00:00Look, there are many reasons why Republicans suffered the largest massacre of this generation,
00:05frankly, in recent American political history. There, of course, is the unpopularity of the
00:09Iran war. There is the catastrophic nature of the administration's tariff rollouts,
00:15all the various issues that come into play when it comes to inflation, cost of living,
00:19gasoline pumps, supermarket aisle, etc., etc., from there. But one of the under-discussed issues
00:25that I believe led to this generational setback for the Republican Party and for the American
00:29rights is indeed the issue of corruption. If you look at the exit polls, a lot of the final
00:34pre-election polls from the major pollsters, corruption was fairly high on the list. It
00:39was typically a top five, and at times, actually, it was even a top two or three issue. Now,
00:46on the other side of the equation, the Democrats are not exactly covering themselves in glory when
00:51it comes to the issue of corruption either. In fact, many of these same polls show that voters
00:55distrusted Democrats even more than Republicans. And you can see that in part when it comes to the
01:01fact that Senate Democrats, each and every one of them, voted against a ban on insider trading back
01:05when that bill was brought to the floor in September 30. But here's the thing. Whatever
01:09qualms voters may have about Democratic corruption, it is the elements of corruption that come from this
01:16White House and from those close to this White House, all the cryptocurrency deals, the fact that
01:20some people like Jared Kushner and Steve Wyckoff are negotiating on behalf of the United States
01:25with wealthy, oil-rich Middle East Emirates and states like Qatar and the UAE, while simultaneously,
01:32well, they're making real estate deals. These, the high-profile nature of these deals clearly rubbed a lot of
01:37Americans the wrong way. I think that's one of the main reasons why Republicans now post-Tuesday's results
01:43find themselves where they are at. Now, the big question is this, what can you do from here? Well, it's
01:47very
01:47simple. Clean up your act. The entire nature of Mad Gun America First is to be a populist movement.
01:55What does that actually mean? Well, populism means that you represent the people. Is there anything
02:00more quintessentially anti-populist and more quintessentially, therefore, elitist than corruption,
02:06than gross venality? There is not. This might be the easiest fix of all, of all the lessons for the
02:12GOP to take. This would be the easiest, easiest lesson. Get back to actual populism. What that
02:17means, first and foremost, is to ditch the inside trading, the self-dealing, and the corruption.
