Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

Have we forgotten the midterm losses and the uninterrupted streak of Democrat electoral victories since 2017? Rather than learning from the mistakes, Republicans spent the past year and a half doubling down on the same leadership, policies, personnel, and image of the GOP that have been losing for so long. They fooled themselves into thinking they didn’t need to change because of illusory polling data, all built upon the assumption that Biden would be the Democrat nominee. But now that he is out and Democrats are coming back, what is the plan? I offer some ideas. We need to offer a strong vision and contrast from the radical Left and shed some of the gratuitous and off-putting aesthetics, rather than the other way around. 

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First, we begin with today’s news and how Republicans are struggling to capitalize on winning issues because they refuse to use their leverage to take the issues to the brink. Next, we’re joined by Aaron Siri, the premier civil rights attorney for victims of vaccine injury. He has a bombshell one-pager showing, using the FDA’s own information, that not a single vaccine on the child vaccination schedule was approved based on a legitimate long-term placebo-controlled trial. He notes how they were either only days or months long, lacked a large sample size, and/or used other vaccines as the control group! In fact, we see from some of the trials that some of these vaccines had high rates of serious adverse events. Aaron believes we are winning in the court of public opinion and previews some of his legal strategies to expose the truth and finally inject freedom into the biomedical security state. 

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I’m told by everyone that Trump must win at all costs. Yet Republicans are not doing anything different to ensure they don’t repeat their losing streak. With Democrats resetting the race, Republicans can no longer run the same playbook. I argue that Trump should call on Speaker Johnson (R-La.) to cancel the August recess and focus on victims of illegal immigration every day during the Democrat convention. Trump himself should be invited to speak before Congress. Then lawmakers should pass a budget defunding catch-and-release while promising, “No border? No budget!” Their entire message must be aimed at married suburban voters, not rappers. I also show how Republicans will never, ever cut a penny in spending and will therefore never fight inflation. Finally, I offer a vivid example of how conservatives speaking out against Trump’s left-wing trial balloons will usually result in Trump backing down. This is a repudiation of those who think we need to remain silent. Trump will listen to us if we actually speak out. 

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We begin today by discussing how Republicans don’t even believe their own talking points, which is why they were unprepared for a general election that didn’t include Joe Biden. I offer broader context to this election by noting that standing for nothing didn’t help them in 2022; it harmed them throughout their tenure in control of the House; and it won’t help them now. They need to run on a bold agenda, and that begins with a budget fight in September. Next, we’re joined by Dorothy Moon, chair of the Idaho GOP, who warns that RINOs are working with Democrats to subvert the grassroots control of the party. This is a threat in every red state. They plan to use the initiative petition process to make “ranked-choice voting” the law of the land. This will confuse voters and enable more liberals to slip through. She believes that in Idaho the grassroots are in a good position to beat back this effort. We also discuss the potential of switching primaries to either conventions or caucuses. As the Left seeks to abolish our primaries, we need to make them even tighter through a representative process controlled by the grassroots. There is a reason why our founders hated “direct” democracy. It leads to oligarchy.  

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Republicans seem to think that Democrats will spontaneously combust on their own. That is not true. Today, I make the case for pushing Trump to run a campaign on bold substance rather than shying away from our issues. He continues to make it clear that he will throw conservatives under the bus and feels that our issues will lose the campaign. The reality is the exact opposite. I also believe House Republicans should force a vote invoking the 25th Amendment to get all Democrats on record as affirming that Biden is fit to serve. They must also have a funding fight over the border NOW. A “run out the clock” strategy is not likely to win an election, and even if it does, watch out for what we will actually win. Larry Fink of BlackRock potentially in a Trump White House? Well, unless we build a movement to make the play calls in Trump’s ear, that is what is awaiting us on the other side of a “stand for nothing” campaign. Let’s actually stand for something and win this. 

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We begin by tying together looser observations on the RNC and the impending Democrat switcheroo of Biden. I’m concerned that conservatives have not war-gamed a scenario of Democrats bringing on a fresh face in contrast to Trump’s own image problems and fatigue from his age. We offer ideas for Republicans and Trump to strike while the iron is hot and actually indict Democrats on the key issues before Democrats make the switch. Finally, I discuss the fact that we need to focus on red states where we don’t have to worry about losing to the Democrats and where there should be no clamor to water down our beliefs in exchange for the promise of electoral success. However, there is a looming threat of using ballot petitions to abolish primaries and institute rank-choice voting. The Left has successfully turned Alaska blue using this convoluted method. We must put effort and resources into red states before they permanently turn them into blue states.  

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Many issues and events surrounding the RNC have brought out important debates among conservatives concerning the balance of principle with the need to appeal to voters. Today, I discuss the need for balance with most principles. We’re not all about workers or corporations. We’re not all about one group or the other. We have fixed principles that are for the “whole of the people,” that you pragmatically present to appeal to various people. But what we don’t need is an overindulgence of an extreme ascetic cosplay to pander to a specific group, all the while using the other extreme as the straw man to justify ridiculous behavior. I also show how Republicans continue to obsess over symbolism, cosplay, and abstract right-wing theory, while in practice, they are ironically continuing the same business as usual. 

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Today is one of our longest and most foundational shows. For all my life, we’ve been entreated to make the false choice of either voting for RINOs or risking Democrats winning and there is nothing you can do about it. Today, I go through the news of the day with the thesis that every day, conservative influencers, and often ordinary voters, get a vote by getting on the activism playing field and pushing Republicans to the right. I warn about the need to do this with Trump now before it’s too late. He is floating a trial balloon of keeping Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve and appointing Jamie Dimon as treasury secretary, among a litany of disturbing trends we are seeing. Election Day is November 5, but every day before and after, we can build a movement that fights for our prerogatives. I give some examples of what it means to “vote” in this way and how it’s more powerful than your ballot on the official Election Day. 

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A comprehensive discussion of JD Vance, my thoughts on the convention, and how we have an entire party and movement that are clueless about what they believe. Today is a foundational show where we discuss false dichotomies in populism and the difference between unbridled populism and conservative populism. Too many Republicans are now embracing straight-up socialism under the guise of appealing to the working class, when in fact there is a much better way. I offer some suggestions. With that, I explain the good and the bad with JD Vance. He’s good on social issues and foreign policy but is confused on economic policy. Overall, JD is the best of the names Trump was considering but will not move Trump to the right unless we build a movement around him. Most of all, the fact that Trump picked JD is evidence that he still cares about what the base thinks. We must use our clout with him rather than allowing him to drift. 

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We all agree that the near-assassination of President Trump should serve as a cathartic moment. But today I warn that it will not change things on its own unless we change our mentality. Now more than ever we have both the opportunity and the imperative to end all compromising with the Left. Fighting means we stop elevating RINOs and people like Mike Johnson. It means that in red states we politically kill the Left and destroy all their policies the way they want to physically harm us. If we believe the Left has blood on its hands, it’s time to ACT like it. We must not be like a groundhog that comes out once every two years to vote Republican and then goes back into the cave. Finally, the attempted assassination cannot be used as pretext to shut down those who raise concerns about a leftward shift of the party. Quite the contrary: It must be used as a galvanizing moment to unite behind an agenda and a strategy that will actually destroy rather than empower the Left. The sky is the limit right now, which is why we must demand change from the GOP in Congress even before the election. 

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