Daily Wire host: “We ain't turning on our own over a group chat”
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From the March 27, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): But no one really cares. No one really cares. All of the libs trying to get Pete Hegseth to resign are the same libs who were fighting tooth and nail not to confirm him in the first place. Their hatred of Pete Hegseth has pretty much nothing to do with this. Pete Hegseth wasn't even the guy who added Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat. The people now who are making a big hullabaloo about classified information being stored improperly, all these people on the left supported Hillary Clinton who stored classified information in a far less proper way. All these people on the left calling this the worst foreign policy blunder, national security blunder in recent memory -— Susan Rice did that recently. These are people — Susan Rice, actually in her defense, was not actually involved in the Benghazi attack, but she became the fall man in the face of the Benghazi attack. These are people who totally bungled Benghazi. These are people who, in more recent memory, totally bungled the pullout from Afghanistan, gave billions of dollars of weapons to our enemies, saw American troops killed. I mean, you know, give me a break. Give me a break.
No one really cares. The left obviously is being ridiculous about this. But even on the right, no one really cares because our politics right now is simply too polarized to care. There was a time when politics seemed a little bit more kumbaya. You know, after the tumult of the 1960s, the political establishment kind of congealed a little bit more in the 1970s. And you had a situation where Republicans would help Democrats to oust Richard Nixon, which was absurd, but it's because there was a little bit more of a consensus. But as I mentioned at the top of the show, during periods of political shift, a changing of the political order, you don't see that kumbaya. In fact, sometimes it can bleed over into political violence. We're in one of those moments right now.
And no one is going to turn on Trump or Pete Hegseth or JD Vance or even Mike Waltz or any of these people over a group chat. It's not gonna — the stakes are too high. If the Democrats were more reasonable, if the Democrats weren't transing little kids and slaughtering babies and opening our border to a mass invasion of face-tattooed criminals, if the Democrats were a little more normal, maybe the Republicans would be more willing to slap their own on the wrist. But with stakes like this, uh-uh. We ain't turning on our own over a group chat. OK? Gonna take it's gonna take a lot more than that. Maybe there's pretty much nothing that would get us to relax our fists, reconsider our position in this kind of a pitched battle of the culture war.