Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

On today’s special 2024 grand finale, we cover the gamut of topics. I begin by launching truth bombs about the budget and debt ceiling fight. We cannot survive if we tether our beliefs 100% to one man, all day, all the time. I dispel myths about the history of the debt ceiling and the history of the past 15 years of budget fights. Next, we’re joined by an all-star panel of hero doctors from the COVID era to discuss the future agenda of the medical freedom movement. We engage in a wide-ranging discussion with Drs. Lynn Fynn, Kat Lindley, and Mary Bowden about what RFK Jr. needs to accomplish at HHS. They warn about the shedding of respiratory viral vaccines, the need to terminate COVID, RSV, and mRNA shots, and how to restore medical ethics at the state level. We also discuss how to fix health care delivery at the retail level to empower independent, smart, and ethical doctors like those on our panel today. Finally, I close out the year with my parting message.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday was one of the greatest days in the history of conservative media. Finally, we had everyone united behind blowing up a bad budget bill. Sadly, Trump came in and tossed an interception by demanding an even worse bill with no spending offsets and suspending the debt limit. I make the case for why that is a terrible idea and why it is a harbinger of things to come with spending in general and other issues in particular. We’re joined by Freedom Caucus member Rep. Eric Burlison to discuss his ideas to push for enduring spending cuts. He is proposing to devolve the debt limit authority to state legislatures. This is a brilliant idea and the sort of innovative thinking that the base must demand from Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today by going through the omnibus bill and noting how conservative media close to Trump are missing an opportunity to get the big man in the right headspace. We saw this betrayal coming a mile away, yet we have failed to direct Trump’s attention to it. If we are going to improve things from Trump’s first term, the way he interacts with Congress must change. Next, we tackle the drone swarm issue with special guest George Hill. A former Marine, Hill served as the National Security Intelligence supervisor for the Boston office of the NSA and has a lot of important insights on the drone situation. Hill believes that the most likely scenario is that our military contractors are ops-testing our own security vulnerabilities in the era of drone warfare. In that case, the drones would thankfully be innocuous, but he believes the problem is that we just can’t trust our government. Hill reminds us that to this day, we don’t know why our government would purposely allow China to surveil us with balloons two years ago, and there are no innocent explanations. As part of that trust issue, Hill also explains that there is a pattern of behavior where our government allows adversaries to get away with harmful activity. He believes we could easily end the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea with a single torpedo, yet it’s not done.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Johnson is betraying us with more spending even before Trump takes office. I explain why we need a fight over the speakership, but that will not happen unless we get Trump to change his legislative focus. Likewise, we are having similar problems in the red states. We’re joined today by state Rep. Jordan Pace, chairman of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, to discuss everything that is wrong with the state party. Under the leadership of Speaker Murrell Smith, Democrats have been given key subcommittee chairs. Pace explains with painstaking detail the subterfuge GOP leaders use to advance the Democrat agenda without transparency. They have a corrupt process of picking judges, which often results in placing liberals on the bench. Moreover, they continue promoting biomedical tyranny, pushing socially liberal policies, and handing over state lands to the green grift. In South Carolina and elsewhere, unless we support the Freedom Caucus members, the GOP will continue promoting Democrat policies without the Democrats owning the consequences.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today by observing how the GOP has become the gay old party where you cannot get confirmed to the Pentagon without supporting gay marriage and women in combat. Next, I tackle a vitally important issue that is festering within Trump world. Trump is promising to sell off federal land and build “freedom cities,” which are nothing more than 15-minute cities. I explain how Doug Burgum and the tech bros who are pushing urbanization of red states will be behind this plan, and it will result in turning red states blue. The better idea is to create a new homesteading act, which would work to re-ruralize America by parceling out homesteads, which will attract more conservatives to live in those areas. I also explain how this idea is built upon the erroneous premise that the source of the housing crisis is due to a lack of housing supply and zoning laws. In fact, we need zoning laws to protect against overdevelopment. The source of the housing crisis is a mix of debt-driven inflation, Federal Reserve monetary policies, farm bills, energy policies, and universal homeownership subsidies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we continue our discussion of how to pin down Republicans and conservative media to commit to specific goals. They are all in agreement about abstract ideas, but then when it comes to the specific issues and leverage points that will determine the outcome, they fall apart. I list a number of fault lines that reveal who is real and discuss the need to lay down those markers before the trifecta GOP control begins. I do this by reading through the transcript of Trump’s Time magazine article to identify some concerning messaging points. Things like actual spending cuts of entire programs, legal immigration, and some social issues are concerning, and we need to get ahead of them. As always, rather than just criticizing the status quo, I offer up what I would pitch to Trump in the Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a reason we have a motto to focus on “the issues that matter, in the way they matter, at the time they matter.” I explain how everyone complains about issues in the abstract and there is broad agreement about what we should do generally, but when it comes to the specifics that will determine the outcome, we lack a movement. I go through some examples with spending, fixing the military, and vaccines. Also, there is news out that the RSV shots are killing babies, yet we still don’t have a unified movement to take them off the market.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Penny might have dodged a bullet, but his case is a harbinger of what is to come the next time Democrats take over. I offer some ideas on how red states should push back on the coming tyranny of political prosecutions we will see from blue states. Next, I’m joined by my personal friend Jonathan Gross, the most effective and dedicated attorney representing January 6 defendants. He makes a strong case for why Trump should immediately pardon all of the defendants. Even those who committed some degree of crime were already punished well beyond what is sanctioned by the American legal tradition, plus none of them got a fair trial. Gross also emphasizes the importance of Trump’s DOJ doing a full investigation into the who, what, and why of the January 6 persecution regime, especially juxtaposed to what the feds declined to do against BLM. Finally, we discuss the need for judicial reforms, modifying jury pools for fairer trials, and the need to reform bar certification so that conservatives can practice law unmolested by those targeting their political beliefs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are witnessing conservative influencers finally focus on RINOs in the Senate, and it appears to be paying off when it comes to confirming Trump’s Cabinet picks. Now it’s time to pressure these same Republicans on the issues. We need to punish Republicans who continue to promote the vaccine agenda. I detail how the House coronavirus subcommittee betrayed us by praising the COVID shots in its report. Next, we’re joined by Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who tosses out truth bombs about the corruption and lies in science and medicine. He describes his evolution from being trained in the establishment medical system to being a pursuer of truth and following the data. We cover the fight to take fluoride toxins out of the water and get to the truth on vaccination in general. He believes that we need to unlearn everything we know about some of these issues and start over. Dr. Ladapo is heartened that many ordinary people are leading where leaders are failing.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a unique opportunity to right the ship on foreign policy. I begin today by calling on Trump to send back all the Syrian refugees now that Sunni forces have taken over. As for foreign policy, we’re joined today by Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy for a deep dive on the tangled web of actors in Syria. Kyle notes that the new leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a very effective terrorist and is worse for us than a weakened Assad. He believes we should not recognize him at all, nor should we fight his enemies like ISIS. That is Turkey’s problem. By simply withdrawing our support for Iran and Turkey and not fighting their enemies on their behalf, we will weaken their influence. We don’t need to take a side at this point. Let’s get our soldiers out of these theaters but be prepared to make a play when it makes sense. In the meantime, let the Kurds fight for themselves and let Israel do what it appears capable of doing on its own.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today’s show with an update on congressional news and how we continue to see a disconnect between Trump’s broad goals and implementation in Congress. Next, we’re joined by Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni for a deep dive into the state of our economy and the vicious cycle of stagflation. Antoni delivers a master presentation in how the inflation numbers are really worse than the government is publishing. In turn, inflation is so bad that it is artificially distorting jobs, GDP numbers, and the stock market, giving off the impression that we are not in a recession. We also delve into the housing crisis and how we are going to face pain thanks to past government decisions. Antoni believes we are too far into the hole for business as usual. Republicans must push through transformational spending cuts and better communicate why the spending is harming the standard of living. Finally, he offers a novel approach to reforming the Federal Reserve and calls for the firing of all current employees.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I begin today’s show by warning how Republicans are not showing an appetite for spending cuts both in budget reconciliation and the emergency disaster spending bill. The biggest cost to our budget and life, of course, is the broken healthcare system. I’m joined by family physician and medical school professor Dr. John Littell, one of the heroes of COVID, for a deep dive into the lack of trust between doctors and patients. Dr. Littell warns that alongside a lot of bad medical practice are still lifesaving protocols, and patients need to find doctors they can trust to sort out the good from the bad. For example, he believes that things like vaccines, Pap smears, and statins are being driven by medical industry politics, but on the other hand, colonoscopies are lifesaving. He recommends that the new HHS leadership change the incentive formulas in Medicare that incentivize hospital treatment over outpatient and discourage traditional family medicine practice. Without restoring the doctor-patient relationship, we will not restore the much-needed trust of the patient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today with the rumor that Trump is offering DeSantis the chance to be secretary of defense. I dispel some myths about the circumstances and offer some initial thoughts on the opportunities and challenges of this offer. Either way, Trump is moving in our direction on some issues, and we need to be ready to capitalize on this unique opportunity. Next, we’re joined by Oklahoma state Rep. Jim Shaw (R) to discuss Governor Stitt’s plan to colonize the state with wind turbines, solar panels, and transmission lines. Shaw defeated an incumbent by promising to end the land-grab for foreign companies that are destroying America’s heartland with the Green New Deal. He explains how we are funding our own demise by taking land out of food production and using it for expensive and anti-environmental energy sources that will lead to the destruction of oil, gas, and coal. He is planning a legislative counterattack against this dystopian agenda and believes that local farmers, ranchers, and residents are ready to rise up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time has come for Trump to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to reduce legal immigration. As some Trump confidants make a push for expanding legal immigration, I make the case for Trump to speak with moral clarity on the need to get American workers off the sidelines. I go through the numbers, history, and types of visas to show how we have never had this much immigration. If we merely deport most of Biden’s illegal aliens and nibble around the edges on legal immigration, in five years from now we will be back to square one — or worse. Later on, I discuss how the South Carolina Freedom Caucus is showing us the power of conservative scrutiny of red-state legislatures. We also need to educate Trump early and often on red-state primaries so that we don’t face the same interference we’ve suffered in previous cycles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I explain why everything will hinge on our ability to cut spending for real and to hold the line on immigration. There is growing concern that the GOP, led by industry lobbyists, is planning to preserve major parts of Biden’s Green New Deal. Unless Trump leans in against these RINOs and is willing to buck his own donors, we will not cut spending, reduce inflation, and succeed in general. I call on Trump to push a reconciliation bill that not only contains tax and regulatory cuts but full elimination of a number of government programs plus a reduction in foreign workers. Unfortunately, many of his donors are pushing for an increase in already high levels of immigration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing embodies the GOP and everything that is wrong with it more than Sen. Joni Ernst’s “budget” proposal she sent to the DOGE. Today, I explain how the very RINOs who created the debt bomb wait until they are on the hook for a primary challenge and then suddenly claim to care about spending. But rather than becoming converts to our cause, they promote subversive ideas that are designed to elicit positive headlines from conservative media and defuse a primary challenge – all the while failing to advance the ball on policy. So I delve into her spending cuts to show how 90% of them are built on lies and subterfuge and the rest are notional, speculative, unactionable, and designed to distract us. Finally, I propose a messaging strategy for Trump to push welfare reform by pairing it with reductions of foreign workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that Trump’s Cabinet is pretty much set, I go through my unique perspective on his individual picks and the direction of his administration in total. I’m very concerned about his picks for Treasury and Labor, mixed together with some of the others who will oversee domestic policy. There are three outcomes of this administration, and I raise concerns that one of them is the creation of a new centrist/lean-left coalition that permanently marginalizes conservatives. My concern is that we get all of the left-wing components of populism but not the right-leaning components. With that said, I’m not as concerned about some of the HHS picks as some of my allies. Although the surgeon general pick is terrible, the more consequential positions will likely be occupied by COVID heroes rather than COVID zeroes. We need to remain vigilant to achieve enduring victories before Democrats come back into power, and right now this can go either way. The realm of outcomes is actually, ironically, perfectly represented in this mixed bag of top government appointees.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s special show, I’m joined by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of fiscal and social conservatism. Kevin outlines some of the unique opportunities we have to change direction and fuse populist campaign rhetoric with conservative outcomes on budget and inflation. We discuss the need to devolve programs to the states, thereby achieving durable policy victories that will survive a Democrat resurgence. We also discuss the more challenging aspects of social values that are eroding even on the right. Heritage is working on a family policy plan that will cut through the false choices that are presented to women these days. Kevin’s vision is presented in his new book, “Dawn’s Early Light.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both at the federal and state levels, if we fail to put pressure on the GOP, the same leaders and influencers will continue to subvert our mandate. I begin with federal news by noting that Nancy Mace’s fake fight against transgenderism is actually subversive because she is the source of the problem. Also, I delve into Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's op-ed about “DOGE” and raise some concerns that they are skirting the big spending problems while giving the impression that they are discovering some innovative way to cut inflation simply by making the government more efficient. Next, I go through a list of red-state RINO problems, including the incoming speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson. We’re joined today by Missouri state Rep. Justin Sparks, who is challenging Patterson for the speakership. Sparks warns that Patterson blocked ways to defeat the abortion amendment on the ballot, wants to treat abortion as the law of the land, opposed banning chemical castration, and supported denying organ transplants to those who didn’t get the COVID shots! He warns conservatives to stay engaged in legislative affairs because if they fall asleep, the same bad guys will continue to run the party and the red states into the ground.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After some uplifting news following the election, I bring you back to reality. Congress still has a massive RINO problem. It’s just that members like Nancy Mace ride our wave of success and ingratiate themselves using the successful fight against transgenderism, even though they continue to believe in the radical feminism and gender-bending that created the problem. Also, I’m very concerned about Dr. Oz being elevated to administrator of CMS. Next, we’re joined by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) who warns that Republicans have not changed their attitude in Congress, and absent outside activists pressuring them, they will return to the same old behavior. In fact, he lists a bunch of bad bills they are already promoting. Chip also lays out the case for massive spending cuts, a cool-off on immigration, welfare and health care reform, and how to utilize leverage points to fulfill the mandate. After some uplifting news following the election, I bring you back to reality. Congress still has a massive RINO problem. It’s just that members like Nancy Mace ride our wave of success and ingratiate themselves using the successful fight against transgenderism, even though they continue to believe in the radical feminism and gender-bending that created the problem. Also, I’m very concerned about Dr. Oz being elevated to administrator of CMS. Next, we’re joined by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) who warns that Republicans have not changed their attitude in Congress, and absent outside activists pressuring them, they will return to the same old behavior. In fact, he lists a bunch of bad bills they are already promoting. Chip also lays out the case for massive spending cuts, a cool-off on immigration, welfare and health care reform, and how to utilize leverage points to fulfill the mandate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices