Bannon`s War Room
Episode 4973: Maximalist Strategy For 2026; Liberalism And The Death Of Masculinity
04 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What does the primal scream of a dying regime signify?
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.
Chapter 2: How do media narratives shape public perception?
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.
Thursday, 4 December, Year of Our Lord 2025. Thank you for being here for the second hour of the morning edition of the War Room. Look, as you know, we're as critical as anybody about some of these policies. We try to, you know, give our guidance of what we think is right. Try to get the war in posse involved nonstop. The first hour of this was one hammer after another.
These people are actively involved, whether it's Julie Kelly, John Solomon, Mike Davis, in hammering through the kind of wet work to take down the deep state. And it's, you know, some days we're winning and some days it's not going so well, but people are hammering every day. The same with, look, at 26, right now, it looks like we've got a lot of work to do.
It's tough but doable, as I tell people. But the way you've got to do it is you've got to roll your sleeves up and go to work, just like in 2024, just like in 2022 when we took the House, just like in 20 when we won it, just like when President Trump got thrown out of the White House by the deep state and the Republican establishment and the radical Democrats. You guys rallied, and guess what?
He came back for the, you know, not DeSantis, not Nikki Haley, but Donald Trump came back for the greatest comeback in political history. And the same crew, some of you have been with us since 14 and 15 over at Breitbart So you know that this is a process and it's a tough fight and it's never going to stop. It's just not. That's just not the way politics works in this country.
Right now on 26, I tell people on 28, don't mention 28. 28, it might as well be a thousand years from now. You've got to get through 26 first. Because that's where everything changes. We either continue on the Trump revolution or every day you're going to be fighting a Democratic house. And those brothers know how to fight.
You're not going to see Jim Jordan and Comer and Mike Johnson and all these clowns running around. You're going to see hammers coming at the Trump administration. The predicate for 26 is right now.
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Chapter 3: What is the purpose of the maximalist strategy for 2026?
That's why Gavin Newsom, he's running for president of the United States. That's why he's spending so much time on it. That's why we spend so much time on it, on redistricting.
Because just like the win we got in 22, in fact, the reason we have control of the House is Alex DeGrasse, the war room, and a couple other institutions got involved and picked up, I think, a net eight seats in 21 that have given us the majority in 22. Well, this fight for the redistricting is 10 times harder. John Fredericks joins us now. John, you've got the bus out in Indiana.
I want to talk two things. I want to talk Indiana on the offensive side, and I want to talk Virginia on defense. This bus was the same bus you took around in 21. When you came up with the theory and said, hey, Steve,
I think this guy, Youngkin, who's no MAGA, no Trump guy, we can win this if we take the bus around and we have a turnout in the MAGA districts at almost like 80 or 85 percent of presidential levels in 2020. We can win this. And your theory turned out to be right. Why have you now taken the bus out to Indiana, sir?
Action, action, action. You've got to lace them up and lace them tight, Steve. We've got a battle on our hands. This is no time to play around. The Democrats are playing the blow your head off, and we're trying to be Indiana nice. Here's why we're here, and we're going to be here basically. We're right outside the Capitol with the Trump bus. We're going to be here right through next Friday.
Let me tell you what the situation is. We're looking at two House seat pickups in Indiana that are there if we can pass. their initiative through the House and the Senate and get this to the Supreme Court of Indiana, which I'm told it will pass. We had Governor Mike Braun on today. Let me break it down for you. In the House, Indiana has a 70 to 30 edge.
We expect that vote in the House to come tomorrow. This is likely to pass the House by a substantial margin tomorrow. probably, if not 65, you know, 35, 62, 38 or something. So it has a majority of House members, Republicans, backing this. Then when that happens tomorrow, then it goes to the Indiana State Senate, where things get a little tougher.
Right now, the state Senate in Indiana has even a bigger majority. Percentage-wise, they have out of 50, they have 40 Republicans, 10 Dems. Plus they have the Lieutenant Governor to break the tie. So they need 25 votes out of the Republican Senate in order to pass this redistricting for us to pick up two seats and perhaps save America.
Where we are right now is we need 25 votes, and right now, on the record, it's 20-20. We're five votes short.
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Chapter 4: How is the fight against the deep state evolving?
Big House vote tomorrow might move a couple of them, but we're here all week. We have the governor on our show live right here. on the bus about an hour ago. We're going to have state senators on, representatives on. We've got to put an amount of pressure on these state senators to get out of this, well, this is not the way we do things in Indiana. Well, guess what?
You're going to be eating out of a trash can if you don't get on the same page because the people you're fighting are gerrymandering anything as in Virginia. So as we go through tomorrow, we need a big vote out of the House. And then as we go through, uh, the week starting Monday when the Senate here convenes in a special session.
Called by the governor, Mike Braun, in order to do this, then the pressure is going to start. We need to peel away at least five, which we think we can do. We need to get to 25. We're hoping to get to 26, 28, obviously. But we've got to work really hard to get these five to get this thing passed. Right now it's 50-50, but that's why we are here. Wow.
And that's where the 40-10 majority. Tomorrow also, right after the vote, is going to be this turning point rally at the state capitol.
Can you talk to me about that?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of redistricting in Indiana?
Well, we're going to be here with a turning point, as always. They've got their organization out here. They're going to be talking about how important this redistricting is. And look, all this happy talk, Steve, it drives you nuts about, well, you know, we're Indiana nice. There's an Indiana way. Are you kidding me? Look what they're doing in Virginia.
They're basically blowing your head off, trying to take 6-5 to 10-1. I thought there was a Virginia way. These Democrats don't care. They gerrymander everything. And we stand around and try to be, well, we're nice. We're going to get annihilated. We got to... fight, Steve. Lace them up. Now, there's other pressure besides us being here.
President Trump has already said, Roderick Bray, who's the Senate majority leader, Senate pro tem, the Senate here, the Republican, hey, we will primary you. Hey, meet my friend, Chris LaCivita, and about $20 million, right? We're going to get you out. So I'm just saying that. But these are the things that they have to be able to do. We got to put tremendous
Pressure we need five Senate votes to pick two seats up which Steve could be critical in keeping the house and saving America No crew.
Okay, so it's uh, and we're trying to get the 9-0 and this is what the contention is about when you got 40-10 It's kind of stunning that you got to put this pressure on but it has to happen I mean President Trump sent GD out there. I think a couple of times he's talked to people. He's tried to be nice now We're beyond nice. You got to get down to and here's the reason in New England
New England votes, six states, I think 43% Republican, 25 to nothing. There are 25 Democrat congressmen.
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Chapter 6: How does masculinity relate to political dynamics?
There's not one Republican in the House. California went from 43-9, which was a joke. It's 40 million people in the state. They got 52 seats. They were 43-9. They went to 48-4, totally unconstitutionally, totally illegally. And Newsom's people will tell you right now the only mistake they made, they should have gone 52 to nothing. This is the maximalist strategy that they're applying.
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, right, Virginia's got this very nice way people comport themselves. Spanberger set it up right now that it's going to go from 6-5 because the states basically kind of split between Republican and Democrat to 10-1. That is so in your grill.
And she's planning on doing that, and I realize we've got the courts and everything like that, but she's planning on doing it to tell Newsom, I should be your running mate in 2028. What are we doing in Virginia? Because I understand it may be illegal, but hell, it's illegal in Illinois. It's illegal in New England.
It's certainly unconstitutional and illegal, according to the Constitutional State of California. They're still doing it, okay? And now Illinois is going to get back in the act. They're like 17 to 3. I think they're going to go. They're trying to take a couple of seats away. What's going to happen in Virginia? We have a big event there in April. Does anybody focus on that, John Fredericks?
Right now, we're going to get our asses kicked in Virginia. When you're counting on the courts to save your bacon, you might as well forget about it, right? Maybe there's a chance. Maybe they put it off till 2028. Here's the reality. They're going to pass it again. This referendum in January, it's going to get on the ballot in April.
What the Republicans are trying to do now, and you have to understand, there is no Republican Party in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They have no apparatus. They have no infrastructure. They have no ground game. It doesn't exist. It's a bunch of disconnected victims that fight each other on a continual basis. Thing is a clown show. So that's what you're up against.
Now what they're trying to do is let's put together a good governance coalition because we have this commission of independent people putting the maps together.
Tell them to look at Schwarzenegger and McCarthy. In California, didn't want Trump to go out, didn't want Trump to get involved. We got beat by 30 points. The good governance message gets you a 30-point defeat because these are special elections. The people that show up are partisans. They're motivated. The good governance types just don't show up. So we tried that.
We tried that in California, and we got smoked, sir.
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Chapter 7: What role does testosterone play in contemporary society?
They were down by seven. When it was done, they got beat by over 30. So, I mean, it doesn't work. So the only way to defeat this, the only way to do this in April is we've got to get the Trump voters out. We couldn't get him out for Winsome Sears. They just didn't care. Couldn't get him out for the ticket. But I got to go up and down I-81 every day.
We got to tell the Trump voters in Southwest Virginia, they're screwing our guy. They're screwing the country. You've got to get out or basically you're not going to have anything. That's the only way to do this. But the they put up a C4. I just when they're when they start telling me the coalition is going to be, you know, former Democratic Governor Doug Wilder. This one. No, forget it.
Forget it. Nobody cares about it. They're out for Steve. They're out for blood. And we don't understand it.
Yeah. Where do people go to find the bus, everything? We'll check in with you tomorrow, obviously, with the turning point going to happen at noon out there. And on Monday, the first day back, when hopefully they'll start getting ready for a boat if we peel some numbers off. Where do people follow you, John?
You can follow me on everywhere, Substack. Instagram, TikTok, all these social media platforms. One simple handle, at JFRadioShow, at JFRadioShow. That's all you need to do.
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Chapter 8: What are actionable steps to improve men's health and masculinity?
We're going to be here, and we're going to see this through, and we're going to win this battle. We're going to carry it in the Senate. We're going to pick these two seats up here, and at the end of the day, come November, if we win the House by one or two seats, you're going to be able to thank the Indiana Hoosiers.
Big. John Fredericks, thank you. We'll check back in with you tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Nine to nothing in Indiana. That's it. Let's go to Dallas. Melissa Katz. Melissa, you guys have been fighting this forever. Now the president's involved. He's he's loving what you guys are doing. Explain exactly what you guys are doing, what you're accomplishing. And we have a big issue here.
So you got about a minute. Go ahead and walk me through it.
Yes, we decided back in September, our executive committee, the Dallas County Republican Party, voted almost unanimously for us to have in the primary in Texas, our election code, only the party can be in charge of the primary. So we decided we had a task force put together, and we are going to do hand-counted, paper ballots in the March primary in 2026.
And that's key because it's the primary is where we, the grassroots, we are grassroots national populace here in Dallas County. We're not blue. We are red. We are, we will be in charge of our election, but we need volunteers and we need money. And so our chair of this committee is going to talk with you after the break, Stan Woodward.
Okay. We're going to take, we're going to take a short commercial break. These folks have moved heaven and earth to get the Holy Grail that we talk about. Paper ballots, hand counted, no machines. And now they've got a speed bump that the Warren posse has to engage in and try to get them over. President Trump is 100% on board for this. This is an experiment. Remember, it's Dallas County.
There's certain counties in the country trying this, but this is in the heart of the beast. And Melissa is exactly right. That's MAGA down there. They just haven't raised their head. So we're going to take a short commercial break. Remember, Birch Gold, financial markets are in turbulence right now, particularly things like crypto. Check out, go to see Philip Patrick and the team at Birch Gold.
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