1 Step Forward, 10 Steps Back: How Trump Is Saving the GOP Establishment | 5/18/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today I demonstrate how conservatives are allegedly losing ground on nearly every major issue despite Republican control and Trump’s dominance over the GOP. The old guard of establishment Republicans — the Mitch McConnells, Thom Tillises, and Bill Cassidys — are running out of gas. But instead of replacing them with true constitutional conservatives, Trump is using his massive 96% endorsement success rate to elevate a new, more dangerous breed of establishment candidate: "MAGA Inc." RINOs. Candidates like Julia Letlow and Ashley Hinson don the red hat and mouth the right slogans, but their voting records reveal they are completely beholden to K Street special interests, corporate data center land-grabs, and medical tyranny. Because they wrap themselves in the MAGA banner, they are twice as hard for actual conservatives to defeat. I also expose how the abortion pill mifepristone — supported by Trump’s FDA, DOJ, and Supreme Court appointees — is effectively nullifying the Dobbs decision and reshaping the abortion fight nationwide. It’s a perfect example of how even our greatest victories are illusory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.3	The conservative review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.3	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues that matter today on this brand new week here at Blaze TV.
0:20.1	Your host, Daniel Harowitz. It is Monday. It is May 18th,
0:23.1	and it's time to get down to work. You look at the amalgamation of what Trump and the rest of
0:29.5	the Republican Party is doing in terms of their list of priorities in Congress, juxtaposed to
0:35.7	what they promised to do. If you look at the list of
0:38.5	Trump's primary endorsements and all the incumbent rhinos that he endorses, and then the one or two
0:45.9	he chooses not to are the more conservative ones, you start to get the sense that for every
0:53.6	step forward we take, we take multiple steps backwards.
0:58.2	And I want to show you several examples of that in the primaries, on the abortion fight where we thought we won with Roe v. Wade, but in fact, we're losing.
1:09.3	And we don't even get the benefits of judicial
1:11.8	supremacism after agreeing to that. We're losing in the states. But more broadly, you need to
1:17.6	understand that without Trump, we might not have taken over the GOP everywhere, but we were
1:25.3	gradually building bastions against the establishment.
1:29.7	Okay, they ran out of gas.
1:31.8	They did have a lot of K Street money, but they didn't have anyone inspiring.
1:37.5	Okay, nobody was inspired by Tom Tillis, by Mitch McConnell, by John Thune, by all these people, by John Boehner.
1:45.1	No one was inspired by them.
1:47.1	They would win by affirmation usually, but then we were gradually building angst against
1:52.3	them.
1:52.6	Trump comes along and says, give me the ball, give me the ball.
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