Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

There’s a reason we have a motto to focus on “the issues that matter, in the way they matter, at the time they matter.” I explain how everyone complains about issues in the abstract and there is broad agreement about what we should do generally, but when it comes to the specifics that will determine the outcome, we lack a movement. I go through some examples with spending, fixing the military, and vaccines. Also, there is news out that the RSV shots are killing babies, yet we still don’t have a unified movement to take them off the market.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Penny might have dodged a bullet, but his case is a harbinger of what is to come the next time Democrats take over. I offer some ideas on how red states should push back on the coming tyranny of political prosecutions we will see from blue states. Next, I’m joined by my personal friend Jonathan Gross, the most effective and dedicated attorney representing January 6 defendants. He makes a strong case for why Trump should immediately pardon all of the defendants. Even those who committed some degree of crime were already punished well beyond what is sanctioned by the American legal tradition, plus none of them got a fair trial. Gross also emphasizes the importance of Trump’s DOJ doing a full investigation into the who, what, and why of the January 6 persecution regime, especially juxtaposed to what the feds declined to do against BLM. Finally, we discuss the need for judicial reforms, modifying jury pools for fairer trials, and the need to reform bar certification so that conservatives can practice law unmolested by those targeting their political beliefs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are witnessing conservative influencers finally focus on RINOs in the Senate, and it appears to be paying off when it comes to confirming Trump’s Cabinet picks. Now it’s time to pressure these same Republicans on the issues. We need to punish Republicans who continue to promote the vaccine agenda. I detail how the House coronavirus subcommittee betrayed us by praising the COVID shots in its report. Next, we’re joined by Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who tosses out truth bombs about the corruption and lies in science and medicine. He describes his evolution from being trained in the establishment medical system to being a pursuer of truth and following the data. We cover the fight to take fluoride toxins out of the water and get to the truth on vaccination in general. He believes that we need to unlearn everything we know about some of these issues and start over. Dr. Ladapo is heartened that many ordinary people are leading where leaders are failing.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a unique opportunity to right the ship on foreign policy. I begin today by calling on Trump to send back all the Syrian refugees now that Sunni forces have taken over. As for foreign policy, we’re joined today by Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy for a deep dive on the tangled web of actors in Syria. Kyle notes that the new leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a very effective terrorist and is worse for us than a weakened Assad. He believes we should not recognize him at all, nor should we fight his enemies like ISIS. That is Turkey’s problem. By simply withdrawing our support for Iran and Turkey and not fighting their enemies on their behalf, we will weaken their influence. We don’t need to take a side at this point. Let’s get our soldiers out of these theaters but be prepared to make a play when it makes sense. In the meantime, let the Kurds fight for themselves and let Israel do what it appears capable of doing on its own.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today’s show with an update on congressional news and how we continue to see a disconnect between Trump’s broad goals and implementation in Congress. Next, we’re joined by Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni for a deep dive into the state of our economy and the vicious cycle of stagflation. Antoni delivers a master presentation in how the inflation numbers are really worse than the government is publishing. In turn, inflation is so bad that it is artificially distorting jobs, GDP numbers, and the stock market, giving off the impression that we are not in a recession. We also delve into the housing crisis and how we are going to face pain thanks to past government decisions. Antoni believes we are too far into the hole for business as usual. Republicans must push through transformational spending cuts and better communicate why the spending is harming the standard of living. Finally, he offers a novel approach to reforming the Federal Reserve and calls for the firing of all current employees.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I begin today’s show by warning how Republicans are not showing an appetite for spending cuts both in budget reconciliation and the emergency disaster spending bill. The biggest cost to our budget and life, of course, is the broken healthcare system. I’m joined by family physician and medical school professor Dr. John Littell, one of the heroes of COVID, for a deep dive into the lack of trust between doctors and patients. Dr. Littell warns that alongside a lot of bad medical practice are still lifesaving protocols, and patients need to find doctors they can trust to sort out the good from the bad. For example, he believes that things like vaccines, Pap smears, and statins are being driven by medical industry politics, but on the other hand, colonoscopies are lifesaving. He recommends that the new HHS leadership change the incentive formulas in Medicare that incentivize hospital treatment over outpatient and discourage traditional family medicine practice. Without restoring the doctor-patient relationship, we will not restore the much-needed trust of the patient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today with the rumor that Trump is offering DeSantis the chance to be secretary of defense. I dispel some myths about the circumstances and offer some initial thoughts on the opportunities and challenges of this offer. Either way, Trump is moving in our direction on some issues, and we need to be ready to capitalize on this unique opportunity. Next, we’re joined by Oklahoma state Rep. Jim Shaw (R) to discuss Governor Stitt’s plan to colonize the state with wind turbines, solar panels, and transmission lines. Shaw defeated an incumbent by promising to end the land-grab for foreign companies that are destroying America’s heartland with the Green New Deal. He explains how we are funding our own demise by taking land out of food production and using it for expensive and anti-environmental energy sources that will lead to the destruction of oil, gas, and coal. He is planning a legislative counterattack against this dystopian agenda and believes that local farmers, ranchers, and residents are ready to rise up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time has come for Trump to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to reduce legal immigration. As some Trump confidants make a push for expanding legal immigration, I make the case for Trump to speak with moral clarity on the need to get American workers off the sidelines. I go through the numbers, history, and types of visas to show how we have never had this much immigration. If we merely deport most of Biden’s illegal aliens and nibble around the edges on legal immigration, in five years from now we will be back to square one — or worse. Later on, I discuss how the South Carolina Freedom Caucus is showing us the power of conservative scrutiny of red-state legislatures. We also need to educate Trump early and often on red-state primaries so that we don’t face the same interference we’ve suffered in previous cycles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I explain why everything will hinge on our ability to cut spending for real and to hold the line on immigration. There is growing concern that the GOP, led by industry lobbyists, is planning to preserve major parts of Biden’s Green New Deal. Unless Trump leans in against these RINOs and is willing to buck his own donors, we will not cut spending, reduce inflation, and succeed in general. I call on Trump to push a reconciliation bill that not only contains tax and regulatory cuts but full elimination of a number of government programs plus a reduction in foreign workers. Unfortunately, many of his donors are pushing for an increase in already high levels of immigration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing embodies the GOP and everything that is wrong with it more than Sen. Joni Ernst’s “budget” proposal she sent to the DOGE. Today, I explain how the very RINOs who created the debt bomb wait until they are on the hook for a primary challenge and then suddenly claim to care about spending. But rather than becoming converts to our cause, they promote subversive ideas that are designed to elicit positive headlines from conservative media and defuse a primary challenge – all the while failing to advance the ball on policy. So I delve into her spending cuts to show how 90% of them are built on lies and subterfuge and the rest are notional, speculative, unactionable, and designed to distract us. Finally, I propose a messaging strategy for Trump to push welfare reform by pairing it with reductions of foreign workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices