Campaign 2020 Update

by Mark Steyn
Steyn on the Air
January 2, 2019

https://www.steynonline.com/9122/campaign-2020-update

Welcome to 2019. I'll be back on air with the great John Oakley at Global News Radio 640 live at 5pm Eastern - that's in about twenty minutes. Hope you'll tune in.

~I closed out the old year with three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting on America's Number One radio show. You can find a few moments from my guest-hosting stint here. Thank you to Diane from Macungie, Pennsylvania from calling in. I notice Macungie, which I mispronounced, is about an hour from Wilkes-Barre, which I've heard pronounced a half-dozen different ways. So maybe Diane will come along to see me and Dennis Miller at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, and give me the definitive answer. More details on that here.

~While we're wringing out the old, here's another clip from my guest-hosting stint on "Tucker" - talking to Seth Barron about the presidential prospects of another New York billionaire, Michael Bloomberg:

Mark Steyn and I on @TuckerCarlson's show discussing a possible 2020 Bloomberg run for President. https://t.co/vyGluTZ552
— Seth Barron (@SethBarronNYC) December 31, 2018

~We had a busy Hogmanay here at SteynOnline, starting with a song for the season, and continuing through our annual tip of the hat to those we lost in the auld year, and a three-hundred-and-sixty-se'nnight's worth of 2018 headlines. We hope you'll want to check out one or two of those before moving on to the joys of the new year.

See you on the radio in a quarter-hour or so. Oh, and if you'd like to start the New Year right there's no better way than with a year's subscription to The Mark Steyn Club. More details here.

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Brian from Minneapolis • Jan 3, 2019 at 07:38

Jordan Peterson just talked on Fox & Friends on the tech companies censoring speech. He even discussed leaving Patreon. Any plans of meeting up with him again and doing another interview?

Steven Payne • Jan 3, 2019 at 03:12

I think the 100 ton blue whale in the room is Michelle Obama. To paraphrase Galadriel, she has but to extend her hands and take the nomination. In other words, if she wants it, it's her's. For that matter, so's the Presidency. I don't see the candidate that could withstand the tremendous media and societal advantage she would have for her intersectionality. You think the media fawned over Obama? You ain't seen nothing yet (shout out to Tal)!
So it boils down to whether she wants the job. I don't think she does, but I think she wants the benefits and perks. The staff, the plane, and perhaps most enticing, going down in history as the first female president. So, we'll see, but I think it's better than even odds that we have another Obama presidency in 2021.

Brian from Minneapolis • Jan 3, 2019 at 01:38

Tucker Carlson opened yesterdays show saying "America's goal is happiness, but leaders show no obligation to it. He points blame to the breakdown of family. When will this problem, the elimination of the nuclear family, be a topic for an election or are we only going to talk about it when there are no stable families left?

Sol • Jan 2, 2019 at 23:06

The new year began with Senator-elect Willard "Willy Loman" Romney telling Trump to go ahead and lose every battle, because the important thing is to be liked. The snake-oil emetic Romney was hawking in his inaugural op-ed this morning will be useful when Republicans take their last stand in Masada: Mass Death of a Salesman.

Meanwhile on CNN, Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Nancy, offered to show Washington, DC newcomers how the game is played. She said cheerfully of her mother, "She'll cut your head off and you won't even know your bleeding."

With Pelosi selected to stop Trump by any means necessary, I'd say the Dem with the best chance of being nominated is the one most like her.

Brian from Minneapolis

Sol • Jan 3, 2019 at 01:17

Pelosi might have a chance but the Dems want a young candidate that connects with the youth of their party. The days of old time establishment Dems may be coming to an end.

Fran Lavery • Jan 2, 2019 at 21:48

It was like winning Bingo finding the podcast of John and Mark together in the first Oakley show of 2019, and the winnings were big. In other words, not disappointed at all. One not so big surprise is that we who voted for President Trump are being taught a lesson and we will not get our wall. Btw, beaded curtains can be made out of the stuff that sends man into orbit so don't make light of beads. They can also be lit up at night so the beauty can be dazzling to the eyes on both sides.

Since we need to be taught a lesson never to vote off the elite reservation ever again, I think it only fair to reply to them Dirty Crats and Rinos that our side took enough for ten or twenty lifetimes of abuse when Obama was elected president and we'll be paying for many years to come. Now it's our turn to get what we want and any form of further abuse is going to be further reciprocated with more of the same kind of rebellious voting. Welcome back, John Oakley.

Kate Smyth • Jan 2, 2019 at 19:54

Mark, you may not be woke, but your "fashion" is! Some very hip colour combinations with recent guest-hosting etc... looking sharp!

Laura Rosen Cohen

Kate Smyth • Jan 3, 2019 at 18:03

OMG Kate, thank you for joining me in commenting on the TRULY important things. It was lonely for a while being the only person in the SteynFrau Department of Sartorial Commentary.

Kate Smyth

Laura Rosen Cohen • Jan 3, 2019 at 21:44

:) I've been here the whole time, Laura! (I reposted one of your PBUH comments on a separate thread yesterday.) Did you see the red-tie-on-blue-and-white-checkered-shirt? #WokeWardrobe

PS. Also, did you see the Trump tweet for Warren 2020?

James Morphew • Jan 2, 2019 at 19:28

The wide-open Dem field, partly brought on by total lack of message or platform, invites quite a few fellows that just want to "give it a try". Bloomberg is a nice guy, a peaceful mayor, but appears to us Midwesterners as a New Yorker that thinks the world ends somewhere about a mile west of the Hudson. The Dems have a recent history of preferring the maverick (except Hillary, of course), and a maverick with some pizzazz and little substance becomes very attractive. This will be good entertainment, but there are a couple that could energize the non-analytical American. Like Beto or Booker, or some yet unknown with good looks.

Fran Lavery • Jan 2, 2019 at 18:51

Somehow missed the Oakley interview, but not sure why that happens as I do pay close attention here. Maybe it was at the tippy top of the hour:(

Fran Lavery

Fran Lavery • Jan 2, 2019 at 19:28

Found it under Audio and On Air:) Good one, Holmes!

Fran Lavery

Fran Lavery • Jan 2, 2019 at 21:35

Not exactly there either. Well, I admit there's nothing like a good challenge as the New Year gets off to a sluggish start. I was going in circles looking for the clip but it turned out as simple as clicking on the global news link, seeing The John Oakley Show and scrolling down to about the seventh line with 14:31 Jan 2. Maybe the podcasts are not put in the line up until after they play through. I was just a little eager beaver to catch it Live. Used to be fitted into the right-hand column where the time clock was ticking. It's hard getting old and changing around graphic things is like moving the furniture in the room with me with my eyesight going.

Babs from Cali • Jan 2, 2019 at 18:28

Mark, Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin just announced that they are quitting their Patreon accounts (and sacrificing a huge amount of their financial support) because Patreon has decided to let the credit card companies pressure them into monitoring and sensoring the content of their clients. So now we've entered the age of banks monitoring our purchases and subscriptions and if they don't like who we do business with they can cut off our credit and shut down our checking accounts and ability to get loans. Your comments please.

Mark replies:

Well, that's why, despite urgings when we set up this club, I'm not on Patreon. Because in the end none of these guys will be there for you. The lefto-corporatist alliance has made that clear for a long time. We steer clear of all of them here.

Babs from Cali

Babs from Cali • Jan 2, 2019 at 18:45

I would like to mail you a copy of my original appropriation art piece of Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ", which I painted in response to your call to all of us to speak out against the tyranny of anti-free speech (particularly in reference to Muslim groups) in your speech at the banquet honoring you earlier this year. I just watched it again on your previous post and it was such a powerful speech. Can you ask your staff to email me a good address to mail it to? Thanks so much and keep up the valuable work of defending freedom of speech wherever you go.

David Dimick • Jan 2, 2019 at 17:46

Watching "Fredo" Cuomo, "Salozzo" Bloomberg and the other liberals should have figured out that no amount of money will cure stupid.

John Shuba • Jan 2, 2019 at 17:20

Well, I always cling to self-evident mantra I always say about the Democrats - "Just when you think that their candidates can't get any worse- They do." If they could reanimate Lenin's stiff then he would be the ideal Dem candidate for Prez.