Trump Betrayed His Voters on Behalf of a Foreign Country. This Is Why Republicans Will Get Crushed.

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29:09Why? And you heard Trump sort of lay the predicate for what we're seeing now in that interview with Lex Friedman. He said, well, I mean, you know, the Kennedy assassination documents wouldn't endanger anybody. It's been too long. The Epstein may endanger people. How could someone be endangered by the release, the full release of all documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein? How does that put people in danger? Oh, unless he was working for foreign and or domestic intelligence agencies. So if Jeffrey Epstein was a contract employee of the U.S. government or the Israeli government or the French government, we don't have a right to know that.

29:44Why? Well, because that might implicate those governments. That's why. And while we're at it, like, why haven't the people who paid for all of this, the people who sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Jeffrey Epstein for financial consulting services or for who knows what reason allowed him to buy his island and his ranch in New Mexico and his house off Fifth Avenue. Why haven't those people been hauled in for interviews? Not indicted necessarily, but Mr. Wexner, why don't you come on down to Washington and we'll just we'll just talk and just answer some obvious questions. That's never happened.

30:16Well, of course, you know why, because there's a separate set of standards for the kind of people who would fund Jeffrey Epstein's house off Fifth Avenue. And now we're getting back to the core rationale for the Trump run in the first place, which was the people versus the deep state. And now we're seeing that the candidate, once he became president, sided not with the people, but with the deep state. And again, it raises the question, why? There was no reason to do that. Oh, they're so scary and powerful. Really? You're the president of the United States. And to some extent, power is what you exert.

30:49You don't have power until you use it. oh, we'll kill you. Well, first of all, who cares, okay? If you're afraid of death, you shouldn't be president. But second one is give a televised address saying, I was threatened by this person and that person. I've ordered them arrested. That's what actual leaders do. Leaders have done that many times through history. And future generations treat them kindly because they're doing the right thing in the face of risk. They're prevailing over threats. In this case, threats to our nation. But Trump chose not to do that. And it's a shame because if he'd actually taken on the deep state, then he might have done some of the things that he could do as president.

31:34He has the power to do these things that he promised to do on the campaign. Now, we're going to play you the first because it is, in the end, the most important. And that's do something about the scourge of drugs, not just illegal but also prescription drugs in this country. Now, why is that the most important thing? Well, because the death toll. Now, if you bring this up to anyone in or around the administration, let's say, well, the death toll from the drug crisis has gone down. Well, yeah, it's gone down for several years. In fact, it started going down under Biden. But you know, people died of just drug ODs last year, 2025, the first full year of the Trump administration, 70 ,000.

32:16Now you can watch Fox News all day and they will give you some number, always made up about the number of Americans killed in Iranian terror attacks. It's not 70 ,000. This is 70 ,000 Americans, mostly young people, last year, of drugs. And that's just the ones who died of illegal drug ODs. That's not the ones who died from Xanax. A lot did. It's not the ones whose brains were scrambled permanently, whose lives were totally wrecked for life. If you're watching this, you know some of those people. 70 ,000. And Trump promised to fix that. Watch. Every drug dealer on average kills 500 people. That's not mentioning all of the families that are destroyed forever.

33:07They're destroyed forever. And we have to do something about it because we are becoming, and we are, a drug-infested nation. We have to do something. And if you did that meaningfully, you will in one week stop the drug problem. Nobody's going to be selling drugs. Nobody. I don't know if the country is ready for it, but they should. I don't know if the country is ready for it. There's probably not a person over 50 in this country you could find who doesn't know someone personally who's been destroyed by drugs or died. so yeah the country is way past ready for it and that's not that hard maybe the first thing you would do is get your department of justice to go after not just the drug dealers but the ngos the non-profits the people who actually don't pay taxes who you're subsidizing who are passing out drug paraphernalia to addicts in our cities and not just needles which is bad enough you can say well they don't get aids that way okay how about meth pipes what's the justification for giving a meth pipe a fresh meth pipe to a meth addict by the way you can make a meth pipe out of anything not too complicated it's not a hypodermic needle you need a factory in china to make one you're passing out meth pipes to meth addicts because you want them to do meth and there's been not one indictment of one of them cities across the country to this day right now are allowing nonprofits working with the city to pass out drug paraphernalia to drug addicts.

34:45And the effects are obvious. Going to the center of any American city, is this okay that we live like this? People are dying in the street. That's compassion. It's a stain upon the country. It should sting the conscience of every American. And it's fixable. Other countries don't have this problem because they don't tolerate it. The Trump administration could have fixed this immediately. We're going to indict you if you give drug paraphernalia to drug addicts, if you abet addiction and death. Because you are an accessory to murder when you do that. And we don't have to put up with this. That's not fascism.

35:26That's compassion. But instead, once again, the entire machinery of the Department of Justice has been leveraged in the war against anti-Semitism. That was not one of his campaign pledges. Whatever that is, and by anti-Semitism, they mean not hatred of Jews or hurting Jews, which is awful and shouldn't be allowed, but criticism of the secular government of a foreign country that has done more than any other foreign country in a long time to hurt the United States. So that's what they're actually doing. It would have been nice if he'd stuck with that campaign promise. Why not? Why wouldn't you?

36:06but he hasn't. And there are a lot of domestic campaign promises that aren't that hard. That's the easiest one. Don't put up with this and it'll get better. But they are putting up with it, almost like they want it. Weird. The Sacklers are still free. They're still billionaires. How many people did Purdue Pharma kill in this country? Like an entire region of the country, the legacy region of the country, the region with the highest percentage of people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War. That was the one hurt most, Appalachia, Appalachia, south of New England. And yet the people who did that and profited from it still have their name on an art museum in Washington.

36:48They're still billionaires and nobody went to jail. Really? When they knowingly sent an addictive drug to poor people? Yeah. Yeah, but there hasn't been much attempt to do anything about that, to rectify that, one of the gravest injustices of our lifetime. Zero, actually. But two other domestic promises that people might have liked to see an action on. Here's the most obvious. I will lower energy costs. And this is bitter to watch, but watch it anyway. Here it is. that's why i've declared that a top priority for my administration will be to cut the cost of energy in half within the first 12 months of taking office so we'll cut it in half i think we'll be able i think we'll be able to do better than that we're going to be cutting it in half guys that'll help you a little bit want it and i think we'll do that very quickly that includes heating air conditioning electricity and gasoline yeah well that didn't happen um kind of just the opposite diesel's going to six bucks in days that's a historic high diesel it's a fuel it's a kind of heavier version of gasoline that is used to transport basically everything you eat or buy in the country it's what fuels our trucking fleets diesel fuel it affects the price of everything and it is almost at six bucks in California, our biggest state, 40 million people.

38:17It's almost$8. Diesel was$4.96 the day Trump took office. It's now almost$8 in California, our biggest state. So this is not something, to be fair to Trump, that he wanted. It's something he feared. Trump does understand commodities prices. He cares about them. He follows them. You can get them right on your iPhone. You know exactly what they are. Brent crude today. what's gold trading at i mean everybody can find out instantly what commodities prices are and of course when it comes to fuel you find out every week when you fill up so trump didn't want this and he knew that the war with iran he knew the ongoing war with russia both of those wars are responsible for the spike in energy prices not just in this country but globally and he knew that going into a regime change war with Iran would spike energy prices.

39:11He said that privately, including to me. So it's not like he didn't know this was going to happen, but for whatever reason, and again, historians will maybe untangle this mystery, he chose following Israel into this war over lowering energy costs for his own population. and so that was inevitable like this was always going to happen once he decided to follow a foreign country into an unwinnable regime change war so maybe the lesson here is don't do that and of course this gets the core of everything it gets to the reason that trump betrayed his voters because he followed not their wishes but the wishes of a foreign government that's just a fact You wish that wasn't true because it's the kind of thing when you say it out loud that inspires a massive response, a hateful response.

40:04And who wants that? But it is undeniably true. That's not the fault of people who point it out. That's the fault of the people who did it. and so trump's distinguishing quality as a candidate as a president in his first term was not his pledge to lower energy prices everybody promises to do that get rid of drugs of course that's been tried though not very hard no what made trump different was he was going to avoid foreign entangments he wasn't going to have another neocon war and there was already a neocon war in progress, the war between the United States and Russia, which we mistakenly, misleadingly sometimes refer to as the Ukraine war.

40:49It's never been a Ukraine war. It's a war between NATO, which is our coalition, North Atlantic Treaty Organization that we run and fund, and Russia. In other words, it's a war between the U.S. and Russia. and that war which began in the winter of 2022 was inspired by the Biden administration which wanted it so the United States in the most passive aggressive possible way our leadership pushed Russia into this war so the United States could defeat or weaken Russia no one's ever defined what exactly that means the whole project is insane but that's what happened and Trump knew exactly what was going on at the time and said so and said repeatedly in interviews and in private the main thing that we should worry about is russia joining forces being pushed into an alliance with china because that would leave us where it would leave us facing off against a coalition of the world's largest country that would be russia with the world's largest population that That would be China, the world's largest economy, also China, the world's deepest military industrial capacity and resource bed.

42:07That would be Russia against us. And we can't win. If Russia and China get together, we're done. Trump said that many times. And it's true. And it's proven to be true. And no, we can't win. So Trump knew that. And that's why he promised repeatedly on the campaign trail, when I am president, I will bring that war to a close. Watch. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the war between Russia and Ukraine settled. I'll do it in 24 hours. It's not tough to do. That's easy compared to that's easy compared to a lot of things. Well, he's right. it actually is easy compared to a lot of things now you'll often hear the foreign policy establishment the experts people in dc the state department will say no it's very very complicated it's actually not that complicated because ukraine as a nation no longer exists american policymakers have basically genocided the entire population of the country more than a million people have died now being sent to the front in handcuffs to certain death apparently that's part of the reason we're doing this.

43:21It gets very dark very fast when you start to think about it. But Ukraine itself could never prosecute a war against Russia because, well, for one thing, Russia has more than 100 million more people. So the whole thing is absurd. There is no war between Russia and Ukraine. And in practical terms, the United States, through its intel agencies, provides the targeting information for Ukrainian missiles and drones. so the war would the war would end tomorrow if the u.s were actually to withdraw that support and trump could do that with one phone call hey director of central intelligence hey nsa director no mas anyone caught running the war for the ukrainians will be fired and brought up on charges and that would end the war and yes russia would wind up with a chunk of eastern ukraine that's going to happen no matter what.

44:15And it might be better for Ukraine to stop sending its next generation, in fact, middle-aged men and people with Down syndrome into the meat grinder. That's the only option. And Trump could do that, but he hasn't, not for two years. Now, why? Well, it's really simple. Because the same people who push Trump into war with Iran are pushing him to continue the war against Russia, against Putin. Now, why is that? Now, that's a really interesting question that someone ought to write a book about. Why would the same people who pushed the US into war with Iran be pushing the United States to war with Russia?

44:56We're not even gonna speculate. We're just gonna say as a statement of fact that it's exactly the same group. so trump is clearly unable to resist that push and so we are much more deeply involved in a war with russia much more deeply than we were two years ago there have been assassination attempts on vladimir putin on the president of the country that the united states abetted again there's no Ukrainian army, there's no Ukrainian initiative without help from the United States. So from the Russian perspective, the US government is trying to assassinate Vladimir Putin. Is that wise? Even if you think Putin is the worst person ever to live, is that wise to try and assassinate the leader of a nation that possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal?

45:47Probably not a good idea. as Trump himself repeatedly said on the campaign trail. You are in so doing pushing the world toward a nuclear war from which no one escapes. Everybody dies. That's the end of the world. And anyone, as Trump often said during the campaign and for years before the campaign, anyone who doubts that doesn't know what nuclear weapons do. Trump, as the only American authorized to use said weapons, has been briefed on their destructive power and knows a lot about it and has talked about it in public a lot with heartfelt horror. Don't ever use these weapons. They're, as he would say, horrible because they are horrible.

46:30And it was entirely sincere, apparently, in saying that. Here's one example. Watch this. I am worried about nuclear because, to be honest with you, we have incompetent people dealing on it. You're going to end up in World War III. You're going to have a nuclear holocaust if we're not careful. These people have no idea. Our people have no idea what they're doing. And I will keep you out of World War Three. I'm the only one that's going to be able to do it. Yeah. So how'd that turn out? And by the way, that seemed completely real. Trump didn't just say that in that speech. That may have been at the convention.

47:07He said it again and again and again in speeches, in interviews, at dinners, in private and in public. Trump said, why would he pretend otherwise? I am afraid of a nuclear exchange. That is the worst thing. A nuclear weapon that hits New York would destroy Miami. They're that powerful. He said that. Do you hear that? That sound, right? That means that summer's officially here. It means that grown adults just sprint into the street for a frozen dessert shaped like a cartoon. But this summer, Mint Mobile has a better treat. Every plant, including unlimited, is$15 a month. And unlike ice cream, it won't drip down your wrist or look nothing like the picture.

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48:14It causes pain to say that out loud. It is shocking to say that out loud. It is true. In true social after true social, in public statement after public statement, including three days ago, Trump has threatened nuclear war. The guy who told us two years ago, not even, nuclear war is the worst thing. World going to avoid. The people running everything are lunatics. They want a war. I don't. That guy is now threatening to unleash nuclear weapons against the country that he started a voluntary war with that doesn't possess them. An offensive use of nuclear weapons. And not just in his true social posts.

48:59The U.S. government is changing and has announced that it's changing its nuclear doctrine. Not to constrain its ability to use nuclear weapons, but to free it up to use nuclear weapons. Like we're losing this world. Let's just nuke them. Now, leaving aside the morality of that, which is diseased, it's completely indefensible, though many on the right are defending it. People who seem totally sane just the other day, like Victor Davis Hanson, are all of a sudden talking about the glories of Hiroshima. Hiroshima is a moral crime. It's not a defense of Pearl Harbor or the imperial Japanese government, but to incinerate non-combatants with a nuclear weapon is by definition evil.

49:42There's no defending that. And anyone who defends that has immediately disqualified himself from leadership of any kind. But it's worse than that. Not only is Trump threatening nuclear war openly, and no one seems to even notice this, and not only is his remaining coalition, the bitter enders, Ben Shapiro, whoever else still believes in Trump or is trying to use Trump for their own ends. Not only are they ratifying it, defending it, echoing it. Yeah, I think we need a nuclear strike. But the U.S. government is changing its internal doctrines to make it easier to use nuclear weapons and then suggesting in meetings in the Pentagon and PowerPoint presentations, the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

50:33So even if you thought that was morally defensible, even if you agreed with Ben Shapiro that sometimes you just got to nuke people, You just got to melt their children. What do you think happens next? One country just lobs a nuclear weapon into another country and that's just it? We win at that point, whatever that means? No, of course not. That one action leads inexorably, and there's no other interpretation, this is a dead certain fact, inexorably to a nuclear exchange. And that's the end.

51:05not only is this the opposite of what trump promised this is by definition insanity anyone who suggests the offensive use of nuclear weapons ought to be in prison immediately you are not allowed to destroy the world you did not build it you were not allowed to threaten the murder of billions of people and remain free if there was ever a crime it's that that is a crime And anyone who gets us closer to committing that crime should be in jail for the safety of the rest of us. But no one seems to notice. Those of us who supported Trump, who believed what he was saying, awake every morning in a kind of mixture of shock, amazement, and disgust.

51:57Is this really happening? did he change completely? Did he never mean what he said? Like, am I misremembering this? I believed it completely. Here's a portion of the speech I gave on the night Trump was nominated in Milwaukee two years ago at the Republican National Convention, against my better judgment, never endorsed or campaigned for anybody, never will again, but so important is this topic don't further destroy the country with pointless foreign wars and so sincere was trump's opposition to that that i thought you know this is the one issue that really matters and i believe this guy they're trying to put him in prison they shot him in the ear and butler because he's against these wars he must be for real And I believed it so much, I said this.

52:53Watch. I do think the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader's duty is to his people, to his country and to no other. That's the point. That's the only point. And another word for this is democracy. And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States. Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want. And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years.

53:37Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens ODing on drugs to go cast votes to send money to some foreign country. The one thing that was really clear about Donald Trump two years ago is that he wouldn't ignore the suffering of his own people and instead turn his attention and funnel our money to some foreign country for a pointless war that can only hurt us and that kills innocents. That's the one thing we knew and I believed it so completely, I endorsed it. I checked that today. Did I really say that? Why did I say that? Because I really believed it. Why did I really believe it?

54:16Because he said it again and again and again for 10 years. And then in an instant, it changed in an instant. And that instant came quickly. That instant actually was January 28th, 2025. That would be about a week after he became president. That was the day that Donald Trump publicly announced that the first visitor to the White House, the first foreign head of state to visit Washington in his term, would be Benjamin Netanyahu. And it didn't take long. In fact, it took exactly four days. Trump was inaugurated on January 20th. And on February 4th, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, was at the White House.

54:55And what was he doing there? Just there to say hi, like he's friends with Trump? He was not friends with Trump. Trump despised him. Of course. Trump was still mad from four years before when Netanyahu was the first foreign head of state to call Joe Biden and congratulate him on winning a victory that Trump claimed was not a victory but instead a theft and Trump held a grudge and said so very often in public and in private he was mad at Benjamin Netanyahu and yet eight days after becoming president Netanyahu is the first person to visit the White House eight days in when there's a long slate of things to do, of problems to fix, of concerns to think about.

55:38There's a huge country of 340 million people to uplift and improve. But no. Benjamin Netanyahu came first. Here's the first press conference between the two. This is again February 4th, 2025. Bibi, I want to say it's an honor to have you with us. Over the past four years, the U.S. and the Israeli alliance has been tested more than any time in history. But the bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations, and they are absolutely unbreakable. They are unbreakable. And I'm also pleased to announce that this afternoon the United States withdrew from the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council and ended all of the support for the UN relief and works agency which funneled money to Hamas and which was very disloyal to humanity.

56:41Today I also took action to restore a maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime and we will once again enforce the most aggressive possible sanctions. I've said this before I'll say it again you are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House applause applause applause applause applause oh man you knew there was trouble coming because honestly Israel's had some pretty great friends in the White House in fact they've all been friends but to be the greatest friend they've ever had and then you watch the new president say It's an unbreakable bond, this connection between Israel and the United States.

57:23How can the U.S. have an unbreakable bond with a foreign country? The only unbreakable bond that a president has is with his own citizens, with his country, his people. That's who elected him. That's who gave him the plane. All of his authority, all of his power, his place in history comes from his people. That's our system. But no, the only unbreakable bond was with Israel. and right there on february 4th days after getting there the president describes his real plan which is to get tough with iran iran didn't you just tell us the other day that we weren't having a war with iran so a lot of us at that point felt sick we'd seen this movie before it was obvious very obvious that this wasn't a snap decision that trump had made that at some point over the preceding months he decided to take a completely different course from the one he described in public that there was another agenda that he was not describing in public and that it was going to be hard to stop it and so there are really only two responses one was to try and stop it to do everything you could to bring the public's attention to this this this could happen we could wind up in a regime change war with iran we said that repeatedly and we're attacked for it oh you're a panic and you're crazy we're not gonna have a regime change war with iran we're just taking out their nuclear program.

58:48Not a big deal. Of course, as every president has promised to since the beginning of time. In fact, I think it was John Quincy Adams, maybe George Washington himself, who said the main point of the United States is to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. So this is like a longstanding policy. What are you, nuts? But it was clear what was coming that day, February 4th. But a lot of us thought, well, maybe we can stop that. That's so crazy, it couldn't possibly happen. And in the meantime, there's one campaign promise we know he's going to make good on because he's been running on this since 2015, since he came down the elevator.

59:28This country has a border. Its integrity should be enforced. Its laws are real. You can't just show up here illegally and get benefits. You have to leave and come here legally. We've got tens of millions of illegal aliens living in this country. And Trump was elected, if on no other issue, on the promise to fix that and to make people go home. And if you want to come here, go to the embassy in your country and apply like everybody else. Because if you don't have to obey our laws, then why do the rest of us have to obey our laws? Like, what is this? Why should foreign nationals who give the finger to our legal code get a pass while you make a mistake on your tax form or on your federal gun purchasing form go to jail?

1:00:18Like, that's not sustainable. That's not a real country. You've got to fix that. So we thought, okay, this Iran thing is nuts. It's so nuts. Again, it probably can't happen. Okay? The U.S. isn't capable of fighting a war against Iran. and despite all the talk about the greatest military in the world, anyone who really pays close attention knows we can't do this, actually. So in the meantime, at least we've got immigration enforcement. Not to be mean to immigrants or shoot people in the street, but just to enforce the law, which is like a baseline requirement, not just of a country, but of civilization itself.

1:00:57And so it was a little confusing when the Trump administration began to enforce immigration law, enforce immigration law. Because the first high-profile immigration case was not against illegal aliens. It was against legal immigrants. It was against people with green cards. It's hard to get a green card, actually. If you've ever known someone who's tried to get one in the United States, it's not easy to get a green card. It can be very tough. In fact, people who are married to American citizens, legitimately married, sometimes can't get green cards. so the very first high-profile immigration case was against people with green cards who were here legally with jobs or students why you wondered when you first saw this are they going after people who i mean maybe you can make a case for that but after you do something about the tens of millions of people who are here totally illegally not to mention the criminal aliens who are here who are actually committing a lot of crimes.

1:01:57And what about the Haitian dog eaters? They were eating dogs and some cats, though obviously not as great a concern. But still, it's the principle of the thing. What about all those people? Nope. The first big immigration story was this, and we're going to let you watch the new Secretary of State explain why people were rounded up and forced to leave. Watch this. And if you tell us when you apply for your visa, and by the way, I intend to come to your country as a student and rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, anti-Semitic activities. I intend to shut down your universities. If you told us all these things when you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa.

1:02:38I hope we would. If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it. And if you end up having a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as a result of that visa while you're here and those activities, we're going to kick you out. It's as simple as that. This is not about free speech. This is about people that don't have a right to be in the United States to begin with. When you walk into a Burlington, you're walking into amazing prices and great styles. That's main character energy. Because at Burlington, the wow deals aren't the only thing turning heads.

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1:04:40when you've got tens of millions of people here illegally, a lot of them, some of them anyway, members of murderous drug cartels, when you've got Haitian dog eaters, you go after people with green cards for anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic activity. Okay, what does that mean exactly? Were these people who were arrested for hate crimes against Jewish people? No, they weren't. They were people who complained about the official policies of a foreign government, Israel. It was people who weighed in on an ancient and contentious dispute in a nation 6 ,000 miles away. Now, no matter what side of that you're on, and at this point, given all we know about how Israel has treated Palestinians in the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza, it's pretty hard to be on Israel's side.

1:05:38I I don't think any decent person knowing what has actually happened could take Israel's side in that. Doesn't seem possible. Maybe. But it doesn't matter what sides you're on. As a matter of U.S. government policy, if the first big immigration bust is not of drug cartels or even dog eaters, but of people who criticize a foreign nation, and then the Secretary of State himself gets up and gives a self-righteous press conference calling criticism of a foreign government a hate crime. Ooh. You know that you have descended to the lowest level of identity politics. What's identity politics? Identity politics is the policy of giving special rights to people on the basis of how they were born.

1:06:29Now, one of the things, in fact, one of the main things that Donald Trump ran against was that, identity politics, because identity politics invalidates the concept of citizenship. No, we're not all equal, actually. No, we don't all live under the same law. No, we don't all have to follow the same rules. Some groups, by virtue of how they were born, have a whole separate set of rules. And most people, regardless of party, would acknowledge, if asked, that that's immoral, and it's also not sustainable. You can't have a country where there's no working majority of any group in which certain groups get a leg up over other groups with the help of the government because that will fall apart in fact it will fall apart in a recognizable way it will devolve into conflict group against group and there are all kinds of conservatives who made a powerful and cogent and true case against identity politics for the entire span of the Biden administration because the Biden administration overall was an egregious offender in this category.

1:07:32Certain groups had more rights than others under Joe Biden. And certain groups were singled out for nonstop abuse. White men, they were the problem. Remember that? And people hated that. And not just right-wingers. Any normal person hates that. This country can't work unless every person has identical rights. Not just under the law, but under God, has rights as a human being. Actually, by the way, that's why we have a human rights commission, which may be dopey or ineffective, but the idea of human rights is real because human rights themselves are real and they're the basis of our founding documents.

1:08:09So the second you spend all of your energy, the second you use the entire weight of federal law to protect one group to the exclusion of other groups,

1:08:22that's the end. That's the end. so here was the guy who ran against that doing it i came into to congress 13 years ago with the stated intention of being the leading defender of israel in the united states senate and i've worked every day to do that apac a lot of times apac i wish were much more effective so that's senator ted cruz of texas now why are we playing that a couple reasons Ted Cruz is the opposite of Donald Trump, not simply because they ran against each other famously in 2016, but because they have completely different worldviews, completely different worldviews. Ted Cruz is kind of the end stage of a conventional Republican, completely disconnected from his own voters, wedded to slogans minted when he was in grade school, peace through strength, whatever.

1:09:20some Reagan era slogan that, you know, may have some truth in it, but isn't really relevant to the problems we face right now. And who at the end of the day is personally corrupt, which Ted Cruz is, and is an undisguised tool of his donors. But more than anything, Ted Cruz, and you just heard him say it, and probably the most famous Ted thing Ted Cruz has ever said, Ted Cruz is a tool of a foreign power, not in a stealthy way. Ted Cruz will just say, I was elected to the United States Senate from Texas, our second biggest state, to serve Israel. Like that was the whole reason I did it, was to serve a foreign country.

1:10:00Now, if Ted Cruz had said that or any senator had said that about any other country, I got elected to this body to make sure I was the best friend Malaysia ever had, that Madagascar never had a stronger advocate than me, that China got full representation in the legislative branch of the U.S. government. People would look askance. Well, there'd probably be an arrest warrant issued for you if you said something like that, and probably deservedly so. But Ted Cruz just said it out loud. I'm here to serve Israel, and he has done his best, limited by his natural limitations, but he's tried hard to serve Israel.

1:10:40And that's why there's probably never been a pointless war that Ted Cruz hasn't endorsed. Ted Cruz is exactly the guy Trump ran against in name in 2016 and in spirit in 2024. And yet fast forward two years, is anything you just heard Ted Cruz say, is anything Ted Cruz says every day on Twitter, materially different from the policies of the Trump administration? Oh, that's not fair. That's not fair, you say. Oh, really? Okay, then. Tonight, right now, actually, as we speak, is the beginning of the midterm Republican convention, which is an event in Texas held for the next two days by the Republican Party to gin up support and enthusiasm and, of course, money for the midterm election efforts of the Republican Party.

1:11:29And the speaker list is absolutely fascinating. It's online and you should take a look at it. But on that speaker list, guess who? Ted Cruz. How many people, how many Republican primary voters in this last election 2024 would have imagined that less than two years into his term Donald Trump would be asking Ted Cruz to speak at his convention that Ted Cruz would be the voice of the Trump administration and the Republican Party because in addition to his many other titles Donald Trump is the head of the Republican Party and of course he has veto power over the speaker's list. He can have anyone he wants or no one at all.

1:12:14And he chose Ted Cruz. And why wouldn't he? They no longer disagree on anything. So to sum up, if you think Ted Cruz is the future of the Republican Party, if you think Ted Cruz is the future of the United States, then go ahead and vote for that party. But if you find the idea of putting a foreign country before your own country, the citizens of another nation before your own people, if you find that repugnant, immoral, if you think it should be illegal, then you're probably not going to vote for it. And so maybe that's why, in the end, the Republican Party is going to get spanked pretty hard in the midterm elections.

1:12:55Not just because Trump is loud and obnoxious and people object to the way he presents things, but because the ideas that undergird these policies are disgusting and wrong. And they're going to be repudiated at the ballot box. Hard to know whether we'll get something better. Probably not. It's not an endorsement of Democrats, hardly. It's an expression of pain at the betrayal that all of us have experienced. So keep that in mind the day after the election. Thank you. We'll be back next Wednesday.

1:13:33Thank you.