rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated. he was going to kevin kevin in light of the election results, which you say that the, the me mostly the postulate. politics is destiny is in the dustbin of history. well, we'll see what happens over so i don't have an official waiter. of course, if you have to leave it to the president and i don't like to remind us even though we know who you are, ruby pressure, we have a lot of work to do honestly in america to get past this huge divide of elections. some of us is how divided we are were president shop reform, got the folks out. but unfortunately for him and his supporters, he created almost a stronger movement of people who were strongly resistant,

so to speak. and they came out. there's probably a lot of work to do, so make sure you put it for free, but we're not there yet. and ton i think that it would be very welcomed by tens of millions of people if the political left and particularly the democratic party can stop voter shamy conservatives. and republicans, i think it meets that point. i think, you know, you can look at the results of the election, but you know, calling them deplorable zone races. zina folds, i think that is in the dustbin of history too. what do you think and absolutely not . it's incredible. his whole heart is for the pollsters. in the mainstream of innocent men that this election was far closer than they ever predicted. i mean, don't try to see more votes than any incumbent president ever. and you know, this was an extremely tight, aren't joe biden victory for,

for about the same mark. i don't trump won by the 3 states, he won wisconsin and pennsylvania in 2016. so the idea that you know how 5 americans are, you know, he's racist horrible people is just fundamentally absurd. and that's just the message from the left. costly that anyone who supports donald trump is a terrible, deplorable individual in, in less it, when i look at the results here it, it seems to me that there is a realignment going on. but particularly in the g.o.p. where you have kind of a mixture of social conservatism and economic populism. you think that's a fair assessment? go ahead with us. well, so some of that's happening. but what i see is you've got the standard republicans and democrats hating each other, making it sound like one side is going to totally destroy america, where as the other is going to save america. but mostly that is all style. when you

look at the substance of the issues, when you look at trade policy, tax and spend policy wars in the middle east, the deficit spending and fire mentalism, social security, medicare, on most issues. the republicans and democrats have actually been quite moderate. i wish republicans or democrats would be more extreme on some of those issues. and of course i'm against many of the extreme things if they propose. but no, i don't think republicans have gone through a realignment. they've always been, you know, i'm a libertarian. i want free markets, i want low taxes, i want to cut social security and medicare. republicans never do that stuff. and democrats as well. you know, i want to end the wars civil liberties in the war on drugs and democrats never seem to get that done either. ok, well you know, when i think it's really kind of interesting have been is that when you look at

like medicare for all in issues like that the, there's many, if you look at the polls among republicans, a lot of people are for, i mean, i find it really, really quite remarkable that even if you look at it instead of just, you know, blue or red, you know, if you just look at people, there's actually a lot of consensus about what people want. but you know, in your party, you know, when you have, you hire all the candidates in the primaries for medicare for all. and then you give it the nomination to the guy and doesn't want it. ok. and then also, you know, and so on. we had trump, he talked about this in 2016, but once he got into power, well, we can't do that. ok. i mean, i find it just really remarkable. it's india, it's the party structures that are the problem. it's not the people, the people are not. the chloral, they're not deplorable on either side because both sides really want a lot of the same things. go ahead. yeah. yeah. you're also shady goes.

oh so you know, over have people when asked out to support it. we saw you before care after you ask people for obamacare, overwhelmingly say you support the affordable care act. they say they do like messaging and it, i agree with record i heard recently we're talking about the georgia senate race coming your way. the slogan here, you know, like on police and green, you don't medicare for all. sometimes it's no laughing. erm turn left again. i didn't come from the left sometimes turn or built a wall or something. and you know, you have, you know, i mean happens on both sides of the slogans. and of course, people away, they are awesome for me. most people agree that yes or should be secure, should just write back and forth easily. we talk about how, you know, building

a wall has to be a war on earth when you know that turn, so do it. and it just shows how, how divided really are by president by you know, in terms of what i find really very, very disappointing. i consider myself a conservative, don't i?, i don't always think very much of the g.o.p., but i think it was a real mistake on the left just to make it about donald trump because all 3 of you talk about policy. but they didn't seem to be in the campaign all that much beyond sloganeering. ok. and, and i think there's going to be a huge hangover, particularly on the left. you know that like what do we do now? remember the candidates still in the 1970s when we do now? because you know, it was all focused on one man and that one man did amazingly well. he probably

didn't win. he probably won't be inaugurated. or you can't ignore that mass movement. now i'm for a realignment, it's in the cards because trump ran as a populist and he governed as jeb bush. that's my disappointment. go ahead and yeah, you know, i think just to go back to the previous question, i think that the republican party absolutely does need to, you don't do one thing going from going so well on his, he was not this, you know, warhop, republican president, people were so sick, and while i think medicare for all isn't popular, people do recognize in america that we need to have coverage for things like preexisting conditions. and you know, to talk about that a lot. so i, for one, i just want to go on the record as i do think the republican party we do need to change when it comes to things like those issues that are more populist than kind of the traditional conservative view that just isn't that popular when you look at the margins of the president lost with lenny alls as well as women suburban women

by but you know, going forward, i think look at all comes down to georgia and what happens in the senate races, there if we republicans can hold on to the u.s., senate, it's going to be a lot different conversation that we're having in january than if democrats do get the senate as well as joe biden. you know, is confirmed as president. you know, wes, is a libertarian. i, i have to probably think that you're, you're probably just as sick and tired of this woke politics, rhetoric that just sucks all the air out of the room. when it comes to issues that affect all people, when you're sick, it doesn't remotely, doesn't matter if you're a republican or democrat or a libertarian. go ahead with us. well, if you're talking about health care in particular and this applies to other issues when, when ronald reagan was running for president, he used to say government is the problem, not the solution. and he would spend quite a bit of time explaining how free markets and freedom orc donald trump is

not really a reflexive, really libertarian leaning, or for small government or for free markets. and so for the last 4 years, he hasn't spent any time educating and training the people and especially republicans themselves on, you know, what does it mean? how does freedom work with, with free markets, with less regulation, with lower taxes. how would it be easier for people to pay for their own health care and less? you know, if i can interrupt you here, the day that donald trump was most unpopular as president is the day he signed his tax bill, because most people didn't see that it affected them whatsoever. and it's because he's surrounded by libertarian people thinking people in his administration, and i think that was when one of his greatest mistakes. that's my opinion. how do you react to the well, if you lower taxes, but you don't lower spending,

then it doesn't accomplish much. she just shifts the burden away from the people who get the tax cut and as to everyone else who suffers from inflation. donald trump, you raise spending from 4000000000 to 7, looks in one direction. it keeps going up where it's amazing, republican or democrat, it's kill, continues to do that. and i think that's, you know, i think when we see what we have here, kevin is a middle class revolt. i mean you have the choice, you can go blue or you can go red, but both all are angry about this. ok, i personally, i think government should do things for people. ok. i don't think it should waste money, but it should be for the public good. all right. and so, i mean, this is the choice we have right now to fund the police and, you know, let's just rhetoric, it doesn't mean anything if i could probably hurts people, the poorest people of our society. i mean, it really gets down to an attitude about what kind of how government should be used because it's going to be used because there's, there is no doubt that that is they can 80209010 issue go ahead.

white people overwhelmingly. even in inner city neighborhoods own black voters and black and withdrew from a hear from police. they don't, they don't support it. or they do support it, moving some resources to go there just for traditional policing. and maybe you know, social workers mental, i'll arrange a version program, things like that, which i think a lot of people do squirm when it's explained to them as you or i'll present, trying to explain it to don't exactly say so it happened the last size and that i do believe it's interesting because you talk about could go on didn't really hurt down ballot. very susan collins to be on the number of pretty easily. i mean,

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welcome back to crossfire. all things are considered. i'm here a little to remind you. we're talking about the results of the 2020 election. well let's go back to end on here. i mean, i kind of have a diagram. i mean, for the program here of what the democratic party is right now. it's woke corporate america, the super rich and the professional women managerial class. now if this isn't an opening to create a big tent for the republican party, i don't know what is, are you going to take that opening the lane is why wide open?

are you going to grasp it is? i think it could work. no, absolutely. i mean, if you go back to the eighty's and ninety's, when you know conservative talk radio was really thriving and you know, rush limbaugh was, you know, building his audience and the extreme fringes of the country. but they were viewed by the middle worse always the right. it was always, you know, the right wing that was viewed in a lot of people became moderate democrats because they were so turned off by that, you know, so-called radical right. now when you look at a o.c., an ill han and a far left, there is this enormous opportunity for this populist movement for donald trump and republicans to say, you know, look, worried the mainstream, we're the moderate, we're the center right party. and we can build on that, and i sure hope that you know, we have enough people, our party can realize that. but, you know, unfortunately, i'm going to be all this because i'm a, i call balls and strikes. and i think there are a lot of people, the republican party who don't recognize how so it's very obvious to me that you're right. someone like susan collins manages to win in blue states and then you have

other, you know, people like a roy moore who are, you know, terrible candidates. they can't even win a red state. and that's what, you know, the fringes on both sides never realized that these far left far right candidates are never going to actually, you know, be popular beyond their little base of people. you know whence one of the issues that it's always talked about is hardly ever dealt with. i mean them, the amount of money spent. this election cycle is just absolutely phenomenal. it is just, it blows your in. in south carolina, south carolina alone, lindsey graham's home. he was the most expensive senate seat ever campaign or here . i mean we're, if we took the money out of the equation here, how would it change our politics? because it's, you know, we have a republican and we have a democrat on the program and we have you and everyone knows my beliefs here. but

if you took the donor class out of this, we would have a very different politics wittingly. i'm not so sure that's the case i. there's been many examples over the years of candidates spending millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in primaries and even in general elections. and that money only seems to affect the outcome by a couple of percent. i of course, i wish the government was less important, so people were less interested in spending so much money to win an election were regardless of which side they're on. but i don't think the money, you know, you, you can spend money and get a certain policy pass. it allows you now to do a lot of construction projects and you personally profit from that. but a lot of what goes on, i don't think has a lot of impact on the election results. so look, so the money, the total money doesn't really scare me. it up when you look upstream. i mean, this is all an investment. ok. i mean,

there are so many things like ending foreign wars. i mean, that is a genuinely popular thing. thing we've had 3 election cycles. you have 3 election cycles in a row, you know, saying end the war. but if joe biden is elected president is inaugurated as president january, i don't think that's going to change or why? because of the donor class. i mean, i agree with you, i should have phrased my question, better about camp, you know, getting elected, you know, but essentially, you know, they have a end to both parties. that is, it's such a cool, a corrosive thing because you can have an 80209010 issue. but once it gets to the very top, it's the donor class that makes that decision. let me throw that to kevin here, because that's an issue that both parties, including the libertarian party, probably thinks about. go ahead, jim. yeah, absolutely. right, rob, sorry, one that we're seeing here is rates over 100000000, you know, pretty handily. and, you know, either early to consultants, one consultants,

consultants going to be millionaires who are minted in that region. oh, yeah, exactly. where somebody trying to restart their mind can try to raise a lot of money to mainly from outsiders and not get close to where folks oversee it in a lot of states. mentioned order a couple times. it's only going to get worse for, you know, next couple months. sure. sure. outsiders coming in, but i think the takeaway is that it doesn't tell me now from lindsey graham, i want a certain kind of, they know their states better than these outsiders or even money is i think it turns off, you know what you're referring to, were you know the sarge talking about, they know it was better to find some who were and just buy these races,

learn from their consultant. don't hear any outside money. that's for sure and tell them sometimes republicans win. sometimes democrats win sometimes and independent wins. but the consultants always greener, you know, i find it really, really awful. ok and, and, and it's the same thing. the only skin these people have in the game is their pocketbook. and i think that's really, that really corrodes politics and so on. you're the republican on the party and i'm not going to let you off the hook here. i'm looking at the results here and i'm looking across the board, except for an end of an educated white man. and i thinking, putting educated women the republican party didn't phenomenally well of best since 1960 before the civil rights act. ok, what is the republican party going to learn from that? because i'm sorry, republicans can be very thoughtful,

but they don't take on board something that is given to him on a silver platter. here, this is a refund, nominal result. how many seats you pick up in the house of representatives? probably keep the senate. this is, this is a, maybe not a way, but it's certainly a strong ripple in the end in lieu of what was supposed to be a blue wave go ahead on. well, yeah, absolutely. i mean, one thing that is kind of scary about, you know, the big 10 the populist message and everything you have to kind of really, i call the rubik's cube where you have to really walk a fine line, make sure you're not giving up one, you know, order for another while president trying to do great with, you know, the more rural parts of america and how those white blue collar voters. he also did extremely well with minority voters and far better than you know, romney and bush or mccain did. and i think that's something that we absolutely have to build on, especially when you look at how more college educated some urban voters are voting, democrat just by not by you know, the way they used to and 28 team was a terry,

i don't know that is that it isn't, is that the cultural wars and one is that because of cultural wars is, or is it, i mean, young people, you know what, you know, what i remember when i was the student, the university of california for a quarter. because i had a quarter system there, i had to pay $120.00 of quarter. i think that was like 3 compared to today. is that because of the lot the, the worry about economic advancement. you know, if your best earning years or is it a cultural thing trumps a racist. what accounts for that? i do think it's a lot of things, but i do think that there is, you know, when you talk about people who are really into go, whether it's climate change or just being very, a little bit more modern. and people who view themselves as highly edges hated generally just did not support the president. you carry it all. not of it though. it's not her. yeah. and all that, like you are saying though it's not about the man's policies. it was about the

style and the sad thing about politics really is if you look at some of the best political ads of all time, they have nothing to do with policy. they're all just about, you know, who you think is a nicer guy. i mean, there are a lot of polls that showed mitt romney would have done a better job on the economy tomorrow. obama. but then there was the question of, you know, who would you rather hang out with and broke obama won it by a 20 percentage point. so it really kind of makes it pretty head down sometimes. and people forget that, you know, this isn't your friend, you're voting for, this is someone you want to do a job for you. ok west. as a libertarian on the panel, what message would you give? the next president of the united states inoculated in january? what would be the single most important takeaway? are some principles we're tired of the same ole thing? i don't expect you to implement libertarian policies with think about bringing the troops home from overseas. there are people on the left and the right who both would like to see the troops come home and in the wars and quit listening to the

military contractors and everyone who profits from that and quit listening to the doomsayers and everyone who wants to try and scariest that there's a, there's a terrorist under every pillow or behind every door bring the troops home in the war. if you did that, that would make a lot. republicans, libertarians and democrats happy and to save us a lot of money as well. i couldn't agree with them or haven't i, i feel bad for the democrats. how are you guys going to exist without term? i mean, i think, can you imagine life beyond term? i mean, you know, west has brought up the really interesting point. it's a very popular issue, bring the troops home these senseless, wasteful wars. but because drunk donald trump arms to pull out troops, you know, they, the pentagon and the democrats, and of particularly the media and their hair are suddenly instantly on fire. i mean, it is illogical, it is illogical. why can't you embrace a popular issue like that?

and the wars have been so much attention with probes by whether white supremacist in one of them will policy praise, blowing up, or an east please address lead for years. i d n. so here in the world of senate it's a bad idea yet that's not good politics. where people would agree we should move towards her. impress were brought home but we all just completely abandon some of the yes. seriously, i can't stand iraq interests. we have no interest and we've been there for 19 years and no one has figured out what our interests are. they're ok. i mean, ok, i don't mean to be flippant here. ok. but what i'm,

what i'm just saying is that this should be, this is something this has a large consensus, 3 election cycles in a row. and i really wish the political elite, republican and democrat ok can throw lindsey graham in there as well. and other warmongers. ok. but we're going to end on this point here. you know, for republicans, democrats, libertarians, i just am one suggestion. listen to the people and stop bickering so much. i want to thank my guests in washington, minneapolis, and austin. i want to think of us watching us here, aren't you see you next? remember, this one

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