Democrats are failing to address the underlying economic and social alienation of young men, causing this demographic to become more conservative and susceptible to right-wing demagogues like Donald Trump and Andrew Tate.

• Neglected Coalition & Demographic Collapse

• "on all measures. Young men are academically underperforming. They're just not doing well. They're much more conservative than their parents in in not only the United States, all over the world. Uh there's all of these features that put them at great great risk."

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• "it also makes people, you know, it makes demagogues, uh, and, you know, makes demagogues like Trump and people like that Andrew Tate. You've heard of him, I assume. Right. Right. Yeah. Makes them more appealing to young, you know, to young men."

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• "So it's certainly I think that economic inequality and the prospects of a precarious work life have really undermined you know prospects for a good career and make men more susceptible to um this kind of stuff. I think there's also there's also cultural causes."

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• "I think the decline of organized religion and especially organized Christianity and really the decline of membership in any kind of civic organization as you know has fallen you know you know you know has plummeted and you know with fewer social connections of people of any kind I think it just makes it makes the it affects men more than young men more than women I think."

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The Obama administration's 2011 directive on campus sexual misconduct created a 'perverse incentive' for universities to over-investigate even frivolous claims to avoid federal penalties, leading to a harmful and absurd environment.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "You're saying that Obama came out and said there's this horrible problem of sexual harassment and you are you've got to get on this and you've got to get get us some convictions or do something about this or you might lose fun. Kind of just the opposite of what uh Trump's doing right now …"

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• "If you don't, uh, we're going to create a federal shame list, uh, subject you to compliance reviews, and possibly withhold federal funds, although that never happened. Um, and so what that did was give create the perverse incentive for universities to investigate everything, right? That's why a, you know, a set of policies intended to ferret it out rape and sexual harassment uh resulted in a professor at Howard being investigated for over 500 days because he had a test question poorly conceived about bikini waxing."

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The left-leaning academic world created and promoted the concept of 'microaggressions,' which fosters a culture of hypersensitivity and distracts from real-world 'macroaggressions' like systemic oppression, and this academic concept ultimately backfires on its creators.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "… I said look I says this world is filled with macroaggressions that's what's oppressing most people that's what's keeping African-Americans down and women down and and working people down. Microaggressions. The fact that you use the wrong freaking word. I mean, it's ludicrous, but it comes right out of the academia, right out of the academic world, and then it backfires and bites academics in the ass"

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• "It's only when you're sitting in a lunchroom or a cafe with your colleague that you have the time and leisure to worry about microaggressions which the rest of the world doesn't have that leisure to do."

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The modern political system, including Democrats, has failed to maintain the affordability of higher education, allowing a student debt crisis to spiral out of control and burdening a generation of young people.

• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "if it weren't for Sputnik, weren't for the Soviets putting a satellite up in the air in 1957, by the time I got around, I got a full ride on Illinois State scholarship and then I got a Woodro Wilson in for graduate school and then I went uh on a special fellowship in the NDA, National Defense Education Act, Title Four, I believe it was. And so that's what got someone like me into higher education. Uh that's not doesn't exist anymore."

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• "I know so many people that are just up to here in debt. How can they feel good about a college education when you owe $19,000? No, no, $190,000."

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The Obama administration's Title IX enforcement policies created 'perverse incentives' for universities to investigate any and all claims, no matter how frivolous, to avoid federal penalties.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Process-Driven Governmental Failure

• "You're saying that Obama came out and said there's this horrible problem of sexual harassment and you are you've got to get on this and you've got to get get us some convictions or do something about this or you might lose fun …"

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• "If you don't, uh, we're going to create a federal shame list, uh, subject you to compliance reviews, and possibly withhold federal funds, although that never happened. Um, and so what that did was give create the perverse incentive for universities to investigate everything, right?"

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The left-wing push for 'safe spaces' on college campuses is an idiotic concept that fundamentally assaults the principles of free speech and open inquiry.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "The safe space is the new mantra. I mean, yes. Out of nowhere came this notion that universities ought to allow safe spaces. Well, all spaces should be safe. And what idiot decides that there are some spaces on a campus that are safe spaces and others that aren't? I mean, on its face, it's just idiocy. And speech, you you should have safe space. Every space should be safe. And speech should never make you unsafe, right …"

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The Obama administration's 2011 Department of Education guidance on sexual misconduct created 'perverse incentives' for universities, leading to an overzealous and problematic 'epidemic of investigations' on campuses.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "Um, so what I did not know at the time but later learned was that in 2011 the Obama Department of Education had issued new guidance. It had declared an epidemic of sexual misconduct on campus. Um, which I is true. Even though rates of sexual assault had been declining on campus for years and are less common on campus than they are with young women off campus, there's still too much of it and still intolerable. But what the department did uh caused a lot of problems. They created perverse incentives. They said, 'You should have to investigate these cases. If you don't, uh, we're going to create a federal shame list,'"

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By treating trivial or absurd infractions (like off-color jokes or stories) with the same gravity as actual rape, the regulatory system demeans and insults real victims of sexual assault.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "And I would add also the point I've made that when we're talking about sexual misconduct uh in the form of bikini waxing or strip club wedding invitations, that is a insult to people who have been raped, right? That is that is terrible. Yeah. To equate that with the same thing. And that's that's exactly right. They what happens is there's a an equality of of of the worst possible situation a person can undergo with being offended because somebody used the word guy in the presence of women. Yeah. I mean to equate the two is to demean and diminish what happened to other people."

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Democrats, along with Republicans, have done Americans a 'disservice' by pushing a 'get a four-year degree' message for decades, creating a mismatch with the economy and 'bastardizing' higher education in the process.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "I would argue that both Democrats and Republicans have said to everyone over the decades, get a four-year degree. Get a four-year degree. We don't have an economy that's suited to that many people who hold four-year degrees, right? We need more people who can do work in the f, you know, in the modern factories, right? And so, we've done Americans a disservice, right? And in the process, we've we've bastardized higher education to accompany this way of stu to accommodate this wave of students."

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The Obama administration's 2011 Department of Education guidance on campus sexual misconduct created 'perverse incentives' and led to a problematic 'epidemic of investigations' at universities.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Process-Driven Governmental Failure

• "So what I did not know at the time but later learned was that in 2011 the Obama Department of Education had issued new guidance. It had declared an epidemic of sexual misconduct on campus. Um, which I is true. Even though rates of sexual assault had been declining on campus for years and are less common on campus than they are with young women off campus, there's still too much of it and still intolerable. But what the department did uh caused a lot of problems. They created perverse incentives. They said, 'You should have to investigate these cases. If you don't, uh, we're going to create a federal shame list.'"

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The focus on 'microaggressions,' a concept originating from left-leaning academia, creates a culture of hypersensitivity that backfires, distracts from real-world problems ('macroaggressions'), and punishes people for innocuous speech.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "… I said look I says this world is filled with macroaggressions that's what's oppressing most people that's what's keeping African-Americans down and women down and and working people down. Microaggressions. The fact that you use the wrong freaking word. I mean, it's ludicrous, but it comes right out of the academia, right out of the academic world, and then it backfires and bites academics in the ass"

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By treating trivial offenses like off-color jokes or common phrases as 'sexual misconduct,' the regulatory system fostered by Democrats equates them with serious crimes like rape, which demeans and diminishes the suffering of actual victims.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "And I would add also the point I've made that when we're talking about sexual misconduct uh in the form of bikini waxing or strip club wedding invitations, that is a insult to people who have been raped, right? That is that is terrible. Yeah. To equate that with the same thing. And that's that's exactly right …"

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The bureaucratic and hypersensitive environment in academia, fostered by left-leaning policies, is driving out talented, interesting, and non-conformist individuals, which will cause the 'best and brightest' to avoid academic careers.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "Universities used to be a refuge for weirdos. Uh and that's why people one of the reasons people became faculty is because they weren't so great at working with others, but they were brilliant scholars or brilliant teachers or both. And so universities long attracted people like that. And so what these regulations and other changes in including to the bureaucracy as you know it have wrought is an environment that will you know our best and our brightest will forsake higher education um as a career choice and that's not in our collective interest."

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Democrats, as part of a bipartisan consensus, wrongly promoted a 'college for all' message that was disconnected from economic reality, leading to a surplus of graduates for whom there are no suitable jobs and devaluing higher education.

• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "I would argue that both Democrats and Republicans have said to everyone over the decades, get a four-year degree. Get a four-year degree. We don't have an economy that's suited to that many people who hold four-year degrees, right? We need more people who can do work in the f, you know, in the modern factories, right? And so, we've done Americans a disservice, right? And in the process, we've we've bastardized higher education to accompany this way of stu to accommodate this wave of students."

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Key liberal-leaning institutions, specifically elite universities, demonstrated weakness and cowardice by quickly capitulating to political pressure from Trump, undermining core progressive values like DEI and academic freedom.

• Process-Driven Governmental Failure

• "… recent development with universities is this uh and we should get your opinion on this this this Trump assault on them which was met and I'll use the word again with chicken I mean, college administrators at the highest level in the Ivy schools just fawned over over Trump after after these threats. Kissed his ring and said, "We'll get rid of DEI DI. We'll get DEI. We'll get rid of uh any of our affirmative action things. We'll make let you monitor us." I mean, can you imagine the links they went to, the buttkissing they went to, and what does it say about an educational system that it's highest rungs, its elites"

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The promotion of 'safe spaces' on university campuses, a trend associated with the left, is an illogical concept that fundamentally acts as an assault on the principles of free speech and open inquiry.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "The safe space is the new mantra. I mean, yes. Out of nowhere came this notion that universities ought to allow safe spaces. Well, all spaces should be safe. And what idiot decides that there are some spaces on a campus that are safe spaces and others that aren't? I mean, on its face, it's just idiocy …"

  22:54 Watch ↗

Democrats and the broader progressive movement have failed to address the economic precarity and social alienation driving young men toward conservatism and right-wing demagogues like Trump.

• Neglected Coalition & Demographic Collapse
• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "on all measures. Young men are academically underperforming. They're just not doing well. They're much more conservative than their parents in in not only the United States, all over the world. Uh there's all of these features that put them at great great risk."

  52:29 Watch ↗

• "it also makes people, you know, it makes demagogues, uh, and, you know, makes demagogues like Trump and people like that Andrew Tate. You've heard of him, I assume. Right. Right. Yeah. Makes them more appealing to young, you know, to young men. So it's certainly I think that economic inequality and the prospects of a precarious work life have really undermined you know prospects for a good career and make men more susceptible to um this kind of stuff."

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• "I'm a Jew and I'm not religious, but I think the decline of organized religion and especially organized Christianity and really the decline of membership in any kind of civic organization as you know has fallen you know you know you know has plummeted and you know with fewer social connections of people of any kind I think it just makes it makes the it affects men more than young men more than women I think so."

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The left, and by extension the Democratic party, damages its credibility by embracing and promoting 'fattish' and scientifically weak academic ideas like implicit bias tests, which are described as 'crap' and based on flawed research.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "Jesse Signals, the quick fix talks about a lot of these fattish academic ideas like power posing and um, implicit implicit racism or implicit bias, implicit racism tests. We used to give that we would give that before we do workshops and then I'd realize it's just crap. you know, it it measures something, but it's not really clear what it's measuring."

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• "And it may not actually it's not measuring what I think the the the the people who designed it think it is. That's anyhow, it's a really good book about how these ideas are adopted quickly and go off the rails. And the tacet message is that when academics are rewarded with with attention or maybe, you know, they often are willing to exaggerate their claims."

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The progressive movement, closely associated with the Democratic party, damages its credibility by embracing and promoting faddish and unscientific academic theories, such as the implicit bias test.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "There's a book I'll, you know, make a plug for. Um, uh, Jesse Signals, the quick fix talks about a lot of these fattish academic ideas like power posing and um, implicit implicit racism or implicit bias, implicit racism tests. We used to give that we would give that before we do workshops and then I'd realize it's just crap. you know, it it measures something, but it's not really clear what it's measuring. And it may not actually it's not measuring what I think the the the …"

  57:45 Watch ↗

• "And the tacet message is that when academics are rewarded with with attention or maybe, you know, they often are willing to exaggerate their claims."

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The bureaucratic and regulatory environment in universities, fostered by left-leaning policies, is creating a stifling atmosphere that discourages individuality and will cause the 'best and brightest' to abandon academia as a career.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Flawed Policy Design & Unpopular Agenda

• "Universities used to be a refuge for weirdos. Uh and that's why people one of the reasons people became faculty is because they weren't so great at working with others, but they were brilliant scholars or brilliant teachers or both. And so universities long attracted people like that. And so what these regulations and other changes in including to the bureaucracy as you know it have wrought is an environment that will you know our best and our brightest will forsake higher education um as a career choice and that's not in our collective interest."

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The American left is repeating the historical mistake of the German left in the 1930s, where internal fighting between moderate (SPD) and radical (KPD) factions prevents a united front against a rising authoritarian threat.

• Flawed Strategy & Tactical Incompetence
• Internal Party Dysfunction & Organizational Decay

• "So, Greg, if we were both in Berlin in 1930, you would be a member of the KPD, I would be a member of the SPD, and we would be having the same argument."

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The left's internal debates are overly academic and abstract, alienating potential supporters and losing the focus of the political conversation.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation
• Internal Party Dysfunction & Organizational Decay

• "You guys are losing me. So, hey, I'm gonna close off the podcast, sir."

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