Episode 982: Scott Rasmussen on “Out of Touch”
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Newt talks with Scott Rasmussen, President of RMG Research, about his new book, “Out of Touch: The Elite One Percent and the Battle for America’s Soul.” They discuss the “We the People” project that gathered 1.6 million words from over 2,000 voters across every congressional district to draft a modern Declaration of American Ideals. Rasmussen describes the country as a “10-10-80” nation: 10% on the left and 10% on the right locked in conflict, while 80% quietly embrace founding ideals and focus on everyday life. Rasmussen’s research on the “elite 1%” identifies a small, politically active group, disproportionately postgraduates, high-income earners, and dense-city residents, whose views diverge sharply from most voters, including strong trust in the federal government, support for sweeping climate policies, and belief that Americans have too much individual freedom. He contends this elite group rejects core ideals of freedom, equality, and self-governance, with about half believing only college graduates should be allowed to vote and traces its intellectual lineage to Woodrow Wilson’s vision of “government by the unelected” and the administrative state.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Nurt's World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.9 | You know, it's very interesting. |
| 0:14.8 | I've been doing a lot of research on artificial intelligence, |
| 0:18.9 | including a remarkable new book called Genesis that Henry Kissinger |
| 0:23.6 | was the lead writer on. And Pope Leo brought out an encyclical on artificial intelligence. |
| 0:29.6 | It's about 42,000 words. It's entitled Magnifica Humanitus on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial |
| 0:40.0 | Intelligence. I actually think that's a very smart title because the fact is we don't |
| 0:46.8 | really quite understand what's happening with artificial intelligence. We don't know to what |
| 0:53.9 | extent it's a danger, to what |
| 0:56.7 | extent it's an asset, and to what extent in the long run it's not all that big a deal. We just |
| 1:01.3 | literally don't know. Now, interestingly, the Pope brought in, among others, Christopher Ola, who |
| 1:08.5 | at 33, is the billionaire co-founder of the top artificial intelligence company Anthropic. |
| 1:15.7 | The Pope was talking to some pretty sophisticated people. |
| 1:19.6 | In a parallel development in science, and this is one of those things that I'm always fascinated by, |
| 1:25.2 | SpaceX continues to develop the most powerful rocket in history |
| 1:29.8 | called the Starship. |
| 1:31.4 | This was their 12th test flight of Starship, and it's a new version known as the Version 3, |
| 1:39.0 | and these are tests. |
| 1:40.9 | They're not designed necessarily to work. |
| 1:42.3 | They're designed to stress different aspects of the starship capabilities. |
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