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Team Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

Mar 10, 202517 minEp. 483
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As Donald Trump and his cabinet begin to enact their authoritarian agenda, our country is being dismantled and replaced with a sinister ethos. Steve Schmidt looks at the recent actions of Trump, Rubio and Musk and calls for an opposition to rise and prevent permanent damage from being done.

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Speaker 1

This is the warning. Let me warn you, my friends. You were being lied to. You were being deceived by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, by the Vice President of the United States, JD. Vance, by the Secretary of State Marco Rubia, and by a few hundred others. They are part of a movement, the leadership of it. It is made up of the richest and most powerful people in the world. And at the instant Donald Trump

took power. All of those people who have looked over the last ten years and have objected to these obscenities at a moral level, abandoned their principles and became the equivalent of a latter day Lindsey Graham and locked tomorrow a lago to bend the knee and to become an American Novemberland. They made their bargain complete and total obedience to Donald Trump, whatever it is that he may do that comes with the golden ticket to take as much as they can't get MAGA. Donald Trump is the President

of the United States of America. There are three hundred and fifty million of us in a world of eight billion people. Half of us that have ever lived our lives right now. When the country two hundred and fifty years ago was born, there were three million Americans and hundreds of thousands of African slaves. Today this nation is the most powerful in the world, and it shared a faith, a creed, a belief that we have lit the world with. This idea is our greatest export. It saved the world,

It rebuilt it from the ashes. And now Donald Trump is making a sledgehammer to it. He is replacing it with a sinister and evil ethos that says it is the right of the powerful to take from the small, from the little. That we are to be insects, baitfish that serve no utility beyond being cogs in the interests of a state, that serves the interests not of a people, not of a cause, not of an idea, but of one man and his faction, his family, his corrupt cronies,

and his cow oligarchs. He is a thief, stealing the most ephemeral idea in all of human history right out from under all of us at a devastatingly fast and rapid pace.

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And he is.

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Doing it without political eyes position from the Democratic Party.

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In Washington, d C.

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This should not be confused with the budding opposition that is rising in the country and will continue to rise because it must rise to make this stop, to oppose the imposition of a new serfdom. Let us understand that the schumer crafts of Washington, DC are unserious. There are fighters like Jamie Raskin, and there are fighters in the

Senate like Chris Murphy, Corey Booker and others. They are too few, and they have been cornered into a political oblivion by a career politician whose legacy is that he has reduced the world's greatest deliberative body, alongside his indispensable partner Mitch McConnell, into a polyp bureau of rubber stamp functionary who cannot communicate the urgency of the moment, the high stakes of the situation, or the existential crisis at hand. For the American people and free people around the world.

What Donald Trump is doing is a desecration. It is a violation. But the worst part about it is that the voice that has risen in defiance and truth and bold clear opposition was not in English. It came from a senator of the French Republic who told the truth, which is that America is led by a nero, and it is a tragedy for the world. Marco Ruba holds an office that was held by Thomas Jefferson and George Marshall,

George Schultz and Jim Baker in the Nuclear age. This happened yesterday an exchange between Marco Rubio and the Polish Foreign Minister Radislaw Sikorski, a great friend of America, a great champion of human dignity and freedom everywhere in the world, where he believes in a creed that we once held as dear. Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, freedom from one. These noble ideals were

at their best the purpose of America's ambitions. Our goals were not to take, not to rape, not to extract from other nations their riches. What is theirs and their peoples for our enrichment. What a true American has cared about is the spread of the ephemeral, the lighting of the lamp of liberty everywhere in the world. Elon Musk has a vision of freedom that is very different from liberty.

His is about a license to take from all of you who are made to be insects cogs in a machinery of the state, where freedom means the exploitation of others and the proclamation of greatness that says we are strong and you are weak, and so from you we will take what we want and do with you as we please. There is no philosophy that is more immoral, that is more an American.

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It is wrong, It.

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Is a techno fascism, and it is led by a Nazi Musk. It must be opposed by the faith of our file, which holds that we believe that all of us are created equal and endowed by a creator with inalienable rights that include life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Great American temples, our national parks, and our national forests are under assault. They are to be given away in transactions where old growth trees are cut down for greenbacks, bitcoin and minerals and deals, deals deals. This

has nothing to do with prosperity and happiness. This has nothing to do with the American people, whose business is freedom, whose pursued his happiness. Donald Trump is a sickness, a disease of the human heart and the human mind that rises and lights the world on fire. There is a gleam in the eye of his fanatics. They go on corporate media, they look in the camera, hypnotized and and nestetized.

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And they lie to you.

Speaker 1

They tell you that these tariffs are not raising prices, but when you go to the store, you know that's not true. They tell you that they seek peace in Ukraine, but they have cut off a free people fighting in an existential war for survival. To sustain a democratic nation with a language older than Russia, with a culture older than Russia, with traditions older than Russia. The United States has turned off the satellite intelligence. We have grounded their

planes and weapons, and they are being killed. This abandonment is the greatest betrayal in American history, and it will shame us for decades to come. This sinister ugliness must be repudiated. You must get involved in your communities. There is a protest in every town. Go to your Indivisible chapter, get online, pop to your friends, go to the protest

at the Tesla Dealer and take it from there. If you are in Oklahoma, you must get in because you have the hard task of registering enough people to throw Mark Wayne Mullin out of office because he is a despickable loser and a coward who has betrayed his on his knees to the service of the lowest man that this nation has ever produced, who has taken power because apathy overtook our land. And now the suffering will begin, and in two years time it can be arrested, not

stopped for four but arrested. And then it will take a generation, maybe forty years to rebuild what Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and a generation of inept sclerotic politicians in Washington smashed with their greed, in their corruption, and their fantasies, and their arrogance and their condescension.

It will be the work of a lifetime to imagine something better beyond this, when these powerful tech companies are smashed and broken up to bits, where free market enterprise and innovation can be restored, where the entrepreneur can thrive, where the gig worker is liberated from the serfdom that awaits us all. If we do not act in urgency to restore our democracy to health. The North had democracy and was for freedom. The South had democracy and it

was for slavery. An American democracy of Trumpism is not a faith of freedom and liberty. It is a dogma of control. It is a mania of power. What we see before us is low men and women, drunk on their arrogance, lusting to write history, to smash and burn because they are too lazy to understand the gift of what was handed.

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To them to preserve.

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These men and women of small imaginations and low characters are a direct threat to your family and the weapon that you have is your rights, your autonomy. Do not spend money, Do not consume with Larry Allison, soon to be given TikTok by Trump hands his son CBS, and the new president of the company demands that sixty minutes surrender to Donald Trump's immoral threats. Don't go see the

next Tom Cruise movie. Boycott's always inconvenience. The boycotter and not seeing a Tom Cruise movie movie is not an inconvenience. Make it an active democracy. Say no, do not consume this summer. Go on vacation to Canada, where the Canadian dollar gives every American a great bargain. Say no to these threats against our neighbor. Call the Canadian embassy and

say we stand with you. Canada call the Capital switchboard two O two two two four three one two one, Call your Democratic senators in demand that Chuck Schumer be removed from his leadership position where his ineptitude threatens the ability of an opposition in Washington, DC to take root into procedurally oppose what is happening. Chuck Schumer can't communicate,

but Chris Murphy can. Why isn't Chris Murphy made the Senate leader because he's certainly by deed and word and action is why doesn't he have the to obstruct this? Because we are saddled with Chuck Schumer's laziness, We are his hostages.

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The Schumer Crats.

Speaker 1

In Washington, DC are foisting again another geriatric into a political campaign. According to Fox News, the next one is Jean Shahen of New Hampshire seventy eight, who would be serving to eighty four. Show me the words of Jean Shahen that are indispensable in this moment to the Democratic Party or to the nation. What wisdom has she articulated, what stand is she taken?

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What action?

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What members of the unfit Trump cabinet did she vote to confirm? The Democratic Party is not meeting this moment? And so we are in a vice between Trump's menace on one hand and Democratic Party fecklessness on the other.

And so what we need is a bottom uprising in America of grassroots groups and civil society, organic and spontaneous demonstrations of Americans coming together, imbued with a moral purpose for the defense of the sublime, the concepts of liberty handed to us generation by generation and preserved and expanded by acts of courage and indomitability, that we have no right to desecrate with disrespect by forgetting this weekend while

insulting the Polish foreign minister and the courage and sacrifice of.

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The Ukrainian people.

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Marco Rubio and Elon Musk reveal who they are. Zelenski is not brave. His courage didn't matter when he said I will not leave the capital of my country under war, that the United States had had seventy two hours left.

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Instead, he said, send me the m coition.

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That man's courage is desecrated, well, Elon must transactions are celebrated.

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The saviors of the world.

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Now are the billionaires who own a technology that, like a richie rich, they can turn off at a whim in an instant affecting the lives of millions of people, leading to their genocide. But the issue at hand is that the MAGA fools demand and extorted thank you, a genuflection, a bow attribute to their King Trump. It is disgusting.

This ransidity will be washed away, not by Chuck Schumer, not by the corrupt political party have made it happen, but by the American people, by young people, by everyone everywhere at once, coming together.

Speaker 2

They're repudiating the idea.

Speaker 1

That this is a great country, repudiating the idea that our values and ideas are not worth standing up for and fighting for and protesting for. It's the greatest idea in human history. It's being torn down by some of the stupidest mothers that I've ever walked the earth.

Speaker 2

Let's make it stop. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.

Speaker 1

I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel on YouTube and on substack.

Speaker 2

Thank you.

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