The Erick Erickson Show

The John Fetterman/Dr. Oz debate was inarguably the most uncomfortable debate I’ve ever seen. For the first time since his stroke, John Fetterman spoke at length in an unscripted forum and it couldn’t have gone much worse. The performance has prompted media outlets to ask questions that they have refused to ask of Fetterman until this point. Where are his medical records? Where is the statement from the medical specialist? Media outlets are doing the job they refused to do since his stoke for one simple reason. Let me explain.

When you read the Levitical laws, a lot of those laws were designed to set God’s people apart from the world around them. Many of those ceremonial and cleanliness laws went to outward appearances that could visibly identify God’s people. Today, those laws do not apply to Christians, but the moral law is still binding.That law sets God’s people apart from the rest of the world.The peace and joy of a Christian’s life in turbulent times draws people to them.As the west moves beyond Christianity, we are not arriving at something new, but something very old.And the Christian moral law is the best way to stand against that old paganism rearing its head again.

In the choice between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker, voting for Walker is a no-brainer.

The brutal attack against Paul Pelosi led every news program over the weekend and was used by Democrats to viciously attack Republicans. However, Nicholas John Roske showed up at Brett Kavanaugh’s house with a Glock 17, two magazines, zip ties, and duct tape to kill him following the repeal of Roe v Wade. The media largely shrugged it off. Take a moment and listen.

Donald Trump announced his 2024 candidacy last night at Mar-a-Lago in an underwhelming speech that lasted over an hour. Major publications covered the event and published countless headlines on the announcement while conservative news sites barely covered it at all. I’ve received many emails over recent months claiming I am anti-Trump despite having Eric Trump, Kelly Anne Conway, Mike Pence, and other Trump surrogates on my radio show to support the President in 2020. While Trump would inevitably be implementing better policies than Joe Biden, the elections from 2018, 2020, 2021, & 2022 suggest the messenger is the problem, not the message. Take a moment and listen.

A prominent columnist at The Washington Post claims that if Republicans take back the House and the Senate, democracy will die.

New data out this week shed light on a growing pandemic of isolation. Most of you (myself included) would have assumed that COVID was the instigating cause that triggered the isolation pandemic. You and I are wrong. Starting in 2014, people began to statistically spend less time with friends in a year-over-year trend that was exacerbated by COVID. Now, the average amount of time spent with friends sits at an all-time low. What happened in 2014? The smartphone market crossed 50% penetration in the United States. Take a moment and listen.

The Democrats are behind in the polls but can you really trust the polls after 2016 and 2020? Ignore the polls for a minute and look at other data points with me. Democrats are pulling money away from traditional swing states to defend seats in bright blue states. They are abandoning Val Demings in Florida for Patty Murray in Washington and ditching Stacey Abrams in Georgia for Kathy Hochul in New York. The evidence that a wave is growing transcends beyond the polling. Take a moment and listen.

After Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats said Christian pregnancy centers are a threat to women and should be shut down, more than 50 were attacked or firebombed. Not a single Democratic lawmaker hinted that the remarks could have sparked the attacks. Prominent progressives explicitly said that people were going to die because Republicans wanted to reform Obamacare. James Lee Hodgkinson took them literally and attempted to murder a bunch of Republican congressmen on a baseball field. Not a single Democrat suggest a correlation in the rhetoric and the attack. Despite this, Democrats are blaming the deadly shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs on Republican opposition to drag queen story hour. Democrats and the media only equate words with violence when Republicans oppose something and a violent act ensues. Take a moment and listen.

FTX is a crypto exchange.The head of the organization is a massive Democrat donor.Like Elizabeth Holmes and Thernos, FTX and its founder wooed Washington, roped in the elite, and funded the conferences of the press.In turn, the elite gave them a pass, turned a blind eye, and put them on the covers of magazines.Time and time again, big business knows it can get passes and bailouts from Washington so long as those businesses keep the elite of Washington comfortably funded. This is an issue an outsider in the GOP can take on. Return the party to Coolidge’s message that government has a role in leveling the playing field so David can slay Goliath. Take on the DC elite as an outsider.

When a football team has three losing seasons, particularly seasons when everyone expects them to win, you fire the coach. In a sane world, keeping Ronna McDaniel in charge of the RNC should be inconceivable after three straight electoral defeats. But the RNC committeemen and signaling they want to keep her on. Unless the donors whose money has been wasted are willing to stand up and clearly say this is unacceptable, the three time losing RNC Chair will get to see the GOP through another cycle. Just like Trump is ultimately responsible for his staff failures, the RNC’s leader must ultimately be responsible for the party’s failures. That the committee members do not get that suggests there are greater systemic problems that only a donor revolt will solve.

Kanye West went on with Alex Jones to defend Adolf Hitler in a tirade so untethered from reality that even Alex Jones cringed. Kanye famously converted to Christianity and produced a Christian album that was so impressive, I played a handful of his songs on my radio show.

My credentials of being sufficiently anti-Mitch McConnell are not questionable. A few years ago I had all of my radio listeners mail McConnell’s office balls when he wasn’t standing up for conservatives. I supported his primary challenger and begged people to vote for him. I will even concede that McConnell spent money in Alaska attacking a Republican that would have been better spent elsewhere. However, Mitch McConnell is not to blame for the midterm upset. Here’s why.

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Americans are really generous people and most Americans understand and appreciate the Ukrainians did not deserve a Russian invasion and we should help them. Former President George W. Bush recently said the United States should be able to help Americans and help the world. But that’s the point. We’re not. The American government is failing at the basics. The Biden Administration would rather advance DEI goals in government than fight crime. They’d rather have transgender indoctrination than basic education. It’s hard to convince Americans we should spend money to help Ukraine when the federal government can’t even deliver the mail competently. If the Biden Administration wants to solve the world’s problems, it needs to get better at solving the real world basic problems of governance in the United States.

By now, you know that Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury and will appear for arraignment on Tuesday. What you may not know is that Donald Trump’s path to reelection just got a whole lot easier. With an economy heading down the drain and every Republican lining up behind him, Donald Trump will fully fund his presidential campaign by selling autographed pictures of his mug shot for thousands of dollars. A dim-witted county district attorney is helping to reelect the man his party fears most.