ve worsened their own reputation and they have not influenced the other side. Right? So every time somebody on the right uses that analogy of on the plantation, slavery, you are making things not just a little worse, a lot worse, in terms of persuasion mistakes. That would be close to a 10 out of 10.

So you want to leave that language behind. Look at the language that Kanye uses for a good example. Break free of the mental prison. Even prison made me a little uncomfortable because there's a racial disparity in prisons, so I didn't like that. But it's so visual I was willing to put up with it.

Somebody say, what about if you are black, can you talk about the plantation? You can with less risk than if somebody on the right uses the same words. So that's true. I would still not do it because I don't know how many times I'll say this but it's about the past. We just need to release on that. Release on the analogies. Just release on the past. Let's just deal with what we have right now. And what we have right now gives us a set of opportunities and a set of problems. Why can't we deal with them? Why do we even need to talk about the past?

Let me tell you the other dumbest thing that the right does. I don't think there's anything that makes me more angry at the people on the right than what I'm going to say right now. Because it's not because I disagree with the facts or anything. It's because it's just such a bad way to think about the world. And it's this. Somebody will say, hey those KKK people are all Trump supporters. You know you saw the KKK had all of 27 people gathered and of course it was national news. And part of the news was Howard Dean said oh these are Trump supporters, Trump space.

Now people on the right like to respond to that by showing the history that the KKK is really a Democratic invention. That if you go back far enough in time the KKK was more Democrats. Now whether or not that's true, I think it is true. It doesn't fricking matter. It just doesn't matter. It's just the past. Stop arguing about the past because do you know what? If you go back far enough there was a caveman who hit another caveman on the head with a rock. It doesn't fricking matter. It's not here. All right? Those Democrats who were in the KKK, all dead. Well maybe not all of them. Just doesn't matter. It's just the past.

All right, if it's true that there are some KKK here today marching, well that matters. Yeah, doesn't matter much because there were 27 of them in a country of 300 million. But you just gotta let go of the past. Just kind of let go.

How do you respond to this lie? It's not a lie. It's literally true that the folks — there's several categories of people who would be called racists. They are more likely to be Republicans. Let me explain the complicated reason why. Some people like immigration toughness for economic reasons. Some of them like it because it means fewer brown people. It's not hard to understand that the racists have a preference. Why wouldn't racists have preferences? They were either gonna like the Democrats or the Republicans. They were gonna like one or the other. It just doesn't matter why they like it. They like it for a different reason.

Absurd oversimplification. Yeah, it also doesn't matter that other people agree with you for different reasons. That's not an important fact. If I think the world is round because I learned it in school and you think the world is round because you've figured it out because you sailed the ship and the horizon disappeared, it doesn't matter. Now we got to the same place. We can both fly planes around the world. That was the worst analogy ever. A good example of why you shouldn't use analogies.

And immigrants are not just brown. Somebody says that is true. What are all the racist Republicans hiding? I don't understand the question. And by the way is it my imagination or did the great alleged racist Republicans look at Kanye West and say, ah, maybe it is? Is there any racist Republican who doesn't love what Candace Owens is saying? I think Candace and Kanye both put the lie to the racial framing that all Republicans are racist. Because look how easy it was. Look how amazingly easy it was for Republicans to embrace the ideas of both of these people without embracing everything that they were about. Nobody said we love everything that Kanye's done in all of his personal life or whatever. Republicans simply said I like this idea. I like this thing he said. Why can't you like the good stuff?

Let me ask you this. If an African-American ran for president on the Republican side, let's say after Trump's second term if you want to think of it that way, just to make Trump not part of the decision. Let's say it's after his second term. If an African-American Republican got into the primaries and, you know, got some purchase, is there anybody here — because most of you are conservatives, probably 95 percent watching this — is there anybody watching this who would not vote for a qualified African-American Republican candidate who had normal Republican views? You're mostly anonymous. Is there anybody here who would fail to vote for them because black? Yeah? So all right.

Let me rephrase it so it's easier to answer. Yeah you're getting confused what's the yes and what's the no. I think you're all saying the same thing. I think I'm seeing a hundred percent agreement that the Republican Party would absolutely get behind an African-American president. I believe that's always been the case. And you know I've spent how many hours interacting with the base. You know that the most Republican of the Republican, the most conservative, the conservative more Republican than conservative, if you look at the people I've interacted with.

But here's another little mind blower for you. For about 48 hours Republicans were going crazy talking about Kanye and about Candace. I never heard anybody say a racist remark about either one of them. Did you? And I'm talking about Twitter. I'm talking about Twitter is the place where all racist remarks go to live. I didn't hear anybody. I didn't hear a single Republican make a derogatory racial remark about either of those people. Why? Because they like their ideas. Boom.

And the story — and I think it broke some brains. I think it broke some brains that the Republican Party is far more idea-based than race-based. Because I think the people on the left have learned to see the world through the filter of gender and race. And it's hard for them to imagine that Republicans, at least the majority, not counting the racist minority, but the basic generic Republican is pretty idea-based, not race-based.

Yeah, people from the left were pretty angry that there could be any kind of a meeting of the minds on ideas. That just seemed — Tom Arnold. Yeah so you saw some horrible things on the left but I don't think I saw one negative thing about Kanye's ideas. Yeah there were people who obviously said he's not a serious politician and I would agree with that. Yet he's also young.

So here's what I'd say about Kanye. If you say he'll never be president because he doesn't have the experience, the background, doesn't know enough about politics or whatever, that's probably all true. If you say he can't acquire that stuff in eight years, well you are really wrong because in eight years he could be the most qualified person in the pack if he wants to. He would just have to want to and then focus on it.

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