What You Need to Know is “giveupitis” – or despair – is contagious. What’s happening in this country is we have a problem where people in positions of influence and authority are just selling despair and it’s catching. Everyone’s talking about how bad things are, and the news is selling only chaos and despair. They want to drive down your enthusiasm for getting our country back to work and getting people back together, united. We have to stop them — we have to fight back. Phyllis Schlafly discussed how to beat this “giveupitis” despair in America in her May 1983 Phyllis Schlafly Report “Our Moral Duty to Defend Freedom.
Wally Zimolong talks about state lockdowns. He’s the lead counsel to the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, concerning his COVID-19 lockdown orders.
Joel Pollak discusses his new book Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism? Also, what’s happening in Minneapolis and the leftist race-baiting across the country. Also, more on Twitter’s “fact checking.”
Wrap up: I answer listeners’ questions about the 2020 political conventions. Also, Hong Kong’s fight for freedom.