Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

The fight between Texas and the Biden administration and the Supreme Court is a teachable moment. We are seeing how easy it is for red states to push back if they actually choose to do so. I explain the dynamics of this fight and how we are still not at the inflection point, but so far we have all the ingredients for a successful interposition. It’s also interesting how conservative media is not pressuring Trump to comment on this issue. Next, we’re joined by Missouri state Senator Denny Hoskins (R), a Freedom Caucus member who was just removed from his committee chairmanship for actually pushing conservative legislation. He is working to expose the “campaign conservatives” who run in deep red states but then govern like Democrats. Hoskins is also running for secretary of state and promises to push an agenda of in-person, Election Day, paper ballot elections with cameras in the polling stations. The moral of the story is that red states could easily ignore the federal government, but we first have to make them truly red.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All conservative media cares about is Trump and the general election. But we have 9.5 months left to this election, and now is the time to focus on the primaries. Yes, Trump is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, but the primary is still going on. What is a primary? It means focusing on our own people. We can still influence Trump and move him to the right on the issues. We can still prevent Trump from elevating liberals like Tim Scott and Doug Burgum to positions of prominence. We can still focus on red-state legislative sessions. And yes, we must focus on electing conservatives in the upcoming state and congressional primaries. The problem is that the entire establishment is endorsing Trump, thereby ensuring that Trump often endorses establishment candidates in their down-ballot races against Trump’s own MAGA supporters. It is indefensible for Trump influencers not to focus on these issues, personnel, and races. The fact that they don’t demonstrates that either they are not using their influence with Trump or they lack the influence they claim to wield.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In light of the court’s ruling to greenlight Biden’s border invasion, Texas not only has an opportunity to stand against the invasion but to undermine the entire premise of judicial supremacism. In this fact-filled show, I explain the true design of the federal judiciary and how the founders envisioned constitutional decompartmentalism, not judicial supremacism. First, I go through a bunch of recent cases showing how Trump’s three appointees are screwing us on critical issues and do not measure up to Thomas and Alito – yet another example of how we have gone backward under Trump. Next, I explain how the understanding that we don’t have a conservative court should finally push our side to reject judicial supremacism altogether. Each branch of the state and federal government has its own responsibility to follow the Constitution as it understands it. Unless we return to this model, red states will be forced to act like blue states by the federal judiciary. Now is the greatest inflection moment we’ve had for quite some time to finally slay the beast.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone is focused on the need to browbeat DeSantis supporters into voting for Trump. But that is actually the least important issue at this point. It is now incumbent upon Trump’s supporters to confront a number of important questions about Trump’s ability to run and win a campaign, as well as the fact that he continues to endorse RINOs and is promising to elevate bad guys to Cabinet positions. I explain the electoral math problems and conservatives' culpability for ignoring these important questions during the primary. Now is the time to get this out in the open. More importantly, the party has gotten worse since 2016. Why is there no frantic push to focus on down-ballot primaries and legislative sessions? Finally, I offer my views on DeSantis himself, his character, future, and why he is the Josiah of the time.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We don’t need a majority. A small, irate minority can take down a tyrannical majority in one election or legislative cycle. But that requires that minority – however small – to remain untarnished by controlled opposition forces. We need to ensure that the bad guys don’t fool our base and wear our jerseys while privately screwing us. Today, I discuss how the South Carolina Freedom Caucus is showing that a small minority can expose the GOP establishment as long as there are clear battle lines. Later on, we’re joined by Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, to discuss the latest budget betrayal. He explains how the current Republicans will never fight for us because they have shown Democrats they will always fear not reaching a deal more than the other side. He is being challenged by the establishment because he was willing to fight Kevin McCarthy. Will we stand by our own? BobGoodForCongress.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussion on the responsibility of Trump's surrogates to pressure him to move to the right. Highlighting Trump's elevation of RINOs, the importance of not blindly supporting RINOs, and the need for Trump to fulfill his promises.

Rep. Heather Scott, co-chair of the Idaho Freedom Caucus, discusses the need for bottom-up self-government in red states. She highlights the addiction to federal funding as a threat to conservatism and explains the efforts of the Freedom Caucus in reforming government. The podcast also explores challenging incumbency in the Republican Party and the negative effects of government assistance on charitable giving and families. It touches on the role of parents in education and the challenges of passing bills.

There is nothing new under the sun. Today, I offer the only authentic and long view on the Iowa caucus results. What happened last night is part of a pattern that has existed for generations. Even much weaker and less inspirational RINO incumbents always win their primaries by even bigger margins than Trump. If Fox News, with the help of liberal media, the party apparatus, and the donors, wants a man, it gets him – every single time. The system wanted Trump over DeSantis and got it. If this was really about a populist insurgency, then we would see mini-Trumps winning up and down the ballot, but instead we are worse off on that front than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of what happens in Iowa, our movement has become a listless vessel that has no fixed beliefs or sense of direction. We drift along with the grift like a rudderless boat. I go through the latest news with Trump attacking Vivek and how it is emblematic of the entire fake movement. I also explain why Trump is a controlled opposition within a controlled opposition to neutralize the hard right so that we will never have an effective movement to fight back against the uniparty. There is a reason Trump is racking up the endorsements from the very status quo members of Congress who are selling us out on every issue. No matter what happens with this primary, we will have to deal with the damage of a movement that has become susceptible to being hijacked by slick-talking political pirates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s either new leadership or a new party. If we continue the status quo, Republicans will continue to screw us even on issues on which we are clearly successfully exposing the Left. I explain how on spending, immigration, and COVID vaccines, we have enough information to crush the Left, yet Republicans will never fight for us because they are beholden to their donors. Later on, we’re joined by South Carolina state Rep. Jordan Pace, a member of the state Freedom Caucus, who tells us how they successfully defeated a leadership effort to block their amendments. More than in any other state, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus has developed its own brand and is acting as an independent party within the party to eventually overthrow the Republicans in name only. Regardless of what happens in the presidential primary, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus is the way forward.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices