Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

I fear that the entire political Right is going to waste its focus on redistricting and ending the filibuster in the hopes of changing the trajectory.  While I don’t oppose either proposition, neither of them will actually change the outcome of the election, because we have slept through primaries for years. We simply don’t have enough conservatives to win a national election or accomplish good things even if Republicans gain a tenuous majority. What we need to do is focus on red-state governor elections. We begin that process today by interviewing Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a Freedom Caucus congressman running for governor in South Carolina. He is promising to go to war with the establishment Republicans and bring an entire new approach to the state. He will focus on broad quality-of-life issues rather than handing the state over to crony corporations under the false pretense of economic development. Finally, in that vein, I delve into the effort of BlackRock and Blackstone to purchase public utilities and work with data centers to strip us of our energy independence. If we don’t elect people like Norman in red states, we will lose our red-state land and infrastructure to the globalist networks.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, well, well. That didn’t take long. OpenAI’s leadership hinted yesterday at what we all know: namely, that the company's financing model is unsustainable and its leaders are expecting government to bail them out. I explain how their entire enterprise is not built upon the free market, so all of its economic and social consequences are not in line with the benefits we’ve reaped from legitimate technological revolutions. Unfortunately, the Trump administration continues to deny the economic problems while making data centers the centerpiece of its mission. I explain how and why we could crush the Left if we divorced from Big Tech. Finally, I express concerns about JD Vance’s “aristopopulism,” which mixes the worst elements of elitism and populism rather than the benefits of each.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last night’s election results, capping an uninterrupted stream of Democrat victories down-ballot since 2017, lay bare for us the results of having an industry while Democrats enjoy a movement. We have no money, no ground game, no candidate recruitment, and, most importantly, no economic message. I cast a wide net in the analysis of where things are headed electorally and how we will never win by lying to people about inflation. Virginia Democrats were able to run on cost of living, crime, and drugs — issues we should own by a mile but have ceded because of a lack of ideological coherence on the Right. One thing is clear: Today’s show is an analysis you will not hear anywhere else.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin by discussing President Trump’s call to end the filibuster and under which circumstances it would make sense to do so. Next, as we watch Islamists gain more control over our politics, we need a plan to counterattack against the Muslim Brotherhood influence and creeping Sharia. We’re joined today by Chris Holton of the Center for Security Policy, who has been fighting to keep Sharia law out of our courts. He is focused on red-state initiatives to ensure that Sharia law is banned from family court and that when Islamic practices conflict with American law, they are not recognized. We also discuss the need for state attorneys general to gather evidence tying the major Islamic organizations building mosques and community infrastructure to terror finance so that we can finally dismantle their illicit networks funding subversion in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are beleaguered and besieged by communists on the Left, Islamists, third-world migration, and then institutional Republicans who help facilitate it while pretending to fight it. The divide used to be between the grassroots and K Street. But now reactionaries who claim to oppose all of this but then add their own fascist nonsense to the mix of vices we face are ensuring that no legitimate right-wing movement with a soul, mind, and heart can arise to redress our problems. Today, I discuss how algorithmic prostitutes are distracting from the real civil war on the Right with corporatist special interests and making everything about Israel and the Jews. Towards the end, I discuss problems with use of federal land for AI data centers rather than food and how AI is all about escapism rather than creating solutions and progress. Interestingly, AI chatbots are a lot like the online Right.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since Oct. 7, I’ve barely focused on anything related to Israel, and instead we’ve covered dozens of critical fiscal, social, land-use, security, and immigration-related issues that are at the core of the America First agenda. Yet what we are seeing today is a low-IQ, debauched movement that is distracting us at the highest levels with daily obsessions not just about Israel but about Jews. My concern is not so much the hatred but the dumbing down of a movement to the point that we will never effectively fight for all of our universally stated objectives. In that vein, I debunk all the straw-man arguments being used to not only defend but promote people like Tucker Qatarlson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The top voices on the so-called Right continue to distract us with fake conspiracies under the guise of "just asking questions." They do this because it generates controversy and a strong following. However, what we really need is a movement built around providing answers to the vexing questions on the critical issues of our time — fiscal, social, demographic. I show an example of what such articulation looks like with Gov. DeSantis announcing a ban on H-1B visas at Florida universities. We could easily appeal to even moderates with a message on crime and data centers that few Republicans are offering. The other two big issues that are going to lose us the country and the election are inflation and the courts. We need more statesmen to deal with these issues, not TikTokers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time to reclaim deterrence and punishment against growing street violence. We’re joined today by crime expert Rafael Mangual, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, for a broad discussion on the multiple factors driving repeat, violent offenders to continue their crime sprees. After identifying the factors behind the revolving door, Mangual offers a list of ideas to harden the system, including tying the hands of liberal judges with mandatory sentencing, algorithmic assessment for pretrial bail, and rethinking the entire culture of leniency with juveniles. We also discuss the need to build more insane asylums and to adjust the degrees of criminal offenses to comport with the threat level to our communities by creating a points system for a modified “three-strikes” law.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is it that right-leaning influencers and elected officials continue to adopt so many ideas foreign to conservatism?  Today, I go through some principles of conservatism from Russell Kirk to show how today’s reactionary performers on the Right are leading us astray. Nowhere is this more evident than with those throwing out all principles about never negotiating with terrorists. The administration’s ties to Qatar are getting worse by the day. Ironically, after two decades of nation-building on behalf of Arabs, we are like the dog returning to its vomit and are engaged in the worst form of nation-building for Gaza. I also lambast Republicans for supporting special favors for AI data centers at a time when AI is proving to be a brain cancer when used for most of its public commercial use, such as chatbots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If only we had a real government shutdown. During the supposed shutdown, we have seen the formulation of several terrible economic and foreign policies. I begin with some bad news about this administration’s coddling of Islamic figures. Next, we move on to the economy. We all complained throughout the Biden administration that we had a crony economy that only worked for a handful of tech companies and that a centrally controlled economy left hardworking Americans in the dust. We complained about stagflation under Biden and asserted that government reports were fraudulent. Well, what has changed? We’re joined today by Tracy Shuchart, senior economist at NinjaTrader, who offers a fiscal checkup of our economy and shows how the stagflation is worse than ever. She offers analysis of capital markets, banking, commodities, and precious metals so we can navigate the limited investment options in an era of mob boss government control of our economy. Both parties complain about stagflation, but in reality, both parties support the underlying causes and they both deny it exists when their guy is in power.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices