The 2022 midterm elections didn’t go quite as well as Republicans hoped. But that means that — now more than ever — we just examine what happened, what went wrong, and how we still can save our republic. In this clip, Glenn shares the three biggest lessons he learned from election night. Plus, he explains the one path forward he believes still exists for conservative Republicans and for America…
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GLENN: Okay. So what did we learn last night?
I think we learned three really important things. One, Ron DeSantis is the model.
Any Republican that is not willing to look at Ron DeSantis, and see what he did. And how he did it. And begin to model themselves after that. Is a fool.
An absolute fool. He is not angry. He -- he is not divisive. At least intentionally divisive. That's not his goal.
His goal is to be decisive. And decisive people are perceived sometimes, as divisive. Because a lot of people don't want to make changes. It is time to make changes.
20 points. The largest distance between he and a competitor, in the history of Florida. Twenty points. This was the story last night. And this is the path forward.
My question is: Are there any Republican G.O.P. governors that care to join him. Anyone.
Does anybody that is a governor, watching last night, and going, you know what, damn it. I really -- I need to step up my game.
Because that's what people are looking for. They're not looking for another mealy-mouthed person. They are looking for people that take decisive action.
And I will tell you, that's on both sides. Look at people who took decisive action, that we thought was divisive, because we don't agree with them.
A lot of them were reelected. Reelected.
Second thing: Our nation is spiritually lost
Completely lost. There's only one savior. And he's not on a ballot. And until we drop the manifest destiny arrogance of, God is on my side. We will continue to suffer defeat, hardships, and darkness.
And I mean as a nation. We are all going to pay for this.
We're all going to pay for it.
We must be on God's side, and that requires humility. And I didn't see anybody humble, yesterday. Did you? I don't see anybody humble today.
And until we humble ourselves we will have it done for us, and the humbling is going to be very, very painful. I believe that I found an answer last night to something I didn't want the answer to. I've said for 20-some-years alcoholics are going to be the ones to save this country. But we are -- we are just like an alcoholic. We just keep going back to the bottle and saying, I want more. No matter how damaging it is, I want more.
And I've said to you, alcoholics cannot be saved. You can't save alcoholics. They have to feel the ramifications of their own mistakes, and then want to live.
And some people, their bottom is death. And I truly believe now the answer is our bottom unfortunately with far too many people is death. The death of our nation, the death of our lifestyle, the death of our culture, the death of the Western way of life.
When you have no gas, no fuel, no heat, no meat, no control, no wealth, don't own anything, that's the death of everything that you know. And maybe then you'll wake up. I don't know. Third thing is Mitch McConnell was and is wrong. Lukewarm Democrats. Lukewarm Republicans are not going to defeat the Democrats. Just not being a Democrat is not enough. And Mitch McConnell should feel the ramifications of this loss. Mitt Romney said, just last week, he tweeted that a red wave was coming, it was all thanks to Mitch McConnell. Well, it turns out he was right. What was coming was all thanks to Mitch McConnell. This is not leadership, Mitch McConnell, Carl Rove, their ilk. They don't offer us anything. There is no vision there. This is thanks to Mitch McConnell.
I have a hard time not calling what he actually proposes, collusion. Where is the path forward? And what is it?
A slower trip to hell is this
Mitch McConnell said over the summer. We don't have to do anything. We just have to not be Democrats.
That's not enough.
Now, let me get off Mitch McConnell here, and ask all of the Republicans, where do you begin to declare who you are?
We need to declare who we are.
The Declaration of Independence didn't just say, we just don't have -- we just don't want to be like the king.
It's not what it said. It was clear. We're different. We want to go a way, that no one else wants to go. Because we believe certain things. Because we have spiritual wisdom.
We have spiritual wisdom. We know what's true. And what is not.
And with that spiritual wisdom, applied. We see things that are self-evident, that you don't!
We don't need to indoctrinate our people, we don't need to stop speech. We don't need to put people in jail, because they disagree.
These things are obvious, when you humble yourself, enough to fight for his will, and not our will.
What do we have now that are self-evident truths?
Seriously, what do we have? There's a portion of the Democrats, that will mouth the words -- all men are created equal. But they don't really live it. They don't believe it. They're just as likely to you know put somebody in -- you know for revenge purposes or whatever. They're just as likely to violate the Constitution as anybody on the left. And the left, they're experts at that.
I know what those truths are. I don't think I know. I know.
Because I know who I am, and I know who God is. And God is a God of the individual. The plan of darkness. The plan of Satan, if you will. Is the plan of collectivism. No individual salvation. No individual choices. We will not allow you to fail.
We will not allow you to feel the consequence of anything.
Because we'll tell you what to do.
Life, as long as the -- as long as the collective agrees, then you have the right to life.
I mean, that's if they agree, your life is worth living. Anybody certainly George Bernard Shaw?
We should just line people up, and ask them: Justify your life.
Collectivism believes liberty. As long as you believe, think, speak, and do what the collective tells you is part of liberty. Pursuit of happiness. No. There's no path for the individual to do what he or she believes, that she was sent here to do, let alone, just have your own business.
Because you're not going to keep any of the spoils. The God of this world, will tell you what to do. And you will praise the God of this world.
You know I know I shared Ephesians with you, a couple of days ago, but there's more to this. Let me just run through this, quickly. Because I want to add on to what I said, the other day.
Remember, in Ephesians, it says, look, you cannot -- I'm paraphrasing horribly. You can't live as the people of the world do. As the Gentiles do. You can't. In the futility of their thinking.
Think of that. The futility of their thinkingly. They are darkened in their understanding. And separated from the life of God. Is that true?
Do you believe that people are darkened in their understanding?
How can people not notice what's happening to their lives, because of the way they vote?
They're darkened from their understanding.
They're separated from the life of God. And listen, because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardening of their hearts.
Meaning, I'm not listening to you.
I won't listen to reason anymore.
I won't talk to you anymore.
I've hardened my heart to anything that is outside of my worldview. And it goes on opinion
Having lost all sensitivity. Wow.
Think of this. Just with what porn does on the internet. You lose all sensitivity. It's got to get worse and worse and worse. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality, as to indulge in every kind of impurity. And they are full of greed.
This describes today. And then he says, but that's not the way of life you learned.
When you heard about Christ, you were taught -- you were taught in him, accordance with the truth.
So you were taught the truth.
This is not about them. This is about us.
It's not good enough, just not to be them. Nowhere does God say, you know what, just don't be like that guy. Just don't be like those guys.
That's not what he says. He just says, you were taught better than that. You know, better than that.
He goes on, you were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.
You were taught to be made new in the attitude of your mind. And put on a new self.
So he's really not judging those people. He's judging us. Have you forgotten?
You have to put off all falsehood, and all lies. Speak truthfully, to your neighbor.
For we are members of one body. He doesn't say, speak truthfully to the people you like. He says, to your neighbor, who you are supposed to love. And in your anger, don't sin. Don't let the sun go down when you're still angry. Don't give the devil a foothold.
Anyone who is stealing. Listen to this. Anyone who is stealing, must steal no longer. But must work. Now, that sounds like a Republican policy. You can't steal, you have to work.
But there's not a period after there. There is a comma!
Which the Republicans don't get.
You must work. Doing something useful with your hands, that you might have something to share with those in need.
It's not work, just so you can enrich yourself. It is work, so you can choose to share with others.
We have lost that. We have lost much of this ability.
So now, where do we go from here?
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Here's what you need to learn. This is the last thing, that we need to learn.
That you have everything you need. You have everything you need. You've been enriched in every way, with all kinds of speech and knowledge. You get that from God. You don't lack anything. You need a spiritual gift, you have it.
And God will keep you firm, until the end.
Because he is faithful, to things that are true.
We can't divide ourselves. We have to be united, in truth. And here's what's -- and here's what's great.
The message of salvation, that's -- I mean, that's crazy talk. To people who are you know on the other side, denying all reality.
But that's the point.
God said, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent. I will frustrate.
So where is that wise person, that we trust? That really is, truly wise now? In the ways of the world?
Is the world wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher?
There's no one that fits into those categories, and you're like, oh, yeah. I trust him.
He's really, really wise. Because the world is not wise.
God is wiser than huge wisdom. Weakness of God, is stronger than any strength. When we first started our spiritual life, how many of us were wise by human standards?
How many of us were really influential? How many of us were born to the right family, and had the right wealth?
Very few, I would imagine. Those of us who really converted, probably really struggled for a long time. Because that's how you find the truth.
Through struggle. And that's when you chose God, or God chose you. When you were weak. When you were lowly. When you were despised.
And that's why you have so much power. You have so much power, because you are weak. You are lowly. You're -- you're not part of the wise counsel, that everybody wants to be a part of now. You're not seeking fame.
If we seek the truth, the truth, no matter where it takes us, all will be better than well.
We will heal our nation. That should be our goal. That should be our path. Look to the people, who have done it politically. And that's clear in Florida. And then look inside of yourself and rely on God.
