 Tonight I'm Krishna on the volu tonight. We're shaking things up We have a special hour-long episode about the future of the Republican Party. The view from DC is simple The party is themed and that theme is Trump. We saw that this week with Liz Cheney's demotion from Republican leadership But the view from DC is also limited almost 75 million people voted for former President Trump in 2020 And not a lot of them live in Washington. So truly understanding the future requires a road trip That's why Michael Moynihan went to Texas, which like a Republican buffet has every possible type of conservative And he went with open ears But a critical eye to understand how voters feel about where we've been and where we're going They want us to apologize for being prideful about being American. I'm proud to be an American I'm proud to have my dad do that flag. If you don't hug a flag, you are not a real president. Pride is a big thing That side of pride is good to me. I think it's good to be proud. Do you have a pride parade? No Any criticisms of pride? Can I just stop for a second and say he based his support for the president of the United States on Whether or not he thinks the candidate is proud to be an American That's just bravo that logic right there. I mean it you can't argue against that logic Nothing Four years four years. I don't think I ever came against single thing. I don't think so. Oh dear. I've got cultish, isn't it? It's not cultish. I have the things I disagree with there are things that you know, he's human So maybe we don't see eye-eye on all the things but the common Core thing that he was running on I believed in is there anything you've changed your mind about in the past four years Any belief that you've had that you change your mind about yes I think it's much more swampy than it was initially thought it was gonna be swampy And I think a lot of it came from his side as party You're kind of saying in a way that the Republicans were actually worse than you thought they were Yeah, they should have jumped on the Trump train and they did it and I think it's gonna affect Hang on you're saying that it's more swampy now after Trump left the White House So he said he was gonna drain the swamp. He didn't drain the swamp It got swampier and yet he's like I have zero criticisms of Donald Trump It's a fucking cult guys. This is a cult. It's gonna affect them in the midterms coming up And I think it's gonna affect some of them on reelection in 2024. I hope it does. I hope they get voted out But is the Trump train running out of steam? I Don't think so. I'm still pumped for him whatever Compacity he can do to make it keep his decision. I'm going period. I'm behind it a hundred percent I don't know what that vision is It's had we don't either people don't need her but there's agreement there quiet going to work and watching see what happens To see what President Trump is gonna do next and I hope he understands that we're watching we're waiting It's not over God is in control. He is not done with Donald Trump. Do you believe you lost now? I believe that the elections were absolutely rigged. I've never seen a president after who's been a crap Donald Trump isn't run in 2024 who would you want to be the Republican Party nominate if it's not Donald Trump? It's going to be one of the Trumps. Well, I would like to see his Trump run for the House of Representatives from Florida in 2022 Republicans can take over Congress That'd be hilarious speaker at the house and then he can then peach Harris and Biden and get him thrown out and then he becomes oppressed and again Convoluted thing I've ever heard in my life. You don't see a Republican party without I cannot see The rooftop Republicans is a group of MAGA faithful who meet weekly at a Mexican restaurant in College Station, Texas The focus of this group is to is to Concentrate on working from the school board up to the presidency in bringing true conservatism to bear You imagine if these people like infiltrate the school boards and whatnot just Both coasts look at us as a bunch of backwards Creighton and we're not He's a retired judge There's various other people around here who are educated intelligent There's a lot of places that a lot of things and we're tired of being laughed at you look at the stuff It comes out a couple of you don't see a central white family or even a minor mixed family There's three queers two lesbians 13 Martians Wait, I don't understand the criticism here that he's making. He's just mad because there's more representation for Marginalized groups and historically Non-visible groups is that really what he's mad about is that not a snowflakey thing to be upset over? Who cares who thinks about that Like think about this if you're watching television and you just discovered this brand new show do you ever think okay? There's like there's two white people on the screen. One of them is a woman. There's one gay person Oh, and then there's one person who is Hispanic who thinks about this These are the folks who claim that they don't like identity politics But their entire identity is characterized by identity politics. It's just white identity politics and they don't like that white people are Not as visible as they were before they feel as if they're being replaced By people of color at least culturally and on television and this is why they're so mad. It's weird, you know He's talking about how well we're not we're not dumb. We're not stupid. This is the former judge I have a PhD who gives a shit having a PhD doesn't mean that you're automatically smart Okay I was in a PhD program with a lot of dumb people having a PhD in no way is a statement about your intelligence So you feel condescended to by the media and just by the culture He feels condescended to because now when you turn on the television, there's more black people on TV That is why he feels condescended to What how is that condescending is it this idea that oh well, you know what Hollywood they're trying to Shove diversity down our throats and You know make it seem as if I need it. I don't need it You know, I have plenty of black friends and gay friends. So I don't want to see them. Yeah, get them away from me I it doesn't make any sense to me. Well, I should say it does make sense But I'm not gonna jump to any conclusions about this individual yet But I think he's kind of like telling on himself in a way, right? Yeah, Sam says these people are too far gone I agree with that like if you're offended because of diversity on Television you're not a serious person who cares about that Who cares like it's good to see more gay people on TV. It is it's good to see a range of people on TV I think that diversity on television representation Paves the way for greater understanding of individuals and sometimes the narratives are a little bit bad and stereotypical But I mean you can point to certain television shows and how the cultural impact that had actually did make more people Accepted by society glee with gay people for example You know and to a degree Orange is the new black with trans people because they had a prominent trans character. So What he says here, this is such a weird and bizarre thing It doesn't make any sense to me You're offended and you're condescended to because you see a lot of diversity Let me do a little experiment here Give me a sentence how you feel the media views you they think we can't think for ourselves And we need to be told what to do Making money off of being condescending to you We're the competition and they have to shut us down through any means possible To promote their agenda. What is their agenda? Do you think? They just talked about how smart they were They just talked about how they don't need to be condescended to and you know They look down on them and then when asked well, what is their agenda? They say communism. I want to kill myself In Roblox not liberalism not social democracy Just another word for communism and that's what's taking over that part of the world Define communism like I hope he asks them to define communism. I bet he couldn't even design define liberalism or conservatism like Holy shit. Is there listen? Is there a single communist in the mainstream media in America? On MSNBC Fox News CNN can anyone think of a single prominent communist in the United States of America. I Can't think of any None come to mind But this is their agenda guys is communism They use all of these buzzwords that they have no understanding of and it's just Embarrassing But they're not embarrassed at all like liberalism in the sense of like Kennedy style liberalism versus Swedish style social democracy versus Soviet style communism I mean you but manifesto with what they're doing. It's the same the communist manifesto. Okay, correct. Is that a pretty uniform view here? Oh We're not stupid, but they want communism Holy shit Way to completely like disprove the point you were trying to make about how well, we're not stupid We're not she we you know, they think that we can't think for ourselves You all literally believe that they want communism be elites in America Jesus Christ I Divided conquerors now which My son is leaning towards liberal how what is it? And when he and I talk about issues and really Dive down into them. We agree on almost everything you do Concern about the elitists versus the people you see the enemy is the same thing What is it that politically divides you and your son? I think that he's listening more to mainstream media Believing the narrative that we are racist, you know, you're talking about Bernie Sanders. We're talking about unions We're talking about Trump You know, what is it about him and it's it all boils down to me the people they don't want to be dismissed And they want a say so in what's going on on the union. I just have to point out the irony here She has these conversations with her liberal son about how elites are the issue So she's kind of like circling around the main issue here, right? It's capitalism. It's the oligarchs It's wealth being hoarded at the top by the top one tenth of one percent, but yet she supports Donald Trump Donald Trump is literally part of the issue He's rich. He's an oligarch, but yet she doesn't like elites It's just really frustrating to me and that's not to say that, you know You shouldn't support a good leftist candidate, you know, if someone emerges who's rich who's a class traitor I mean FDR was basically a class traitor, but what she's saying Like she's not supporting someone who's a class traitor She's supporting Donald Trump who very much was not a class traitor He was in favor of trickle down economics where him and his buddies get lots and lots of tax cuts And in fact after he passed his 2017 tax bill, what was the first thing that he did? He went to Mar-a-Lago and told everyone you all just got a lot richer as he's pretending that You know It's gonna enrich working Americans Do republicans care about spending anymore a 1.9 trillion dollar spending bill the biggest in american history adjusted for inflation It's bother you guys. I mean is that it's kind of a two degree I finally hear a little bit of dissent here. Yeah, I would say dissent. He spends money freely and I'm okay with that on the things that matter so defense spending Infrastructure border control border security and and getting rid of the things that that are there are sudden sounds So that's what animates you It's okay when trump blows up the deficit because he's spending things Spending money on things that matter first of all joe biden Opted for a bigger defense budget than donald trump. Are they gonna jump ship and support joe biden? Well, of course not because they're hacks and that lady claimed oh, it's not about, you know, republican democrat But it is though you have a team and you love your team and you love who the team leader is and that is donald trump and Why would you think that defense spending matters? Even if you thought that it mattered like are you perfectly fine with 60 percent of our discretionary budget? Going to the military Is that justifiable in any way shape or form when we have people sleeping on the streets in america? When we have people going hungry This is making my brain hurt like Holy shit These people have no like they don't have a coherent political ideology like they operate Strictly on the basis of their emotions and donald trump He really appeals to them At the at this visceral level. This is not a political ideology. It's just a cult Yeah, it's anger and it's fear as mr. Anderson says that's exactly what it is Now smaller government less spending lower taxes Do you think that there's but you don't like smaller governments? You don't You like lots of spending when republicans are on control as evidenced by bush and donald trump and you don't want smaller government You literally have a party that you support around the country passing bills that legislate the most intimate things What a woman can do with her body whether or not A mother and father with a trans child can get gender-affirming care for them So you don't believe in small government. You believe in the biggest government imaginable Likelihood Of getting a sort of across the board kind of trump You know congress of republicans. Yes, so this is just the beginning of the battle Who are the elites that need to be knocked off? I Okay How do they hate mitch mcconnell because mitch mcconnell was basically the errand boy for donald trump I'm assuming that they liked mitch mcconnell so long as he was doing what donald trump wanted But the second that mitch mcconnell turned on this whole election narrative um the second mitch mcconnell said actually the uh The winners are joe biden and kamala Harris like that day is when Mitch mcconnell was trending on twitter. I think that's probably the turning point for them But it's like mitch mcconnell is your guy based on what you said What little you said that I could deduce from your weird incoherent worldview somebody finally named a democrat schumer Those are all republicans anyone who's been out there for more than 10 years is corrupt Sometimes you've got to draw that line in the sand the republican league had never drawn that line We keep going over the democrats keep going left Now's the time that we wish They talk about democrats being communists or they being communists I guess applying that to the media and democratic party elites and elites more broadly speaking I mean jesus christ if half the things that they thought about the democratic party were true The country would be in such better shape than it is right now. I swear to god People need to stand up for our constitution. We're losing our rights So you don't see it. What rights are we losing because we are losing rights. She's correct Can she cite a single right that we're losing? A single one is she gonna cite How the patriot act has basically gutted the fourth amendment Is she gonna cite how bds laws restrict our first amendment rights to protest? Voting rights are being stripped away I mean, yeah, we're losing our rights but She's like a lot of americans that just like say things like I support freedom and small government But she doesn't actually know what that means. Like if you pressed her on this, she would have no idea What rights we're losing any room for compromising So, um, yeah, basically it's about what I expected I've watched so many of these videos with uh, trump supporters And they all say the same thing Which is not much. It's a lot of words It's a lot of virtue signaling buzzwords such as communism the media elites But there's never A coherent ideology like the lowest common denominator For all these people. It's just donald trump. That's the one link that ties all of them together But they don't actually ground their political ideology in any coherent School of thought it's so weird. It's reactionary. It's emotional Um, and this is why the country is so fucked because people like this they think that they're informed, but they're just their reactionaries They're overly emotional children who react to things that they think are icky or bad Namely, uh trans people gay people, uh people of color. That's literally all that their politics are I mean, they said it at the very beginning He's really upset. Who is it? Um, the the phd guy He's really upset because now when you turn on the television, you don't just see white people anymore And that's so bad like he's so triggered by that He he wants it to go back to a time when you turn on the tv and you just see white people Hey, buddy newsflash, you're what like 75 85 years old 95 years old possibly 120 years old Uh, you don't have much time left and you still most of the time See white people on tv. Is it really that bad? Like what are you watching to where you see all of these people of color and lgbtq? Plus people what channel are you watching? I'd like to watch that channel. Certainly. It's improved I think that most people will admit that but you still see mostly white people on television. I think overall Generally speaking so for as long as you're going to be alive Things aren't going to change that much. I mean your generation is making sure we don't change Anything at least when it comes to climate change when it comes to trans rights So because of you things won't change. So you've won you've gotten what you wanted I mean these people they support the economic agenda of the republican party hence why they vote for them And so they won we live in a late-stage capitalist society They got the dystopian world that they wanted We don't have socialism We barely have social democracy in the united states and whatever we have It's always under threat to be privatized. So they won So what more do they want? Well, what little progress we've made that's too much for them Seeing people of color on television That's a bridge too far because they like seeing white people on television That's literally the totality of their Their politics that's basically it It's racism And this isn't the traditional racism of like Oh, well, I think that you know Non-white people are inferior. This is the racism of Um, I'm the victim. I'm being oppressed Uh The equality that I see Basically spells doom for me, you know people getting Equal rights me not being at the tippy top of the social hierarchy. That feels like oppression to me I don't want to be Equal to my peers. I want to be above my peers and that's That's basically it. So I don't know what else to say. I think that this speaks for itself um, these people Their entire world view What they base their politics on is incoherent And I think that that's obvious