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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Well, first of all, thank you, Charlie. You do such a great job of fighting for conservative ideas. I'm delighted to be here to talk about Trump's triumph, America's greatest comeback. I started writing it in October because I was sure he was going to win. And as a historian, I wanted to put a framework
Well, first of all, thank you, Charlie. You do such a great job of fighting for conservative ideas. I'm delighted to be here to talk about Trump's triumph, America's greatest comeback. I started writing it in October because I was sure he was going to win. And as a historian, I wanted to put a framework
for the American people on how he had made this huge comeback and how America had made a huge comeback. And it's that combination that makes this an unusual moment. I think there's a very real chance that Trump is going to become one of the most important change agents ever to occupy the presidency, certainly in the same league as Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
for the American people on how he had made this huge comeback and how America had made a huge comeback. And it's that combination that makes this an unusual moment. I think there's a very real chance that Trump is going to become one of the most important change agents ever to occupy the presidency, certainly in the same league as Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And if he succeeds, if he wins in 26 and 28, when his policies continue to move in the right direction, he will, in fact, I think, become probably the biggest change agent since Lincoln. It's a remarkable experience, and it grows out of the American people. The American people want this. They rejected Biden. They turned around and rejected Harris.
And if he succeeds, if he wins in 26 and 28, when his policies continue to move in the right direction, he will, in fact, I think, become probably the biggest change agent since Lincoln. It's a remarkable experience, and it grows out of the American people. The American people want this. They rejected Biden. They turned around and rejected Harris.
No candidate in history has beaten an incumbent president and an incumbent vice president in the same year, except Donald Trump. So it tells you something very profound was going on.
No candidate in history has beaten an incumbent president and an incumbent vice president in the same year, except Donald Trump. So it tells you something very profound was going on.
Yeah, look, I think this movement goes all the way back to Goldwater in 1964. And I think you can see the original frame of it if you go to YouTube and pull up Ronald Reagan's amazing October 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing. It relates today. I mean, Reagan went right to the core of the American people, the American Constitution. and whether or not a big government socialism could work.
Yeah, look, I think this movement goes all the way back to Goldwater in 1964. And I think you can see the original frame of it if you go to YouTube and pull up Ronald Reagan's amazing October 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing. It relates today. I mean, Reagan went right to the core of the American people, the American Constitution. and whether or not a big government socialism could work.
Those issues are as alive today as they were in October of 64. Then you had the Reagan Democrats who joined in. Then we had the contract with America and won control of the House for the first time in 40 years, got reelected for the first time in 68 years, not since 1928, had Republicans won twice in a row. And we shifted the whole balance of power in Washington. Then the people were frustrated.
Those issues are as alive today as they were in October of 64. Then you had the Reagan Democrats who joined in. Then we had the contract with America and won control of the House for the first time in 40 years, got reelected for the first time in 68 years, not since 1928, had Republicans won twice in a row. And we shifted the whole balance of power in Washington. Then the people were frustrated.
The Tea Party movement sprang up in 2010. And you have to see the Obama-Biden cycle as a sequence. Biden's just Obama's third term. And all the great policy mistakes start with Obama. And that further alienated people. And Obamaism was repudiated in 2016. The left counterattacked in ways that were unimaginable. I mean, you know, Calista and I were there.
The Tea Party movement sprang up in 2010. And you have to see the Obama-Biden cycle as a sequence. Biden's just Obama's third term. And all the great policy mistakes start with Obama. And that further alienated people. And Obamaism was repudiated in 2016. The left counterattacked in ways that were unimaginable. I mean, you know, Calista and I were there.
We first talked with Trump in February of 2015 in Des Moines about running. And I would never have dreamed, with all the experiences I've had, I would never have dreamed the savagery, the viciousness, the dishonesty of the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
We first talked with Trump in February of 2015 in Des Moines about running. And I would never have dreamed, with all the experiences I've had, I would never have dreamed the savagery, the viciousness, the dishonesty of the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The counterattack on Trump in his first term told you how real he was because they were terrified. Then the election was rigged. in 2020, which it turned out to have been one of the greatest mistakes the left ever made because it gave Trump four years in the wilderness to think through what he's doing and what he wants to do.
The counterattack on Trump in his first term told you how real he was because they were terrified. Then the election was rigged. in 2020, which it turned out to have been one of the greatest mistakes the left ever made because it gave Trump four years in the wilderness to think through what he's doing and what he wants to do.