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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rick Tyler joins us now the director of the Advanced
School of Politics at the Leadership Institute, to talk about
what's going on with another round of impeachment proceedings towards
the President. Rick, welcome in, Thanks for being here. I
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know, it used to be back in the days
when I was in high school in college the seventies
and eighties, that the impeachment was a monster word. And
it's like now, it's like getting a cup of coffee.
You know, we don't like him. Let's just anybody want
to impeach. I'll take it this time. You know, what
is the deal? These democrats really do not read the
(00:38):
room very well at all.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think it's a huge problem. Like you, I remember,
I was probably about eight years old and my grandmother
used to watch the impeachment hearings on the black and
white television in her kitchen, and I didn't know what
it was all about, but I knew it wasn't good
for our team. But it almost is the opposite. Now
the subject of the impeachment actually is strengthened politically, and
(01:07):
and that's not a good thing for for the country.
Impeachment should be used rarely. It's never actually been used successfully. Uh.
Presidents have been impeached Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, the guy
after like in and Richard Nixon was not impeached, although
(01:28):
he was pardoned preemptively, which has a whole set of
issues there. But it won't it won't work, and it's
it's not going to be good for the Democrats because
a lot of the things that Trump is working on
and doing it, it's are things that people voted for,
and they wanted these things, uh, and you know, the
(01:49):
way to uh to counter them is to have a better, stronger,
uh message that people want more and and so impeachment
just reveals, you know, the weakness of your earth. And
it's just like, well, we don't know what to do,
we don't know what to say, we don't have the ideas,
So let's just impeach the guy.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know, they are just they're kind of lost out
there in the desert on the reality of what this
country is going through right now. You would have thought
after November fifth, they would have seen the writing on
the wall in that there was a mandate in a
big vote not only for the president but for the House.
In the Senate, it's like, look, we're done with that
four years of wokeness. That wave has died out, the
(02:28):
tsunami is over, the sun is out again. We don't
want anything to do with that madness that existed in
this country. So instead of them trying to find a
good candidate to run, which they really ought to be
focusing on, I'm not sure there are any at this point,
or who takes the lead. You look at some pulling numbers.
If aoces the one floating to the top, God help
(02:49):
us all I mean. So instead of ripping at the
president winding and crying, hey, what would you do for
the country to make it better? Well, Donald Trump will no,
that was the question. What do you want to do
as the leader of the Democratic Party? Bring it to
the people. Quit whining about the guy there, that's yesterday's news.
He's there, So what are you going to do to
(03:11):
beat him? So what now?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And they don't have it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now? Well, that's absolutely right. And I like to say
that when people are more concerned about your pronouns and
they are your paycheck, you're going to have a problem.
And that's exactly what happened to the Democratic Party. And
they have some of them realize it, they know this,
but there are others in the party and they get
pushed by their left to think that, you know, we
just haven't expressed ourselves well enough. And no, but as
(03:38):
you say, the verdict is in. People are tired of
this nonsense. And the whole Kamala Harris campaign was emblematic
of we're an elitist party, we're out of touch, we
hang around with with with celebrities, we don't care about
the working people anymore. And people got it and there
was a huge relignment. That realignment, which was essentially the
(03:59):
labor vote that the Democrats had had for so long,
was so big that it took with it a lot
of minorities that normally vote for Democrats. So you've got
an increase in African American vote, You've got an increase
in Hispanic vote, You've got an increase in many, many
different areas that the Democrats have always dominated because of
this labor vote that they just gave up on.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know, when you look at the next election cycle
for the President of the United States and even the
midterms here, you know, when you have somebody, as I mentioned,
like AOC and others on the extreme left and the
socialist part of this party floating at the top is
who they might want to have as leadership. You know,
that didn't work last four years. So I don't understand
(04:43):
why don't they just flushed themselves of these ideals and
come up with a better philosophy and plan. That whole
party needs a rebranding. At the end of the day,
AOC has a district that voted her back in, but
even that district now is starting to come back Connor
and say what she hasn't done anything for us locally.
(05:03):
She's up there just trying to you know, tuot around horn,
do more TikTok videos. And they even pushed her look
at the people that are talking to you in Congress,
miss representative here. All she could do was stare at
the camera because she wanted to get it on social
media immediately following this. So I think the Democratic Party,
unless they change direction and completely go the other way
(05:26):
and realize the people matter, not you know, just are
screaming at Donald Trump, They're going to be disasters again.
I mean, why is Chuck Schumer afraid to confront the
far left socialist part of this party?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, he wouldn't be if he actually had a vision
to move forward, and then he could ignore that party.
Because Chuck Schuller is smart enough to understand why Donald
Trump got elected and why he went seven for seven
and Kamala Harris went to zero for seven in the
swing states. That mattered. And they've got to they've got
to recruit candidates who can counter that, and they've got
(06:00):
to have a message to counter that. But so far
they don't. They've been so beholden to the left. I mean,
look at the tour that AOC and Bernie Sanders did.
Now Bernie Sanders can get re elected of Vermont and
AOC will probably continue to get elected in her district
because those districts are are different than most of America.
(06:20):
And it's interesting that they just haven't seen this, and
even their party leadership has doubled down and they keep
saying our message is right, just not enough people have
heard it, and that's exactly wrong. People have heard it
and they rejected it, and you ought to figure it out.
And look, I don't want the Democrats to be a
successful party, but I think if they're so unsuccessful, that's
(06:43):
really not even that's not really good for the Republican
Party because the way our politics works is there's a
competitive aspect between the parties and the best people can
rise to the top, and so you really do want
to a strong two party system. But the Republicans figured
it out of they've rejected the way that the country
(07:04):
is going. And you know, look at the money that's
going to these universities that Donald Trump is now saying,
you know, we really need to look at all this money.
I mean unbelieve I saw a map I think it
was in Washington Post. You're the little dots represented of
how much money these universities got. You couldn't even see
the United States for all the money that was going
to these universities, and what are they getting for it?
(07:25):
And then you know they graduate people who are massively
in debt, and these are the people that the Democrats
are losing.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, it's common sense and they just don't seem
to have any and it's you know, just a moral
compass has lost. Ethical compass is lost. And you know,
if nothing else, listen to the people of the country.
The president is not running for the president of Massachusetts
or the president of Connecticut or president of New York.
It's the President of the United States, so you got
(07:52):
to focus on the big picture, not just those districts. Buddy,
I appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so much.
Always good to catch up with you hey, and yes,
we will do it again very soon. Rick Tyler, Director
of the Advanced School of Politics at the Leadership Institute,
Rick Tyler joins us now the director of the Advanced
School of Politics at the Leadership Institute, to talk about
what's going on with another round of impeachment proceedings towards
the President. Rick, welcome in, Thanks for being here. I
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know, it used to be back in the days
when I was in high school in college the seventies
and eighties, that the impeachment was a monster word. And
it's like now, it's like getting a cup of coffee.
You know, we don't like him. Let's just anybody want
to impeach. I'll take it this time. You know, what
is the deal? These democrats really do not read the
(00:38):
room very well at all.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think it's a huge problem. Like you, I remember,
I was probably about eight years old and my grandmother
used to watch the impeachment hearings on the black and
white television in her kitchen, and I didn't know what
it was all about, but I knew it wasn't good
for our team. But it almost is the opposite. Now
the subject of the impeachment actually is strengthened politically, and
(01:07):
and that's not a good thing for for the country.
Impeachment should be used rarely. It's never actually been used successfully. Uh.
Presidents have been impeached Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, the guy
after like in and Richard Nixon was not impeached, although
(01:28):
he was pardoned preemptively, which has a whole set of
issues there. But it won't it won't work, and it's
it's not going to be good for the Democrats because
a lot of the things that Trump is working on
and doing it, it's are things that people voted for,
and they wanted these things, uh, and you know, the
(01:49):
way to uh to counter them is to have a better, stronger,
uh message that people want more and and so impeachment
just reveals, you know, the weakness of your earth. And
it's just like, well, we don't know what to do,
we don't know what to say, we don't have the ideas,
So let's just impeach the guy.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know, they are just they're kind of lost out
there in the desert on the reality of what this
country is going through right now. You would have thought
after November fifth, they would have seen the writing on
the wall in that there was a mandate in a
big vote not only for the president but for the House.
In the Senate, it's like, look, we're done with that
four years of wokeness. That wave has died out, the
(02:28):
tsunami is over, the sun is out again. We don't
want anything to do with that madness that existed in
this country. So instead of them trying to find a
good candidate to run, which they really ought to be
focusing on, I'm not sure there are any at this point,
or who takes the lead. You look at some pulling numbers.
If aoces the one floating to the top, God help
(02:49):
us all I mean. So instead of ripping at the
president winding and crying, hey, what would you do for
the country to make it better? Well, Donald Trump will no,
that was the question. What do you want to do
as the leader of the Democratic Party? Bring it to
the people. Quit whining about the guy there, that's yesterday's news.
He's there, So what are you going to do to
(03:11):
beat him? So what now?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And they don't have it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now? Well, that's absolutely right. And I like to say
that when people are more concerned about your pronouns and
they are your paycheck, you're going to have a problem.
And that's exactly what happened to the Democratic Party. And
they have some of them realize it, they know this,
but there are others in the party and they get
pushed by their left to think that, you know, we
just haven't expressed ourselves well enough. And no, but as
(03:38):
you say, the verdict is in. People are tired of
this nonsense. And the whole Kamala Harris campaign was emblematic
of we're an elitist party, we're out of touch, we
hang around with with with celebrities, we don't care about
the working people anymore. And people got it and there
was a huge relignment. That realignment, which was essentially the
(03:59):
labor vote that the Democrats had had for so long,
was so big that it took with it a lot
of minorities that normally vote for Democrats. So you've got
an increase in African American vote, You've got an increase
in Hispanic vote, You've got an increase in many, many
different areas that the Democrats have always dominated because of
this labor vote that they just gave up on.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know, when you look at the next election cycle
for the President of the United States and even the
midterms here, you know, when you have somebody, as I mentioned,
like AOC and others on the extreme left and the
socialist part of this party floating at the top is
who they might want to have as leadership. You know,
that didn't work last four years. So I don't understand
(04:43):
why don't they just flushed themselves of these ideals and
come up with a better philosophy and plan. That whole
party needs a rebranding. At the end of the day,
AOC has a district that voted her back in, but
even that district now is starting to come back Connor
and say what she hasn't done anything for us locally.
(05:03):
She's up there just trying to you know, tuot around horn,
do more TikTok videos. And they even pushed her look
at the people that are talking to you in Congress,
miss representative here. All she could do was stare at
the camera because she wanted to get it on social
media immediately following this. So I think the Democratic Party,
unless they change direction and completely go the other way
(05:26):
and realize the people matter, not you know, just are
screaming at Donald Trump, They're going to be disasters again.
I mean, why is Chuck Schumer afraid to confront the
far left socialist part of this party?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, he wouldn't be if he actually had a vision
to move forward, and then he could ignore that party.
Because Chuck Schuller is smart enough to understand why Donald
Trump got elected and why he went seven for seven
and Kamala Harris went to zero for seven in the
swing states. That mattered. And they've got to they've got
to recruit candidates who can counter that, and they've got
(06:00):
to have a message to counter that. But so far
they don't. They've been so beholden to the left. I mean,
look at the tour that AOC and Bernie Sanders did.
Now Bernie Sanders can get re elected of Vermont and
AOC will probably continue to get elected in her district
because those districts are are different than most of America.
(06:20):
And it's interesting that they just haven't seen this, and
even their party leadership has doubled down and they keep
saying our message is right, just not enough people have
heard it, and that's exactly wrong. People have heard it
and they rejected it, and you ought to figure it out.
And look, I don't want the Democrats to be a
successful party, but I think if they're so unsuccessful, that's
(06:43):
really not even that's not really good for the Republican
Party because the way our politics works is there's a
competitive aspect between the parties and the best people can
rise to the top, and so you really do want
to a strong two party system. But the Republicans figured
it out of they've rejected the way that the country
(07:04):
is going. And you know, look at the money that's
going to these universities that Donald Trump is now saying,
you know, we really need to look at all this money.
I mean unbelieve I saw a map I think it
was in Washington Post. You're the little dots represented of
how much money these universities got. You couldn't even see
the United States for all the money that was going
to these universities, and what are they getting for it?
(07:25):
And then you know they graduate people who are massively
in debt, and these are the people that the Democrats
are losing.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, it's common sense and they just don't seem
to have any and it's you know, just a moral
compass has lost. Ethical compass is lost. And you know,
if nothing else, listen to the people of the country.
The president is not running for the president of Massachusetts
or the president of Connecticut or president of New York.
It's the President of the United States, so you got
(07:52):
to focus on the big picture, not just those districts. Buddy,
I appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so much.
Always good to catch up with you hey, and yes,
we will do it again very soon. Rick Tyler, Director
of the Advanced School of Politics at the Leadership Institute,
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