Republicans Betrayed You on Big Tech, AI, and the Surveillance State | 3/19/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Republicans are failing us on Big Tech, the surveillance state, privacy, land ownership, quality of life, and transhumanism, and they are allowing Democrats to win on those issues. From Meta’s smart glasses with facial recognition to mass surveillance through FISA, flock cameras, and AI data centers, this episode uncovers how privacy, property rights, and human freedom are being eroded in real time. But it goes deeper than politics. This is about the collapse of the free market, the rise of crony capitalism, and how the misuse and gaslighting of generative artificial intelligence is degrading human intelligence, productivity, and quality of life. For the first time, I share my theory on why the free market has broken down thanks to government and stock valuations and how that has led to a generation of new technology resulting in human decline rather than flourishing. 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.
0:09.1	And welcome back fellow American Patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:13.9	for the issues that matter on this Thursday, March 19th here at CR podcast.
0:20.0	Your host, Daniel Horowitz, back here today to discuss
0:24.3	the issues that matter. Big Tech, the surveillance state, becoming and turning every human being
0:32.0	into a digital cog in this mass surveillance state denuding us of our privacy, denuding us of our humanity,
0:42.7	endless chat slop, war on land ownership, quality of life, transhumanism.
0:49.2	These are the issues that try men's souls.
0:52.4	These are the issues that matter.
0:56.2	This is where the puck is headed. And on all of those fronts, not only is the Republican Party, its leadership, and its
1:04.2	grandmaster leader out to lunch, but they're squarely, with the exception of a few people,
1:10.6	they're squarely on the the exception of a few people,
1:14.0	they're squarely on the wrong side of it.
1:19.3	So I want to today start out with the privacy surveillance issue,
1:23.0	these smart glasses with facial recognition,
1:24.8	something we haven't really talked about, go on to flock cameras, FISA, Section 702, and then get on to AI and data centers and all that stuff.
1:33.4	Because really, this is what is going to determine our future.
1:37.8	Not just as Americans, not just in terms of whether we live in a prosperous society, but whether we're human.
1:47.3	And honestly, this is also the key to a successful movement in a party.
1:54.6	You get candidates running on these issues, which we don't.
1:59.6	You'll win by a mile.
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