Faith boston. Its about an hour. Im one of the cofounders of safe boston. [inaudible] a lot of Educational Forums like this to talk. Tonight i want to welcome everyone that is watching on the live stream and the people watching on cspan book tv. And i want to let you know that despite the covid regulations and we are still in lockdown over time if we are doing tonight is streaming and getting together for this wonderful event to talk about a very important book in our lives. 50 of it deals with immigration, legal and illegal. [inaudible] [applause] bear with me. Its very hard here in boston. Its kind of get right to it. An adviser to the campaign. Brian is a political consultant for the american conservative and his work is in human events. We will just get right to the buck. I spoke with steve this afternoon and he said this is an essential time with the populist movement is. She called this a critically important book. Jv vance called it intelligent and extremely real. [applause] lets see if, a young man from South Carolina writing about global populism is. I will start by saying i started my career in politics and transitioned to the Republican Party because i found that i misunderstood what the Democratic Party stood for. I thought it was a party that would fight for the working conditions. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was against the corporate interests, and i would say this doesnt make sense. Something is wrong here. There were people crying in washington and the communities were shattered by immigration and it was basically shut up and learn how to cope. I reject that and that is how i came to be a trump republican [inaudible] middleclass kind of bluecollar. I didnt have a lot of positions. I did tell my parents when i was like 8yearsold [inaudible] when i was in high school that never made sense to me and still doesnt make sense to me that i saw the radical transformation and thought this doesnt make sense either. I started working on campaigns and thought a lot of people that write about this dont actually know what they are talking abo about. Trump was going to be the nominee and i knew it the [inaudible] i noticed what was happening around the world and thought the way things are being told is kind of a life of [inaudible] the book is nine chapters. I dont have a college education. It was for People Like Us to read. The main point is there is populism occurring and we break into the conversation of when was the first populist leader elected and it was 1998. Almost 20 years before donald trump. The actions were so how did this happen. They couldnt understand what was going on and a big part of our philosophy the World Trade Center bombing that happened in new york city outside of the elections of denmark the first thing they did everything we see one of the most, one of the biggest now is angola. Both african countries. They are highly more effective at controlling immigration because it isnt a matter of efficiency but its political impact work. So they talked about. Com corruption obviously and a list of certain things all National Populists through the entire globe really have overlap. A majority of those beliefs overlap. I think one of the biggest takeaways so far is the cultural war that we have lost. I almost wish that you had written this book is released at three months from now because the shock waves that have happened, the coronavirus and the rise that we have seen theres the tectonic shift. Is a there are countless stories you go to google and look at the phrase not enough minutes for people of color. There are hundreds of millions will of is. When they say the media doesnt represent america as they live d into many different democratic issues. The [inaudible] is a big chainsaw next to the ak47. But they dont know. Go to washington and it is with the site that. Theres an awful lot of play between the government and the media. We thought they worked this week to try to declassify a major libertarian website and we saw john bolton who left the administration and launched his books and attacks against the president. Will be moved back and forth very easily. Here is the thing with the media. Your local reporter for the newspapers will try to get by because he really loves the news. With these major outlets theres not a lot of money for most reporters so you become a brand. You know what you are getting from them. Its like nike or oreo cookies. Its the same thing every time, you know what you are going to get and its worth it to become a brand because then you can get a book deal and a Television Show or contract for speeches. [inaudible] [laughter] it is possible and there are a few none of them coming to mind right now. But a fabulous reporter, unbiased. I enjoyed reading her. I dont know her politics. They are fewer than anyone else into the problem of social media makes it all the more visible and how openly political they are. He got moved to another paper. It was at the ballot box. Is easier to spread a lie and the truth. They literally tried to pull away a bunch of 16yearold over the fact that a 32nd video and they were liable. What happened with google de monetizing . Everybody was willing is, mainstream conservatives, they got thrown off of facebook, twitter. Then it happened to hyde park and they were making it hard for bright part. Now we are seeing googles perspective. Whats next . Its going to be the Washington Examiner is that they are working their way to the middle and now you cant even wear a tshirt from the conservative news channels without having people threatened the lives of your family. Its completely unhinged. Whether that means you are a supporter of the conservative media were through the network itself to make it impossible that is for all of us because on top of that they are making it impossible. It was totally rejected zero explanation. I think according to the buck, we are having a conversation right now about the Antiracist Movement and what words are allowed. Around 2007, certain words like whiteness, races, white privilege, social justice exploded in the average content of the most major outlets. So we were being inundated with conversations that we were not really having to the truth of what was going on around our country. These people that have taken over. The first time i was like youru were joking, that isnt a real thing. But they moved from the colleges into the media and took over an entire institution and that is what we are now seeing come through. [laughter] is maintained and calling it the coast guards and we have to tho send over 7,000 a year that her mind. It makes well over half of this book. All of our neighborhoods have been plagued, children caught up in addiction and overdoses and theres a lot of people around here that are part of the drug crisis. Can you talk about how they go together . One is ilLegal Immigration intand the other three are intet on ilLegal Immigration. The economy and culture. Those are the ways we break down ilLegal Immigration. When it comes to the situation in europe, we dont live in a bubble so when they decided to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi is ilLegal Immigration into europe. They became the lead party and they caused a backlash. In the United States you have a situation the problem is with the immigration we have any nation like denmark for example we become citizen and noncitiz noncitizen. Noncitizens are underrepresented are overrepresented in many crimes like Identity Theft and drug crimes. The problem is [inaudible] and it was supposed to stop. We were supposed to have an answer and we had two institutions that fought against it. Big government said no this works in our favor. These children will become democrats. It will be good. For the republicans 1996 or 97, a black woman in texas created a commission on how to create more prosperity and communities into thandto the person who stopped r the republicans. Newt gingrich and paul ryans mentor. The 1. 2 million a year are much lower and the fact of immigration on the Cultural Landscape and Everything Else diminished with this ethnic conflict. It doesnt get any broad and national news, and im sure you know is there are so many stories like that. Up and coming political star and academic. His mother was serving in the country and iraq and multiple arrests for gun charges were made and to call his mom and color her son was murdered. [inaudible] there was absolute silence by every other community. I heard about this at the Washington Examiner vapor in the homes of the black community is taking out the bedrooms black children slept. It was silent because the media had. Had it been any other situation it would have gotten National Attention that because the ideology they cant put this out, because the media is so liberal and white specifically, there is Research Done about this, the only group in this country to have a negative bias towards their own kind. Black americans, white americans who are not liberal, they look at other people and fellow racial groups and its completely natural. White liberals look at other white people and its the only group in the country. And if the media cant sit there and break down those narratives. We have the Unemployment Rate hovering between 13 and 16 and the Trump Administration is doing everything they can to keep the administration chugging along. For 3 Million Immigrants out of work, 916,000 work visas in the city of boston we have 58,000. They get a tax break and all this time is. Is one of my first fragments from the party i asked myself why do they care about illegal or Legal Immigration, why does the Teachers Union and care, the list goes on and on. The union is looking for workers most interested in the wages and the workforce. Theres been a wild politicization on the left that every Major Institution in washingtons elite left whether it is the unions, think tanks are members of congress that we need to engage in the transformation and demographics. I think they realized they couldnt plan along the ideological lines and they set out to transform the financial and the demographic makeup. Now we go through this a lot in the book with visas. It comes down to one financial interest of every corporation in the country, whether its an airconditioning manufacturer in indiana or the tech company in silicon valley. The cheap labor, high skilled jobs, they will do everything and invest as much power and money as the return on investment justifies. Hispanic immigration is important and we will talk about these three things. One for the season we have Mass Immigration is spoken with many people about this and the question comes down to this interest and there is a thinking in washington. There are a few people in the Trump Administration, but its a machine. It fundamentally ended catch and release is. Its not nothing. We did do something. They got the agreements to reduce. All the things were fantastic for Legal Immigration and deportation could cost less, so these are good. The one thing his financial interest and in control of a lot of washington. Atheres a political definition called postdemocracy where you go and send people out regardless. I dont think we are there yet. They dont care at all what the voters say. Its remarkable when you look at it. But i think that he is as close as hes ever gotten and he believes we are supposed to get an executive order this week. I know that all of the usual are fighting against it tooth and nail, doing Everything Possible to stop in and its the same line. So lets see, i think the biggest thing is culture when it comes to immigration. I cant remember the name, what was the city in california now . Was a bithat is a big thing in california where the major hiphop artists came out [inaudible] [laughter] a long week. Compton is how most 80 mexican now or latin american, spanish. Maxine waters will be the last black person tperson to ever ret compton. That culture is gone forever and when gentrification makes a difference. When immigration alters the character of cities and neighborhoods that had long tradition of american culture. But we never had that conversation. They are afraid of being called racist. We sit there and talk about the culture and theres different studies about this when you invoke the vast diversity of people that do not want it, what happened is social trust goes down not like, but you trust people that look the same as you. Who is least trusting group of each other and it is generation z. , the most diverse. It can be great. Not all immigration or immigrants are bad, and certainly control over the long period of time is great. It makes the fabric of the country thats 1965, we passed the immigration act and it was highspeed rail and a constant narrative that we have from 1924, 1955 we put a hold on those practices. We grow more tolerant of one another. Things happened to make us and its not easy. It doesnt happen by accident and its easy to break down. They were the same country for 800 years and couldnt make it work. They are basically the same people. Sitting there and creating a battle saying it wont work because america is a nation of ideas is bull crap. It took a long time to get here. The book breaks down the transformation on the cultural level and the percentage of americans that feel like they are a stranger in their own country after country whether it be brazil, chile, italy, it happened all over the place and it is so frazzled and easy to destroy that i think its really important. [inaudible] they are all footnoted. You cant really describe it and you dont really know kind of how to make the argument that the book puts you in the right direction. Thank you very much. Ive asked shelby to collect the questions and while she is if you could hand your questions forward to the board and ask a question. The [inaudible] a big part of his Campaign Platform was illegal immigrati immigration. Its still an important issue to many, many americans. At that time he had a tenpoint immigration plan. Part was [inaudible] a cutoff of benefits and birthright citizenship. My question is do you think the President Trump has been influenced by those are found him and these issues towards illegal aliens here or what is your opinion on that . First come im so sorry about your loss. Its horrible. The thing i think when it comes to president ial trump, i have no friends in washington, so i dont care nothing about President Trump is when they came to the hiring practices early on, Stephen Miller aggressively pushed out a lot of immigration hawks because i believe hes a sociopath and he pushed out a lot of people that could have been an ally to him and now he stands as one of the only people in the room. At the same exact time, you have a lot of people that are different. So lets take ending the benefit for its sanctuary cities. If you do that you make new york city less of a target. I understand where they are coming from but it isnt a uniform voice inside of the administration and there could have been had things gone differently early on. It was one of many people in the administration. Hes done some things very well and Border Crossing members fighting hard on 18,000 were before they were over 100,000. That was very crucial. I know there are other things he needs to do. I dont know why it was never signed. I could tell you, but i think in the right settings, President Trump does believe that americans are being shafted and are on the wrong side of many issues. I think that when you are constantly being told if you do something you are going to crash the economy, told us over and over, he gets hesitant, but i do know for a fact there was an executive order, and it may be very good but probably it is. I know hes pressured to do the right things now and will at the end of the day hes always good tbeento be a billionaire, hes s going to be a rich guy. Its not like the clintons. The promises he made were for people like you and People Like Us and people to believe in something because theyve been so badly lost. Its been constant cycles so thats my estimation of what goes on in the white house. There are more good people now than there were. I do believe we would get a big transformation to bring good people there because i know they are working on bringing people there and getting ready to go to the administration so things will be moving in a better direction. I found its been exacerbated by the coronavirus i think that when he is at his best is outside of washington. When hes feeling the vibe from the crowd, and part of it is not being around that great chorus of the white house. Part of it as bein is being outf the bubble and part of it is also his roots because he does thrive on that and it motivates him and shows him there is a role beyond the poll numbers. So i am excited that he is breaking out of five. There will be one major change that results from him getting back out on the campaign trail. They came out with controversial plans it when he was driving the narrative in the media. When he was setting the agenda. Its undoubtable he was leaving the National Narrative and hes completely lost that. I hope that answers your question. Well try to get everyones questions. [inaudible] [laughter] what do you say when someone calls you a racist . That is a great question. [inaudible] [laughter] i cant prove anything so if that is the charge im getting youre not going to listen anyway. I dont believe in the Antiracist Movement. Im not part of that. Im just not a racist. Black americans matter just as much as white americans and [inaudible] its not a race issue and if it was, voters have england wouldnt be getting mad at Mass Immigration and poland. In angola and the chileans against south americans, it isnt a racial issue that is a cultural issue. Okay fine we are not going to have a good conversation and a sorry, i a im not in it to win friends. I would take a similar tactic. Ive never been someone to block or meet friends on social media. Its really disheartening actually. This principal classical liberalism. To engage in debates and conversations like this we shot down, cancel. I know that its either someone who hates me, or my daughter. [laughter] im not going to engage. Extraordinary measures to combat the question is how does populism succeed with the gang of justice is . There is a guy named adrian and he has an idea of having the common good constitutionalism. He is not a dumb person at all. We should do something because its an original interpretation of the constitution. Thewe should be pushing this for the common good on everybody. So dont worry about being an originalist. Worry about being a common good, and i think that may be a trend for the future. Some lost a lot of cases that are important. We wont have faith in them anymore and with Peter Ginsberg what happened, is that like john roberts. John roberts against alito. This reminds me of something that steve describes Trump Victory as the most highly leveraged awful takeover of any organization in history and what i was hoping would come out of this movement it wasnt just a great presidency but i hope a thriving culture would emerge from it in washington. Think tanks, media organizations, they reflected this movement. It wasnt enough to takeover the establishment of the Republican Party because a lot of the people that were the problem were still there after he took over and there will be other institutions out there. This is important because they drive a lot of the discussions and roadmap for washington going forward. Its important to understand theres a lot more power than you would think. Also we have dhs beginning to end. We need to create National Policies and institutions to combat the heritage foundations of the world. [inaudible] your active on twitter. Why dont you tell people youre twitter handle so they can follow unit also what websites do you recommend to somebody that wants to know more facts might twitter handle is ryan girdusky. , there is a quote on the back of the book fare a where they misspelled my name and i was in charge of checking. [laughter] so i have a National Populist Newsletter that is free every sunday, ryan girdusky. Com. 7 30 or 8 00 at hi 8 00 it is nm around the world into different websites and places to find it. This Foreign Policy stuff, i read breitbart all the time and im trying to think of other places. I do spend time reading a lot. Might twitter handle is a harlan hill. For 100 when twitter first came out. I will probably never use it and it turned out to be so convenient. I read a lot of breitbart. I love ryans newsletters. The national poll. Com. But i talked about this previously hoping more news organizations and think tanks would come out of this era of trump and im hoping people in the room and people watching on television will give back the time. We have a whole section about media and how the number one way to become a journalist in washington is to have everything proven to be wrong. You did fail at the lightning round. [laughter] we are going to kind of wind this up. In the prologue of the buck, you think your parents speak to he wishes that his name was up there. [laughter] most people dont know who he is. He was in charge of the war room in the debate and has come to the United States and as a commentator on a blog or excuse me a podcast, the war room. Org. It took me a while to write back. Im sure many have sacrificed immensely to go through school and all the practices. I got to this point. And you think your parents and your sixth grade history teacher. I hope shes alive, i think she is. I havent spoken to her in a long time. I hated school. I told my parents i was ready to drop out. I know everything i need to know. Im good. I hated school. Is trying to find a way to get out any way i could. So thank you wherever you are. [inaudible] i want to thank everybody that is watching on cspan book tv in and everyone that is tuning in on the live stream. Why dont we go out with a nice round of applause. [applause] watch several hours of your favorite authors. Saturday we future programs with the awardwinning author Toni Morrison whose books include songs of solomon and beloved. Watch next saturday august 22 as the future programs with awardwinning biographer robert caro. A binge watched tbinge watched n cspan2. Available in paperback, hardcover and ebook from publicaffairs, biographies of every president , inspired by conversations with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for a successful presidency. 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