Ideological Crossroads Unveiled On The Brett Winterble Show

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Brett dives into a powerful monologue examining the ideological evolution of the Democratic Party, tracing its shift from a working-class coalition to a technocratic, elite-driven platform. He outlines how Bill Clinton’s embrace of globalism, Wall Street, and Beijing marked the start of a neoliberal era, later fueled by Silicon Valley’s cultural influence. Brett argues that the 2008 financial crisis catalyzed a progressive uprising—Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders, and AOC—pushing the party further left.

He warns that identity politics has replaced class concerns and claims the Democratic leadership now appeases campus radicals promoting anti-Semitism. Highlighting recent unrest at elite universities, he criticizes figures like Chuck Schumer for political cowardice. Brett contends that the “No Kings” movement represents a deeper rejection of Western values and civilization itself. He calls this a moment of moral clarity, urging Democrats to choose between mob rule and constitutional order, before the nation's democratic foundations are irreparably damaged

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's a pleasure to be here with you breaking down
all the big stories of the day. I want to
start with something that I think is important as it
relates to the context of the moment that we're living in.
And let's make no mistake about this. I would call
this the party, the platforms, and the protesters. So let
me take you back to nineteen ninety two. Bill Clinton

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stood at the helm of the Democratic Party that had
just reinvented itself. Gone were the blue collar populists of
the Rust Belt. In their place, we saw a new
jack coming aboard, a new breed of globalists, technocrats, and
market minded liberals. Clinton did not just shake hands with

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Wall Street. He opened the gates to Beijing. He championed NAFTA,
deregulated finance, and welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into the
World Trade Organization. It was the dawn of neo liberalism

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and the Democratic Party was its vessel. But that was
just the beginning. As the tech boom exploded, Silicon Valley
became the new donor class. Google, Facebook, Apple, These weren't
just companies. What these were were cultural engines, and they

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aligned with the Democrats not because of taxes, or trade,
but because of values open borders, climate action, social liberalism.
The Party, once rooted in the labor halls and the
church basements, now took its cues from the boardrooms in

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Palo Alto. Then came the backlash. Two thousand and eight
crash shattered that illusion. Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders AOC sorrows.
Suddenly the streets were louder than the suits. The progressive laughed,

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surged forward, demanding reparations, redistribution, and revolution. And the Party,
desperate to hold its coalition together, bent the knee. They
took the knee before Kaepernick took the knee. Identity politics

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replaced class politics. The activist base took the wheel. And
now now we see the consequences on the campuses of
our elite universities Harvard, Columbia, UCLA. We're witnessing a new
wave of intellectual radicalism. Not just anti Zionism, not just

(03:32):
criticism of Israeli policy, but open hostility to Jewish students,
Jewish kids barred from the classrooms, Professors glorifying hamas encampments,
flying terrorist flags, where tearing down posters of kidnapped children.

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Where is the Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, the highest ranking
Jewish elected official in America, gave a speech he condemned
the quote lawlessness. He said anti Semitism was unacceptable, but
behind closed doors, reports say he told the Columbia President

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keep their heads down, that the backlash was just a
Republican problem. That's not leadership, that's appeasement. The Democratic Party
has been captured not just by big tex money, but
in ideology that sees the West as irredeemable, Israel as colonial,

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and Jews as privileged. It's coalition held together by fear,
not principle, and the US is being paid by students
afraid to walk to class wearing Star of David. This
isn't just a political shift, this is a moral unraveling.

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And now, in the shadow of shutdowns and encampments, we
see a new banner rising, the No Kings movement, a
rejection of hierarchy, of order, of tradition. It's not just
anti Israel, it's anti civilization. These protesters don't want reform,

(05:38):
they want rupture. They don't want compromise, they want collapse.
Mom Dami is the logical next link in the chain,
and until this movement leaves Washington, until the left exits

(06:02):
the stage and the grownups return to the room. This
shutdown will endure not because the budget fights or procedural gridlock,
but because the very idea of normal business is now
seen as oppression. This is the moment, not for silence,

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not for nuance, but for clarity. The Democratic Party must
choose the mob or the republic, the donors or the citizens,
the slogans or the truth. Because America is watching and
history is listening. So which side are you on? Are

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you willing to bend to your knee to the oligarchs,
Not the oligarchs like Bernie Sanders talks about, but the
overlords and the oligarchs who intend to remake the United
States of America once again in the in the approach

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of limiting your energy, limiting your food, limiting every possibility
and less of course, you have come into the country illegally.

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Dow's Talk eleven, ten ninety nine and three WVT. It's
the Brett Winter Bull Show still in shutdown mode. I know,
I know it's because the No King's Rally is going
to be happening coming up this weekend. And do I
want to start with with this particular thing. And I'm
calling this no Kings, no crowns, no clarity. So let
me take you to a moment that's unfolding right now

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across campuses, city squares, the halls of power. It's loud,
it's angry, it's organized, and it's called the No King's Movement. Now,
on the surface, it sounds noble, No Kings, a rejection
of tyranny, a callback to seventeen seventy six. But peel
back to slogans and you're going to find something more complex,

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far more dangerous. This movement didn't start in a vacuum.
It was born in the shadow of Donald Trump's second term,
triggered by his proposed one hundred million dollar military parade
on Flag Day. That's what started all of this. But

(08:51):
the reality is, the hatred and the anger has gone
much further than anybody could have expected, because who in
their right mind could say that a military parade should
be something that is an American Yes, it happened on

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his birthday, whooped he do? That parade was meant to
be a show of strength, celebration of American might. But
to the organizers of No Kings, it was a coronation,
it was a threat, It was a symbol of creeping authoritarianism.
I'm amazed because you hear from the left a lot

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like this is authoritarian. It's on the brink of authoritarian
We had it just yesterday when I let you hear
from Chris Murphy. He doesn't even know what stage of
authoritarianism we're living under. So they mobilized really fast. The
five oh five oh one coalition fifty states, fifty protests,

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one movement pattern with Indivisible, a progressive network that's been
building since Trump's first election, and on No King's Day,
they delivered one of the largest single day protest actions
in modern history, with over five million people, more than

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two thousand events coast to coast, five million people out
of what are we looking at here? Three hundred and
fifty million people in total. But here's the question, who's
behind it, who's funding it? What do they really want?
Let's start with the money. The lead organizing group, Indivisible,

(10:39):
has received over eight million dollars from George Soros's Open
Society Foundation. That's not speculation, it's documented. Soros has long
backed progressive causes. But this one's different. This is not
about policy, it's about power. It's about dismantling the very

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architecture of American governance. Then there's Christy Walton Walmart heiress
and one of the richest women in the world. She's
bankrolling the five H five OHO one coalition, the engine
behind the No Kings, full page ads in major newspapers,
coordinated media blitzes, and all under the banner of grassroots resistance.

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Don't forget Sir j. Brinn, Sergey Brinn of Googly, his
nonprofit Fund for a Better Future, is quietly backing Indivisible
and related protests. Infrastructure. That's Sillyicon Valley money, big money
fueling a movement that claims to be anti elite. So

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what's the goal. They say that it's about democracy, about
resisting authoritarianism, but the rhetoric tells a different story. No thrones,
no crowns, no Kings. That's not just anti Trump, that's

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anti structure, that's anti order, that's anti tradition. And the protests, well,
they've gone far before. Peaceful marches in Salt Lake City
and No King's protest turned deadly in Virginia. A driver
plowed through a crowd in Los Angeles encampments, blocked traffic

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and clashed with police and on elite campuses. Harvard Columbia UCLA,
Jewish students are barred from classrooms. As I mentioned, posters
of kidnapped kids torn down Hamas flags were flown and
the movement said nothing. Chuck Schumer loves this. Chuck Schumer

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is about this because he's trying to march in front
of an oncoming train called Mandami and of course AOC. Now,
the No Kings movement is evolving. It's not just about Trump.
It's about revolution. It's about tearing down systems. It's about
rejecting capitalism, nationalism, even the constitution itself. Some organizers have

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called for decolonizing America. Others demand the abolition of ICE,
the defunding of the police, the dismantling of the Senate. Yes,
the Senate, because to them, every institution is a relic
of oppression. And here's the kicker. Some of the funding

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may be coming from abroad. Representative Anna Paulina Luna has
raised alarms about Neville Singham, a US activist with ties
to the Chinese Communist Party. She claims Singham helped fund
the No Kings protests and related and related unrest in

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Los Angeles. If true, it's not just controversial. That might
be subversive, but let's go with innocent, il proven guilty.
So let's be clear. This isn't just a protest movement.
It's a pressure campaign, it's a media spectacle. It's a
donor driven insurgency aimed at reshaping the American narrative, and

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it's working. Mainstream democrats are afraid to speak out, University
presidents are paralyzed, and the media, well, they're too busy
chasing clicks and asking hard questions. But we must ask them.
Who decides what democracy looks like? Who gets to define tyranny?
And when a movement funded by billionaires starts calling for

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the collapse of institutions, who's really in charge here? Because
the No King's movement isn't just rejecting Trump, it's rejecting
a as we know it. And until the left leaves Washington,
until the activists pack up their encampments and the donors
stop writing checks, this shutdown, the paralysis and the chaos

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is going to endure. Not because of budget fights, not
because of gridlock, but because of the very idea of
normal business is now seen as oppressive. This is the
moment not for silence not for slogan's but clarity. The
Republic stands on the edge, and the question isn't whether

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will have kings, it's whether we'll have a country.