Ep. 1050 - The Closing Of The American Mind
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As the left shifts the Overton window, cancel culture becomes more and more demanding. |
| 0:04.6 | Coronavirus continues to rage across the country as President Trump finally dons a mask, |
| 0:08.5 | and crime surges while IOC blames. You guessed it, capitalism. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. |
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| 0:26.1 | Okay, well, I hope that you had a safe and happy weekend. |
| 0:28.7 | We're going to get to all the news because there is plenty of it. |
| 0:31.4 | We begin today with a simple observation. |
| 0:34.8 | The push to the left is not going to stop if Joe Biden becomes president. |
| 0:37.2 | I think there are a lot of people who believe that Joe Biden becoming president simply will let everything get back to normal. And once Joe Biden is president, and the polls seem to reflect this. And once Joe Biden is president, everybody can go back about their business, all the crazy stops. Everybody calms down. The left comes down because Trump is no longer president. And the right calms down because Trump is no longer president, and slow old Joe, just as kind of there. And everything goes back to quasi-normal. I think that this |
| 1:00.0 | is really missing the boat. I think the reason this is missing the boat is because we have had this |
| 1:04.1 | pattern in American politics for quite a while where everybody misinterprets an election victory |
| 1:08.2 | as a mandate for their particular program. And to be fair, this is a bipartisan issue. So in 2004, after George W. Bush won and he beat John Kerry, instead of interpreting that as, I just beat John Kerry, he interpreted it as, well, I guess that my program is popular now. So I'm going to move forward with Social Security privatization and immigration reform. Both of those things, dead on arrival. And they died |
| 1:27.7 | immediately. And within two years, the entire Congress has been lost. A 12-year dominant run for |
| 1:32.8 | Republicans in Congress is gone. And the same thing happened for Barack Obama in 2008. So after 2008, |
| 1:38.1 | he wins a sweeping victory over John McCain. And his first thought is, you know what I'm going to |
| 1:42.6 | do? I'm going to do Obamacare. And the American were like, you're going to do what now? And in 2010, the Republicans sweep back into power in the House, two years after Obama wins this sweeping victory. So, if Joe Biden were to win a sweeping victory in 2020, I don't think that he would interpret that as, oh, I guess people just really didn't like Donald |
| 2:00.9 | Trump. Instead, he would interpret that as, well, now it's time for my LBJ FDR-type program. |
| 2:07.1 | And here's the reality. The American people, when they elect people to government, it's very |
| 2:12.5 | rare that they are endorsing wholesale, all of the big movement type changes that the politicians think they are |
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