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What Europe’s REJECTION of Globalism Means for The World

Left-wing political parties suffered major losses in the recent European Parliament elections, but the media is painting it as a terrifying win for “far-right extremists” who are practically Hitler. Journalist Alex Newman joins Glenn to explain why that’s a “deception.” Newman, who spent over a decade working in Europe, argues that these elections were more proof that people around the world are tired of globalists trying to control their lives. Plus, he explains why French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the lower house of France’s Parliament after the election: Is this an attack on the “democracy” that he claims to love…or is it just how the weird parliamentary system works?

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GLENN: So we have the Liberty media CEO on with us. He's a journalist. Also an author of Indoctrinating Our Children to Death. Alex Newman is with us.

And, Alex, if I'm not mistaken, you've spent almost a decade, working over in different countries in -- in Europe and reporting on Europe and European policies and politics.

And I thought, you could maybe bring us a better understanding what happened over the weekend.

And what's still to come.

ALEX: Well, thank you for having me, Beck. It's great to be with you.

Yes. I spent over a texted working in Europe. And longer than that. Living in Europe, Sweden, Switzerland, and France. And the media, of course, is being pretty dishonest about what has happened on this election. On several fronts.

For one, they're portraying this as a win for the far right. And yet, they don't actually tell you what that means. They want to conjure up images of Adolf Hitler and goose stepping Nazis, and isn't could be further from the truth. The parties that really did very well in this election are not even close to Nazis. In fact, if anything, they're more closely aligned with like the Libertarian Party. Or conservative parties. With some controls on immigration. So right there, we have a fake narrative from the fake media. And another part of the deception, I would say. Is that this will have some sort of devastating effect on the globalist agenda, or the mass migration. I mean, that's simply not true. Either this was an election for the European parliament.

This isn't a parliament in the sense that we think of, as a sovereign legislative body. In the EU you have the European commission. Which is basically a hybrid legislative executive branch. It's very different from our system.

And the parliament serves more as a rubber stamp, and as a legislative body. So several big, big deceptions. But the results do speak to something very important.

Europeans, I think like Americans are tired of the globalism. They're tired of the mass migration. They're tired of the economic suffering. Because of the inflation and the climate policies and the war on farmers and all the rest.

And they want something different. So from that perspective, this was a very significant election.

GLENN: So what did Macron do, when he called for new elections.

I don't even understand. I don't even understand, that that system. What did he do?

Why was that a big deal?

And how -- you know, how is that going to work out for him?

ALEX: Well, he had to, essentially. After the election results. His party was absolutely crushed.

And I mean crushed. The result was devastating for his globalist establishment political party. And the party that won, by a massive margin, that used to be the national front. Now they call it the national rally, is basically the antithesis of Macron's party.

They're very strong French nationalists. They want to preserve French identity. They want to do deportations. They want to remove criminals and illegal aliens out of France.

In some ways, you might call them anti-Islamic. They are opposed to what they call the Islamization of France. And, you know, they're not necessarily like a conservative Republican Party, if you will. They are on the left, on quite a few issues.

But they want to preserve French identity. In fact, until recently, they wanted to get France out of the European Union. They have now walked that back a little bit. They are more reformist.

Whereas, Macron wants to surrender all French sovereignty to the EU and open up the borders wide for anybody to come in. So the contrast is very clear. And what happens in these parliamentary democracies, like they have across Europe. Is that when you have an election like that in the Prime Minister. Or the president in the case of France, has a party that is decimated in the polls. They really have no choice but to call for a snap election, and then eventually step down. Because they are obviously in a position of weakness. They have clearly lost the support of the public.

And so the correct thing to do then, is to go on an election and let the people decide their fate.

GLENN: So the people that were -- were elected, they remained. They're just reelecting the rest of parliament?

I don't -- I'm sorry, for sounding so naive. But I just don't care about foreign governments. Because to me, they don't make any sense. So what is -- yeah.

ALEX: So the French system, like many of the other European, parliamentary systems. You know, the whole system is different.

Right? In the United States, we have kind of the two-party system. Every congressional district represents a particular group of people.

So when you have elections in most of these European tells me.

What you have is proportional representation in parliament.

Typically you'll have governing coalitions that take shape.

Like the recent government that just took over in the Netherlands. A huge blow to the establishment. They kicked out the liberals. The liberals by American definition.

The globalists. And replaced them with conservative parties. So what happens then, when you have these kinds of -- the same in Canada. Our neighbors in the north, and Australia.

When you have these elections, it becomes very, very clear, that the ruling party. Or the ruling coalition no longer has public support. The and protect proper thing to do is step down and let people have new elections. This election was, like I said for the European parliament. What it showed, the French people are no longer with them. So he has to do the right thing here.

GLENN: Wow.

Okay. So this vote that happened over the weekend, see if I follow you, the vote that happened this weekend, has very few teeth, if you will.

But calling for a new election, if the results turn out the way it appears they might turn out, it -- it will have some teeth.

The conservatives will have some teeth.

ALEX: Yeah. So if in this snap election, Marine Le Pen's national rally party performs as well as they did in the European parliament election, France will look very, very difficult when the new government takes over. That's a very real possibility. It's possible that the French voters wanted Marine Le Pen's party in the European parliament, but not governing France. That's possible. We'll see what happens in this election.

But, yeah. This could lead to some very, very profound changes in the way France is governed, and that by extension then would lead to some profound shifts across Europe. France is obviously one of the powerhouses of the European Union.

One of the major economies. One of the most significant military forces.

So this could have a very, very profound affect.

If the election goes the way the European parliamentary election suggests it does.

You're right, when you look at the European parliament. The name is kind of misleading. People assume.

For example, the US Congress, that they will have the power to radically shift the trajectory of things. In the European system, that's just not the case. The parliament is I think best thought of as a rubber stamp, almost like a decoration for the Europeans to be able to do feel like they have some kind of influence.

The EU is really governed by unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats at the European which I guess.

GLENN: So have you heard, there's a new summit that's happening at the united nation's annual meeting.

It's called the summit of the future.

Which kind of sounds a little freaky.

And it is -- it will cover everything from climate change.

International security. Science, technology.

Youth.

It's the typical bullcrap from the United Nations.

Except, one of the things they're addressing is transforming global governance.

And action 36. We commit to transforming global governance. Global governance.

Action 41. Will reform and strengthen the United Nations.

They go into all kinds of things like our common agenda. And they're giving the United Nations, extra powers, that can be enacted in emergencies.

And so they're getting around the sovereignty, saying, by saying, oh, this would only happen in a global emergency.

But we all know emergencies are always right around the corner.

Do you know much about this?

ALEX: I do, Glenn. Actually, I broke that story on the Epic Times over a year ago.

It's very, very important. I'm glad we're talking about it. In fact, I will be there covering the summit for the New American magazine, so we will be providing live updates from there.

I think of this as kind of an attempted constitutional convention for the UN. They want to throw off the shackles, that kind of have restrained their power grabs over the decades.

And usurp vast new powers, and that's not speculation.

The secretary general, Antonio Guterres, who, by the way, before becoming the head of the UN. Was the leader of the socialist international, which traces its lineage directly back to Karl Marx's family. And he has put out a series of what he calls policy briefs. One of them, as you mentioned, deals with emergencies.

And I urge people to read this document. If I remember correctly, it's only about 24 pages.
And it is just transparent. It basically says, in any declared emergency, global emergency, the secretary general will assume all these new powers. The decision-making entities will be the agencies of the United Nations, that says nation states, governments, civil society, business. All of them will be taking their marching orders from this secretary general and his minions.

And, I mean, it gets worse.

They give a list of possible emergencies.

And it could be anything.

It could be an economic emergency. A climate emergency.

An environmental emergency. It doesn't have to be a global emergency. It could be regional.

So we're talking about here, an incredible power grab. Where all they have to do to say is say emergency, the magic words.

And suddenly we have basically a basic global police state.

So people need to be paying attention to this.

GLENN: And this is something.

We're covering this tonight, on my 9:00 p.m. TV show.

And in -- in doing our homework on it, it is -- is something that a lot of people will go, oh, well, that's no big deal.

They're voting on this and doing this in September.

You know, before we have a vote here in America.

And if they pass this stuff, what you said is absolutely true.

Any emergency, will just circumvent all of our governments. And put all the power into one government. In the UN.

ALEX: Yeah. That's exactly right. That's a proper subscription of what's going on here, Glenn.

The amazing thing. You can actually read these documents. You don't have to read between the lines. You don't really have to read through the UNEs (phonetic). It's just right there in plain sight. They're talking about global restrictions on free speech. They're talking about globally seizing control of economic decisions.

They're talking about incredible powers. Powers that would be flatly unconstitutional. Even for the US government to exercise. And they're talking about now having these powers exercised at the international level, by people who are not elected by any people. It's, frankly, terrifying. I think people really need to be paying attention.

GLENN: It is.

ALEX: Because most people aren't talking about it.

GLENN: Yeah. Thank you so much for everything you do. And if you missed our last podcast. When was it we did that? Do you remember? I have no concept of time.

ALEX: It was --

GLENN: I know. It's like everything -- there's so many things that happen every day. You're like. I don't know. Was that three years ago?

I have no idea.

But we had a fantastic, fantastic conversation.

And if you missed it, go look up the podcast with me and Alex Newman. And let's see.

It was called -- it's a global cabal. A conspiracy theory.

You can -- you can find the podcast with me, and Alex.
And it is well worth your time listening to.

Alex, thank you, as always.

God bless.

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Exclusive new poll reveals why Gen Z wants to BURN the system down

A shocking number of young Americans support BOTH President Trump and democratic socialism, a new poll has found, and they're willing to make major changes to the American system to get what they feel they deserve. Justin Haskins, who conducted the poll with Rasmussen, joins Glenn Beck to break down the unexpected findings…

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GLENN: Justin Haskins. He's the president of our republic. StoppingSocialism.com. He's editor-in-chief. And also the coauthor of several books, with me. Welcome to the program, Justin.

How are you?

JUSTIN: I'm doing well, Glenn. How are you?

STU: Well, I was well, until you contacted me on vacation, and sent me this disturbing poll.

I am in bed at night.

And I'm reading this. I'm like, oh, dear.

What? My wife is like, I told you to not check this email. I'm like, I didn't know Justin was going to write to me.

Justin, tell me, first of all, before we get into it, how secure is the sample size on this poll?

JUSTIN: It's a very good sample size. 1200 people nationally.

Only 18 to 39-year-olds. And we did that deliberately, so that we could get a sample size large enough so we could pull out valid responses, just from younger people.

So the whole purpose of this poll was to find out what younger people, 18 to 39 think, voters only. And people who say that they're likely to vote. So we're not talking about just people out in the public. We're not talking about registered voters.

We're talking about people who are registered to vote. And say they're likely to vote.

GLENN: So let's go over some of the things that you have already released to the press.

And that is, in the survey, 18 to 39-year-olds, likely voters.

The Trump approval rating is a lot higher than you thought it would be. Right?

JUSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. Forty-eight percent positive approval rating of Donald Trump, which for young people, is very high.

So that's -- that's the good news.

That's the only good news we're going to talk about.

GLENN: We might have to come back to that first question several times.

Do you believe the United States is a fundamentally good, evil, or morally mixed country?

JUSTIN: Yep. This one is not too bad.

It's not great. But fundamentally good was 28 percent.

Which is low. But mixed was 50 percent.

And fundamentally evil was 17 percent.

And I think mixed at 50 percent is not an unreasonable, crazy response.

I -- I can see why all sorts of people might choose that.

So I don't think there's anything terrible here. It depends on what you mean by mixed. Fundamentally good at 28 percent. It's a little low. Fundamentally evil at 17 percent, it's a little disturbing. But it's not -- it's not insane. The insane stuff comes a little bit later.

GLENN: Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Major industries talk about the crazy stuff coming later, here it is.

Major industries like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized and give more control and equity to the people.

JUSTIN: Yeah. This was -- this was -- this one floored me. If I look at strongly agree. Somewhat agree for that statement you just read. It's over 70 percent of young people, including -- including the vast majority of Republicans. Young Republicans. And people who identify as conservatives.

It was pretty similar, in fact, how young people responded compared to liberals and independents.

And Democrats.

They all pretty much agreed that, yes. The government. The federal government should be nationalizing whole industries to make things more equitable for people.

GLENN: As the guy who is the chief -- editor-in-chief of stopping socialism. What's the problem with nationalizing energy, and health care?

JUSTIN: Well --

GLENN: What happens, typically.

JUSTIN: Well, usually, there's blood in the streets, when you do too much of that.

You know, socialism, communism have been spectacularly horrible, throughout the course of human history. Across every society, culture, religion.

It doesn't matter when or what kind of technological advancements you have. The more you collect vies a society. The more authoritarian that society gets. The less you have individual freedom. And the worst the economy usually is for regular people. So it's been a catastrophe across-the-board. Everyone listening to this audience, probably knows that.

And so the idea that you would have three-quarters of young voters. So remember, these people will be the primary voters in ten to 20 years.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JUSTIN: Saying, yeah. We should be nationalizing whole industries. Whole industries, is so disturbing.

And I don't think that conservatives are -- understand how deeply rooted some of these ideas are with younger people.

GLENN: No. No.

And I will tell you, I think some conservatives are walking a very dangerous line. And, you know, coming up with a little mix of everything.

And -- and I think we have to be very careful on -- on what is being said. And who are WHO our friends and allies are.

By the way, that number again is 39 percent strongly agree.

37 percent somewhat agree.

Somewhat disagree, 12 percent. Strongly disagree, 5 percent.

That is disastrous. Now, try this one on. These are the ones that have been -- we have new ones.

These are just a few of the ones that were released late last week. The next presidential election is in 2028. Would you like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election?

JUSTIN: Yep, 53 percent said yes.

Fifty-three percent of all voters said yes. And the most shocking thing, was that 35 percent of those who we poll, who said they voted for Donald Trump, in 2024, said that that they want to see a socialist win in 2028. And so about a third of Republicans, 35 percent of Trump voters, 43 percent of people who call themselves conservatives, so even on the right, among younger people. There is a large group that want a socialist president, in 2028.

GLENN: And the reason -- the reason is, it -- it tied into the next few questions. Okay.

So here's question five. Among the following options, which best describes your biggest reason, you would like to see a democratic socialist candidate. Thirty-one percent said housing costs are too high. Twelve percent, taxes are too low for corporations. Eleven percent, taxes are too low for wealthy have I seen.

Eight percent want single payer health care systems. Seventeen say the economy unfairly benefits older, wealthier Americans.

Fifteen percent say the economy unfairly benefits larger corporations. 5 percent, some other reason.

And 2 percent, unsure. Now, let's get into the new polls that were breaking today.

Question six.

How would you describe your current financial situation?

JUSTIN: Yeah. Only 24 percent said that they're doing well. Thirty-four -- 38 percent said getting by. Struggling 29 percent. Seven percent said in crisis. So if you add up just getting by, struggling, and in crisis, that's 74 percent said that they're just barely getting by, at best.

And I think that explains a lot of the other negative responses we've seen so far.

GLENN: That's not good.

JUSTIN: In this poll. And the ones that are going to come pretty soon here.

GLENN: Seven. Which best describes your personal life situation?

You are thriving, you're doing well with a few ups and downs. You feel stuck and uncertain. You feel lonely, disconnected, or emotionally drained. You're in a crisis and feel most negative about your personal life.

JUSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. About a third said that they feel stuck or uncertain. Lonely. Or that they're in a crisis.

That's a third of young people. Say that.

I mean, that's -- that's not great. Only 19 percent said thriving.

46 percent said, they have ups and downs. Which I think is not. Too shocking.

But the idea that there's a third of American voters out there, who feel like, they can't buy a home. And they feel like they are lonely. And that they're in crisis. And that life is not just going well at all for them.

Again, I think that's -- that's driving a lot of the support for socialism. When you have 53 percent of these people saying, yeah. I want a socialist president in 2028.

GLENN: So socialism is not the answer. It is the symptom. It is the symptom of what people are feeling right now.

And they -- they don't know any other -- they don't -- nobody is presenting them with anything other than, you know, Republican/Democrat bullcrap. And socialists are coming at it from a completely nigh angle. Or so the youth think it's the oldest and most failed system of all time.

But they're seeing this as a solution that is different than what the party -- the Republican/Democrats are offering. Even though the Democrats are offering the socialism thing.

Number eight, do you think the American economy is unfair to young people?

Sixty-two percent say yes.

JUSTIN: Yeah, and 27 percent said no.
And I think that this really gets at the heart of what the issue is here.

When you look at the reasons. When you look at the detailed things of the poll.

What -- to try to find out if there's an association between some kind of demographic or response question about people's lives and their support for socialism, to see if there's a correlation there between something that is happening. And whether someone is a socialist or not.

One of the top correlations, connections, is, if people think the economy is unfair.

And if they're having trouble buying a home. Or they don't think they can buy a home. Or that's one of their reasons for supporting socialism.

So, in other words, there's this fairness issue. And it's not even about inequality.

It's not about, well, they have too much -- well, if they feel like the -- to use a Trump term. Rigged.

And throughout the data. That's what we see over and over and over again. Is lots of people say, the economy is rigged. For older people. For wealthier people, for corporations. It's rigged. And if they say, yeah. I think it's rigged, you know, then they're more likely to say, yeah. I want a socialist.

And I also think the same group has a relatively high approval rating of Donald Trump.

It's because the reason that a lot of young people like Trump in the poll, is that he's not part of the establishment.

And I think -- I don't think they -- I think a lot of young people who voted for Trump and who liked Trump, they didn't do it, because they liked free market, pro-liberty policies. And that's not a good thing.

But I don't think that's why they did it. I think a lot of them voted for Trump and supported him, because he's not the establishment. And that's what they don't like. They want to blow the establishment up.

JUSTIN: So my -- Justin, my sample size is my two young adults. My two children.

And they're like, talking to me, and saying, Dad. I will never be able to own a home, looking at the prices, looking at interest rates. They're like, I can't even afford to pay rent at an apartment. And they don't know what to do.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JASON: And so they're looking at -- on, like, TikTok. And they're like, who is this Mamdani guy? This sounds interesting. They bring this to me. They grew up listening to me indoctrinating them their entire lives. They're looking at other voices like on TikTok. Are we just not being loud enough?

GLENN: No. We're not -- we're not connecting with them. We're not -- I feel like they don't feel they're being heard.

And we are speaking to them in red, white and be blue.

And that means nothing. The Statue of Liberty means nothing to them. Ellis Island means nothing to them. The flag means nothing to them.

It's all partisan politics.

They're all symbols of really, the two parties.

You know, and an America, they don't relate to at all.

I think that's -- that's our biggest problem, and not being able to break through. To your point, question nine. How confident are you that you will own a home at some point, in the next ten years?

29 percent say, they already own a home. Which I found interesting. That's -- I think a pretty high number for somebody who is 18 to 34 years old.

JUSTIN: Thirty-nine.

GLENN: Thirty-nine.

JUSTIN: Yeah.

GLENN: There's a lot of 18 to 30. That I didn't own home when I was, you know, 30. Just got a home when I was 30. But go ahead. Go ahead with the rest of that poll.

JUSTIN: Yeah. So then 21 percent said discouraged, but somewhat hopeful. 12 percent said, not confident. 10 percent said, you are convinced you will never own a home. 3 percent not sure.

So if you add up the negative responses, it's around 43 percent that gave that response.

GLENN: Right. But, again, 29 percent, you already own a home. And 25 percent you are confident you will own a home, is still good. It just -- these -- these other numbers, have, you know, discouraged, but hopefully you will own a home. Who is discouraging that? And how is that being discouraged?

You know, only 12 -- let's see 12. Twenty-two. 25 percent are not sure they will ever own a home. That's too high of a number.

But I -- I don't think that's completely dismal. Now, a completely dismal answer, to the question, would you support a law that would confiscate America's excess wealth?

Including things like second homes. Luxury cars, and private boats, in order to help young people buy a home for the first time?

Are you for or against that? We'll give you that number here in just a second.

GLENN: There are some disturbing results, that get very disturbing, going from here on.

We've got two of these today, and then more tomorrow.

We'll spend more time with you tomorrow, Justin.

But would you support a law that would confiscate American's excess wealth, including things like second home, luxury cars, and private boats in order to help young people buy a home for the first time? Get the results.

JUSTIN: Yeah, 25 percent strongly support that, 30 percent somewhat support it, 55 percent in total for support. Only 38 percent strongly or somewhat oppose, with just 20 percent saying strongly oppose. So the vast majority now is -- is supporting this Communistic policy to confiscate people's wealth in order to help people. Younger people buy homes, which is in line with that question, we talked about earlier. Where it said, you know, three-quarters of these respondents wanted to nationalize whole industries to make things fairer. So it's all about -- it's all about this sense of unfairness that exists.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JUSTIN: And they feel like. Young people feel like the system is rigged. They feel like neither party is on their side, and they want to blow the whole thing up, by just taking wealth away from people, nationalizing whole industries, and redistributing it all.

And guess what, that's basically the democratic socialist platform. So it's not a surprise that that's -- that's becoming increasingly more popular with these young people.

And I don't think that free market, pro-liberty people are dealing with -- with this.

GLENN: No.

JUSTIN: In a real way.

In fact, I think a lot of us have believed recently that the wind is at our backs, and we're actually winning more and more young people over.
And that isn't what's happening according to the poll results.

GLENN: It explains why the Democrats have not moved their position off of the socialism stuff.

Doesn't it?

We keep saying, why? It's not working with anybody.

It is working. It is working with people under 39.

18 to 39-year-olds are hearing this message, and are embracing this message.