April 25, 2025 • 27 mins
The Left is in panic as poll after poll confirms that young voters, especially young men, are more conservative than ever before. I'll explain why this is happening, and how we can keep the momentum going. Also, Democrats are frantically trying to come up with a strategy to win back voters, and failing miserably at it. Instead of moderating their insane positions they’ve decided to double down on them. They’ve come up with a brilliant new “Dark Woke” strategy: Demand the same insanity, but just be even more obnoxious and insufferable while doing it.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Today on The Conservative Rebel, as young
voters flock to the conservativemovement and the Democrat Party
becomes increasingly old andirrelevant, leftists are
frantically trying to come upwith a strategy to win back
voters, and failing miserably atit.
It's hilarious to watch in avery depressing way.
(00:20):
Instead of moderating theirinsane positions, they've
decided to double down on them.
They've come up with a brilliantnew dark-woke strategy.
is to advocate the sameinsanity, but just be even more
obnoxious and insufferable thanthey already were while doing
it.
You won't want to miss today'sepisode of The Conservative
(00:41):
Rebel.
For decades, the left has beentightening its stranglehold on
most of America's institutions.
From preschool to the mostadvanced Ivy League colleges,
(01:03):
education is controlled by theleft.
From Amazon to Google toMicrosoft, the biggest, most
powerful corporations on Earthare also controlled by the left.
And for decades, the federalbureaucracy has been controlled
by the left, and mostlyinsulated from any
accountability by electedofficials.
(01:25):
But most importantly, for years,the culture has been controlled
by the left.
But now, in 2025, theideological balance,
particularly in the culture, isbeginning to shift, and it's
shifting dramatically.
Just a few years ago, forexample, gender ideology
(01:46):
pervaded across the culture, andnow that's completely changed,
and the gender ideologues arenow locked in a desperate battle
for survival, as more and morestates ban child mutilation and
Trump bans men from women'ssports.
And just a few years ago,conservatives were intimidated
into silence and submission bythe BLM mob.
(02:09):
Now they're fighting to endanti-white racism and
discrimination in the form ofDEI.
And just a few years ago,corporations proudly bragged
about how woke they were, as ifthat was a good thing, and now
woke corporations are rightlyhated and boycotted and shamed.
(02:30):
But the most significantcultural shift that's happened
in recent years is this.
Young voters are increasinglybecoming conservative.
In fact, young voters are moreconservative than they've ever
been before.
Recent polls have confirmed thatthis is true.
(02:50):
Newsweek recently ran thefollowing headline, quote, Young
people are now overwhelminglyRepublican.
Young Americans are supportingthe Republican Party in greater
numbers, a new poll has found,highlighting a large divide
among people aged under 30.
(03:10):
According to a new Yale YouthPoll, a survey affiliated with
the Yale Institution for Socialand Political Studies, voters
aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by11.7%.
And I say just 6.4 points,because if you look at the
(03:43):
historic margins that the 22-29demographic and young people
favor Democrats by, that's not alot at all.
The article continues, quote,Young people traditionally vote
for Democrats in elections, buta conservative shift among Gen Z
voters helped President DonaldTrump secure the keys to the
(04:05):
White House in November 2024.
David B.
Cohen, a political scienceprofessor at the University of
Akron in Ohio told Newsweek,Going forward, Democrats will
have to figure out how to bringyoung voters back to the fold,
particularly young men, if theywant to be competitive
nationally.
(04:27):
And this is by no means anoutlier poll.
If it was, the Democrats wouldnot be nearly as alarmed as they
are about this phenomenon.
Polls have consistently shownthat young people, particularly
young men, are abandoning theDemocrat Party and the left at
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large in droves and becomingmore conservative than ever
before.
Why is this happening?
The reason, I think, is simple.
Young people, especially youngmen, have a natural instinct to
be rebels.
They have a natural instinct toresist established authority.
(05:10):
This has been true sinceapproximately forever.
And historically, these youngpeople have found an outlet for
that energy in leftist activism.
Historically, they've rebelledagainst all that is good and
true and beautiful.
Historically, they have rebelledagainst Christianity, against
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morality, against the nuclearfamily, against capitalism,
against everything that has madeour country and Western
civilization great.
Young people were the hippies,they were the feminists, they
were the BLM activists in 2020.
But all of that's changing,because since the left has had a
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virtual monopoly over educationand the culture and the
government for generations, andsince it has used that power, of
course, to do everything it canto destroy our country and to
destroy civilization, now as ayoung person, if you support
that, you are not a rebelanymore.
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If you are a leftist, You're nota rebel.
You're an obedient, mindless cogin the wheel in the machinery of
the regime.
You're a slave who's going alongwith the program.
You're obeying the every whim ofyour masters, who are
celebrities, politicians,college professors, and other
(06:35):
manipulative tyrants who want touse you as a pawn to advance
their agenda.
All those morons who burn Tesladealerships and demand Trump
return MS-13 terrorists to theUnited States, they're not
rebels.
They're just doing the biddingof the elites.
When young people look at that,a lot of them don't want any
(06:57):
part of it anymore.
They don't see these people asrebels.
They don't see them as anythingto emulate.
They don't see what they'redoing as anything to aspire to.
They see them as thoughtless,soulless, self-loathing
automatons of misery anddespair.
And rightly so.
As a leftist, you cannot rebelagainst a culture that you
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control.
You cannot rebel against theelites when you're one of their
minions.
If you truly want to fight forfreedom, if you truly want to be
an independent thinker, if youwant reform, if you want to be a
rebel, guess what?
You're a right-winger now.
When your society is controlledby feminists and atheists and
(07:47):
gender ideologues andcommunists, you'll gravitate as
a rebelliously inclined persontoward things like the nuclear
family, things like Christianityand tradition and sanity and
common sense and everythingthose people hate.
This is why young people, andyoung men especially, are
(08:09):
becoming more and moreconservative, so to say.
But that term doesn't quitecapture it, because they're not
changing their beliefs becausethey want to conserve society as
it is.
Most of the things that those ofus who would call ourselves
conservatives stand for arealready dead.
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The left has killed them.
The left has already killed somuch of what was great about our
country.
So we're not fighting toconserve this state that our
country is in.
That would be insane.
These young people who arebecoming conservatives are
fighting for the restoration ofAmerica.
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The restoration of sanity andtruth and justice to the world.
The restoration of the thingsthat the left killed.
This is a crucial point foreveryone on the right to
understand.
and a lot of them don't,unfortunately.
We're not fighting to preserveour country the way it is.
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That would be ridiculous, givenhow much unchecked power the
left currently has over ourcountry, and the state of moral
depravity that pervades a lot ofour society, because ironically,
the so-called liberals of theworld are now the ones fighting
for the status quo.
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and the so-called conservativesare the revolutionaries fighting
for meaningful reform.
The Democrat Party, meanwhile,is increasingly old, feeble,
pathetic, lame, and gay,dominated by zeros who embody
those traits, like Tim Walz,Bernie Sanders, and Kamala
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Harris, who, by the way,according to a recent poll, is
the frontrunner in the 2028Democrat primary.
Unbelievably, more Democratswant cackling Kamala to run
against J.D.
Vance than any of But back tothe point.
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This generational shift is aserious problem that the left
must contend with.
They have to.
They will die if they don't.
And as they twist in the icyemptiness of irrelevance,
they're desperately trying tocome up with a way, some way,
any way, that they can try towin back the millions of voters
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they've driven away with theirinsanity.
And if they were sensiblepeople, they would try maybe
moderating their positions.
They would stop advocatingthings like child mutilation and
abortion till the moment ofbirth, and start veering toward
the center to try to win backsome moderates and independents.
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Of course, all of it would befake.
But they could at least pretendto not be totally deranged, and
they'd probably bring back a lotof people to the Democrat Party.
But these are not, of course,sensible people, and their
newest strategy reflects that.
Introducing Dark Woke.
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Now, what exactly does Dark Wokemean, you might ask?
I don't feel personally that Iwould do justice to this
brilliant and sophisticated newpolitical strategy if I tried to
explain it myself, so I'll let aleftist writing a piece on this
exciting new trend in the NewYork Times explain it for us.
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Here's the headline.
What is Dark Wook?
Quote, There was a time lastsummer when the Democrat Party
is cool.
That moment has long passed.
Alright, we're gonna have tostop right there because one
sentence in and we already haveserious problems.
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This guy is already gettingthings wrong.
No, there was not a time lastsummer when the Democrat Party
was cool.
You were never cool last summer.
I don't know if you guysremember this, but you started
off last summer with a frail,senile, brain-dead vegetable who
couldn't string a sentencetogether running for president
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on your party's ticket.
Then Trump murdered that frail,senile, brain-dead vegetable on
live TV when he debated him.
It looked so bad for you thatyou staged a coup and kicked him
off the Democrat ticket.
Then who did you brainiacschoose to replace him?
Another braindead vegetable who,again, couldn't string a
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sentence together.
Just this time, her namehappened to be Kamala Harris
instead of Joe Biden.
You were never cool.
Your entire support baseconsisted of college students
with IQs even lower than KamalaHarris's and liberal grandmas
who were offended at Trump'smean tweets.
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You then proceeded to lose youngvoters by humiliating historic
margins, and you got crushed inthe 2024 election.
There are many words you can useto describe that, but cool is
certainly not one of them.
The article goes on,unfortunately, quote, That
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moment has long passed.
With Donald J.
Trump back in the White House,the culture of dude-heavy pop
podcast programming, provocativeinsults, and so-called masculine
energy that helped him get thereseems like a dominant one.
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Yes, dude-heavy pop podcastprogramming is a real phrase
that the New York Times isactually putting in their news
articles.
How did that one slip throughthe system?
That's what I want to know.
Not only did whoever wrote thispiece see nothing wrong with it,
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probably thought it was smart,probably was very proud of it,
probably spent a good deal oftime trying to come up with how
to do that and make it soundnice and poppy and all that, not
only did he not see anythingwrong with that, none of the
editors did either.
No actual human being has everonce in his entire life used the
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phrase dude-heavy pop podcastprogramming.
Joe Rogan doesn't have host ofdude-heavy pop podcast in his
ex-bio, and neither does anyoneelse.
It's absurd.
But we shouldn't spend too muchtime on that, so let's go on.
The article continues, quote,And to some, the response from
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the left during the previousTrump era, defined by an earnest
resistance to the president'sagenda, appears outdated and
cringe, kind of like thisarticle.
As liberals try to get theirgroove back, some party insiders
say Democratic politicians havebeen encouraged to embrace a new
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form of combative rhetoric aimedat winning back voters who have
responded to President Trump'sno-holds-barred version of
politics.
It's an attempt to step outsidethe bounds of the political
correctness that Republicanshave accused Democrats of
establishing.
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and it requires being crass butdiscerning rude but only to a
point online it has a name darkwoke republicans have
essentially put democrats in arespectability prison said Bavik
Laffia, a communicationsconsultant and former digital
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director for the WisconsinDemocratic Party.
There is an extreme imbalance instrategy that allows Republicans
to say stuff that really grabsvoters' attention, while we're
being stuck saying boringpablum.
I see this as a strategic shiftwithin Democratic messaging.
I'm a big fan of Dark Woke.
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dark woke for now is a meme thatlives mostly online but its
roots have been sewn throughoutthe party for years in the
waning days of the bidenadministration memes about dark
brandon often referred to theversion of the former president
that conservatives most fearedand i too can attest to this
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when i saw the dark brandonstickers that people put on
their cars with joe biden withhis laser vision i saw that and
i was filled with fear i wasfilled The article goes on,
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quote, Outside the party, thedirtbag left, the term for a
cohort of leftist provocateurswho eschew civility politics,
inspired headlines for theirunrestrained derision of
conservatives and liberalsalike.
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Democrats have embraced someaspects of the rights toolkit,
as Trump advisors like Elon Muskhave used slurs and profanity
online.
Communications consultants forDemocratic politicians have
encouraged, or allowed, moreswearing.
Profanity is often seen as ashortcut to authenticity, though
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it can also be overused andbackfire.
And then the article pretty muchends there.
That's basically the gist of it.
So essentially, the entire darkwoke strategy, Democrats have
been hyping up as this greatthing.
This is how they're going towin.
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This is how they are going tobeat the Republicans in the
midterms.
The whole strategy that they'vebeen hyping up is pretty simple.
They're just going to advocatethe same insane, unpopular BS
they've supported for the pastwho knows how many years.
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They're just going to be evenmore obnoxious and insufferable
than they already were whilethey're doing it.
It's just being more obnoxiousand insufferable.
That's the key.
That's how they're going to dothis.
because that's what really drovenormies and independents away
from the Democrats.
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Normie and independent voters,they weren't abandoning the
Democrat Party because it's onthe wrong side of everything.
These dark, woke morons areinsisting.
That couldn't possibly be thecase.
It couldn't possibly be the casethat they are losing because
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they do dumb things like sendone of their senators down to El
Salvador for a bizarre photo opwhere he lovingly sips
margaritas with a wife-beatingdrug gangster and proudly blasts
the humiliating photos of hisdate with this guy all over the
internet.
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No, the real reason they'releaving is obviously because the
Democrats are just such kind andwonderful and caring people.
They're leaving because theDemocrats, in their infinite
wonderfulness and lovingness andgraciousness and generosity,
have forgotten that politicsrequires a little bit of anger
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and a little bit of firmness andthey've just been too nice to
conservatives.
And also they don't use That'sthe other key to this thing.
That's the other piece of thepuzzle.
So they just need to start usingsome slurs and some more
F-bombs, just start pepperingtheir insane word salads with
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some more of those, andeverything will be A-okay.
And if that's not insaneenough...
The author of this articleactually seems to think that
conservatives have been the meanones.
The side that burns down citiesand destroys Tesla dealerships
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and shoots Trump says thatconservatives are meaner than
they are.
They're winning because theconservatives are mean and
because the leftists won't fightback.
They won't fight back theconservatives' meanness with
their own meanness.
That's why they're losing.
No, the exact opposite is true.
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Conservatives are the ones whohave been far, far too nice for
far, far too long.
During the transgender, thedeepest depths of the
transgender mass psychosis, likein 2020, 2021, 2022, you think
conservatives were too meanthen?
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No, they went along with thewhole thing.
You think conservatives are toomean now?
Look at all these peoplemarching on the college
campuses.
Look at the 50-51 movements.
Look at the Tesla dealershipsbeing burned to the ground.
Which side is doing that?
It's the left.
It's the left that is doingthat.
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Conservatives are sitting attheir houses, living their
lives.
The problem is thatconservatives...
They oftentimes do not fullyrealize the gravity of the
situation, because a lot of themare still locked in this
mentality that politics is aboutroads and bridges and dumb,
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boring things like this.
Politics is boring, right?
We don't want to get intopolitics.
It's controversial meaninglesslybecause it's all boring.
They don't see it as this...
Right versus wrong, good versusevil things, where one side is
mass-murdering unborn babies andthe other side wants to protect
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them.
One side is mutilating children,the other side wants to protect
them.
They don't see it that way,which is why they've been too
nice for far too long.
So, what really needs to happenis someone needs to write an
article like this and put it upon Fox News or whatever.
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We need a dark conservatism,okay?
Like, not this dumb thing thatthey're writing about, not like
this, but we need a moreenergetic conservatism.
We need conservatives to stopbeing nice to baby murderers and
child mutilators.
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We need conservatives who arewilling to speak the truths
everyone else is afraid to say.
We need conservatives who do notcare what anti-civilizational
barbarians think about them, andwho are willing to stand up and
fight for truth and justice andsanity.
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That's what we actually need.
And that's the way that we willhelp humanity.
to keep this going where theleft is bleeding young voters
because they want authenticity.
They don't like people who justdance around issues, who refuse
to confront the actual heart ofthe matter, who are just
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wishy-washy and try to be niceto everyone.
What we need is people who arewilling to say uncomfortable
truths like abortion is murder.
We need to stop it.
There are only two genders.
Most conservatives are willingto say that now.
But we need to go even further.
Gender transitions need to bebanned.
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We need a more confrontationalconservatism.
And that's how you win morevoters.
There are a lot of these peoplewho say that the right needs to
moderate to win more people.
How's that gone the past...
several decades, the pasthundred years, the past however
long it's been.
How's that gone?
Because that's what we try everyelection.
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Okay, that's what we've alwaystried.
It never works.
The authenticity will win themover.
For the Democrats, they need amoderate if they want to
survive, because they're soinsanely far left, but they're
not going to.
And that's not bad news,necessarily.
That's good news.
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Because if they don't moderate,they will keep losing.
If the Democrats keep cryingabout MS-13 terrorists being
deported, if they keep wailingabout Elon Musk saving taxpayers
money, things are not going togo well for them in the next
election.
The big question of politicsafter the 2024 election has
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been, will the Democrats learn?
And this dumb, dark, wokestrategy is yet another sign
that, no, they will never learn.
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up to their stubborn donkeymascot, I'll tell you that, that
they will never learn.
If they continue on like this,they have no hope of winning
back young men.
And all we have to do to claimvictory over these people, to
continue to beat them, tocontinue to win back the culture
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and take back the country, is tostop being sissies and to be
bold about what we stand for, tonot be afraid to speak hard
truths, and to not be afraid ofconfrontation.
If we can just do that, if wecan just stand up for what we
believe in, then we have a greatchance of continued victory in
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the midterms and in the nextelection.
Thanks for listening to thisepisode of The Conservative
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Please follow the show, leave areview, and drop your thoughts
in the comments.
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Today on The Conservative Rebel, as young
voters flock to the conservativemovement and the Democrat Party
becomes increasingly old andirrelevant, leftists are
frantically trying to come upwith a strategy to win back
voters, and failing miserably atit.
It's hilarious to watch in avery depressing way.
(00:20):
Instead of moderating theirinsane positions, they've
decided to double down on them.
They've come up with a brilliantnew dark-woke strategy.
is to advocate the sameinsanity, but just be even more
obnoxious and insufferable thanthey already were while doing
it.
You won't want to miss today'sepisode of The Conservative
(00:41):
Rebel.
For decades, the left has beentightening its stranglehold on
most of America's institutions.
From preschool to the mostadvanced Ivy League colleges,
(01:03):
education is controlled by theleft.
From Amazon to Google toMicrosoft, the biggest, most
powerful corporations on Earthare also controlled by the left.
And for decades, the federalbureaucracy has been controlled
by the left, and mostlyinsulated from any
accountability by electedofficials.
(01:25):
But most importantly, for years,the culture has been controlled
by the left.
But now, in 2025, theideological balance,
particularly in the culture, isbeginning to shift, and it's
shifting dramatically.
Just a few years ago, forexample, gender ideology
(01:46):
pervaded across the culture, andnow that's completely changed,
and the gender ideologues arenow locked in a desperate battle
for survival, as more and morestates ban child mutilation and
Trump bans men from women'ssports.
And just a few years ago,conservatives were intimidated
into silence and submission bythe BLM mob.
(02:09):
Now they're fighting to endanti-white racism and
discrimination in the form ofDEI.
And just a few years ago,corporations proudly bragged
about how woke they were, as ifthat was a good thing, and now
woke corporations are rightlyhated and boycotted and shamed.
(02:30):
But the most significantcultural shift that's happened
in recent years is this.
Young voters are increasinglybecoming conservative.
In fact, young voters are moreconservative than they've ever
been before.
Recent polls have confirmed thatthis is true.
(02:50):
Newsweek recently ran thefollowing headline, quote, Young
people are now overwhelminglyRepublican.
Young Americans are supportingthe Republican Party in greater
numbers, a new poll has found,highlighting a large divide
among people aged under 30.
(03:10):
According to a new Yale YouthPoll, a survey affiliated with
the Yale Institution for Socialand Political Studies, voters
aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by11.7%.
And I say just 6.4 points,because if you look at the
(03:43):
historic margins that the 22-29demographic and young people
favor Democrats by, that's not alot at all.
The article continues, quote,Young people traditionally vote
for Democrats in elections, buta conservative shift among Gen Z
voters helped President DonaldTrump secure the keys to the
(04:05):
White House in November 2024.
David B.
Cohen, a political scienceprofessor at the University of
Akron in Ohio told Newsweek,Going forward, Democrats will
have to figure out how to bringyoung voters back to the fold,
particularly young men, if theywant to be competitive
nationally.
(04:27):
And this is by no means anoutlier poll.
If it was, the Democrats wouldnot be nearly as alarmed as they
are about this phenomenon.
Polls have consistently shownthat young people, particularly
young men, are abandoning theDemocrat Party and the left at
(04:47):
large in droves and becomingmore conservative than ever
before.
Why is this happening?
The reason, I think, is simple.
Young people, especially youngmen, have a natural instinct to
be rebels.
They have a natural instinct toresist established authority.
(05:10):
This has been true sinceapproximately forever.
And historically, these youngpeople have found an outlet for
that energy in leftist activism.
Historically, they've rebelledagainst all that is good and
true and beautiful.
Historically, they have rebelledagainst Christianity, against
(05:32):
morality, against the nuclearfamily, against capitalism,
against everything that has madeour country and Western
civilization great.
Young people were the hippies,they were the feminists, they
were the BLM activists in 2020.
But all of that's changing,because since the left has had a
(05:54):
virtual monopoly over educationand the culture and the
government for generations, andsince it has used that power, of
course, to do everything it canto destroy our country and to
destroy civilization, now as ayoung person, if you support
that, you are not a rebelanymore.
(06:14):
If you are a leftist, You're nota rebel.
You're an obedient, mindless cogin the wheel in the machinery of
the regime.
You're a slave who's going alongwith the program.
You're obeying the every whim ofyour masters, who are
celebrities, politicians,college professors, and other
(06:35):
manipulative tyrants who want touse you as a pawn to advance
their agenda.
All those morons who burn Tesladealerships and demand Trump
return MS-13 terrorists to theUnited States, they're not
rebels.
They're just doing the biddingof the elites.
When young people look at that,a lot of them don't want any
(06:57):
part of it anymore.
They don't see these people asrebels.
They don't see them as anythingto emulate.
They don't see what they'redoing as anything to aspire to.
They see them as thoughtless,soulless, self-loathing
automatons of misery anddespair.
And rightly so.
As a leftist, you cannot rebelagainst a culture that you
(07:23):
control.
You cannot rebel against theelites when you're one of their
minions.
If you truly want to fight forfreedom, if you truly want to be
an independent thinker, if youwant reform, if you want to be a
rebel, guess what?
You're a right-winger now.
When your society is controlledby feminists and atheists and
(07:47):
gender ideologues andcommunists, you'll gravitate as
a rebelliously inclined persontoward things like the nuclear
family, things like Christianityand tradition and sanity and
common sense and everythingthose people hate.
This is why young people, andyoung men especially, are
(08:09):
becoming more and moreconservative, so to say.
But that term doesn't quitecapture it, because they're not
changing their beliefs becausethey want to conserve society as
it is.
Most of the things that those ofus who would call ourselves
conservatives stand for arealready dead.
(08:32):
The left has killed them.
The left has already killed somuch of what was great about our
country.
So we're not fighting toconserve this state that our
country is in.
That would be insane.
These young people who arebecoming conservatives are
fighting for the restoration ofAmerica.
(08:54):
The restoration of sanity andtruth and justice to the world.
The restoration of the thingsthat the left killed.
This is a crucial point foreveryone on the right to
understand.
and a lot of them don't,unfortunately.
We're not fighting to preserveour country the way it is.
(09:14):
That would be ridiculous, givenhow much unchecked power the
left currently has over ourcountry, and the state of moral
depravity that pervades a lot ofour society, because ironically,
the so-called liberals of theworld are now the ones fighting
for the status quo.
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and the so-called conservativesare the revolutionaries fighting
for meaningful reform.
The Democrat Party, meanwhile,is increasingly old, feeble,
pathetic, lame, and gay,dominated by zeros who embody
those traits, like Tim Walz,Bernie Sanders, and Kamala
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Harris, who, by the way,according to a recent poll, is
the frontrunner in the 2028Democrat primary.
Unbelievably, more Democratswant cackling Kamala to run
against J.D.
Vance than any of But back tothe point.
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This generational shift is aserious problem that the left
must contend with.
They have to.
They will die if they don't.
And as they twist in the icyemptiness of irrelevance,
they're desperately trying tocome up with a way, some way,
any way, that they can try towin back the millions of voters
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they've driven away with theirinsanity.
And if they were sensiblepeople, they would try maybe
moderating their positions.
They would stop advocatingthings like child mutilation and
abortion till the moment ofbirth, and start veering toward
the center to try to win backsome moderates and independents.
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Of course, all of it would befake.
But they could at least pretendto not be totally deranged, and
they'd probably bring back a lotof people to the Democrat Party.
But these are not, of course,sensible people, and their
newest strategy reflects that.
Introducing Dark Woke.
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Now, what exactly does Dark Wokemean, you might ask?
I don't feel personally that Iwould do justice to this
brilliant and sophisticated newpolitical strategy if I tried to
explain it myself, so I'll let aleftist writing a piece on this
exciting new trend in the NewYork Times explain it for us.
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Here's the headline.
What is Dark Wook?
Quote, There was a time lastsummer when the Democrat Party
is cool.
That moment has long passed.
Alright, we're gonna have tostop right there because one
sentence in and we already haveserious problems.
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This guy is already gettingthings wrong.
No, there was not a time lastsummer when the Democrat Party
was cool.
You were never cool last summer.
I don't know if you guysremember this, but you started
off last summer with a frail,senile, brain-dead vegetable who
couldn't string a sentencetogether running for president
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on your party's ticket.
Then Trump murdered that frail,senile, brain-dead vegetable on
live TV when he debated him.
It looked so bad for you thatyou staged a coup and kicked him
off the Democrat ticket.
Then who did you brainiacschoose to replace him?
Another braindead vegetable who,again, couldn't string a
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sentence together.
Just this time, her namehappened to be Kamala Harris
instead of Joe Biden.
You were never cool.
Your entire support baseconsisted of college students
with IQs even lower than KamalaHarris's and liberal grandmas
who were offended at Trump'smean tweets.
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You then proceeded to lose youngvoters by humiliating historic
margins, and you got crushed inthe 2024 election.
There are many words you can useto describe that, but cool is
certainly not one of them.
The article goes on,unfortunately, quote, That
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moment has long passed.
With Donald J.
Trump back in the White House,the culture of dude-heavy pop
podcast programming, provocativeinsults, and so-called masculine
energy that helped him get thereseems like a dominant one.
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Yes, dude-heavy pop podcastprogramming is a real phrase
that the New York Times isactually putting in their news
articles.
How did that one slip throughthe system?
That's what I want to know.
Not only did whoever wrote thispiece see nothing wrong with it,
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probably thought it was smart,probably was very proud of it,
probably spent a good deal oftime trying to come up with how
to do that and make it soundnice and poppy and all that, not
only did he not see anythingwrong with that, none of the
editors did either.
No actual human being has everonce in his entire life used the
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phrase dude-heavy pop podcastprogramming.
Joe Rogan doesn't have host ofdude-heavy pop podcast in his
ex-bio, and neither does anyoneelse.
It's absurd.
But we shouldn't spend too muchtime on that, so let's go on.
The article continues, quote,And to some, the response from
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the left during the previousTrump era, defined by an earnest
resistance to the president'sagenda, appears outdated and
cringe, kind of like thisarticle.
As liberals try to get theirgroove back, some party insiders
say Democratic politicians havebeen encouraged to embrace a new
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form of combative rhetoric aimedat winning back voters who have
responded to President Trump'sno-holds-barred version of
politics.
It's an attempt to step outsidethe bounds of the political
correctness that Republicanshave accused Democrats of
establishing.
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and it requires being crass butdiscerning rude but only to a
point online it has a name darkwoke republicans have
essentially put democrats in arespectability prison said Bavik
Laffia, a communicationsconsultant and former digital
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director for the WisconsinDemocratic Party.
There is an extreme imbalance instrategy that allows Republicans
to say stuff that really grabsvoters' attention, while we're
being stuck saying boringpablum.
I see this as a strategic shiftwithin Democratic messaging.
I'm a big fan of Dark Woke.
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dark woke for now is a meme thatlives mostly online but its
roots have been sewn throughoutthe party for years in the
waning days of the bidenadministration memes about dark
brandon often referred to theversion of the former president
that conservatives most fearedand i too can attest to this
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when i saw the dark brandonstickers that people put on
their cars with joe biden withhis laser vision i saw that and
i was filled with fear i wasfilled The article goes on,
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quote, Outside the party, thedirtbag left, the term for a
cohort of leftist provocateurswho eschew civility politics,
inspired headlines for theirunrestrained derision of
conservatives and liberalsalike.
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Democrats have embraced someaspects of the rights toolkit,
as Trump advisors like Elon Muskhave used slurs and profanity
online.
Communications consultants forDemocratic politicians have
encouraged, or allowed, moreswearing.
Profanity is often seen as ashortcut to authenticity, though
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it can also be overused andbackfire.
And then the article pretty muchends there.
That's basically the gist of it.
So essentially, the entire darkwoke strategy, Democrats have
been hyping up as this greatthing.
This is how they're going towin.
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This is how they are going tobeat the Republicans in the
midterms.
The whole strategy that they'vebeen hyping up is pretty simple.
They're just going to advocatethe same insane, unpopular BS
they've supported for the pastwho knows how many years.
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They're just going to be evenmore obnoxious and insufferable
than they already were whilethey're doing it.
It's just being more obnoxiousand insufferable.
That's the key.
That's how they're going to dothis.
because that's what really drovenormies and independents away
from the Democrats.
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Normie and independent voters,they weren't abandoning the
Democrat Party because it's onthe wrong side of everything.
These dark, woke morons areinsisting.
That couldn't possibly be thecase.
It couldn't possibly be the casethat they are losing because
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they do dumb things like sendone of their senators down to El
Salvador for a bizarre photo opwhere he lovingly sips
margaritas with a wife-beatingdrug gangster and proudly blasts
the humiliating photos of hisdate with this guy all over the
internet.
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No, the real reason they'releaving is obviously because the
Democrats are just such kind andwonderful and caring people.
They're leaving because theDemocrats, in their infinite
wonderfulness and lovingness andgraciousness and generosity,
have forgotten that politicsrequires a little bit of anger
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and a little bit of firmness andthey've just been too nice to
conservatives.
And also they don't use That'sthe other key to this thing.
That's the other piece of thepuzzle.
So they just need to start usingsome slurs and some more
F-bombs, just start pepperingtheir insane word salads with
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some more of those, andeverything will be A-okay.
And if that's not insaneenough...
The author of this articleactually seems to think that
conservatives have been the meanones.
The side that burns down citiesand destroys Tesla dealerships
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and shoots Trump says thatconservatives are meaner than
they are.
They're winning because theconservatives are mean and
because the leftists won't fightback.
They won't fight back theconservatives' meanness with
their own meanness.
That's why they're losing.
No, the exact opposite is true.
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Conservatives are the ones whohave been far, far too nice for
far, far too long.
During the transgender, thedeepest depths of the
transgender mass psychosis, likein 2020, 2021, 2022, you think
conservatives were too meanthen?
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No, they went along with thewhole thing.
You think conservatives are toomean now?
Look at all these peoplemarching on the college
campuses.
Look at the 50-51 movements.
Look at the Tesla dealershipsbeing burned to the ground.
Which side is doing that?
It's the left.
It's the left that is doingthat.
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Conservatives are sitting attheir houses, living their
lives.
The problem is thatconservatives...
They oftentimes do not fullyrealize the gravity of the
situation, because a lot of themare still locked in this
mentality that politics is aboutroads and bridges and dumb,
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boring things like this.
Politics is boring, right?
We don't want to get intopolitics.
It's controversial meaninglesslybecause it's all boring.
They don't see it as this...
Right versus wrong, good versusevil things, where one side is
mass-murdering unborn babies andthe other side wants to protect
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them.
One side is mutilating children,the other side wants to protect
them.
They don't see it that way,which is why they've been too
nice for far too long.
So, what really needs to happenis someone needs to write an
article like this and put it upon Fox News or whatever.
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We need a dark conservatism,okay?
Like, not this dumb thing thatthey're writing about, not like
this, but we need a moreenergetic conservatism.
We need conservatives to stopbeing nice to baby murderers and
child mutilators.
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We need conservatives who arewilling to speak the truths
everyone else is afraid to say.
We need conservatives who do notcare what anti-civilizational
barbarians think about them, andwho are willing to stand up and
fight for truth and justice andsanity.
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That's what we actually need.
And that's the way that we willhelp humanity.
to keep this going where theleft is bleeding young voters
because they want authenticity.
They don't like people who justdance around issues, who refuse
to confront the actual heart ofthe matter, who are just
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wishy-washy and try to be niceto everyone.
What we need is people who arewilling to say uncomfortable
truths like abortion is murder.
We need to stop it.
There are only two genders.
Most conservatives are willingto say that now.
But we need to go even further.
Gender transitions need to bebanned.
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We need a more confrontationalconservatism.
And that's how you win morevoters.
There are a lot of these peoplewho say that the right needs to
moderate to win more people.
How's that gone the past...
several decades, the pasthundred years, the past however
long it's been.
How's that gone?
Because that's what we try everyelection.
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Okay, that's what we've alwaystried.
It never works.
The authenticity will win themover.
For the Democrats, they need amoderate if they want to
survive, because they're soinsanely far left, but they're
not going to.
And that's not bad news,necessarily.
That's good news.
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Because if they don't moderate,they will keep losing.
If the Democrats keep cryingabout MS-13 terrorists being
deported, if they keep wailingabout Elon Musk saving taxpayers
money, things are not going togo well for them in the next
election.
The big question of politicsafter the 2024 election has
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been, will the Democrats learn?
And this dumb, dark, wokestrategy is yet another sign
that, no, they will never learn.
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up to their stubborn donkeymascot, I'll tell you that, that
they will never learn.
If they continue on like this,they have no hope of winning
back young men.
And all we have to do to claimvictory over these people, to
continue to beat them, tocontinue to win back the culture
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and take back the country, is tostop being sissies and to be
bold about what we stand for, tonot be afraid to speak hard
truths, and to not be afraid ofconfrontation.
If we can just do that, if wecan just stand up for what we
believe in, then we have a greatchance of continued victory in
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the midterms and in the nextelection.
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Rebel.
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