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Guys, we are now just, what, four days, honey, from the election.Well, it's getting very close, and the election is very close.I'll talk about some of those things in a moment.I thought I might begin with the biggest news of the day.This is big.
Get ready.Hold on to your seat belts.Arnold Schwarzenegger. is endorsing Kamala Harris.Now, if I were writing the headline for that, it would be something like, Austrian weightlifter comes out for Kamala.
Actually, former Austrian weightlifter comes out for Kamala Harris.I suppose it's not a big surprise I'm not very good at Arnold imitations, but here's my version of why Arnold came to this momentous decision.
Well, you know, she reminds me of one of my old dumbbells.I mean, that's as good a reason as any, right?She reminds me of a dumbbell.Excuse me, hold on.This is happening during Arnold's press conference. Yes, yes?Consuela?
No, no, no, I'm coming, hold on.Why don't you finish cleaning the bathroom?Tabby's really enjoying this one.But let me return to less significant news of the day.And that is the That is Trump in a garbage truck.
I mean, this is a stroke of genius because you know the backstory to all this.It really all started with the comedian, I forget the guy's name, Hinchcliffe or something like that. And he made a joke about Puerto Rico.
Well, you know, it's a floating island of garbage.Comedians do this kind of stuff.The joke wasn't all that good.And it looked like the left was on the verge of trying to make it a talking point against Trump.Namely, he's making fun of Puerto Rico.
He thinks all Puerto Ricans are garbage. And then who should come along but Joe Biden and his walker.And Joe Biden takes the exact garbage line and in a way takes it into a new dimension by saying, no, it's Trump supporters who are garbage.
which is by and large half the country.
Now, the Democrats have been trying to kind of walk that back, particularly because Trump is making sufficient inroads into the Democrats and independents that they need to make equivalent inroads into Republicans in order to make this election competitive or to have a chance of winning.
And so they can't afford to have Biden saying this, even though when Kamala Harris was asked, I mean, here's something ironic.
Apparently, the Democrats think it's not a good idea to refer to Trump supporters as garbage, but it's okay to refer to them as Nazis. So Nazism, that's all right.Calling them garbage, well, we need to walk that one back.
And so here I was mourning Joe this morning.He's like, well, Joe Biden made a slip and quickly corrected himself. Well, he didn't really make a slip.He said what he meant.
And I think what he meant to say is that the real garbage is the Trump people, not just Trump, but the people who like Trump. So I think Biden was being honest.Yesterday I kind of joked that Biden was doing this to spite Kamala Harris.
This is sort of giving Biden too much credit.That Biden is strategic enough to realize, listen, five days before the election, I'll pull the rug out and, you know, I'll watch the, you know, I'll watch the I'll watch the Indian hit the floor, BAM!
And I'll pretend like I didn't know what was going on, I don't even know where I am!I mean, this is the good old, reminds me of the anecdote where...
One of my fellow Dartmouth students asked Richard Nixon how Reagan was able to get away with the Iran-Contra scandal, but he, Nixon, was not able to get away with Watergate.And Nixon goes, that's because he could say he was stupid.
This was Nixon, of course, being kind of malevolent against Reagan.But of course, Biden has the same excuse.Well, I could always say I was stupid.And everybody, of course, agrees.Why else is he not on the ticket?Kamala has been going around saying,
No, no, Biden's really with it.His brain is completely intact.The neurons are really firing.He's sharp as ever.Well, of course, the natural follow-up to that is, well, in that case, why are you the nominee and not him?
I am feeling pretty good as we go into Tuesday.Obviously, we all are nervous about election issues, stopping the count, last minute shenanigans.I mean, the memories of 2020 are have not only not gone away, they're quite vivid in many of our minds.
But that being said, I will say that I think the RNC is much more on it.I mean, do you imagine the old days of the RNC under that corpulent Rona McDaniel, where they would do nothing, collect all this money, waste it,
And claim they would raise money on election fraud and do nothing about election fraud.Now I'm sure that that place is still somewhat infested.
I mean it's not easy to clean up the place and the RNC seems to need the same kind of fumigation as some of our federal agencies. But nevertheless, there is new leadership, Michael Wadley from North Carolina, and of course, Laura Trump.
And I noticed that when there are issues around the country, there was one, for example, where I saw a report about Michigan, and it seemed to suggest that there were duplicate ballots, a large number of them in Michigan.
And it was a little bit of, here we go again.And the report seemed quite credible.But right away, the RNC was on it.And I saw Laura Trump did a clarification.Hey, listen, there were some of these duplicate ballots.But the RNC is on top of it.
And none of these so-called duplicate ballots are going to be counted.There was some sort of a glitch.But the glitch is being addressed.And we don't have to worry about fake votes being counted.
Similarly, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, apparently they stopped people from early voting at like 3 o'clock or 2.45 in the afternoon.And there's a video of this cop walking around and basically put, say, the line ends here, 2.45.
It's not even close to 5 p.m.And so what does the Republican National Committee do?They go to court.
And they put it before a judge and say, this is, and then apparently the way this was done is the Democrats sent out their own operatives who were, who had a sort of name tag that said something like vote checker or voting supervisor.
It was all bogus.These were not county officials, but apparently they looked like they were an authority.They were democratic activists.And these are the ones who were able to tell the police to stop the count, to stop the vote.
to end the early voting early because of course the Republican numbers were looking so good.But the good news is that they have now been penalized for that and the judge in Bucks County has extended early voting by three days.
Three more days of early voting.Very good for us.So this is a good example of taking a, what normally, if this had happened in 2020,
You know, Ronna McDaniel would be sitting on the top of her sacred pillar, chanting Aum, and the Republican attorneys would all be having their three martini lunches, spending all the donor money.
But now, it's in court, it's in court immediately, and this is the way you fight election hassles and election fraud, is you attack it at the source and you do it before the election.
Debbie and I have had this conversation and she's like, look, you know, we don't want to be in the replay of 2020.We really won the election, even though the count came out your way.To be able to go back and undo things is just a lot, lot harder.
possible.It has been done.It hasn't been done at the presidential level, but it has been done at the congressional level.But it's not something that you want to look forward to.By and large, you could say the odds are against you.
The guy who gets the numbers across the finish line has the presumptive advantage.And as we know, judges are somewhat reluctant to get involved in the muck of the electoral process.
I was looking at the the poly market betting numbers this morning on the way to the podcast and I noticed that there's only one of the swing states where Trump is losing the betting and not by much 46 to 53 I think in Michigan but Trump is winning everywhere else
And in places like Arizona and Georgia, the betting money, this is the betting money, this is not the polls, but the betting money by and large has been more reliable than polls.
One reason I'm actually giving at least equivalent weight to these two separate ways of calling the election is that if you just look historically, the betting markets are better not just in calling elections, they're better in calling anything.
Who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl? or any particular game.Is it going to be the Red Sox or is it going to be the Dodgers?The betting markets are a much better way than if you go take a poll of fans.
What happens with fans is that they confuse who they want to win with who is going to win.And by the way, this is a very natural temptation.
It's kind of like, imagine if I were to go around and say, you know, in 2008, Barack Obama is going to win the 2008 election.People will, how can you say that?I thought you were Republican. I'm like, I am a Republican.
Yeah, but you just said you thought Obama's going to win.Yeah, but I'm not talking about who I want to win or who I voted for.I'm talking about who is going to win.So an objective look subtracts away from what you What you want to happen?
Yeah, Debbie betted me and won $1,000 because she said Biden would win in 2020.Of course, I was tempted to come back and say, no, well, Trump really won and so on.But no, this was one of those objective, who's going to end up in the White House bets?
And I think we joked that we have a similar bet going on.I think it's really comes down to our temperament, which is a little different.We were actually very close in our assessment of the situation.
But I think that we both think that if first of all, we both think that if it was a fair media, it would be a landslide for Trump.We both think that Trump is probably going to win straight out.
I probably agree with Debbie that Trump is not going to win the popular vote.
I think that the popular vote is going to go with Kamala Harris and that's only because of the flooding of votes and not to mention probably a lot of illegal votes that are going to be happening in places like California, maybe even in New York.
But we differ on who's going to make it, who's going to occupy the White House on January 20th of 2025. Both wanted to be Trump, and let's hope that we're right.
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Guys, I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast Mary Margaret Olihan.She's senior reporter for The Daily Wire.The website is dailywire.com.You can follow on X at Mary, Marj, M-A-R-G-O-L-O-H-A-N.
She's also the author of D-Trans, True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. Mary Margaret, thank you for joining me.I really appreciate it.
I am looking at an article that you just published, pretty fascinating, How Trump Learned to Embrace the Transgender Culture Wars. And we've seen Trump now at the rallies go into this issue.And we've got to remember that it's a new issue.
And that if we go back to 2020, I don't really think Trump talked about this issue at all.The issue perhaps was not even on the forefront.And this is the point of your article, to trace and to track how this trans issue
not only came to the forefront but came to be seen as a political winner for Republicans and conservatives and Trump with his instinct recognizes this and he's now all over it and you argue that it could be a pretty important issue going into the final outcome next Tuesday.
So let's begin by talking about how the issue I mean, tell the story about how this issue even got, became noticed in the first place.
Well, thanks so much for having me, Dinesh.This is a story we broke at the Daily Wire yesterday morning, and I also think it's very interesting.
We spoke with more than a dozen activists and operatives close to Trump who told us that, like you're saying, this wasn't an issue four years ago, but the events of the past four years, including the Loudoun County sexual assault scandal and Glenn Youngkin's win in Virginia,
the rise of parents after they saw what their kids were exposed to during the coronavirus pandemic, and the rise of Riley Gaines really helped Republicans and Trump understand that not only is this a big issue, but it's a big issue that resonates with American voters, and it's something that Trump wanted to be at the front of.
So we started by tracing back to the beginning of this period, where I should note that there were a lot of conservatives who were sounding the alarm on this.But their concerns were not always taken seriously by Republicans for a variety of reasons.
And I think one of them was that a lot of Republicans were afraid, after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, a lot of Republicans were afraid to be associated with anything anti-gay or, you know, the claim that they were being homophobic.
And so they stayed away from these types of issues.
Whereas there were people, especially like the women at Concerned Women for America, or you got people like Ryan Anderson at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who were saying, pay attention, these issues are not going away, they're coming for our kids.
And a lot of people were afraid to address these issues, but unfortunately, these types of commentators were correct.Now we are in fact seeing Democrats and far-left groups advocating for transitioning children, for allowing men and women spaces.
And for many more far-left policies that American voters don't support.And we started seeing these policies creeping up around maybe a decade or so ago, but they weren't really in the mainstream media for a while, or even in conservative media.
So around 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, all of a sudden parents were able to see for themselves what kind of materials were being pushed on their kids in the classroom.And of course, Dinesh, we both know what a lot of those things were.
Pornographic materials, books on men having relationships with young boys, critical race theory, gender ideology, pushing children to transition, all of these things.
And parents, when their kids were at home doing virtual learning, had the ability to see into the classroom and understand what was going on, and they were horrified. They were absolutely outraged and they rose up.
I don't even think it's dramatic to say that, right?These parents, they armed themselves and they educated themselves with the appropriate materials from activist groups like Parents Defending Education.
They talked to these different groups, they got the materials from the schools and sent them to reporters like myself and to Luke Rosiak here at the Daily Wire.
And in turn, reporters and commentators like yourself would talk about these things and help the world to understand that no, it's not a conspiracy theory, this is actually happening.
And I think conservative media really helped in that regard because when there actually were links to stories that Republicans could talk about, they became a lot more comfortable discussing the issue and putting out releases and putting out statements and talking about it on air because they had evidence that things were going on.
And so that kind of evolution began around 2021.
Do you think that, you know, when I think back to the gay issue and gay marriage in particular, it seems like this is a battle that the left began 20 years prior.
And what I mean by that is, you know, Ellen comes out of the closet and, you know, Will and Grace and 4,000 sitcoms, and conservatives were just sort of resting on the fact that, well, we're kind of all against gay marriage, but we're not gonna really say anything about it.
suddenly we woke up and realized that the issue is lost.And it's lost in an almost irrecoverable way because you now have an affirmation of a kind of universal or at least national right to gay marriage.
Do you think that we've learned that this stuff incubates is then pushed very covertly through schools, education materials, in some cases in the media, and that if you want to challenge it, it needs to be challenged right away and up front.
And as you say, parents discovered this was going on, and they began to speak out.The second factor I think that seems to be critical, and I'd like you to comment on this, is that it's one thing to say that two adults
should be able to live together and transfer the inheritance of one to the other.
It's a whole other thing to say that you get to inflict this kind of ideology on children, let alone change their bodies in ways that may be difficult, if not impossible, to change back, or at least without very serious medical and psychological consequences.
Do you think that these have been two key factors in conservatives being a little more vigilant on this issue than they have proven to be on the gay issue in general?
I don't know if Republicans have learned their lesson on this, because I think one thing I heard consistently from people who advise former President Donald Trump or close to the campaign is that when it comes to this issue, like you're saying, most Americans believe that adults have the ability to do what they want, but you shouldn't be pushing this type of thing on children.
And, you know, as I was sharing, people like Terry Schilling and others have been on top of this issue for a while.
But they had to try really hard to get this kind of messaging to permeate the Republican Party or, you know, the Trump campaign to help people understand what was going on here.So I'm not sure.
I'm not totally sure if Republicans have learned their lesson, but I do think they understand right now how important this issue is to Americans.
One Trump campaign advisor that I spoke to said, you know, this issue, like I was saying before, a lot of people used to be afraid to message on it.
But there's an acknowledgment that the LGBTQ movement has strayed away from the messaging of the past 10 years.Now it is a party of pro-transitioning children.It is a movement that is pro-transitioning children.
And there are not a lot of people who want to get behind that.And in the Republican Party, there's an acknowledgment that that's a political loser.
And I think there's an acknowledgement that it's a political winner to be on the side of parents and children.And Glenn Youngkin's victory in Virginia was a really good example of that.
I want to come back in the next segment and talk about Riley Gaines and talk about the impact of that, about her assent and her involvement in this issue.But before I do,
It seems to be a little bit odd that the gay, the LGBTQ movement decided to make the trans issue their vanguard issue.And I say that because, I mean, I'm not surprised that they're always pushing the envelope to like the next most radical thing.
There seems to be a natural tendency in that direction.But in some ways, the trans issue is a repudiation of the argument that they had been making for 30 years on the gay issue.
If I remember, the argument on the gay issue was always something like this.I don't know, Dinesh, I'm not saying it's nature or I'm not saying it's nurture, but it's me.I don't have a choice in the matter. I wish I wasn't gay.
If I had an option and could check a box and not be gay, I would do that.But since I don't have that choice, what kind of life are you offering me?
You just want me to ultimately just suppress the way that I am and live this kind of self-mutilated life?Or, in other words, the gay argument was always based on the idea that these people don't have a choice in being what they are.
And then along come the trans people and they go, well, it's ultimately a matter of choice.It's ultimately how you identify that counts and not somehow what you are intrinsically.Isn't there some kind of a grotesque contradiction here?
And how come this hasn't really bothered the activists of the LGBTQ camp?
Well, there are many contradictions present in the gender movement.And when it comes to gender ideology, I think we have seen over and over that science and facts and our previous statements are not always what matters.
And what does seem to matter, for example, when it comes to the Biden administration's handling of gender ideology, is what is most politically expedient or what will confirm the going narrative.
So, for example, we found out last week that there was a doctor who purposefully didn't share results of how puberty blockers and so-called gender-affirming hormones affect children because she didn't want to have to contradict the going narrative on gender ideology.
So this is very common.This is how these activists utilize their messaging and they're not interested in the truth and they are interested in pushing this ideology no matter how many children they harm.
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You mentioned at the end of the last segment a prominent scholar who has done a study looking at the effect of these puberty blockers on minors and just let's contemplate the scandal of what's going on because what she's saying is the result is that these things are harmful.
In other words, what we the gender ideologues and the gender professionals are doing is we have been harming people.
However, we can't put out the message that we've been harming people because if we do, it may inhibit our ability to continue harming them. I mean, that appears to be the clear implication of what's going on here.
We can call it protecting a narrative, but it's actually much more insidious than that.It is refusing to allow new information and valid information.She's not saying the study was flawed.She's involved in the study.
She's saying that we have to suppress the truth itself.And I highlight this because very often on all these issues, if you go to the people over at YouTube or Google or Facebook,
They talk about the fact that it's really important in an age of social media to suppress misinformation.And I think we've realized that on critical issues, what is being suppressed is not misinformation.
They're suppressing the truth itself because the truth is injurious to their ideological narrative.
Absolutely, and I think when it comes to this topic, what we should be doing is actually researching these topics and finding concrete evidence, and then maybe issuing our statements and press releases on what we've found.
But instead, people like this doctor, I don't even want to call her a doctor, this activist, What they're doing is they're trying to find ways to push their already preformed ideological narrative.
And that's all based on the claim that if kids can't get so-called gender affirming care, they will kill themselves.And that claim is based on faulty activist studies as well, which are repeatedly being disproven in recent days.
But that claim is what you'll hear them talking about when they say that they need more studies to show that it's true.Well, they do because it's such a bogus claim that they do need more stuff to back it up.
I recently investigated a doctor who said that even though she knew that puberty blockers were breaking down the bone density of kids, the dangers of ruining kids' bone density
It doesn't matter because the dangers of these kids allegedly killing themselves because they couldn't get hormones were higher.And it just doesn't track.
So these doctors, they're not above changing science to fit their narrative, and apparently, as in this case, they're not above hiding the actual data to prove their own narrative, or as you call it, their agenda and their more insidious purpose.
Let's come back to Trump and the transgender culture wars.It seems like a significant factor here has been the public activism of young Riley Gaines.
And again, when she first, I remember when she was competing against Leah Thomas, I think is the transgender athlete, there was, it took a lot of guts to question the process. But that is one thing.
It seems like she went to a whole different level where she basically goes, listen, I'm going to like now devote some years of my life to this.I'm going to try to bring other athletes on board.
I'm going to encourage women not to compete in competitions where you've got biological men.And the boldness with which she has done this, I think has been an inspiration to a lot of people because
I mean, it has been very strange how, by and large, before Riley Gaines, there seemed to have been a sullen silence among female athletes where they had been, I mean, bullied is perhaps not too strong a word, into submission, like, this is the way things are, don't you dare raise a question about it, because if you do, you're the one who's going to be labeled a bigot.
Well, I was at the NCAAs in 2022 when Riley raced Leah Thomas or Will Thomas, the male athlete, and I was in the stands watching, and I remember I was going through the list of all the girls on the heat list, and I found her name, and I saw University of Kentucky, and I thought, I bet she'll talk to me because she's from Kentucky, so maybe she's more likely to be willing to speak her mind.
And sure enough, she did get back to me and I was able to break her story at Daily Wire and show Riley speaking out for the first time about how unfair the situation was and how they gave Thomas the trophy instead of her and sent her home without one.
And it's been so amazing to watch how her rhetoric has progressively grown. More confident and more strong and just very truthful and fearless, honestly, even though she's faced harassment and violence.
She's even been held hostage by protesters at a university on one occasion.And you're right, she's testified at the state and the national level.
She's a guest on some of the most major podcasts in the world, and her testimony is supported by former President Donald Trump, and she's endorsed him for president.
And I would say she's becoming almost a household name, which is crazy when you realize that only two years ago, she was a college student racing a male and having a male in her locker room.
So she's massively impacted this discourse, and I think she's really helped a lot of other girls to speak up as well and to say, no, we're not going to tolerate this.
And she's teamed up with IWF and really gathered together a circle of other girls who are willing to speak out on this as well, like Paula Scanlon, who is Leah Thomas' former teammate.
So she's massively contributed to this and she's been at rallies with former President Donald Trump recently as well.
And I think she'll say herself that she thinks this is an issue that people are going to come out for and they're going to come to the polls for.
And actually, Dinesh, one person I talked to told me that this is going to be a women's issue and that their polling indicated that more women are going to come out for this issue than we might expect.
It seems that the lesson of the article, when we think about the parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, when we think about the parents who had their eyes open during COVID, when we think about Riley Gaines, I think the lesson here appears to be that in a lot of these issues,
It's not the political leadership that comes up with these issues and goes, hey, this is going to be, this one's really going to resonate.
But rather, you have grassroots people who often at considerable sacrifice and cost to themselves, because I mean, let's think about it.These parents, you know, might find themselves under FBI surveillance.
In some cases, they run the risk of being sued.Oh, you're committing a hate crime.So they create a certain legal vulnerability.With somebody like Riley Gaines, she's a successful athlete.She's popular.She's enjoying her private life.
Suddenly, she becomes this radioactive symbol.I'm sure people have said all kinds of horrible things about her.
It takes a lot of courage at the local level, people who now don't have the resources, let's say, of Trump, or Elon Musk for that matter, but who put themselves on the line, they take up the issue, and then what you're showing, I think, in the article is that this issue has percolated upward so that ultimately the Trump people and the Republican leadership have looked at it and gone, well, you know what?
This actually could be a winner for us.
Yes, exactly, and I think that would not have happened without conservative media, conservative commentators making the issue louder, without these parents on the ground pushing the issue, giving conservative media all this inside information from the schools, taking videos, sending documents, recording what's going on, and then also without people like
groups like Concerned Women for America or American Principles Project, leaders who are constantly trying to tell Trump, this is what's going on.This is what people care about.Don't just listen to your DC consultants.Pay attention to us.
We're on the ground.We know what's going on.And that really permeated the Trump campaign, and that's what advisors told me, and it was able to reach Trump.
One thing we included in the story was how Terry Schilling literally brought his polling to Mar-a-Lago and showed it to Trump in person and said, this is what American voters are interested in.
And he said that when he showed that polling to Trump, he was surprised to hear how educated Trump was on it and how much he understood the issue.So I think it's very interesting.
I think heading into next week, it will be fascinating to see how this issue plays out.I have the feeling that there are going to be a lot more people heading to the polls on this issue than we might expect.
The Wall Street Journal calls it the 2024 sleeper issue and that's definitely the point we were making in this story as well.
And maybe a final point to close out on is the fact that, you know, we are in a new environment where these cultural issues are, they're in the forefront, for one, and we also have a candidate that's not afraid to jump on them.
Because I can fully see, I mean, just flashing back to Romney, for example, in 2012, or even earlier to McCain,
that there would be, I think, quite a likely chance, even if you went to them with the exact same data, that they would say, no, this is not an issue that we really want to talk about.We're really running this election because of tax rates and U.S.
foreign policy.There's been a general, even though the cultural conservatives might well be the majority in the Republican Party, they have been perhaps the most ignored group in the Republican Party until Trump.
I completely agree with that.And as a culture reporter who's been covering these issues for the past six years, I saw at the beginning of my time as a writer, I could see how no one wanted to engage with these issues.
I tried so hard to get different lawmakers to comment on stories that I'd be working on where, you know, it wasn't like inappropriate sex education popped up immediately in 2021.It was happening for a long time.Nobody wanted to talk about it.
Everyone really stayed away from these culture issues, except when the March for Life rolled around, they'd all introduce their legislation that would fail to protect babies, and then they would forget about it for the rest of the year.
And now I do think we've seen a little bit of a change in how it comes to culture issues.Republicans understand that these are huge shift-changing messaging issues.
In Alaska and Texas, we've seen two major Democrats flip-flop on men and women's sports in the last week.We reported that Mary Patola in Alaska was advocating for men and women's spaces.She had voted for the Equality Act.
And then after we reported on this, lo and behold, she tells everyone, I don't support men and women's sports. So they understand it's not polling well, they understand it's a political loser.
And I'm surprised we haven't seen more Democrats flip on this, but maybe we will if the election proves me right and more people come out for this issue than we expected.
I think we'll see a lot of Democrats start to pull away from this messaging because it's too radical for Americans.
I mean, I remember somebody put the question to Kamala Harris.Hey, do you think it's a good idea to pay for these trans surgeries?And she ran away from the issue.
I mean, she runs away from a lot of stuff, but she ran away from this issue along with the other issues.Guys, I've been talking to Mary Margaret Olihan, senior reporter for The Daily Wire.
Check out her article, How Trump Learned to Embrace the Transgender Culture Wars.Also her book, D-Trans, True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. Thank you very much for joining me.
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It's included with your subscription.So check out the channel.It's dinesh.locals.com.I'd love to have you along for this great ride.Again, it's dinesh.locals.com. I'm discussing my book, The Big Lie, now out in paperback.
And I urge you to grab a copy.It's available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.And this way you can read.There's a lot in the book.
And while I'm going to cover a lot, this is one of those books that you'll come out knowing a whole lot more than you went in.There's just a lot of detail. in the book that's ammunition, it's intellectual ammunition for you.
And it takes on the arguments of the other side at a sophisticated level.Now, I started by introducing this concept of the left playing the fascism card and using the Freudian idea of transference to blame fascism on the right.
And before I get into it, I make the point in the introduction to the book that this has happened before.This is not the first time we've seen transference.
The left is doing the fascism transference, but before that, they did the racism transference.They played the race card. And the race card preceded the fascism card.
In fact, I was onto the race card at the very beginning, but I was not onto the fascism card at the very beginning.
I remember years ago, I saw an article, actually in the Washington Post, I'm gonna read the headline, Reagan Still Sure Some in New Deal Espoused Fascism.I saw this article, and I remember at the time, thinking like, what's he talking about?
In other words, at the time I read this article, I was captive to the big lie.I had bought into the idea that there was extremism on the left and on the right.At the far extreme on the left is communism, at the far extreme on the right is fascism.
This is what I had read, this is what I had heard, this is what I had been taught, and little did I know that this whole framework was a post-war scam or scheme, intellectual scheme, developed by people who wanted to cover up the tracks of fascism and its close ties to the left.
So when I first read this about Reagan and what Reagan knew, And Reagan knew because, let's remember, Reagan's dad worked in the New Deal.Reagan was very close to the New Deal.Reagan was born, I believe, 1911.
So Reagan was a young man in his late teens, early 20s during the New Deal. And he saw it up close.So he knew that there was a fascist imprint.In fact, people in the New Deal were openly praising fascism.We'll learn a lot more about this later.
The ways in which FDR's brain trust were admirers of Mussolini.They made trips to Rome to study fascism.They brought back fascist ideas that they would happily and excitedly tell the American press about.All of this has been swept under the rug.
You won't see a lot about it if you see anything about it at all in textbooks today. So, but even though I was not clued into the fascism card, the fascism transference, I was kind of clued into the racism transference.
Now, even here, by and large, conservatives and Republicans have been a little bit on the wrong track.
And what I mean by that is that in the America of the 80s and 90s, the America of Reagan and even the Clinton years, the America of the old National Review, National Review is kind of a very pallid version of what it used to be under Bill Buckley.
But the old National Review adopted a very, in my view, strange approach to racism. but one that at the time I was very much influenced by because, of course, I was one of those kind of young disciples, if you will, of National Review.
And my mentor, Professor Hart, was part of the National Review circle.And National Review would adopt what I would call the racial minimization strategy, which is, no, America is not so racist after all.Stop exaggerating.
Or alternatively, well, yes, America used to be very racist, but guess what? We've made a lot of progress since then and we don't need to keep emphasizing racism because that was in the past and things are a lot better now.
Now, these are not in and of themselves invalid, but politically you have to say they're not too effective.You're up against the wall.You're on the defense.We're not as racist as you say.We used to be, but we're not anymore.
The strategy that early on I kind of glimpsed and then grabbed onto, and this was the strategy that I took up in the early 2000s, but certainly with the early films like America, and then of course even more so with Hillary's America, was
essentially different from the racial minimization strategy.It's not, we're not as racist as you think.It is that, listen, there was a lot of racism in America and there still is.And guess what?Pretty much all of it comes from the Democrats.
They were the party of racism.They still are the party of racism.Their racism may have taken on a new configuration or a different form. but it's ultimately racism aimed at the same goal, the same end.And yet they accuse us of racism.So here we go.
This is transference.This is them blaming us.Even when you hear about all these things about the big switch, the big switch is kind of a way of saying, we're now going to make you take responsibility for what we did.
The big switch is a way of saying that, you know, I used to live in this house, I, the Democrat, and I murdered 25 people in this house, and you lived across the street, but we've now switched houses.
I bought your house, you bought my house, so you're now to blame for killing those 25 people.What?How?You did it.So all of this stuff, the Democrats engaging in this attempt to lift the blame off of their own shoulders and and pin it on to us.
Now, you might wonder, how do you get away with this?
Like, how can you pull off a, and it is a big lie, how do you pull off a big lie about racism that is so big, where it's not only, you're not only falsely accusing someone, it's one thing to go up to some guy and go, you're a child molester, and it's false, right?
That's ugly enough to do.But can you imagine a child molester doing it? In other words, the guy who's actually guilty is accusing the guy who's being innocent of the things that the guilty guy did.
That's what the Democrats... How do you pull off this kind of a lie?Well, I think the answer is you try to control the levers of information.And for the Democrats, these levers are three.Academia, The media and the entertainment industry.
Because those are the three places where people get information.You get ideas and information in entertainment.You watch movies and you're like, oh yeah, this was the USGIs defeating the Nazis from the old war movies.
This is the cowboys versus the Indians.We often miss that we pick up so many ideas about American history from these fictional portraits.
And then, of course, you have academia, where you've got things that are taught to you, and they're taught to you, and you often think that, oh, gosh, you know, when I'm reading a history book, that's the way things happened.
But we've got to realize, no, we've got to learn to be skeptical about this kind of thing.Why?Let's think about it.How does history get to be objective?There are two possibilities.Either the historian was there.
And frankly, if the historian was there, let's just say a historian was there at the French Revolution, was there during the Civil War, by and large the people who were there were on one side or the other side.So they're not objective.
They're participants in the events.They have their own preferences, biases, choices, ideological compasses that they're bringing to it.So where's the question of objectivity? But then you say, well, no, maybe the historian comes a lot later.
He wasn't there.He's detached from these events, and so we can expect a certain amount of objectivity.And my question is, how?If you weren't there, how did you learn about the event?Answer?
well I looked at the journals of the soldiers who were in the civil war exactly so if you weren't there you're getting information from the people who were there who were biased who themselves had a stake in the outcome who themselves were fighting for one on one side or the other side they're the ones who are trying to persuade you or cajole you or tell you what happened the point is there is simply no way either if you were
there and thus involved or not there and getting your information from people who were, either way history is going to have a spin.And so I'm not even really faulting the left for putting a spin.I'm simply telling you that their spin is deceptive.
They put in a spin and that's to be expected, but the spin is misleading.It's misleading both on the race issue and it's misleading also on the fascism issue.
So, we'll pick this up and talk more about it, but I'll just sum up by saying that the race card is no less misleading, no less deceptive than the fascism card.
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