920: Why Trump Won the 2024 Election | Week in Review

Brian Nichols  0:02  
Week this week on our AMP America Week in Review, Trump's victory wasn't just a win, it was a master class in connecting with voters on the issues they care about, while the media obsesses over poll numbers, we're diving into the real reason establishment candidates keep failing, plus will reveal the shocking truth about why libertarians are getting decimated at the ballot box and the one critical mistake that's costing them everything, the playbook for political success is being rewritten. Are you ready to learn what's really happening? You don't want to miss it. Welcome to the Brian Nichols show, teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to the Brian Nichols show. Well, happy Saturday there, folks, Brian Nichols here on another fun filled episode of The Brian Nichols show. Yes, we are coming to you live from our cardio miracle studio. Cardio miracle, the best heart health supplement in the world. Learn more about that later on into today's episode. But for today's episode, it's a solo episode. You just get yours truly today. Our good buddy remzo Martinez, he's driving back to the great state of Wisconsin. Our good buddy Kenny Cody. He was out late last night winning a football game. Well, he's not playing, but he was helping coach. So both of my co hosts are a little busy today, so I said, Well, heck with it, we're going to go ahead and do a solo episode. Yes, we are live. We are streaming here on x, so if you're joining us on X, thank you for stopping by. Head down below into the comments. Let us know your thoughts as we're running through the topics of conversation today, and yeah, to dig into today's topic, we are starting out with the elephant in the room. Trump won. We had an election here back in November of Tuesday, this past November 5, and Trump won. When you look at the election, I know there was a lot of folks who were kind of up in the air. Is this going to be a Kamala Harris, you know, just soaring to victory. Is this going to be a Donald Trump coming back, a la Grover, Cleveland and book ending his presidencies with Joe Biden there in the middle? Or gonna be something where it was like a split right down the middle, where we're gonna go to a 269 269 tie? The answer was pretty clear. I went into election night, I wasn't too sure what we were going to experience. I thought for almost certain they were going to try and make the election last as long as possible, find a few extra votes here and there, you know? Oh, let's, let's dig into this, this big old Santa sack of ballots that was over here in the back corner. Oh, look at that. 90% for Kamala, how lucky? Yeah, that's that's 100% what I thought was going to happen, but it didn't. The American people were, like, very, very vocal as of the close of the elections there on Tuesday, that when the ballot boxes closed, and not only did Donald Trump win a decisive victory with 312 Electoral College votes, but it it put the Democrats in a position, and I'm gonna generalize here. We're just gonna say the the left in general, right the left. It put them on their heels, I think so. We see this, especially in in political echo chambers. Doesn't matter what echo chamber you find yourself in but when you start to only surround yourself with people who think and speak and talk like you, you start to believe that's what the world is and and this election was a big slap in the face To the the again, the left leaning mentality of this, this social progressivism, this social leftism and and we're going to talk about why that didn't resonate, but first we're going to talk about what Trump did to win. And there's a couple things I want to first start out with, is understanding what Trump represents. And I've been seeing this a lot on social media, folks freaking out saying Trump is a convicted felon. He is the worst thing in the book. He is the second coming of Adolph, Elizabeth Hitler, like we are at the point now where I'm just waiting for the Trump haters to like, just go full hysteria, beyond what they've already done, because when you're when you're force fed a narrative, right? And you're only hearing that narrative consistently with no different perspectives, no different views or opinions, and all of a sudden you get slapped in the face with reality. Yeah, that hurts, right? That hurts for a lot of our friends in the left and, by the way, sneak peek to our conversation later to today, but also slap in the face of some more left leaning libertarians as well. But let's talk about Trump.

This is to start out. If you've been listening to the show for any length of time, you know, I am not a Trump Stan. I have not been standing on the podium here screaming in favor of Trump. As a matter of fact, our. Last episode was when I officially said I would vote for Trump. And even up till then, I definitely pushed back any time you know, remzo or Kenny Cody, for example, would bring up the argument to just full thrilledly endorse Trump. I definitely had reservations, right, and a lot of those reservations were based not just on what we saw with some of the non small l libertarian policies of Trump during his initial administration, but also, and addressing my own bias, part of it was the media I consumed back in 2015 2016 leading up to his candidacy, and then eventual presidency, and then therein, being President of the United States, what did he actually accomplish versus what did the media say he was doing. What were the things they said he was not doing? What were the terrible things behind the scenes that he was apparently, you know, some type of corrupt president, all these things that the media presented for at this point now, almost 10 years, right? A lot of us, yours truly, included, we tuned out. We turned off that. That radio station back for me. It was 20. 2019 probably was when I was when I was like, Okay, I'm officially done. I was already on the way out. The show started here. 2018 starting to really question everything, right? And then 2019 I'm like, Okay, this guy, I didn't vote for him, but he's not the second coming of Hitler. So apparently, the narratives that we're hearing are a little off. And then looking at what Trump was able to actually accomplish in office, some good, some bad, 100% call balls and strikes. The thing that really set me off, and I mentioned this last episode, was COVID, when Trump decided to enable and support folks like Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Rachelle walensky, over at the CDC, like that was a decision that he allowed to happen. And I really, it really bothered me, especially when you look at the northeast, these blue areas, and how hard they got hit, not with COVID, but with the government response to COVID. And I understand from a true libertarian, small, ill, libertarian perspective, Trump actually did the right thing. Trump took a step back and said, This is going to be a state's decision. Now on the other side, we have federal recommendations that the states, then and the localities would base their their justifications on for why they did these effed up policies, right? But there was never really, there was never really a mandate, if you will, from the federal government. That was until Biden tried to do that with the OSHA mandate, which, thank thank you. I can't believe I'm saying this. Thank you, Ben Shapiro and daily wire for bringing that to court and fighting fighting that. But when we look at Trump and all that Trump did, and all that Trump represented in 2016 and how in 2020 there was this return to normalcy campaign, right? The the parent, the parents, the the adults, are going to be back in charge. This was the narrative that was perpetuated. And candidly, I think a lot of folks were just burnt out. They were so tired of of the the constant back and forth, the the media going, you know, back and forth that Trump and Trump going back and forth, of the media, your fake news, Joe Scott or Joe Scarborough. Oh, we're gonna talk about Joe Scarborough, but you know, what was his name, the CNN guy, doesn't matter that looney tune, who'd be in the back there of the, the the press briefing room. His name is gonna bother me, John, Joe. It's something weird. But he'd be in the back from CNN screaming at Trump, and Trump's Trump's boxes on on the campaign or on the the press briefing room. Oh, what the hell was his name? It's gonna pop up in the comments. If you remember his name and you're listening to us live here on Twitter, on X, please go ahead and let me know, because my brain is just turned off this morning. And yes, we are live, by the way, for folks who are watching us here on x, we are live here on X, sharing the overview why Trump won and why Harris loss, and also what libertarians can learn from that. But when we look at Trump, fast forward to today, and specifically leading up here, to the election, Donald Trump, he was able to, even if you don't believe him, I just want to start out here with this, even if you don't believe Donald Trump, that he is going to be able to address these certain issues that he's raised up throughout the campaign, the fact that Trump was the only candidate who not only met the voters where they were on the issues they cared about, but then turned into the only real candidate voicing those concerns, voicing those problems, and at least acting as a champion that therein speaks to why Trump was able to resonate with so many people across the board, of all political persuasions, of all races, creeds, ethnicities, and when you look at the coalition that Trump has built now, I've definitely battled with our good buddy Larry sharp here on the show about this very issue, the idea of building coalitions, specifically through a libertarian perspective. And I always was weary, and my main argument against building coalitions was that it's fine to build coalitions on certain cause issues, right? And we saw a lot of this during COVID with the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, where you'd have a lot of libertarians trying. And to leverage this civil liberties perspective, to build bridges with a lot of these folks in the Black Lives Matter protests. And my number one objection to that has always been the issue itself does not matter if you find agreement, if we do not realize the reason we agree on that issue, right? So if we find that our friends on the left are agreeing with us on this particular issue. When it comes to black lives matter, for example, are they agreeing? Because they fundamentally agree that all humans are inherently created equal, and that, per the 14th Amendment, that we have equal protection under the law, and that the fact that racism, we used to say here in the Libertarian Party, bigotry is irrational and repugnant or some stupid little term, but like, if that was the mindset that we had right and we were able to build bridges on that, maybe that's an argument to make. But when you would actually go and talk to these folks at these black lives matter protests, either one, they had no idea why they were there. They were told for the first time in months that they were able to leave their homes and actually go and engage with people in person, by the way, remember, remember, right? This was all during COVID, so this was during the peak hysteria where folks were being forced to stay at home, and all of a sudden, you're being told by Anthony Fauci, well, actually, if you go outside in massive groups of people and you're fighting and you're speaking for the right things. That's okay. Oh, okay. Didn't know that the Black Lives Matter protest was able to overcome scientific narratives that you were promoting at that time. Dr Fauci and again, goes to why so many folks were just so burnt out with the bullshit over the past four years. But also the fact that when you see these coalitions being built right on the left, or, I'm sorry, with libertarians, it was more meeting the lefts where they were, and not so much changing libertarianism to fit that, but rather trying to build this relationship with people who, I'm sorry, have no interest in building relationships with us. So when I look at Trump, and what Trump's doing in building these, these coalitions, right? He's bringing folks to the table who, if you were just to have your ecosystem out there, of all these different thought leaders probably agree on, you know, a few core issues. But when it comes to, like, the the overarching ism, is there an overarching ism that Trump's coalition believes, and probably not, but the overarching coalition is of folks that seem, they seem to get it right. And this is an argument we used to see in the libertarian circles quite a bit. It was like, hey, if I can get everybody, if you imagine that that, you know, four squares, top right is authoritarian right, top left is authoritarian left, and then the bottom two are the libertarian right and libertarian left. I was like, if we can get 80% maybe that might be a high number of of folks into the bottom two buckets, right, Libertarian, left and libertarian right, and no longer have to leverage force to enact or to play defense against certain policies and basically just say, Hey, I'm on libertarian right. I'm going to go ahead and build some businesses and build up a, you know, an environment, a culture here, of people who respect property rights. And you know, we're not going to have social safety nets. We're going to have private institutions leveraging that. So you guys do your thing in lefty, libertarian land, and we will shake hands and do our separate thing. And hey, if you want to go ahead and trade with us every now and then, we can talk about trade, for sure. But it was in the idea of eliminating force, right? And I look at the coalition that Trump has built today, and it's same church, different pew, right? When we look at Trump, Trump has been able to bring folks to the table like an RFK and Nicole Shanahan from the Make America healthy camp. He's got folks like a JD Vance or a Josh Hawley who are much more in the America first nationalist, economic nationalist camp. He's got folks like Rand Paul and Vivek Ramaswamy who are definitely more in the pro libertarian, small, Ill libertarian Republicanism camp. And he's got business leaders like Elon Musk who are now leading the charge trying to help improve government efficiencies once Trump is officially sworn into office. So this this building of the Avengers, if you will, pardon the expression, especially for how bad the actors and actresses of the Avengers did at rallying for Kamala Harris there. But when you look at the bringing together of all these different folks into this greater Republican narrative going into the election this past election cycle, it really change the ground away from, oh, these are all different cause issues that we can only lead with when it's our cause issue. And and really understanding that this is all in pursuit of something bigger, and understanding where we are right now as a country, in the moment we find ourselves in, so to speak, to, by the way, where that coalition is versus where the other side of the aisle is. And again, I hate the fact that I have to generalize here for this conversation today, but the inability for so many folks on the I'm just going to again generalize the political left to realize how bad things have been here in this. Country and why so many people were upset. We're going to quickly check out. This is a this is a clip here from Joe Scarborough, okay, and I just want you to listen to the complete inability for him to understand where your average American is and why, why they voted for someone like a Donald Trump. So let's go ahead and and take a listen here. Good. I want to

Speaker 1  15:21  
talk about economy for a second. A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, Oh, my God, Trump's going to win. I go. Why is that? Because I just, I went to the grocery store, butter is over $3 I kind of laughed, and I said, I said, well, that's kind of reductive, isn't it? Said it to myself, to him, I smiled, and I said, Good point, but it actually what everything we're hearing after the election is

Unknown Speaker  15:53  
the seven What's that

Unknown Speaker  15:56  
the $7 What's that butter is $7 yeah. What is it? Framed in gold.

Unknown Speaker  16:05  
Anyway, where you go?

Speaker 1  16:06  
Okay, well, yeah, okay. Well, anyway, my point is this Willie, the rent is too damn high. And this guy was saying the cost of butter is way Damn too high, yeah. And so I thought it was a bit reductive. It ended up being just the point that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of grass, of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago, it was a very simple answer for working class Americans, things just cost too much.

Brian Nichols  16:40  
Yeah, and this right here, right? Yes, Joe, things do just cost too much. And to see the moment when he realized that not only was butter not $3 but it was over double what he thought it was. And it was this inability to connect with where your average voter was. And this leads into not just why Trump won, but why the Harris campaign lost. And we have to first address what the Kamala Harris campaign did, and as they did not go after new voters. They attempted to at the very end, but the entirety of that campaign was built around going after the true believers going after the folks who are singing from the shape the same sheet of music here, specifically on the progressive left, and this mentality of going and rallying the base, which, yes, is important to rally the base, but then to not understand that that base is so out of touch from the average American person, right? Like the average Joe who's just walking around, or average Jane walking around. What are the issues they care about? And I'm just going to level with you right now, if you're still sitting there not understanding what happened over the past the past week here with this election, Kamala Harris not only refused to address the actual issues that people cared about, but then her her team. And just gonna say a lot of the left leaning supporters would go out of their way to dismiss mock those people who are bringing up the very real concerns that people were facing and and I'm just gonna level with folks out there who think that that's a good sales strategy. It's not going ahead and dismissing the problems, the concerns of your your voting base, dismissing the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations. God Kamala, like that right there speaks to why the left lost, and really quickly to we're gonna go ahead and check out this other video over on CNN, and this was with was Abby Phillips. Is that her name? I can't remember. There's two clips. Actually, we're gonna share the first well, actually both of these, I'm just gonna let them speak for themselves. This just shows how out of touch the average leftist is and how, apparently, they haven't learned and will continue not to learn. Let's go ahead and take a listen here. I think there are a lot

Speaker 2  19:08  
of families out there who don't believe boys should play girls sports. They're

Speaker 3  19:13  
not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia at this table. I

Speaker 4  19:17  
am not going to call a trans girl a boy when you boys,

Speaker 5  19:32  
because, look, this is a really heated issue, right? And sure, Michael, I know you. I know that you understand that people have different views on this, I think out of respect for Jay, like, let's try to talk about this in a way that is respectful.

Brian Nichols  19:47  
Okay, so

Speaker 2  19:48  
let me rephrase this, since I'm being targeted here, I don't know, let's be clear you

Speaker 5  19:53  
are not, but it's I'm specifically saying that I know that you are not intending to be trans. Nobody

Unknown Speaker  20:00  
should know that. I want

Speaker 3  20:04  
to give you no regular people interpret it. That's not regular people. There's no consensus that these are actually boys. This whole thing about trans girls is a canard if we're talking about a tiny, tiny sliver of the population. Maybe my point in terms of health care,

Unknown Speaker  20:23  
hold on. Just get to your point.

Speaker 2  20:25  
My point in terms of its effectiveness. Regular people with children look at these things and they say, You know what? This is a bit too far. I do not agree with this. I don't like this. I think Democrats are going way too much to the left on social issues. They're uncomfortable with it. A lot of people believe that a lot of families believe that you may disagree with that reality, but that's why Republicans kept running those ads over and over and over again, because they saw the metrics suggested that

Speaker 3  20:50  
in those ads over and over again, and using rhetoric like you just used, saying this is boys Playing girls sports, talking about trans girls playing, playing, being allowed to play with people who are in their gender. And if we don't believe you don't have to listen to me, listen to the American Medical Association, the American

Brian Nichols  21:13  
Psychological See, now this is again, I hate to keep on going back to this is why you lost, but this is why y'all lost, right? Like, you can't just dismiss the real concerns of people, and I see this, by the way, in libertarian groups, and I hope y'all libertarians are listening when people raise up concerns, if your immediate knee jerk response is to go ahead and just say you're an ass, you're a bigot, you're racist, you're homophobic, for not even like, not even voicing the opposite of what they think they are. Right in the leftist head, they're hearing this guy saying, I don't want biological men playing with my daughters in sports. Goofball. Leftist hears that and says, You're calling these biological men who are saying they are biological women. You're calling them terrible, like you're calling them on human you're trying to diminish their their mental health, diminish their their sense of identity. No, this is called real life, and this is where the left has completely lost the plot. They are not engaging in real world anymore. They are engaging in the most privileged type of politics that we've ever seen hit our world. Frankly, when you look at the focus on all of these, all these alphabet issues, right across the board, who do you think you are when you're leading with these issues, when you have very real issues in America, like rampant immigration over the border, millions of folks who have flooded but Brian, that's a good thing. Oh, so it's a good thing. Now it's not. That's not happening. It's a good thing. Roger, okay, rampant inflation. We're facing World War Three on a global stage right now, and yet, the only things that we can focus on are these alphabet issues. No wonder your average voter looked at Kamala Harris and looked at the left and said, y'all are y'all are goofy, and y'all have lost the plot, right? And shame, shame on the left, if you led with this on the left. And now you're sitting back here at the end of this week trying to understand why you lost, and now you're doubling down on the exact same things that led to your cataclysmic failure that's on you, and speaking of it being on you, here's another another gentleman. This is from MSNBC, again, refusing to acknowledge that the issues people care about are the issues that people care about. How about that?

Speaker 6  23:39  
There's this sense, right, that whiteness is under threat. The demographic shifts the country isn't what all these racially ambiguous children on Cheerios commercials are confusing the hell out of me. A

Speaker 7  23:53  
lot of people voted because their life's too damn expensive, and it was here, and they voted

Speaker 6  23:58  
for you're telling me, Stephanie, that all of these people who believe that their lives are that bread is too high and eggs are too high, that they voted for a convicted fella, a guy who said we can grab the pee.

Speaker 7  24:12  
I think that a lot they voted for this guy. I'm not defending it, but I think there are tons of people that don't pay attention to and I'm not defending it. Don't pay attention to politics at all. But we, while we live in the most prosperous country in the world, people are saying, life's not fair. I'm not doing well. My son still living in the basement. I can't seem to get a job. I don't like the status quo of voting for something else, and he loves you.

Speaker 6  24:36  
But I do not believe that. I cannot believe that. And the reason I think you believe it is because you don't want to believe that. That's what's really motivating them. It's always the case. We people don't want to believe what the country actually is, because if they believe it, they're gonna have to confront what. In them, I don't believe that they voted for a crook, a person who they know is stealing from just doing everything to undermine the cold, so called country that they love. And then they're telling us the BS that it's economics we know that's not true.

Brian Nichols  25:20  
You get, you get what you deserve at that point. Like I've been saying this quite a bit the left and by the way, I'm going to talk to a lot of libertarians here as well, because this is, this is 100% where libertarians can learn something as well. Left leaning libertarians specifically this mentality, right? This is why you are losing, and this is why you will continue to lose. Right now, you had an opportunity after this election to take a step back and say, oh my god, we just got our asses kicked. We just got destroyed, and you did. You did get destroyed. Go look at that. That red and blue map of the political electoral outcomes. Y'all got crushed. You lost the presidency. You lost the Senate, and you lost the Congress. Looks like it's going to be close, but it looks like you lost the Congress too. This has been a massive rejection of social leftist policies, of economic leftist policies, and of foreign policy, neocon, leftist policies. And your average person, right? Who does care about the cost of butter? Who does care about the cost of eggs? Who does care about economics? They hear this, this Princeton professor. They hear whatever Looney Tunes name was there on CNN. They hear all of this, right? They hear the dismissing. They hear that you don't actually care about that you don't care about economics and how hard it is to pay your bills. You hate. Insert favorite protected minority here. You hate trans people, you hate gay people, you hate black people, you hate Jewish people. Go down the list that is literally the tried and true playbook. What's happened, though, and for anybody who is a fan of sports, right? Dallas Cowboys, my team, America's team, it's my little pennant behind me. They went for the past three years, 12 and 512. Wins, five losses. Okay, that's really good in the NFL, five losses for the entire year, and you've won 12 games, All right, sounds good. You're going to go to the playoffs. You're a good team. And what happened to the Cowboys this year? They're three and five, so we're not even what third through the season. They've already have as many losses that they did the, you know, the previous year, and they they have had for the past three years. Cowboys didn't learn. Cowboys didn't change. Cowboys didn't adapt their play calling. They didn't change the roster. There's like this works status quo. Set it into cruise control. Let's see what happens. And now the Cowboys are losing. That is exactly what has happened to the Democratic Party and the leftist playbook is that they were they were very happy from 2008 up to 2016 because that playbook of running identity politics, creating these targeted coalitions of individual cause groups that can be brought together under this one umbrella of democratic unity, right? That that was what won Obama in oh eight, and it helped him win re election in 2012 and then it broke in 2016 and Trump was the reason it broke because people had eight years of of objective data to look at during the Obama administration. And said, this sucks. I don't like this. Trump wins, and then COVID happens, right? I mean, going back into the end of 2019, very early months of 2020, it looked like Trump was going to cruise to a re election. Economy was doing great. Businesses were doing great, incomes were doing great relative to inflation, and then COVID hit, and all of the responses, both from your local, state, federal governments and international governments, just, I'm just going to say it. It might be a conspiracy, conspiracy theory, but this is my just gut opinion. There's no reason that all of these governments across the world collectively decided that we're going to have the exact same copy and paste reaction to this virus and destroy our economies along the way, unless you look at it from a grander picture and say, Well, what if it was in pursuit of something else. What if it. Was in pursuit of a new world order, right? It could have worked. They they got Trump out of office, and again, in my conspiracy, right? They got Trump out of office, they were able to make it appear again. I'm being very delicate here, that they got a bazillion more votes than him, right? And compare and contrast last election cycle to this election cycle. Where was it? 15 million votes? Where are they? Just gone, just poof and gone. I don't think that's how that happens, but suddenly we're missing millions of votes. So there was a mandate in 2020, a return to normalcy, right? And not only did things not get normal, not only were the adults not in charge, but what happened the country the world started getting as crazy as it has been in recent memory, and really starting with that Afghanistan withdrawal in 2920 21 excuse me, that was, it seems like the moment where a lot of folks realized, ooh, maybe the Biden administration and all the fun folks he surrounded himself with, maybe they're not the grown ups. Maybe they're not the adults in charge anymore. Maybe this isn't a return to normalcy. As a matter of fact, it feels like things are getting more and more chaotic. We have Rachel Levine, which is a biological dude being put at the head of our health administrations. We got Anthony Fauci, who, in one in one on one side of the aisle is helping fund the very viruses that are now being found to have caused the starting out of the COVID pandemic. What we see we see the alphabet friends going through and trying to push their ideologies on children in schools, and then telling parents that you're the Bigot for calling it out. People started to realize that the narrative that was being promoted by the left, or this idea of diversity, of equity, of inclusion, inclusivity, that that wasn't real, that was that was their their battle cry to get you to do what you were told, do what you were told, how dare you have a free thought and how dare you not walk the line. Oh, you don't want to get a COVID vaccine. Well, guess who's going to have to go ahead and show your papers in order to go to a restaurant? Oh, you don't want a COVID vaccine. Well, guess who's going to try and mandate your your employer to force you to get a vaccine, otherwise you're not going to have a job. Sorry, we decide you're not an essential worker. So good luck that shit doesn't fly anymore. And a lot of people were radicalized during that and then to say, trust the experts on vaccines, trust the experts on the the alphabet conversations, trust the experts on foreign policy. No, I'm not going to trust trust your experts. It's not trust the experts. It's trust your experts. No, we're done with that, and we saw right through it. And this fast forwards, by the way, into why Chase Oliver as a candidate? Did so poorly for libertarians, and this is probably gonna hurt for some folks to hear, because I know Chase, you know, he is a tried and true libertarian, the big L next to his name, and you ran for Senate in Georgia. You played, played, what was outlier? There? Outlier, whatever the term is where he would able to pull votes away from from, I think it was what Ralph Rapha, not Rapha Warnock. Was it? Who was the Republican? Was it a the football player? Yeah, it was the football player. Herschel Walker, yeah. So, so, you know, pulling votes away from Herschel Walker made a name for himself. But what did Chase stand for libertarianism? It was that the the sales pitch Chase, got fifth out of all the candidates. He lost to RFK Junior, who had dropped out and endorsed his opponent. He lost to Jill Stein and to hear folks just get on this. This, you know, this, this big talk track of well, this is the LNC leadership's fault. Okay, then how did RFK, with no political party, do better than Chase angels time? And this is something that I think libertarians need to realize, candidate Quality Matters. Well, it would have been easier if he had his his LNC supporting him. Stop. Stop it. Let's just stop the goofiness. Okay, it that's that's a nice narrative to make you feel better, right? To lick your wounds of why you got your ass kicked. The reality is that Chase is a sucky candidate. You can't lead with identity politics and then get frustrated when people call out, I. 90 politics, Sorry, Chase. And by the way, just to make sure we're making this, Chris so clear, there's nothing to do with my personal opinions on his his sexual proclivities. But when you lead with I'm a gay man and a libertarian, of course, people are going to start to pull that into your identity. You have made it your identity,

and like to get mad at folks because they're not buying what you're selling. Dude, that's on you. And libertarians, this is the part where I, for the past five years, have been screening at this stupid microphone, trying to get y'all to realize how to actually sell liberty. It's not by leading with issues you think people should care about. It's by leading with the issues people actually care about. So instead of saying, Oh, you didn't vote for this candidate, well, that's because you hate LGBTQ plus AI question mark people, instead of saying that, right, maybe ask voters what they actually care about, and then lead with libertarian solutions to those problems. And just look at the the outcomes of this election. What were the things people cared about? Rampant immigration, crazy inflation, economic policies that are crushing us right now, what does Chase run on? What? What? What does Chase run on? And why did that not resonate with voters? And this is something that libertarians right now, especially our more establishment friends, refuse to even talk about. They refuse to even address the fact that candidate quality and candidates addressing issues that voters care about is vastly, infinitely more important than political infrastructure. Political infrastructure is huge. But to to argue that that is the reason why a candidate lost is just goofball. That's just goofball politics. Your candidate lost. Chase Oliver lost because he was a bad candidate. End of discussion. This is not a attack on Chase. This is not an attack on Mike Turman. I've had Mike in the show many times. I like Mike a lot. Great guy. The campaign, though, was wholly ineffective at articulating libertarian ideas and solutions to a populace that was looking for different solutions. When you lead with the ISM and you try to get people to refer back to the ISM as the justification of why they're making a buying decision, in this case, voting for your candidate. You've lost. You've lost. You're not trying to get the voter to meet you where you're at. You need to meet the voter where they're at. Say it with me on the issues they actually care about. So when a voter comes up to you and says, Hey, I have a really big problem with with with dudes in the locker rooms, with girls, don't tell them they're a transphobe for raising up a concern, because what you've done is not only push a voter away, now you've created an enemy. You created someone who will actively cheer against you, who will actively cheer when you lose. It's kind of where I'm at, by the way, because I spent five years trying to teach libertarians how to sell this stuff, and man, they really liked it when their candidates were winning local offices by running on the stuff I taught. But when, when federal politics comes to play, and all these social, goofball issues come up, and I start saying that that doesn't work, and all sudden, y'all start unfriending me because the stuff I was teaching you and your candidates how to do to actually win, and it worked, and now you're upset that I'm asking you to hold some type of credibility in applying this to a federal election that's on. You. Listen, libertarians, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you your farts smell good. They don't your farts stink. And if you keep on thinking your farts smell like rainbows and roses, well, guess what, people are gonna start walking away, and they are in mass because you lead with this mentality that you have to be one of us, a true believer, and go through the ISM and justify every ism as a part of libertarianism to fit in our little group. That's not a sales strategy, folks, that's a social club. Now, if you want to be goofy pink hair goofballs going out and trying to to build more of a coalition with other goofy, blue haired goofballs, go for it. You're not serious. You're not serious in the world of politics, you're serious in the world of book clubs. And listen, that's fine. If that's what you want to be that's fine. But don't be surprised when people don't take you seriously. Going back to something, I said, My gosh, what? 28 Mean, nobody's going to take libertarians seriously until we take ourselves seriously. Now, yes, some will argue that we need to give politics the the irreverence it deserves in being libertarians and laughing at the goofballs in politics when they deserve to be laughed at. And you're right, we do, but internally, we present ourselves as goofballs. See, I know a lot of us look at American politics as kind of this, like blood sport, and for some folks, it's a game. But there's a very real, tangible, like consequence of playing this game or not playing this game. You can sit at home and not play politics. That's fine. Politics is going to find a way to play with you, and for libertarians to almost mock the political process and mock people who are trying to use the political process as it has been created to make changes in our world right now, and then tell them that you're just a bigot, you're just you're just racist, you're transphobe. We're not going to listen to your issues. It's a great way to push people away. So why did Chase lose? Why did Kamala lose? Because what we've been teaching here on the show four years, they didn't meet the voters where they were at on the issues they cared about. Kamala led with hope and joy. That's not a campaign strategy and chase led with an ism libertarianism, and that's not a campaign strategy either. Trump won resoundingly by meeting the voters where they're at on the issues they care about. So for our AMP America, we can review today. It's a little bit shorter because it's just yours truly, but there is definitely a lot for libertarians to learn. I hope you all learn it. You're not. I know a lot of you aren't, and that's okay, good luck, right? Like, I'll work with with small l libertarians who want to actually get their ideas into office, be that as a big L or a big R Republican. I'll help you, but I'm not just, you know, knee jerk supporting Big L libertarians, especially when I think a lot of your big L candidates, especially on a federal level, kind of suck. So with that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors for today's show. As you go ahead and wrap things up, and I'll do my final thoughts. That is our good friends over at cardio miracle. Let's take a listen. Hey folks. I want to take a moment and talk about my life and that real miracle. Cardio Miracle are incredible. Sponsor, now. Sponsor, I'll be honest. I'll be honest. 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And I understand that Josh is doing this because it's the more insane takes that get traction on social media.

But Josh represents very much this, this ethic of some libertarians who they just want to fit in with a crowd, and I look at someone like a Josh, and Josh represents a lot of these left leaning libertarians who they grew up in this world. And by the way, I grew up in this world too, right where you were, you were looked at as maybe a bad person for not jumping on board with whatever the the alphabet people had as their calling card for the week. And I remember back in college like this, this really started to manifest back in the late 20 the early 2010s really. And you realize right when I was in college, and to see how this mentality seeped in so quickly to so many folks, is, you know, accepted politics and then on the other side of the aisle, not political aisle, but just in terms of the other side of outreach, right libertarians started bringing this, this ethos to their outreach. Right this, this whole bigotry is a rational and repugnant mentality. Bigotry is irrational and repugnant when it is bigotry for the sake of being irrational and repugnant, I can very proudly and confidently plant my flag and say I'm sorry, transgender dude, you can live your life as you want to live your life. That's fine, but I don't have to openly endorse and support it. And as a matter of fact, when it comes to the way I want to interact with you in my life and with my family, I'm going to set some boundaries. I'm not asking government to come and set those boundaries, but I'm going to set some boundaries socially. And there has been a lot of libertarians who look at that and say, that's bad. You're not supposed to have standards. You're not supposed to have values. And what happens is libertarians stop being libertarians. They start being more libertine. Well, just questioning an idea, no, live and let live, bro. No, no, no, because your live and let live is not just you living in a bubble. You're living in the real world, and you have to have some types of standards that are outside of this libertine perspective. And this is what has pushed a lot of good folks away from the liberty movement, because when you're told you can't have a value that's maybe not lock step with the mainstream, but that makes you a bad person. No, I have values, I have standards, I have morals that I hold myself to, and I hold interactions with people around me too. You don't like that. I'm I'm not letting you just trample over my values. Sorry, no. And then get upset when I push back, and parents like me push back, seeing the goofiness happening in public schools or the goofiness happening in public restrooms. See, this is where libertine and this this like morally apathetic, ethically apathetic mentality really misses the mark, and why we've seen so many folks in the liberty movement, like Josh Hickel very quickly jump on board the left. Because what's holding you into libertarianism if it's not the ISM, or if it's not the application of the ISM relative to your own personal values, like I'm a libertarian who is at my core more socially conservative. Doesn't mean I'm saying I need government to come in and stop every trans person from existing. No, what I'm saying is, do your thing, but don't expect me to be a full throated endorser of you doing that like I'm gonna think that you probably have some issues. You probably gotta work on them. I'm not gonna cheer you and say, This is great. This is wonderful. It's not It's goofball. I'm not saying you can't do it, but I'm saying I don't have to sit there and say, there you go. At a boy or girl, they them. No, not doing that, and I'm not a bad person for saying that. You're not a bad person for for saying I want my communities to be safe and not have literally millions of people flooding into our borders, over our borders, into our country, and no idea who they are. You're not a bad person for that. You're not a bad person if you were upset going to the grocery store and realizing butter costs $7 and making that a main issue for you at the ballot box, you're not a bad person for that. And I almost said the people who are bad people, but I don't, I don't want to go. Down that rabbit hole, because I want to believe that there are a lot of folks who they have, too often gone with whatever was comfortable relative to the groups they found themselves in. It's a lot easier to go along with the group than it is to stand up and say, This is wrong. Now I'll end with this. If you are in the the we are libertarians Facebook group. It's called, like walnuts, I think, like, I definitely poked the bear. I was on Boss Hog of liberty, my buddy Jeremiah show back a couple weeks ago, and he started out the show saying the OPT when he call me the often like, controversial or like, I forget the terminology, but like that I'm combative in the group. It's like, no, no, I'm not combative. I'm not going along with whatever the accepted narrative is of the movement for that day. I'm not going to go along back when we have, like, all of the the goof balls at the Olympics, redoing that the Last Supper image, and then a dude literally having his balls hang out with a kid right there. I'm not, I'm not gonna say like, oh, this is, this is okay. This is, this is different cultures. Sorry. Some cultures are better than others. What are you gonna do about it? That's reality, sorry. And I don't like that. I don't think kids should be next to dudes with their junk out. What's funny is that in that group, I actually shared that photo of the dude with his junk and the kid and the kid being disgusted, and then that subsequently got deleted because they are worried that that might get the group in trouble. But then I ask, so are we all acknowledging that there might be something wrong with this? Then I'm not gonna just sit there and go with the narrative that a biological male which, by the way, has been shown, I forget the person's name, the Olympic fighter who was destroying their female opponents, and they ended up actually showing they have X, Y chromosomes. They have a micro penis. No, I'm sorry. You're not a bad person for saying that that type of an individual should be fighting on par with other biological women. You're not a bad person for saying that. And this is the if we can just end today's show with this, you're not a bad person for looking at the the problems we see in the world, and offering your opinions that don't go with the mainstream. Conversely, you're not an automatic good person, because you're echoing back what everybody else around you says. And as a matter of fact, if you find yourself only around people who tell you your farts stink, who tell you that what you're saying is exactly right and you're spot on run, because you're probably in a group of people who are collectively in a circle, possibly jerks, doing some not so great things. So with that being said, we're gonna go ahead and put a pin in today's conversation. Thank you for joining us live over on x. I hope you got some value from our Week in Review. Hopefully next week we'll have remzo or, uh, Kenny Cody joining us here once again, live on our Saturday show. With that being said, we're going to wrap things up. If you got some value, hit that subscribe button. We do go live every Saturday ish, unless something happens. So make sure you hit that subscribe button for when we go live. 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