Trump Betrayed His Voters on Behalf of a Foreign Country. This Is Why Republicans Will Get Crushed.

The Tucker Carlson Show

The episode argues that Donald Trump has betrayed his voters by abandoning his anti-establishment platform and aligning with foreign interes

Key takeaways

• Trump's pivot from opposing the 'deep state' to embracing neoconservative foreign policy marks a complete reversal of his campaign promises.
• The Republican Party's alignment with figures like Ted Cruz—known for unwavering support of Israel—signals a betrayal of American sovereignty and voter trust.

Main topics

• Trump's alleged betrayal of his voters
• Republican Party alignment with pro-Israel policies

Notable quotes

"Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state. That's the way it's got to be."

Conclusion

The episode concludes that Trump's abandonment of his original platform in favor of foreign-aligned policies

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:00) So things are not looking good for Republicans. The midterm elections are less than two months away, first Tuesday of November. And the polling suggests, to the extent you can believe the polling, that Republicans are definitely going to lose the House of Representatives. They hold by a tiny margin, but also, it now looks likely, the United States Senate. And, you know, again, it's impossible to know what the future holds, but if you had to bet on it. If you were trying to make a fortune on Polymarket, you would probably bet that Democrats walk away in less than two months with both houses of Congress, with control of the legislative branch. Speaker 4 (0:36) So what does that mean and what's likely to happen after? Well, again, we don't know. You can imagine all kinds of things, but some things seem more likely than others. One, Democrats probably will initiate some kind of proceeding against the president and against people who work for him, maybe an impeachment against him. Certainly a lot of people who work at the White House are going to get subpoenas. There may be criminal actions or an attempt to initiate criminal actions. There's going to be a... explosion of partisan fighting in Washington, because the party that just took the House and Senate is going to be under pressure from its voters to do something once they got there. People voted Democrat because they're mad at Trump. And so they're going to expect their representatives to punish Trump in some way. So you can just imagine that the second two years of the second Trump administration will be, at least on domestic matters, pretty absorbed by political fighting. So how does the president respond to that? Well, again, we can't know. But if we had to guess, he'll likely respond like previous presidents have responded. And that's by turning his attention outside the country. Well, of course, he already is totally absorbed in what's happening outside our country because we're now fighting two wars against near peer adversaries, Russia and Iran, and we're not succeeding in either war. So you can imagine President Trump in frustration or out of a. kind of natural desire to exert power, doubling down in both of those conflicts, committing ground troops, for example. Just guessing here. in Iran, accelerating rather than pulling back. Because the one thing you know, no matter how much Democrats say they hate Donald Trump, they will not try to restrain his unconstitutional power, the power he's assumed to declare war without approval from Congress. Like the president now possesses the power to commit troops wherever he wants, despite the fact the Constitution prohibits that. Lots of presidents have used that power, therefore it exists and probably always will. And they're not going to do anything about it because ultimately they agree with him. They may hate Trump, but they're neocons just like he is. So they support what he's doing in Iran. Maybe they don't think he's doing a good job of it, but the idea of a regime change war against Iran, the Democratic leadership is for that. Chuck Schumer has said he's for that. Speaker 4 (3:03) So it seems probable, at least, that if Trump, say, gets impeached, we will have an acceleration in the war against Iran and maybe in the war against Russia. Speaker 4 (3:17) And at that point, we'll all be so caught up in that disaster that we probably won't have a chance to think about why did power change hands so dramatically in the midterms? And you'll hear people say, well, that always happens. You know, the president's party tends to lose seats in the midterm elections. And of course, that's true. Haven't checked the numbers, but it seems even more true in the second term. So this is just kind of conventional. This is what happens. Speaker 4 (3:45) But it's not exactly right. That's not the only reason. People don't vote against the president's party just because they always have in the past. President Trump won a larger share of the popular vote than any Republican president in a long time. He came into office more popular than a Republican president had been, certainly much more popular than he was in the first term. And now he's deeply unpopular. So something changed. And it's worth pausing just for a minute to think through what that is. Why is it that Trump, who a year and a half ago was popular and probably could have done a lot of different things, is now looking at a total wipeout and likely impeachment? And if you had to sum it up in one word, that word would be betrayal. So in other words, it's not just that Trump was elected president and didn't do a very good job. We just saw that with the last president. We elect the guy and oops, turns out he has dementia. No, this is a different thing. This is the process of electing a president on the basis of promises he'll do one thing and then watching him do exactly the opposite on purpose, not forced to. There was no reason that Trump had to sell out his voters. There was no economic reason. There was no strategic reason. He just decided to. Now, why he decided to is a whole separate conversation that historians, one hopes, will get to the bottom of at some point. but whatever the motive, we know that that's exactly what he did. He ran on one thing and did the opposite of that thing, and that is, once again, betrayal, and betrayal is always the worst thing. In marriage, betrayal is called cheating. In business, betrayal is called embezzlement, and it's always a bitter experience to find out someone you thought was your ally is, in fact, your enemy, is working against your interests. You thought you were working in concert. We're in this together, and then you find out that the person is actually working against you. That's called treachery. And it's unforgivable. That's why no one for 2,000 years has named his child Judas, because treachery is abominable to all people at all times. There's something inherently disgusting about it. And that's exactly what we're looking at as we approach the halfway mark in Trump's second term as president. So rather than just assert that, we thought it'd be interesting to spend a few minutes going back and looking. at the promises that the current president made right before he was elected president. Now, part of this is exculpatory for those of us who voted for Trump and who did so with sincerity, not in the hope of getting rich or getting a cabinet position, not donors to the campaign, merely cheerleaders for it. We have to answer the question, like, why did you do that? Why did you think this guy with, you know, a trail of bankruptcies and personal betrayals, why did you think he would be true to his word in this case? And that, You know, it's a fair question. But part of the answer is because the things he was saying were just so spot on. They were such precise descriptions of the problems, the actual problems, not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but the real problems that Americans face. Donald Trump was able to capture and distill them very, very well. And just two years later, it's hard to remember any of that. It's hard to remember that this guy who's now funding the whole purpose of the administration is to squelch criticism of Israel and sniff out anti-Semitism, America's biggest problem, or whatever they think they're doing. There's nothing to do with any real problem that most Americans face. It's like completely insane. It's hard to remember that this guy not so long ago seemed to have his finger very much. on the polls. Like he knew what was wrong with the country and he said so again and again and again. And so again, it is kind of a way of explaining the behavior of those of us who voted for Trump and saying, we didn't know, listen to this. But it's also just interesting because it really reveals the totality of the 180 this guy took in less than two years. So let's start at the beginning. This is a clip from midway through 2023. So this is the point at which Trump is in the middle of all these legal dramas. They're trying to send him to prison for the rest of his life. And he's decided, I'm going to run for president. And here's why. And we're starting with this clip because it really sums it up. It sums up the reason that people voted for Donald Trump. Donald Trump was, above all else, the enemy of something called the deep state. Watch this. Speaker 5 (8:23) The stakes of this election could not be more clear. Either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing and demolishing and happily doing so our country, or we defeat them in a landslide on November 5th, 2024. Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state. That's the way it's got to be. Speaker 4 (8:59) So the reason that's so compelling is because it's the grand thesis of the entire Trump project. And it's true. America's problems are systemic problems, meaning the system itself doesn't function as designed or at least as intended. And everything else we're dealing with is a result of that fact. So. On the most basic level, this is a democratic system. The people own the country. They elect leaders to speak for them in Washington. And they have a legitimate expectation of seeing the country molded to their desire, since they are the shareholders. And that's the whole point of the system, is to reflect the view of the public in legislation in Washington and the actions of the executive branch. And that hasn't been true for a long time. Now, a lot of us have been slow on the uptake here. taken us a while to figure that out because of this sideshow, it turns out, that's called partisan politics, where you have these two parties that are fundamentally in agreement on the things that really matter, economics and foreign policy, but fight about a sliver of issues in the middle. And they fight in such a ferocious way that bystanders, the rest of us, think this is really real. These people hate each other. If only they would just get along. If only Tip O'Neill could have a drink with Ronald Reagan at the end of the day, the system might work. But that, of course, is an inversion of the truth. The problem isn't that the leaders of the two parties don't agree on anything. The problem is that they agree on everything that matters. And the rest of us weren't cut in on the joke. And the effect, and by the way, this is very obvious to the rest of the world. Talk to anybody who watches American politics closely from abroad, a sophisticated foreign observer, starting with Putin, who has made this point many times. Whatever you think of Putin, not stupid. They all know this. It's obvious. As people used to ruefully say in Washington, no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain. And that's kind of true. When was the last time we had a president who really disagreed with John McCain on foreign policy or economics? When was the last time we had a president who wasn't embroiled in some kind of financial corruption as John McCain was during the savings and loan scandal in the 80s? Can't really remember. So you always get a neocon president who believes in monopoly capitalism and somehow gets rich in the process. That's not a two party system. That's a one party system. That is the deep state. So when Trump said deep state, it's very different from saying those dastardly Democrats, that senile president and his wine mom running mate, they're bad. Well, yeah, OK, they're bad. But that doesn't begin to touch the scale of the badness. What's actually bad is the fact that Mitch McConnell's wife is working for the Chinese government and he's a Republican. So they're all in this together. We're excluded. And Trump seemed to understand that. He said it. He named it. So there are tons of reasons you could get pretty obsessed with Mars men. One of the weirdest things about getting older is how gradual the decline can be. Energy is not quite as consistent. Your focus is not quite as sharp. Huh? Your workouts aren't the same. Your recovery takes longer. You feel like you've lost your edge, like you're only operating at about 80 % of who you used to be, and that's probably because you are. That's when men usually start looking into testosterone, but here's the thing. 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The people don't rule. And academic studies, not that you need them, but we happen to have them, so why not cite them, show that the public, the non-donating members of the public, also known as voters, have no effect at all over time on the actions and the direction of the U.S. government. So the people do not rule. Democracy is not real on the most basic level. It's a republic, not a democracy. Stop. Yes, it's a republic in the sense that we do not have direct democracy. It hasn't existed since Athens. That's not the point. The point is we have a form of democracy. The people own the country. They're citizens. They're not employees. Speaker 4 (14:07) But the system does not reflect that reality. Therefore, it's not a reality. So that's the first problem. The second problem is you don't have rule of law when you have an oligarchy, because there are always people who are exempt from the rules. And in our system, this reaches its most obvious manifestation in identity politics. So you have, you know, everyone's an American, 340 million of us are Americans, but certain Americans get to use words the rest of us don't use. get to break laws the rest of us have to abide by. They're separate books. Not all of us are judged by the same set of standards. And that is inherently immoral. It's obviously unfair. It makes a mockery of the idea of citizenship. And it's corrosive of the social fabric. If you think your neighbor is getting a special deal, by definition, you hate your neighbor. If you want to make your children hate each other, favor one over the other. And they will never get along. Long after you're dead, they'll hate each other. And that's exactly what our leaders have done to us. And why wouldn't they? Because they themselves are the beneficiaries of a separate set of books, of a special deal. And that, of course, is the whole point of the Epstein story. It's not that he touched kids. Yes, that's indescribably awful. That's the worst crime. But it's not the crime that destroys America the most quickly. This crime, the crime that destroys America. Speaker 4 (15:34) is the realization that the rest of us recently came to that no matter what Jeffrey Epstein and his friends did, they got away with. It was a completely separate standard for them. They were in a class, now known as the Epstein class, that didn't have to abide by the normal rules. And so people watching this could not escape the very human reaction. Well, why am I playing along then? Why am I paying taxes? Why am I obeying the law? I'm all in. We're doing this for your elderly grandmother or for your grandchildren not yet born. I'm obeying rules that I don't like. They're inconvenient and expensive because everyone else is doing it. We're all in this together, guys. But we're not. Speaker 4 (16:20) And that's what we've learned. But we were never all in it together, not as long as the country