Michael Knowles (29:03)
Beautifully put. So articulate. He's just totally smacking down all of the arguments that the really smart globalists make. The really smart globalists for decades now have made the argument, look, we're not like some third World country we've developed, and so we're gonna just move up the food chain and we're gonna have those poor countries do all those tasks we don't wanna do. It's just a macroeconomic version of explaining why we need an open border so that we can get Guatemalan peasants to pick our grapes for us. Well, Americans don't wanna do those jobs. Americans don't wanna manufacture anything. We can just have slaves in China do it. And. But don't worry, we won't lose our competitive edge because we're just going to. We're gonna do the designing, we're gonna call the shots, we're gonna be running the companies, and we're just gonna have the slaves in China make the widgets, and we'll keep it like that. But JD Van says. Hold on. Turns out that the companies that do the building also rather quickly get good at designing. And when we're talking about a country like China, China's gonna get really good at designing really quickly because they're gonna steal our intellectual property, too. When you do business in China, you basically have to give the Chinese everything. And there's close coordination between the businesses in China and the Chinese Communist Party, so that doesn't really work. Okay, well, I'll tell you what. If we use the slave labor in China, okay, maybe they're gonna get good at designing, and American companies are gonna have to compete after helping to build up these other industrial bases. But, you know, at the very least, it's gonna free up our time to innovate, right? And JD Van says, actually, history doesn't bear that out. This is kind of a version of Nancy Pelosi explaining why they had to pass Obamacare. They had to pass this massive health care overhaul because then health insurance would no longer be tied to people's employment, which is an historical circumstance that came about because of a Democrat, President fdr. But that's a story for another time. And when your health Insurance isn't tied to your employment, then you're freer to change jobs. You don't need to have any job at all. You know, man, you. You can be a poet, you can be a novelist, you can be a painter. She said things like this, and a lot of people believed it. They want to believe it. Oh, if I didn't have to work my nine to five, then I could write the great American novel. And the reality of it is, no, you won't. You won't write the great American novel. Most people are terrible poets. Most people probably shouldn't pick up a paintbrush. When you are freed of the basic circumstances of work, that doesn't mean you're gonna innovate more. Actually, it means you're gonna innovate less. JD Van says the countries that get addicted to the cheap labor, that doesn't free them up to create new products and imagine a new world, they just get kind of used to it and they get lazy and they get addicted, so that goes away too. And he says, so the reason that we've got to oppose globalization is not just because they took our jobs and it's all right, and we wanna build up the American middle class again. And all of those are good things. But he's actually hitting the globalist argument at its strength, not its weakness. The globalist argument saying, we have to be competitive, we need to innovate, we need to build the future. And J.D. vance says, yeah, yeah, if you wanna do that, you have to oppose globalization because the facts don't bear out your theory. This guy is freaking good, man. This guy is good and he's good in his own right. And he's really good as part of the Trump administration because Trump understands these problems intuitively. Trump has been on and off campaigning against globalization since the 1980s. Trump has been talking about how great tariffs are, how great building up American industry is for decades. And he knows it intuitively. And sometimes he'll get into the details a little bit, especially when he's talking about trade deals, because that's a specialty of his. But often he's Talking from the 30,000 foot view, the broad strokes. He's just got an amazing political gut, the best political gut I've ever seen. That's what Trump has. J.D. i don't think understands these problems through his gut. J.D. has gone on an intellectual and political journey and religious journey. He's a religious convert too. I don't think JD Is primarily a gut politician. I think JD Is a very smart, educated guy, very disciplined, who does the reading. I think JD has come to these conclusions to through rigorous study. And those two go together really, really well because you've got President Trump who just intuitively gets it in politics. He just has a sense of the right thing 99% of the time. And then JD Vance can come in there and fill in all the details and make all of the arguments. It's a very powerful team and it's very helpful to have both of those, not just both men, but both skills in politics. Now, I've said for a long time, JD Vance is part political leader who is changing our culture. But just as much he is a sign of the times. J.D. vance, a politician who is opposed to globalization, who wants to upend the economic and political and social orthodoxies of the past 30 years. J.D. vance, who's a convert to Catholicism, J.D. vance, who comes from middle America, which he wants to rebuild again, he's a sign of the times. We're getting more signs of the times, not just from middle America, but from the coasts. A really, really good sign that I have predicted. You know how much I hate to say I told you so. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, America's on the comeback. But the culture war is not over. Tomorrow we are releasing episode two of our five part series, the Case for Derek Chauvin, the Incident. In episode one, we analyzed the criminal background of George Floyd and the professional record of Derek Chauvin. But tomorrow we're going moment by moment through the infamous videos of that fateful day. If you want to be part of the movement fighting for truth and reason, it is time to become a Daily Wire plus member. Stream my show ad free with exclusive content you won't see anywhere else. Get unlimited access to premium entertainment Collect with a community of thinkers, not followers. Watch anywhere, anytime. On the desktop, on your iPad, on the Daily Wire plus Apple for mobile on TV. Join the fight at DailyWire.com subscribe My favorite comment yesterday is from Adam NEEFORT who says, Mr. Knowles, we have the same birthday. I am in excellent company. So I am in excellent company too. I'm so glad to hear that about your birthday. One day after St. Patty's Day, one day before St. Joseph's Day. Happy feast of St. Joseph to everyone. It's good stuff. And now I'm officially middle aged. You know, Dante begins the comedy when in the middle of our life's journey and he's 34, about to turn 35. I am now 35, the middle of our life's journey using the Psalmist's understanding of a human life as 70 years it'll age. Should I have a crisis? Should I buy a Corvette? Should I buy Professor Jacobs Camaro? I don't know, I don't know. But it's all upon me now. Speaking of signs of the times, really good news. San Francisco Pride is going bankrupt. San Francisco Pride, the big Pride parade in the most pro pride LGBT elementop city in America, can't seem to raise any money. This is a new development. San Francisco Pride has never had a problem raising money. This is San Francisco. And yet San Francisco Gate tells us several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco's Pride celebrations are pulling their funding for the festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to raise $300,000. So we're not talking about a ton of money, all things considered. Certainly not for corporate America. They can't even raise $300,000. In the past four weeks, the article goes on, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind the annual Pride Parade, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In their communications with San Francisco Pride, the sponsors all cited a lack of funds. That's convenient. Oh yeah, we just don't have any money anymore. But the article says none of them mentioned the political climate. But Ford noted that it was very abnormal for several multi year sponsors to suddenly drop their support for the event. You know, I hate to say I told you so. I told you so. I called it. In fact, I called it on the Jubilee podcast. I sat down with 20 or 25 LGBT elementop activists. We debated all sorts of questions, not just the low hanging fruit like the transgender issues. But I went further and I said that Pride should be banned. And most people think Pride should be banned because it's obscene. And every year we read about stories of weird naked guys jiggling in front of kids and people committing obscene acts and just taking over downtown with a bunch of gross degeneracy. And no one wants to see that. I said Pride Parade should be banned. They all gasped. They clutched their pearls. I said, people want that. They want to ban it. Why? Why? People told me I was crazy, some far right wing nut, because my view of these social issues was about the same as a Democrat would have thought 20 years ago. They said that's extreme, fascistic, radical. And yet now it's happening even in San Francisco. The Pride Parade can't raise money. Why is that? I'll tell you why. How did I know? How did I get it so right? It's not because I'm nostradamus It's because ideas have momentum. That's how. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict that in the year of our Lord 2025, people aren't gonna be that into pride. The pride parades are gonna struggle. And it's not just the political climate of Donald Trump. That's what they're gonna try to pin this on. Oh, it's Trump. A second coming of Generalissimo Franco. You know, this authoritarian. No, Trump won the popular vote, okay? And Trump is not particularly authoritarian. He doesn't even seem all that particularly concerned with the social issues. He held up the rainbow flag when he ran in 16. But people don't want this stuff anymore. They don't want the weird guys in leather smacking each other in front of kids on Main Street. They don't want it. There is a cultural movement away from that. The first part was when people turned against transing kids. That was transing kids that. You saw that flip the Commonwealth of Virginia read in the election of Glenn Yunkin. You saw that motivate, I think, a lot of the popular vote victory for President Trump. The Democrats had just gone too far. Transing the kids was too far. But when you start to pull on the thread of a bad idea, the whole heap of bad ideas that has constituted this movement starts to unravel inevitably. So when you start pulling on the thread of why it's wrong to trans the kids, what's wrong to trans kids, because you can't really be the opposite sex. That's not really how human nature works. Okay, well, then maybe we shouldn't trans the teenagers or even the adults then either, because. Keep pulling, Keep pulling. Because men and women really are different and the sexes are immutable and those differences are meaningful. Okay, well, if men and women really are different, then maybe gay marriage doesn't make any sense because marriage is the union of a man and a woman. So if men and women are really different and one can't become the other, then you can't redefine marriage to be the union of two men or two women. Okay, we gotta keep pulling on this then. If men and women really are different and sex really does matter, sexual difference really does matter, then maybe all the weird pride parades, maybe that's just not something worth celebrating. I'm not saying we're gonna, you know, deport people who are a little light in the loafers, but maybe we don't need to center this in our society on Main Street. Maybe that's not a good idea. But hold on. We're gonna keep pulling on that thread. If men and women really are different, then maybe feminism doesn't make sense, because feminism says that women are basically just mentioning who have been oppressed and have not been allowed to exercise their true virtues, which are masculine virtues, and anything men can do, women can do at least as well. But that obviously isn't true. These men and women are different. So, hold on. It all unravels now. The question for us is how far are things going to unravel for the left? Are we gonna go all the way? The left got to go all the way in the other direction. The left got to go from recent re centering politics away from the community, away from man as a social creature, toward man as an individual, toward radical autonomy, toward feminism, LGBTism, redefining marriage, transgenderism, transing the kids. They got to take their idea all the way. The question for us is, do we get to unravel it all the way, or will there be another pendulum swing yet to come? What is not controversial, though, what is guaranteed, is that for right now at least, we are unraveling a lot of the sexual revolution. Hookups are down. Porn is down. There are laws being passed in states against pornography. The LGBT ism is not nearly as popular as it was 10 years ago. Feminism is kind of out. Trad wives are in. We're moving. Okay, how far do we get before the pendulum turns again? That remains to be seen. Now, speaking of nonsense like pride parades, there's another fake news story that I have to cover. There's been a lot of fake news that you're probably hearing from your liberal aunt or something, and maybe you don't know how to respond to it. Here's a big one. Trump memo reveals plan to throw Social Security into chaos. I've heard this from liberal family members who said, Michael Trump, he's gonna destroy Social Security. Or Elon Musk, he's gonna send Elon Musk to destroy our Social Security. Oh, this is really scary. Even from fairly moderate or even conservative people, some have fallen for this. This is totally dishonest. Yes, President Trump is going to reform federal programs. No question about it. Yes, Elon Musk, even when it comes to some of the entitlement programs, is cleaning up corruption because there are people who receive these federal benefits who don't deserve them, who don't even exist. Perhaps there is corruption in the government. Elon Musk is cleaning that up. So what has he done to throw Social Security into chaos? He just said, you have to prove that you are who you are and you're entitled to these programs. That's it. It's as though it's just like when the Democrats say that Republicans don't want people to vote because they have to show an ID when they go to vote. No, no, no. Republicans are defending the vote and the integrity of the vote by making sure that actual voters are voting and thereby protecting the integrity of everybody's vote. Well, same thing for Social Security. The Democrats have been trying this line for 10 years on Trump. They've been using it against Republicans for many decades, sometimes effectively. They say Trump wants to cut your Social Security. That is simply a lie. If Trump has been clear about one issue for his entire political career, it is that he does not want to touch your Social Security benefits. In fact, Trump has been so emphatic and consistent on this issue that he's gotten criticism from other Republicans who do want to cut your Social Security. This was an effective line when the Democrats lobbied it against people like Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney or the Republicans of the Tea Party era who were focused on entitlement reform. It doesn't work on Trump. Totally dishonest on the one hand, and on the other hand, totally misunderstands the political moment. And this is the real key for the Democrats and their propagandists in the news media. If you think that scaremongering about mean old Republicans throwing granny off a cliff is gonna work, if you think that fear mongering the likes of which you see on the Democrat TV shows like the View, the kind of stories that you're getting from NPR and all the Trump is going to bring back segregation or whatever. If you think those are going to work, you are just misunderstanding the political moment. That might have worked 10 years ago. That might have worked with the old Republican coalition. Trump. Trump has built a new Republican coalition. Trump is making different arguments than Republicans were making 10 years ago. TRUMP has different priorities. Trump got elected by different people than the groups Republicans used to rely on when they were losing elections. Democrats haven't adapted to that. So they just sound like an outdated music or something. They haven't caught up. And until they catch up, they're going to have nothing valuable to offer voters. All they're going to do, here's a little tease. All they're going to do is just jiggle around on camera like the Democrat members, the female Democrat members of the House. We'll get to that really important news story tomorrow. But now I get to bring on a guest. Not for you hoi polloi who are watching on the public channels. But for the REM On Daily Wire, Leigh Allen Baker. We got a celebrity coming on the show, and many of you, the zoomers out there, grew up watching. This woman will talk about the state of Disney, the state of Hollywood, what she's up to. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles, Canada Wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.
