Defending Principles in Perilous Times

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Visit wayfair d. com or the Wayfair app. Wayfair every style every home. Well, folks, as you can see, I'm recording from home today, My voice is basically gone, but I wanted to sign in to chat because I'm getting a lot of questions today, a lot of text, a lot of disturbed phone calls about Tucker Carlson's announcement that he wants to start a third party. I just want to point out that there are, in fact, as we approach the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of our country There are in fact two forces that wish to wreck America stern to stEem that seek to destroy it. the DSA left and the woke right and they arere coming together. I'll explain in just a moment. this is the Ben Shapiro Show So here's where we are as we close in on our two hundred fiftieth anniversary as a country The things that matter most to the United States to Americans are under assault core principles, things like freedom of speech and freedom of religion and private property. These things are under assault. The very idea of America being an amazing place, a place that is good and great The idea of American peace through strength, all of these things are currently under assault. On the left, of course, the DSA, the Democrat socialists of America, are eating the Democratic Party wholesale. These are not kind of normal Democrats who are just worried about tax rates or entitlement programs. They truly despise the country and they' full scale socialists. Hereormam Donnie just yesterday talking about the magic of Marxist economics And we raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least Throughout this process, I've been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Fridrick Hire If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists. ese past months have shown us anything It is that socialists not only understand economics, just as well as the capitalists who came before but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles. And of course, Zar Mam Danni, he loves the idea of the Collective warmth, warmth of collectivism. so much so, by the way, that he is now calling on people to set their thermostat at seventy eight degrees in New York City You know, gott to turn this place into Paris as fast as humanly possible. The smell of trash must waft through the citys streets and to every business owner Please set your thermostats to seventy eight degrees to alleviate the stress on our power grids. Every worker in New York City has the right to a safe workplace, and that includes safety in extreme heat But here's the thing, this whole discussion about the DSA And what they've been doing in big cities and now in Colorado and all the rest, it's not just fun and games. It actually has consequences. The Democratic Party is in fact, on the verge of taking over not just the House in the midstrm elections, but also the Senate. So real Car politics has a rundown on the polling averages in the crucial Senate races. These are all seats that are currently held by Republicans. That could go to Democrats In North Carolina, Democrats are up in Ohio, dead heat in Maine. That is Graham Platinner, the Nazis tattoo guy versus Susan Collins, deead heat in Texas, James Talerico Sunday school Howy Duty with the LGBTQ flag That dude is in a dead heat with Ken Paxton in Iowa, dead heat in Alaska, dead heat that's six seats. if Democrats were to win for? They would take control of the Senate. If they win six, there are fifty three seats. Nate Silver, the statistician, he says that there's about an eighty to ninety percent shot. Democrats take the House. and there's a forty percent shot they take the Senate And remember, increasingly, these are not establishment Democrats, Th are not John Fetterman moderate Democrats. These are Democrats who are inhrall to the DSA. They understand which way the winds are blowing and they're moving in the direction of those winds So what would happen if the Democrats win again? We should keep this in mind because this is the backdrops to see Tucker Carlson announcing that he wants to start a third party, which by the way is nonsense. I'll explain that he's lying in a second. but What would happen if Democrats were to win? You need to understand the stakes to understand the game that Tucker is playing, which is a very dangerous game Well, first off, judicial nominees. So Justice Clare Thomps You may have noticed theupree Ct is pretty important, right that the Supreme Court makes decisions that affect all of us on a wide level And you can either have people in positions of power who are going to do things like strike down Roe versus Wade or curb the administrative state or ensure the checks and balances of the Constitution, or you can have a bunch of leftists who green lightight every left wing policy Well Justice Thomas is currently seventy eight, Justice Samuel Alito is seventy six. unless either one of them or both retire in the next couple of months. If Democrats win the Senate, you are likely to see them replaced at some point by a left leaning member of the Supreme Court. if you had two justices who shift from right to left or from originalist to the living Constitution crew. you end up with the majority on the Supreme Court in favor of every radical social and fiscal and foreign policy that the Democrats could ever imagine full scale disaster area. So yes, the Senate matters an awful lot Democrats, of course, will start they're going to start stacking up the district courts as well They're going to start moving those district courts in the direction of left wing social policy if they were to gain control of the Senate. They would move to impeach President Trump. There's an outside shot. They could even get a conviction in a Senate split between a deemocratic majority and maybe some rogue Democraticenators They of course, will styy any effort to refund our military to restock FADs Patriot missiles to build the new kind of military we need to actually challenge our enemies in the world And again, there is, as I say, the possibility President Trump gets impeached in theouse and then even convicted in the Senate. That's all what happens if the Democrats win the Senate. there's like very, very serious stuff and that sets it up for twenty twenty eight. because if Democrats controll the Senate in twenty six and the House in twenty six then they are one step away from having trifecta in twenty eight. Now lessen Republicans have an uphill battle in twenty six. We all know this. It's an off year election. This is normal. What's exacerbating that other than the obvious fact of the president's unpopularity. But what's truly exacerbating that is a group of people purportedly on the right who are openly saying they want the Republicans to lose. Tucker Carlson is doing this. This is Tucker's entire game And Tucker Carlson wants the Republicans to lose because what he wants is a party that takes the place of the Republican Party that mirrors all the presumptions of the woke left. Ecept for trans, basically Tucker Carlson truly disliked the country There's no way to consistently watch a show. and believe otherwise. He literally had on an arms dealer from Russian named Victor Bout the other day to talk about the evils of America Tucker Carlson thinks that America is a tool of evil, capitalist, globalist, and this all that kind of stuff. off course. Many of them are Jewish It's just a coincidence when he says that kind of when he pushes this crap, when he has on every anti seemite he can on his show, it's all a coincidence It's just strange that it works out that way. but His view is that America is a tool of evil capitalist globalists who want to cram down their version of America on the poor comment man And here is a rando to talk about the evils of the Old Testament in order to show you Tucker does not actually like any of the things that classically have made America awesome So Tucker Carlson, for example, does not like free markets. You'll recall him praising feudalism over free markets, feudalism Feudalism is so much better than what we have now because at least in feudalism, the leader is vested in prosperity of the people he rules You if all your serfs die, you starve There is not an enemy of America that he does not adore He was presresident Nicholas Maduro before the Trump administration ousted Maduro Nicholas Maduro and his government or very left wing on economics not on social policy, by the way, which is kind of interesting in Venezuela Gay marriage is banned. abortion is banned Sex changes for transgenderism are banned It's one of the very few countries in the entire hemisphere with those policies. It is on social policy defending the regime, just saying, One of the most conservative countries in North or South or Central America. Only El Salvador really comes close. He is praised pretty much Every Jihadi group he can imagine Or pretend they don't exist. Kamasa turns out is a political group. Actually He doesn't know much about these places And it turns out that Muslims have been victimized by the Western world, not the other way around And you notice like in ISIS or Al Qaeda, like the Muslim Muslim extremists all from like collapsed pathetic societies dominated by colonial powers, they've been degraded. And that's why they're so angry Uh. Tucker of course, has said that Iran is actually the wondrous force in the region And Tucker's unending lavish praise for Vladimir Putin is laughable. at this point. So now, here's the here's the actual story the day. Tucker. is discussing launching a third party. R right, this is the stck Now, You see why he's doing this? His friends are getting kicked out of the government, people like Marjorie Haylor Green or Joe Kent or Thomas Massey. And so he says he's going to start something new. So he did' an interview at the Columbia Journalism Review this week. And here's what he said, quot I do know what really matters is war and finance. Where does the money come from? Where does it go? and who gets killed? And on those questions, the parties are in lockstep solidarity with each other. Now again, that is a lie. It is not true If you think that there is no distinction between Democrats and Republicans on how taxing works where the money comes from How markets work? How farign piles you got to work If you think that they're the same, it's because you'reupid or you'reying. And I don't thinkucker is stupid I think's ly He says that's not a democracy That's a one party state posing as a democracy and it needs to be broken. and there's going to be a third party and I'm going to do everything I can to bring that about And that's the lesson of last two and a half months to me. If you vote for Trump and you still wind up in a regime change war Then we need options, or else let's just give up and be ruled by the most unscrupulous people. And I'm just too young to accept that. We need a third party. I'm going to help build a third party, he says. There should be a good faith effort to figure out what benefits the country And then he goes into his Nationalist socialist, Shel. I mean, if you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you're degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down and the promise of your children's lives is likely gone. that is not true That is not true, upward mobility in the United States remains. And they sayays no one seems to care, which is, of course, Tucker's constant refrain is that all the people who oppose his bizarre and unsavory policy prescriptions just don't care. They're not caring enough Very feminized left wing language from Tucker Carlson on a consistent basis What about Kamas he says, I officially don't about Kamas. Well, that's weird because the dude talks about the Middle East more than literally anyone who does a broadcast, Tucker Carlson He cannot stop talking about the Middle East. He's obsessed with it He says the U. S. government should have as its first priority the welfare of its own people, which of course, I agree with. Th he says, I don't want to be a candidate And then he says I was tempted to say to the New York Times, I'm running on a pro patriarchy ticket just to make sure I gain no new fans. This is always Tucker Stchick. He says a bunch of left wing stuff and then he throws out sort of a right wing red meat red herring And then he goes on his merry way. By the way in this interview, he says that he would deport Sebastian Gorka, Seb Gorka, a foreign policy advisor to the president But that he would not support Mahmd Kaliil theohamas supporter So that's what Tucker Carlson is. So. Here's the thing, Tucker has no intention of starting a third party. That is not his actual game. He's not gonna do that. He's too lazy. He has another game that he has in mind. I'll explain that game in just one second. 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So Ross Peru ran as an independent candidate in nineteen ninety two And he was focused largely on the evils of NAFTA And the idea that global economics was bad and all the rest of us and Then he withdrew in July and then he jumped back in October and he ended up with nineteen percent of the popular vote, which was the highest percentage for a third party since Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party in nineteen twelve In ninety five, he launched the actual Reform Party. And this was a giant dud It was an attempt to build out an actual party infrastructure. Now this is very hard. The United States is built for a two party system Because to build a national infrastructure is extremely costly, it is very difficult Perot ended up winning about eight percent of the national popular vote in nineteen ninety six And then you saw kind of sporadic perform candidates who occasionally win. So in nineteen ninety eight, Jesse Ventura, the wrestler. was elected governor of Minnesota. on their form ticket But by two thousand, there was a big split in the reform Party and Pap Buchanan. was the nominee. He left the Republican Party in Iire after running and losing in the primaries in nineteen ninety two Jesse Vnturra then left the party, denouncing it as dysfunctional. And by the time you can and ran in two thousand, He won point five percent of the popular vote And many of the reform party voters basically merged back into the GOP But here's the thing, I hope Tucker launch is a third party. Why? Because it'll get crushed Third parties get crushed, I wouldd love to see a clean referendum on Tucker's perverse views, but he's not going to do that. That's not actually the game. Here iss the game Tucker knows. Tucker sees that Republicans are probably going to have a bad twenty six What he want is to say that the reason that Republicans had a bad twenty six is because they alienated Ky people like him And thus, if you wish to win in twenty eight, you need to shift the entire policy making. Direction of the party back in Tucker Carlson's direction. Tucker is not launching the Reform Party. Tucker is launching the DSA or the TSA The tucker socialists of America. His goal is for Republicans to lose in twenty twenty six. He wants mean he's not hiding the ball here. He has said he's not voting, Republican. He wants Republicans to lose He is here to demoralize conservatives prior to twenty twenty six. That is the goal. The worse Republicans do, the more Tucker can then try and pretend that the reason Republicans lost is because they disappointed voters like Tucker Carlson Now again. The reality is that if Republicans lose in twenty six, there will be a lot of factors. It's an off year election, Trump is unpopular and has been unpopular for legitimately A year at this point. But if Republicans don'tw well in twenty twenty six, it's not because Tucker and his five friends didn't vote for Republicans, but that's the entire game. The entire game is to say, I'm launing a third party because there's so much anger. There is so much upset that my third party is a legitimate force in American politics, but he's not going to do that because that would actually test the proposition. He's not going to do that. That is the goal Don't you see, donon't you get it? You need us, Republican Party. You must shift all of your policy prescriptions over toward the pro Putin. Tro Iran pro China anti America side. You have to do that What Tucker is doing here is not launching some sort of rival to the Republican Party. He's standing outside the Republican Party and then saying that because they didn't hand it to him That's why we lost. That's the goal And that is just yet another reason why we actually have to fight because people who care about the country, people who deeply care about those fundamental principles of America, the stuff we're going to be celebrating this weekend We actually have to fight two forces. One is the left along with the DSA, and the other is the force of their twisted allies on the Wolk right who are holding hands with them who are hugging them There is a reason why Tucker Carlson and Champ Weiger are hgging buddies now Our principles matter. Some of us have the same principles For our entire political careers. Some of us have never moved, not one Iota. Some of us have always defended private property and free markets. Some of us have always defended peace through strength. Some of us have always defended traditional virtue and traditional values. Some of us have not moved. We've been here the entire time That is why the Daily Wire exists. It iss why it was founded not just as some sort of generalized anti left brand, but because we actually care about fundamental principles. that undergd the foundation of the country So yeah, as we celebrate july fourth this weekend and obviously we should because America is the greatest place in the history of planet Earth and the greatest privilege you have other than being born into a solid family is being born in America We obviously should celebrate and my family will be, Hey, we're hoping for a july fourth baby We all have to keep in mind, there's an immense responsibility that we all bear in these very perilous and difficult times politically. We need to make sure that America makes it from anniversary two hundred fifty to two hundred fifty one and then to three hundred then to five hundred That only happens if we keep standing for the principles that matter. 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