This is the second time, the second time that Democrats bet the House on white women and suburban white women. And this is the second time they've been left at the altar. There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there is racial bias in this country, and there is sexism in this country. [00:00:17] And anybody who thinks that that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong. Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not. I was so hopeful that a mixed race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected [00:00:33] president of this country. And I think that it had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country. Was it though? All right. Well, as you just watched Bakari Sellers, David Axelrod, who had clarity [00:00:50] before the election but seems to have lost that clarity after the election, joy Reid, Sunny Hostin, they're all blaming Kamala Harris's loss on the character of the American electorate. And I think that's a big mistake, because when you do that, number one, it's [00:01:07] bad analysis and it's incredibly lazy. But number two, it only works to shield or provide cover for the mistakes that the Democratic Party has been making. Now, look, later on that episode of The View, Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin [00:01:26] got into an argument over Hostin blaming white women specifically for voting against their own interests. So let's take a look at that. Why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms? [00:01:41] And why do you think Latino men voted in favor of someone that's going to deport? Says he's going to deport the majority of his community? Women like being called uneducated white women. I think the economy matters. National security matters. But when you put people in these boxes, I think that's a take away from this race. [00:01:57] We have to look at at the demographics of. Also, I think it's worth Noting that, you know, there are some red states that attempted to ban abortion or severely restrict abortion, but the people in those states voted in favor of ballot initiatives to legalize [00:02:16] abortion, to to reverse the negative impact of the reversal of Roe v Wade. So saying that people are voting against their best interests kind of doesn't make sense when it comes to the reproductive rights issue, because what was Kamala Harris supposed to do? She was going like, let's say she got elected. [00:02:33] She would have come into office, with a Senate controlled by Republicans. And I don't know, has it already been determined? Have Democrats lost the House? Yeah. Almost certainly. Okay, so basically a Republican controlled Congress. [00:02:50] How the hell was she supposed to pass or codify reproductive rights on a national level? It wasn't going to happen, and it wouldn't have happened if Democrats had control of the House or even a slim majority in the Senate. It just wasn't going to happen. She's not going to steamroll the congressional the Senate filibuster, [00:03:09] which requires 60 votes in order to pass legislation. It wasn't going to happen. So like I just I think what Alyssa Farah Griffin said there and I never thought I would say this, but she's right. She's right. And I also think there's an issue with the way, like liberals feel free to [00:03:30] just demonize white people in general. Right? Like it turns people off. And if they're constantly told over and over again that they're the enemy, they're the they're everything that's wrong with this country. You know, every bad thing that's happened here is because of, you know, the white European settlers and the white people who were here like it. [00:03:47] If one party is telling them they're the bad guys and they're not wanted, and they're the root of every problem in the country, do you think that part of the electorate is going to vote for you? Yeah, there's so many different problems in all those statements. So number one, you're misunderstanding why she lost. [00:04:05] If you're thinking that she lost. Not to say there is no racism or sexism against her. That's absurd. Of course there's some, right? But if you think that's the main reason that she lost, you've misdiagnosed the problem. The main reason she lost is because Democrats don't deliver, and they run establishment campaigns and not populist campaigns. [00:04:21] And this is so stark because there's only two people in the country that it among the politicians that have run as populists. One is a fake populist Donald Trump. One is a real populist. That's Bernie Sanders, right. And both of them had miraculous runs. [00:04:38] And the media acknowledges, oh my God, we thought Bernie was a joke. We thought he was going to get 1% against Hillary Clinton. He got 48%, nearly won the whole damn thing. And in 2020, he won the first three primary states. Oh my God, that's amazing, right? Donald Trump, in this miraculous political comeback, wins the second time. [00:04:54] Those are the only two people that have ever run as populists in my lifetime for president. And they both did spectacularly well. Every establishment Republican and Democrat that runs gets clowned, right. But they can't figure. They're like, oh no, no, no, that's that's not it. And remember Bernie's on the left, Trump's on the right. [00:05:11] So it's not even a left right thing. It's definitely not a racial thing. Bernie's terrific on on race. Trump is terrible on race. But they both won. Oh, I'm sorry Bernie didn't win ultimately. But he had a miraculous rise up in the polls. And and and so if you're looking at it in an unbiased way, [00:05:30] clearly the American people are saying we don't like the elitism. And then here's a bunch of elites on television who are almost all millionaires telling you it's your fault and it's uneducated white women's fault. Okay, that leads to problem number two, which is what Anna was talking about. [00:05:45] If you keep insulting, by the way, not only some people, which they won't will for you, but also the majority of people in this country, do you think that's a good political strategy to say to three quarters of the country that's white, you guys are the problem. It's your fault we lost and it's your fault [00:06:03] for being so uneducated and so white. I mean, that is the worst political strategy I've ever seen. I mean, that makes some of the, you know, extreme leftists that we were right about and had terrible political strategy, etc. It makes them look like good strategists when you do that strategy. [00:06:20] I wouldn't go that far. I mean, it's just it's as bad as it could possibly be. And then there's the fact that that, that a lot of the things they say is isn't remotely true. Like in the beginning, Sunny Hostin was talking about, you know, black woman and a Jew with a Jewish husband. [00:06:35] I was like, wait, are you saying that, like, Jewish people can't do well in this country in politics? Because there's that that stereotype also exists. What are you talking about? Bernie Sanders again, legendary in how well he did. Jamie Raskin, one of the most popular figures in politics. [00:06:51] And Josh Shapiro, an incredibly successful and popular governor in Pennsylvania. What are you guys talking about? He doesn't have anything to do with them being Jewish or black or anything like that. It has to do with the substance of their campaigns. But people on TV hate substance. [00:07:07] Yeah, it's just it's lazy politics. It's boring, lazy, dumb politics. Okay, so could it be any black woman? Can it be Candace Owens? If Candace Owens is running for president, do we have to support her? Because we need to elect a black woman? What does she stand for? What does she represent? [00:07:23] Is she going to serve the best interests for the electorate? Like, what are we talking about here? And look, I think the biggest problem is that when it comes to the field of journalism, it used to be dominated by working class people. Okay. A lot of them didn't even get a college degree. [00:07:38] Right? You didn't need a college degree to be a journalist. But now journalism is dominated by wealthy, Ivy League educated individuals who live a nice, cushy, comfortable lives and are kind of detached from the realities that the electorate has to deal with. [00:07:55] And so when you're that comfortable, I'm just going to keep it real. You're really less concerned about the policy and more concerned about like, the optics and like you treat politics like it's just a fun sports, a sports thing, right? [00:08:11] Like, oh, I want my team to win. But you get to have these luxury beliefs, okay, where the content of the campaign doesn't really matter. What the candidate is promising to do for the American people doesn't really matter. It just makes you feel good to see a biracial woman with a Jewish husband [00:08:30] in the white House and that that that reigns supreme in your world. No, most people are worried about other things. Okay. It has nothing to do with her skin color. It has nothing to do with the fact that her husband is Jewish. It has everything to do with the fact that Kamala Harris doesn't really stand for anything. If we're honest with ourselves. No one knows what she stands for. [00:08:48] She went from running to the left of Bernie Sanders on some of these social issues back in 2020, to suddenly swinging back as I'm like a tough on crime prosecutor, and I'm now campaigning with a neo conservative like Liz Cheney, I'm honored to be endorsed by Dick Cheney. A literal war criminal. [00:09:07] - Come on. - So two things about that. One is, look, she had some policies that were detailed and Trump had some policies that he focused on nonstop, like immigration and the economy and inflation. But he's not a very policy oriented guy. Right? [00:09:25] We're not talking about that. We're talking about wait, explain to me why you were potentially extreme left and then, like extreme conservative Democrat within a span of four years. And the reason she can't explain that and never did explain that [00:09:43] is because he's a politician. She's a super standard politician with her finger in the wind. Which way is it blowing? Oh, I hear that. It's everybody's going progressive in 2020. Oh everybody's going conservative in 2024. And the people on TV are part of the theater. [00:09:58] They're the ones who put on the play. So they're not going to tell you that these politicians are actors. So that's why she couldn't explain that giant shift in policy, because she's just an actor. She doesn't have any core beliefs. And to be fair to Kamala Harris, that's the same as 98% of politicians. [00:10:16] But those are the same people that these guys support every single day and pretend are such wonderful, genuine people who really care. And that's why they want trans undocumented detainees to get gender reassignment surgery. No they don't. They hate those people. [00:10:34] They definitely don't want them to get surgery. And that is why they're consistent. What? What kind of. It's like a glitch in the matrix, right? - Yeah. - It's not. Look, I just don't think it's that complicated, okay? People want to see their quality of life increase, improve. And that hasn't been happening for a lot of Americans. [00:10:51] And they're angry. Okay. They want. Yes. There's a level of wanting to retaliate against the establishment politicians. And Donald Trump is the perfect figure to utilize for that retaliation. And I think that there's a lot of that going on. [00:11:07] Oh, 100% it's. We had Dan Holloway, who is a conservative from drinking bros, but not like he's not your old school conservative, right? He's a right wing populist. And he had a great analogy. He said. We know he's a bull in a China shop, but we hate the China shop. [00:11:24] That's why we send in the bull. Right? And the China shop they're referring to is the establishment, corruption, etc.. Now Trump does his own corruption, and while he's in that China shop, he goes to the wrong part and tries to destroy the Constitution too. We know that. But at the same time, that is the part of the reason why he won. [00:11:43] You got to understand that. But when I was talking about the glitch in the matrix, Cheney, the Cheney's are a perfect example because these same actors, just a little while ago, were telling you how awful and terrible and evil Dick and Liz Cheney were this. But now that we've got to, we're in act three of the play. [00:12:01] They've now turned around 100% and telling you about that same crew, The View said. - Liz Cheney had incredible moral courage. - She had a wonderful moral core. That was the phrase used by Whoopi Goldberg in particular, [00:12:16] and she was talking about how, you know, she would like to see Liz Cheney be Kamala Harris's attorney general. I mean, Whoopi Goldberg might have cost Kamala Harris the election. Let's keep it real. Okay, no, that's not what. But that's too small a part. But so guys, back then they said torture was terrible. [00:12:33] I can't believe the CIA is doing torture. Dick Cheney started that program at the CIA today. Fast forward. And Whoopi Goldberg is saying in that same episode that Liz Cheney maybe should be the head of the CIA. So which one is it? Which one is it? That's the glitch in the matrix because they're all actors. [00:12:50] Okay. So last thing here because it's really important. And I talked about, you know, in the old days you had those gumshoe journalists and they had the, you know, pencil in the ear. And the muckrakers. And they'd go run after a story and they challenge the powerful, and they were supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. [00:13:06] Right. That was the old slogan of journalism. Yes. Now they comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted 100%. Right. And and so it's not just because they're rich. Everybody, almost everyone on television is a millionaire or a multimillionaire. So one of the clips we showed you earlier in the show, Rachel Maddow is there. [00:13:22] She's making $20 million a year, and I think she works one day a week. I mean, it's amazing. Sean Hannity makes $40 million a year. So these guys are spectacularly wealthy. They haven't interacted with poor people in forever, right? Or middle class people. And they'll say, no, no, I you know, I ran into somebody on the train. [00:13:38] Okay, fine. Whatever. Right. And but but even for the print guys that are not spectacularly wealthy, Anna's right. A lot of them went to Ivy League schools and really good schools, and I don't begrudge them that. I went to the same schools. But I know that we are in a certain bubble and we have a certain point of view [00:13:53] because the groupthink of that bubble. So I try really hard to not be in that bubble and to see outside my point of view. Yeah. Plus, you're not rich. - Yeah. - Plus I'm not rich, so that helps. Yeah. So but but but for but like I said the print journalists [00:14:08] a lot of them are also not rich. Right. But they can't get past their point of view. They can't see straight. They think, well, of course the politicians have to take all the money and then serve the donors, and the voters know that everybody's racist and sexist, etc.. And so that's why they say the absurd things that they do [00:14:25] and they don't even realize it.