Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

We have a movement that loves grifting off the pain of Americans without actually doing anything about it. We all recognize that the invasion and the political persecutions are existential threats to our existence, yet where is the plan of the conservative industry as it pursues influence-peddling on personalities rather than strategic outcomes? I first explain this through the prism of the latest news on the invasion. Then we’re joined by FBI whistleblower Steve Friend to explain how the GOP has utterly failed to deal with the political targeting issue. He has now changed his focus to the red states and has introduced a bill in Tennessee, SB 2804/HB2912, to ban local law enforcement from being deputized into joint terrorism task forces. Steve’s objective is to place the local sheriffs in the driver’s seat so they can decide which information to share with the FBI rather than local officers being sworn to silence against the elected sheriff while working on political targeting under the guise of counterterrorism. If all political stars and whistleblowers would focus on outcomes like Steve rather than on getting a viral moment, we’d actually relieve some of the pain we all claim to experience at the hands of our corrupt government.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are constantly entreated to accept false choices, and what to do about the budget insanity is no different. No, we are not going to solve inflation by merely cutting woke programs, foreign aid, and illegal immigration. At the same time, it’s morally and politically untenable to dive head first into Social Security and Medicare without first holistically fixing health care and the economy. I explain a “pie the corner” approach to first tackle the most indefensible and politically less popular mandatory and discretionary programs first. We’re joined by Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) who explains how the failure of leadership to tackle the budget in a balanced way has allowed us to miss easy opportunities to start making a dent in the budget insolvency, which leaves us now with false choices. He also discusses the need to fight Biden on his anti-Israel policies, as well as building a bench of more Freedom Caucus members.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Increasingly, Trump is going all in for the corporate wing of the GOP. I go through the disturbing pattern of policies and endorsements that indicate Trump’s leftward shift is about a lot more than RINO flattery. He is desperate for cash and is willing to do anything for it. It’s part of the broader problem of how conservatives fight on things in the abstract, such as inflation, invasion, and corporatism, but then when it comes to the tangible fight, they are subversive. The corporate interests are influencing red state primaries and legislation, yet at a time when we need a party leader to fight them, he is joining them. Finally, I tackle the latest news on inflation and how it’s criminal that Republicans can’t engage in a budget battle with political tailwinds on the economy that are as strong as the momentum against the border invasion.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s action-packed show, I go to town on Tennessee’s attorney general for declaring its state sovereignty bill unconstitutional. I offer the definitive analysis of why the notions of federal and judicial supremacism of constitutional interpretation are both wrong and harmful to liberty. Also, building off Ecclesiastes 8:11 — that when punishment of evil is not meted out swiftly it encourages that same evil — I explain why Republican hesitancy to fight the border invasion now will have the perverse result of making illegal immigration more popular. Obamacare is a great historical example of this political science phenomenon. Finally, I address the sickening beatdown of a white girl in St. Louis and call for mandatory sentencing on juvenile violent beatings. This is a pervasive problem that needs to be rooted out, yet states have gone soft on juvenile violence for fear of offending black people. This is counterproductive to everyone and will only breed more resentment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, I analyze the SOTU address and show how Biden is crushing Republicans while Katie Britt and Donald Trump embarrassed us. Trump is still pimping the vaccines, which demonstrates the need for some tough love. Next, I present the most important bill of our time – IOWA SF 2108 – which will direct the state to create gold-backed savings and checking accounts where consumers can pay vendors with debit cards in dollars but have the account backed by gold. Its author, Iowa state Sen. Kevin Alons (R), joins us today to explain why this is the most politically and practically feasible way to create a de facto gold standard to rival the feds and change the entire relationship of the people and the state with the federal government. By controlling the currency, we will win every political fight and evacuate ourselves from the financial titanic that the Great Reset has created.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Given that we have an ineffective and distracted industry that sleeps through primaries and policy fights, we continue to see demonic policies persist in red states. I go through examples of egregious left-wing Republicans and policies in places like Wyoming, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. But there is an Indiana child custody case that takes the cake. We’re joined today by Joe Davis, legal counsel at Becket for the Cox family, who had their child removed from them for three years. What was their crime? The Indiana Department of Child Services accused them of abuse for not calling their son, who suffered from mental illness, by a female name! The state of Indiana is actually siding with the agency against Becket as they take the case to the Supreme Court. We discuss the importance of reforming the due process laws in family court and the need to put an end to this demonic policy in red states.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last night, there were two electoral trends. In the Texas state House races, an unprecedented 17 incumbents were either defeated or drawn into runoffs. On the other hand, elsewhere in Texas and around the country, we saw a pretty generic pro-incumbent result. What gives? We’re joined today by Wade Miller, executive director of Citizens for Renewing America and longtime Texas grassroots activist, who interprets the results for us. He notes that we benefited from a perfect storm of well-placed candidates, the Paxton impeachment, and endorsements from Trump and Abbott on the side of the grassroots that was enough to create a sea change. This could happen elsewhere if we only tried to replicate it. However, in many states, that will require us to push more of a convention model for primaries. Either way, the lesson of Super Tuesday is that we get exactly what we fight for and no more. We will not change the party or the country on its own by being lazy and apathetic or getting drugged by “hopium.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In fact, the Colorado ruling is nothing compared to how the non-Thomas/Alito judges are screwing us on issue after issue. I discuss some new cases that fit into a pattern of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett eagerly taking up left-wing appeals from good lower court rulings while ignoring right-leaning appeals from bad lower court rulings. Be very afraid of the Supreme Court screwing us over on woke issues in red states, as well as state-based enforcement. I make the case for why MAGA should have demanded the speaker affirm in the budget bill the right of states to enforce immigration law. Also, I provide a preview for Super Tuesday primaries to watch for. Unfortunately, Trump has screwed us on so many endorsements but refuses to help us when we need him most, even against never-Trump candidates and even when good incumbents are being targeted by McCarthy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the week we will be sold out on the budget. I explain how east it would be to win a funding fight over inflation and the border, but alas, conservative media couldn’t care less. Later on, we’re joined by Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and one of the foremost experts on Latin American affairs, who warns that Biden has let in the fastest-growing, most dangerous transnational gang. Humire warns that Tren de Aragua thrives on sex trafficking, retail theft, violence, and delegitimizing of law enforcement. The gang destroyed so many Latin American countries and now is doing the same thing inside the U.S. He gives us a spellbinding presentation on how the Biden administration has imported every element that has taken down Latin America and is now doing the bidding of both the Venezuelan government and the Iranian government. In this respect, Tren de Aragua is worse than MS-13 because it is a conduit for a terrorist government actor.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about the GOP establishment in the abstract, we talk about the border in the abstract, we talk about inflation in the abstract, we talk about FBI weaponization in the abstract, but when the ball is actually in play in real time to affect the ultimate outcomes on those issues in vivid, specific ways, not only are we MIA, but while our own heroes, aka Trump, are scoring touchdowns for the other side, we are cheering them on. Today, I explain how Trump is gratuitously endorsing every RINO we try to defeat because McCarthy and Johnson call in airstrikes. It’s also how Johnson is able to get away with selling us out on the budget and how red-state RINO governors are able to use Trump to avoid pressure to pass good legislation. I have no problem with people voting for Trump, especially against Biden, but I do have a problem with those who refuse to pressure him to the right or at least help fight on the issues and primaries where Trump is harming us. I challenge people like that to explain how they hope to achieve their own stated goals with Trump carpet-bombing any effective way to actualize those stated objectives. Or is this all just one big vanity grift? Also, I give the details of how the House and Senate GOP deviously screwed us yesterday and have now funded the Fourth Reich indefinitely, even as our government has grabbed our very own Steve Baker in a way that would make Putin blush.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices