#45 - Steve Deace
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A wide ranging conversation with @SteveDeaceShow on Minneapolis as a national flashpoint, why the Covid era playbook could be repeating, and what Trump and federal authorities do next as blue city leadership resists enforcement. TIMESTAMPS(0:00) Intro(0:15) Steve Deace Joins(2:34) Is Minneapolis Ground Zero?(8:25) Blue City States And Political Will(11:08) How The Covid Playbook Returns(16:55) Why There Is No Deal(23:03) Pressure Points On Tim Walz(27:23) Is Tom Homan The Turning Point?(32:05) Who Must Be Made An Example?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, the folks, welcome back. |
| 0:01.7 | I get to talk to Steve Dase, and you get to listen to me or watch me talk to Steve Dase. |
| 0:12.4 | Steve, you know, you're one of the brave, great voices out there. |
| 0:18.1 | It's always a joy to see you and to hear from you. Thanks for coming on. |
| 0:23.1 | You bet, brother. Staying back at you. Thank you. So much happening. What should we talk about? |
| 0:29.3 | Where do you want to start? Well, you know, this story is rapidly evolving in real time. |
| 0:36.3 | You know, even on my own show, I was very careful about how much to address things in |
| 0:42.4 | the specific. |
| 0:43.7 | But I think in general, Minneapolis is ground zero for the cold civil war in America. |
| 0:52.5 | And I think that, Eric, we're at a COVID inflection point. |
| 0:57.8 | Absolutely. Absolutely. And I hope I hope the president has learned valuable lessons. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay. I mean, you, I just want to be clear because my audience, they won't all know this. |
| 1:08.1 | But you and I both knew that Operation Warpbeat and the vaccine were from the pit of hell. |
| 1:14.8 | We always knew that. |
| 1:16.0 | But we saw President Trump get fooled. |
| 1:20.5 | And it just proves he's human. |
| 1:23.1 | But he got fooled by that. |
| 1:24.7 | And we saw what happened. |
| 1:27.8 | We also saw him to some extent get fooled by the George Floyd stuff, by that chaos, |
| 1:36.6 | not wanting to respond, worried about the election in the fall, |
| 1:40.5 | and basically got played. |
| 1:42.1 | And the question is whether with regard now to Minnesota, |
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