The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 852 The Democrats Are Reading This All Wrong

Episode Date: November 16, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the media's and the Democrats' continued attacks on Trump using “chaos,” and why these tactics are backfiring. I also address the Mueller probe and its failure to produce cooperating witnesses with evidence of “collusion.” Finally, I discuss the reasons that the Republican Party is losing in purple states like Arizona.    News Picks: Rick Scott lost votes in Florida because Broward County missed the deadline by two minutes.   Palm Beach County missed another deadline.    An important piece about the revenge of the RINOs.   If there’s evidence of Russian “collusion,” then why hasn’t a witness produced it?   Is Democracy dying in a leftist soft coup?   Governor Cuomo’s shameless war on the NRA.   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today it's friday yes it is uh i got a big weekend plan got a speech this weekend on saturday i'm working like seven days a week now but that's good i enjoy it it's always fun getting out i never get out of my office in my studio so it's good to see people hey i've got a lot a lot to get through today i want to talk about some this inch fascinating piece i read and it's just interesting there's a lot of stuff this was a fascinating piece about trump's chaos theory um i think the the author of the piece is onto

something but i think he gets his conclusions all wrong. And I want to talk about it in relation to both the 2018 and 2020 election. This is going to be a really cool show. So as they said in the police academy on the mustard deck, stand easy, hang tight on this. You're going to like it. All right. Today's show brought to you by our buddies at Hair Club.

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but Joe's causing total chaos in the studio sounds are going off sound effects are going off liners are going off so yeah that's all right joe i trust we'll say you have no idea the sounds that make it uh that they could cut out of the show sometimes some of them are quite grotesque all right quick update so um on the election so georgia now stacy abrams the far left democratic candidate endorsed by oprah and a bunch of radical far leftists um now doesn't want to recount joe um she wants to re-vote in georgia did you hear this yeah you missed this because you were on the air this morning this just came out stacy abrams i have it up on my twitter feed the far left liberal

candidate in georgia who lost and a spirited election nonetheless now she doesn't want to read she wants to re-vote she i'm not kidding folks it's not a joke i'm not trying to be funny silly or sarcastic so now the democrats apparently in close elections are no longer going to argue for recounts and what i was calling reassessments joe now they want re-elections like no re-elections in the same election cycle folks you know we know, we laugh and Joe was kind of, I see him kind of snickering in the background. But you and I both know, Joe,

that the Democrats, as I always say to you, never do things by mistake. Nope. Ever. Everything they do is for some tactical advantage. They do not waste their money,

their time, or their assets. They are feeling out what they can get away with. And remember, everything with the Democrats we laugh at today, like, oh, this is ridiculous. She wants a re-vote. This woman is not dumb, folks. The Stacey Abrams campaign, they are not full of stupid people. You may not like their policies. Their policies are absurd. But don't for a minute think that these people who are backed by radical leftists who know what they're doing did this by mistake. They are

pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with. I already said this. I filled in for Levin last night, and if you listen to my show this week, it's what's going on in Florida too. They're pushing the envelope on what they can get away with for signatures. Oh, the signatures don't match. This guy signed Joey Bag of Donuts.

His name is Tony Bag of Donuts. Oh, close enough. He forgot his first name. There's a lawsuit in Florida about signatures. Now they're saying off. They don't match. It's no big deal. Deadlines. They're pushing deadlines.

Well, the deadline for vote by mail doesn't matter. Every vote should be counted. Really? And what about next year? Should those votes be counted too? Folks, they are pushing the envelope.

Also with the down ballot races, the ag commissioner race in Florida, it looks like they fleeced right under our noses while we were all paying attention to the top of the envelope. Also with the down ballot races, the ag commissioner race in Florida, it looks like they fleeced right under our noses while we were all paying attention to the top of the ticket. So just pay attention. Okay. Now regarding today's show, I was trying to figure out how to put this together because there's so much, it's like a smorgasbord of information. It's so good. That'll help us understand the electoral environment we're in, the one we're going to for 2020. So I'm going to put it together this way. I'm going to start with this article in the Wall Street Journal by a guy named Lance Morrow, and it's called Trump's Chaos Theory. It's a really fascinating piece, although I disagree strongly with the conclusions.

He opens up by talking about how Trump acts as if, this is his theory, not mine. I'm just kind of paraphrasing what he said. Trump acts, Joe, as if he's the, what does he say? He talks about the Chinese and the Boxer Rebellion, some of them who thought they were impervious to bullets. They weren't, as you can imagine.

That did not end well. I'm not mean to make light of it. It's the analogy he uses, not me. I'm just saying that didn't work out well. It didn't happen. So what he says, he makes the analogy to Trump. And let me put, this is a fascinating quote. And I want you all to digest this

because I think his conclusion about the quote is wrong. He says, talking about Trump, he operates as if he had carved out a unique dimension of invulnerability in other words that Trump thinks he's these rebels in the box of rebellion who think they're impervious to bullets when in fact they're not in other words the way Trump goes out there with bombast and hyperbole at times and this bravado kind of personality that he acts as if he's impervious to say political rounds coming down range political rounds obviously i'm a big supporter of the

president the author says that's a mistake he says that what happens is it's giving this apparent sense of chaos around the trump campaign uh the trump reelect, the Trump presidency, Joe, that they can do whatever they want as people around them are being taken down piece by piece by piece because the chaos is kind of eating them up. So his line on this is that sooner or later, Trump is going to need to either mellow out a little bit, straighten out a little bit in his style, in his big, bold, braggadocious kind of bravado style, or he thinks Trump is going to go down in flames in 2020. Now, I don't disagree with his assertion that Trump does operate

with this dimension of invulnerability. He says things, Joe, excuse me, let's be honest. He says things no politician in modern times could ever get away with but Donald Trump. I'm president and you're not. I love that. Favorite line ever. To 60 Minutes. It was great.

It was great. He says things that no other politician could get away with. Now, the author, this guy Morrow, is assuming there's a political penalty to be paid by that because people perceive it as being very chaotic and Trump is being somewhat out of control folks I I think he's reading this all wrong and I don't think this is the first time people have read Trump wrong now Trump may lose re-election I listen after uh I blew the house call you know we nailed the senate call but that doesn't matter 50 50 is no good I'm gonna try to stay out of the prediction business two out of three ain't bad we were good on the presidential but you know predictions are like everybody has one you don't see where i'm going with that yeah but trump could obviously lose 2020

but i don't think it's going to be because of this chaos theory that this guy has that trump's perceived sense of invulnerability that he can can't be, he can say whatever he wants, in other words, Joe, because the political bullets won't penetrate, right? Yeah. I don't believe that that's hurting him. And let me explain to you why. Folks, we're living in an increasingly PC identity politics focused culture that is doing a lot of real damage to very,

very real people, people who are Democrats, people who are Republicans, people who are in academia, people who've been in the workplace and have just slipped. Somebody said something like, hey, you know, I met this guy, my neighbor, and he happens to be homosexual. And some guy says, well, you can't say that you're supposed to call people who are homosexual gay and a guy's like i didn't know that i've used this analogy before because i remember reading this report when i was guest hosting at a local radio station in maryland i'll never forget this about how it is now um it's considered uh in some way and forgive me i always get this backwards because i genuinely don't remember what direction it went in some way and forgive me i always get this backwards because i genuinely don't remember what direction it went in that it was considered now somewhat homophobic to use the term either

gay or homosexual you're supposed to use and i don't know which one it was i'm not being funny silly or making lie i'm just telling you i genuinely don't remember you're not alone dude you're not alone no i don't remember what it was you it was saying like you're not supposed to use the term gay you're supposed to use the term homosexual and if you do it's considered homophobic and i thought to myself well how who said who made this rule up and the answer is cultural elites made this rule we didn't make this rule up most people have no not a hope of homophobic bone or neuron in their body they just use words that they've heard in the english language to refer to to people places things and that they've heard that's it they use right you know they call the

grand canyon the grand canyon because they saw a picture of a canyon uh you know out in the midwest and someone wrote hey this is the grand canyon not everybody's been there someone had a friend and their friend said to him one time hey you, you know I'm gay, and you said, okay, you're gay? They didn't know using the word gay was wrong. No one told them the rules. You see my point? So the point is the battle right now is against the rules. The battle's against the rules in general. And I think a number of people are upset

that these rules have been arbitrarily imposed upon them. They don't, a lot of them have sincere and strong disagreements with Trump on a lot of issues. How do I know that? Because a lot of these people voted for Obama. Ladies and gentlemen, in a lot of Rust Belt states, a lot of blue collar working states, notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that voted for Obama by huge margins and then voted for Donald Trump. The numbers are there.

A lot of Obama voters who agreed with, you know, tax the rich, you know, special interests are horrible. Unions are great. I'm just saying this was an Obama platform type stuff. Those people switched over and voted for Trump. Did you ever ask yourself why? horrible unions are great i'm just saying this was an obama platform type stuff those people switched over and voted for trump did you ever ask yourself why i don't know lance more i'm not and it's not personal i just think his conclusion on this that trump's battle against these pc rules and his own perceived invulnerability his in other words saying hey screw this i'm gonna go out and

say what i want to say and i don't really care where your rules are i think that is the trump appeal folks i know this because i talk to a lot of people who support trump and their reason every time for supporting him that i get out there is oh he fights back he fights back i think uh the author of this piece is really grossly misreading this now granted there's a line on anything folks i mean i do agree that after a while chaos is not i've said to you before on this show and i'm not backtracking i'm going to say it about the democrats and i'll say it about trump and the republicans too chaos is not a brand but i don't think the general voting working class

person out there who voted for trump but voted for obama in the past sees trump's invulnerability and his his self-perceived invulnerability as a flaw i don't think they in other words joe do you see what i'm saying i don't think they see it as chaos now they see it as a strength like hey you know i was in work one time and i was attacked for saying um uh just name a word that's i'm trying to think i gave you the example before where i read that piece but i'm trying to think of something that's changing i was in work one time and i said that men should use the men's bathroom and i was fired because someone said hey that's offensive that's transphobic no it's not what do you mean it's transphobic it's not transphobic at all what are you talking about the talking about? The guy could have not a stain in his heart at all for anybody on the planet. He's just making a simple point. We have segregated bathrooms between men and women for a reason. The biological parts are different.

and he's fired. I'm simply using this example to say to you that there are people like that everywhere who may have been historically Democrat voters on a number of issues that perceive the Democrats as fighting for the working man. And now they see Trump out there with this shield of self-perceived invulnerability going out and taking on the rules in general. Here's a perfect example on the Trump side of what I mean. in general here's a perfect example on the trump side of what i mean this nationalism thing that's going on right now ladies and gentlemen the term nationalism has been monopolized by the left to mean something it doesn't mean not at all the left has taken this nationalism term to mean some kind of, to have racial connotations. That is not the case.

That is not what the term means. Now, Tucker Carlson and Fox has been all over this, and it is a rebellion against the rules imposed by the left. The left, in other words, the cultural elites and the media people who put out these articles like you're not allowed to use the term gay. You're supposed to use the term homosexual or vice versa. Whatever the article said, have now said that if you use the term nationalist, you are somehow a racist. Now, common sense people like, how does that even make sense? I don't get that. I'm a nationalist, meaning I care about the world, but I care about the interests of the United States first because I live here.

That's not a controversial position. The left is now put out in articles, you know, these far left websites and the media types, CNN and all those other folks. If you say nationalist, you're a racist. And everybody runs scared. They're afraid of being fired from their job. They're afraid of social pressure.

They're afraid of their neighbors looking at them funny. Well, Trump went out the next day at a rally and said, I'll say what I want. I'm a nationalist. I care about the United States. And the media is terrified. The media doesn't know what to do, Joe, because the rules in the past have been the media declares a word off limits. And what happens? Everybody runs away in panic. Subjectivity in the meaning of words, Dan, has been a big part of tyranny forever. Yes. Forever. Yes, it has.

We said this in one of our earliest episodes still up on SoundCloud. You got it. How the left loves subjectivity in the analysis of things because the subjectivity always airs in their direction. But why? Because they control the media. Boom. So even though you and I both know that nationalist has an objective meaning i care about

my nation nationalist there is an objective readable meaning about what that means the left understands they can change that meaning through culture power and the media cultural power hollywood elites academics in the media by just getting them to write a few pieces saying if you say you're a nationalist we're going to call you a racist. And everybody goes, oh no. So this poor union worker in Michigan, he goes, I heard Trump last night. This nationalist thing. I like that. We should care about the United States first. That's a good idea. We got a lot of people struggling. Sir, please come into HR. HR guy said some that, right? Joe, we've all been there, right uh johnny uh johnny one more

yeah we're going to give you this lecture one time and one time only you say that and work the workspace again you are fired for fired for what you can't say nationalist why i care about the united states we're in the united states that's the cnn told us that's racist we're gonna fire you how do you think that union worker feels when he gets back on the line do you now understand what the trump effect is it is a rebellion against what joe just accurately stated the subjective setting of new rules that we all haven't been briefed in on we didn't agree to this i didn't agree that nationalist means racist i don't agree at all it has a very definable objective meaning the fact that media elites decided they were going

to change the meaning to paint us as racist or out absurdly and ridiculously as racist conflating these two terms does not mean we accept that and the trump effect is not chaos i believe like the author's misreading this perceived chaos i believe it's a perceived rebellion and a rebellion against the rules themselves it's not perceived as chaos i believe this is why trump has taken over in a lot of states that were rust belt states and working class states where people are tired of this. They're tired of the globalist mentality that we're supposed to look out for the interests of everybody else first. They're tired of being

called transphobic and homophobic and misogynistic. I always call them the istaphobic phobophobes for having common sense opinions, not based in any sense of malice or malfeasance, based only in an honest opinion. I have a daughter. I'd like her to go into a women's room with women. I just don't want her seeing male genitalia at 14. I mean, is that unreasonable? I didn't agree that that's unreasonable. No, no. Well, Vox, V, V, Vox.

Gosh, I shouldn't say that anymore because everybody thinks I said Vox. Vox with a V. So Vox wrote an article that you're transphobic if you don't agree that men should be able to use the women's room. I didn't say that. I don't agree to that. Why do I have to? I don't understand. So now we have to fold because some 18-year-old just out of college, you know, sitting there vaping, eating s'mores at his desk in Vox with his first real job has determined that 40 and 50 percent of America who think men should stay in the men's room.

He's determined we're all transphobic and we're all supposed to just sit back and go, oh, OK, I'm really sorry. Sorry about what? I'm not sorry about anything. It's an opinion based on an objective truth. Trump fights against those rules. His what the author Lance says, his dimension of invulnerability that he perceives as chaos. In other words, that Trump goes out there thinking he's invulnerable to the political bullets. That dimension of invulnerability, invulnerability is perceived by people out there as Trump's strength, not as chaos. by people out there is Trump's strength,

not his chaos. The Boxer Rebellion was chaos because they weren't invulnerable to the actual bullets. But Trump is plowed right through it, ladies and gentlemen. His approval rating's not fantastic. Let's be candid. But it's good.

It's stable. Let's not be hyperbolic. It's okay. 45, it's closed in on 50 at times it's it is approval ratings not in the 20s or the 30s these political rounds they throw at him are not taking down the trump presidency the midterms were were ugly but they weren't catastrophic they were nowhere near as bad as obama midterms. We lost about 30 plus seats and looks like we're going to gain two seats in the Senate. Obama lost 63 seats and six seats in the Senate, but everybody celebrated him after the midterms. Oh, he's doubling down now. Obama reinvigorated by losses is back, is back with the newfound strength. Trump, oh, catastrophe, it's over. It's not over.

Trump's plowed through it all. Judges appointed, tax cuts, major economic growth, regulatory reform. His dimension of invulnerability is not the box of rebellion. It's real. Because he does plow through the rules. They've called, ladies and gentlemen,

think about this rationally. They have called this man every single disgusting horrifying name in the book with an attempt to dent his approval rating down into the 20s and none of it's stuck none of it he's a racist he's a traitor with the russians he's a fascist well i mean what else he's an imperialist he's a tyrant the list go like we could joe and i could put together it would bore you to death a two to three minute video clip of the horrible things trump's been called easy easily i don't even want to waste your time in the audience with i'd rather seriously because it's it's just a waste you all know the names and ladies and gentlemen his approval is relatively stable and it's because his attitude that i'm invulnerable to this by plowing through

what the rules you've laid on me that you've laid on others ruining their lives new rules you can't say no men in the women's room or you're going to be told you're transphobic you're going to be fired trump just goes right ahead and says it don't use the term nationalist we're going to call you a racist okay so he goes out that night, gives a speech. Yeah, I'm a nationalist. And by the way, the media told me not to say that, so I'm saying it. Right? They're reading this thing all wrong, ladies and gentlemen.

We have all been vulnerable to PC attacks. And the fact that they have someone dancing finally for them, for those of you who listen to my famous dance show that got most of the, that we have to get out and dance. It's not the first guy that gets up and dances at the party. Everybody laughs at him for a bit. It's the second guy that joins him. That's what starts a house party. We have been those guys trying to dance forever, but we haven't had the power or the social influence to get everybody at the house party to dance with us. Trump's that guy. He is the second guy at the party. We've been laughed

at. You know, the guy gets up and dance. He's the only guy at the party we've been laughed at you know the guy gets up and dances the only guy at the house party everybody's like oh look at okay he looks so silly remember that episode folks go back and look that foot that show did uh monster numbers it's not the first guy it's the second guy that joins them that makes everybody else comfortable because now they're like okay he's not the only crazy one there's another guy maybe it's not so crazy i'm gonna dance too trump was the second guy at the dance at the house party we've been the first guy the whole time we've been out there fighting against the uh these on these social issues fighting on these social fronts fighting for uh you know florists who don't want to make flower floral arrangements uh who want to fight for their own religious values. We've been the ones doing that.

And we've been stigmatized as everything, anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-black, anti-Hispanic. It's all nonsense. It's all garbage. None of it's true. Trump's the second guy to get up and say, you know what? I'm going to fight for an egalitarian society based on a negative liberties government, what the government can't do to you. I'm going to get up there.

I'm going to fight for it. And i am going to plow through the rules end the story and folks remember even a lot of working class democrats are tired of these rules too because as joe said he's right they are subjective they are arbitrary they change on a dime and folks most importantly i'm going to move on if this i got a lot more to get to. They will ruin your life. We're not talking about accusing somebody of throwing their gum on the floor in the factory and fining them $5. We're talking about pulling in that, you know, Michigan auto worker into an office and accusing him of hating people who are trans or hating people who are gay

or hating people who are black because he made a poorly timed joke. You're talking about ruining someone's life forever. He makes the local paper, Michigan worker, fired. I mean, look at what happened to Ron DeSantis down here in Florida, the guy who won the governorship. He says in a line right after the election, you know, we don't want to monkey up the economy. The left's like,

monkey it up. Andrew Gillum's black. You're a racist. Ladies and gentlemen, there is zero evidence at all that Ron DeSantis, a veteran, a patriot, and an allaround decent human being there is zero evidence at all that he is a racist zero and what happened the left made it about race the monkey you know meanwhile a lot of people were like joe scratching their heads going i've used that term before now granted using it in terms of a person is is no question it's out of bounds, right? But that's not what DeSantis said. And people were scratching their heads like Joe's doing now going, wait, you're telling me I'm a racist?

And the left, Joe, thinks this is a good strategy. They lost. Folks, they lost in Florida. And don't sit there with your stupid, silly arguments that, oh, Florida, I heard someone say on a cable news channel the other day, Florida just wasn't ready for a black governor. Listen, idiots, they voted for Barack Obama, Florida twice by a handy margin the first time. Give it a rest. Let me just drop a little hint to you.

Dump the identity politics garbage. When you see genuine examples of racism, call it out. We'll be with you. When you fabricate them out of thin air, you are alienating 50 to 60% of the population who sees themselves as a potential next target of you. You have everybody worried by this. I don't know why you think, why you think an electoral strategy,

an electoral strategy of calling 40 to 50% of the country racist is a long-term victory plan. You just lost in Florida and in Georgia, trying the same thing, despite what was a great year otherwise for Democrats. It is not working. Hey, a little bit of breaking news here. So a federal judge has ordered Jim Acosta's White House pass returned.

Man. So you can expect this to continue. I tell you, if I were the white house right now um i would not take another question from this guy ever uh he's gonna obviously be let back in uh according to this federal ruling it just broke but i'm just saying from my experience dealing with the press uh this guy's jim acosta is a uniquely bad actor so i'm just gonna leave it at that i would not if you're listening in the White House, I would not take another question from this guy ever.

He has shown himself to be a liberal activist, nothing more. He's not interested in questions. He's interested in interrogations to play to his liberal base. Let him sit there. Let him raise his hand. I would not give this guy the floor ever again. He's embarrassed himself and the media. Okay, I got a lot more to get to on this election stuff. Today's show also brought to you, I love this company. One of my favorites,

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We are losing a significant number of college educated voters. I have an article up in the show notes today. race between Martha McSally and far left activist Kirsten Sinema, who wound up somehow beating a decorated A-10 Warthog pilot in Republican Martha McSally. I'm still surprised about that race. But it's a fascinating analysis of the race. And it really applies nationally. That's why I'm bringing it up here, because it talks about us hemorrhaging. The article is called The Revenge of the Rhinos. That's how it's listed in the show notes how we're losing the rhinos and it says listen the basically the democrat party joe is becoming the party of elites it is this is a massive massive culture shift over time now i'm only 43 but some of you who are older than me and have been intimately involved in the political game

for a long time joe's not that much older but he's been doing this for a while too. Joe, remember not that long ago, the Republican party was considered the party of the rich guy and the Democrats was the party of the Democrat party was a party of the working class. They were the working class champions. They were out there in the factories on the factory floor defending the downtrodden folks. Do you understand that's entirely shifted? Please. If you don't understand the gravity of this pause the episode and digest what i just said in just 30 years maybe less we have seen a massive shift in electoral politics from rural ex-urban agricultural america from the democrat party into the republican party which is now the party of the working class. While the Democrats take what was the old Republican coalition, college educated,

graduate schools, a lot of rich business people. Think about it. All these tech companies in California, they're all liberals. We're losing significant numbers. And let me tie this back to Arizona. So you don't think I got lost The Arizona race, they have a lot of college educated, graduate degree holding and more. Republicans who flipped over and voted for far left activist Kyrsten Sinema, who, by the way, she already lied to the voters. I won't support Chuck Schumer for majority leader. First vote. I support Chuck Schumer for majority leader. So she sold you out already, but that's OK.

It's not OK, actually, but that's what they do, right? Arizona was lost, and he makes the case in a very compelling fashion because college-educated voters are leaving the Republican Party, and there's not enough rural and working-class ex-urban agricultural farm voters to backfill the loss in some of these states. Now he makes the case that in Ohio and in Florida, this may be working to the Republican party's advantage because there are a lot of working class rural voters who see the Republican party as fighting against the rules.

They see the Republican party now through their their their their now leader donald trump he is the president he's the unquestioned leader of the party at this point i don't think anybody doubts that especially based on his approval rating amongst republicans they see trump is taking on the elites the democrats are the new elites now why am i bringing this up now some of you may know this because, folks, we are in a little bit of trouble. I talked about this the other day. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the big cities and the suburban areas, are starting to move towards the Democrats. There is a path to victory.

The path to victory is one that's been thrown out forever but it's been seen as fool's gold for a long time the path to long-term electoral dominance folks for us the republican party is with the hispanic and black vote you may say oh okay damn we've been saying that forever wait we've been saying it forever for all the wrong reasons folks keep in mind, Hispanic and black voters share a lot. I'm not speaking about anybody categorically. I hate when the left does that. They talk about black voters and Hispanic voters like they're robots.

They are not. I'm saying through my electoral experience having run in Maryland, the state with a very large black and Hispanic population, knocking on doors, overwhelming majorities of people I spoke to in Democrat neighborhoods shared a lot of the social values we as conservatives do. Respect for life, respect for religion, spirituality.

This is not virtue signaling or talking points. This was my real experience in the real world. Donald Trump, through his outspoken bravado type style, has managed to crack through this cultural barrier in a lot of these communities where Republicans were deemed as unacceptable. A lot of these communities, Republicans were seen as out of touch elites. We're seen as, you know, the Democrats told us Republicans are racist. But now a lot of these folks in the black community who are coming out and saying, you know what? I support tax cuts for the business I own. They're being called Uncle Tom's, Spanish people being called all kinds of awfulness, sellouts and all this other stuff.

They're the ones saying the same thing that the people who champion Donald Trump because he fights against these subjective PC rules. They're now saying, wait, wait, now the rules are being turned on me? You're telling me as a black voter, Hispanic voter, that I'm a racist because I support Trump's tax cuts? Folks, just to dial it back a little bit, this is why I talked about the importance of the Kanye thing. He is not a conservative. I don't care who Kanye West tells me to vote for, not even a little bit. I make my own decisions.

I'm simply suggesting the backlash against Kanye West for simply showing up at the White House, which anybody would do. It's an honor to be in the White House, no matter who the president is. I guarantee you opened a lot of eyes to a lot of people who said, wait, all he did was show up at the White House. Give us a break. You're damn right, Kanye. Damn right. I love that guy. I know that video well.

I love that. That one I know. That video is incredible, by the way. We played that guy. I know that video well. I love that. That one I know. That video is incredible, by the way. Yeah. We played that before. That's why these moments are, it's going to add up. I'm not saying there's going to be a massive cultural shift overnight and a parting of the electoral Red Seas. I'm suggesting to you folks that we are losing college voters because the Democrats are becoming the party of the

elitists. They will defend the tech industry. They will defend Amazon's tax breaks in New York. They will sell out the middle class in a heartbeat. Look at this. A lot of middle class people working got $1,000 tax rebates after the tax cut. And what did Nancy Pelosi say? Just crumbs. Yeah, of course, to her because she's a multi-quadrillionaire. did nancy pelosi are just crumbs yeah of course to her because she's a multi-quadrillionaire we are going to continue to lose the path to long-term electoral success is throwing out these race and cultural uh background walls we've been afraid to hurdle in the past breaking into the hispanic community if we can get a consistent 40 to 45 percent of the hispanic vote or more and a consistent 20 to 25 percent of the black vote as they start to see the republican party as the champion of middle class values

the democrat party will be wiped out for a generation folks for a generation this is the soft spot. These are natural, these are working class folks who we've been told because of the color of their skin, where they were born, what their background or culture is, that we're not allowed to talk to them. No, no, we are.

We're allowed to do whatever we want. And Trump clearly doesn't care about your stupid old rules. We're losing the rhinos. But I think we have a significant chance right now to move in and make serious, serious inroads into the black community. Hey, one more thing I wanted to hit today. Daniel Greenfield has a really terrific piece in front page mag. Again, up at the show notes.

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And I believe that this story fits in nicely with it. Greenfield has a great piece about the influence of the cultural and media elitists on elections and the hypocrisy they bring forth by talking about things like populist rebellions. Here's what I mean by that. I've seen a lot of this lately when the left loses, I brought this up on, on Fox the other day on the Ingram show.

When the left loses, they lose an institution. They want the institution disbanded immediately. Have you noticed this, Joe? You know, they lose the governor's race in Florida. New election. They lost the Senate. You started seeing articles creeping up at far left websites when they didn't win back the Senate in this midterm.

What did you see? The Senate needs to be abolished. It's not population sensitive. It wasn't supposed to be, you dopes. That's the House of Representatives. It's unfair that Wisconsin gets to elect the same amount of senators as New York or California. Ladies and gentlemen, again, regional interests were to be preserved in the Constitution. That's why we have our federalist system.

Obviously, these people haven't read the Constitution. But Greenfield brings up a fascinating point, Joe. So you want the Supreme Court stacked because it's chosen by a Senate that has equal representation of the states. You don't like that. You think New York and California should have more senators because that's where your political power is. So that's your point, right? Greenfield brings up an excellent counterpoint I hadn't really thought of. He says, when you look at this election, Joe, this election was bought by cultural and media elites

in New York and California. He's like, it's fascinating. He says $166.8 million, a record by far, was pumped into 30 Democrat House seats, some of them not even close to where the money came from. So you have no problem at all when money and media influence is poured into districts outside of the coast. districts outside of the coast. You want to influence the politics over there in your direction by sending your money and your media influence into Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to flip seats. But when Pennsylvania exerts its right to send two senators, a non-population sensitive metric for power, to D.C., you don't like that. You want that abolished. So you just want to control everything now. you want that abolished so you just want to control everything now you want to control the money you want to control the political power you want to

control the uh the media power do you see the the tyrannical streak in this i hope this makes sense greenfield's it's a great great analogy how they complain about the political influence of separate and distinct states yet they pour money into those same states outside of the state to take over the power in those states so what is it are those states irrelevant and they shouldn't have a political say or are they so relevant that we should pour money into them into them from the coasts to take over California, to take over Wisconsin politics. What is it? Do Wisconsin politics matter or do they not? It's a terrific analogy. Think about it, right? In terms of the media, John James in Michigan, terrific candidate, happens to be black. Again, a fact that only seems to matter to the left we i mean no one

in the republican party cares we care that john james was a patriot who ran for senate west point grad was a terrific candidate he was a republican he ran against w.e.a stabbing on michigan he ran an amazing race when he lost by six points but let me tell you something based on historical numbers if he would have lost by 10 it wouldn't be anything out of line. The fact that he only lost by six, in my opinion, is a political win for him. He may not be sitting in the seat, but it ups his political bank account. His political capital is high. Some of you may not even have heard of John James.

But I assure you, you've heard of Beto O'Rourke. Oh, Beto. Beto, the Democrat candidate in Texas. Beto O'Rourke. Oh, Beto. Beto, the Democrat candidate in Texas. Beto O'Rourke, who's not even Hispanic. The Democrats love identity politics. Beto O'Rourke, he's one of us. There was millions and millions of dollars of glowing, sycophantic, grotesquely idolizing pieces of Beto O'Rourke. Because he had a Hispanic nickname.

He's Irish. And he almost won. He almost beat Ted Cruz. So the media attention's fawning over Texas to make that race close. But yet John James, black Republican candidate, West Point grad, you don't like identity politics anymore. You don't want to celebrate it. Again, how the media and the't want to celebrate it. Again,

how the media and the money love to get involved in states, ignore other states. And then when those states send their representatives to DC, they don't want those states to have any influence when they lose. It's ridiculous. It's so stupid. Read the piece. I'm telling you, it's really good. It got in my head today. I was very upset about it because I'm like, they're right. Wisconsin doesn't matter. Well, Democrats, why are you pouring money into Wisconsin? Because Wisconsin matters. The hell is it? Pick your poison, fellas. They can't because they're hypocrites.

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Folks, the Mueller probe is losing its punch and it's driving the democrats crazy they are uh they are losing their minds uh over this and they're they're doubling down and trying to stick to this and now this is for a reason i'm going to give you some numbers from a wall street journal piece today about the muller probe and how it's falling apart the democrats one of the things that the trump perceived sense uh i'm going to tie this all together for you. As I opened up the show, he has this perceived sense of invulnerability. Trump plows through.

He does not accept the media rules. You can't say nationalism. You know, Trump, you can't go out there and say we're going to ban people from foreign countries from traveling in if they come from terror laden countries. We're going to call you a racist. Okay, here's the travel ban. He just does it. He plows through through this is infuriating the democrats and my theory on donald trump from the beginning if you're a regular listener to the show or you see me on fox as joe well knows is trump gets the democrats to show their butts trying to show family friendly unlike

any candidate in the past the democrats are usually a lot better at hiding their true intentions. The Democrats want your money. They want your healthcare. They want your kids. They want their education, but they hide it. They mask it. They're better at doing that. They phrase their big government money theft agenda through high tax appealing.

We're just in this for income equality. We want people to have equal incomes. That's not what they mean. They just want to take your money. We want to ensure healthcare for all. What they really mean is healthcare for none because just want to take your money. You know, health care. We want to ensure health care for all. What they really mean is health care for none because the government will take it over. You'll be sitting on a waiting list. They disguise it better. One of the gifts of Donald Trump due to his perceived invulnerability and his consistent

plowing through the media fog and the Democrat fog is the Democrats constantly overreact to everything he does, Joe, because they're not used to this. They are losing their tactical efficiency against Donald Trump because they're not used to being engaged in prolonged fights. Please follow me. This is going to be important with the Mueller probe. In the past, whether it was George W. Bush, anyone else, any prominent Republican, the minute the racist word was dropped on any policy, they would back away immediately. Even when it was totally, completely fabricated and made up, they were afraid. The same way, you know, if George W. Bush had used the term nationalist and been called a racist, they would have been issuing an apology the next

day. Trump didn't do it. He went out on stage and used it again just to tick everybody off. Instead of the Democrats diplomatically dealing with this, they have finally, this is the gift of Trump. I can't say it enough. They are reacting emotionally. They are not reacting strategically anymore. I believe that's why their midterm, although successful for them, was not nearly as good as it could have been.

Folks, they could have easily picked up 50 seats and won some of those Senate races. They didn't. They had a good midterm, but they lost strategic states and the governorships. Their pickups in the House were good, not great, and they lost the Senate. The reason is they've shown their butts over and over. They have shown their butts because they are reacting emotionally because they're engaged in an extinction burst of behavior. This is an important thing here. They don't know how to fight. Ladies and gentlemen, we are hard. We are hard.

Our skin is thick. It is leathery. We have been engaged in this fight for a long time. We have been called every awful name in the book by liberals. We have been shunned on college campuses. People are having drinks thrown at them. In polite conversation, you can't even mention you're a Trump supporter anymore. We have learned to deal with the slings and arrows. We get it. Liberals haven't. They're soft. They have been coddled

their whole life, safe spaces. Anytime you say something, the administration takes the liberal perspective. The HR department takes the snowflakes perspective. Anytime you made a bad joke, we are hard. They are not. Because they are not, even liberal politicians don't know how to deal with Trump. They have thrown every single political bullet round cannon shot they've had at him. You're a racist. You're a tyrant. You're a Nazi.

You're a fascist. None of it sticks. So rather than reevaluating that strategy out of a sense of sheer emotional anger, they have overreacted with rage. And as I said last week in a show, they have now become obsessed with punishment politics. In other words, it's not good enough to win. They have to punish. It's not good enough to win on gay marriage. They have to bankrupt the florist and the baker.

It's not good enough to insult Trump. We need to put him in jail. This obsession with punishment politics, Joe, is blowing up in their face big time. That time, too. Huge. How do I know that? Let me give you the numbers from a Wall Street Journal piece today by Kim Strassel. The Mueller probe has lost its political potency as democrats acknowledged on the midterm trail they didn't win house seats by warning of russian collusion they didn't even talk

about it most voters don't care or don't care to hear about it a cnn exit poll found 54 percent of respondents think the russia probe is politically motivated a 46 percent plurality disapprove of mr muller's handling of it but you may say Dan, I thought you said they didn't respond emotionally. They do. Here we go. But this hasn't stopped Democrats fixating on it since the election, in particular when President Trump fired Sessions and named Whitaker as a temporary replacement. The left now insists the appointment is unconstitutional because Whitaker voids skepticism on the probe.

Folks, they are doubling down on this. They are now going back to the punishment politics they're obsessed with now that they've taken power in the House. And they are going to blow it again because they are reacting emotionally because Trump perceives himself as invulnerable to this. And he is plowing through the haze. He is not backing down they are waiting for him to admit oh i'll admit it we colluded with threat they didn't there's no collusion he is plowing through and it is driving them wild and it is causing them to react in an extreme emotional manner completely detached from the political realities folks this is going to be

big trouble for them har Harping back to the theme of the show today, electoral analysis 2018 and 2020. If this continues, ladies and gentlemen, I assure you there will be a major backlash in 2020 and there stands a very good chance that we retake a lot of those House seats and win back the presidency. If they don't propose anything policy-wise and their whole two years becomes an obsession with punishment politics and jailing Donald Trump. It will be a nightmare for them. Now, one last piece on this. The Mueller probe, ladies and gentlemen, is a farce. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to justice. It's an embarrassment. There is a piece up at Real Clear Investigations

today I strongly encourage you to read by Paul Sperry. It's very good. It's in the show notes again. It goes down the list of people connected to the Trump sphere that have been arrested and have yet to flip on Trump in any significant way in collusion. In other words, let's just get the lead out in front. Let's just get the lead out in front. If there was Russian collusion, how come all these arrests have been made and no one's produced any evidence of Russian collusion? In other words, if me and Joe robbed a bank together, they arrest Joe and Joe's cooperating with the feds and everybody keeps alleging I robbed the bank with Joe. Sooner or later, you would think Joe said I robbed the bank with him. I know the squealers when I see them. That's good. I did not plan That's good. I did not plan that one out.

The squealer, here's the problem, Joe. The squealers aren't squealing, at least on collusion, which would say to a normal person, folks. I'm talking about normal people. I'm not talking about these people now trying to attack Trump. There is none.

Has it ever occurred to the liberals? And he goes down the list, Paul Sperry, in a piece. It's very good. Michael Cohen, Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates. Mueller's arrested these people for all kinds of process stuff. Stuff related to lobbying, lying to federal agents. Fine.

People always said, oh, there were indictments. Yeah, but not for good. Your whole point is that there was Russian collusion. Joe, people got a kick out of your line the other, your whole point is that there was Russian collusion. Where are the, Joe, people got a kick out of your line the other day. I even used it on Levin last night. Where are the Russians?

Joe said, sooner or later, you're going to have to produce an actual Russian who colluded. Right? They have yet to produce a Russian that colluded. Yet, this has been going on for a year and a half.

So Sperry makes a great point in this. The reason the public's turning against the Mueller probe is all these people, every time they get locked up, Joe, right? It's a bombshell. This is explosive. Manafort agrees to cooperate. Okay, great. Where's the collusion? Right.

There is no collusion. So Strassel makes a really, really good point. If they had the collusion, it would have appeared already. Remember, Trump asked Comey to investigate any possible collusion at a White House meeting before they fired him. They're yet to find any.

Has it ever occurred to the Looney Tunes libs that they haven't found it because it's not there? I know that's a crazy thought, but have you even entertained that? That there may not be evidence of collusion despite all these cooperators because there is none? Now, Strassel brings up a great point, Joe, that this creates a really ugly choice for the Democrats coming up. This Mueller probe is almost over, folks.

What's going to happen if Mueller issues a report saying Michael Cohen was involved in taxicab medallion stuff, Paul Manafort was a lobbyist who didn't pay his taxes or whatever, whatever he alleges in the report, right? Papadopoulos fibbed to us once. What happens if there's no collusion in that report? How do you think it's going to fly in 2020 that two years of America's life

and the Democrats' attention have been wasted on attacking Donald Trump and they have produced absolutely nothing on collusion. Now I bring this up because as I opened up the show with him trying to tie this all together and make it nice and seamless, Donald Trump has not been the one to back down. I'll tell you right now, Joe, what a traditional Republican would do when that report's issued and there's no collusion in there. You know this too, Joe, you know a lot of these people. And there's no collusion in there.

You know this too, Joe. You know a lot of these people. They would say, his political advisors would say, hey, let it go. It was ugly. It's all over finally. Don't bring it up again. He's Joe Biden. You know Trump ain't going to do that.

Trump is going to use it as re-election. 2020, I've been fighting for you, for your wallets, for your jobs. What have the Democrats been doing? And if I were him, I would, I would bring the report with them everywhere. Say it's a a hundred page report or whatever. I would have them. They produced this hundred page report on taxi cab medallion fraud.

There's no collusion in here. They wasted your time. You know, Trump's going to do that. You know it. This Mueller probe, ironically is going to turn around and be a huge benefit to Trump in the end. He doesn't like it.

It's been ugly. It's been a pain in the butt, but there's no collusion. So Trussell talks about this choice. The Democrats, Joe, are either going to have to take one of two avenues because there will be no collusion. Right. They're going to have to acknowledge that Trump is right. Because there's no collusion and a report says there's no collusion and they're going to have to acknowledge they wasted two years of voters time. Or they're going to have to attack Mueller and throw him under the bus. Now, folks, don't for a second, you may say, no, they're never going to do that.

They've been celebrating Mueller for months. Listen, we're talking about democrats here we're not talking about people who are principal we're talking about hill democrats they have shown no unifying set of principles at all other than they hate trump remember how they turned on comey they hated comey and the hillary clinton thing and then when comey went after trump he was great they loved him the democrat if you were on tape joe saying dan bongino's uh a toolbox huh and you ran for office you would kind of be embarrassed later on you know coming back and saying dan bongino is not a toolbox so you'd have to apologize right the democrats don't think like that they don't the democrats that's probably a bad example because it's a character thing i mean if you let me give you a better example because a lot of people even you know trump changed on Cruz and stuff.

If you were on tape saying the Trump tax cuts really suck, I'm Joe Armacost and run as a Democrat, you would be embarrassed during the election to say, no, the Trump tax cuts are great. I was lying to you. Democrats don't do that. They are on tape saying Comey sucks and then on tape saying Comey's the greatest guy ever. Don't for a second discount when this report comes out that there's no collusion that they attack Bob Mueller is weak. The investigation is being terrible and they start taking it up against the house again. Why? Because Trump plows straight through. Trump

will not take the path that I'm going to let this go. He is going to talk about the report every day on the campaign trail, which is going to force the Democrats to show their butts again, which they didn't do in the past. They're usually more efficient. And then they're going to come out and demand the second and third special counsel, new House investigations, new Senate investigations. And they are going to look completely ridiculous in the 2020 reelect if this happens. It shows on tape. You'll see. You watch. I'm not sure what they're gonna do i'm just saying

don't discount number two number one is that they'll acknowledge there's no collusion and move on that's what a smart democrat party would do two or three years ago not in the trump era trump will not let this go like other republicans you know we won't let it go and the democrats will show their butts because they will be dominated by emotion, looking to punish Trump. And they will say, this isn't good enough. We're going to demand another investigation. And they will look like darn fools. Wow.

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