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To listen to this episode, subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on iTunes.president trump prepares for the state of the union address stacy abrams prepares for her response and virginia democrats continue their slow motion implosion i'm ben shapiro this is the ben shapiro show [Music] man who is excited for the state of the union address tonight yeah yeah you can sense that excitement out there i'm so excited i'm going to go in the back and hang myself later i am very pumped up about this but i'll do it after we have our state of the union address coverage tonight because i know that we all have to suffer through that together i was so excited about the government shutdown we'll get to all of this in just one second first let's talk let's talk about how you can send your packages more cheaply so postage rates have gone up again thankfully stamps.com can ease the pain with big discounts off post office retail rates with stamps.com you save five cents off every first class stamp off and up 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our beautiful new magnificent studios but also there are huge leaks in here that happen every time it rains so as we prepare for the state of the union address we are also smelling the decomposing corpses of people that our producer senia murdered earlier and then stacked up behind the curtains behind all the soundstage boards and everything so you know it's a little depressing to be contemplating your own mortality while smelling the mold coming off the corpses as you prepare for the state of the union address so that's that's my mood this morning as i prepared for the state of the union address president trump of course is supposed to give the state of the union address tonight at long last the government shutdown did have its good aspects one of those aspects was no state of the union address now i know there are some people who get super pumped up about the state of the union they love the pomp they love the circumstance they are into it man they are just excited as can be about the state of the union address they cannot wait for president trump to go out there and say a bunch of words that no one's going to remember five minutes after he said them quick quiz do you remember anything from president trump's state of the union address last year i do but only because i do this professionally i remember a couple of things one there was the north korean guy who's picking up his crutches and second there was the the soldier's wife who he paid tribute to while some democrats stood for a second and then sat down right but those were both controversial i don't remember a single thing that he said i remember the the people that he used for the for the props because this is what we've been doing since ronald reagan where the president points up into the raptures and he goes and now let me tell you the story of bob and then everyone points to bob and he's like yeah bob woo so we're going to get a lot of that tonight and that's why we treat this thing like it is a an entertainment vehicle and one of the big questions is who's going to bring whom as guests who's got which guests are going to show up so here are the people who president trump is bringing for his guests at the state of the union at the capitol building tomorrow the guests are going to include deborah bissell heather armstrong and madison armstrong these are family members of gerald and sharon david who were killed by an illegal immigrant so president trump i'm sure is going to talk about illegal immigrant crime and how it's linked to his need for a border wall obviously i have recommended that what president trump actually should do is literally take a paragraph from bill clinton's state of the union address in 1993 and just read it straight and let the media go nuts over how extreme it is and then release a video of him side by side with bill clinton saying the exact same words on his twitter feed the other folks matthew charles was released from prison under the first step back that's criminal justice reform grace elin a 10 year old cancer survivor judah samet who's a member of the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh who survived the horrific shooting and tom whiberly the father of a navy seaman killed in a terrorist attack all worthy people one of the names on the list is joshua trump who is joshua trump is he any relation to trump no he has no relation to president trump he is a sixth grader who the white house explains has been bullied in school due to his last name so a couple of months ago there was a big story about him here's what it said the bullying started two years ago when he was at clemont elementary school according to his principal that was about the time donald j trump became president joshua's family might change his last name from trump which he got from his mother megan from tuberto his father's last name all that to stop schoolyard teasing he said i had to sit down with my son and hear him tell me that he hates himself and that he feels sad all the time his mom said on facebook so a couple of things that are that are sort of odd about this first of all i'm not denying in any way that this kid got bullied obviously i mean if you are bullied i mean i was viciously bullied in school bullying is awful and people who are bullies are pieces of human debris with that said is the single best example of bullying across the country somebody who shares the president's last name like there's something peculiarly self-serving about i'm going to talk i'm going to talk about bullying and you know who's really bullied people with the last name trump those people oh my goodness i had suggested earlier that it would be kind of hilarious if president trump went and the person who's been bullied the most the person who's been believed the most is that man ronald trump and then he just points up into the balcony and it's a picture of donald trump with a mustache again this whole event you may sense that i'm making light of the state of the union address that's because i think it's incredibly stupid the state of the union address was meant to be a letter sent by the president to congress saying what's going on and now it's this big monarchical display where the president comes in and we all cheer yeah because the executive branch is so important even though it was supposed to be the second most important branch after the legislative branch and then we have members of the supreme court who sit there and they clap and then they sit there silently while the president insults them so barack obama did to members of the supreme court so it'll just be it'll just be a good time so who else is president trump bringing he's bringing ashley evans who has struggled with opioid and substance abuse for much of her life in 2017 she was pregnant and suffered a relapse her recovery began with the birth of her daughter along with the help of bridget's path medical care facility in kettering ohio so that's one of the guests elvin hernandez a special agent with trafficking in persons unit of the department of homeland security roy james who's plant manager of the vicksburg forest products lumber facility so i guess that his vicksburg was designated in an opportunity zone so he's going to talk about the the tax act you know it'll be it'll be a lot of people it'll be a lot of people just be like a whole group of folks alice johnson is showing up of course alice johnson was the woman who was released thanks to the intervention of kim kardashian so that'll be exciting meanwhile the democrats are preparing their response to the state of the union address and the person who they have chosen to give this state of the union response is stacy abrams now stacey abrams will recall narrowly lost her gubernatorial race in georgia she did very well in the suburbs stacey abrams one of the reasons she did well in the suburbs when she ran for governor of georgia is because her sort of radical intersectional message is not what she spat out in in the georgia suburbs in the georgia suburbs she talked about sort of a moderate plan for keeping people safe and some new government programs but she did not campaign as sort of a hardcore intersectional pander to the democratic-based candidate that is exactly what she has become after this race was over she started number one complaining that the election was not legitimate she still refuses to acknowledge that she lost that race and then she started talking in pure intersectional terms about why we should divide each other by identity group and she has a long piece in foreign affairs magazine a very long piece in foreign affairs magazine in which she talks about how upset she is with francis fukuyama francis fukuyama the end of history guy from the 1990s who suggested that liberal capitalism had won the world and therefore the end of history may have arrived well he wrote a piece recently in which he decried identity politics as tribalism and he talked about the tribal nature of our politics and why it's supremely dangerous well stacey abrams wrote a response in which she said she's a fan of tribal politics she thinks that intersectionality which is basically the theory that we can all be described as human beings by the groups to which we belong so i am not an individual human named ben shapiro i am a jewish white male who is upper income right that is that and that's all you need to know about me you don't need to know my personal experiences you don't need to know how i got here you don't need to know if i've experienced any discrimination all you need to know is about those groups my producer senia is a hispanic female that's all you need to know about her you don't need to know her thoughts her dreams her aspirations her serial killer record you don't need to know anything about her except for the groups to which she belongs and this is the intersectional notion it's really vile because again intersectionality doesn't just suggest that we can learn sort of information about you from your group it suggests that the only information that is necessary for us to know about you is your group information and therefore we should categorize you as a member of your group and if you think differently than other members of your group it's because you're not legitimately a member of your group you've become some sort of group trader that's the problem with intersectionality in a nutshell it is identity politics it's a responsive identity politics and so there's this cycle of identity politics that has occurred stacey abrams says that we don't actually need to be anti-intersectional identity we should instead encourage group identification this is the response to the state of the union address now president trump is supposed to give a big unifying address tonight is he the best proponent of american unity no i mean i don't think that president trump has ever unified anything like legitimately anything he didn't unify like his business offices at trump tower so i don't think he's the most unifying character and i don't think that that's a huge shock to anybody but i also think that the democrats have made an actual strategy to divide and conquer among particular groups in the united states particularly split along racial and now class lines stacey abrams is arguing in favor of that so here is what she says in this piece in foreign affairs she suggests that intersectionality is a result of donald trump that is just a lie it is not true the reality is that intersectionality was a theory proposed by kimberly crenshaw a solid decade ago and has roots in the broader social justice movement that started in the 1960s that divides people from people by group and then it was it was promoted by barack obama in a in a very heavy-handed way during his presidency it led to incredible rises in the amount of discontent along racial lines in the united states if you look at the polls what you will see is that most americans of every race were moving toward the idea that america was post-racial as of 2008 barack obama was elected suddenly those numbers started to split again that is not a surprise i'll explain in a second why that is like why exactly america is now more racially split than it was before barack obama was president i'll get into that and then we'll get into stacey abrams's take on what american politics should be and why it's a problem first let's talk about your second amendment rights when the founders crafted the constitution the first thing they did was make sacred the rights of the individual to share their ideas without limitation by that by their government the second right they enumerated was the right of the population to protect that speech and their own persons with force you know i really believe in the second amendment and so do the folks over at bravo company manufacturing bcm was started in a garage by a marine veteran more than two decades ago to build a professional-grade 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usa youtube.com bravo company usa go check them out right now they're really great folks so barack obama in 2008 took office and he was given this incredible opportunity to unify americans he was given this opportunity to say listen we're all striving to move in the right direction my election is proof my overwhelming election against an american hero john mccain is proof that americans want to move into a post-racial era and that means that we are we are going to call out instances of racism where we see them but we are not going to spread the label of racism to a bunch of stuff to which it doesn't apply instead barack obama knew that his most solid political path that would have been a politically risky path it would have been because it would have meant surrendering his greatest advantage in politics his race as a way of defending himself against political attacks he wasn't willing to do that instead what he did is he said that every attack on him was in essence a racial attack attacks on obamacare were backed by racism tea party formation was based on racism and then every opportunity he could to stoke the flames of racial conflagration he did from trayvon martin to michael brown every time there was any sort of racial incident in the united states or incident that had nothing to do with race in the united states but could be perceived as racial barack obama stoked that flame he used the intersectional identity politics in order to divide americans so that he could win re-election and build an agglomeration of the aggrieved and you could see this right in 2008 barack obama won not because he separated americans but because he said i'm here to unify and then in 2012 running a rough re-election race against mitt romney he decided more important to win reelection than to continue to run under a sort of unity ticket because he governed as a very divisive guy and so because his policies divided us he instead implied his race divided us people bought into that and then the democratic party began to say things like well you know what maybe we don't need white voters anymore maybe what we really ought to do is go after this agglomeration of increasing minority voters who will eventually be a majority and those will be the people who rule the roost and then in 2016 trump ran on the backlash right trump said okay well you guys are going to do this routine where you pander to every minority group well i'm going to treat a lot of white folks as though they are not in fact as as though they are under assault from this viewpoint which is at least half true that was part of a part of trump's campaign so obama started this cycle and then trump responded to the cycle and both of that both of those things are a problem now democrats are saying well let's respond in kind let's keep going with the obama program here's the deal stacey abrams about to give the state of the union address response tonight so her perspective on intersectionality is actually a very damaging perspective okay it is the perspective that basically suggests that intersectionality group identity is inherently good and useful as a political tool and her tendency like a lot of democrats is to blame president trump for identity politics that president trump is basing his perspective on sort of a white identity politics that is nasty and negative and dangerous but the reality is that that identity politics which i agree i think trump engaged in in 2016 is actually a response to the identity politics in which barack obama engaged so to understand where we are with identity politics we have to start from the barack obama administration we have to start back in 2008 when obama was elected the american people were extremely optimistic about race relations in america if you look back at the polls they show that most americans black white brown everyone thought that race relations were moving in the right direction obama was then elected on a particular basis barack obama was elected on the basis of uniting americans he ran a campaign that said we are all individuals right we're not white americans we're not black americans we're all americans there's no red america there's no blue america there's just america that's how he was elected he won a broad sweeping victory on that platform then when he came into office he had the ability to say okay now we're going to have an honest discussion about what's racist and what's not in america and i'm not going to pretend that every policy with which i disagree is steeped in racism i'm not going to pretend that the tea party is racist maybe they just oppose me based on the size of government i'm not going to pretend that republicans who oppose me on the basis of obamacare do so because they are vicious racists because there's no evidence of that instead barack obama particularly in 2012 decided that he was going to ramp up racial tensions in order to win reelection he decided that he was going to use every racial flashpoint in america as a prop for his presidency so when trayvon martin was shot by george zimmerman in florida he was going to come out and say trayvon martin could have been my son right he was going to say about michael brown people in ferguson they're not just making things up he was going to do that routine and by doing that routine he helped divide americans the response to that was donald trump so in 2012 obama ran on this idea that there is this oppressed group of americans who historically have been put under the thumb of the american hierarchy we're going to unite we're going to sweep back to victory and it's a proof that the minorities in america have finally achieved dominance in america you saw this in the media a lot the talk about the shrinking white majority and how there was going to be this durable coalition of minority groups for the future then in 2016 donald trump ran largely on the basis of we're not going to stand for that and he won and the democrats at that point had a choice they could have said listen this intersectional politics stuff is dangerous right this stuff where we divide each other by group instead of appealing to each other as individuals it's really dangerous and it's a real problem instead they decided we're going to double down on that we're going to suggest that in order to fight donald trump in order to fight his preferred policies we're going to call everything that he believes racist and all of his voters racist and then we are going to unify as groups in order to fight the trumpian agenda well stacey abrams is a loud and proud progenitor of this argument so she has a piece in foreign affairs magazine called identity politics strengthens democracy which is a weird thing since identity politics from white people for most of america's existence was evil identity politics of white people caused slavery it caused jim crow it caused discrimination against gays jews and asians right it caught identity politics was the problem in the united states identity politics is ex so what's changed why is it no longer dangerous well according to stacey abrams identity politics is different now because of the identity of the groups so here is what she suggests she says francis fukuyama who's written an essay about why identity politics is dangerous she says francis fukuyama and other critics of identity politics contend that broad categories such as economic class contain multitudes and that all attention should focus on wide constructs rather than the substrates of inequality but such arguments fail to acknowledge that some members of any particular economic class have advantages not enjoyed by others in their in their cohort u.s history abounds with examples of members of dominant groups abandoning class solidarity after concluding that opportunity is a zero-sum game the oppressed have often aimed their impotent rage at those too low on the social scale to even attempt rebellion this is particularly true in the catch-all category known as the working class so she's pointing at working-class racism to suggest that now identity politics is more important than class solidarity now my view is that class solidarity is wrong and identity politics is wrong i don't feel the solidarity with other people of my economic class i don't feel like i have more morally in common with people who make the same amount of money that i do i wasn't making this amount of money five years ago and i had the same values so this argument that some working class white people are bad to working class black people therefore black people are a class and white people are class that doesn't follow it is also possible that if we treat each other as individuals we are best off so she is correct she's not wrong to suggest that group identity politics were originally created by a white majority intent on marginalizing particular groups that of course is true you had a white majority enslaving a black minority you had a white majority keeping black people in in dire straits thanks to jim crow of course that's true and maybe those groups had to mobilize in order to fight back against the dominant white majority they had to mobilize but they had to appeal to white people at the same time they'd use a universal message while mobilizing as a group they'd had to do both of those things but if you are now suggesting that we are living in a system that oppresses people as groups you're gonna need to show evidence of that it's not just enough to say that black people are generally victimized in the united states in 1960 you could point to jim crow as an actual legal system that kept black people under the thumb of white people if you can't point to a system that does that right now then you're going to have to abandon your notion that you have to mobilize as a group to fight back against another group right groups form in opposition to other groups if there is no dominant group that identifies as a group and that is attempting to quash your group your group identity is no longer threatened so for you to use your group identity as a baton to wield against other people is actually an act of evil here is what she says she says the facile advice to focus solely on class ignores these complex links along among american notions of race gender and economics says my campaign championed reforms to eliminate police shootings of african americans protect the lgbtq community against arista's religious freedom legislation expand medicaid to save rural hospitals and reaffirm that undocumented immigrants deserve legal protections i refuse to accept the notion that the voters must most affected by these policies would invariably support me simply because i was a member of a minority group my campaign built an unprecedented coalition of people of color rural whites suburban dwellers etc etc and then she talks about how she lost because she was cheated basically which is not true and then she says to seek redress and inclusion the first step is to identify the barriers to entry an array of laws and informal rules to prescribe diminish and isolate the marginalized and here is where she gets into her main point her main point is that discrimination in the united states is still done along group lines and this is a lie that intersectional folks are going to tell you all the time that intersectional proponents tell you we'll get into it in just one second first let's talk about a great gift that you can get someone this valentine's day i'm talking to you ladies i'm not just this here's something you can get for your men this valentine's day i'm talking of course about man crates man crates knows what dudes like to have hundreds of gift options so you'll know to find the perfect surprise for him these gifts are totally unique most gets shipped in a sealed wooden crate with a crowbar opening them is an experience he'll never forget because he will have to prove his manliness and strength to 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check it out and make him prove that he's indeed a man when he breaks open the man crate okay so stacy abrams is supposed to give the response to the state of the union tonight and she is very much in favor of an intersectional politics she thinks will drive her to victory the problem for her is it won't okay in georgia the reason that she came close to winning is because she appealed to suburban women white suburban women are not really turned on by the intersectional notions that are pushed by people like alexandra ocasio-cortez and stacey abrams and tony he see coats this is not really what they are thinking when they're thinking who do i want running the government but the case for intersectionality which again is identification with group politics is it's a dangerous case and here she is making the case she says the specific methods by which the united

To listen to this episode, subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on iTunes.president trump prepares for the state of the union address stacy abrams prepares for her response and virginia democrats continue their slow motion implosion i'm ben shapiro this is the ben shapiro show [Music] man who is excited for the state of the union address tonight yeah yeah you can sense that excitement out there i'm so excited i'm going to go in the back and hang myself later i am very pumped up about this but i'll do it after we have our state of the union address coverage tonight because i know that we all have to suffer through that together i was so excited about the government shutdown we'll get to all of this in just one second first let's talk let's talk about how you can send your packages more cheaply so postage rates have gone up again thankfully stamps.com can ease the pain with big discounts off post office retail rates with stamps.com you save five cents off every first class stamp off and up 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our beautiful new magnificent studios but also there are huge leaks in here that happen every time it rains so as we prepare for the state of the union address we are also smelling the decomposing corpses of people that our producer senia murdered earlier and then stacked up behind the curtains behind all the soundstage boards and everything so you know it's a little depressing to be contemplating your own mortality while smelling the mold coming off the corpses as you prepare for the state of the union address so that's that's my mood this morning as i prepared for the state of the union address president trump of course is supposed to give the state of the union address tonight at long last the government shutdown did have its good aspects one of those aspects was no state of the union address now i know there are some people who get super pumped up about the state of the union they love the pomp they love the circumstance they are into it man they are just excited as can be about the state of the union address they cannot wait for president trump to go out there and say a bunch of words that no one's going to remember five minutes after he said them quick quiz do you remember anything from president trump's state of the union address last year i do but only because i do this professionally i remember a couple of things one there was the north korean guy who's picking up his crutches and second there was the the soldier's wife who he paid tribute to while some democrats stood for a second and then sat down right but those were both controversial i don't remember a single thing that he said i remember the the people that he used for the for the props because this is what we've been doing since ronald reagan where the president points up into the raptures and he goes and now let me tell you the story of bob and then everyone points to bob and he's like yeah bob woo so we're going to get a lot of that tonight and that's why we treat this thing like it is a an entertainment vehicle and one of the big questions is who's going to bring whom as guests who's got which guests are going to show up so here are the people who president trump is bringing for his guests at the state of the union at the capitol building tomorrow the guests are going to include deborah bissell heather armstrong and madison armstrong these are family members of gerald and sharon david who were killed by an illegal immigrant so president trump i'm sure is going to talk about illegal immigrant crime and how it's linked to his need for a border wall obviously i have recommended that what president trump actually should do is literally take a paragraph from bill clinton's state of the union address in 1993 and just read it straight and let the media go nuts over how extreme it is and then release a video of him side by side with bill clinton saying the exact same words on his twitter feed the other folks matthew charles was released from prison under the first step back that's criminal justice reform grace elin a 10 year old cancer survivor judah samet who's a member of the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh who survived the horrific shooting and tom whiberly the father of a navy seaman killed in a terrorist attack all worthy people one of the names on the list is joshua trump who is joshua trump is he any relation to trump no he has no relation to president trump he is a sixth grader who the white house explains has been bullied in school due to his last name so a couple of months ago there was a big story about him here's what it said the bullying started two years ago when he was at clemont elementary school according to his principal that was about the time donald j trump became president joshua's family might change his last name from trump which he got from his mother megan from tuberto his father's last name all that to stop schoolyard teasing he said i had to sit down with my son and hear him tell me that he hates himself and that he feels sad all the time his mom said on facebook so a couple of things that are that are sort of odd about this first of all i'm not denying in any way that this kid got bullied obviously i mean if you are bullied i mean i was viciously bullied in school bullying is awful and people who are bullies are pieces of human debris with that said is the single best example of bullying across the country somebody who shares the president's last name like there's something peculiarly self-serving about i'm going to talk i'm going to talk about bullying and you know who's really bullied people with the last name trump those people oh my goodness i had suggested earlier that it would be kind of hilarious if president trump went and the person who's been bullied the most the person who's been believed the most is that man ronald trump and then he just points up into the balcony and it's a picture of donald trump with a mustache again this whole event you may sense that i'm making light of the state of the union address that's because i think it's incredibly stupid the state of the union address was meant to be a letter sent by the president to congress saying what's going on and now it's this big monarchical display where the president comes in and we all cheer yeah because the executive branch is so important even though it was supposed to be the second most important branch after the legislative branch and then we have members of the supreme court who sit there and they clap and then they sit there silently while the president insults them so barack obama did to members of the supreme court so it'll just be it'll just be a good time so who else is president trump bringing he's bringing ashley evans who has struggled with opioid and substance abuse for much of her life in 2017 she was pregnant and suffered a relapse her recovery began with the birth of her daughter along with the help of bridget's path medical care facility in kettering ohio so that's one of the guests elvin hernandez a special agent with trafficking in persons unit of the department of homeland security roy james who's plant manager of the vicksburg forest products lumber facility so i guess that his vicksburg was designated in an opportunity zone so he's going to talk about the the tax act you know it'll be it'll be a lot of people it'll be a lot of people just be like a whole group of folks alice johnson is showing up of course alice johnson was the woman who was released thanks to the intervention of kim kardashian so that'll be exciting meanwhile the democrats are preparing their response to the state of the union address and the person who they have chosen to give this state of the union response is stacy abrams now stacey abrams will recall narrowly lost her gubernatorial race in georgia she did very well in the suburbs stacey abrams one of the reasons she did well in the suburbs when she ran for governor of georgia is because her sort of radical intersectional message is not what she spat out in in the georgia suburbs in the georgia suburbs she talked about sort of a moderate plan for keeping people safe and some new government programs but she did not campaign as sort of a hardcore intersectional pander to the democratic-based candidate that is exactly what she has become after this race was over she started number one complaining that the election was not legitimate she still refuses to acknowledge that she lost that race and then she started talking in pure intersectional terms about why we should divide each other by identity group and she has a long piece in foreign affairs magazine a very long piece in foreign affairs magazine in which she talks about how upset she is with francis fukuyama francis fukuyama the end of history guy from the 1990s who suggested that liberal capitalism had won the world and therefore the end of history may have arrived well he wrote a piece recently in which he decried identity politics as tribalism and he talked about the tribal nature of our politics and why it's supremely dangerous well stacey abrams wrote a response in which she said she's a fan of tribal politics she thinks that intersectionality which is basically the theory that we can all be described as human beings by the groups to which we belong so i am not an individual human named ben shapiro i am a jewish white male who is upper income right that is that and that's all you need to know about me you don't need to know my personal experiences you don't need to know how i got here you don't need to know if i've experienced any discrimination all you need to know is about those groups my producer senia is a hispanic female that's all you need to know about her you don't need to know her thoughts her dreams her aspirations her serial killer record you don't need to know anything about her except for the groups to which she belongs and this is the intersectional notion it's really vile because again intersectionality doesn't just suggest that we can learn sort of information about you from your group it suggests that the only information that is necessary for us to know about you is your group information and therefore we should categorize you as a member of your group and if you think differently than other members of your group it's because you're not legitimately a member of your group you've become some sort of group trader that's the problem with intersectionality in a nutshell it is identity politics it's a responsive identity politics and so there's this cycle of identity politics that has occurred stacey abrams says that we don't actually need to be anti-intersectional identity we should instead encourage group identification this is the response to the state of the union address now president trump is supposed to give a big unifying address tonight is he the best proponent of american unity no i mean i don't think that president trump has ever unified anything like legitimately anything he didn't unify like his business offices at trump tower so i don't think he's the most unifying character and i don't think that that's a huge shock to anybody but i also think that the democrats have made an actual strategy to divide and conquer among particular groups in the united states particularly split along racial and now class lines stacey abrams is arguing in favor of that so here is what she says in this piece in foreign affairs she suggests that intersectionality is a result of donald trump that is just a lie it is not true the reality is that intersectionality was a theory proposed by kimberly crenshaw a solid decade ago and has roots in the broader social justice movement that started in the 1960s that divides people from people by group and then it was it was promoted by barack obama in a in a very heavy-handed way during his presidency it led to incredible rises in the amount of discontent along racial lines in the united states if you look at the polls what you will see is that most americans of every race were moving toward the idea that america was post-racial as of 2008 barack obama was elected suddenly those numbers started to split again that is not a surprise i'll explain in a second why that is like why exactly america is now more racially split than it was before barack obama was president i'll get into that and then we'll get into stacey abrams's take on what american politics should be and why it's a problem first let's talk about your second amendment rights when the founders crafted the constitution the first thing they did was make sacred the rights of the individual to share their ideas without limitation by that by their government the second right they enumerated was the right of the population to protect that speech and their own persons with force you know i really believe in the second amendment and so do the folks over at bravo company manufacturing bcm was started in a garage by a marine veteran more than two decades ago to build a professional-grade 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usa youtube.com bravo company usa go check them out right now they're really great folks so barack obama in 2008 took office and he was given this incredible opportunity to unify americans he was given this opportunity to say listen we're all striving to move in the right direction my election is proof my overwhelming election against an american hero john mccain is proof that americans want to move into a post-racial era and that means that we are we are going to call out instances of racism where we see them but we are not going to spread the label of racism to a bunch of stuff to which it doesn't apply instead barack obama knew that his most solid political path that would have been a politically risky path it would have been because it would have meant surrendering his greatest advantage in politics his race as a way of defending himself against political attacks he wasn't willing to do that instead what he did is he said that every attack on him was in essence a racial attack attacks on obamacare were backed by racism tea party formation was based on racism and then every opportunity he could to stoke the flames of racial conflagration he did from trayvon martin to michael brown every time there was any sort of racial incident in the united states or incident that had nothing to do with race in the united states but could be perceived as racial barack obama stoked that flame he used the intersectional identity politics in order to divide americans so that he could win re-election and build an agglomeration of the aggrieved and you could see this right in 2008 barack obama won not because he separated americans but because he said i'm here to unify and then in 2012 running a rough re-election race against mitt romney he decided more important to win reelection than to continue to run under a sort of unity ticket because he governed as a very divisive guy and so because his policies divided us he instead implied his race divided us people bought into that and then the democratic party began to say things like well you know what maybe we don't need white voters anymore maybe what we really ought to do is go after this agglomeration of increasing minority voters who will eventually be a majority and those will be the people who rule the roost and then in 2016 trump ran on the backlash right trump said okay well you guys are going to do this routine where you pander to every minority group well i'm going to treat a lot of white folks as though they are not in fact as as though they are under assault from this viewpoint which is at least half true that was part of a part of trump's campaign so obama started this cycle and then trump responded to the cycle and both of that both of those things are a problem now democrats are saying well let's respond in kind let's keep going with the obama program here's the deal stacey abrams about to give the state of the union address response tonight so her perspective on intersectionality is actually a very damaging perspective okay it is the perspective that basically suggests that intersectionality group identity is inherently good and useful as a political tool and her tendency like a lot of democrats is to blame president trump for identity politics that president trump is basing his perspective on sort of a white identity politics that is nasty and negative and dangerous but the reality is that that identity politics which i agree i think trump engaged in in 2016 is actually a response to the identity politics in which barack obama engaged so to understand where we are with identity politics we have to start from the barack obama administration we have to start back in 2008 when obama was elected the american people were extremely optimistic about race relations in america if you look back at the polls they show that most americans black white brown everyone thought that race relations were moving in the right direction obama was then elected on a particular basis barack obama was elected on the basis of uniting americans he ran a campaign that said we are all individuals right we're not white americans we're not black americans we're all americans there's no red america there's no blue america there's just america that's how he was elected he won a broad sweeping victory on that platform then when he came into office he had the ability to say okay now we're going to have an honest discussion about what's racist and what's not in america and i'm not going to pretend that every policy with which i disagree is steeped in racism i'm not going to pretend that the tea party is racist maybe they just oppose me based on the size of government i'm not going to pretend that republicans who oppose me on the basis of obamacare do so because they are vicious racists because there's no evidence of that instead barack obama particularly in 2012 decided that he was going to ramp up racial tensions in order to win reelection he decided that he was going to use every racial flashpoint in america as a prop for his presidency so when trayvon martin was shot by george zimmerman in florida he was going to come out and say trayvon martin could have been my son right he was going to say about michael brown people in ferguson they're not just making things up he was going to do that routine and by doing that routine he helped divide americans the response to that was donald trump so in 2012 obama ran on this idea that there is this oppressed group of americans who historically have been put under the thumb of the american hierarchy we're going to unite we're going to sweep back to victory and it's a proof that the minorities in america have finally achieved dominance in america you saw this in the media a lot the talk about the shrinking white majority and how there was going to be this durable coalition of minority groups for the future then in 2016 donald trump ran largely on the basis of we're not going to stand for that and he won and the democrats at that point had a choice they could have said listen this intersectional politics stuff is dangerous right this stuff where we divide each other by group instead of appealing to each other as individuals it's really dangerous and it's a real problem instead they decided we're going to double down on that we're going to suggest that in order to fight donald trump in order to fight his preferred policies we're going to call everything that he believes racist and all of his voters racist and then we are going to unify as groups in order to fight the trumpian agenda well stacey abrams is a loud and proud progenitor of this argument so she has a piece in foreign affairs magazine called identity politics strengthens democracy which is a weird thing since identity politics from white people for most of america's existence was evil identity politics of white people caused slavery it caused jim crow it caused discrimination against gays jews and asians right it caught identity politics was the problem in the united states identity politics is ex so what's changed why is it no longer dangerous well according to stacey abrams identity politics is different now because of the identity of the groups so here is what she suggests she says francis fukuyama who's written an essay about why identity politics is dangerous she says francis fukuyama and other critics of identity politics contend that broad categories such as economic class contain multitudes and that all attention should focus on wide constructs rather than the substrates of inequality but such arguments fail to acknowledge that some members of any particular economic class have advantages not enjoyed by others in their in their cohort u.s history abounds with examples of members of dominant groups abandoning class solidarity after concluding that opportunity is a zero-sum game the oppressed have often aimed their impotent rage at those too low on the social scale to even attempt rebellion this is particularly true in the catch-all category known as the working class so she's pointing at working-class racism to suggest that now identity politics is more important than class solidarity now my view is that class solidarity is wrong and identity politics is wrong i don't feel the solidarity with other people of my economic class i don't feel like i have more morally in common with people who make the same amount of money that i do i wasn't making this amount of money five years ago and i had the same values so this argument that some working class white people are bad to working class black people therefore black people are a class and white people are class that doesn't follow it is also possible that if we treat each other as individuals we are best off so she is correct she's not wrong to suggest that group identity politics were originally created by a white majority intent on marginalizing particular groups that of course is true you had a white majority enslaving a black minority you had a white majority keeping black people in in dire straits thanks to jim crow of course that's true and maybe those groups had to mobilize in order to fight back against the dominant white majority they had to mobilize but they had to appeal to white people at the same time they'd use a universal message while mobilizing as a group they'd had to do both of those things but if you are now suggesting that we are living in a system that oppresses people as groups you're gonna need to show evidence of that it's not just enough to say that black people are generally victimized in the united states in 1960 you could point to jim crow as an actual legal system that kept black people under the thumb of white people if you can't point to a system that does that right now then you're going to have to abandon your notion that you have to mobilize as a group to fight back against another group right groups form in opposition to other groups if there is no dominant group that identifies as a group and that is attempting to quash your group your group identity is no longer threatened so for you to use your group identity as a baton to wield against other people is actually an act of evil here is what she says she says the facile advice to focus solely on class ignores these complex links along among american notions of race gender and economics says my campaign championed reforms to eliminate police shootings of african americans protect the lgbtq community against arista's religious freedom legislation expand medicaid to save rural hospitals and reaffirm that undocumented immigrants deserve legal protections i refuse to accept the notion that the voters must most affected by these policies would invariably support me simply because i was a member of a minority group my campaign built an unprecedented coalition of people of color rural whites suburban dwellers etc etc and then she talks about how she lost because she was cheated basically which is not true and then she says to seek 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