This Is The Secret Behind Donald Trump’s Success: Mike Lee

3 months ago

During an event hosted by The Heritage Foundation at the RNC on Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke about former President Donald Trump’s success.

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00:00next year.

00:02I saw some of your colleagues after the

00:04the Loper-Bright decision came out, they

00:08were freaking out and saying, you don't

00:09understand, we haven't been getting into

00:12the nitty-gritty of what the laws are

00:14for a very long time. We defer to these

00:17experts in the bureaucracy to to handle

00:20everything. First of all, I love the faith

00:23that Democrat senators have in the

00:25experts in the bureaucracy, something not

00:28shared by many Americans. But it was just

00:30kind of funny to watch them say, no, no,

00:32we don't want to do our jobs here, we've

00:34been not doing our jobs for a very long

00:36period of time. So this would help them

00:39actually do their jobs.

00:40It's exactly, it's the new idolatry. And

00:42this, by the way, is the secret to Trump's

00:45sauce. This is the secret to why Trump

00:49has been successful, it's also the secret

00:52to why we need Trump so much today, and

00:55the secret to why they're doing

00:57everything they can, why they tried to

00:58imprison him, why somebody tried to kill

01:00him, why they're pushing back as hard as

01:03they could. Look, Donald Trump is an

01:05anomaly to say the least. He's an enigma,

01:08especially to the left. He came along as

01:11someone who entered the scene at the top

01:13level, ran for president, was elected

01:15president, from completely outside of the

01:18political universe. The only modern

01:21president you can think of who fits that

01:22description. He came along and identified

01:24a whole bunch of problems with

01:26government, problems that he had had no

01:29role in creating, unlike pretty much

01:32anybody else in the political system. And

01:34so when that happened, and he showed up

01:37with all this moral courage and clarity,

01:40they rebelled against him. They said, we

01:42cannot have this. We cannot have it. Now,

01:46the other side does everything they can.

01:47This also explains the lawfare. They do

01:50everything they can to denigrate that, to

01:54demonize it, because the left, remember,

01:57believes that, first of all, they are the

02:00rule of law. When they talk about the

02:02rule of law, they don't think about it in

02:03terms of, it's all better if we follow

02:05the law, even if we disagree with it. For

02:06the left, the progressive is the law, so

02:10whatever the law is, is in their mind the

02:13rule of law. They will then denigrate and

02:16demonize anyone who comes along who

02:18pushes back on that, who challenges those

02:20assumptions. Anyone who is against them

02:22and their policy agenda is against the

02:24rule of law. By the same token, any

02:26Supreme Court justice who refuses to

02:29recuse from a case where they don't

02:31think they will like the ruling, they

02:35will push back on them and try to demean

02:39their credibility, pushing so far as even

02:41to delegitimize the court as a whole, so

02:45that they can pack the Supreme Court and

02:46change its composition. At the end of the

02:50day, these guys bastardize the concept

02:53of the rule of law to the point that

02:56it's really aggressive. It's kind

02:58of a fascist approach to governance, but

03:01that's why they're pushing back so hard

03:03against Donald Trump. And by the way, it

03:05also ties into the administrative state.

03:07One of my first reactions after I got

03:09the news the other night, and I

03:11commented this evening on it, is that

03:14things like this would not happen. We

03:17wouldn't have violence erupt, violent

03:20protests and rallies, as often as we do

03:22surrounding presidential elections, if we

03:24didn't put so many eggs in that basket,

03:27if we hadn't made the federal government

03:29far more powerful than it was ever

03:31intended to be, and if we hadn't made the

03:33presidency itself more

03:36powerful than it was ever intended to be.

03:38And I think that is the hatred against

03:39Trump.

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