Ep 290 | How This Election Is a Gift from God | Richard Miniter | The Glenn Beck Podcast

People were fed up with being lied to. I care about you. I'm going to fix things for you. I'm going to listen to you. And then they get in and they do absolutely nothing. So they want to send a message, you know, or I'm not voting for that. I don't care how desperate it is. I'm not voting for you again. You need to learn your lesson. We don't work for you, you work for us. But now the Democrats are gonna come in, and I think they're gonna overplay their hand. Maybe my guess is because they think they have been brought in for Marxism or Wokeism or anything else. And the trial of Trump and all this, where I think the people who voted for them this time want the same things that the Republicans wanted. Just help me reduce the cost of my life. Let my. Leave me alone so I can prosper. And I don't think they're going to do it either. Well, okay. But there's an analytical mistake that conservatives very typically make when analyzing the other party. So the structure of the political parties is fundamentally different. The Republicans are a consensus party. They fight over ideas. And then when an idea gets to, let's say, 80%, then the other 20% sort of shrug and say, I guess I don't care about that anymore, or I'm going to hold my nose and stay the party. And so the analytical mistake the left makes in analyzing the right is they say, oh, look, all these people are arguing publicly and the party's going to fall apart. But that's not how consensus parties work. They grind away to find consensus, and then they're remarkably uniform once they reach that consensus. It's hard to imagine, but in the late 1970s, the Republican Party was very skeptical of tax cuts. The Reagan agenda was considered on tax cuts. It was considered dangerous and reckless. And it took 10 years of fighting before that became, you know, part of the Republican Bible, if you will. But the analytical mistake the right makes is they see the left and they say, okay, well, all these ideas are contradictory, and there's no way to make it all work. That's not the structure of their party. They're not a consensus party. They're a coalition party, and coalitions are made up. You know, it's like the difference between Soup and Stewart.