the question we started the show with is how are people following orders from a guy who seems to be half a vegetable at this point the answer to that is because the regime makes it seem inevitable and when i say the regime when i say the ruling class when i say the establishment i'm talking mostly about democrats but a little bit about republicans too there's a wonderful guy angelo codevilla who is a claremont scholar he was a a foreign policy expert he had been a foreign service officer he had worked in senate intelligence is really one of the most important minds on the right for understanding our current political moment he is someone who said that we're living in an oligarchy that we were living in a republic but now we're living in an oligarchy and coincidentally i gave a show yesterday on this very point and coincidentally or however you want to see it it's very sadly angelo cotavillo was killed yesterday was killed in a car accident and he was NUMBER_TOKEN years old but he was still publishing constantly and he had had a whole lot more left in him but but angelo makes this point you know that we're we're now living under this sort of oligarchic regime and in that it's not that the republicans and democrats are exactly the same the democrats are the senior partners okay they're the ones who formed this regime first by woodrow wilson and then it was implemented by franklin roosevelt but there are republicans who are the junior partners who want to be part of the regime who want to be considered intelligent want to get invited to fancy parties this is you know the people who are the court conservatives the the people whose job it is basically just to legitimize the liberal regime by criticizing republicans at crucial moments and it's no surprise that one of the outlets that serves this purpose it's funded by democrat money and it is run by disaffected former republicans who all they want to do now is suck up to to the liberal regime it's a great testament to angelo cotavilla that yesterday when he died the bulwark celebrated his death that's that's a very fine tribute one of the finest tributes that man could have gotten the way that they do this democrat senior partners the republican junior partners the liberal blob that extends not just in the public sphere the government but also in the private sphere like google and all the rest of it is they make their rules seem inevitable that was always the point that they understood the science of politics this was the argument of progressivism and so they're going to take political power away from the people they're going to give it to technocratic experts to to the scientists who understand the science of history and the science of politics and the science of science and they are going to run our lives for us so the way that they rule is through a kind of determinism there's nothing you can do the tides of history are always going to move in this one direction that's why we're on the right side of history they use all of this language and they don't just do it on the microbes and they don't just do it on the sun monster they do it on economic matters for instance as well chuck schumer was just just defending
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