2025 in Review: All the Liabilities and No Benefits of Incumbency | 12/18/25

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today we engage in a broad and deep retrospective of the year in politics. I go through about a dozen political themes and trends that emerged from this year and will reverberate even more headed into 2026. The upshot is that we’re suffering all of the liabilities of Republicans being in charge but none of the benefits — at least not ones that will endure in the long run. I also review Trump’s speech last night and explain how it is gaslighting us on prosperity and security at home and peace abroad, when none of those things are true. The voters know it. At the end, I explain how the AI data center grift is completely insolvent, only existent because of government, and how it is crowding out more effective resources. Finally if we don’t change course, our future is Australia. 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.
0:06.2	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.3	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:15.1	for the issues that matter in the way they matter at the time they matter.
0:19.7	That time is growing short as we head towards
0:22.9	the end of the year here Thursday it is December 18th your host daniel harrowitz back here
0:29.3	for the penultimate uh show of the year we do have one more tomorrow a very special guest
0:36.4	that's never been on the show before.
0:38.3	It's kind of going to surprise you, but we'll fit into one of the themes of the year.
0:43.3	So today is our last solo show where I have a lot of time on my hands, but never enough
0:48.9	to get to everything.
0:50.3	So we're going to do a really free-for-all Friday style, free-for-all year-end review
0:55.6	of many of the critical themes, the critical themes of the year of 2025, but also embodied in the
1:10.6	here and now.
1:11.8	And as we head into 2026, the news stories on the economy, foreign policy, looking back together with today's stories.
1:21.7	If we have time, we'll get into our AI and data center stack of stuff, which is obviously going to be one of the big,
1:28.5	big stories of this year.
1:30.7	That's going to reverberate hugely policy-wise, civilization-wise, and politically next year.
1:39.4	Now, when you look back, when you look back on the year, it is truly amazing if you look back to
1:47.4	December 18th of this time last year.
1:51.3	And you listen to the things I was saying then and really to start off January.
1:56.9	Even though I never was part of this entire grift, I never believed we needed to move away from
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