Live Free Or Die

by Sean Hannity

  6. Ben Smith, “Obama Rejects Single Payer,” Politico, June 15, 2009, and “Barack Obama on Single Payer in 2003,” Physicians for a National Health Program, June 4, 2008, http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php.

  7. Amy Chozick, “Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun,’ ” Washington Wire, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2008.

  8. Barack Obama, “Obama Says ‘Argue with Neighbors, Get in Their Face,’ ” YouTube, September 18, 2008.

  9. Mark Knoller, “Obama Casts Republicans as Slurpee Sippers,” CBS News Political Hotsheet, October 8, 2010.

  10. Susan Jones, “ ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Comment Comes Back to Haunt Obama,” CNS News, October 15, 2008.

  11. Kent Hoover, “4 Reasons Why ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Still Haunts Obama,” Biz Journals, July 20, 2012.

  12. Angie Drobnic Holan, “Lie of the Year: ‘If you Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It,’ ” PolitiFact, December 12, 2013.

  13. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.

  14. Lydia Saad, “U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains,” Gallup, January 8, 2019.

  15. Stephan Dinan, “ ‘It’s about COVID’: Nancy Pelosi Retreats on Stimulus ‘Wish List,’ ” Washington Times, March 24, 2020.

  16. Nicole Darrah, “Pelosi Plays Down Influence of AOC Wing of Democrats, Says It’s ‘Like 5 People,’ ” Fox News, April 14, 2019.

  17. Karine Jean-Pierre, “MoveOn: 2020 Democratic Nominee Must be Unapologetically Progressive,” USA Today, January 6, 2019.

  18. Donica Phifer, “Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Refers to Donald Trump in Speech, Tells Crowd ‘We’ Will ‘Impeach This Motherf---Er,’ ” Newsweek, January 4, 2019.

  19. Scott Jennings, “Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib Are Honest Democrats. And Their Party Can’t Stand It,” USA Today, January 10, 2019.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Brett Samuels, “Joe Lieberman Says He Hopes Ocasio-Cortez Is Not ‘the Future’ of Democratic Party,” Hill, January 10, 2019.

  23. Morgan Gstalter, “Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Joe Lieberman’s Criticisms: ‘New Party, Who Dis?’ ” Hill, January 11, 2019.

  24. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post Magazine, March 11, 2019.

  25. Jonathan S. Tobin, “Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar Are Driving Democrats’ Agenda,” National Review, January 10, 2019.

  26. David Siders, “You Don’t Just Get to Say That You’re Progressive’: The Left Moves to Defend Its Brand,” Politico, December 9, 2018.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Ibid.

  29. “Bernie Sanders No Such Thing as a Pro-Life Dem, ‘Being Pro-Choice Is An Absolutely Essential Part,” GOP War Room YouTube channel, February 8, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QgmvSx1Cs&feature=youtu.be.

  30. Sean Illing, “ ‘We’re Losing Our Damn Minds’: James Carville Unloads on the Democratic Party,” Vox, February 7, 2020, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/7/21123518/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville.

  31. Juana Summers, “Obama Says Democrats Don’t Always Need to Be ‘Politically Woke,’ ” NPR, October 31, 2019.

  32. J. M. Rieger, “Trump Says Democrats Used to Be for New Border Barriers. He’s Right,” Washington Post, January 19, 2019.

  33. Reid J. Epstein and Linda Qiu, “Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims That Democrats Are Radical Socialists,” New York Times, July 20, 2019.

  34. Ibid.

  35. James S. Robbins, “Progressive Democrats Let Their ‘Policy Freak Flags’ Fly, Want to Take Party to Far Left,” USA Today, January 15, 2019.

  36. Thomas B. Edsall, “How Far Left Is Too Far Left for 2020 Democrats?” New York Times, April 10, 2019.

  37. “Political Polarization in the American Public,” Pew Research Center, June 12, 2014.

  38. Tim Haines, “Elizabeth Warren: Men Who Oppose Gay Marriage Should ‘Just Marry One, Woman,’ ‘If You Can Find One,’ ” Real Clear Politics, October 11, 2019.

  39. Ibid.

  40. Caleb Parke, “Beto Threatens Tax-Exempt Status of Churches if They Don’t Support Gay Marriage,” Fox News, October 11, 2019.

  41. Tucker Higgins, “Joe Biden Says He Now Supports Federal Funding of Abortion, in Second Apparent Reversal,” NBC, June 6, 2019.

  42. Emily Ekins, “Millennials Don’t Know What ‘Socialism’ Means,” Reason, July 16, 2019.

  43. Kathleen Elkins, “Most Young Americans Prefer Socialism to Capitalism, New Report Finds,” CNBC, August 14, 2018, http://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/fewer-than-half-of-young-americans-are-positive-about-capitalism.html.

  44. Mohamed Younis, “Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism,” Gallup, May 20, 2019.

  45. Ibid.

  46. Scott Rasmussen, “Is Socialism a Threat to America, to Democrats or Both?” Townhall, February 21, 2019, https://townhall.com/columnists/scottrasmussen/2019/02/21/is-socialism-a-threat-to-america-to-democrats-or-both-n2541951.

  47. Peter Beinart, “Will the Left Go Too Far?” Atlantic, December 2018.

  48. Ibid.

  49. Ibid.

  50. Ibid.

  51. Ibid.

  52. J. Edward Moreno, “Nadler Calls Trump a ‘Dictator’ on Senate Floor,” Hill, January 24, 2020.

  53. Marc A. Thiessen, “Trump Isn’t the Biggest Threat to the Constitution. Democrats Are,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 2019.

  54. Ryan Saavedra, “Breaking: Democrats Introduce Bill to Eliminate Electoral College,” Daily Wire, January 3, 2019.

  55. Li Zhou, “Senate Democrats Introduce a Constitutional Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College,” Vox, April 3, 2019.

  56. Daniel Davis, “ ‘Save Our States’ Is Fighting to Keep the Electoral College Alive,” Daily Signal, November 13, 2019.

  57. Ibid.

  58. Ibid.

  59. Rea Hederman and David Azerrad, Ph.D., “Report: Poverty and Inequality, Defending the Dream: Why Income Inequality Doesn’t Threaten Opportunity,” Heritage Foundation, September 13, 2012.

  60. Ibid.

  61. Council of Economic Advisers, “President Trump’s Policies Continue to Benefit All Americans, Especially the Disadvantaged,” Whitehouse.gov, September 10, 2019.

  62. Ella Nilsen, “Joe Biden Has Been Talking About Income Inequality a Lot Lately—to His Rich Donors,” Vox, June 24, 2019.

  63. Akhil Rajasekar, “Democrats Harp on Income Inequality Because They Don’t Know Now to Help the Poor,” Federalist, November 18, 2018.

  64. “Rigging the Election—Video I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies,” Project Veritas YouTube channel, October 17, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&feature=youtu.be.

  CHAPTER 3: WELCOME TO FANTASYLAND: THE DEMOCRATS’ 2020 AGENDA

  1. Karl W. Smith, “Trump’s Economy Is Working for Minorities,” Bloomberg, November 6, 2019.

  2. Paul Krugman, “The Economic Fallout,” New York Times, November 9, 2016.

  3. “Full Transcript: Democratic Presidential Debates, Night 1,” New York Times, June 26, 2019.

  4. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1229432034650722304?s=20.

  8. Hannity Staff, “ ‘Wake Up Call’: CNN’s Van Jones Says Trump Helping African-American Communities in ‘Real Life,’ ” Hannity.com, February 5, 2020.

  9. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.

  10. Griffin Connolly, “The Detroit Trump Diss Track: Debating Democrats Blister the President,” Roll Call, August 1, 2019.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Lara Bazelon, “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor,’ ” New York Times, January 17,
2019.

  14. Connolly, “The Detroit Trump Diss Track.”

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Jessica Chasmar, “Nancy Pelosi pre-ripped pages during SOTU speech, Trump campaign says,” Washington Times, February 6, 2020.

  18. Mike DeBonis, “Pelosi Laces into Trump, Defends Tearing Up His State of the Union Speech,” Washington Post, February 6, 2020.

  19. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post, March 11, 2019.

  20. DeBonis, “Pelosi Laces Into Trump, Defends Tearing Up His State of the Union Speech.”

  21. John Verhovek and Molly Nagle, “Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden, They Announce ‘Working Groups’ on Policy Issues,” ABC News, April 13, 2020.

  22. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1250088269502709762?mod=article_inline.

  23. Doug Mainwaring, “Joe Biden: ‘Transgender Equality Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’,” LifeSite News, January 27, 2020.

  24. David Montgomery, “AOC’s Chief of Change,” Washington Post Magazine, July 10, 2019.

  25. Diana Budds, “The Green New Deal Is Really About Designing An Entirely New World,” Curbed, September 19, 2019.

  26. Benjamin J. Hulac and Elvina Nawaguna, “The ABCs of the Green New Deal,” Roll Call, March 25, 2019.

  27. Bill McKibben, “The Necessity and Political Savvy of the Green New Deal,” Washington Post Magazine, November 12, 2019.

  28. Editorial Board, “Vote on the Green New Deal,” Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2019; “Cosponsors: H.Res. 109—116th Congress (2019-2020),” Congress.gov.

  29. Michael Grunwald, “The Trouble with the ‘Green New Deal,’ ” Politico Magazine, January 15, 2019.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Lisa Friedman, “What is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained,” New York Times, February 21, 2019.

  33. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal, 116th Congress, 1st Session, February 5, 2019, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf.

  34. This partial list was taken from a larger list compiled by Salvador Rizzo, “What’s Actually in the ‘Green New Deal’ from Democrats?” Washington Post, February 11, 2019. The list comes from the resolution itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf#page=8.

  35. Javier Blas, “The U.S. Just Became Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years,” Bloomberg, December 6, 2018.

  36. Matt Egan, “America Is Now the Largest Oil Producer,” CNN Money, September 12, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/investing/us-oil-production-russia-saudi-arabia/index.html.

  37. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal.

  38. Joseph Curl, “The Laughable, Pathetic, Infantile Green New Deal Sets a New Low for Democrats,” Washington Times, February 8, 2019.

  39. Rizzo, “What’s Actually in the ‘Green New Deal’ from Democrats?”

  40. Timothy Cama, “Ocasio-Cortez Explains ‘Farting Cows’ Comment: ‘We’ve Got to Address Factory Warming,’ ” Hill, February 22, 2019.

  41. Rich Lowry, “Millennial Socialism 101,” Salem News, January 13, 2019.

  42. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal.

  43. Eliza Relman, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Her Green New Deal Climate Plan Would Cost at Least $10 Trillion,” Business Insider, June 5, 2019.

  44. Ari Natter and Bloomberg, “The Green New Deal Would Cost $93 Trillion, Ocasio-Cortez Critics Say,” Fortune, February 25, 2019.

  45. Brittany De Lea, “How Much AOC’s Green New Deal Could Cost the Average American Household,” Fox Business, July 30, 2019; Paul Bedard, “Green New Deal to Cost Up to $100,000 per Home in First Year,” Washington Examiner, July 30, 2019.

  46. Kevin Dayaratna, Nicolas Loris, and David Kreutzer, “Consequences of Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits,” Heritage Foundation, April 13, 2016.

  47. Julio Rosas, “Elizabeth Warren Says the Green New Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need a Blue New Deal!” Townhall.com, February 14, 2020.

  48. Dino Grandoni and Jeff Stein, “Joe Biden Embraces Green New Deal as He Releases Climate Plan,” Washington Post, June 4, 2019.

  49. Ibid.

  50. Zachary Evans, “Biden Suggests Dems Push for ‘Green New Deal’ Provisions in Next Coronavirus Stimulus Bill,” National Review, March 25, 2020.

  51. Brian Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill,” Vox, August 7, 2018.

  52. Megan Henney, “Warren vs. Sanders on Medicare-for-all: How do Their Plans Compare?” Fox Business, November 5, 2019.

  53. Tami Luhby, Gregory Krieg, M. J. Lee, and Leyla Santiago, “Elizabeth Warren Releases Plan to Fund Medicare for All, Pledges No Middle Class Tax Hike,” CNN, November 7, 2019.

  54. Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, “Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History,’ ” New York Times, March 23, 2019.

  55. Ibid.

  56. Ed Kilgore, “What Biden Can Do About Pressure to Embrace Medicare for All,” New York Intelligencer, April 13, 2020.

  57. Ibid.

  58. Elizabeth Warren, “My Plan for Universal Child Care,” Medium, February 19, 2019.

  59. Christina Wilkie, “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Fund Universal Child Care with ‘Millionaire Tax’ Hints at Growing Divide Among 2020 Democrats,” CNBC, February 20, 2019; Aparna Mathur and Abby McCloskey, “Universal Child Care Is the Wrong Approach,” AEI, February 22, 2019.

  60. David Goldstein, “I Paid Off All My Student Loans. I Still Support Student Loan Forgiveness,” Vox, June 24, 2019; Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill.”

  61. Tim Haines, “Voter Challenges Warren’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: ‘Those of Us Who Did the Right Thing Get Screwed?’ ” Real Clear Politics, January 23, 2020.

  62. The Editorial Board, “Joe Biden Pivots… to the Left,” Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2020.

  63. Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill.”

  64. “Adding Up Senator Sanders’s Campaign Proposals So Far,” Committee for a Responsible Budget, May 9, 2016.

  65. John O. McGinnis, “The Modern Constitution Empowers Redistribution, the Original One Not So Much,” Law Liberty, September 18, 2017.

  66. Tyler Olson, “What’s in Democrats’ Coronavirus Bill? Arts Funding, Union Help and More,” FoxNews.com, March 23, 2020.

  67. Phillip W. Magness, “The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent,” American Institute for Economic Research, January 7, 2019.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Vanessa Williamson, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Tax on the Rich Isn’t About Revenue, It’s About Decreasing Inequality,” NBC News, January 26, 2019.

  70. Laura Davison, “A Guide to Democrats’ Plans to Tax the Rich More,” Fortune, December 4, 2019.

  71. Brett Arends, “Elizabeth Warren Wouldn’t Be the First to Try a Wealth Tax—How Did the Others Do?” Market Watch, December 20, 2019.

  72. Bernie Sanders, “The Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2019,” Sanders.Senate.gov.

  73. Howard Gleckman, “Can the Sanders Financial Transactions Tax Raise Trillions and Cut Speculation,” Tax Policy Center, July 1, 2019.

  74. Curtis Dubay, “The Economic Case Against the Death Tax,” Heritage Foundation, July 20, 2010.

  75. Davison, “A Guide to Democrats’ Plans to Tax the Rich More.”

  76. Ylan Mui, “Even Moderate Joe Biden Would Significantly Increase Taxes on the Wealthy if Elected,” CNBC, March 5, 2020.

  77. Rea Hederman, Guinevere Nell, and William Beach, “Economic Effects of Increasing the Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividends,” Heritage Foun
dation, April 15, 2008.

  78. Daniel J. Mitchell, “The Overwhelming Case Against Capital Gains Taxation,” Forbes, November 7, 2014.

  79. Maggie Astor, “The Democratic Presidential Candidates Don’t Want to Simply Defend Abortion Rights. They Want to Go on Offense,” New York Times, November 25, 2019.

  80. Caleb Parke and Gregg Re, “Dems Block ‘Born Alive’ Bill to Provide Medical Care to Infants Who Survive Failed Abortions,” Fox News, February 25, 2019.

  81. Astor, “The Democratic Presidential Candidates Don’t Want to Simply Defend Abortion Rights. They Want to Go on Offense.”

  82. Ibid.

  83. Eric Zorn, “Pelosi Says Border Walls Are ‘Immoral.’ But That’s Not the Conversation We Need to Be Having Right Now,” Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2019.

  84. Dara Lind, “ ‘Abolish Ice’ Shows How Far Left Democrats Have Moved on Immigration,” Vox, July 9, 2018.

  85. Thomas Kaplan and Katie Glueck, “Joe Biden Calls for Immigration Overhaul, Acknowledging ‘Pain’ From Deportations,” New York Times, December 11, 2019.

  86. Molly Hensley-Clancy and Nidhi Prakash, “ ‘Abolish Ice’ Was the Call of Last Summer. 2020 Democrats Have Moved On,” BuzzFeed News, May 15, 2019.

  87. “Where 2020 Democrats Stand on Immigration,” Washington Post, February 1, 2020.

  88. Alexandra Hutzler, “On Shaky Ground with Native American Community, Elizabeth Warren Supports Reparations for Indigenous People,” Newsweek, February 23, 2019.

  89. Megan Henney, “Here’s Where 2020 Democrats Stand on Slavery Reparations,” Fox Business, June 20, 2019.

  90. “Where Do 2020 Democrats Stand on Question of Reparations for Slavery? It’s Complicated,” Newsweek, June 19, 2019; “Where Democrats Stand: Should the Federal Government Pay Reparations to the Descendants of Slaves?” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/economic-inequality/reparations/.

  91. David Krayden, “Biden Supports Slavery Reparations Study, Wants Immediate Action on ‘Institutional Racism,’ ” Daily Caller, February 29, 2020.

  92. Michael Bloomberg, “Updated: Mass Public Shootings Keep Occurring in Gun-Free Zones: 94: of Attacks Since 1950,” CrimeResearch.org.