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"Democrats with 2028 dreams apparently want to treat 2020 as just one bad left-wing acid trip. Axios is reporting on how some folks who are weighing White House runs would like you to just forget many of the radical positions they took years ago. Quote, leaders and would-be leaders in the party have"
[0:00] Democrats with 2028 dreams apparently want to treat 2020 as just one bad left-wing acid trip.
[0:07] Axios is reporting on how some folks who are weighing White House runs would like you to just forget many of the radical positions they took years ago.
[0:14] Quote, leaders and would-be leaders in the party have shifted their views on border security, DEI, crime, climate change, COVID-era lockdowns, and more,
[0:23] all with an eye on this year's midterms and the 2028 presidential election.
[0:28] But the Internet's forever.
[0:31] The bill to form a commission to study how to do reparations, would you sign that bill?
[0:38] When I am elected president, I will sign that bill.
[0:40] Of course I would sign it.
[0:41] I would.
[0:42] Yes, I would.
[0:43] Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
[0:48] The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
[0:54] A hierarchy of values in this country that diminishes certain people based on their color of the skin.
[1:00] We are over-policed as a society, that we are investing in police, which is not solving problems, but making them worse.
[1:07] We made it the law of our land to provide college financial aid to transgender students.
[1:15] And rebrand season doesn't stop there.
[1:18] Dems are also trying to code switch as Republicans.
[1:21] According to NBC, tax cuts are the hottest new idea for Democrats.
[1:25] But they still want big hikes for the rich.
[1:30] Jesse, could this work?
[1:32] Do you think the Democrats could convince people?
[1:35] I feel like, I mean, the government talks about cutting taxes a lot more often than it does actually do so.
[1:40] Do you think that they could convince people with this?
[1:43] Well, I don't know, because it's pretty slimy.
[1:46] Usually politicians flip-flop, but I've never seen a party flip, flop, flop, flop.
[1:52] Greg made an analogy in the commercial break.
[1:54] Permission to use Greg's analogy?
[1:55] I'm afraid of what I said.
[1:57] Greg said the Democrats have gone so crazy and then so full circle, they came back to the missionary position.
[2:06] Oh, that's right.
[2:07] I mean, they started a missionary position and they experimented with everything, and I mean everything.
[2:14] And now they are back to missionary.
[2:16] You have to say that when we see J.B. Pritzker on the screen.
[2:19] Sorry, sorry.
[2:19] But, I mean, look at them in the 90s.
[2:21] Like, they were pretty strong on crime, on the border, on culture, on energy.
[2:25] They were like a Bill Clinton Democrat.
[2:27] Then they went crazy, and now they're trying to go back to normal.
[2:30] Do I trust them?
[2:32] No.
[2:33] Because I think if they get elected, they're going to go full freak again.
[2:37] And now their party is so full of freaks, the freaks aren't going to tolerate the straight-edge common censors,
[2:44] and it's going to be a civil war.
[2:45] But, yes, I would like to argue with Democrats about how much taxes we can cut.
[2:50] That's an argument I'd enjoy.
[2:52] Dana?
[2:53] Well, I think it's hilarious that they want to pretend that they're pro-tax cuts because it's actually structural for them.
[3:00] The reason Gavin Newsom is called Governor U-Haul is because people are leaving the state because it's structural.
[3:06] Why did the energy companies leave the state?
[3:08] Because it's structural.
[3:09] Because of, you know, like when you pay a gallon of gas, part of it is a 61-cent excise tax, amongst other things.
[3:16] So it's a highly regulated place in the union, and so everybody is leaving this beautiful location because they can't take the policies anymore.
[3:23] I don't think that this kind of rebranding works anymore, partly because there's tapes, and there's the Internet, and we can play them all,
[3:31] but also because this is not where the energy of the Democratic Party is.
[3:38] The energy there is so far left that they think these people who are pretending to be Bill Clinton are not where they want to go.
[3:46] So I think it will be really hard for some people like Rahm Emanuel, who I might say, I agree with that.
[3:52] I could do, he's for school choice.
[3:54] Okay, there's several things that I could agree with, but, like, the Democratic Socialists of America, they will never go for that.
[4:00] Yeah, Greg, 2020 was a wild time, right?
[4:03] Oh, that was it.
[4:03] I would just be like, do you support the cops?
[4:06] And if you said yes, I'd be like, you hate gay people.
[4:08] What?
[4:09] How does that even?
[4:10] Here's the deal.
[4:10] Here's the deal.
[4:11] So the Dems hope we forget that, and we kind of have, thanks for the montage, by the way.
[4:18] I think that Fox needs to run a montage, like, every hour on the hour, because when you look at how it's, like, fracturing a little bit on the right with Trump,
[4:26] like, you have all these other, like, people getting all angry in podcasts and stuff, it's because the context changed.
[4:31] You know, he's no longer up against Joe or Kamala or this woke monolith because we crushed it, but they're just asleep.
[4:40] He's by himself.
[4:42] So people aren't comparing him to what was and what he was up against, and they're also not thinking about what he will be up against in the future if the Republicans get shellacked in November.
[4:54] And, like, you can think that wokeism is dead, but it's not.
[4:57] It'll just – it's hibernating, and it will zombify – it's a zombie.
[5:04] It will come back in a different state, and it's why, Kat?
[5:07] I know you mock me.
[5:08] I continue to focus on trans.
[5:09] Why?
[5:10] Because it was the height of the attack on truth.
[5:13] You know, it was the ultimate woke Marxist flex to tell people that ideology trumped biology.
[5:21] And if you see that point at any – you can't let people forget the trans thing because that will come back,
[5:27] and it will come back in some kind of worse way that I can't even imagine.
[5:31] And then it will also – there will also be other areas that will resurface with borders and with law and order, cops.
[5:38] They'll find another way to demonize cops.
[5:41] DEI will come back.
[5:42] And we had one president who finally stood up to fight it, and we kind of forgot that we have to share the risk.
[5:49] You can't just let him twist out there.
[5:51] And they're – we got to do the job.
[5:54] The candidates have to do the job for November, or he will be left, you know, with a very small, small party.
[6:02] Kellyanne, what do you think?
[6:04] So the Democrats – it wasn't like they were at Woodstock when they were 19, burning bras or burning a flag.
[6:11] Like, this was a couple of years ago.
[6:13] We saw the same leaders.
[6:14] Like, it's not even, oh, I saw the light, I changed my mind, which is the American way.
[6:18] People can change their mind.
[6:19] That's fine.
[6:20] But they were boasting and posting about it.
[6:22] It wasn't in dark rooms.
[6:24] It wasn't quiet.
[6:25] And if you as a Democrat, let alone an independent libertarian, a moderate Republican, disagreed,
[6:31] if you didn't affirmatively say what they were saying, you disagreed with them.
[6:35] And I know people lost friends and family members over not putting the Black Lives Matter square on their Instagram identity or whatnot.
[6:42] But this is the thing.
[6:44] If the Democrats are for tax cuts, why didn't a single, not one of them, vote for the Tax Cut and Jobs Act?
[6:49] The working families bill.
[6:50] Not one of them voted for the one big, beautiful bill, which included the largest tax cuts for the middle class ever.
[6:56] Double the child tax credit.
[6:58] Tax cuts for employers.
[7:00] Tax cuts for employees.
[7:01] The no tax on tips and Social Security in overtime.
[7:04] Not one Democrat, including the 11 Democrats, Kat, that reside in the districts that they won the day Donald Trump won in 2024.
[7:11] So those are split districts.
[7:13] The other thing is, Rahm Emanuel, I was going to raise him and then Dana did.
[7:17] And so he gets two call-outs today.
[7:19] When he was the head of the DCCC, trying to win back the House in 2006 and did so successfully, Nancy Pelosi became Speaker.
[7:27] They actively recruited Democratic candidates that were pro-life, pro-Second Amendment for tax cuts.
[7:34] Veterans.
[7:35] Veterans.
[7:35] They were upset.
[7:36] Small business owners.
[7:37] They were upset with Obamacare and what that had done.
[7:39] I'm sorry, with the excesses of the war.
[7:44] And they were saying it.
[7:45] And then they lost it because they all voted for Obamacare.
[7:49] And she lost that in 2010.
[7:50] Why do I say that?
[7:52] Not only are they not recruiting anyone like that to match these districts or to match the rest of the other half of America, you're not welcome in the party.
[7:59] The blue dog Democrats, the tax-cutting, non-regulation, pro-small business Democrats are long gone.
[8:05] They are a relic of this party.
[8:07] And if we're going to allow the AOCs and the extremes to govern the party, the energy is on the far left.
[8:14] Dana, you're correct.
[8:15] But so is the money.
[8:16] What was the No Kings protest except a bunch of bored billionaires and their groups shoveling money for you to be anti-Trump extreme?
[8:25] This city that we're sitting in, our city, voted for a socialist not that long ago.
[8:29] So the energy, the money, and I think more and more of the candidates are going that way.
[8:34] Don't be fooled.
[8:35] The Democrats have not changed their principles.
[8:37] They changed their packaging.
[8:38] They still believe all this.
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