Elijah Schaffer
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218 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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52% right now of 18 to 24 are believing some form of authoritarianism might be the solution out of the housing and the cost of living crisis.
They lean towards authoritarian communism and fascism. In fact... Is Trump their solution? No, no, no. They think Trump's too moderate.
So I went to CPAC. Are you familiar with that? The conservative PAC?
So, you know, I have a popular show with young people. My audience is pretty much 18 to 25 years old. That's my audience. I keep up on them. They're crazy, but I like them, right? Remember being 18 to 25? They like you. Yeah.
Well, and I agree with you. And what I noticed was I was actually really shocked because I always thought of CPAC being very pro-Israel, being very – Very safe, you know, politically. I wouldn't even call it moderate. I'd call it like center left, center right come together for like a centrist meeting. I know that everyone calls it Nazis meeting. Trust me, that's not what it is.
And I saw that this was the first year I went where there was barely any young people which was shocking to me. And when young people came up to me, they would all talk to me about how they respect Hitler and how they are really interested in fascism. And well, I was shocked too. Listen, I was shocked. These are young people, 18, 19.
Why? Why? And they would come up to me like, aren't you into that too? No, but I was gonna say, so you fall into the trap too, just because I want order, doesn't mean that I'm trying to go back to the Third Reich.
But I realized that what's happened is I talked to a lot of them, rather than judging them, rather than saying, hey, you're just a bunch of Nazis or this, because they were brown, by the way. This is what's scary to me, these are diverse people. These were black kids and Asian kids and Hispanic kids. And you're going and I'm kind of, you know, crass. I'm like, how are you a brown Nazi?
Like the real question. I think Hitler would be very proud of you. You know, he would be very disappointed to find out that Nazis are diverse.
Yeah, that's the same question. Yeah. But I asked them, and what I got from a lot of them is they feel pushed up against the wall. They feel demonized. And how the Bolsheviks sort of created this victim, you know, identity politics, you know, the us versus them. A lot of people feel like the them. And so even if you're like a Hispanic Bolshevik. It's so dangerous. But you're straight, right?
It's dangerous. You feel like you're in the them so that it's sort of like this. They're not really Nazis.
So what do you think that is? Only because I was shocked, right? I'm always shocked when I'm like... Yeah, some guy in prison with a swastika on his forehead. Okay, some bald white guy. I get it. Yeah. You know, maybe you grew up in the hood. There's gang wars. Racial stuff happens. But it's like, hey, you're a young Chinese boy.
Why are you identifying with the Third Reich?
And I did realize it is the fact that this blaming all these people for the problems has really created the monster that they said that they were fighting.
And so a lot of young kids are turning towards this factor and also towards communism.
Well, I was going to say, my speech at NYU got canceled, right? So this is what I mean by extremism. I was going to speak at NYU. It got canceled because I'm in the middle of a lawsuit with the school. They claimed—this is an illegal statement— There was a 400-people protest in front of my speech, and these people were threatening to kill me. Okay, they were threatening to kill me.
They were riding me. They were going to skin me alive. Very, very nasty stuff. And it was from what? The Democratic Socialist Alliance and communist clubs of the school. So these are politically aligned far-left people saying they're going to murder me. And I don't know if you've seen history, but communists typically make good on that threat.
Maybe we're not there, but I don't like to take my chances. So I... publicly wrote that I was looking for security in New York. I didn't say I was looking for security at their school to just looking for security license.
I spoke to a licensed firm and the school then shuts the speech down and says, Elijah Schaefer told students to illegally bring guns onto firearm to form a militia to try to protect him. So out of the safety for our students, we cannot have violence. We've reported him to the police and the police call me like, yeah, you never said anything like that. You should definitely probably sue them.
My point is, is that, you know, my God, We have gotten into this position where it's been going on for a long time. People think woke is dead. I want to remind people that. It's like, oh, woke is dead. Trump's in office. No, I just got shut down and maligned illegally by a large institution. Wow. You know, making claims, which is extremely disastrous to a career, to claim that I...
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