Radio Show Hour 1 – 2026/11/07

[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.

[00:00:49] Never sinned to know for whom the bell tolls. Welcome to tonight's live broadcast of TPC, everybody, our first since the election. Going to have a little bit different feel than last week's more celebratory 22nd anniversary slash Halloween broadcast. The Grim Reaper visited MAGA this week, and he did not come gently. We're going to be sifting through the rubble of Election Day for probably the rest of the year, certainly into the Christmas season, which is now only a month away.

[00:01:16] And to help us begin that journey is our dear friend, former presidential campaign manager and congressional chief of staff, Lou Moore. Lou is back with us tonight, our first guest post-election, to analyze the aftermath, examine key races, and explain the factors that contributed to the catastrophic implosion of Donald Trump's coalition. Let's say hello to him now. Lou, welcome back. Thanks, James. Appreciate it.

[00:01:43] I would draw attention at the very beginning, folks, before we begin, to the most recent hour of Lou Moore's program, The Hour of Decision. If you go to LibertyNewsRadio.com, you will find it there. The title of this episode was The Election. It's bad, it's good, and it's damn sure clarifying. And over the course of this 50 minutes, which I listened to yesterday, I think it is, well, I don't think,

[00:02:11] it is the best post-election analysis I have heard. And it may be the best one out there, but it's certainly the best I've heard. And he explores the consequences of this historic rebuke of the GOP received at the hands of the voters in Tuesday's elections. And while there's obvious reasons why the results are bad, Lou tells us that bad can be good, and it moves, if it moves the right kind of people to act. The stinging defeat is also very clarifying.

[00:02:39] We see clearly now who the liars were in MAGA media, the administration even, and in the polling world, and also who told us the truth. And Lou wraps up his take by reminding us that a drastic defeat can also clarify what our core objectives need to be and, over time, how we can achieve them. So with that stage having been set, I just want to let you know to go there for that hour. And between that one and this one, hopefully we can get a good start,

[00:03:08] a good head start on, again, examining everything from the fallout of Tuesday. Lou, why don't you give us an opening take, and then we've got a ton to get into. Sure, James. Well, I mean, in two words, this was a betrayal election, betrayal election environment. Trump had promised many things that he has not delivered,

[00:03:34] but he definitely promised no more overseas, Mideast, endless wars. And he violated that promise, and it immediately had economic consequences, and the combination of those two facts just foreclosed success in this election. I mean, just right there. And then you can add many other issues where he has betrayed his base as well.

[00:04:02] Well, we're going to get into some shifts in the polls. We're going to get into what really everything that happened in the lead-up to it and have a better understanding of it. I guess I would liken it to, I was thinking Tuesday night, my cousin was over at my house one day about a year ago, and his son was acting up a little bit. You know, you have to give a kid his banking every now and then. So my cousin did that, and then he looked him in the eye, and he said, it's done now, son.

[00:04:28] And that's kind of what I felt, Lou, about the message sent to MAGA. It does not mean that, and certainly it does not mean that the advancements and the overall progress that our site has been making over the last decade have been negated or otherwise retarded or reversed. But it does mean, I think, the end of MAGA as we know it.

[00:04:57] And again, it just begs the question, Lou, 18 months ago, I know certainly two years ago, but maybe even as recently as 18 months ago, Trump seemed to have this impenetrable coalition. And I remember after he had beaten Kamala about this time two years ago, saying, you know, if there really are massive deportations, there is a possibility that the left doesn't win or the Democrats don't win

[00:05:24] on a national level for a generation if he really removes their base. That's one path that could have been taken, at least in theory, although the GOP certainly decided to take that other path. And that path led to them going from that potential outcome to losing South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas. I mean, Lou, you are a political animal. This has been your life, your entire life. How does that happen?

[00:05:53] How do you go from where he was two years ago to losing South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas? Well, it is by not promising to do what he said he would do. And, James, the situation for middle-class Americans has been getting more dire and more dire and more dire over the last 30 years, at least 30 years. And the fact that the youth today really see no vision,

[00:06:21] no pathway to the kind of lives that their parents led in terms of owning a home, in terms of the vehicle they're driving, in terms of having a rewarding career, those kind of things. And it's been getting worse and worse. And the fact that Trump had an opening in 2016, I remind you that was 10 years ago, that he even had an opening as somebody that was a complete outsider,

[00:06:49] that was saying what a lot of people thought were crazy things, that was operating in a way that no seasoned political type at that time thought was going to be reasonable, much like successful. The fact that he had that opening was the dire straits that the middle class was in then. And then to have a betrayal of them of this magnitude, I mean, the fact that there's been a political cataclysm

[00:07:17] that's occurred right in front of our eyes in the last week should not really be a surprise. I mean, Gallup is now saying that the largest group in the American electorate are independents. You know, this is not some ratification of the Democrat Party. There's polls even recently showing they're less popular than the Republicans. Anyway. Okay. What you just mentioned right there, my friend, is key. And that is absolutely something I want to ask you about

[00:07:45] because I think what you just said is very, very, very important. But I want to just put this whole thing into perspective before we circle back to that. And that is the severity of this loss. I mean, it depends on how you look at it. If you look at it in terms of just numbers and practical impact. On one hand, if you go back to the last three presidents, not counting Biden, but the three presidents before Trump's first election, obviously Barack Obama, George W. Bush,

[00:08:13] and Bill Clinton, who all served eight years. You look at their midterms, and in some of those midterms, they lost both the House and the Senate. They lost even more House seats than Trump did on Tuesday. So if you just look at it in terms of those numbers, it's, you know, it's bad. But how bad is it? But I think if you look at it from the practical impact, the MAGA movement is dead. And the MAGA movement is dead because it wasn't really what Trump ran on. Great candidate.

[00:08:43] Mixed bag president, to say the least. And MAGA just became whatever he was saying in the moment. And there was just no depth there. And so reconcile all that, Lou, that just strictly the numbers game in terms of the numbers of seats lost, but flipping these states that have always been ruby red, that is a different story. And then just the whole where MAGA stands now. Well, it is a different story, James. This is why I said on my show

[00:09:10] that this was the most consequential drubbing that the Republicans have suffered since they lost with Herbert Hoover in 1932. I wasn't talking about the raw numbers. I was talking about the moment, the psychology of the situation. When you have Mississippi most likely electing a black Democrat U.S. Senator, when you lose South Carolina, when you have Marsha Blackburn

[00:09:38] holding on for dear life in Tennessee to win by two points, a mere two points, the governor's race there, you're talking about psychologically a political cataclysm. You know, a lot of this game is played in people's heads. And psychologically, this was far worse of a defeat, in my opinion, than what happened with Watergate, where it was essentially a repudiation of one man or what people thought happened to one man, Richard Nixon.

[00:10:07] But this is not like that. This is totally different. And the depth of betrayal that people felt that were in this hopeful coalition just two years ago, it's hard to even measure. Well, Lou, let's look at some of these midterm exit polls that came Tuesday night. And the only group to lean Republican were, of course, whites. But whites did it

[00:10:35] with only 51% voting Republican. That's men and women combined. 51% of whites who voted, voted Republican. Blacks, 9%. You know, all that stuff, you know, always looking for that extra half a percent of the black vote at the risk of your own base, but at the expense of your own base, rather. 9% of blacks voted Republican. 35% of Latinos voted Republican. Huge shift back from two years ago. 29% of Asians.

[00:11:03] And then only 51% of whites. But the big, one of the big shifts that you noted, Lou, was of the white youth. Now, you and I have been talking for weeks now that, you know, one ray of hope is that the 18 to 29 year old demographic of young white males are solidly right wing. Now, there's no evidence of that in these polling. So what happened? Is it that they stayed home or that they went out to punish? Because I don't think that they went from right wing

[00:11:32] to DSN in 18 months. No, but, you know, and the exit polls are not always the most accurate. I mean, I'm just going to say that as somebody that's read a lot of them over the years. But people, it's not that they don't know what they're doing that conduct these exit polls. I mean, in Texas, in South Carolina, 11% defection rate. And the defection rate was more among the youth. And then how many stayed home? That's even a harder number

[00:12:02] to measure. But you had, you had for Trump, like 20 million, what we call low prop or low propensity voters who are not really bought into the system, who are definitely not bought into two-party identification, that voted for Trump and millions of them were youth. They either stayed home or they voted for the Democrat. And, you know, I don't want to give him too much credit, but I think Nick Fuentes

[00:12:31] had an effect on this election by telling young men to vote for the Democrat to punish the Republicans. I think that element is out there. I don't think there's any doubt about it. Well, you know, I wonder. I do wonder because there is an awful lot of crowing from him himself, he himself, about that. But he also endorsed full-throated public endorsement of James Fishback who went on to receive

[00:13:00] only 10.5% of the Republican primary vote. So, you know, if you can't swing Florida, how are you going to swing the whole country? You know, but I'm not going to say that it didn't have an effect. I mean, something happened with these young voters, that's for sure. And the question is, again, Lou, were they staying at home? Were they voting to punish the Republican Party? I can understand that, but we'll get into that a little bit more too because I got a question for you about that. Was it staying at home, voting to punish the GOP for their betrayals,

[00:13:28] or that they actually have just radically switched their own ideologies in 18 months? I don't think it's the latter, but I'd love to hear your opinion on it. Yeah, well, I mean, there's going to be a variety of reasons. You're looking at human behavior and you can't just, you can't just take one theory and just kind of apply it to everything. Without doubt, James, where we're seeing the most encouraging, or at least where I'm seeing the most encouraging developments in terms of the youth are the activist youth.

[00:13:58] That is where I see the entire future of our people. And we can talk about that as much as you want. But as far as the voting mass overall, younger voters are lower propensity. And Rich Barris and Mark Mitchell were showing all during this political campaign, and particularly once we got into the campaign itself, Democrats were banking low propensity voters early, which once you get that, once they voted, then you don't have to worry about them. You don't have to call them

[00:14:27] eight more times. The Republicans were not. The Republicans were not getting out that type of voter. They were not getting out the younger voters who generally were more for Trump and not so partisan, not so ideological in terms of con ink or the traditional view of what a conservative was. They were America first. They wanted mass deportations. They wanted to see, in many cases, they're motivated by the Maha agenda.

[00:14:56] A lot of them had some libertarian leanings. They were very upset about what Trump did very publicly, very openly, very brazenly to Thomas Massey. You know, you're chipping off various voter groups, groups with different motivations, but there is a pattern there in terms of people who were willing to pull the lever for Trump, willing to give him a full shot, that saw betrayal.

[00:15:26] Well, and then it's that, and it's also, and this cannot be overstated. We've been talking, I've been talking about it for over a year. I remember talking about it in interviews on Sam Bushman's show when I'm a guest on there before Christmas of last year. This unbearable economic suffering that is certainly affecting the youth more than any other age demographic. The total rejection of the Iran war, of course, the consequences of white replacement, and, you know, as I saw somebody

[00:15:56] put it on Twitter this week, Walmart still looks like Mumbai. And the GOP, hey, let's look at it too, Lou. The GOP ran absolute clowns. You're running women and minorities to represent the only party, well, there's only two, but, you know, the base of your party is white conservatives. You're running basically moderate liberals, and it's just a joke. And then I've seen, you know, the youth swing

[00:16:25] is up to 30 points as somebody had it that Trump was plus, now this seems a little bit of an exaggeration, but that's all I think it was CNN. Trump was plus 28 on young white males and two years ago, the Dems were plus 17. I can't even do the math on that. A 45-point swing, could that even be possible? Oh, yeah. Oh, I definitely think it can't be because they're not moored. You know, they're not the kind of voter like my granddad was a GOP. He voted for Nixon. You know,

[00:16:54] he voted for Gerald Ford. He voted for Bush. That's not who a lot of these kind of voters are. That's not who they are to begin with. And again, the war was such a betrayal that had such immediate economic consequences. That combination, James, was just a knockout blow for a lot of demographic groups. And you're right to call out these candidates. Ohio was a state where they didn't get, again,

[00:17:23] traditional conservatives and get all fired up and turn Ohio into a plus 8, plus 10 Republican state. It was people who, a lot of them, voted for Obama. They were voting on the economy. They were the most affected by this globalism, by these trade deals. They were people in these rural areas who were hurting and saw Trump as a chance for their relief. And they gave him a pretty full shot. But when you get a guy up there like Vivek Ramaswamy

[00:17:52] that is lecturing you on how terrible your culture is, and that's why we've got to bring millions of my people in from a country where they're eating filth off the ground. I mean, it's just disgusting in every way. And that's supposed to be some kind of virtuous model that we should have in this country. And he's also a corporate looter. He's a pump-and-dump guy. I mean, you know, and we can't underestimate, James, I don't know if we want to get into this very much, corporate America is our enemy.

[00:18:22] I mean, I know we have a lot of people on our side that like to point at one particular tribe, and they should be pointed at for all kinds of things. They are a fifth column in this country, and they do need to be totally exposed. But just corporate America itself is a venal aspect in people's lives today. Big pharma, big ag, big tech are the enemy. They're the people that are putting these quotas in, saying we're not going to hire

[00:18:51] any more white men. We're going to outsource every job we can, and then we're going to bring in millions of cheap labor types from India, from these other countries, and have you train them on your job just before we take it away. And this is not a small thing, James. This is a big, another big, and it's not even an undercurrent. But again, when you have candidates like Ramaswamy running around, I mean, you are, tone deaf doesn't

[00:19:20] begin to describe it. Well, Lou, you and I were on a series of Election Day shows on Tuesday, and twice our paths crossed, once in the morning, and then once after. It was all over but the shouting. And we were looking at some of these interesting races, and I've got my interactive map pulled up here at AM 1600, and I'm pulling up Ohio. So you mentioned, of course, Vivek Ramaswamy. That was one that I was looking at,

[00:19:50] and I'm glad he lost, to be honest with you. Now, you've got a left-wing, you know, Jewess now, who's the governor of Ohio. That's not good, but I mean, Vivek Ramaswamy was particularly odious, but it also went into their Senate race with Sherrod Brown beating John Husted, who Trump was so fixated with his, you know, back end, and then up in Michigan. You know, now we're electing, you know, radical Muslims statewide, and statewide elections. Abdul Ed Saeed,

[00:20:20] that was another one that I was interested in. I'll just go through a couple of others. Obviously, you know, the appointment of, you know, basically the appointment, I mean, there was a primary, but Trump and the establishment, GOP, went in hard to make sure Lindsey Graham's sister, I mean, how ridiculous is that? Because she was a candidate who, you know, a sitting senator who died sister. She deserves to go in there. Any white man with a pulse would have held South Carolina, even in this year.

[00:20:50] But, you know, you get her in there and you lose there. Mississippi, another woman, very uncharismatic. You know, I was down in Corinth with Trump a week ago. Maybe he should have stayed an extra hour because she lost by like 2,000 votes out of a million casts. She loses by 2,000, like 1%. Sidney Hyde-Smith losing to Scott Colombe, a black. You know, it's the first time Mississippi's elected a Democrat senator since 82, and it's the first time ever that it'd be a black. And then,

[00:21:19] then comes, you know, Lou, Texas. Texas, Texas, where Abbott gets routed. Well, he wanted all that business from California. He wanted the H-1Bs. He's doing, you know, these Diwali celebrations. But then Tallarico, I remember talking to you Tuesday morning, Lou, and I was saying, you know, they're saying it's going to be a 7-point win for Tallarico. And you said, well, I don't know if it's going to be 7. I don't know if you meant it would be closer or if it would be 13. Tallarico...

[00:21:48] I did not think it would be... I know. I did not think that. And of course, you know, everybody has biases. I have biases. Paxton, despite being uncharismatic, despite having some questionable behavior and decision-making in his personal life, Paxton's been a warrior. And he's been a warrior against these corporations, among other things. And the biggest loss, in my opinion, just as far as somebody I wish could have made it that did not in the entire

[00:22:18] panoply of all these races was losing Ken Paxton in Texas. So, I mean, my biases may have slipped through there a little bit. But, you know, Texas, on the House level, James, and on my show, I don't think as I listen back to it, I don't think I was quite as articulate as I could have been. This congressional redistricting, I mean, you know what it does. I want to get into that in a minute. Yeah, yeah. Keep going, though. I mean, you create a district. You use Trump's 2024 numbers at the height of his popularity. And you say,

[00:22:48] well, I'm going to carve out this new district. You have to weaken other Republican districts to create new Republican districts where the numbers come out right using 2024. Not a good idea to use 2024, but they weakened several districts. And I haven't looked at this district by district to see what the exact impact is, but I am pretty sure both there and in Florida, some of the reversals we had are a direct result of this so-called redistricting program.

[00:23:17] We've already talked about Texas 9, where we thought, oh, boy, that's a slam dunk. We talked about it on Tuesday. I'm actually going to save that one. That was one that I've got circled here on my notes. We'll talk about that after the break because it's coming up quick, but we'll let you know the significance of Texas 9 and in Tennessee District 9, which is where I live and where I voted now that the lines have been redrawn. I'll tell you how I voted straight up and down the ticket after we come back from the break.

[00:23:47] But, Lou, another one, just very quickly, interesting races that stand out to me. The state of Georgia just elected in their top eight positions all black women, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, the attorney general, all black women. That's going to be something in Georgia. Destruction all over again, James. That's bad. But nevertheless, it's where we're at. I think even Boebert's going to lose

[00:24:16] out in Colorado. So the only good looking way. It doesn't look good. We don't even get her up there. Well, you still got Luna in Florida, but by like 500 votes. But, yeah, they're even taking the good looking Republicans out. But, all right. Well, we've got so much more to cover. And, as with any TPC broadcast, we're going to leave you with that glimmer of hope and there is still reason to have it. That is not Pollyanna. That is not me. Just do I sound despaired? I've got so much more to say about it. So much more to get to.

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[00:30:44] One thing you've got to remember is as long as we have doo-wop music, we can never really lose. For two minutes and 34 seconds, everything is right in the world. If you're listening to Marlena, that is the B-side, Candy Girl, another saccharine sweet hit by the Four Seasons. That's what gets me through a rough day, and boy, I don't know what was playing in the White House, Lou, on Tuesday night, but that would probably have made him feel a little bit better. Anyway, let's get back to it. Well, James, I know exactly how you roll

[00:31:13] with that kind of thing, but I really think death metal might be a little more appropriate tonight. Or at least some sort of a funeral dirge as we play at the top of the hour. But anyway, I want to get back to, well, there's so much I got to get to. Lou, we're never going to get all of this in, but the redistricting. Lou, I have a very vivid memory of being Christmas shopping with my wife last December, and you and I were waiting with bated breath

[00:31:43] for the Supreme Court to rule on whether or not the state of Texas could use these newly redrawn lines because that was going to put into play a new district that we were taking an active interest in. Steve Stockman, who's an acquaintance of ours, friend of ours, a guest on this program, was going to be able to run, and he did run, and he finished third in a field of nine, missing the runoff by a couple of thousand votes, and the nominee turned out to be

[00:32:13] a woman named Alex Mueller. Once again, the GOP, Trump endorsed her. The GOP establishment went for her. Alex Mueller, another woman who I think parachuted into that district. She didn't even live there, but nevertheless, this was a seat that was redrawn to help the Republicans win and pad their advantage that then existed in the House. She got beat by 15 points. They specifically drew these lines to make that a safe seat. She got beat

[00:32:43] by 15 points on Tuesday. They should have just let Stockman have it. You know, Stockman always had a joke because he was a convicted felon. He thought he would do better with blacks as a result of their being able to relate. That was something he told me time and time again. Well, they didn't go that way. They went with Mueller, 15 point L in a seat that they carved for her, Steve. Excuse me, Lou. Yeah. No, true enough. And as I said, James, I mean, when you carve out new Republican districts,

[00:33:12] you've got to take GOP voters from one district from another district to put them into this district. They have weakened the whole system of Republican, which were Republican districts, Republican gerrymandered districts in Texas to create these new districts that I think every one of them are close. I believe every one of them is in Democrat hands right now and not by a small margin as you just pointed out with Texas 9

[00:33:42] that we're more familiar with. But the other thing, James, I couldn't get it out of my mind. I went down to that district and I went to a community down there that was considered to be the rib rock, the center of our strength and whatnot. And it's an evening. I go into a supermarket. There's not a white face in there. There's not a white person in this supermarket. And, you know, we got to face facts, folks. The demographic clock is ticking

[00:34:12] around the country. And it ain't good. And the biggest thing that Paxton was facing that was clearly identified by both my good friend Rich Barris and by Mark Mitchell was the fact that every cycle the electorate is darker in Texas. Right off the bat, that wasn't Advantage Paxton. Well, you know, people have been saying for years, several cycles now, is this going to be the year Texas goes blue?

[00:34:41] Well, the year has come, not just in one race, but both of the state of the huge statewide races, governor and U.S. senator gone. And, you know, Texas was one you had a, you know, sort of like a death watch for. Not Mississippi, not South Carolina. And now they're all in play. And as you mentioned, even in the states that they won, Tennessee, now the Republican senator in Tennessee did win by a fairly substantial margin. The reason

[00:35:11] Marsha Blackburn only won by two or three points was because there was an independent candidate who got almost 10% of the vote, which is unheard of. But he was running to the right of her. And I voted for him, I might add. But, and then there was a, well, let's just get into this. There was a newly redrawn seat here in Tennessee that did play for the Republicans, but by the scannest of margins. They drew Jewish Congressman Steve Cohen out. He had been sitting in that office forever. and Justin Pearson

[00:35:41] who is the Afro-wearing Martin Luther King sounding, you know, black member of the state house who was most well-known for being expelled from the state house by the legislature of Tennessee because he wouldn't stop obstructing, you know, their ability to do business by giving speeches nonstop, you know, when they're supposed to be doing things. But, you know, so here's how I voted, Lou, and you can tell me how you did if you'd like. But I did go in and vote. I vote if somebody earns it. And you can skip races,

[00:36:10] too. You don't have to vote straight ticket. You don't have to vote for everything on the ballot. I voted for the independent candidate for governor of Tennessee. And I did vote for the Republican for senator. And I did vote for Brent Taylor for Congress over Justin Pearson. Now that seems to be a logical way to do it. You go in and you vote in your best interest in every race and let the chips fall where they may. But in a lot of the states where the GOP did prevail, they prevailed

[00:36:40] by the scantest of margins. In Louisiana, I mean, it was one or two points in the Tennessee governor's race, yes, and in other places, too. So it could have been even worse yet still. And so I think, you know, I'm looking at this thing and how it looks to me is that the Democrats got off of all the stuff they were campaigning on during the Kamala year, you know, transgenderism, the most anti-white, in-your-face, woke stuff, imaginable,

[00:37:10] critical race theory, DEI. They got off of all of that and basically just shut up and let Trump make unforced error after unforced error, let the economy collapse, and then were the residual beneficiaries of that. It wasn't really anything they did, and I don't think it was even so much as people voting for them. I mean, there were some defections and some people voting to punish the GOP. It was a lot of people staying at home, but they are still the same party they always were, and they are going to overplay their hand,

[00:37:41] and when they do, when they do go back in there and the mask comes back off and they're doing all the radical anti-white stuff that they ever did and that they ever were, how can that, Lou, how can that inevitable overplay when they regain power lead to some sort of authentic movement of right-wing authoritarianism that we were hoping we might have had or that a lot of people were hoping that we might have had? I mean, how can something good come from this? Yeah, well, one thing I want to mention, James, I don't know if I'm directly

[00:38:10] answering that question or not, but I think it is germane. The Republicans, where they have been ensconced, like in Utah, like in Mississippi, like in Kansas, like in South Carolina, the Republican establishments took a tremendous beating. Georgia, another example. And so, things are going to be shook up. It's going to kind of shake up the status quo in all the states where we should make

[00:38:39] tremendous gains in the next cycle. Can candidates come out from the grassroots and be authentic enough and be wise enough and be worthwhile enough for that to make a difference for us and for our objectives longer term? We'll have to see. But I mean, I look at Georgia. Georgia, where it's a totally corrupt Republican establishment in Georgia. Or I look at where Ricketts just barely won. He's the head

[00:39:08] of a big organization in Nebraska, another very corrupt place. And he just barely won. That group was shook up. We saw what happened in South Carolina. and, you know, we will have to see. We will have to see. But it's just too early to say what's going to happen in the next cycle. But, you know, the other element, James, it really is coming to the fore.

[00:39:36] And I hear my friend Rich Barris, who I can't even believe some of the stuff he's saying lately. Like, we have to root out every Zionist in the Republican Party and any dual loyalist should be put on trial immediately. He said this on TV last night. He's not saying this on shows with no audience. He's not saying this on some Rumble channel with five people watching. I mean, he's saying this on some of the biggest channels out there, particularly in alternative media. And the whole tenor of the way Alex Jones

[00:40:06] is talking, the way Tucker Carlson is talking. Tucker Carlson has a cumulative, I've seen it, basically 50 million people are in his audience. 50 million. That's not small. And he's talking about replacement migration and replacement theory almost every episode of his show. And not to mention the Zionist factor. So, you know, what is going to happen next, James, in politics? I'm not sure. But, but,

[00:40:37] our, our message, elements of our message, they're getting a larger and larger and larger audience. audience, and then we're getting more and more youth that want to be active, that want to do something about it. And, and manifesting that in many different ways, all of which are healthy. You know, Lou, I'm so glad you said what you just said because that is what I felt. I, you know, I was watching the election results. I was live on a show when the election results were pouring in, you know,

[00:41:07] that whole night. And I, in my personal reaction to all this, I appreciate you saying what you said because I, I feel the exact same thing. I don't see this as any sort of personal or even, you know, collective setback. I was neither happy or sad on a, on a personal level. Now, it was very different than election night 2000, you know, when Pat got zero, you know, quite literally zero percent of the vote, you know, nationwide. You know, that was a sting. I didn't feel anything like that. I never had any sort of personal loyalty

[00:41:37] or affection to Trump. It was, it was worth a shot. It was worth a shot. And we've taken that shot and, you know, I mean, maybe he was the most implicitly pro-white president since, you know, pre-Kennedy, but this is where we are now. As I said, great candidate when he's running, mixed bag at best as president and, you know, he was not our national savior. Maybe that was never really in the cards, probably wasn't. And I guess I'm already looking at all of this past tense,

[00:42:07] but, you know, there is still a lot of good that can happen and it's going to happen outside of the system most likely. But for the reasons that you just mentioned, there is really, this is not a reversal of the advancements that we have felt extra politically over the last 10 years. But I would ask you this though, with the Republican still in control of Congress

[00:42:36] at least until January, is there anything, now you know this because you've worked on Capitol Hill, you've worked in D.C. for, you know, the better part of a decade, you have been involved in politics, you were Ron Paul's campaign manager when he ran for president the first time, so you know these things. Is there anything the GOP can do if they wanted to between now and when this change of power takes place? Oh, there's all kinds of things they could do. Absolutely. But it's not,

[00:43:05] I don't hold your breath because the Congress is captured and the Congress is captured, James, because the average guy wants to run for Congress and figures out pretty quickly he's not going to get his campaign funded by being the most virtuous, ideologically pure person on the planet. He's going to get his campaign funded by sucking up to corporate America if he's a Republican. That's how he's going to get elected. And so they capture you right away

[00:43:34] and that's not even mentioning the Israel lobby. It's going to be right there. And so, you know, it's a big problem. Big problem. But yes, I mean, things could be done but we'll see what happens. I mean, a place where I'm looking very focused right now is Texas. Texas is absolutely critical to future presidential politics. It's a big chunk of the border where a ton of these invaders are coming across. And, you know, what is going to happen

[00:44:04] in Texas because Texas has these emergency powers. I mean, this new governor coming in could really wreak some havoc but the legislature that's still in Texas could prevent some of this from happening between now and January. But yeah, I mean, we're looking at Texas going from an immigration enforcement state pretty real, pretty legit enforcement to a sanctuary state which would be an utter disaster. So, yeah, I mean, yeah,

[00:44:34] there's a lot going on right now both in state houses and particularly as you pointed out there will be in D.C. and we'll have to see. We'll have to see what happens next. Well, Lou, let me ask you this and I guess, you know, the common sense thinking would be if you're going to get anything concrete from Trump or the GOP, you would have gotten it in his first God, what even year are we in now? What is this? Six of eight? You would have got it

[00:45:03] in the first six years of the eight years that he had an opportunity to deliver something not in the two lame duck years. But I've got to ask because there has been some shift here recently and then you have, you know, Susie Wiles is out. Stephen Miller now in as chief of staff. Stephen Miller comes out and says, you know, I'm looking into suspending habeas corpus so we can get these deportations done. Is that just more fool's gold? What's going on there? Yeah, I honestly don't know because people, I mean,

[00:45:33] even some of our friends have a history with Stephen Miller going back, belonging to certain clubs and things like that. But, you know, I don't know. Some people like Marjorie Taylor Greene said essentially he has already been running the White House staff, you know, the traditional job of chief of staff and Susie Wiles was kind of in a more elevated position in that since she was a total gatekeeper over Trump and now, you know, he's moving her into the political operation.

[00:46:02] Is that just a sop to kind of ease her out or is she going to be picking the next presidential nominee and directing the next flow of corporate cash and Israeli lobby cash to Marco Rubio as an example? We'll have to see. I don't have the answer to that. That's the allegation Marjorie Taylor Greene is making right now who also had some real quality time, a lot closer to things than I was. It'd probably be safe to say when I was back there a long time ago and she was just back there. So,

[00:46:32] we'll have to see but James, I'm not holding my breath. Yeah, well, no, you'd die of asphyxiation. You would die. You wouldn't make it if you hold your breath on that hope but it is interesting and I took note of it and me saying the right thing, they say the right thing a lot more than they do the right thing and of course, you know, Stephen Miller is Stephen Miller but that was something that's been all over the place

[00:47:02] on social media this week. I can't post anywhere on social media but they still let me lurk and so, let me just remind everybody that we're talking to Lou Moore and you can go to LibertyNewsRadio.com and you should and select the Hour of Decision broadcast. That's Lou's show and if you want more of this type of commentary, Lou broke down on his show for a full hour which I will be using

[00:47:32] to inform the line of questioning that I'll send him for my next feature in the American Free Press but you can find it there LibertyNewsRadio.com click Hour of Decision and if you want more of Lou Moore just listen to his most recent podcast on the election. We've been covering some of it tonight but he covers a lot more in that particular hour and so, well, I got this though, Lou. I mean, we always like to end an hour on a more positive note and this is an article

[00:48:03] that came out on Election Day, the night of the election. Let me make sure of that. It came out November 3rd. Yep, that was Tuesday. Marshall Rawson who marched with Nazis in Charlottesville wins seat in Florida House and the beginning of this reads, Marshall Rawson, the unrepentant white supremacist revealed in a TMP excuse me, that's talking part, talking points memo, expose, as an attendee of the deadly

[00:48:33] 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, won a seat in the Florida House of Representatives on Tuesday. The 34-year-old Republican nominee who has condoned slavery and called for the, I'm just reading this verbatim, folks, you gotta understand, called for the executing of queer people has defeated Merrily Malwitz-Jibson according to the Associated Press. His victory makes him the most extreme candidate to be elected to public office since David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, was elected

[00:49:03] to the Louisiana State Legislature in 1989. That has been out, you know, that was a new article that came out on election night after his general election victory was cemented, but it was articles like that that had been flooding the controlled press since he won the primary a couple of months ago. So here's the question. That is the kind of press that has just been inundated following this particular candidate

[00:49:31] in his particular race for a House seat in Florida for two months. Now you look at all the losses the GOP took and this guy, a guy who has never apologized for what he has stood for, wins, and not only wins, he wins by 36.4 points, Lou. So, you know, is there a lesson there? Is there anything? I mean, you know,

[00:50:01] that's not even close. 36 point win and with all of that media inundation. Should they be looking for candidates that are a little more edgy and a little less whatever? I mean, what are we looking at? Is there any correlation between a House, you know, a State House seat and what we're talking about here on a federal level or what? Well, I think so. And, you know, you had me kind of dig into that race a little bit. I took a look at it. James, he's an authentic candidate speaking about issues

[00:50:31] that working people care about. I mean, you know, they're talking about Charlottesville and all this. Plus, he stood up for his Southern heritage and what the hell is wrong with that? I mean, seriously. But I think that's what the average person thinks about that. But the fact is he spoke to their concerns about disappearing farmland, if I remember correctly, in that district. Some of the other economic issues. He's a straight shooter. People know him. He's been around the community. He's been a concerned citizen. He got the endorsement

[00:51:00] of a number of leading citizens in that community because of his activity. And he's just a damn good candidate. And, of course, they're trying to put the tar brush on him. But, you know, the authentic candidate that has his finger on the pulse of what people are concerned about, what they're fearing, what they need, they're going to be successful long term. And maybe not long term because anything can happen in the next two years.

[00:51:29] We already know this is no referendum of support of the Democrat. So, no. I mean, of course we need more candidates like him. He was a great candidate. The more I read about him the more I felt supportive of him. Well, and he won. I mean, that's the big takeaway. I mean, you know, you can't say, well, you can't put these radioactive candidates up because they're going to lose every time. Well, I mean, his district may have been a safe Republican district, but the Republicans

[00:51:59] lost a lot of safe Republican districts, including the ones that they drew out of thin air for the very purpose of padding their wins. Well, James, to just tell you real quickly, the impact of this election over the whole country. In Utah, 15 legislative districts flipped to the Democrats, even in this state. So, yeah, I mean, totally. It doesn't matter if you were in a safe state or whatever. You didn't escape the wrath just because you

[00:52:28] were in a Republican state, not hardly. No, exactly. I mean, they were all trending to the other side, and if it hadn't have been for the veritable fortress that DeSantis had created in Florida, it would have been even worse there. I mean, Byron Donalds barely squeaked by. He certainly didn't win by the margin that Marshall Rawson won by. 36 points is almost unanimous. But, Lou, you know, last week we had the top five guests in the history of the program all on for our 22nd anniversary. Tonight, we're going to have

[00:52:57] the top two guests of this year, and you, my friend, are, number one, along with Patrick Martin, who's going to be on to talk about Iran, the former government contractor, going to be talking about what's maybe coming in Iran now that Trump has nothing left to lose. That's coming up in the next hour. But, Lou, I could not have enjoyed this hour more. It really gives us a great kickstart to our post-election coverage, which will continue for several weeks, you know, to be sure. A final word to you

[00:53:26] on any of it that we may have left out. I'm just going to say the future, for what we really need to have happen, James, and that's the clarifying I was talking about. What is our ultimate objective? What do we need to do? And are the men of the West going to have the will to live and survive and take this civilization and cherish it and save it or not? And I couldn't be more positive about where I think it's going when I look at the youth

[00:53:55] in particular. Even after, this is the key, I think, and this is the great place to end at least this hour of discussion, is even with these results and even with the results as it pertains to the youth in this election, it is understood why that happened.

[00:54:35] We'll be back with Patrick Martin. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.