Chapter 1: What does the host mean by 'MAGA civil war'?
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. You know, when I was actively involved in politics in Maryland, I'm walking out of an event one time, right? And this very, very smart, older gentleman who'd been involved in Maryland politics on the Republican side for probably close to 30 years, he says to me, I'm going to tell you something.
I watched your speech inside. He said, I liked it, it's very good. He said, but one of the things I'd encourage you to do is avoid assertions and ask more questions. I said, really, why is that? He said, because when you ask a human being a question, no matter what, even if they hate you, the human mind can't stop trying to answer the question, no matter what.
It just engages the mind better than an assertion. He says, if you're talking to a voter who may lean a little liberal, but may be open to voting for you, he's like, if you just make an assertion to them, hey, big government sucks, they go, I don't want to hear it, earmuffs. But if you ask him a question, tell me how big governments worked for you, it'll engage them. And I thought, that's genius.
And I've, gosh, I don't know how long, when they run for office, 15 years ago or something like that? I've practiced that ever since. So I put in the headline today, and then on social media, MAGA civil war or liberal media BS? And I'll answer it for you right now. It is obviously liberal media BS. Ladies and gentlemen, there is no MAGA civil war going on.
I don't know how many polls, whether they're CNN, Harry Enten polls, Real Clear Politics,
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Chapter 2: How does the host view the role of liberal media in the MAGA movement?
I have a poll coming up. I'll show you a bunch of them. Receipts matter. There is no civil war in the MAGA movement. I'm not telling you that there's not disagreements about significant policies in the MAGA movement, from tariffs to Iran to our dealings with Israel. Of course there are disagreements.
But you suggesting there's some kind of massive civil war getting ready to fracture us like San Andreas Fault, you have to back that up. You made the assertion, not me. If you're telling me there's a civil war, back it up. Show me some substance. The answer is you can't.
Because the polling data, when you ask real people in the real world, shows overwhelming majorities of Republicans support this president's policies. I'm just telling you, bro, those are the facts. You make the assertion, back it up. I've got a bunch of stuff for you today.
And please don't fall for this because the liberal media is fertilizing this ground of the pseudo-MAGO civil war because there's nothing they want more. They want a civil war. They want us in the cannibalism theory. You know cannibalism theory. I talk about it all the time.
How the left, whenever they win elections because there's power in canceling people, they start to cancel themselves on the left side. Don't do that. Don't pay back the favor by doing that here. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, with Dan Cain this morning, gave an amazing briefing. We'll play a little bit of that. I've got a big show for you today.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the polling data mentioned?
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That's patriotmobile.com slash Dan or call 972-PATRIOT. Thank you, Patriot Mobile. Fellas. Got Justin Mann in the con today. Guy looking over his shoulder like this, intently watching, observing, watching, judging. He's got his Don't Get Dead shirt on, judging, watching. Okay, so Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave a briefing this morning, and I want you to pay very close attention.
I have two short snippets from it, but they're, I think, the most important. The whole thing was important. These, I think, are the most important to get out there. Folks, you cannot wage a war as a foreign adversary of the United States, as any country. You cannot wage a war without command, control, and communications. Now, look at those three Cs. Command. Do they have command?
They're all freaking dead. I'm just telling you the obvious. We wiped out their entire hierarchy of upper level Mullah leadership. You're now getting into kind of the mid-level leadership and they're going to be wiped out soon too. President Trump even said as much yesterday. They don't have command because the command of the IRGC and elsewhere, their special units, their police forces are dead.
So command, no good. Control. If you don't have command, you certainly don't have control because there's nobody to control because the command is dead. Every time someone steps in to take control after a previous commander stepped in and is wiped out, that person dies too.
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Chapter 4: How does the host connect military actions to foreign policy?
It is very difficult to maintain command or control without command and no control because you're dead and the threat of death is on the horizon. When you're worried about dying, you're not so much worried about tactical deployments. Finally, communications. They don't have communications. Folks, I can't go into too many intimate details given kind of the things I was exposed to.
However, it is very difficult, and I think this is fairly obvious. You can read about it in open source. It is very difficult for Iranian commanders trying to control their military. You get what I did there, right? If you can't communicate because every time you communicate, eh, it doesn't really work out. They have none. It has led to total chaos. Now, we're not even a weekend yet.
Again, I don't want to jump to either side. We're not doing mission accomplished bullshit. All I've asked respectfully, respectfully, and I mean it, to opponents of the military strikes. I'm not kidding. I respect your opinions. I'm glad we're not a bunch of robots. I've got Sean Davis from The Federalist on later. I love, good friend of mine.
Has some different opinions of me, but filibuster, other things, that's fine. That's fine. That's the best part about being a conservative is we're not freaking robots like the left. However, all I ask is that if you're going to judge the movie in total, in total, Just wait for the movie to end. It's fair to you. And by the way, maybe you think the beginning of the movie sucked.
I saw a movie once about where I forget the movie. I went down and I was in Fletcy in Georgia. The first half an hour was terrible. I almost left and rescued itself. But I'm free to say it's a good movie. But the first half an hour sucked. You may not like the beginning. That's OK. But if you're going to judge the whole movie, just wait for the movie to end. And it's we're not even a weekend.
This is Secretary of War Hegseth this morning talking about those three Cs I told you about, command, control, and communication, and how it's like scripting a football game as the offensive coordinator, basically wiping out the coach and everyone else. Now no one even knows how to get in the huddle anymore.
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Chapter 5: What are the key arguments against the idea of a civil war within MAGA?
This is a great analogy. Check this out. We will avenge them, no doubt. But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a game The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted. But now that the game has started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays.
Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor? Dead. missing or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room. Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great for morale.
The Iranian Air Force is no more, built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated. Pick your adjective. One of many, 63 in the chat. Dan, I'm totally anti-war, but some people just need to be blown up. Try to pick the best chats of the day. One of many, 63. I'm with you. Everybody's anti-war.
I'm not trying to be an asshole about it, but nobody likes war. Sometimes, unfortunately, in a complicated world full of real evil, demons, and I'm telling you, folks, evil is real. It is not some fantasy you read about in some fairy tale in third grade. It is very real. And in a world full of evil, sometimes good men have to step up and stop that stuff by aggression and violence.
We wish it weren't the case, but it is. How many people are they going to kill? How many times are we going to let them threaten us with a potential nuclear weapon? Do you understand with the, this is one of the things I'd like, and I'm going to play another clip of Secretary Hegseth in a second, so just this is a good one too, about what complete control of the skies actually means.
Remember, command control communications. You're missing one of those three, your war effort's screwed. You're missing all three, you are in real freaking trouble. I'm just telling you, having spent a good year involved in this stuff. Folks, these Iranian mullahs get a nuclear weapon. There's not going to be a negotiation. There's not going to be a negotiation.
You know that Netflix movie, that Catherine Bigelow movie about the nuclear strike? It's exaggerated.
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Chapter 6: How does the host address the influence of foreign adversaries?
However, if you watch the movie, I think it's interesting. It's one of those movies, again, where that's one of those movies where the beginning's great and the ending, I think, was terrible. So you can judge a whole movie, but you still got to wait to the end. Oh, this is awesome. And then it ends and you're like, what? You know the movie I'm talking about? I don't even remember the name.
But I saw it in DC with Paula. Interesting movie, exaggerated if you understand how the whole system works and everything. But it's about a nuclear, real nuclear strike, what it would look like and how quickly all this goes down. Folks, if they get a nuclear weapon... There's nothing stopping them from using.
They don't practice or intend on practicing the former Iranian mullah regime, mutually assured destruction. They're not worried about dying at all. It's just assured destruction to them. They don't care about the mutual part. They don't care about their people. They don't care about dying. They will launch a nuclear weapon at us the second they get it. Because they can. That's it.
Well, why would they do that? That's dumb. Because they're evil. I just said that. President Trump has clearly laid out with Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegseth that their efforts to build a ballistic missile and drone-shielded nuclear program that would basically make it asymmetric warfare for us to take it out in the future is just not going to happen. We're taking it out now.
You may not like the beginning of that movie in the Republican Party. I don't care what the lefties think in the Republican Party. That's fine. Have it out respectfully. I'm open to it. However, I agree. Folks, the United States military has completely wiped out. I want you to understand the battle damage assessments here are off the charts, okay?
The Iranians had their air defense systems supplied by other foreign adversaries of the United States. The Russians, there's stories in the Wall Street Journal and other outlets about China's efforts to arm Iran with anti-ship missiles that can take out some of our ships right off their shores there. This is a real problem, a real problem.
President Trump acted decisively now to head off what could potentially be nuclear hostilities and a world war later. And I'll bring China into this mix in a second.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Sean Davis provide about the current political climate?
But I want you to understand the complete, I don't even know how to describe it, disappointment, which seems like understatement of the millennia. that the Iranian mullahs and their military must have, that they invested all of this money and time in an air defense system from the Russians and weaponry from the Chinese that totally shit the bed. Totally. Completely. We have dominated their skies.
They look up in Iran right now and all they're seeing is U.S. and IDF forces. There are no Iranian forces in the sky of any significance whatsoever. They have drones, and they're still launching their ballistic missiles, which is going down every day, because every time a launcher pops up, they know the location, big neon lights go off, boom, dead. Height is might. Height is might tactically.
Height is might if you're a sniper. Height is might from the skies when it comes to airborne bombardment. Height is might. You control the skies, you control the country. Here's Secretary Hegg said just a few minutes ago, talking about how we have complete air dominance right now. Check this out.
In a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing, and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military.
Finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. Flying over Tehran. flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. Folks, sometimes I say this stuff and I regret not going into it further.
You know, why is height might? Well, for fairly obvious reasons. I mean, just think about it. Look at it from a sniper perspective. If you're a sniper behind a wall on a hill shooting down, the bullets can go down, simple physics, gravity down, right?
However, if you're shooting up at the sniper in the sniper's nest, the bullet's not going to go up, at least not now until technology gets better, if it ever gets. The bullet's not going to go up and around and over the wall. It doesn't work that way. Height is might also for very simple reasons. Forget physics, just common sense. Human beings can't fly.
You can interdict a target on the ground because you can walk there and at least you have a shot. If you don't have the ability to get your aircraft airborne and your ballistic missile launchers, silos, and storage sites were taken out, you have nothing to fly into the sky to interdict that U.S. target. It's just simple common sense. Let's go, Obi-Wan. It's always got to be like a Star Wars.
These guys are all Star Wars guys. I think it was like on the application process, did we have a box? You were a fan of Star Wars. All of them seemed they'd love it. They should do a Star Wars show on the weekend, these guys. Height is might. Dominate the skies, you dominate the military exercise. Folks, the early days of this have gone very well. The book is still open. The movie is not over.
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Chapter 8: What are the host's predictions for the future of the Republican Party?
And I think President Trump has been clear over time he does not support nation-building. He has already told the Iranians in absolutely no uncertain terms, it is yours to take over this country. This is your opportunity. Those are his words. He's not going to be nation building. Folks, I got to ask a favor of you. You know I hate doing that.
I need you to be really, really hyper aware, antenna up. for foreign influence operations using social media, trying to divide, divide and conquer the MAGA coalition from within. Notice I said in advance, so you don't, please do not confuse the two.
I love the fact that the Republican, conservative, libertarian, old school establishment, GOP, MAGA coalition, not always the same thing, sometimes they are. maybe on issues like taxes, certainly not on foreign hostilities, war. I love it that we can talk amongst ourselves and check ourselves. I love that.
What I freaking hate is foreign enemies of the United States taking advantage of that and, in essence, plumping up divisions within us that don't really exist at that level. They exist on the issues, not, oh, this guy's out again. I hate it. I'm going to bring some receipts and show you exactly what's going on. Do not fall for it. The liberal media love this stuff.
There's a symbiote out there of paid doomers. They don't have any principles at all. Paid doomers dividing up the right. The liberal media. And foreign adversaries making sure money is flush and available for all those people to tell you basically to go against the Trump administration on anything they do. Please don't fall for it.
Now, I told you yesterday, I was going to prove to you that the MAGA civil war air quotes is bullshit. It's not real. Bring the receipts. Well, here's a Tom Bevin tweet. He runs Real Clear Politics. Good guy. As a point of reference, five polls are out on Operation Epic Fury. Polls. These are points of reference, folks. Data, correct? I'm not trying to be a smartass. It's just true.
On average, 72.2% of Republicans approve of Trump's actions and only 14% disapprove. The rest are unsure, have no opinion. Guys, ladies, listen, receipts matter. I know that word drives people crazy, but it's true. If you can't produce a receipt about your purchase, then you can't prove the purchase happened. This is a receipt. You're asking actual people in the Republican Party.
How do you feel about it? 72%? Okay, we're at the early stages. We shouldn't trump the conclusions. Fine, but I'm in favor. That's just a fact. Would that sound like a MAGA civil war to you? 72%. Here you go. There's the real clear politics average right there. 72% is a lot. You ask a bunch of school kids if they want homework. You may get more kids. You always get the nerds in the class, right?
What do you think we are? Nerds? Remember Rocky IV? That's my dad. I know. What do you think we are? Nerds? There's always nerds. Always nerds. I was actually a little nerdy sometimes in seventh grade. Eighth grade, I got a little unnerdy. Just a little. 72%. Ah, dad, that's one tweet, five polls. Here's another one I just saw this morning before we got on the air. This didn't take long.
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