Good evening to the students and viewers Vice President of the college we are here at the college of washington dc campus also at the evangelical school of government. And in the library with Michael Anton because the states of america of no return we are glad you are here. You might know michael from his previous work that he wrote under the pseudonym at the time and was working in the privatesector at the time he was outed and went to work at the Trump Administration with the National Security council. That work safe to say was the existential question and now you tell us what the point of no return so i am tempted to ask right off the top you say to those who consider you to be an alarmist and say what is going on all around us right now . What is your general assessment of things . I am an alarmist. And my right or wrong . Those that has said i know maybe it is after all now i am completely convinced with a somewhat comforting to be vindicated by that is only somewhat comforting. So i wrote the book of the book before the lockdown. And they serve as a further indication and everything to become harmonious. But my location would suffer but everybody is way happier. These are about elections is a something where we are in our history such that were all elections going to be this magnitude . Asada comforting answer to elect the Democratic Party if you look at the biden harris plan they are promising to have true accommodation of amnesty 52 million americans and the highest correlation with the Congressional District or the state or county or whatever the democrats have been saying this for decades the more immigrants come into the country one way to stop light 93 is not have elections bad in california with a really good when it will is zero and now that everybody else. So i more general question that i want to walkthrough parts of the book. So that 2020 election is that more if you will . Also the founder of the transition integrity project. And then to be executed for working with the nazis. It is even more highend. Was executed without a trial for writing articles. And has refused to apologize. Went to be extremely wellfunded internet think tank currently has no problem tweeting that out. And then when to win the election and to expect that transition from a oneparty state to be smooth and uneventful they were shocked by the election of trump and then to be in an angry move since the 2016 election in that mood has had a fever pitch in 2020 if they do get total power i believe that transition would have occurred would be smooth. Because they are out to settle scores. They are actually called for truth and Reconciliation Commission and this is something that you dont want everybody in jail you try to paper over the differences. And for the president and the program with the truth and reconciliation there is no Democratic Politics there is just one side. Lets work through the flight 93 election and now this is more of and extensive work to think through those underlying problems that we face. He leftdoublequote the extended i am from california. You were born and raised multi generational as america possible future to have a larger trend with the oneparty rule for decades not to go into the weeds by schwarzenegger to spend less than two years to be defeated in every respect. And then to have that super majority in the congressional delegation involving the democratic at the state level in the city level at every county level the red counties they have no effective or say it just doesnt matter there will be a vote on anything important it shows that the modern left take can complete power because the modern Democratic Party are especially well represented the managerial with the knowledge economy workers that they cram the ribbon up and down the california coast it is a more sleep a portrait and the propaganda was silicon on Silicon Valley innovation we all know that side of the state and underneath the tip of the iceberg there is a big giant and that is decay what makes sad example of where things are going . And how that actually operates it also begins former mayor of new york city in the Democratic Party and come out to california for he is that typical oligarch and how much he has 50 billion he founded his own company not taking with his success but for all about the knowledge economy in the finance economy and with no concern for manufacturing he used to call it a luxury product. That yes it is extensive to be here but it works for those at the top and thats what matters mike berg is for those coastal oligarchs. Is that we are praising and then to reject the rest. That Mark Zuckerberg and to schwarzenegger and other what you think of as long as palo alto and San Francisco and laguna beach are doing okay, then california is working. System in the foothills and the Cascade Mountains and the high and low desert, not only do they dont care they dont even know they are there. And then to juxtapose that talk about the parchment regime with the juxtaposition that is a new regime of where the seem to be going in this other regime with that analysis and this regime that we talk about the older america tell us how you analyze that and the confusion of the left and the right. The main thrust of chapters number two and three how we are supposed to be governed but not anymore. And to shape conservatives to review the constitution of the declaration and the bill of rights so looking at the United States is no longer governed but is a fundamentally different way i look at that civics lesson more than five or six pages because its covered elsewhere but i spent a lot of time on chapter two discussing the attacks on the original understanding of how america should be covered i spent more time on right wing because i think wrestling has been covered elsewhere the right wing has not gotten as much attention. Because in hillsdale we spend a lot of time talking about the Core Principles behind it with a those are very important to define that regime but also our teachers have talked about many times talk about how there has been a debate within the right to understand the founding the conservatives the first is that they are interrelated let me put it this way trying to speak to those conservatives who look at all of 2020 and say i like this something is gone wrong and it needs to be fixed fisa to look at the list was what you dont like . How did we get here and they will say one or two things all men are created equal and the related tax have that modernity it is a byproduct. But basically characters in the book is nothing but in the lock and the petri dash leather one of these charges is true is the deviation that got us into the mass and the founders were not straight up and with the private satisfaction with the regime of all right and no duties and doing the best we could all anybody could world 1776 and fundamental ways we still live in the modern world and in the christian world. So they still prevail and those that are unviable. So maybe it is blood and soil with the old new rights and those ultimately those aspects of some of those things if they are interpreted in the right way and i love to schedule of the south. I am trying not to pass the right mean criticism those who get 2020 correct trying to say hope youre the diagnosis i dont thank you are i have not that the suburban on the fence. That is the important aspect of your book coming to the serious criticism of current policy that stems from a misunderstanding with the failure to comprehend the grounding it is not an original case. And then to directly address so neocons and the neocons from the seventies. So addressing serious right wing critics of the regime that i oppose but to diagnose the reasons why software that 1619 project so that is at the root of what god is here. So in that sixties and beyond that 1619 project in the thing i find good plan to me interpret anti founding so think of them as somebody coming to the stateoftheart computer to find common is 64 lets have a look at it the constitution of 1787 it cannot possibly work on this complex machine but they love the machine. Talk about progress when you get to the sixties radicalism. So what happened there . With very russian all passion and utopianism and residual marxism and then adjust critiques and a lot of people has been left out so then it is right so now i reemphasize and then you get all the way through we cannot tell the story anymore will be in a disparaging way. Those are momentum to it that took on a life of its own. And having a rough week or two that they are starting to deny the most radical things i ever said. That is disingenuous so all of these things has been captured so the purposes i will make a distinction and with those shifts that are going on with the practical things that are going me and my friends and with the administrator state are structural things that are happening below their intellectual critiques and arguments. And that is too complex and to software and the old software but it can happen anymore. Because the questions are too complicated for people to decide they need to be decided on the basis of expertise or Scientific Authority then implemented in a nonpartisan way. Thats what they say. Will do that that administrator state becomes an accountable for the branch. There is the were turned and for the little lines to the boxes and all of these people report to me. The president doesnt to be swayed from political authority. So see that breaking away from the the regime of the founders and it varies and different ways some things were quite as radical as what came later. Sometimes the most radical intellectual movement and sometimes they do but when progressives are talking about what they want to do they actually pushed through the progressive reforms with the National Park system and immigration, health and safet safety, but they do that legislatively use a world system for progressive events it takes a while to get to the point and Unaccountable Agency can say we pass this regulation and congress has nothing to say president did not even tell us and found one are found in violation it will be one of our agents then you can be better before the administrative judge and they can charge you and try you a sentence and find you. That takes a long time to be built and people that notice what was happening. And that slow to change. Yes i think i believe that, doesnt it made you can never go back. Im staying earlier remember the comment the power of those who are in and i send my students down every year to make sure is still there. So on the books it is still fundamental but that power and balance and those to enforce that new order may have almost all the power so in one sense to cross the rubicon. And that inadvertently killed the endangered insect in my backyard they can count whatever want to do. In the person doing the charging not just one officer of the law. That proceeding who may can do that it is constitutional and legal that i will be squash like the blog i allegedly killed. Is a power grab. But to say i am campaign and you are godzilla. Godzilla defeats bambi. That is a shift of political power and no structural things that are going on for you introduce this other element to relay that back in with the shift of our power of the administrative state. Talking about the ruling class is not necessarily the same thing but what is the ruling class . The reason it people because it is a land of aristocracy. So the ruling class it seems to spirit to have one fundamental thing in common they all get the same education. So the people who were the banks and the foundations and universities the junior members and some of them are extraordinarily rich, the junior members are people who wanted to middleberry or overland they are well indoctrinated with being a manager or director of Goldman Sachs and a senior manager facebook ending up as a fact checker at fox. Com. They cannot even afford a closet for his condo barely making six figures this is not a successful person it is an incredibly important part of the ruling class a populist push against those that are in control in the washington establishment there seems to be more to it call them junior are lower members it is that intellectual thing and much harder in a populist complaint most fundamental defining characteristic how they are educated i dont think Mark Zuckerberg fundamental difference is somewhat smarter but the makeup of his mind and the things he wants to see done that is just and unjust way it is used to enable certain ends and there is no difference between him and the low sixfigure scribe of what i am describing. So you make some distinctions the freeloaders and the avengers who are these people . I call them the ruling class army or the constituency every ruling class or every Leadership Class it was chosen a bunch of peoples shoulders but without an army how good are they . But those whose interest in the political system so that prototypical freeloader the system is unfair to me i deserve more i dont know how to get it but those in large believers in the religion they dont necessarily feel that defining characteristic they are not in it because they feel personally they have been harmed but they feel that religious sense america has harmed people and i will dedicate my life to addressing that. Anything they have harmed their ancestors and that food and there is a cosmic ledger that has to be squared with the punishing of america and the american population. This is a Bipartisan Group if you will its hard to imagine that republican constituency this is more a description of where liberalism has gone. But it is a weird leftist oligarchic wealth concentration but just think of that partisan divide is public in her democrat dominating red states and blue states even though they like money. Is there a ruling consensus a stable consensus . No i think the election of trump shows that they realize that instability requires further coercive measures on their part and thats what i fear they are gearing up for if they were in the selection if they manage to retake the white house somehow. So the old left and the new left the world democrats and the new democrats there is a sense the new left and new progressives have come to dominate and they are no longer the people controlling it. The world democrats nine collegeeducated workingclass but the big cities dont have manufacturing anymore and i dont mean that entirely but they have become havens for knowledge workers and the managerial class so that type of odor they are either independent or they dont vote and they set out the election and many voted for trump and 2016. Some of the ballot between the new left in the old left with the Democratic Party so where the trump voters will the old left . Or best may be too much like the John Steinbeck novels to organize the films to be that committed to the left are probably not a trump order for somebody happy to vote for truman and jfk where people voted for Hubert Humphrey didnt vote for george mcgovern. You have a number of things in your book talking about the operations of the left of that mechanisms talking about the narrative and the megaphone so explain that. The number one tool right now not entirely but maybe just a little bit is not ruled coercively but began to this was a disturbing element of 2020 to see more outright coercive measures and thats disturbing to me which is we see a lot of violence to be excused and denied any event lifted up social legacy by mayors and governors refusing to do anything about the violence or to encourage it. The few times weve seen lawenforcement get a candle under them is to go after those who exercise the right to selfdefense and then they started to act in a way we had not seen before that worries me a lot have never seen so much as i have in 2020 thats it. Will slip away now through propaganda and doing so in the omnipresent way so right now we have a ruling on another disputed we shooting yesterday but all shooting a black people are unjustified that shes asleep or not guilty it turns out there was a knock. And then to be under indictment he shot at the police it is an inevitable anymore but in this case it refusal to bring down indictments is a much lesser charge and that narrative and you cannot be justified and then the victim and the megaphone players that out. Thats all you will hear and see and then to tell the side of the story they are censored or tarred with accusations so its hard to get the alternative story out so only by telling one story everywhere constantly as loudly as possible by suppressing other versions and of course the idea of the narrative to have a long history of liberal and academic thinking to shift away to a narrative. That is in the political sphere. You use to hear this argument there is no truth just perspective. So the truth that they are out for blood to kill innocent people there saying thats the truth and honestly as i find my argument it all depends on perspective it smarter than to say it is the truth if you have a whole pile of facts and you still insist this is the truth and pretend they are not there or you are just a bad person. That naive sense the kids in college are merely learning relativism. They have a world religion now. Five years ago smart for 90 liberal said the colleges are becoming a problem because they are so radical how long ago for instance with the crazy meltdown over halloween . The latter notice say be careful what type of costume you are because you couldve been somebody the professor said just dont wear anything stupid will need to be too restrictive and the students went crazy it was all caught on videotape screaming at the professor and those several smart liberal said colleges are doing a disservice because when kids go in the real world with a real job and company they will be eaten alive. It turns out the joke was on them they the Companies Alive when 2020 rose around anytime there was a controversy putting a 50 yearold against 25 yearold against your management they would win every time. So the effects of the academy is the subject of criticism for decades now we see a fruition of that. Definitely. That may be the biggest. Let shift. I want you to lay out for us Chapter Eight what will the agenda look like to turn this around another way and that also brings up in earlier to immigration and a different way of looking at these questions with a criticism. First of all we have to create and with that unity and in my own view and then to make that cultural unity a First Priority in the state not permanently hopefully out of reach. Is economically divided more cultural but may be economic is the way that full implementation with that program and all kinds of things to raise wages and prevent healthcare from cannibalizing they have over the last several decades and then not having to scrounge and save the first down payment and the way the system works now, i say in the book im not a policy wonk i had help that chapter together. Will get myself but to get ideas a rising tide lifts all boats. And that the tech sector is not the enemy and wall street and to start thinking about serious banking regulations for the wall street profits but. So that serious reassessment is that able . It might be right now it is divided Republican Leadership looks at the polls for many of the really leadership waits for trump to go away thinking we can go back