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Donald Trump Jr. singled out Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney on Friday for a “failed movement,” by repeatedly criticizing her father and the policies her family supports.

“‘Lincoln Project Liz,’ as I like to call her, is the leader of that failed movement, and if we want to go back to losing…” Trump Jr. said. “If we want to go back to an America last policy, we should be following that.”

Trump Jr. spoke at CPAC on Friday in Orlando, Florida, ripping the Cheney dynasty with several politically themed jokes.

Noting that President Joe Biden was again bombing the Middle East, Trump Jr. added, “Speaking of bombing the Middle East, have you seen Liz Cheney’s poll numbers?”

“Liz Cheney and her politics are only slightly less popular than her father is at a quail hunt,” he continued, referring to when her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, accidentally shot a hunting partner in the face with a shotgun in 2006.

“Her family has a long history of friendly fire,” he quipped, alluding to Cheney’s most recent comments about how Trump should not play a role in the political future of the Republican party.

Under Cheney’s leadership, Trump Jr. warned, Republicans would return to the era of the Republicans who repeatedly sold out the American people and caved on their principles.

“They’ve caved to every special interest, they’ve caved to corporate America, they’ve caved and bowed to the radical left that hates their guts, hates their values, and hates their freedoms,” he said.

He said that Cheney and Biden probably both agreed with the recent bombing attacks in Syria.

“If it’s one thing she and Joe Biden definitely want to do, it’s bomb the Middle East,” he said. “Everything else is a disaster.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says the United States must reject amnesty for illegal aliens, weakness on China, and the foreign adventurism that has governed the Washington, D.C., beltway for decades.

During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), DeSantis said, “We cannot, we will not go back to the days of the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear,” before denouncing the policy initiatives of the political establishments.

“We reject open borders and instead support American sovereignty and the American worker,” DeSantis said. “Building a movement on the foundation of amnesty and cheap foreign labor is like building a house on a field of quicksand.”

“We reject weakness in the face of the threat posed by China, including their actions in international trade,” DeSantis continued. “We reject military adventurism and instead support a strong defense solely for the purpose of protecting our nation and its people.”

DeSantis’s statements are pointed as House and Senate Democrats lobby elected Republicans to back an amnesty plan that would flood the U.S. labor market with millions of legalized illegal aliens, increase legal immigration levels, and make it easier for multinational corporations to outsource American jobs to imported foreign visa workers.

Biden also revoked an executive order from March 2020 that helped reduce immigration to the U.S. to protect the nation’s labor market from foreign competition while more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.

Increasing overall immigration levels and amnesty has been a longtime priority of the big business lobby, Wall Street, Big Tech, and other corporate interests. A flooded labor market helps reduce U.S. wages, allowing businesses to cut labor costs, increase profit margins, and tip the scales of the economy to their demands.

Mass immigration policies, surveys have repeatedly found, are opposed by the majority of likely voters. Rasmussen Reports this week found that 73 percent want less legal immigration, more than six-in-ten oppose chain migration, about 64 percent oppose businesses importing foreign workers rather than recruiting Americans, and 63 percent support slowing down or fully cutting U.S. population growth driven by immigration.

Likewise, reports on Friday suggest that the Biden administration is likely to keep American troops in Afghanistan despite a troop withdrawal plan that former President Trump negotiated to bring military forces home. A Pew Research Survey from 2019 found that among veterans and registered voters, about 58 to 64 percent said the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were not worth fighting.

On China, economic nationalists have urged U.S. leaders to impose across-the-board tariffs on foreign imports — especially in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus crisis — to reshore manufacturing jobs.

Research by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) has found that reshoring all pharmaceutical production to the U.S. would create more than 800,000 American jobs. Likewise, reshoring all medical supplies to the U.S. has the potential to create more than 300,000 American jobs.

Likewise, a permanent 25 percent tariff on all Chinese imports would bring a million jobs back to the U.S. by 2025, CPA economists have found.

Americans are hugely supportive of economic nationalist policies. A May 2020 survey, asking specific policy questions, found that 66 percent of voters support more tariffs on foreign imports, 94 percent said they support country-of-origin labeling on U.S. products, and 88 percent support requiring medical supplies be made in the U.S.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Dr. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, described the pushing of left-wing transgender ideology upon children as “child abuse” on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Democrats and the broader left regularly frame human sexual dimorphism as an arbitrary social construct.

Marlow recalled Thursday’s confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who describes himself as a woman.

“We’re being told it’s scientific to allow children to change their genders, either with treatments or with surgeries,” Marlow said. “This is not science. It’s so far beyond it, but give me your sense of someone who’s lived his life as a scientific person.”

Carson replied, “Well, I think they have completely neglected biology. Biology tells us that there are males and there are females, and there’s a reason for that, and we also know that the human brain is an incredibly complex organ and it’s not fully developed until your mid- to late-twenties.”

“So why would you be asking a pre-adolescent about these complex issues?” Carson asked. “Why would we even be complicating their lives? Children are curious by nature, and of course they’re going to ask questions and explore things. That doesn’t mean that they want to change their sex. And to confuse them in that way, I think, is child abuse. It certainly has nothing to do with science. These radical things are actually going to ruin people’s lives long term.”

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On Thursday, Levine refused to reject “transgender” medical treatment for children when invited to do so by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Such medical practices include drugs that obstruct puberty and sexual development and surgical mutilation of genitals.

Marlow asked about left-wing political censorship related to the left’s rejection of human biology.

“It seems like this is one [issue] where people are just not being vocal enough,” Marlow remarked, “and if you are vocal, your book gets cancelled, you get thrown off of social media, you can’t say a man is a man or a woman is a woman, or else you’re risking cancellation What are we going wrong here in terms of our activism?”

Carson highlighted the value of courage. He replied, “Well, you know, it’s in our national anthem and the last line of the first stanza. It says, ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ You cannot be the land of the free if you’re not the home of the brave. You’ve got to be willing to stand up.”

He went on, “Maybe there are some consequences, so what? There were consequences for our Founders, but if they weren’t willing to accept those consequences, we would still be under British rule. So stop being chickens, and get out there and fight for what we believe in. If we just allow them to have a platform and to dictate everything without resistance, then they win.”

“If they win, not only does the country lose, but the world loses,” Carson concluded, “because people forget what the world was like before the United States was on the stage — a bunch of despotic leaders who just trampled on anybody that they could. It will go right back to that, I guarantee you.”