Bret Weinstein Calls The Democratic Party “An Existential Threat To The Republic”
On Patrick Bet-David’s podcast, mugged liberal evolutionary psychologist Bret Weinstein calls the modern Democratic Party “an existential threat to the republic” and says the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorsement has him willing to vote for Trump.
It starts with a clip of RFK, Jr. denouncing the DNC and the mainstream media (“They [his relatives and old school Democrats] would be astonished to learn of a Democratic party Presidential nominee who like Vice President Harris has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days”) only to have CNN fade out the audio.
Patrick Bet-David: “The moment he’s about to criticize Kamala they do this.”
Bret Weinstein: “It was classic Robert F Kennedy, Jr. You know, he has encyclopedic knowledge on a wide range of subjects and he covered a great many of them.”
BW: “What he was effectively saying was that the presentation that we all receive is pure stagecraft, and he’s right. And then to have CNN cut away, not able to engage in their usual level of stagecraft, because they don’t know what he’s going to say, is incredible. They validated exactly what it was he was describing, which was a fake world that’s presented over our screens by these mega monolith corporations that decide what we get to know and when we get to know it.”
PBD: “At the RNC, the name Joe Biden was mentioned two times during the entire convention, but at the DNC, Trump was mentioned 400 times, not because of policies, just trashing him.”
BW: “I think [RFK, Jr’s endorsement of Trump] absolutely monumental, because I think there is we are in a novel moment in American political history, where many of us who hold different positions on the political spectrum have different priorities with respect to policy are finding that none of our differences matter in light of the jeopardy that the that the republic is in.”
BW:”[RFK, Jr] is emboldening a movement that is more widely recognizing that those differences have to be put aside until the main job is done.”
BW: “I was very interested in the way he navigated the idea this was not a simple endorsement of Trump, this was an endorsement of retaking the White House and using that position to restore the republic to its proper course.”
BW: “The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon, oh, nothing no policies. No interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.”
BW: [On whether RFK’s support makes him consider voting for Trump] “Oh, absolutely let me just be perfectly clear about that. I think the modern Democratic Party is an existential threat to the republic.”
BW: “Although I am a Democrat, I’ve been a Democrat my whole life, the party that I see in front of me today is literally the inverse of the party I signed up for. This is now the party of war, this is the party of racism, this is the party of censorship. I don’t recognize this party. There is no conceivable scenario in which I would vote for Kamla Harris.”
BW: “I am open to voting for Trump. I’m especially open to it if he is partnered with Bobby Kennedy, because what that tells me is that my values, which are a much closer match for Bobby’s, are represented in that Administration, and that’s really what I want.”
BW: “I want a coalition to redefine American politics, because, frankly, we have a long-standing problem with corruption, which has now turned into something else with with the modern Democratic Party.”
BW: “We need to rethink the way we govern ourselves, so that corruption is not the dominant force, and a coalition is the way we’re going to do that.”
The interview is interesting for several reasons:
Weinstein is dead on about the corruption and totalitarian tendencies of the modern Democratic Party. Indeed, if you removed the corruption and social justice from the Democratic Party, I doubt there’s anything left.
The appeal of RFK, Jr. continues to elude me, seeming a mishmash of ecowhackjobism, pre-social justice liberal nostrums and healthy serving of conspiracy theories who receives outsized media attention for a man who’s never held elected office. But Weinstein is hardly an unlearned rube dazzled by the faded ghost of Camelot. Clearly the cadres of disaffected old-school liberals and soft-left squishy independents who feel deeply alienated from the modern Democratic Party is bigger than I thought it was, and Kennedy and former Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard seem to have become the totems for this group.
That both Kennedy and Gabbard have endorsed Trump may be more significant than I thought at first. In the wake of the Twitter files and other revelations about just how badly the Democratic Media Complex has deceived people on a wide range of issues, I think many in this group have come to the realization that their Trump Derangement Syndrome is a false worldview imposed on them by systemic preference falsification, and have gradually come to regard Trump as the lesser evil compared to the endemic corruption and disasterous policies of the modern Democratic Party. I think many in this group see the Kennedy and Gabbard endorsements as giving them permission to vote for Trump, a sort of Get Out of Liberal Guilt Free card. Clearly Kennedy isn’t doing it for the money. “If Bobby’s endorsed him, how bad can he be?”
Even if Kennedy only brings over 3% of voters, that could be a huge swing in November.
The Democrats have always been corrupt and venal. Even when they’ve managed to convince people they aren’t, that’s exactly what they’ve been.
Examine the history of the party; pay particular attention to where they came from, who were members. It’s not accidental at all that Nancy Pelosi’s family was heavily involved in Baltimore organized crime.
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“They validated exactly what it was he was describing, which was a fake world that’s presented over our screens by these mega monolith corporations that decide what we get to know and when we get to know it.”
“No interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.”
Behold, the simulacrum. We will soon discover if “fake world” is the electorate’s preferred outcome.
“I think many in this [disaffected] group have come to the realization that their Trump Derangement Syndrome is a false worldview imposed on them by systemic preference falsification.”
Yours is a succinct and trenchant observation. I hope you get a wide audience to help you propagate this view.
After suing to remove Trump from the ballot, Democrats are now suing to keep RFK on the ballot. Apparently the qualification for being on a ballot is “do you help the Democrat get elected”. 🙂
The Democrats have always been corrupt and venal. Even when they’ve managed to convince people they aren’t, that’s exactly what they’ve been.
Examine the history of the party; pay particular attention to where they came from, who were members. It’s not accidental at all that Nancy Pelosi’s family was heavily involved in Baltimore organized crime.
[…] camp’: Patients at a psychiatric hospital in Cuba abandoned, left without water BattleSwarm: Bret Weinstein Calls The Democratic Party “An Existential Threat To The Republic” Behind The Black: Manned Polaris Dawn launch delayed due to weather, SpaceX launches 21 Starlink […]
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“They validated exactly what it was he was describing, which was a fake world that’s presented over our screens by these mega monolith corporations that decide what we get to know and when we get to know it.”
“No interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.”
Behold, the simulacrum. We will soon discover if “fake world” is the electorate’s preferred outcome.
“I think many in this [disaffected] group have come to the realization that their Trump Derangement Syndrome is a false worldview imposed on them by systemic preference falsification.”
Yours is a succinct and trenchant observation. I hope you get a wide audience to help you propagate this view.
[…] This realignment mentality is well explained by Bret Weinstein in a recent podcast interview. […]
After suing to remove Trump from the ballot, Democrats are now suing to keep RFK on the ballot. Apparently the qualification for being on a ballot is “do you help the Democrat get elected”. 🙂
when you consider who is involved, who they are targetting, and their cred with that audience… I now believe we are most likely to win this election…
https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1829291690277966165