Matt Bernstein
speaker
6,267 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Matt Bernstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No no no get into it.
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Get into it.
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This is where we yell.
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So as Milo's star continues to rise, he he does sort of become a MAGA darling.
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Milo was good at generating press about himself and his movement, speaking at campuses across the country and working to legitimize the alt right within the
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What was becoming mainstream maga culture?
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One such speaking event at Berkeley College in in California famously drew fifteen hundred protesters and became violent, with many people getting beat up and injured.
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But this was good for Milo because his fashioning himself into a warrior for free speech absolutism earned him credibility within members of Trump one point oh.
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And
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a speaking opportunity at CPAC twenty seventeen.
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This was, you know, of course, during the era when Republicans claimed to be the party of free speech in opposition to the cancel culture obsessed liberals.
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Nowadays those rules have decidedly been reversed.
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His invitation to CPAC was supremely controversial from the outset, regardless.
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Traditional Republicans like Ted Cruz tried to eschew Milo from the movement, finding him cruel and obscene, but the movement was decidedly gravitating towards the brashness and outward racism of figures like Trump and Milo.
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So they failed to stop him.
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I wanna give a content warning now because we are about to talk
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In some detail about child sexual abuse.
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In 2017, Milo Ianopoulos was preparing to speak at CPAC when videos surfaced of YouTube interviews from the year prior where Milo had argued that some 13-year-old boys could consent to sex with adult men because some of them are, quote, emotionally mature enough to consent.
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to sex with adults.
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This was a bridge too far.
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