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Ben Shapiro (0:00)
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Pre order your copy today@dailywire.com Ben well, folks, if you pay attention to the legacy media, President Trump is in serious trouble. The only things happening in the world are the Epstein case and what's going on in the Gaza Strip and all the rest. And we'll get to those topics in just a little while on the show. But here's the thing. Because the legacy media are aligned with the Democratic Party, they would like you to ignore the fact that the Democratic Party has literally never, never been less popular. And some of that has to do with the maintained popularity of President Trump. If President Trump were wildly unpopular, then the way that politics goes to see saw, if Trump goes down, Democrats go up. And so if Democrats are down, that means by necessity, President Trump remains up and the Democrats continue to be unbelievably weak. According to Politico, President Trump's approval rating remains underwater, but Democrats are faring much worse, according to a new poll from the Wall Street Journal released on Saturday. That new survey, conducted by Democratic pollster John Anzalone and Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, found Democrats popularity at its lowest point in three decades in 30 years of polling for the Wall Street Journal, with 63% of voters holding an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, just 33% of voters hold a favorable view of Democrats. A meager 8% hold a very favorable opinion of Democrats. That means net negative favorability, 30 percentage points. So whatever the media keep telling you about the unpopularity of Trump, Democrats remain way more unpopular. Now that doesn't mean that President Trump isn't facing stiff headwinds, some of his own making. By 17 points. Voters disapprove, for example, of President Trump's Hindu handling of tariffs, but they still trust Republicans on trade more than Democrats by 7 points. So here's the problem for the Democrats. People may not like certain aspects of what President Trump is doing, but they do trust that Trump is going to be responsive to reality in a way that Democrats simply are not. There are literally two policy issues where Democrats are favored over Republicans too. One is health care and the other is vaccine policy. The president right now is negative seven points. The GOP is negative 11. But remember, the Democrats are negative 30 minus 30. Now, Democrat enthusiasm, because we're going into a midterm election next year is higher than Republican enthusiasm. However, despite those poll numbers, Republicans are only down to Democrats in the generic congressional ballot by three points, which is basically a toss up when it looks when when that translates to individual congressional races. At this time in 2017, Democrats had an 8 point advantage already in the midterm elections. So Democrats are in serious trouble. And the reason is because they are totally and completely out of touch. There's a fascinating piece from the New York Times titled Inside the Rise of the Multiracial Right, written by Daniel Martinez Hosang, a professor of American Studies and Political science at Yale. And the whole piece is about the rightward drift of minority voters, about the fact that President Trump won a radically outsized share of minority voters, despite the fact that that we have been told since basically 2008 that the Democratic Party was going to forge a brand new majority minority coalition that left white voters in the dust. And actually, as it turns out, President Trump wins white voters, but he's also winning an outsized share of Latinos, blacks, Asian Americans. The question is why? And the answer is because the Democratic Party, as it took over all of America's institutions, disconnected itself from normal Americans. The Democratic Party made a couple of major mistakes. One of those is that it decided to implement an elite Ivy League agenda in terms of values at these institutions, that the only thing that mattered in the end was the most radical social values you could possibly imagine. Anti church values, anti family values. Yes, it turns out that the radical LGBTQ+ divided by sign wing of the Democratic Party alienated an awful lot of minorities, many of whom actually still very much ensconced in church and family. And it turns out that if the price of moving along with the Democrats is that you have to believe boys can become girls, that is A major issue for a huge number of Americans. And yet Democrats seem preternaturally obsessed with that issue, unable to abandon that issue. And yes, that is a major obstacle for them. But there's another problem too, and that is that Democrats, because in the end, the elite of the Democratic Party remain upper crust white liberals and fellow travelers like Barack Obama, who again, made common cause with those upper crust elite white liberals and felt very safe and comfortable in those particular circles. He talks about this in Dreams from My Father. Because of that, there was a tendency to believe that all minorities felt the same way. There's a flattening of all minority racial groups into one giant blob, quote, unquote, people of color. And that's not the way anyone thinks of themselves. Nobody thinks of themselves that way. Hell, white voters don't even think of themselves that way. If you ask a normal white voter, that white voter could be a Polish extraction of Italian extraction, now of Jewish extraction, of German extraction, of Irish extraction. And there's been an attempt in America to sort of flatten all of these distinctions out. But those distinctions are very real in terms of how people see themselves in terms of identity. So when you tell an Asian American that their interests are identical to those of a black American or a black American that his interests are identical to those of a Latino American, well, in some cases the answer is yes, because we're all individuals. But in some cases, the answer is very much no. It may turn out, for example, that affirmative action policies that are designed to increase the number of applicants who are black who get into Ivy League colleges may cut directly against the interests of, say, Asian Americans who are outscoring their competitors on college tests. And so pretending that essentially the coalition of minority groups, they all agree on everything because they're all, quote, unquote, people of color in opposition to white people. That is not a winning argument. This is the point of this piece. At the very end, Hosang writes, he's writing about a woman named Deja Davis who attended America Fest, which is a Charlie KIRK Turning Point USA conference. He says, At America Fest, weeks before Mr. Trump began his second term, I met a 25 year old black Blexit member named Deja Davis. Blexit is a woman movement originally started by Candace Owens to get black Americans to leave the Democratic Party. Committed and idealistic, she projected a strong sense of racial identity and pride. She told me she and the other black conservatives she works with care so deeply about our community. They were setting up chapters of conservative groups at historically Black colleges and hosting community events. I believe the black community can do anything, she told me. When I began this work, says Hosang, it was difficult to imagine people of color again. People of color like mistavis, who whose racial identity feels to her in no way out of line with her political one, becoming a major conservative political force in our country. And with thousands of voters like her at the Turning Point conference, that's exactly where we are. For people like Ms. Davis, optimism and hope for the future come from the right, not the left. Their racial identity is still at the core of their political beliefs. If anything, so much of what these voters have told me comes from a pointed concern for their communities. But their political decisions are driven more by the realities that racial communities face. Collapsing social structures, economic uncertainties, and a sense that the status quo is untenable. So those institutions the Democrats took over and then used the legitimacy of those institutions to promulgate far leftism. It turns out people just lost trust in those institutions and have turned to a wrecking ball like President Trump says, Hosing, quote, absent a solution to these core problems, appealing to disaffected voters of color on their racial identity alone has rung hollow. Grappling with the complexities of their frustrations, anxieties and hopes will determine the next political chapter of this country. All of which is again, quite hopeful for Republicans, for sure. And some of this has to do again with the anti institutional nature of President Trump. Chris Matthews used to be an emissary, say comes back on talking about Donald Trump, says Donald Trump is shockingly popular because he's actually quite a good politician.