College here in washington d. C. Welcome to the center for constitutional studies in constitutional ship. We are cosponsored by clear politics. Com and i recognize david hiding in the back. He is the publisher and jen mcintyre of the co founder who will be here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays in which the essays were originally published. The perils and promises of populism. It is not a new idea in latin means the voice of the people. The voice of the people is the voice of god which is often time used in history to attack monarchs and attacked the people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is not new to america. Thats pricing in a regime of popular consent but theres always been somewhat of attention between popular government and constitutional government, the potential of populist demagogues. Hence promise and peril. Populism abounds from agent rome to brexit england and donald trump are elected as president on a populist revolt. Our speakers will
Cant let it happen. I was being hit by poke poke there is little rubio. Lie lyin ted cruz, ladies and gentlemen, lyin ted i started running nine months ago. Who would have thought i would be in first place. It was 17 people, then 15, then 12. Deirdre donald trump reaches the official number, he has the 1237 delegates needed for the republican president ial nomination according to associated press. This is risk reward, im deirdre bolton. Here is is just earlier. Newsflash that donald trump had won the nomination. North dakota, you brought us over the line, folks. I will always remember that. Deirdre donald trump will avoid a contested convention in cleveland this summer. Someone who knows a lot about the process, former governor and president ial candidate mike huckabee, with me now. Governor, great to see you back. Thank you, deirdre. Great to be with you. Deirdre so donald trump the nominee officially. Yes. Deirdre we knew he was but he has the magic number now. On to vp picks. We spo
How are you guys feeling . Everybody is working for the weekend. We are working on the weekend, we will let you get over whatever you did last night. There is no friday night for us on saturday morning, never moved to alaska, lots of darkness too much of the year and working for the weekend i once saying that are karaoke party. It is not on tape that im aware of the now i am aware of it. It could be on someones iphone they accidentally cut by hitting the password too many times. Have a great show this morning, mike pence spoke to is exclusively, and marshall blackburn, and others so stay with us this morning and we were talking about how we are fully in election season. We put on our karl rove whiteboard had to sketch which states developed and wired what it means that races are taking. All those things go into consideration for campaigns as far as where they go, why they go there and who they send, donald trump is out in nevada this weekend, on the western time zone in nevada, las veg
They are conservative on social questions. They believed in biology, most of them got married and went to church. Thats the world joe biden grew up in. Joe from scranton son of a coleman iro minor stick is a at a certain age 1962 seems like yesterday. In fact, it wasnt yesterday. That some critic party is gone, its been extinct for decades. At the modern Democratic Party no longer represents wage earners. Its funded almost exclusively by Silicon Valley and finance establishments in the billionaire class. If foot soldiers dont work in factories, their community organizers. Members of Interest Groups coalesced around different race, or Sexual Orientation. None of these exist for the benefit of the United States, only for their own benefit. Their purpose is clear, to leverage our political system in order to collect as much money and power as they can for their own members. And for their members alone. This is called identity politics, its the most divisive possible way to run a governmen
Church. Thats the world joe biden grew up in. Joe from scranton son of a coal minor schtick is a at a certain age 1962 seems like yesterday. In fact, it wasnt yesterday. That some party is gone, its been extinct for decades. The modern Democratic Party no longer represents wage earners. Its funded almost exclusively by Silicon Valley and finance establishments in the billionaire class. Foot soldiers dont work in factories, s their community organizers. Ce members of Interest Groups coalesced around different race, or Sexual Orientation. Or none of these exist for the benefit of the United States, only for their own benefit. Their purpose is clear, to leverage our political system in order to collect as much money and power as they can for their own members. And for their members alone. This is called identity politics, its the most divisive possible way to run a government. No wise country allows identity politics, and for good reason. Identity politics is zerosum. No group can benefit