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Tucker QUIT the GOP, but This Is Why Republicans Should Really Be Afraid | Guest: Tim Barton | 6/23/26
23 Jun 2026
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for mankind kind of giant leap for mankind um the president yesterday uh signed an executive order uh that america will lead in the quantum tech race what does that mean oh it means everything and we'll get into that here in just a second uh also the president is is floating a trial balloon about taking pieces of uh the ai companies
let's not i'll explain why this is actually something that hamilton was for believe it or not we i mean you know the the founders you know people like they could have never seen this coming no but they saw a lot of things that are exactly like today and i'll explain alexander hamilton saw ai coming no But he saw this problem coming. I'll explain in a minute.
Here first, let me tell you about Rush Tax. There are problems that you deal with immediately. And then there are problems that you hope will somehow or another solve themselves. You know, leaky faucet, you fix it. Flat tire, you fix it. Letter from the IRS? Yeah, let's put that one on the corner of the desk for a few days because I'm afraid to open it.
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Chapter 2: How does the government plan to lead in quantum technology?
The bank war. That was this argument. Then the railroads put these clothes on. They were like, we're too important. The New Deal, same argument. The 2008 bailouts, same argument. And now we put on the newest suit it has ever worn because the vice president said out loud that the president is supportive of the United States owning the big artificial intelligence company, a sovereign wealth fund.
That's the idea. A stake in the people's most important technology of the age. Now, Donald Trump is doing it because America first. He believes, you know, that America can be strong exactly the way Hamilton did, okay? When I first heard this, the first word that jumped into my head was fascism. And I've been saying this is Italian fascism. I want to tell you why this is a losing argument, okay?
It's not entirely wrong, but I, you know, in doing my homework, it's... We want strong arguments. Here's the thing about Italian fascism, okay? Italian fascism is not German fascism. Mussolini's economy didn't seize the factories like communism does. The owners kept their names on the door. What the state took was not the title, it was the steering wheel, okay?
The company stayed private and ran at the pleasure of the regime in service of the regime. Everything within the state, nothing outside the state. That's Mussolini. So, yes, the government that owns a piece and steers, it rhymes. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't. It rhymes with fascism. But here's why I want to correct myself.
A, I want to correct myself because it's important that I do, and you can hold me to that. But it's important because people always think of race hatred. You associate race hatred with fascism. That wasn't the engine of fascism. Mussolini didn't pass his race laws until 38, and that was under German pressure, not from his own doctrine, okay?
Anti-Semitism was essential to Nazism, not essential to fascism. So fascism without the race hatred, you know, doesn't reveal some secret core. It just describes early fascism. Italian fascism pretty accurately. Hatred is not required in it. But nobody's going to listen to that, okay?
The part that really takes the word away from me, the government holding stake in a private industry, doesn't make a country anything. What Donald Trump is saying is Norway. Norway has the sovereign wealth fund. It owns roughly 1.5% of every company on the face of the earth. It took stakes in the banks and the car makers in 2009. We did. And then it gave it back. Singapore does this.
If state ownership equaled fascism, then Norway's a fascist state, and that's just ridiculous. What makes fascism fascism is the politics. The one party, the leadership worship, the boot on dissent, the deliberate dissolving of the individual into the organic nation. Economics was a part of this. The reason why I'm afraid of this is... It's more than just state capitalism.
That's a better word maybe than fascism. State or mercantilism. The thing that the kings did, it's worse than that. Because what this actually means... is more than what Hamilton was talking about. It's because of what the state would actually own. Hamilton's bank would just move money. The railroads moved steel and grain, and you can see them and you can argue with them.
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Chapter 3: What historical context does Glenn provide regarding government and economic power?
Washington, listen to me carefully. I'm trying to help you. Almost no one around you is. You're not going to survive this. I don't mean a tough cycle coming your way. I mean, you are building with your own hands, a movement aimed directly at you and you deserve it. And there's exactly one way to take the power out of a movement like that. Actually, you know, there's a couple of ways.
First of all, you don't outspend it. You don't out message it. Cornyn just outspent his challenger nearly 9-1 in Texas, and the voters retired him anyway. 30 years of seniority gone in a single night. Money didn't save the establishment in Texas, and it's not going to save you either.
Now, there are two ways that I can think of you take the steam out of a movement where people are like, I'm leaving the party. The first one is the obvious one that every politician in power will jump to immediately, and that's silence the people who are saying it. That makes you a fascist, an authoritarian.
And I, well, I know people on the left are trying it, and I'm sure people on the right will try it. And you'll lose, but so will the republic. The other way to go is to simply remove the reason it exists. And the only way to do that is to start listening to the people who sent you there and then actually do the thing they sent you to do. That's it. That's the secret in the sauce.
Listen and respond. Be a mirror to what your own voters are telling you instead of a wall. I want... the GOP to win because I don't want to start a whole new thing. And it's just, I don't want a third party. God, look at France. I want you to win. America needs you to win, but not who you are, not as who you are. I don't want any of that.
What I'm telling you right now is I'm describing the natural consequences of you ignoring the voter. So let me give you a test. This is a simple one. Okay. It'll cost you nothing except courage. Put the SAVE Act on the floor. Do it. Do it. Proof of citizenship to register to vote in a federal election. Do it. That's the whole thing. It's not a 50-50 issue you get to hide behind.
Roughly 7 in 10 Americans support it. Independents support it. Half of Democrats support it. And among Republican voters, your voters, the ones whose name is on their yard signs, it's not even a question. It's a settled matter. So put it up. You don't even need it to pass. I pray that it does. But all we need really is a roll call. I want the vote recorded.
I want every name on the board lit up green or red. That way the whole country can see it. Because when something has 70% of a nation behind it, 70 plus people among the people who elected you, it's complicated. It's not complicated. There's no nuance here. It's really simple. Did you vote for what your people said you should vote for or not? And that, that's the real reason.
That's the real reason why it never comes to a vote. Not because they'd lose, but because you'd be seen. You'd have to stand in the light. And you'd have people watching what you choose and then judging you. So you bottle it up in a committee. You blame the filibuster. They tell you, we need a supermajority.
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Chapter 4: What are the key historical events leading up to the Declaration of Independence?
Escrow, fiduciary, depreciation. At some point, somebody uses these terms in a meeting and everybody else nods like they completely understand what's going on. And you're like, I don't, I don't, I don't. I'm afraid to ask. I don't know. Look, business insurance can feel that way sometimes. And you know you need it. You know it's important. You're just not sure what you're looking at.
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Ah, glad you're here. Thank you so much. I hope you don't mind. I'm fascinated by our 250th.
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Chapter 5: How did the American Revolution involve unexpected heroes?
I remember when I was a kid and it was the bicentennial. And I remember thinking 250 years, I'll be dead by then. You know, when you're a kid, you just think like, by 30, I'll be dead because 30 is really old. But here we are at the 250th anniversary. And I'm fascinated at how we are not really celebrating it this time around. Bicentennial was everywhere. Everywhere.
And, you know, we were proud of it. And we're not. And I think it's because we've lost our stories. And I'm looking for stories to tell you every day, you know, this month. And try to get you... a little interested in American history and not the names and the dates and all that stuff, because that doesn't matter. It's the stories.
And I found a story yesterday that happened 250 years ago this week. So it was right before we signed the Declaration of Independence. I didn't even know we were at war. Did you know we were at war before we declared our independence? They had already sent ships over. We were already at war. We were fighting them. Okay. And so it was like, you know, why, why might as well, we might as well.
But the ships were in our harbors, the British ships were in our harbors. And I found a story that I just wait until you hear the end of the story.
Chapter 6: What sacrifices did the Founding Fathers make for independence?
Who are we really? Okay. Who are we? We are people that when the experts have written us off, We are the ones that just keep standing. Now, maybe it's because we're too dumb. I don't know. But what created us is that we don't run from things. We run towards the trouble, not away from the problem. And then we are like, we can solve it. We can solve it.
And then, you know, when we can't really solve it, somehow or another, a miracle always saves us, okay? So let me take you to a sandbar. It's June this week, 1776. And you're standing on a low, hot, mosquito-bitten island in the mouth of the Charleston Harbor. There's a fort here and I'm, I'm being very, very generous when I say it's a fort. It's a square pen of Palmetto logs.
They're 16 feet apart, packed in between with sands. Two walls are finished. Okay.
Chapter 7: How do historical narratives shape our understanding of freedom?
The back of it is open, you know, entirely. It's half built. It's the kind of thing that if you, you know, you saw that on your own property and somebody came by, you'd be like, yeah, that was a project I meant to get to. I never really did it. Okay. Out past the bar, coming for it, is the most powerful Navy in the history of the world.
Nine British warships, hundreds of guns, and on board is a guy named Sir Peter Parker. You'll remember that name because he's Spider-Man in a white wig, okay? Peter Parker has crossed the ocean to put down a rebellion. And behind him, a few thousand redcoats and their spider senses are tingly, okay?
General Henry Clinton waiting to come ashore and finish whatever the cannons would start because they're just going to blow everything up, okay? They've done the math. Everybody's done the math. And the math says, oh, that little pen of logs. Yeah, that'll be gone in about 10 minutes, okay? And Charleston will be gone by suppertime.
So the American general in charge of the whole Southern theater agreed. Charles Lee was his name. He wrote out, he looked at the thing. He said, that's your defense. These two little walls of logs. Are you kidding me? This is a slaughter pen. He's like, get out of there, get out. They'll knock it down within a half an hour, abandon the place, pull everybody out. Okay.
But that's not the American way. He's like, don't die for a sandcastle. But the colonel inside that sandcastle, he's a planter. William, I think his name is Moultrie. He's not famous. Not a man you've ever heard of. But you've seen the result of what he did in a couple of ways. So what did he do? He didn't give a big speech or anything. He just declined to leave.
He was like, eh, we're going to stay. He had about 435 men, some South Carolina regulars, out on the far end of the island. Men were dug alongside 30 native warriors. And the fort had been raised in part by the hand of enslaved Africans who hauled and stacked the logs in the heat. They were there as well. The whole thing, improvised.
I mean, it's an unfinished collection of human beings that are not somebody that's going to stand up, okay? And they decide to stand on a position the smartest man in the army had already said, get the hell away from that thing. Now, here's the thing that nobody knew. Not Parker, not Clinton. I don't even think Moultrie knew this, okay? Palmetto, it's not oak, okay?
When you fire a 32-pound iron ball at an oak wall, what happens? We've seen this in all of the movies and everything else that ever show us fort getting attacked. The wood splinters, and it becomes shrapnel, and it kills all the people behind it, and that's how a fort dies, and it dies quickly. But palmetto is soft. It's spongy.
So the British, they open up the fire that morning and they're expecting 20 minutes. We will be on the shore in about 30 minutes, okay? And they hit it with everything. I mean, thunder that you could feel in your chest across the water. And the cannonballs hit those palmetto logs and the logs just take it. The whole wall, it was like jello. It would just quiver and swallow the ball and then hold.
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