Chapter 1: What are the main themes of the Populist College Guide?
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
It's Wednesday, 27 August, Year of Our Lord 2025. I think you noticed that there's so much going on in August. No one took vacation. I only think the Morning Joe crowd did. Everybody was at it the entire time because President Trump's driving the action here. I'll get into the Weigel story in a little while. Weigel's put up a poll. It's like 1,200 people, so it's not a tiny poll.
53% wanted to run for a third term. I want to go, Caroline, I want to get you back in. First off, seizing the institutions. So when we talk about this coalition, and we do have a coalition, and I agree with you, the major fights between the populist right, the populist nationalist right, and still the globalist tech bros to come. But even...
The more traditional Republican Party part, the neoliberal neocons, which is the Tom Cottons and Lindsey Grahams. You've got the Ted Cruz and the Ron DeSantis, the old traditional limited government folks, which is still a big contingent. You've got the religious right, the evangelicals.
Those three groups alone, before you lose the tech right, some of the things President Trump, he's doing, yes, he is listening to a lot of different people, but he's driving in a direction that's not traditional Republican. Republicanism. And he's seizing the institutions. This thing with the Federal Reserve, you know, we've had David Malpass on a lot over the last month.
David now here is on the short list for this new governorship that's going to come open. And Scott Besson, as you know, is a safe pair of hands. He's not a guy that runs around free. The reason he's secretary of treasury is just his calm demeanor and the fact that he just doesn't go out. you know, and jump on things. Scott said this morning, hey, she's got to be prosecuted.
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Chapter 2: How does Trump's leadership impact the Republican Party's direction?
You know, the Federal Reserve. And remember, we're in the strategy of the maximalists. We want to put the pedal to the metal because we say we're burning daylight. You've got to get these things done. Whether it's redistricting, you know, take the 30 seats and take them now. Texas still owes us another five of the five they got.
One, how do you think President Trump's doing in that regard given the three-hour basically board of directors meeting you saw yesterday? And coupled with how do you hold that traditional part of the ā that you came from quite frankly of the Republican Party? Yeah.
Well, I think he's doing fantastic. I did love the premise of this Axios article that you referenced in the beginning, which was, quote, Trump has exerted decisive control over every inch of the executive branch. Well, yeah, he is the head of the executive branch. So I think it's a good thing that he has taken decisive control.
But what is funny is that these journalists are just so blown away by Trump. It's because they're used to these, frankly, cocked politicians that bow to every institution that they were actually elected to govern over, that the Constitution directs them to govern over, but somehow they actually bended the knee to these institutions.
So much of Washington, our elected officials were run by the institutions. It is supposed to be the other way around. And so that's why when Trump has come in and truly taken over the institutions of which he is in charge of, and in fact should, it is an earthquake in DC. But I think we should talk about the key genius here, who truly is Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller has studied,
these institutions and how to dismantle them since he was 16 years old. And he came into this administration not only prepared to dismantle them, but emboldened by President Trump to do so. And he really is the driving force behind what I think is an unbelievable success. And in the Axios article, they lay out a lot of those successes. But then one thing I kind of thought was,
where they say there's still remaining resistance that needs to be done. They brought up the judicial branch, which obviously is true. Now, the judicial branch is its own branch of government. I blame a lot of the problems with the judicial branch actually around Mitch McConnell, Leonard Leo, and the idiots that put in these Bush Republican judges in the first Trump term that have been disasters.
And so this time around, I'm glad we're not listening to the Leonard Leo and those folks. But they bring up the media as being remaining resistance. Well, we do have a brilliant FCC chairman in Brendan Carr, who I think is doing a lot to dismantle the media. I still would love to see him actually strip one of these news outlets from their licenses, something Trump's talked about.
But he's won a number of settlements, forced settlements against some of these organizations.
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Chapter 3: What insights does the Washington Monthly provide on college rankings?
And I can't wait to see what's going to happen with the Wall Street Journal. So overall, I'm very, very pleased. And I want to see more dismantling of the
Hang on a second. A couple of the big wins that we ā because remember, the war room is also the home of the neo-Brandeisian movement where you think Lena Kahn did a tremendous job in the first term. We're against this concentration. You just talked about the tech bros.
Folks, the difference in the first term and the second term in those years in between is the concentration of power in big pharma, big ag, big tech. Right. Right. The big media, Wall Street, it's the concentration of power. They're taking all the lobbyists are taking, you know, all the top law firms, all the communications firms that you've got two massive cases we're working on.
And now we find out Zuckerberg's back in the Oval Office. You're hearing and, you know, the FTC is. Andrew Ferguson has done a tremendous job taking a case that was filed in the last days of President Trump's first term. Lena Kahn kind of perfected it over her time. And Andrew Ferguson's got him in court to essentially break up a big part of Facebook.
And now we hear that, you know, Zuckerberg's back hovering around the White House. Gates spent two hours after the president's three hour board meeting or cabinet meeting. Gates is in the Oval for two hours arguing his case on vaccines, USAID, all that.
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Chapter 4: How does the new college guide differ from traditional rankings?
So are we going to continue to win this? Are the forces of concentration of power, money and power, going to thwart our efforts here to try to break up some of these institutions and particularly try to break up certain of these institutions, whether it's Facebook, whether it's Google, et cetera? Ma'am?
Well, I think that there's a difference between institutions and companies. Where I think that we are winning right now in the Trump administration is breaking up institutions. For example, putting Darren Beatty as the head of the National Institute for Peace, which was just a massive money laundering building organization in D.C. to funnel money to USAID. that those institutions were winning.
The corporations are its own massive animal. I, like you, thought Lena Kahn was one of the most brilliant people that we've seen. I wish, actually, she would have stuck around for this Trump administration. So how Trump and this administration is going to handle the corporations is still something that we are kind of waiting and watching.
I've been very nervous to see the embracement, I guess, of folks like and Zuckerberg and Gates and others. But also, I understand what the Trump administration is doing. They're bringing in all sorts of voices, trying to make the tent bigger. But we'll see. When it matters, does Trump hold the line against these folks? And I think that it's still too early to tell, but I have...
I have a lot of faith in President Trump to do it.
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Chapter 5: What factors influence upward mobility for students?
And I'm certainly going to remain to be vocal and as you are and to hope for those outcomes. But yeah, these guys are definitely, they are coming around. They're donating a lot of money to President Trump's different groups. But again, just because you donate money does not mean you're going to get what you want into this Trump administration.
And so these institutions, you're putting Rick Grinnell in charge of the Kennedy Center. Genius. What he's doing over there is brilliant. So I do like to see that. But the corporations are still a big, big problem.
Let's go to, by the way, President Trump's got a couple things on True Social today. One is about Karl Rove, and that problem at Fox continues to exist. The other is about he wants to bring, I think, RICO charges against Soros. Is that a little bit missing the boat?
Talk to me about Arabella and some of these organizations that we cannot totally figure out how some of these institutions on the left get their cash. Is Soros yesterday's news and Arabella is where the focus should be, ma'am?
No, because Soros and Arabella are directly linked. In fact, the person who's basically in charge of Arabella Visors right now is Soros' son, Alex Soros. So Arabella Visors was formed in 2005, and it was formed after the Democrats had lost the House, Senate, and the presidency.
And so George Soros called a meeting of the top progressive donors in the country and then invited a couple of the top political consultants. And the donors told them, you just collectively wasted hundreds of millions of our dollars.
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Chapter 6: How does the guide address the needs of low-income students?
You have nothing to show for it. Come back to us with a plan that involves funding ideas and institutions that will live beyond one election cycle. From that meeting, you got Arabella Advisors.
It was conceived there, and it's, quote, a philanthropic consulting company that manages tens of billions, some say upwards of $75 billion, with a B, and those foundations support left-wing woke causes and institutions. Now, Arabelle essentially runs about 200 nonprofits. They're the fiscal sponsor for them. But really what they do is they fund these grassroots groups, which are anything but.
They are actually political-run entities. And so, for example, the No Kings protests, Arabelle Visors funded that. It's funded largely by a lot of foreign money as well. But they poured $20 million most recently behind the groups funding the protests of Trump's D.C. crime crackdown. And when Mark Zuckerberg wanted to purchase the 2020 election, he spent $350 million to do that.
And where did he turn to? Arabella Advisors. Arabella is who ran the Center for Tech and Civil Life, the CTCL, where Zuckerberg famously gave that $350 million to CTCL. turnout voters, but really they just focused that money in 26 blue counties and swing states. They took over those counties' election systems, printed ballots, and here we are. So the buck stops with Arabelle Visors.
It is the, I mean, it runs everything, all of these institutions, and we have to go after them. The next time I want to see Scott Besson, who is now the acting director of the IRS, the most important thing he can do is announce an investigation into into Arabella Advisors. These nonprofits, that's how they operate. They are not nonprofits.
They get the tax deductions on their way in there, but they are meddling in every single institution, corporation, and also our government and the way that we live our lives every day. So I think it is the most important thing we can keep our eyes on.
But the first thing we could do is the ability to donate their stock right on a tax free basis. Right. And then finance these things. We ought to cut that out. That would stop the wealthy from doing this last thing before I let you go. I know you get a bounce still Zuckerberg and Gates. I mean, Gates gets two hours with the president.
New York Times reporting he's got two hours with the president. Gates and Zuckerberg are still getting how they still getting this type of access when they've been on the other side of the football for so long. How does that work?
Well, I do think Trump is getting concessions from them. Bill Gates has been begging for this meeting. They met, I believe they had dinner in late December at Mar-a-Lago before Trump had been inaugurated. And then there was a story in April by the New York Times about how Bill Gates was desperately trying to get in and see the president, and he wouldn't. He took the meeting yesterday.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Comey's actions during the FBI investigation?
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There's been an incident out and looks like in Minneapolis. There's going to be a press conference at our press briefing, 1130 Eastern Daylight Time. We're going to go live to that. Trying to get Eduardo Bolsonaro update on his father in Brazil and also John Solomon about what's going on.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude regarding the future of the Republican Party?
Encouraging students to be active citizens, to vote, to serve their country in the military and AmeriCorps. So those are the things we measure. And that's very different from U.S. News and the other dozen imitators, because what they're about is...
capturing the eyeballs of the upper middle, students from the upper middle class and wealthy families who have been taught since birth to strive to get into the most selective schools in order to stay in the upper middle class and the wealthy class. And so their metrics all somehow, surprise, surprise, result in the same 20 or 30 mostly private or big flagship public universities in the top.
Your Harvard's, your Yale's, and so forth. In our ranking, it's quite different. When you measure things the way we measure it, for the average person and the average taxpayer, a lot of mostly unsung state schools and small liberal arts colleges share the top 30 with the elite.
And in fact, the highest ranking elite school, Princeton, is number five on our rankings behind three California State University campuses, including Fresno State, number two. And the number one school is probably a college 99% of your listeners and viewers have never heard of. And that's Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. And it's a fascinating school.
And there's all these hidden gems for people available at WashingtonMonthly.com that they're just not going to find on other rankings.
It was amazing. I want to go back to the methodology because you're right. All the other 20 things have the same 30 or 40, 50 schools are ranked. And people should know it's highly competitive among those guys because they want to go up. Those rankings are intensely worked. It's like the Forbes 400. Right. These guys work at nonstop because it's very important to be number.
You know, for Harvard, it wants to be above Stanford, wants to be above Princeton and wants to be above Yale. Walk me through. I want to go back through the methodology. How did you guys think this through, and how did you apply it, and how did you get the information related to that?
Well, funny story. I used to work for U.S. News for 10 years, so their college ranking was paying my mortgage. I didn't work on the ranking, but it was part of what we did, and there was always within ā U.S. news personnel a kind of sense that something was rotten in Denmark. So when I took over the Washington Monthly some years later, we decided to do some investigative pieces about the U.S.
news rankings. We found some pretty hinky stuff about their methodology. And then we said, all right, smart guy, if you think you can do a better job, we gave ourselves the challenge of doing a better job. So in 2005, we created these alternative rankings. And to understand our rankings, you've got to understand U.S. news. And they've all evolved over time. But basically, what U.S.
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