Buck Brief - AOC will be the Democrats' Next VP

As Americans grapple with higher housing, grocery, and everyday costs, Buck argues that telling frustrated voters to spend less or cook at home simply misses the bigger political problem. He explains how economic anxiety could become a major vulnerability for Republicans and why AOC is positioning herself to capitalize on it. Buck also looks ahead to 2028 and makes the case for why Republicans should take AOC seriously as an increasingly formidable force in the Democratic Party.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
AOC as the face of the Democrat Party. For many
of us, this has been a long time coming, not
a surprise. Really, she's not the fringe. In fact, in
recent years, AOC has been moving toward the Democrat center.
Now that's not the center of the country, but that's
the center of the Democrat Party, which unfortunately has been

(00:21):
lurching to the left for the last two decades. But
this is not the Democrat Party of grinning Joe Biden anymore,
pretending to care about the union and the working class
in a way that resonates with a lot of people.
This is a left wing party that wants socialism, and

(00:45):
this is AOC presented as the unapologetic, instagram fluent future
of the Democrat Party. Now, when she says things like
there woke one point zero crazy, what she's doing there
is providing an excuse for people in their heads to

(01:06):
now take seriously woke two point zero, which would be
the Democrat Party now, because clearly a lot of the
stuff that was said back then when the Democrats felt
free to say whatever they wanted, when they were in
a position of power and cultural authority. In the wake
of the George Floyd riots, the race riots. After George
Floyd's death, it was clear what Democrats really wanted and

(01:29):
what they really thought of the country. Now they're going
to be playing a different game, and we should all
get ready for this, not just in the upcoming midterm elections,
but then going into the presidential elections afterwards. What we
see here is, in essence, a Democrat Party that will
take different positions than what it has stood for all

(01:51):
this time to fool just enough people to get into power,
so then it can turn around and say, yeah, we
were actually lying to you this time, and we're going
to do exactly what we want to do, which is progressive,
left wing socialist communist race communists. Really race communism is
the beating heart of the Democrat Party today, and the

(02:15):
communist which communism is essentially a religion of malcontents, the
communist ethos is going to be more and more apparent
once they're actually in power. They're going to do everything
they can to hide that in the meantime and pretend
that they are something else. That's why when you coeoc

(02:37):
on TV, I've been telling everybody she will be formidable.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Millennials are not you know, punk kids anymore. We're grown
adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting
to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger
at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the

(03:04):
generations that came before us on everything from the economy
to climate, and we're taking the ring.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
There's a problem that we in Trump World are going
to have to face here soon, which is President Trump.
For all the great things about him, President Trump has
not been able to bring prices way way down. That's
just a fact. Egg prices are down, although a lot
of people say that has to do with a chicken
disease and a lot of the flock of egg laying

(03:32):
chickens was gone. Now that's been rebuilt. Anyway, President Trump
has not been able to bring prices down. Home prices
are very high, and people are economically frustrated. Now, you
can point at a lot of data, but this is
where reason and emotion or facts an emotion collide. People
can point a data all day long and say that

(03:55):
the Trump economy has been phenomenal for America overall, and
just look at you look at GDP per capital, look
at wages, whatever metric it is you want, very low unemployment,
the relative taming of inflation, although inflation has ticked up
a bit this summer because of the Iran War. People
feel like and when I say people, it's enough people

(04:19):
that they could determine the outcome of a presidential election
by the numbers. They think that things are too expensive,
and they're able to recognize because it's happened so quickly
that these changes are not market based. These changes are
the result of policy decisions, policy decisions to spend too
much money, to spend trillions of dollars during the COVID shutdown,

(04:43):
and then two trillion dollars under Biden right when he
came into office. These are things that were done by
people in elected office. This is not just the way
the market is or the way things had to be.
So their frustration is doubled as a result. They're feeling pain,
and they think the pain was unnecessary because it's something
that people decided that they should have to go through. Now,

(05:07):
we can try to give them lectures in Hayek. We
can show them clips from Milton Friedman. We can give
them the old boomer pull up yourself by your bootstraps.
I had to eat ramen noodles and struggle to talk
and that's fine, but that's probably not going to help
win any elections. And I think it also at some

(05:29):
level is unfair. It's unfair because when the price of
the average American house is up fifty percent in five years,
that's not a supply and demand problem because of a
free and functioning market. It is because of regulations from
government bringing the costs up, inflation, bringing the buying power

(05:51):
of the dollar down, millions and millions of illegal immigrants
putting pressure on the housing system that should not exist.
It's a whole race of things, but those are you'll notice,
policy decisions. It's not that the American home builder lacks
the capacity to meet demand or that this is just
where the market sets the current price, absent the interference

(06:14):
of external political factors. This is where thing, This is
where we need to be honest about what's happening, about
what's going on, and why does this all matter? Well,
because AOC, for all of her economic ignorance, is going
to emote over this stuff. And she has become pretty
adept as a politician. She's much better on her feet

(06:34):
than she used to be. She is good looking, which
helps in all aspects of life. It certainly helps in
a politics where your personal brand and what you look
like is more powerful and more essential than ever before.
So she's good looking, she's young, she's dynamic, she has
a huge social media following, and she's going to tell
people things like your pain economically, your anxiety over ability

(06:58):
to pay your bills is something that I AOC am
very focused on, and I'm going to do things to help.
If the message of the GOP increasingly becomes well, you
should have saved more, you should have gone out to
eat less. So this takes us to the great twenty
dollars burrito debate that was raging last week on social media.

(07:18):
Twenty dollars breeder debate is something along the lines of,
if you're paying twenty dollars for a burrito, it's because
you are ordering it on Uber eats, and that means
you're being extravagant and maybe even a tad bit lazy.
You should at least go do takeout, therefore you'll save
some of the costs, and even better, you should just
go and buy a whole bunch of burritos and make
them for yourself, one at a time at home to

(07:40):
save even more money. That was a fiery debate because people,
especially who are earlier on in their careers and have
not had a chance to benefit as much from the
wealth generation of the American economy in the long run,
felt like, so, now a burrito is a luxury good.
So now I'm being told that I have to be

(08:02):
in an office until six, seven, eight o'clock at night
and get home and make my own food. And I
can't afford rent in the city where I can actually
get a job. And now again these a lot of
this turns into anecdotal, it turns into narrative, and people
can try to fight this with data as much as
they want. There's a huge surge of people out there

(08:24):
who think, for example, it is unfair that grocery prices
have risen thirty percent in six years, which they have
thirty percent in six years, that's a big chunk. That's
not because it got harder to grow corn or cows.
We're eating a lot more and more expensive to raise.
It's because of government policy. What's the number one driver

(08:45):
of our debt, by the way, health care for old people.
And so people are looking at this and they're saying
the intergenerational theft that has occurred of spending more than
we may, spending more than we take in in order
to prop up a health care system that is too much.

(09:08):
There's too much spending going on in medicare, specifically medicaid
as well, that you start to see that there's more
to this than just work harder, make your own burrito.
And AOC gets it, and she knows and there are
others as well. She's leaving the radical leftist stuff to others,

(09:29):
whether it's this guy Al say Ed or this streamer
Hassan Piker, or these other people who are taking extreme
left positions. You know, they are the the thug communists,
if you will, they're the ones who are you know,
we're gonna take your stuff, We're gonna we're gonna beat
down your door, anything and everything for the glory of

(09:49):
the revolution. Don't speak out against this, or you know,
you'll get thrown in a cell. If they have the power,
that's the kind of stuff they want to do. AOC
is taking the Oh no, this is about democracy. This
is about power to the people. This is something different
and much more palatable to normal people than putting the
Bolsheviks in charge. Because anybody with even a passing knowledge

(10:11):
of history knows that you put the Bolsheviks in charge
and bad things will happen. But this is why, like
I said, she has tied off Woke one point zero
as this silly thing that they will now try to
distance themselves from. They haven't actually changed their mind on
any of that is my point. It's all a trojan
horse now. It's an effort to present to something other

(10:33):
than that which they are. And I think this has
really serious implications for the twenty twenty eight election. I
think we're heading into some trouble because people, even though
the economy, the stock market's very high, there's a lot
of wealth creation happening, people feel like the economy is

(10:53):
unfair to the working men and women, and enough of
them are convinced that the republic cans talk a big
game on this and don't do it. That they got
the data's you know, we want to talk about data.
Polling data is supporting what I'm saying. I'm also feeling it,
I'm seeing it, I'm hearing it myself. And talking about
how great the Iran war is going is not going

(11:16):
to change any of their minds. So AOC is going
to be formidable. I'm telling you probably the next VP
of the United States, or at least on the Democrat ticket.
I mean, she's probably been Democrats next VP candidate. I
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