 But CPAC is interesting. It's interesting in terms of kind of the positioning of the Republican Party The the battle lines are clearly drawn out who is and isn't invited to CPAC Is is kind of where the battle lines are it's it's it's interesting because the battle lines are not Conservative not conservative The battle lines are more around pro-trump anti-trump or pro-trump not so pro-trump pro-trump not completely pro-trump You know, it's it's the the line is basically how Religious are you about Trump? That is the that is what CPAC is drawn the line It used to be about whether you are conservative or not Certainly many Republicans would have invited to CPAC because they just weren't conservative it was typically a place where the most conservative of The senators of House members of intellectuals of radio talk show hosts were invited But this year and and this year it's clear this year It's clear that this the criteria by which the speakers were determined was their loyalty to Donald Trump So conservatives real conservatives actual conservatives will hold Conservatives points of view who vote conservative like Ben Sasse or like Nikki Haley or like John Bolton We're not invited all of them Spoke spoken at CPAC many many many times, but this year clearly not invited in spite the fact that many in the Republican Party considered Nikki Haley one of the fund-runners for the for the for the primaries at least for for president in 2024 Some even consider Ben Sasse to be such Ben Sasse has been a very popular senator except Except for the last couple of years with with Trump But it's very it's very interesting how the line has been drawn Who has been invited well Ted Cruz and and senator Josh Hawley Josh Hawley who I've been talking about for for at least a year maybe two We'll get to Holly in a minute. Of course a Lot of a lot of the intellectuals who have supported Trump non-stop a lot of the house members have supported Donald Trump non-stop including pretty pretty far right in the collectivist sense Members one of those house members spoke earlier in the day at Nick Fuentes's Gathering and then came over to CPAC following Nick Fuentes's racist Gathering also in Florida in in in Orlando. So Yes, the battle lines are drawn across the kind of collectivist populist line no more is it about Conservatism or what used to be considered conservative ideas which brings me to You know Josh Hawley You remember Josh Hawley I've talked about him a lot national conservative senator one of the senators who questioned the who Wanted an investigation into the election fraud one of the senators who were trying to hold up certification of the vote during the Senate and One of the senator who famously raised the fist to the Demonstrators outside Capitol Hill on January 6th, but more importantly I think one of the smarter senators in terms of just credentials Ivy League education considered very very smart and a leader of the national conservative kind of movement and I just want to show you a 32nd clip of his of his talk It at CPAC. I think it was earlier today just to give you a sense of what the Republican Party of Tomorrow the Republican Party of today the Republican Party of Donald Trump is All about is all about so we're gonna play this 30-second segment I'll try to run the whole 30 seconds without interrupting Senator Josh Hawley let it just play out And and see what you think this to me this guy to me You know, we'll see if there's a real negative outcome out of January 6th, but this guy to me is the most dangerous Political force in America today. He's young He's charismatic He's energetic as I said, he's smart. He's well educated He knows what he's doing and his ideas about as evil as I get on on on the right, so He goes Josh Hawley At CPAC. Oh, let me put my headphones. I can listen to this too by these modern-day oligarchs What we need is a new nationalism a new agenda to make the rule of the people real in this country And give the people America back give it back to them give it back to you No more ruled by oligarchs ruled by the people. That's what we've got to do And I can tell you how I would start I would start by breaking up the big tech corporations. Just break them up Break them up in the name of the rule of the people By these modern-day oligarchs What we need is a new nationalism a new once is enough so Josh Hawley calling for a new nationalism Whoops, let me let me move on from you don't have to see his picture. There's no reason for that I don't need the headphones. I Josh Hawley calling for a new nationalism a Nationalism where the state in the name of the people breaks up businesses That could have been aligned straight out of straight out of whom Straight out of any Democrat straight out of AOC Straight out of anybody on the radical left on the far left and rule of the people Well, isn't that what we got? Isn't that what we call voting? Wasn't Joe Biden elected by the people don't we have now a president elected by the people? Isn't that how the American system worked on we have a Congress of the people and break them up in the name of the people notice not in the name of individual rights the funny fathers their constitution The declaration. Oh, no, none of that is relevant To the modern Republican Party. None of that is relevant To Donald Trump's political party. None of that is relevant to Josh Hawley I think one of the premier leaders of at least this wing of the Republican Party moving into the future No It's about making them up because that's what the people not all the people the people the matter Once this is what populism is exactly the rule of the people. I Mean, maybe we should introduce Rospiro's idea of You get a little button That you can link up to the internet in those days you would link it up to the tv to cable And you get to vote on everything To hell with the house of representatives and a senate. Let's have direct democracy. Let's have rule by the people Which is what Rospiro wanted with a little button by the television Cook says Teddy Roosevelt also campaigned on a new nationalism and popularized anti-trust. Absolutely. I mean Teddy Roosevelt Used to make my top five worst presidents of all time probably still does I haven't reconsidered my worst five presidents of all time because I I don't know how to squeeze obama and trump into that And and and and still get All the really bad guys in there, but teddy roosevelt definitely makes it because teddy roosevelt is the beginning of the end He is the first progressive president of the united states He is the one who introduces nationalism He is the one that introduces conservationism environmentalism if you will He is the one who really becomes a strong advocate of anti-trust And he is one who advocated for war. He was one big one in terms of military adventures military adventures Oh, you guys want the top five the bottom five? It's hard to figure out exactly right because there's so many of them now There's so many bad ones, but certainly teddy would be in there Wilson would have to be in there And fdr would have to be there though fdr was a good wartime president that is he was a terrible peacetime president and a decent wartime president But but certainly for for you know and and and it's hard not to include hoover Because hoover is really the one who led us into the great depression and in that sense Is a horrific president. So hoover has to be would have to be there Stephanie says Nixon and johnson. Yeah, I mean johnson gave us The welfare state and gave us medicare and medicaid hard to beat that And of course nixon gave us every environmental regulation we have in the books Including all the regulatory agencies like the epa responsible for enforcing the environmental regulations And then you've got obama with obama care You've got bush With the ridiculous wars in the middle east and then with the financial crisis trying to save capitalism By violating its principles Um, and you've got trump Who just brings down the the the the essence of The presidency. So I don't know what you do with that, right? So that is what trump, uh, obama bush nixon johnson, that's five just in the last 50 years and then you've got a 60 years and then you've got um who's veldt wilson and um and um And teddy that's eight Those are my eight worst presidents and notice the three of them are the last three presidents. We'll see how how obama i'm sorry how, um Biden does right how biden does All right, so let's see So cpec is going to be interesting. So cpec is drawing the line Between the if you will the new nationalists the kind of a america first In the trump sense of the word Conservatives who want to manage the economy you want to manage trade who are vehemently anti-immigration Republicans who are Dedicated to trump as an individual Notice that trump will be giving the final speech at cpec. There was also a big sculpture. Did you see the big statue? at cpec a big statue of donald trump in gold wearing Box of shorts with with american flag on them You know this this this talk about uh talk about the worship of the man Uh versus everybody else you can see the statue It's on youtube you can see the videos of the statue be a wheel through wheel through the convention center At cpec and everybody wanting a picture of of of the golden trump so You know this part of the republican party is firmly firmly in trump's grasp this is Uh, this is he dominates as part of the republican party now Know that they forget and they don't mention the fact that during trump's presidency put aside The fact that he lost the white house Of course, they're questioning that election, but that the republicans lost a house of representatives In 2018, I don't think they questioned that election. They lost the senate And they lost the white house and yet Notice his grasp on the party It doesn't matter that he's a loser that's brought about massive losses to the republican party. That doesn't matter He's got this grip on them, which is an emotional grip And I think the source of that grip Is fundamentally his message it's his Hatred of the left and and hatred of the left at least in speech, you know, he's quite friendly with him I think in person, but hatred of the left in speech is is is his You know willingness to fight them verbally in whatever ugly manner It chooses it's it's anti trade anti immigration big government spending populism That makes him attractive to this crowd And it's his non ideological. It's his pragmatism. It's his anti intellectualism his anti ideology views That make him attractive this all to this audience on Josh Hawley Is an ideologue Is an ideologue and at the end ideology always wins in the ends ideals Ideas and ideals always win And what trump is setting the stage for Is for the takeover the republican party by the josh hollies of the world Notice like a font policy hawk a real american first font policy hawk like john bolton is not there a real physical conservative Who truly believes in reducing government spending like ben sass Is not there a conservative who still attempts to defend capitalism She doesn't do it very well, but still attempts to defend capitalism nikki haley Is not there Because it's no longer about capitalism about free markets or about a pop american font policy In america true america first font policy It's about trump and it's nothing else What's interesting is going to be can this other side of the republican party The the republican party that is not represented at cpac Can they mount a challenge to trump? Do they have enough backing? Do they have enough support? Can they evoke enough? enthusiasm out there to present an alternative To what is going on right now at cpac And that is that is hard to tell but that is the war that we're going to be living through for the next I'd say four years, but it's probably next decade or two within the republican party And it is Going to be a war And who wins it? What's a large extent? Determined I think the ultimate fate of this country The fate of this country will now be determined by the democrats unless the republicans Are completely impotent And leave all of the politics to the left because the country is not on the left So It's going to be interesting. It's interesting to watch Sickening to watch Disgusting to watch But important important because it shapes the future. We need america needs An opposition party to the left America needs a party that at least nominally stands for individual rights and free markets Nominally not in the sense that we mean it A party that still longs for the founding fathers that is That is the battle Nicholas says the GOP is lost. Nobody will stamp up up against trump. We'll see If that is true, then the GOP indeed is lost and they might lose many many many Serial elections into the future unless biden completely implodes and biden I think is going to get lucky and he might and he's not going to implode but you know We're going to see we're going to see exactly what happens All right, a great job on the super chat so far guys What we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not Want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence And does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads All right before we go on reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now 30 likes That should be at least 100. 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