The Auron MacIntyre Show

Flavio Bolsonaro has fled to America after losing his bid for the presidency of Brazil in a stunning upset. Bolsonaro led in the first round of elections and was expected to secure victory until his opponent, Lula da Silva, received a surprising surge of votes from unlikely sections of the country. Flavio’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, is currently serving a 27-year jail sentence after his loss to Lula...

The GOP is facing a critical midterm, but the conservative coalition is a mess. Several factions are now vying for the future of the movement and seem to have irreconcilable differences. When the Trump administration was dominating with clear momentum, those differences were pushed to the side, but critical missteps by the administration and the simple fact that Trump will leave office in 2028 hav...

Modern people see the nation and state as inseparable, but this was not the case for most of history. The nation-state is a relatively new concept that was imposed across the globe after World War I. While many are pushing for a renewed understanding of nationalism, the fact may be that the nation-state has run its course. We'll dig into the history and political theory behind the nation-state. Fo...

"Go woke, go broke" has been a popular slogan in conservative media, but did losing money really mean that woke propaganda did not work? Woke movies, video games, and shows often lost money and were the subject of ridicule, but many of the ideas central to that leftist propaganda have now become normalized. Video game studios like BioWare may have closed down, but YouTuber Aydin Paladin joins me t...

U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told an audience at the University of Chicago that she wants future investigations of Trump administration officials to send a deterrent message. Young people considering jobs in a Republican administration, she said, should wonder whether joining it might buy them “a ton of problems.” Slotkin describes her proposal as accountability for corruption. But listen...

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) has been threatening to persecute Trump administration members so severely that no young conservative will ever want to work in a Republican presidential administration again. At the same time, Jennica Pounds, better known as DataRepublican, has uncovered a Democrat plot to seize power in the aftermath of a contested election. News Fist joins me to discuss the c...

Bo French, the GOP candidate for Texas railroad commissioner, started a social media storm when he shared a picture of a football game where he noted the transformation of the state's population. The post started a nationwide debate about the nature of American identity that continues to rage. French is running for a pivotal position managing the Texas oil industry during a time when gas prices ar...

The Trump administration is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over claims of immigration fraud and financial misconduct. There is a distinct possibility that Omar could face deportation. Jack Posobiec, author of "Unhumans: Socialist Revolution — Tactics for Patriots to Survive a Communist Uprising," joins me to discuss why it is so critical to the future of the United States to be able to de...

Americans are being told that restricting legal immigration would rig the competition for jobs and college seats. Apparently, allowing citizens to compete with the entire planet is “meritocracy,” while giving them preference in their own country is “discrimination.” The argument has gained force as scrutiny moves from illegal crossings to work visas and foreign student admissions. Employers use H-...

Immigration has become the central topic for the American Right, triggering a debate over the nature of American identity. Topics like religion, heritage, culture, and tradition are surging back into mainstream discussion. Many establishment conservatives are scrambling to silence the debate and return to the status quo, but those efforts are failing. R.R. Reno, author of "Return of the Strong God...

The recent National Conservatism conference in Israel generated a lot of controversy by featuring a panel of Americans delivering some tough love on the political realities of U.S.-Israel realizations. Friends of the show Matthew Peterson, Jonathan Keeperman, and William Wolfe all gave provocative speeches, with Keeperman being attacked directly by figures like Ted Cruz. Wolfe joins me to discuss...

For decades, progressives have used the sexual revolution to erode all standards except that of consent. But in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations at Cornell University, the question of whether consent is a sufficient moral condition for sexual relationships has come to the forefront. Progressives are now trying to reconstruct a more complex understanding of sexual standards after they dest...

In the wake of sexual assault allegations at Cornell University, the victimization of women on college campuses has returned to the public conversation. The Left describes campuses as sexual assault factories. The Right describes them as camps for progressive indoctrination. Still, liberal and conservative parents drill their daughters for the SAT, pack their schedules with extracurriculars, hire...

J. Burden joins me to discuss a recent survey that found 89% of Boomers on Social Security would raise taxes on young people to keep their benefits. Why are older conservatives crying about the rise of socialism while they extract government benefits from younger generations? We also look at a bizarre crashout from Dinesh D'Souza and the fact that multiple Democrats are openly announcing their pla...

Christian metal acts are more common today, but when Skillet began playing, the idea of these two worlds colliding was relatively new. The band gained more notoriety in the secular music scene than the Christian world, but the members always kept their mission front and center. Lead singer John Cooper joins me to discuss the many challenges and victories he and his bandmates experience on the road...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) recently ran a political advertisement about welfare reform. The plan she described was great, but the advertisement featured a lazy white guy as the stereotypical representation of a welfare recipient, even though that is the group least likely to receive aid. J. Burden joins me to discuss why the GOP is attacking young white men right before a critical el...

Things are not looking great for Vivek Ramaswamy. Two polls released this week put Democrat Amy Acton ahead in the Ohio governor’s race. Marist has Acton leading 50% to 44% among registered voters, while a Suffolk poll has her ahead 50% to 41% among likely voters. Another survey has Ramaswamy narrowly ahead, so the race is hardly settled. But Ohio, a state Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024,...

All human institutions, customs, traditions, and ways of being originate to serve the needs of specific peoples. The collective experiences, struggles, and beliefs of a tribe create a pattern of being, or a code, that organically rises to meet their specific challenges and perpetuate their way of life. These institutions and systems are territorialized, meaning they are deeply embedded in the spec...

News Fist returns as we wrap up our reading of "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change" by Charles Tilly. In this episode, we address Tilly's assertion that warfare is the main catalyst of growth of state and the most effective method of centralizing its power. Does the state exist primarily to extract money to wage war? We will evaluate the purely materialist frame and wheth...

The center-left academic Robert Putnam is well known for his research on social cohesion, but his research led to a discovery that he suppressed for years. When Putnam finally came forward with his data, he revealed that diversity has negative impact across almost all domains of social cohesion. People in diverse societies trust the government less, have fewer friends, participate less in civic or...

Over the last few decades, many industries discovered they could grow their customer base and profits by selling a cheaper, inferior version of their product while degrading the experience for everyone. Air travel and theme parks are obvious examples. Both learned that the advantages of scale could outweigh the obligation to deliver a high-quality experience. That philosophy did not remain in the...

A battle has broken out inside the conservative movement over the nature of American identity. Many establishment conservatives insist that America is a propositional nation where you only need to love freedom and wear a football jersey to belong. But identities that are so transactional do not inspire people to sacrifice and die on behalf of a nation. Christian Heiens, cohost of "Making the Argum...

Every functioning government provides physical protection while demanding money in the form of taxes. The state will send armed men to lock you up if you do not pay. Does that mean that governments are nothing but a glorified protection racket? News Fist joins me as we continue our series reading "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change" by Charles Tilly. Find more New Fist he...

Texas GOP candidate Bo French ignited a furious debate on the nature of American identity after posting a photo of a University of Texas game that showed one section of the stands dominated by foreigners. The mass migration of Indians into Texas has created a cultural shift that many residents find unsettling. Democrats rushed to accuse the candidate of racism, and they were joined by many Texas R...

As Republicans head toward what looks like a perilous midterm election, affordability is on everyone’s lips. The Biden administration never convinced voters that it had brought food and housing costs under control. Some Republicans have tried to pretend the problem does not exist; others have acknowledged it without making meaningful progress. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump made choices that wors...