Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec

Episode Title: The Funeral of the Uniparty, The California Governor's Race and The Seditious Democrats
Date: November 20, 2025
Guests: Steve Hilton (California Gubernatorial Candidate), Eric Trump

Episode Overview

This episode presents a sweeping critique of America's political establishment ("the Uniparty"), California’s governance under Democratic rule, and recent seditious rhetoric from Democratic officials. Broadcasting from Bakersfield, CA, host Jack Posobiec is joined by Steve Hilton—British-born American commentator and gubernatorial candidate—and Eric Trump. Together, they dissect the decline of establishment politics, the consequences of progressive governance in California, and escalating political weaponization at the national level.

Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. California’s Energy Crisis and Political Leadership

• Steve Hilton’s Campaign & Oil Policy

  • Hilton pledges to reinvigorate California’s oil and gas industry, promising $3/gallon gas by unleashing local reserves blocked by "climate zealots".
  • Quote (Steve Hilton, 03:52): "We are in the heart of our energy industry in California... abundant oil and gas reserves right here pretty much under our feet, being left in the ground by the insane climate zealots."

• Economic Paradox

  • Despite California’s reserves, the state imports 80% of its oil, primarily from Iraq, due to stringent environmental policies.
  • Quote (Hilton, 06:19): "Almost every time I come here and I talk to the industry, the barrels produced are going down... We're paying the highest gas prices in the country, higher than Hawaii."

• Impact on Working Class

  • High energy costs disproportionately hurt working-class Californians, not the coastal elites driving these progressive policies.

2. The "Funeral of the Uniparty"

• Dick Cheney’s Funeral: A Symbolic Moment

  • Posobiec highlights how the gathering of establishment figures at Dick Cheney’s funeral—Rachel Maddow, Fauci, James Carville, Kamala Harris, and both Bidens (notably lacking Clintons)—symbolizes the waning influence of the old political order.
  • Quote (Jack Posobiec, 12:12): "This is the ancien régime, the old regime. This is the uniparty."

• Era of Populism & MAGA

  • The ascendance of Donald Trump shattered the dynastic match-up between Bush and Clinton in 2016, refocusing the GOP as a multi-racial working class coalition.
  • Quote (Steve Hilton, 16:27): "The Trump-era transformation is just so profound... the Republican Party has the opportunity to become a multiracial working class coalition... [That] has completely been delivered."

• Economic Stagnation & ‘Silent Recession’

  • Hilton references a lasting “silent recession” for most Americans since the 1970s, noting how corporate profits soared while wages for non-managerial workers stagnated.
  • Quote (Hilton, 15:17): "Earnings for most Americans after inflation [have been] completely flat since 1974. Everything else up like a hockey stick for the top 20% and for corporate [profits]."

3. California as Cautionary Tale: One-Party Rule & State Failure

• Critique of Gavin Newsom and Democratic Dominance

  • Hilton catalogs California’s struggles: worst-in-nation unemployment, poverty, cost of living, business climate, infrastructure, education, and homelessness—all under sustained Democratic control.
  • Quote (Hilton, 22:27): "If you look at the failure in California, it is total and complete on every single front... It’s a total disaster... And the people hurt most are regular working class Californians."
  • Hilton emphasizes that unchecked progressive ideology, not genuine governance, is to blame:
    • One-party rule has enabled machine politicians like Newsom, adept at PR but incompetent at results.
    • Numerous promises (e.g., a "Marshall Plan" post-wildfire) go unfulfilled.
    • Quote (Hilton, 24:43): "He’s just not interested in governing. No aptitude for governing... These are BS artists who don’t know how to get anything actually done."

• Central Valley & Rural Neglect

  • Both hosts highlight the disconnect between California’s dominant coastal elites and its agricultural, energy-producing heartland.
  • Active suppression of farming and oil sectors—via water denials and energy policy—are crippling entire communities and undermining state/national food security.

4. The Seditious Democrats – Erosion of Democratic Norms

• Democratic Leaders’ Message to Military & Intel Community

  • The panel reacts strongly to a viral video featuring Democratic lawmakers (all with military/intel backgrounds) urging soldiers and intel officers to "refuse illegal orders"—implying resistance to a future Trump administration.
  • Quote (Eric Trump, 40:31): "I wrote an entire book about this... They weaponized every single department in the federal government... Should those people have, quote, unquote, refused that order?"

• Weaponization & Double Standards

  • Eric Trump details the extended campaign of legal harassment faced by his family, contrasting it with Democrats’ appeals to "democracy" and the "rule of law."
  • Cites FBI raids, Russia collusion hoax, media censorship, and removal from ballots as evidence of unprecedented political targeting.
  • Quote (Eric Trump, 42:51): "All they did was try to silence our family. 91 indictments against my father, 112 subpoenas against me personally. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history for never doing anything wrong."

• Decline in Military Recruitment

  • Hilton and Eric Trump stress the detrimental impact of progressive leadership on military morale and recruitment.
  • Quote (Eric Trump, 43:52): "...under Joe Biden, it was the worst recruitment... You know what they're not petrified of? A commander-in-chief who will actually act... My father stands behind all these people."

5. Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Collapse of Establishment Consensus

  • (Hilton, 12:18): "Everything about it felt completely out of place. Just, wow."
  • (Posobiec, 13:13): "Everyone thought... 2016 would be Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush. And yet Trump came in and totally rearranged American politics."

• On Rural & Working Class Struggles

  • (Posobiec, 17:56): "You can't understand the MAGA movement if you don't understand the importance of your B-tier and C-tier cities... Forgotten America."

• Populist Realignment

  • (Hilton, 17:40): "...The people whose earnings rose fastest percentage-wise... the bottom 20%... their position improved more rapidly than anyone else in the income scale [under Trump]."

• On Hollywood & Cultural Disconnect

  • (Posobiec, 32:26): "Those are the types of films that used to be made in Hollywood... They've completely been divorced from this heart of America."

Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Topic/Quote | |:--------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------:| | 03:52 | Steve Hilton on California’s suppressed oil & $3 gas campaign pledge | | 06:19 | Importing 80% of California’s oil; most comes from Iraq | | 11:54 | Cheney’s funeral as symbolic “uniparty” reunion | | 15:17 | Hilton on wage stagnation since the 1970s ("silent recession") | | 16:27–17:40 | GOP’s populist transformation & rise of working-class multiracial coalition | | 22:27–24:43 | Hilton catalogs California’s declines under Newsom & Democrats | | 31:08 | “Rebel spirit” in American populism, comparing Trump with Hollywood’s classic everyman heroes | | 37:07 | Eric Trump on energy policy failures in New York & parallels in California| | 40:31 | Democrats’ message to military/IC to ‘refuse illegal orders’ – panel reaction| | 42:51 | Eric Trump’s catalogue of investigations/censorship against his family | | 43:52 | Decline in military recruitment under Biden vs. Trump | | 47:27 | Hilton: "These are the people... who endlessly lecture us about protecting democracy and the rule of law..."| | 48:09 | Steve Hilton’s campaign plug |

Final Thoughts & Call to Action

• Eric Trump closes by directing listeners to purchase his new book on Amazon, expressing distrust of mainstream booksellers.
• Steve Hilton urges listeners to join his campaign at stevehiltonforgovernor.com, describing the need to build a genuine grassroots movement against California’s entrenched Democratic machine.

Overall Tone

The episode is assertive and combative, with a blend of populist optimism and frustration at entrenched elite power. The language is passionate, vivid, and occasionally sardonic, emphasizing solidarity with working Americans and deep skepticism about both coastal elitism and longstanding establishment politics.

For listeners seeking an unfiltered, unapologetic look at the American populist right’s critique of establishment politics—both in Washington and Sacramento—this episode pulls no punches.