I – Nobody asked for this.
We witnessed one of the greatest political comebacks of all time.
We won the presidency. We won the Senate. We won the House. We won demographics nobody thought were possible. We won in places nobody thought were winnable, AT ALL
And then.
Somehow.
…the most influential voices on our side decided that the most important thing to do with that historic mandate… was to tear each other apart
Right now, as you read this, the Democrats are doing exactly what they always do after they lose. They’re not bitching and moaning at each other. They’re not pointing fingers on podcasts. And they are definitely are not busy demoralizing their base.
They are organizing. You see the paid protestors… you think they aren’t good at organizing? Think again.
On the other hand… our podcast crowd is in a full blown public meltdown that would make the Real Housewives producers look like total bitches.
ZERO PEOPLE in the conservative base asked for this. Not one person.
Not a single person any of us have ever talked to in real life is sitting there thinking, “what I really need right now is to watch my favorite podcasters go to war with each other.”
They’re thinking about their mortgage. Their kids. Their country.
They want to win. They want results.
They want the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest voices to wake up every single morning with their guns drawn and all the guns to be pointed at the exact same target.
But instead, we are getting this bullshit.
And everyone… every single person on the Right, is exhausted by it.
This is obvious if you’ve spent five minutes outside of a podcast studio talking to actual conservatives… you know this to be true..
II – What the base actually wants.
We, the real people on the Right are tired.
Not tired of fighting… we are tired of watching the fight go in the wrong direction.
We want the border secured. We want their grocery bill to come down. We want our kids to get a real education. We want Democrats out of power at every level: school board, state legislature, Congress, all of it.
That’s the assignment. That has always been the assignment. That’s what we all care about the most.
Instead, what we got, was grown adults with eight-figure audiences spending their airtime on personal beef that does absolutely nothing for a single voter anywhere. Every minute spent on intra-podcast drama is a minute not spent helping flip a House seat. Every episode built around attacking someone on the same team is an episode that could’ve explained to a persuadable voter why they should never vote Democrat again.
The opportunity cost of this is staggering and nobody is willing to just say it…
We are SICK. OF. IT. AND it’s insanely dangerous.
You know who doesn’t do this crap? The Democratic Party.
They are absolutely ruthless about one thing:
When it’s time to win, they fall in line. They swallow their pride. They campaign for people they CANNOT STAND… and the fucking WIN.
They are NOT confused about who the enemy is.
III – What actually wins elections.
Elections are won in the margins.
They are won by turning out people who almost didn’t show up.
And right now, the margins are sitting right there for the taking. Wide open.
The young men drifting right are the most exciting political development in a decade. An entire generation of guys who grew up being told they were the problem, who looked at what the left was offering and said no thanks. They are reachable. They are hungry for something real. But they have extremely sensitive radar for authenticity and they will check out the second something feels performative or stupid. I see it in my own kids…
So hear me when I say that a conservative media landscape consumed by ego-driven soap opera bullshit is exactly the kind of crap that makes them tune out and go back to not giving a shit.
Remember that Trump won UNION households. These are people with deep cultural roots in the Democratic Party. Their parents voted Democrat. Their union voted Democrat. And Trump WON THEM because he spoke to them in a way they knew, because he actually cares and understands you have to meet people where they are at.
Every single one of these voters can be held. Every single one of them can bring five friends for the midterms. Every single one of them represents a building block of a durable majority.
And the version of conservative media they encounter when they start paying attention, that first impression, that initial look at what this movement actually is, matters enormously.
If what they see is a circular firing squad of millionaire podcasters airing personal grievances at each other, they don’t think “wow, what a fascinating internal debate.”
They think “these people are an absolute mess and crazy” and they leave.
The Left understood something a long time ago that I think the Right is still learning.
Optics are not separate from strategy.
Optics are strategy.
For the Left, that looks like a LOT of posturing, platitudes, and performative bullshit… and that’s good for the Right, because that strategy LOST in 2024. The Right won because the Right looked competent, focused, and united… so we won the margins.
This signals to moveable voters that you are serious people doing serious things. It signals that you are capable of governing. It signals that joining this team is not embarrassing and you will come out ahead in the end, even when everyone demonizes you for it today.
And right now… conservative media is not sending that signal. It’s sending the opposite one. And every day it continues, somewhere a persuadable voter looks over, shakes their head, and decides to sit the whole thing out.
Winning elections is the only thing that matters. And we are not acting like it.
IV – A simple guide to who is actually worth your time.
There is a very simple filter for figuring out whether a conservative media personality is serious about winning or just serious about themselves. It has nothing to do with how smart they sound or how fired up they make you feel. It comes down to a few questions you should be asking every single time you give someone your attention.
Do they talk about elections specifically?
Not abstractly. Not philosophically. Actually talking about specific races, specific candidates, specific districts that matter right now. If someone has a massive platform and cannot tell you which Senate races are competitive in 2026, which House seats are flippable, what’s happening at the state legislative level in swing states — they are not a serious political voice. They are an entertainer. Enjoy the show if you want. But don’t mistake it for strategy.
Are they telling you your vote matters?
This sounds obvious. It shouldn’t need to be said.
And yet there is a cottage industry on the right that has built an entire brand around telling conservatives the system is rigged, voting is pointless, both parties are the same and not to vote. Just to give up, and that voting doesn’t matter.
Here’s what you need to understand about anyone telling you not to vote: they are either useful idiots for the Democratic Party or they are deliberately acting as useful idiots for the Democratic Party.
Either way the result is the same. Democrats win when Republicans stay home. Full stop.
Not voting is not a protest. It is a concession.
Anyone telling you otherwise is not your friend, regardless of how many times they’ve said the word freedom into their podcast mic or have American flags in their bio.
Are they punching right more than they punch left?
Keep a mental tally. How much of this person’s content is directed at Democrats, failed liberal policies, and the actual opposition, versus how much is directed at other conservatives, other hosts, people on the same side? If you’re watching someone who spends more energy attacking Ben Shapiro than attacking the Democratic Party, more time dunking on Dan Bongino than exposing what Democrats are doing to your city, you need to turn them off. They’ve lost the plot.
The enemy is not to your right.
Are they asking anything of you beyond your attention?
The best political voices don’t just make you feel informed, they make you feel responsible. They tell you to register to vote. They tell you to volunteer. They tell you to donate to specific competitive races. They tell you to show up. If the only thing a host ever asks of you is to subscribe, share, and leave a comment, and they never encourage you to go out and do something meaningful to push the conservative movement forward… then they are building a business, not a movement.
Those are different things.
Do not confuse them.
V – This is YOUR Movement. Act Like It.
You don’t need the podcasters.
They need you.
They need your clicks, your downloads, your subscriptions, your attention.
Without you, they’re nobody.
But without them… you’re still a voter, and you have a say in what happens in this country.
You can still show up on election day and change the course of this country’s history with or without a podcast in your AirPods.
So for the love of God… STOP giving your precious hours to people who treat the movement like a backdrop for their personal drama.
Stop letting entertainers convince you they’re generals for the conservative army.
The filter is simple:
- If someone is telling you to vote Democrat, this is not your person.
- If someone is telling you to stay home, sit it out, that your vote is pointless, this is not your person.
- And if someone is spending more energy attacking people on the Right than they are attacking the Left, this is not your person.
Find the voices, big or small, famous or not, who wake up every single day thinking about one thing.
Winning.
We are the majority. We have the numbers, the energy, the mandate, and the moment.
The podcast fights are not indicative of the conservative movement writ-large. Every single poll shows this to be true.
And the only thing, the only thing, that can stop us, is us.
Show up. Stay focused.
And vote like the country depends on it.
Because it does.
COMMENTS:
DocVonGalten. @PatentlyFalseto
To: @GOP
I have donated thousands of dollars to Trump’s campaigns. I have even supported
when they were unfairly targeted for their support of Tucker.
I vote in every election, from president to dog catcher. I have never seen such a rug pull as is currently being done by Donald Trump.
All politicians lie to some extent. But this is next level
We didn’t get mass deportations
We didn’t get arrests
We didn’t disrupt the antifa terror cells
We didn’t get free speech
We didn’t get no new wars
Apparently all that matters is doing whatever Benjamin Netanyahu wants.
Your Department Of justice can’t do the smallest things but suddenly it has the energy to try to arrest Tucker Carlson for some bullshit. How could you accuse him of betraying his country when 97% of y’all take money from Israel?
You deserve to lose the midterms in every election for the next 10 years.
You’re all full of shit.
The rest of us will be fine, we’ll survive one way or another without you.
PS stop texting me for donations
