Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

We begin by noting how allowing states to enforce immigration laws is the most important proposition to stake out our future. This will allow us to ensure that there are still portions of America that remain American. Sadly, the focus from Congress and the White House this week is on meme coins and AI data centers. Next, we’re joined by Shannon Everrett, founder of American Truckers United, who has created a grassroots movement to warn about the flood of foreign truck drivers taking over the industry. This is both a labor and safety concern. They are driving down wages and supplanting the American trucker, but at the same time, many are not proficient in English and did not undergo the proper training. Shannon is pushing legislation to bar the recognition of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses for noncitizens and certainly the recognition of truck drivers who are here illegally or on tourist visas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tucker and his ilk have found a way to monetize many of our grievances while ensuring we never solve them. The same people who foisted Trump upon us for 10 years without building a parallel movement on any other issue are now complaining that he is betraying us, but they are offering no path forward. Today, I explain why grievance-mongering without actually trying to solve the problem just creates a false dichotomy between communism and fascism. Meanwhile, with social media algorithms, these people are able to earn millions off the monetization of grievance, which disincentivizes them to actually follow through on their stated beliefs when it matters. From COVID and immigration to Ukraine, foreign influence, crime, and marijuana, I demonstrate how Tucker never focuses on his stated beliefs when they would actually matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You might be observing the attacks on ICE agents and think that this is part of the culture of rioting.  But in reality, Antifa and similar “anti-fascist” actors have built a culture of militia, guns, and training that was thought to be endemic to the right, except they are using it as street-level muscle to enforce their anti-government insurgency and their preferred policy outcomes. That is the clarion warning of our guest today, Kyle Shideler, a homeland security and counterterrorism expert. Kyle explains how the tactics and issues of this insurgency are multifaceted, but their goal is to create enough violence to deter policies they don’t like. Sadly, the administration has not done enough to investigate, prosecute, and deter these terrorists. Moreover, our criminal justice system is the embodiment of anarcho-tyranny, whereby it is not strong enough to deal with the anarchy but is strong enough to deter or punish our defense against it or even our political and legal methods of countering it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today with a presentation on all the conservative priorities that are being ignored or violated. Chief among them is that Trump continues to make terrible endorsements, now endorsing all the RINOs in the Texas legislature. Also, the courts continue to be a problem, and absent using must-pass legislation to kick the courts out of immigration enforcement, mass deportations are dead. Then there is the economy. We’re joined today by E.J. Antoni, chief economist for the Heritage Foundation, who demonstrates how we have not solved the cost-of-living crisis because it is caused by a degree of debt and asset bubbles that have not been addressed. He warns that simply lowering the federal funds rate will not solve the problem and will likely backfire. We also discuss the folly of populism, how it winds up continuing those same policies that lead to the disparity between income levels and the burden of inflation, and how free-market conservatism is the only viable solution.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By now, the bloom is beginning to come off the GOP trifecta’s rose, as a lot of people realize that many of the campaign promises will not be fulfilled. Logic would dictate that we focus on primaries, particularly gubernatorial primaries. Yet the same people who complain about the status quo — yet also bemoan the creation of a new party — refuse to get involved in primaries. To that end, we continue our "meet the candidates" series. This time we’re joined by Iowa state Rep. Eddie Andrews (R), who is running for governor. He discusses his leadership role in fighting for property rights against carbon capture pipelines. He promises, as governor, to end all subsidies and favored treatment for green energy. As part of his fight for landowners, he is committed to abolishing property taxes. As for personal autonomy, Andrews has been leading on medical freedom. Andrews is an intriguing candidate because he is one of the most conservative members of the legislature but represents a Democrat district, demonstrating a strong appeal as a candidate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin by discussing the subversive way MAGA Inc. talks about Trump’s amnesty as if it’s not already being implemented and as if it’s not coming from him. Relatedly, they monetize content feigning outrage over court decisions yet continue to perpetuate the myth that courts nonetheless rule over the other branches. Today, I show how the injunction against defunding Planned Parenthood offers the clearest example of the moral hazard of the fallacy we call judicial supremacism. We are told that there is nothing a court cannot order, mandate, veto, or even fund and that it is self-executing on the other branches, something that does not happen the other way around against the judiciary. I prove once and for all why this is not the system we adopted and how Trump, by giving effect to these rulings, is creating a permanent structure of a level of judicial oligarchy not enjoyed by King George. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Absent an affirmative, godly political movement, we are headed down a dark path. Today, I explain how the hyper-conspiratorial online Right breaks the brains of people and, mixed with the grift motive, is acculturating a new generation into reactionary desperation. I tie together the theories behind Epstein and the Trump assassination attempt and how these same people who simped for Trump are now confronted with their own man going to the other end of the spectrum on some of their theories. Meanwhile, at the policy level, we continue suffering so many left-wing policies, often with the support of Trump, but there is no movement or strategy to counter it. This is creating a degenerative spiral in which the more the failure theater perpetuates leftist policy, economic, and cultural successes, the more desperate and conspiratorial the right becomes. I shudder to think we are headed for a “European Right” dynamic in which we get the governance of Mitch McConnell with the subculture of neo-Nazis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s special, extra-long July Fourth show, I tie in the lessons and ideals of the founding fathers to the time we are living in today. Weaving together the final thoughts on the budget reconciliation bill and judicial tyranny, I demonstrate how MAGA Inc. is subverting its own stated beliefs because it’s easier to declare victory on false hope rather than actually fight for results. As I predicted, the Supreme Court ruling on universal injunctions did nothing to stop the judicial tyranny. I list six reasons why that ruling was subversive. Yet MAGA leaders continue to perpetuate the myth of judicial supremacism in the Constitution when it flies in the face of the entire principle we celebrate on July Fourth. We need to have a plan. MAGA Inc.’s plan is to grift on social media off fake victories. It is incumbent upon us to formulate a real plan — if not federally, at least in a few states.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are hearing endless excuses as to why the signature budget bill is not achieving its stated goals. The most prevalent excuse is that lawmakers don’t have the votes for conservative legislation. Well, if that is true, it’s because of people like Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who pushed for Green New Deal subsidies in the bill. So why is there no unified effort to remove people like her who will stand for re-election next year? We’re joined by our first primary challenger of the year, former Iowa state Senator Jim Carlin, who is running for U.S. Senate. He has been part of the grassroots effort to fight the Green New Deal land-grabs in Iowa and to elect better members to the legislature. He shows how Joni Ernst is the very embodiment of what everyone hates about corporatist Republicans and duplicitous campaign promises dying on the altar of special-interest politics. We cover his vision for Iowa landowners, medical freedom, and fixing the military-industrial complex. We will find out who truly believes in defeating RINOs and who is just in this business to make money.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for MAGA Inc. to stop gaslighting us that somehow we are effectively solving the invasion and inflation. Today, I repudiate the vice president’s comments that somehow economics don’t matter because of immigration policy when in fact his economic model is partly responsible for Trump offering farm amnesty. Moreover, he is not accomplishing much on immigration. DeSantis’ Alligator Alcatraz demonstrates how much more the administration could have been accomplishing. Don’t let people offer you false choices between failure theater and desperation. The Florida model is a control group on what could be accomplished. Meanwhile, Florida RINO Byron Donalds is taking credit for ideas he scoffed at and is cozying up to those who tried to prevent DeSantis from enforcing immigration law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices