Election 2026: How the GOP Became a Dead End for Conservatives | 1/15/26

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Let’s be honest: There are zero redeeming qualities to nearly every GOP candidate running — both incumbent and challenger. There’s a reason for that. I explain why we are languishing from an endless feedback loop in which the more Republicans fail to serve as an alternative to Democrats, the worse the country gets and the more they can exploit the desperation of GOP voters to support them. To drive home this point, I’m joined by former Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel. He ran for statewide office three times, including in 2014, when he was an inch away from unseating legendary Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). He explains why conservatives have gone backward in primaries and how they have become a dead end for people who actually want to change the system with no other motivation. Chris represented the movement we had that could have bloomed into everything this current online Right movement claims to support, but that won’t even tune in to primaries to make the difference. 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.
0:09.6	And welcome back fellow American Patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:15.4	for the issues that matter today.
0:17.7	Your host, Daniel Hurwitz, back here at Sierra podcast on this Thursday to discuss the issues that matter today, your host Daniel Hurwitz back here at Sierra Podcast on this Thursday to
0:22.5	discuss the issues that matter. We've talked a lot about deep policy issues like health care,
0:28.3	housing this week. I want to get to more political stuff today. Because obviously, what's the
0:34.1	purpose of delving into issues if you can elect people who will actually change the game?
0:41.7	We're now at a point where we've gone backwards in primaries.
0:46.1	There is no initiative to try to elect statesmen who will fight rigorously for us,
0:53.1	but they're not caught between this false
0:55.9	choice of gay or retarded. Meaning, you either have candidates that are, yay, GOP with the
1:03.4	pom-poms, yay, Trump, you know, regardless of whether he's right or wrong, and they're just
1:09.6	party men, or you'll have these reactionary
1:13.5	retards that might tap into some of our disquiet, but then they're just running to grow their
1:20.1	social media, not to be statesmen, not to build and defend and fight for fortresses of
1:26.7	ordered liberty. I want you guys to watch
1:29.7	Ron DeSantis' state of the state address, his final eighth year where he can look back and
1:35.9	say, look, you know, not everything is done and some of it was stymied by rhinos, but look at what
1:40.8	we've done on immigration, on economic issues, social issues, boom, boom, boom, boom.
1:47.0	We don't have anyone who could do that, nor do we really have many candidates on the horizon
1:54.7	that actually know what it means to be a conservative, to apply it to the current issues, and build
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