it, now everybody likes it. you may have to have some boots on the ground for a period of time until you get rid of the cancer. that s number one. we re going to bring in a panel to talk about this. we have brian fallon, amanda carpenter, and matt lewis. matt, to you first on that. it s just what s happened to cpac here in two years, you saw the reception he got just a moment ago. that was the reception that he got two years ago. yeah, and it s pretty amazing. i think that video from two years ago really highlights how the conservative movement and the conservative entertainment wing were complicit in helping make donald trump be successful. he had that cpac speaking gig, that really did help launch him. softball interview there with sean hannity who really gave trump a lot of access to a pretty wide audience on his show. what we saw today was a speech that was not really a conservative speech.
rev renld. unfortunately, he s not qualified to impeach the president. people can follow him. they can get all excited and that very much excites his part of the party, the extreme part of the republican party, but other than that, nothing s really going to happen there. the republican party has got to figure out a way to differentiate itself between the entertainment wing of the party and the issues wing of the party. and unfortunately because the party is so weak today, it is this entertainment wing, thrush limbaugh s again beck, the dominant voice, you look at that narrative, it s defunding obamacare. it s impeaching the president or even members of his open party. john mccain says he needs to be impeached or it s shutting down the government rather. none of these things get us anywhere. none of these things actually provide jobs.
enough in that party not to push at least in public until someone catches them, you know, a fundraising small dinner or something, not to say this stuff in public. i think people who don t have those national aspirations, the next michele bachmann, allen west, they ll surface, and they will keep pushing it. for one thing, it s a huge magnet for raising money. look how much money she s raised, someone who seems like a flake in real terms, but there s dollars in those hills and a lot of it from fat cats and people like the koch brothers. when i think about the louis gilmart, steve king, michele bachmann, sort of that wing of house republicans, to me allen west i d put there, too, before he s gone. to me that s sort of the entertainment wing, and i don t mean this in a derisive way, but there s a lot of crossover between sort of one-liner, stand-up style comedy, call and response stuff, entertaining
like the koch brothers. when i think about the louis gilmart, steve king, michele bachmann, sort of that wing of house republicans, to me allen west i d put there, too, before he s gone. to me that s sort of the entertainment wing, and i don t mean this in a derisive way, but there s a lot of crossover between sort of one-liner, stand-up style comedy, call and response stuff, entertaining politics that does raise a lot of money and gets people to their feet at speeches and can function very well at debates and sometimes at presidential-style campaign events. is there always a need for people who can do that in conservative politics? and how come democrats don t have a codray like that? wasn t al franken supposed to be that? turned out to be biassed senator in the world. exactly. given the ties between the entertainment industry and liberalism and the democratic
the louie gohmert, steve king, michele bachmann, that of wing of house republicans, to me, that s very and alan west, i would put there too, before he s gone. to me, that is sort of the entertainment wing and i don t mean this in a devicive way, but there s a lot of crossover between sort of one-liner stand-up style comedy, very entertaining politics that i think does raise at of money, that does get people to their feet at speeches, that can actually function very well at debates and sometimes at presidential-style campaign events. is there always a need for people who can do that in conservative politics? and how come democrats don t have a cadre like that? you would think the democrats, wasn t al franken supposed to be that, but he turned out to be the driest senator in the world. and given the ties between the entertainment industry and liberalism in the democratic party, but democrats somehow just don t seem to produce them. and republicans do.