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‘You're Wrong’ With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 41: Is The Biden EV Edict Fascistic?

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Is the Biden administration fascist? Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Editor David Harsanyi in breaking down Democrats' authoritarian ruling tactics, including the Environmental Protection Agency's new regressive electric vehicle standards, analyze the conflicting responses to the Tennessee insurrection, and scrutinize smears against Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices. The duo also discuss David's surprise back porch visitor and share their culture picks for the week.

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with me David Harsani and Molly

0:21.6

Hemingway. How's it going Molly? It's going great. Good to see you David.

0:25.4

I find that the beginning is the hardest part of doing these podcasts. I am not a professional

0:30.4

radio type. I don't know how to segue into let's just get to it. Let's get to it. Today,

0:39.0

this very day, Wednesday, April 12th, I think the Biden administration announced new EPA

0:47.4

standards that in essence will force compel the entire auto industry to start making electric

0:56.3

vehicles. I think 67% of vehicles manufactured in nine years will be electrical electric EVs.

1:07.7

And it hit me this morning that Democrats run around calling any, you know, a local elected

1:15.3

officials who curate books at local school libraries, authoritarian, but when a gigantic,

1:21.2

powerful centralized government dictates what one of our biggest industries must produce

1:26.6

and hundreds and millions of people must buy. They are just fine with it. When it meets

1:32.4

almost the textbook definition of fascistic economic, you know, central planning by in

1:39.6

almost every way. Now, I'm not saying that we live in an economic fascist state. I'm just

1:43.9

saying that the democratic agenda sounds like they wish that we lived in one and want that

1:48.8

to happen. Am I overstating this, Molly? Well, I didn't think so. And then you seem to be

1:54.9

understating at the end. This move on electric vehicles does seem to be a big issue. And I'd

2:01.7

like you to kind of unpack a little bit more about why you think it meets the definition of fascism.

2:07.5

Well, in a fascistic nation, now, you know, there are many components, one of the components

2:14.4

sort of a strong man leader. But I would say that that's not always the case. We have a, you

2:19.3

could have a demagogue who wraps all economic policy in in the veneer of patriotism, which we

2:27.7

constantly are doing now. I'm not saying everyone's guilty of that. Some extent, but Joe Biden has

2:33.5

called, you know, the green energy revolution, a tragic thing to do. And, you know, and he goes to

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