A Multipronged Plan to Attack Violent Crime | 10/28/25

It’s time to reclaim deterrence and punishment against growing street violence. We’re joined today by crime expert Rafael Mangual, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, for a broad discussion on the multiple factors driving repeat, violent offenders to continue their crime sprees. After identifying the factors behind the revolving door, Mangual offers a list of ideas to harden the system, including tying the hands of liberal judges with mandatory sentencing, algorithmic assessment for pretrial bail, and rethinking the entire culture of leniency with juveniles. We also discuss the need to build more insane asylums and to adjust the degrees of criminal offenses to comport with the threat level to our communities by creating a points system for a modified “three-strikes” law.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is it that right-leaning influencers and elected officials continue to adopt so many ideas foreign to conservatism?  Today, I go through some principles of conservatism from Russell Kirk to show how today’s reactionary performers on the Right are leading us astray. Nowhere is this more evident than with those throwing out all principles about never negotiating with terrorists. The administration’s ties to Qatar are getting worse by the day. Ironically, after two decades of nation-building on behalf of Arabs, we are like the dog returning to its vomit and are engaged in the worst form of nation-building for Gaza. I also lambast Republicans for supporting special favors for AI data centers at a time when AI is proving to be a brain cancer when used for most of its public commercial use, such as chatbots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If only we had a real government shutdown. During the supposed shutdown, we have seen the formulation of several terrible economic and foreign policies. I begin with some bad news about this administration’s coddling of Islamic figures. Next, we move on to the economy. We all complained throughout the Biden administration that we had a crony economy that only worked for a handful of tech companies and that a centrally controlled economy left hardworking Americans in the dust. We complained about stagflation under Biden and asserted that government reports were fraudulent. Well, what has changed? We’re joined today by Tracy Shuchart, senior economist at NinjaTrader, who offers a fiscal checkup of our economy and shows how the stagflation is worse than ever. She offers analysis of capital markets, banking, commodities, and precious metals so we can navigate the limited investment options in an era of mob boss government control of our economy. Both parties complain about stagflation, but in reality, both parties support the underlying causes and they both deny it exists when their guy is in power.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last decade, we all recognized that Democrats produced fighters and that Republican corporatists were no match for them. But after today’s show, you will learn how we’ve actually gone backward in the era of Trump and social media. I go through the news of the day, primary elections, and Trump’s liberal positions on several new issues and contrast them to Democrat consistency and ferocity in pursuit of their goals. Some of the political tourist influencers on the Right project their own vanity on the Left when they think the Left is in disarray because of divisions. However, Democrat divisions are actually a sign of vibrancy fighting for definitive end goals, while our side is united because there are no core beliefs left on the Right.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin the show expressing concern about Trump’s opposition to a new reconciliation bill at a time when we need to codify so many of his policies into law. One of those big policies is agriculture reform. We’re joined today by Breeauna Sagdal, an independent rancher and policy fellow with the Beef Initiative, who outlines for us the multifront war on ranchers and farmers and all of the government policies that have created centralized control for a monopoly. This has caused a record low availability of beef, health concerns with the quality of the meat, and a lack of choice and competition. Moreover, she explains how conservation policies, farm bills, and misallocation of land and resources to row crops have harmed our food security for natural proteins and fruits and vegetables. Now that Trump is committed to importing beef from Argentina, Sagdal argues that we’d be better off importing the Angus genes so we can bolster ranchers’ cattle rather than competing with their output.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We need to build a red-state insurance policy. I explain how we are losing America in terms of economy, security from Islam, and foreign policy, even under GOP control. Despite Hamas’ repeated violations of the ceasefire, we continue to expend more time and treasure promoting the welfare of Gaza and restraining Israel. Also, Con Inc. is becoming a "white-pill mechanism" to tamp down the angst of the Republican voters so that they avoid seeking solutions outside the party or in primaries. Next, we’re joined by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who discusses why he is running for Texas attorney general. We go through the security threats to Texas: street crime from Soros prosecutors, illegal immigrants, Sharia law, and communist terrorism. The state AG stands at the nexus of enforcement against all that is destroying the state. Chip feels that we need red-state AGs to push the envelope on behalf of the people when the land and people of red states are threatened rather than getting caught up in legal sophistry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are increasing calls to unify all factions of the Right. I’m not opposed to that sentiment, but we have to unify behind some affirmative vision beyond simply beating Democrats at the ballot box (but not on the policy playing field). I go through a list of existential threats to our civilization, from Islamism and rampant domestic terrorism to judicial supremacism, unaffordability, and a lack of credible conservative candidates in red states, and I show how there is zero vision on the Right. Moreover, while the Left continues to move its party toward communism in primaries, we have no plan to elect conservatives in primaries or even engage in them at all. So what is there to unify behind?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Left focuses on results while the online Right focuses on entertainment. This creates a dynamic in which Con Inc. prioritizes talking points over fixed policy objectives, which often leads to championing causes that are foreign to conservatives. Nowhere is this more evident than with the online Right championing the communist, pro-Islamist talking points on Gaza. It has now led to us getting embroiled in Gaza, promoting Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, and ignoring their threat to our homeland and the influence of Islam spreading. My thesis is also evident with judicial supremacism, as Con Inc. spent years going to bat for a strong “independent” Supreme Court rather than staying principled and fighting the premise of judicial supremacism. Finally, I show a powerful dichotomy between left-wing activists who are willing to challenge their old incumbents vs. right-leaning activists who sleep during the primaries or support subversive candidates like Byron Donalds.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve succeeded in pushing back against men encroaching on private female spaces, but now it’s time to interpose against governmental and feminist encroachment on male spaces. On today’s special show, we’re joined by Scott Yenor, professor of political science at Boise State and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, to discuss his call for returning military academies like the Virginia Military Institute to male-only education. Yenor traces the decline in male achievement as well as the social problems between the sexes to the creation of androgynous education goals foisted upon society by government. We lament how some conservatives who complain about transgenderism continue to adhere to the very feminist ideas, such as Title IX, that paved the road for today’s problems. Yenor believes we are witnessing a return to the creation of marriageable men and women among young conservatives, but that is a trend that needs to be led by leaders on the right who set worthy examples.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never before have we built such a raucous movement inveighing against foreign influence, yet never before have we been infiltrated by more foreign influence than under Trump’s relationship with Qatar. Today, I delve into Trump’s decision to grant Qatar a facility in an Idaho air base as part of a train of favors to this terror-supporting country and in the context of the Gaza deal forced upon Israel. Next, I discuss a very disturbing lawsuit that Pam Bondi is pursuing against gun rights advocates in the Fifth Circuit. In our next installment of RINO Roundup, I go through the latest figures and policies of Republicans that are undermining MAGA’s stated agenda. Finally, I explain the how the sickening blood libel of Jewish control of America is not only false but dangerously misdirecting attention from the real influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is coming full circle in New York City – the city with the most Jews.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices