This was beautiful to watch, its obvious they still don't get it.

too late

But not scary for the people. Beholden to no one was a big reason many voted for him.

The important part of that statement is, "... no special interests *besides his own*". The president is supposed to be beholden to interests that aren't his own, just (in principle) no interests above the American people in the broadest sense.

the whole speeches had much more than just the aggressive sound bites, which gave him free publicity without the need for megadonors. he pretty much spoke a rejection of the neolib/neocon order, which worked in brexit and worked here too, thanks to the importance of the rust belt in elections. and yeah, it was a referendum on hillary too, who if the democrats were smarter should have not allowed to run. bernie, or even more so, jim webb, would have been better choices...

I'm not sure there was a positive and uplifting message. Nothing brings people together more than a common hatred. Even MAGA is not a positive message. It's a yearning for the past. It says that the country is not great or even good. He fed off the discontent of the working and middle class. The problem is that his promises are naive to the way the world is and will be. He offered a utopian vision to people who are in a rut. Obama did the same thing in 08. Playing off people's emotions is more effective than appealing to the rational part of the brain. That's advertising. That's entertainment in a nutshell. Trump and Obama ran the two most brilliant campaigns we've ever seen because they understand promotion. Both even had catchy slogans that supports can remember and spout as gospel. 'Hope and Change' ' MAGA'. We are sold presidents. The choice is no different than Coke and Pepsi. Trump's message wasn't positive but it was unquestionably effective.

@Hekat the Evil B-tch That's because you have been so brainwashed by false information such as American Manufacturing is never coming back that your brain can no longer compute uplifting ideas. To you all chance of success is luck and future and all systems must be burnt down. I am sure you think that the earth will be gone in 12 years and that Cow farts is higher than vech emissions.

Quick! Opt for a second degree in Feminist Studies :)

That would make me a double doctor, gender studies and feminist studies! Then I would without a doubt be the world leading feminist statistician.

LOL! Obviously you're funny and you're a great writer... so WRITE!!

Stupid Statistician And you still wouldn't be able to get a job..

+Stupid Statistician... sorry, Im not calling you stupid... Here's an idea... check out the title of this stupid vid: DT and Conservative Intellectuals. These pompous putzes could use some help here... you could write their scripts for them and perhaps they could learn something.;)

Joe Nooze what does this have to do with Jordan Peterson?

Care to explain what "reality" is?

can you blush?

+1FriendFishing "I have to guard my mind against this kind of posh trash talk" You sound like a cult follower mate, are you being manipulated mate? :^) They are just speaking their minds everone doesnt have to like the trumpster its a free country for some months atleast.

Matthew, whom I've never heard of before watching this, is one of the least impressive young "conservatives" I've experienced. Thus, you filling in the marriage fact, makes this interview make more sense on multiple levels... Thanks...

exactly. i like this channel but this video was disappointingly far off base.

They get paid to spin things a certain way.

Its pretty funny because I never doubted it starting in July. So how valuable is their brand of intellectualism to the real world?

This is the exact problem with public intellectuals. There's this snobby condescending tone among all of them, the few conservative ones, even Tom Sowell who is usually great, included. The conservative intellectuals have been irritating me more lately than the liberal ones, which is something I didn't think could happen. They're champions of Austrian economics yet they are clearly completely out of touch with the citizens of the country, who ARE their customers. Now they look like fools because of the bubble they have been living in, and they honestly deserve to lose their jobs.

SpacePyramid cause we out number you 10 to 1 and always will fool

Hey Smarty Pants Intellectual Wanna-Be - It's "The other 10% and I".

Hi!!! im from a year into the future!! Trump is on the cusp of gettin indicted, Flynn has flipped, and the white house in in shambles!!! turns out they thought these things for a reason!!

I love the "Idiocracy" reference - In light of recent election, I now fear there was too much truth in it.

The pre-factual age still reigns supreme. It has only ever been a small minority of humans that adhere unfailingly to the truth. People don't like to admit it because their ego disallows such blatant disregard for its sensibility. The vast majority of people peddling "Post-truth/fact" fall to emotional appeal consistently.

Which would mean trying to appeal to that tiny minority of humans would make you lose the race for president. Good strategy, guys.

Its not like that at all. Its more like the intellectuals think the average person is much dumber than they actually are.

It's the age when stupidity is championed and intellectual discussion is abhorred, and that is definitely disturbing. I also wonder why it is that there is no paradigm for a thinking populist. There are large swathes of the American electorate who have bought into the very view that they are too ignorant and intellectually inadequate to defend their interests with anything other than demagoguery.

Dreamingrightnow Well there is some truth in that. In the 1930s the level of sophistication was beyond where it is now. The average high school student was able to pass a test on the Constitution that no college graduate today could pass. The social engineers have been busy shaping the world in an image that maintains their control. The evidence of that is everywhere. Tavistock, the meddling of the philanthropic foundations in shaping American education, the non-stop propaganda spewed out by the Lying Media, the socialism-communism that is pushed constantly. But despite it all, Americans are not so stupid as to believe that abandoning our founding principles is the right way to go. Nor are we so stupid as to believe that open borders and sanctuary cities makes any sense at all. The reality is that the educated class is far more hypnotized and propagandized than the tradeworkers. They kept their common sense intact, and they are smart enough to know where their own self interests lie. They also have a genuine patriotism that the educated classes find quaint and disdainful. Despite the fact that love of country and genuine patriotism is a quite beautiful expression. But today's intellectuals can hardly bear it. If it took somebody like Trump to carry their voice, so be it. He said what needed to be said.

BS! The majority of people who watch the Philosophy show hosted by Stefan Molynex are high IQ working class and Trump supporters. The low info brain dead automatons are definitely Clinton supporters. Those people actually believe the BS lying MSM.

Your clearly talking about the left voters.

Because you are very unintellectual...

Pieter Smith Compared to them, yes. Compared to you they're Einstein.

+Pieter Smith did you find any valuable insight in this video? because i sure didn't.

1FriendFishing Austrians are getting killed Somalians in Minnesota, so I don't know how safe you would be. Happy2017

I agree, I wish that there were more emphasis on thought and rationality and civility between proponents of opposing political views. This is how we all test our ideas and values, by civil exchanges between people who intelligently disagree with us, as opposed to living in echo chambers and repeating everything we hear. I also agree that Continetti is an able analyst.

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It's easier to predict the trajectory of big things. Easier to predict the path of an walking elephant 1 minute into the future than a gnat.

I'll try to answer that. For years I was apolitical , and really had no idea how the pros and cons were lined up. Even when I realized that I was a conservative minded liberal , and had fairly equal interaction with both groups), it took me a while to parse out who was who. People who are traditional or religious see it as murder, period.That is why...that is why...marriage traditions are set, so that sexual activity results in - for their most party - a wanted child. At the same time, abortion ,for various reasons , is not unknown in traditional societies.But the abortion on demand, 24/7 things is really offensive to mainline conservatives

That said, I myself am still not 1000% anti abortion.

Vapid is a good name choice.

I'd say modern conservatism is dead. Thomas Sowell is the last living conservative. The heads of the republicans aren't conservatives. They are something completely different. They are partisan first. I only wish classical liberalism in the vein of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson could make some headway again. Often the word liberalism triggers alarms in people's heads. But liberalism has it's foundations in liberty. It's right there in the name. Modern day progressives are often called liberals which I can hardly stand because they really aren't in the original sense. I'm all for calling them what they are, either the regressive left or progressives. Conservatives I don't even know what to say. Just call them republicans because they don't have consistent conservative principles. I'm tired of all of these labels because I think most people are mixture of almost everything. There are more people that lean this way or that, than are all the way left or all the way right. People no longer check every box according to doctrine. Maybe this is the beginning of the parties dissolving.

vapid rabbit , , , because Obama is a total intellectual

Fabiana, especially if you are defining intelligent life as contextualized in reality and fact. But I believe this to be true for both sides!! Look at Thomas Sowell

GMC give it 100 years and the republican and democratic parties will go the way of the federalists and the wigs!

That's simple. He's NO CLASS!

Pat B. A lap dog for plutocracy and soon to be multimillionaire. You don't think the Clintons actually earned the 150 million in speaking fees. It's a payback for their destruction and corruption of our Public Commons.

utube9000... You are about to get the very best example of "no class" starting on January 20. Trump has always been what no class, uneducated people "think" is "real classy!"

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