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Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

The Coming Republican Collapse — and How to Stop It | 2/18/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

Blaze Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Republican Party is facing a “change or die” moment. Voters are angry, and Democrats are winning — not because voters like Democrats, but because many feel that the incumbent Republicans no longer oppose corporate power and the unnatural wealth transfer. In this episode, I break down why Democrats are outflanking Republicans on economic messaging and how Republicans are doubling down on policies that aren’t even conservative and represent terrible messaging. I contrast the bold message of Freedom Caucus candidates on land use, data centers, and putting the individual above business deals vs. the current message from top GOP leaders, which is the worst form of elitism and populism. Then, Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Jim Carlin joins the show to explain his campaign, centered on restoring real free markets, decentralizing economic power, and ending policies that benefit monopolies over families. 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.

0:09.0

And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues that matter on this Wednesday, the 18th of February.

0:19.3

Your host, Daniel Horowitz, back here today at The Blaze to discuss the crossroads that the GOP and really conservatives are at here.

0:28.9

Because what we have seen so far is that you cannot teach an old dog, or shall we say an old rhino, a new trick.

0:38.4

I'm not seeing any new policy, any new strategy, any new endeavors, new types of candidates.

0:46.3

Just the same old, oh, everything is good, Democrats are bad, the economy is great, we don't

0:52.5

know what we believe, we defend the KE-shaped economy as if it's

0:55.8

ours, as if it's something we believe in, the easy money, debt-driven, aristopopulism, and elites,

1:02.5

all the while allowing Democrats to outflank them. And then we just move on to the next one in line

1:09.5

in the country club chosen system.

1:12.4

By the way, just to be clear, the media has successfully chosen the GOP presidential nominee every single time.

1:20.4

Just so you know, there are no exceptions if you go back and think about it.

1:24.7

And now we just move on to the next guy in line.

1:29.3

But imagine if we had a party that was built upon land, community, neighborhood, quality of life, liberty, that actually

1:35.6

showed it cared about the people, not in a socialist fake way that we're just going to give people

1:41.9

handouts, but to actually recreate free markets,

1:46.9

remove the government policies that create monopolies over health care, over food,

1:52.0

over farming, over land use, rather than a party that honestly is nothing but big tech

1:59.5

beaches and Epstein elites. And that's what they've become.

2:04.3

And they're allowing Democrats to outflank them. So I'm going to show the contrast of what the

2:09.3

GOP currently is and what it can and ought to be. And if it doesn't move in that direction,

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