Dave Brat

One more thing, because I never told you this.

I was at Liberty University CEO Summit with Dave Brat about three years ago.

I go every year.

And a man that was running Toyota, North America, he's an American, Japanese company, They're not faith-based.

John Boehner had a tremendous amount of pressure to support it.

And it was Eric Cantor's defeat in that primary against Dave Brat that changed everything and dropped it as an issue.

That's the closest we ever really came past 1986 votes.

If the Democrats control the House and the Senate, here's the problem.

They do, they just are too afraid to engage it or they were too busy learning what is the best way to lay out a political mailing card than actually learning anything about economics.

I remember when Dave Brat, former congressman, won his battle over the House Minority Leader Eric Cantor.

in a primary and I said to him, I said, Dave, you're an ethics professor and an economist.

You're going to burst into flames just the moment you enter the Capitol building.

And he laughed and he wasn't laughing by the time his term was over.

You can see it working because the establishment ladder is cracking on both sides, and you can watch who's falling off of it.

In 2014, the majority leader of the House, Eric Cantor, next in line to be speaker, lost his own primary to an economics professor named Dave Brat that almost nobody had heard of.

In 2016, Trump beat a field of stacked...

Governors and senators and a Bush in 2018, a bartender named AOC just took out Joe Crowley, the number four Democrat in the House.

Uh, Anne from RBA says, "Hey, how about Tim Anderson?" Yeah, that would be great.

How about Dave Brat? Well, if we're gonna get Dave Brat, we're gonna have to get Dave pretty soon, simply because he's, uh, uh, shipping out to, uh, Canberra, Australia, as our new American ambassador to Australia.

So yeah, I don't know we'll get him in anytime soon, but that is a great idea.

Dave Brat would be wonderful.

Absolutely, my buddy Tim Anderson would be a wonderful, wonderful, uh, addition to it.

8:04, "Is John Reed going to be at Politics and Pines?" Well, he's not gonna be on stage at this one.

But these, these Republicans burnt out because of the insurgent tea party-

I had Dave Brat.

I remember when he won that race.

Right.

I mean, and for these people to go out there and say, oh, the Chinese or the Bernie bros, like, dude, this is your base, buddy.

Yeah, I'm from Dave Brat country, literally.

Yes.

The signs that you would see that, you know, said Eric Cantor is a liberal.

us.No, and, uh, your, your chairman, you gotta replace your chairman 'cause he's now the ambassador to Australia, so great work there.

You cleaned up Dave Brat [laughs] and made a real-

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... real citizen of him.