We actually have to say this, I hope Fox doesn't turn off but
we did much better in 2020 than we did in 2016.
I won the second election, okay, I won by a lot,
when they say Biden won, smart people know that didn't.
A lot of people said, well, sir, the election was so bad, you'll be in one year
a lot of people in this room, you'll be back in six weeks, sir.
But it's a bad system in many ways, very bad, very dangerous system.
>> Just heard from former President Donald Trump argue that democracy
is a very dangerous system during his CPAC speech last Saturday.
Now, what blows my mind is if you listen to the entirety of his speech,
there were some pretty strong moments, we're gonna show you some of
those moments in just a moment, I didn't mean to be repetitive there.
But he can't let go of 2020 and so
like it's actually hurting him and he doesn't even realize it.
If he goes back to his old hits and just sticks to that,
he's got a good chance of being president again.
>> He has an excellent chance as it is right now,
even with the whiny little bit that he is, he's almost definitely gonna win
the Republican nomination and you sure Biden's gonna beat him?
So, you're looking at the favorite to be the next president of the United States,
and that is man, God America, what?
This is a bad state of affairs, you saw that just real quick to double down on
what you said, Anna, there's like a lot of people in this room, so
they should be back in six weeks after the election.
But we have a very bad, very dangerous system,
we have a very bad system because you couldn't do a coup within six weeks to
get back in charge after you lost an election, that's a very dangerous.
>> That's a very dangerous.
>> You don't know that there's no method or
process in the United States Constitution for
putting the guy who lost back in charge six weeks later?
I mean, even if you had somehow won and
there is still no process to bring you back in six weeks, you just made that up.
But again, Republicans love being lied too, so they ate this stuff up.
>> So listen, this story should concern everyone because
what you just saw gives you a sense of who Donald Trump is and
how he is not willing to give up power.
Now, his stunts didn't work the first time around, but should he get elected again,
who knows what kind of tricks he's gonna pull, what he's going to
attempt to do to remain in power should he lose his reelection bid again?
I say all this because in other portions of his speech,
he touched on issues that are incredibly popular with the electorate.
So, I'm gonna give you some examples starting with this.
>> We're not going back to people that want to destroy our great social
security system, even some in our own party.
I wonder who that might be, that want to raise the minimum age of
social security to 70, 75 or even 80 in some cases.
And that are out to cut Medicare to a level
that it will no longer be recognizable.
>> Listen, Trump might be a whiny bitch but he's not stupid and
he realizes how incredibly popular that kind of messaging is.
Now, has anyone actually proposed raising the retirement age to 80?
Not yet, but he knows exactly how to prey on the fears of the electorate and
posture as an individual who wants to protect those incredibly popular programs.
Now, yeah, and I think that will give him a leg up in the election for sure.
>> Enormously, not even close, okay, so, look guys there's two diff different
reasons why Trump is popular with Republicans and
people almost never talk about the second.
So, the first one is obvious, yeah, right wing has this entitlement complex and
victimhood is there's no better example than Donald Trump.
We should be judged no matter what, I don't like the others,
I wanna press the others, yes, that is true for about half of Republicans, okay?
And but there's the other half that love Trump for a different reason,
which is he's anti-establishment and he's a populist.
So, he might be a fake populist, but he's still a populist, so
he knows enough to say I'm gonna protect your social security, gonna protect your
Medicare against the bad guys, the global elites that are coming to get it, etc.
The other Republicans are the global elite, I mean, not in the way that they,
Trump says the global elites, he means Jews, right?
[LAUGH] But in terms of actual elites,
the people in power of all different backgrounds.
Yeah, they definitely wanna come after your social security and Medicare, and
they wanna do that so
they could lower taxes on the rich which is what Trump did, right?
So, it's a mixed bag and that populist message is very, very popular and
there's no way a corporate robot like the scientist can stand up to it.
By the way, there's not a like why isn't a Democrat saying that,
why isn't a democrat saying they're gonna raise the retirement age to 70, 75,
80, these sons of bitches I'm not gonna let him get away with it.
>> Okay, so, that's an excellent point,
the closest that we've seen a democrat do that was Biden's stunt
during the State of the Union address which was good, right?
But I also think that the way you present that argument matters and
Trump is just better at speaking publicly about these things, right?
Biden did a good job in calling out the Republican Party and
getting them to at least for
that moment, pretend as though they don't want to cut social security, right?
So, it was a different context, but nonetheless, I think the way that Trump
messages this even though I don't believe him for a second, is convincing enough
to win over a big enough portion of the electorate to get him reelected again.
And I'm concerned about that precisely because of the very first clip we showed
you indicating that he has absolutely no respect for our democratic process or
the results of our democratic process.
That kind of authoritarian mentality is terrifying, now group that in with
his popular and populist messaging and we should be concerned, right?
Now, the other bit of populist messaging he engaged in had to do with United States
foreign policy, let's take a look at that.
>> We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight
foreign wars, that are endless wars, that are scripted wars.
If you look at Ukraine and we all feel so badly about it, but
why is it NATO putting up dollar for dollar with us?
>> [APPLAUSE] >> We put up $140 billion and
they put up just a tiny fraction of that, and we all want to see success but
it's far more important to them than it is to us.
Because of that location can't keep spending hundreds of billions of
dollars protecting people that don't even like us.
Now, in business if you did that, what you do is you put up the money and
then you say, but listen, we own half your country in case you win.
I'm the only candidate who can make this promise,
I will prevent and very easily World War III very easily.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> And
you're gonna have World War III by the way,
you're gonna have World War III if something doesn't happen fast.
I got along very well with Putin even though I'm the one that ended
his pipeline remember they said Trump is giving a lot to Russia, really?
Putin actually said to me, if you're my friend, I'd hate like hell to see you as
my enemies, the only president in modern history who did not have any new wars,
no new wars, I finished some old ones.
>> Now, compare what you've just heard to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
response to Biden on the night of the State of the Union.
Because it was nothing more than raw, raw, support our foreign policy,
support our troops which shows you just how out of touch
the establishment Republican Party is with their own electorate.
[LAUGH] So, there's that.
>> Okay, so let me, look, he's going populist here too, he's saying,
why doesn't NATO chip it?
That's not such a bad point, okay, now the way that he wants to force nature to chip
in his extreme, but going in that direction is not a bad point at all.
So, a lot of people go, hey, yeah, wait, why are we paying the whole bill?
By the way Ann, you wanna know the real answer to why we're paying the whole bill
because it goes straight to our defense contractors.
So, our corrupt government loves that we're over paying, right?
So, number two, he then says, if we give money in business,
we own half of your country.
Wait, if we try to own half of Ukraine,
how would that be different than Russia trying to own half of Ukraine?
[LAUGH] That don't make any sense at all.
And one of the main reasons I'm against Donald Trump is because I'm afraid that he
is the most likely to start World War III cuz he's an idiot and he might go, Joe,
I'm gonna prevent World War III by nuking them first.
>> We came extremely close to a hot war with Iran, I mean,
he assassinated the top general in Iran, he ripped up the Iran nuclear deal,
it's actually miraculous that we didn't engage in a hot war with Iran.
>> But the bottom line is, how do you beat a fake populace like Donald Trump?
You don't do it with an establishment candidate, and you'd be an establishment
candidate there's like, yeah, our foreign policy where we spend endless
money on people and never get anything back, enrich the oil companies.
You're not gonna beat them that way,
the country's too angry to win in that situation.
You beat a fake populist with a real populist, but our number one problem
getting to a real populist that can actually be logical and fight for
the American people is democratic leadership and mainstream media.
Those are the two sets of people who do not want you to have
a populist leader under any circumstance.
>> Now, just to give you a sense of how Trump's messaging sat
with Republican voters.
A straw poll at CPAC indicated that 62% of Republican
voters would prefer Trump over DeSantis, DeSantis got 20%.
>> Now the guys, the jury is almost all in, so the indictments could make him more
popular, maybe throws a monkey wrench into this, maybe DeSantis or someone else
can make electability a real issue, so it's not written in stone yet, right?
But right now Trump has an overwhelming likelihood to win the Republican
nomination.
Yes, in this poll, DeSantis didn't show up to CPAC,
CPAC has become more extreme if that's possible.
But having said that every poll is showing these kind of numbers,
62-20 it's not close, they love their messiah Donald Trump.
And best DeSantis is an apostle, so it doesn't look like right wing media and
right wing donors are going to be able to stop Trump.
They're all onto DeSanti's side, they're all aligned against Trump, but
it looks like it's not gonna work right now,
he is the odds on favorite to be the Republican nominee.
The only reason why everybody doesn't agree to that is because corporate media,
both mainstream and right wing media, are working so
hard to do positive propaganda for DeSantis.
And negative propaganda against Trump, and of course as an aside progressives.
So, that's the only reason you don't know the obvious which is that Trump's almost
definitely gonna win this nomination.