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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

TRUMP'S ROCKET FUEL: How Extremism, Protests, and Fads Will Lead to a Trump Victory

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The protests on college campuses are a political disaster. The rhetoric around it will serve as "rocket fuel" for the Trump Campaign heading into November. Steve Schmidt explains why extremism on both sides - and the elimination of a centrist America - will lead Trump to victory. *** To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

What's happening on America's elite college campuses is not a sign of national strength,

0:04.8

but decay. Their ignorance is not a crisis. Young people have always done stupid things. But what is

0:12.5

a crisis in this moment today is that Joe Biden is losing the election, like Ukraine is losing

0:19.0

the war, like Israel is losing the war, and like the center

0:23.1

is losing a political battle in America to a far-left extremism and a far-right extremism. The American

0:31.5

people have to care enough about the country for the country to survive. And this is a moment where

0:37.3

we are starting to see the cost.

0:40.0

It is Friday, May the 3rd. This is the warning. There are 186 days to go until the presidential

0:47.5

election. Time is moving quickly now. Events are building.

0:55.5

There's one thing to understand about this presidential election, like all.

1:01.4

We still are in a space where what this election will be decided on is largely events that have not yet occurred yet, but can be seen

1:18.1

like land from the ocean out against the horizon. And what you see is right in front of you.

1:26.4

What do you see on this May Day in America? Building chaos. There's an

1:32.4

important quote about American politics that was apocryphly attributed to Sinclair Lewis.

1:39.0

It was that when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

1:48.5

It made sense he was married to Dorothy Thompson. The first American journalist kicked

1:54.5

out of Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler, personally. Sinclair Lewis was the author of a novel about an American fascism. It posed the

2:05.0

question, could it happen here? 80 years later, we're about to find out. What has always fueled

2:16.3

fascism in countries that are utterly incompatible with ever being susceptible

2:24.2

to a left-wing autocratic takeover like the United States in Germany is the fear of the left,

2:33.5

the threat of a left.

2:36.6

What does that look like?

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