual political

20:14

work. So I think that's to be decided.

20:16

I hope Republicans in the House actually step

20:18

up to the plate and I hope state

20:20

AGs as well. Yeah, I mean, I've talked about

20:23

that a lot on the show before, but for so

20:25

many years it sort of felt like we had this

20:27

like a fake economy propped up by

20:29

USAID, endless spending, and money printing.

20:31

Do you see this moment in

20:33

history as our best opportunity to

20:35

sort of get back to reality

20:38

with some of this stuff? I do.

20:40

No, no, I think your dad's second

20:42

term in the White House is a

20:44

singular moment in American history. And I

20:46

mean that because we now have somebody who

20:49

truly has figured it out. You

20:51

know, I think the first term was a

20:53

learning process. I think he came in as

20:55

the great outsider. I think he had... some

20:57

ideas of how DC worked and he even

20:59

told me, he's like, net, it's far worse than

21:01

I even thought. Like this was the swamp, but

21:04

this is like way above and beyond what

21:06

I thought. I think the learning process has gotten

21:08

into the point of, and you can see it

21:10

in day one of this second term, where he

21:12

came in and you know that Stephen Miller and

21:14

Russ voted some of these other guys

21:17

had been putting a plan in place

21:19

for these executive orders, had a very

21:21

clear, concise blueprint on what they wanted

21:23

to do. You know my hope is on that Elon

21:25

Mosk and Dosh have begun a narrative in

21:27

which people have kind of had that awakening

21:29

of realizing yeah we don't really have representative

21:31

government in this country which is kind of

21:33

one of the themes of my book American

21:36

Leviathan but I need people to fully understand

21:38

and I think Elon's kind of having this

21:40

epiphany of wait rule of the bureaucrat

21:42

what does that have to do with

21:44

representative democracy wait a minute what is going on in

21:46

this country I hope the narrative breaks through to

21:48

the American people that your dad is on the

21:51

route and pursuing. restoring representative government to

21:53

this country. And it's not going to be

21:55

an easy fight. I mean, we can see

21:57

from the left. It's kind of shocking to

21:59

me, though not. unexpected, this feral animalistic

22:01

response to what is going on, especially

22:04

with Elon. I mean, it's, you know,

22:06

Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing.

22:08

Now, Elon must derangement syndrome is obviously

22:10

a real thing that they realize this

22:13

is an existential threat to the leftist

22:15

movement in America. And I hope that

22:17

not only as we go after their

22:19

funding sources, we break apart the system.

22:22

So I think this is one of

22:24

those moments of clarity for the American

22:26

people that Your dad has to be

22:28

successful. Elon Musk has to be successful.

22:31

I hope Republicans in Congress are actually

22:33

going to step up to the plate

22:35

and support him. I'll admit some frustration

22:37

with House Republicans getting wound up about

22:40

this proxy voting when they could have

22:42

been raining in judges that are overstepping

22:44

the Article Three bounds to try and

22:46

dictate to your dad as the head

22:49

of the Article Two branch what he

22:51

can and can't do constitutionally. So... I

22:53

think this is back to reality on

22:55

a whole host of fronts. I hope

22:58

the American people continue to bolster your

23:00

dad. I hope that they strongly encourage

23:02

Congress to actually step up to the

23:04

plate and actually take back their legislative

23:07

responsibilities. But I think the American people

23:09

are coming awake. I really do believe

23:11

what we're seeing is they are coming

23:13

awake and realizing the reality they've been

23:16

lied to on a whole host of

23:18

fronts that the news media is more

23:20

propaganda. And I think we're still seeing

23:22

that evolution of them waking up. But

23:24

I do hope this, Don, I hope

23:27

that they realize we haven't won yet.

23:29

Yeah, that's a big thing. I mean,

23:31

we've started, you know, we're turning the

23:33

tables on countries that have exploited, you

23:36

know, trade loopholes for years. But with

23:38

that, we've got to create some sort

23:40

of legacy, you know, beyond the day-to-day

23:42

hysteria, as we look back months and

23:45

years from now, decades from now, you

23:47

know, what's the real opportunity? The real

23:49

opportunity is to restore representative democracy, representative

23:51

government to this country. I don't think

23:54

we've in many ways, I don't think

23:56

the American people have had true representation.

23:58

in DC for a very long time.

24:00

And I mean that in all sincerity,

24:03

until your dad showed up. I mean,

24:05

your dad's, your dad's, I think, greatest

24:07

threat to permanent DC to that administrative

24:09

state, especially in the first term, but

24:12

even now, was him showing up and

24:14

going, I'm the duly elected president of

24:16

the United States. I represent the American

24:18

people. On behalf of the American people,

24:21

I decide a lot of domestic and

24:23

foreign policy. And DC, bolstered by the

24:25

Democrats, the corporate propagand, quite frankly a

24:27

lot of establishment Republicans, So I think

24:30

it's it's restoring a constitutional public, restoring

24:32

constitutional balance, restoring prosperity, restoring freedom. I

24:34

mean, there are a lot of different

24:36

things where the America first agenda, again,

24:39

is a common sense agenda, and, you

24:41

know, the American people, I think, the

24:43

biggest thing to me that your dad

24:45

offers, especially in the second term is

24:48

hope. Like, decline was a choice. We

24:50

choose not to decline. And his messages,

24:52

we choose to climb to even greater

24:54

heights of freedom and prosperity. So my

24:57

hope is that the lasting legacy is

24:59

a complete restructuring and remaking of the

25:01

government to restore representative government so that

25:03

the American people can actually be served

25:06

by their government every day on all

25:08

things both foreign and domestic. So I'm

25:10

looking at it over your shoulder. You

25:12

know, how does all of this relate

25:15

to the themes in your book, American

25:17

Leviathan? It really is a conflict between

25:19

two very different governing philosophies. I mean

25:21

this. The rule of the bureaucrat was

25:24

always intended by progressives. I don't think

25:26

a lot of the American people, they

25:28

are kind of under the illusion we

25:30

had, a constitutional republic, representative government. And

25:33

I think, I tell people all the

25:35

time when I'm out speaking that, you

25:37

know, if you really want to know

25:39

what the conflict is between Donald Trump

25:41

and the lawfare, Russian collusion, Ukrainian quid

25:44

pro quo, it's about who decides. And

25:46

I make the point in the book

25:48

that. You know, our republic was founded

25:50

on the idea of all power flows

25:53

from the people to their duly elected

25:55

representatives, who they make the stewards of

25:57

the power of money given. to them

25:59

to create a government of buying for

26:02

the people that every day is protecting

26:04

and promoting the interests of

26:06

the American people. And progressives

26:08

wanted nothing to do with that. They wanted

26:10

to have the rule of the bureaucrat from

26:12

day one. But when you have rule

26:15

of the bureaucrat, you begin to become

26:17

very authoritarian and dictatorial to the American

26:19

people. And your dad showing up and saying,

26:21

I reject the premise. I don't think

26:23

any of this is constitutional. Quite frankly,

26:25

I don't think much of it's pretty un-American

26:27

if we're being honest. And so some of

26:29

those themes I explore and then how some

26:31

of the stuff that your dad's doing right

26:33

now, some of the stuff that's kind of

26:35

some of the stuff I wrote about and continuing

26:38

down that path and we have to break

26:40

apart the system. So when when Elon Moss

26:42

says we have all this waste fraud and

26:44

abuse, that's the poisonous fruit of the

26:46

poisonous tree and the administrative state and

26:48

the rule of the bureaucrat, my

26:50

sincere hope is that that form of

26:52

government is shattered and that we restore

26:54

the Republic. Because what you're seeing

26:56

is this massive conflict between two

26:59

very different governing philosophies, administrative state,

27:01

constitutional republic, and so when

27:03

people want to step back and take a

27:05

look at what's going on in DC, a

27:07

lot of that revolves around two very different

27:10

governing philosophies, and then essentially who decides? And

27:12

is it the duly elected representatives of the

27:14

American people, or is it these unelected bureaucrats,

27:16

who quite frankly, I don't think in any

27:18

way most days represent the interests of the

27:21

American people at all on any level? Not

27:23

even a little bit. So we're getting closer to

27:25

the first 100 days, which should be the benchmarks

27:27

for the next 100 in your opinion, Ned?

27:29

Well, first of all, Congress has got to

27:32

step up and actually, and it looks like what

27:34

they've done in the House and the Senate, extend

27:36

your dad's tax cuts, past the agenda

27:38

where there's actually going to be real

27:41

border funding so we can secure the

27:43

border, actually looks like there's going to

27:45

be serious funding for more oil and

27:47

gas exploration, because all of these things

27:49

tied together. Yeah, right. When you look

27:51

at the trade deals and what he's

27:53

trying to do to bring back the

27:55

manufacturing and industrial base and have fair

27:57

trade, the other thing that he's trying to do

27:59

is it. is obviously deal with some

28:01

of the issues that this Biden administration

28:03

brought about, obviously with their

28:05

insane ideas on energy, printing up money like

28:07

it was monopoly money and then throwing

28:09

that money out of helicopters, like

28:11

it was just free for everybody. So

28:14

I think he's got a lot of

28:16

different things that Congress needs to continue

28:18

going down that path of passing the

28:20

agenda so that over the next 100

28:22

days, we do see more border security,

28:24

which is incredible by the way, when you

28:26

see what 95 % drop in immigration, illegal

28:28

immigration, wow, what a shock. It just

28:31

turns out we needed somebody new in the

28:33

White House. But we gotta go

28:35

down that path to make sure that we actually never

28:37

let that happen again. The oil and

28:39

gas exploration to lower the energy costs

28:41

so that price of goods actually

28:43

goes down as well. So I

28:45

think there's a lot of things over the next

28:47

100 days that if Congress can actually pass this

28:49

bill, which again, there's a little bit of an

28:51

impact between the House and the Senate, especially

28:54

over Medicaid, which by the way Dawn, everybody

28:56

seems to be arguing about, well, Medicaid funding,

28:59

we don't wanna see it cut. How

29:01

about we fix these systems first before we talk

29:03

about more funding? There's 146 billion in annual

29:05

fraud with Medicare and Medicaid. Let's have a talk

29:07

about how we fix that system before we

29:09

start pumping more money into it. So I think

29:11

the House and Senate are gonna have to

29:13

figure out how they have one bill versus two

29:15

bills and the whole Medicaid funding. I hope

29:18

they can get past that, I sincerely do and

29:20

I think they will. So that next

29:22

100 days is going to be obviously

29:24

passing Congress, passing the basics for the

29:26

Trump agenda to be successful on a

29:28

whole host of fronts. I'm pretty optimistic

29:30

they're gonna figure it out, but there's

29:32

a few hurdles to overcome. Well,

29:35

Ned, I really appreciate it, man. Thank you very much. Great

29:37

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29:39

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30:51

here. Thanks for having me

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they're oftentimes regulars on the show, it

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emerged as a real key player pushing

31:02

back against the false narratives in the

31:04

media. What do you think are some

31:06

of the biggest media myths that we're

31:08

debunking right now, or that we need

31:10

to debunk in the weeks and months

31:12

ahead? Well, I think that, you know,

31:14

President Trump and the conservative movement has

31:16

really given a big voice to alternative

31:18

media settings, you know, things like podcast,

31:20

alternative media networks like Newsmax, O a

31:22

N, of course, Real America's Voice TV.

31:24

I think that the voice of the

31:26

voiceless comes of the voice of the

31:29

voice of the, I think that the

31:31

voice of the voiceless comes from those

31:33

alternative media outlets. You know, I recently

31:35

became the opinion editor for human

31:37

events and with all of the

31:39

different voices. Because there is this

31:41

new movement in the Republican Party. It's

31:43

a populist nationalist movement. It's not the

31:46

establishment media outlets like, you know, Wall

31:48

Street Journal or even some like Fox

31:50

News. It's giving a voice to the

31:53

Maga movement, the America First movement, and

31:55

advocating for things like populism, nationalism, trying

31:57

to advocate for the America First mindset.

32:00

foreign policy, especially now on economic policy, it's

32:02

really giving a voice to the ones that

32:04

deserve it. Not the ones that have been

32:06

propped up by the media, not the ones

32:08

that have been propped up by establishment politicians

32:10

in Washington, but moreover, the people who have

32:12

worked for the grassroots movement to give a

32:14

voice to those who have earned it and

32:16

those who have been advocating for Trump and

32:18

the Maga movement since date one. Yeah, I guess

32:20

in a recent piece, you made the

32:22

point that, you know, the leftist attempt

32:24

to paint Maga supporters, Maga supporters negatively.

32:26

They often backfire, making them basically look

32:29

like rebellious anti-heroes. I think you could

32:31

see that. I mean, I think that

32:33

you could see it with the games

32:35

that we've made with, you know, the

32:37

young demographic, just grossly outperforming

32:39

in the 18 to 29 for the

32:42

first time ever. How can the movement

32:44

continue to leverage, you know, that dynamic

32:46

culture that the left dominated so much

32:48

for for the last, you know, few decades?

32:51

Well, I mean, a couple years

32:53

ago, I remember this term, the

32:55

barstool conservative becoming a pretty prominent

32:57

term used to describe young conservatives.

32:59

And while I don't necessarily agree

33:01

with that specific term, I do

33:03

think it's important to capitalize on

33:05

young men, capitalize on college Republicans,

33:07

those who are being exposed to

33:09

indoctrination on college campuses, I think

33:11

that young people have the opportunity

33:13

now to become the counterculture and

33:16

to become the voice of the

33:18

magga movement. And I think through,

33:20

you know, in the, you know, Caroline

33:22

Lee that the press secretary has made

33:24

it a, a big, you know, priority

33:27

within the White House to give podcasts

33:29

and to give alternative media that voice.

33:31

And I think just being participative in

33:34

the youth, in, you know, the youth

33:36

infiltration within that mindset, you know, people

33:38

like Theo von, those like Aiden Ross,

33:41

all those who had a voice during

33:43

the 2024 presidential election and, you know,

33:45

especially in 26 with the midterm elections

33:48

coming up, I think that those outlets

33:50

and those voices need to be infiltrated

33:52

into giving Maga and the Republican Party

33:54

and the GOP more of a voice.

33:57

We need to figure out what are

33:59

young people seeing that is making them

34:01

more conservative. I think they're rebelling against

34:03

the transgender movement. They're wanting to, you

34:06

know, get house process down. They're wanting

34:08

to be able to afford a house

34:10

to afford a mortgage when they graduate

34:13

college. And also I think that the

34:15

young people are now seeing that college

34:17

is not the only option for them

34:19

going into the workforce, you know, things

34:22

like trade schools, the trade, you know,

34:24

CTE programs. I think those things are

34:26

becoming more of a more prevalent, you

34:29

know, small businesses starting once they graduate,

34:31

once they graduate college. They get to

34:33

a college level age. I think that

34:35

young people are starting to see. that

34:38

you don't have to go in to

34:40

being a lawyer and to going into

34:42

health and to going to education or

34:44

anything to be successful just prioritizing the

34:47

future about prioritizing getting those those you

34:49

know being able to afford houses to

34:51

being able to afford to start a

34:54

family and you know the family dynamic

34:56

is a very important thing too. I

34:58

think that this generation of young people

35:00

is prioritizing starting a family as prioritizing

35:03

conservative Christian values more than the last

35:05

you know more than generation Zier millennials

35:07

did. And I think having to hone

35:10

in on that and concentrating on those

35:12

priorities that this new generation of college

35:14

men, college even college women is going

35:16

to be a very important thing for

35:19

us to prioritize moving forward. Yeah, I

35:21

mean in that same piece you hit

35:23

the moniker, brutal American that the Atlantic,

35:26

you know, not exactly a rational conservative

35:28

thought, but used in a recent piece,

35:30

what does that even mean? What's their

35:32

point? What are they trying to do?

35:35

Well, I think they're trying to make

35:37

us out to be, you know, rude,

35:39

I think, that, you know, and they've

35:41

done that since 2015. Maga movement was,

35:44

you know, going to get Donald Trump.

35:46

Donald Trump was rude. He was, you

35:48

know, going after all these establishment politicians,

35:51

and they're trying to placate it again

35:53

in this second term. But, you know,

35:55

this Trump, I think this is a

35:57

good thing for us. We need to

36:00

be really American. need to cow tail

36:02

to the mainstream media, the people who

36:04

have tried to go after President Trump

36:07

and the magma move over the last

36:09

10 years, we need to be brutally

36:11

honest about what we're prioritizing. We need

36:13

to be brutally honest about being America

36:16

first and prioritizing the everyday American. For

36:18

far too long, I think we have

36:20

cow tail to make the mainstream media,

36:23

to donors and things like that, when

36:25

we really need to be placating on

36:27

trying to prioritize the everyday American. was

36:29

traveling to all these countries overseas

36:32

and overseas and in Europe is

36:34

just shocked to find all these

36:36

Americans that now are anti-Ukrainian aid,

36:39

they're anti-foran aid in general, they're

36:41

anti-foran aid in general, they're anti-getting

36:43

involved in any foreign entanglements, but

36:46

this is exactly what we need

36:48

to be. Being a brutal American

36:50

is what I've always wanted out

36:53

of the Republican Party, it's what

36:55

I've always wanted out of the

36:57

conservative movement. kind of mindset in

37:00

trying to make sure that all of

37:02

our foreign allies and our four enemies

37:04

are trying to get along with each

37:06

other. We need to put America first.

37:08

We need to put Americans first. We

37:11

need to prioritize the everyday working American

37:13

to ensure that We are people in

37:15

our country are the ones that are

37:17

more successful than those from other countries.

37:20

We need to make sure that America

37:22

remains is the number one super power

37:24

and the number one consumer in the

37:26

world. And you know, things like these

37:28

tariffs are going to be, you know,

37:31

criticized to the point where they're going

37:33

to try to make us out to

37:35

be, they don't care about anybody else

37:37

besides Americans and not saying that we

37:40

can't have any allies, not saying we

37:42

can have any trade relationships. But before

37:44

we try and have this. left and

37:46

even neo-concertives so far have been trying

37:48

to make us out to be. We

37:51

need to ensure that we are dominating

37:53

the conversation and dominating the world in

37:55

terms of economics and in terms of

37:57

trade because we need to be prioritizing.

37:59

those who are working in this country

38:02

and trying to make sure that their

38:04

families are fed more than anything else.

38:06

Yeah, because I mean, throughout all the

38:08

noise, I guess the one thing we

38:10

don't hear really that much about is

38:12

that my father's approval rating has actually

38:15

been on the upward trajectory to well

38:17

over 50%. So, you know, there's clearly

38:19

a disconnect here between, you know, common

38:21

sense Americans. and obviously the DC swamp

38:23

and perhaps even some of those globalists,

38:25

the same ones that want us to

38:28

fund the Ukraine war indefinitely, but aren't

38:30

quite willing to step up and do

38:32

it themselves. Well, exactly. I

38:34

mean, the same people who want

38:36

us to go to war, most

38:38

of times never served in the

38:40

military, they didn't have family that

38:42

served in the military, they just

38:45

have investments in the military, industrial

38:47

corporates and corporations that are going

38:49

to put money in their pockets

38:51

and corporations that are going to

38:53

put money in their pockets and

38:55

send our men and children off

38:57

to die in war. And unfortunately

38:59

enough, I think that we have

39:01

been used to this Bush era,

39:04

era war, where that's... the Middle

39:06

East, where that's in simple negotiations

39:08

in the EU. We need to

39:10

make sure. that America has a

39:12

role in providing for the for

39:14

the best world for Americans and

39:16

that and that's not seeing men

39:18

and children off to die in

39:20

war especially in entanglements and things

39:23

like in countries like Syria and

39:25

Jordan and Afghanistan in Ukraine we

39:27

do need to ensure that we're

39:29

making jobs for Americans we're bringing

39:31

jobs back to America and that

39:33

we're defending domestic soil we have

39:35

enough problems back home you know

39:37

with with mental health crises with

39:39

the manufacturing market on the decline,

39:42

ensuring that corporations are bringing jobs

39:44

back to America through things like

39:46

the trade negotiations we're currently going

39:48

through. These are the things that

39:50

need to be prioritized. We need

39:52

to be able to shift the

39:54

culture. We need to be able

39:56

to establish a conservative Christian culture

39:58

that many Americans are begging for

40:00

us to go back. to the

40:03

priority of, ensuring that there are

40:05

two-parent households, ensuring that there are

40:07

manufacturing jobs available, and ensuring that

40:09

there is job opportunity for their

40:11

children, and educational opportunities for their

40:13

children, instead of us worrying about

40:15

foreign entanglements overseas, we make sure

40:17

that every American is getting their

40:19

fair share back home. Yeah, I mean, I

40:22

thought, I saw an interesting piece. Human Events

40:24

had another piece out talking about the

40:26

Golden Age versus the great reset. in

40:28

your opinion for a golden age, Kenny.

40:30

Well, I think there's these fair trade

40:32

deals need to be prioritized as number

40:35

one. You know, I see all these

40:37

conservatives over the last few days and

40:39

over the last week saying that this

40:41

isn't what we voted for. This is

40:44

exactly what we voted for. We want

40:46

and we want the great reset to

40:48

be reset. We want to the golden

40:50

age to come. And when we see

40:53

countries like Madagascar and all these other

40:55

small countries charging us a 93% tariff

40:57

for on our imports, imports, exports. to

40:59

make sure that everybody is coming to

41:02

the table and America is getting a

41:04

fair shake. Now, we understand that we're

41:06

the biggest consumer in the world, and

41:08

we understand that we have to have

41:10

relationships with all these countries, but this

41:13

baseline 10% tariff is going to reset

41:15

what the world understands for America as

41:17

a trade partner. You know, during 2020,

41:19

you didn't hear all these conservatives all

41:21

of a sudden saying, well, we don't

41:24

need to, you know, we don't need

41:26

to shut the world down in favor

41:28

of this. is this disease who doesn't

41:30

even adversely affect most people, but all

41:32

of a sudden now that tariffs are

41:34

coming into play, now they're starting to

41:36

panic because it's Trump. They're starting to

41:38

panic because it's Maga. If this was

41:40

the Democrats doing this, if this is

41:42

the Neocons doing this, you wouldn't hear

41:44

a peep, but because Donald Trump is

41:46

willing to take a risk, but that

41:48

risk is going to pay off. We're

41:50

already seeing countries like Taiwan, the European

41:52

Union is willing to come at the

41:54

table and talk. We are on the

41:56

verge of entering in the golden age

41:58

because we're putting America back on equal

42:00

playing grounds and an equal playing field

42:03

with the rest of the world. The

42:05

rest of the world is taking advantage

42:07

of America for far too long and

42:09

they're allowing tariffs over 60% to be

42:12

on America for some reason. You know,

42:14

Biden kept a lot of those tariff

42:16

policies that Trump passed in his first

42:18

term and you didn't hear a peep

42:21

about the from the Democrats, the neoconsertives

42:23

or the libertarians complaining when he did

42:25

that. But all of a sudden now

42:27

that we're trying to put America on

42:29

an equal playing. Oh, this is a

42:32

new tax. We don't need tariffs. We

42:34

need to push all that aside. Everybody

42:36

needs to unify behind this trade idea.

42:38

This is going to be a short-term

42:41

paying for a long-term gain, and that

42:43

long-term gain is going to bring us

42:45

into the Golden Age. Can you talk

42:47

about how you think new media ecosystems

42:50

and podcasts really have an opportunity to

42:52

supplant legacy media? How do you approach

42:54

that? And what would you want to

42:56

write about? When alternative media really began

42:58

this overturning, even to conservative voices, you

43:01

know, going away from mainstream media was

43:03

with the Turk Carlson ousting at Fox,

43:05

I think you started to see a

43:07

lot of conservative news hosts, a lot

43:10

of concerted podcasters begin to say, hey,

43:12

if Turk can do it, if he

43:14

can go away from mainstream media and

43:16

still be successful, we're going to be

43:19

able to do that too. And I

43:21

think people like Jack Pacific, I think

43:23

people like Charlie, giving a new voice

43:25

to the MAGA America First mindset. And

43:27

I think we need to be willing

43:30

to combat not only anti-progressive and anti-leftist

43:32

thoughts. We need to be willing to

43:34

buck the neoconservative and old-time establishment Republicanism

43:36

too, because that's the entire reason that

43:39

the MAGA movement really came into the

43:41

fray. Now I know that we, Mr.

43:43

Trump, you mean you can all the

43:45

time to talk about how anti- progressives

43:48

we are, or anti- leftist we are,

43:50

but where we can really make the

43:52

most impact in is shifting out the

43:54

old Republicans of old. We don't need

43:57

the new conservative Bush-air Republicans that have

43:59

controlled our party for the last 25

44:01

years. The reason we're seeing all these

44:03

new young age Republicans come into the

44:05

movement, they would have been Democrats of

44:08

an old age. They would have attributed

44:10

themselves as being Kennedy Democrats or Clinton

44:12

Democrats of old, but because we're adopting

44:14

this new age of we're going to

44:17

put everybody on the same playground, we're

44:19

not going to be this pro-war party

44:21

that's always advocating for Wall Street. That's

44:23

always advocating for the military industrial complex.

44:26

Because we are going away for that

44:28

is the reason that the Republican Party

44:30

made such gains in 2024 with 18

44:32

to 39 year olds. And now what

44:34

we need to do. is give voices

44:37

to the reasons that these that those

44:39

conservatives are coming over to our side

44:41

now. Those independence are coming over to

44:43

our side of the aisle. We need

44:46

to capitalize on that. And it's not

44:48

talking about just low taxes. It's not

44:50

just talking about, you know, small government.

44:52

We have to concentrate on the populist

44:55

nationalist policies for the reasons that these

44:57

young people are coming into the fray

44:59

and giving voices to people like that

45:01

and having them go on podcast. them

45:03

go on alternative media is going to

45:06

usher their GOP into the to a

45:08

new era of being able to win

45:10

elections from here on now. Speaking of

45:12

kind of winning elections I talk a

45:15

lot about you know not being complacent

45:17

and realizing that frankly we still haven't

45:19

won yet we have a midterm cycle

45:21

that will be here before we know

45:24

it. What does that grassroots strategy look

45:26

like in your opinion? Well, I think

45:28

it goes out into, you know, I

45:30

always talk about populism as a tool,

45:32

right? It's not necessarily an ideology, because

45:35

you can have a democratic populist, you

45:37

can have a Republican populist, libertarian populist,

45:39

whatever. People like, like the, in states

45:41

like Kentucky and Texas, really need, Republicans

45:44

need to be going out and talking

45:46

to people at the local dive bar,

45:48

talking to people that are at church,

45:50

talking to people at schools. We need

45:53

to be able to be able to

45:55

see what people truly care about. conservative

45:57

solutions to them. And to anybody who

45:59

is willing to primary any of these

46:01

establishment Republicans or go against any of

46:04

these Democratic leftists that currently hold office

46:06

in swing districts, go out and actually

46:08

try to see what people think. Don't

46:10

listen to the consultant class. Don't listen

46:13

to the establishment Washington class. Actually go

46:15

out and listen to your constituents because

46:17

regardless of how much you're funded, it's

46:19

not going to matter how many millions

46:22

of dollars are poured into your campaign

46:24

account. It matters for those people who

46:26

go to the polls to the polls.

46:28

Those are people are able to go

46:30

and actually facilitate the change that we're

46:33

going to see, especially in Republican districts.

46:35

Because I think that that Mr. I

46:37

think that that's one of the main

46:39

concerns of the current Republican Party and

46:41

the current GOP. But the reason there's

46:43

a thin majority in the House and

46:45

a thin majority in the Senate is

46:47

not necessarily because Republicans are waking up

46:49

because the Republican voter is weak, but

46:51

it's because these establishment Republicans have. have

46:53

such a base of them that there

46:55

are millions of dollars in their campaigns

46:58

accounts. There's corporations that are funding their

47:00

campaigns. But if we find the

47:02

right populist, nationalist, Republicans that are

47:04

going to call out that corruption,

47:06

or going to call out how

47:08

these politicians are bought and sold,

47:10

that's when the Republican Party is

47:12

going to become more popular than

47:14

ever because they know that these

47:16

Republicans are getting sent to Washington

47:18

to serve their constituents, to serve

47:20

their base, to serve their regions.

47:22

Republicans and Democrats both serve currently. Kenny,

47:25

are there any buried leads out there that

47:27

you see any issues that are perhaps not

47:29

on our radar now, but might be kind of

47:31

interesting in the months ahead? Well, I think

47:33

a lot of these cultural conservative issues

47:35

are coming to the fray. Thanks to

47:37

your father and thanks to the Maga

47:40

movement. I think like there's one issue

47:42

that I saw that was very popular

47:44

and that was like no taxes on

47:46

tips. There was this no capital gains

47:48

tax. And now I think tariffs are

47:50

a very important issue that a lot

47:52

of people didn't think that would be

47:55

so important in this new era. But

47:57

you know, you know, one thing that

47:59

I think you know, it's being from

48:01

Appalachia, being from East Tennessee, seeing, you

48:03

know, how Hurricane Helene affected our area.

48:05

I think that giving that, you know,

48:08

power back to local governments to decide

48:10

how FEMA funds are spent, how disaster

48:12

relief is spent, you know, when natural

48:14

disasters, you know, allowing local governments to

48:17

be funded by that. I think that

48:19

that consultation and making it a more

48:21

priority to give not only state, because

48:23

we always hear that states governments need

48:25

more power, the states, how about giving

48:28

the power back to the localities? Giving

48:30

the power back to the county governments

48:32

to ensure that they know what's right

48:34

for their citizens. They're the ones going

48:37

out to these houses that are being

48:39

destroyed, these natural disaster-ridden areas. Giving the

48:41

power back to those marriage-ridden areas. Giving

48:43

the power back to those mayors to

48:45

be able to decide, these natural disaster-ridden

48:48

areas. Giving the power back to those

48:50

mayors to be on state and local

48:52

governments. these horrible events for happening in

48:54

Appalachia and other parts of the country,

48:57

especially in Tornado Valley, I think ensuring

48:59

that we have the right consultation among

49:01

state and local leaders where the federal

49:03

government is going to be a very

49:05

important issue among going through for the

49:08

next few years. I think that's right.

49:10

Sometimes I feel like sometimes going to

49:12

the states may be just as bad

49:14

as letting it stay at the federal

49:17

government because some of these states are

49:19

not exactly run well. We can list

49:21

them off, but I think we all

49:23

know what we're talking about here. Absolutely.

49:25

I mean, I, you know, I think

49:28

like, you know, Tennessee's lucky to have,

49:30

you know, a pretty good legislature and

49:32

a pretty good governor, but, you know,

49:34

I think that a lot of the

49:37

time, especially like in North Carolina, when

49:39

you have Roy Cooper, who's a, to

49:41

me, a far leftist Democrat governor in

49:43

North Carolina, but you have a Republican

49:46

constituency, you know, your father's won North

49:48

Carolina all three times that he's ran,

49:50

and there is a Republican base there,

49:52

but they have a Democratic governor. And

49:54

I think that especially in states like

49:57

that, those swing states that are, you

49:59

know, productive. I'm

50:06

not really sure the reason behind that

50:08

North Carolina, but we need to be able

50:10

to give that power back to the

50:12

localities and back to the local people to

50:14

decide their governance, because it's obvious that

50:16

they don't even show the Republicans in that

50:18

state. So we need to go, go

50:20

house to house, door to door and see

50:23

what issues matter the most for North

50:25

Carolinians in North Carolina, is forcing them to

50:27

vote for some reason, for Democrats. And

50:29

same, same reason the Kentucky. Look at Andy

50:31

Beshear, who is who has shut down

50:33

the entire state of Kentucky or helped shut

50:35

that down during COVID -19, and he's been

50:37

reelected to another term. I think that

50:39

we need to go to those states and

50:41

say, hey, you vote Republicans so predominantly

50:43

for some reason for federal elections, why do

50:45

you not vote for the same thing

50:47

in state government? There's a reason behind that.

50:49

I think people in Kentucky in North

50:51

Carolina and other states that split on federal

50:53

and state government, how they vote, you

50:55

know, they kind of split ticket voters for

50:57

Democrat and Republican, depending on what state

50:59

they are. I think that those politicians in

51:01

those states and those Republicans in those

51:03

states really need to go, hey, what's going

51:05

on here? Why do you vote Democrat

51:07

for state government? And for some reason, you

51:09

vote Republican for federal. I think that

51:11

if you gave the power back to the

51:13

localities, that that question will be answered

51:15

pretty, pretty specifically. Well,

51:17

Kenny, thank you very much. Really appreciate

51:19

it. We'll keep covering all your

51:21

stuff over at human events. Look forward

51:23

to having you back on soon.

51:26

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51:28

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