The Great America Show - CRUZ—CULTURAL MARXISM SWEEPS AMERICA

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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Thank you for being

00:01:22.280 with us. It's been a rough week for the Republican Party and after a week of election losses across

00:01:27.620 the board, from the governor's race in Kentucky to the state legislature in Virginia, it's begging

00:01:33.460 the question, why is Ronna Romney McDaniel still running the Republican National Committee? 1.00

00:01:39.620 Just a day after the Republicans lost those elections, the RNC hosted their third presidential

00:01:46.540 debate, wasting more time and wasting more money. One pundit said they all looked like they were in a

00:01:53.240 Saturday Night Live skit on that stage. The final five, let's call them survivors or stragglers,

00:01:59.580 but there they are. Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott. Not one of

00:02:07.760 them has even a one percent chance of beating Donald Trump in a primary, according to polling going back

00:02:13.840 to as, well, as far back as last year. So why is the Republican National Committee wasting time and

00:02:20.680 money on these debates? The truth of the matter is Ronna McDaniel has never won a thing. She did nothing 0.86

00:02:27.600 to help Trump in 2020. She oversaw the loss of the Senate, the loss of the House, the presidency.

00:02:33.660 The only reason the Republicans won back the House in 2022 was because of the members' message to the

00:02:39.940 American people that order needed to be restored so that the Biden crime family could be investigated

00:02:46.340 and checks and balances restored and put on the Marxist-Stim dictator himself, puppet President Joe Biden.

00:02:54.240 And with just a few weeks on the job, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has already shown more

00:03:00.180 leadership, principled decision-making than Kevin McCarthy in the eyes of the American people.

00:03:06.080 A new Rasmussen poll finds 47 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Johnson,

00:03:12.380 and that includes 63 percent Republicans, 35 percent Dems, 57 percent of Republicans say Johnson

00:03:19.480 will do a better job than McCarthy. And not many people knew who Mike Johnson was a few weeks ago.

00:03:26.920 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is another Republican who is both liked and highly

00:03:32.200 respected, and his committee is doing the Lord's work. This week his committee uncovered new emails

00:03:38.280 showing officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University disinformation

00:03:44.740 group that censored conservative American voices and speech before the 2020 election.

00:03:51.520 The interim report showed internal communications from the group, known as the Election Integrity

00:03:57.500 Partnership, showing how it worked with the DHS agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

00:04:04.300 Security Agency. That agency suppressed and removed online speech in coordination with big tech

00:04:11.400 companies. CISA is the same organization that put out a statement just days after the 2020 election,

00:04:19.300 telling all of us, all Americans, that it was the most secure election in history. Here is Chairman

00:04:26.460 Jordan on this latest revelation.

00:04:29.300 We're six years ago. We had a hearing about attempts to curtail free speech on college campuses right next

00:04:35.120 door in the Oversight Committee. The hearing touched on emerging threats to the First Amendment,

00:04:39.280 safe spaces, cancel culture, and the targeting of conservative activist student groups.

00:04:45.620 Unfortunately, this was not a fad, and the hostility towards certain points of view, and particularly

00:04:50.740 conservative points of view, has only grown worse. And it's no longer universities just censoring

00:04:56.240 their students. We now know that American universities were working with the federal government to

00:05:01.060 systematically target speech on the internet. Just this week, the committee released,

00:05:05.120 committee Republicans released information showing Stanford University worked with the Cybersecurity

00:05:10.560 and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, and the State Department's Global Engagement Center to

00:05:15.960 censor certain speech in the lead up to the 2020 election. Big government, big academia, and big tech

00:05:22.880 all colluding to limit Americans' First Amendment free speech rights. They were targeting jokes,

00:05:29.460 political opinions. Most importantly, they targeted true information. But the speech that was

00:05:34.840 censored all leaned a certain way. What used to be the bastions of free speech and the marketplace

00:05:40.280 of ideas evolved into institutions of activism and suppression. With, quote, safe spaces and free

00:05:46.460 speech zones aimed to protect students from violence, one would think Jewish students would have somewhere 1.00

00:05:51.420 to turn as violent pro-Hamas students take to their demonstrations and have harmed students on college

00:05:57.240 campuses. But that's not the case, as we will see in today's hearing. Nearly a 400% increase in anti-Semitic

00:06:04.280 incidents, including harassment, vandalism, and assault in the two weeks after the Hamas attacks

00:06:10.320 against Israel. We need to be doing more to protect the freedom of expression. Imagine that. Three years 0.88

00:06:16.640 after the 2020 election, we're just now confirming what we already knew, that the Marxist Dems did anything

00:06:24.400 they could to destroy the country and at any expense and continue to do so. Our guest today is a man who's

00:06:31.420 been fighting against the Marxist Dems for years and is fighting harder than ever. He's Senator Ted Cruz

00:06:37.420 from the great state of Texas, and he has a brand new book out. It's titled Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural

00:06:43.860 Marxism in America. Senator, great to have you with us. Congratulations on the new book. Let's talk about

00:06:50.780 cultural Marxism. Give us a sense of what you mean when you talk about cultural Marxism versus

00:06:56.500 good old plain old Soviet style Marxism. Right. Well, sure. It's good to be with you, 0.92

00:07:02.740 Lou. Thank you for having me. But look, I wrote this book because like millions of Americans,

00:07:08.940 I'm infuriated at what is happening to our country. And many of us are wondering,

00:07:15.140 how in the hell did this happen? And in the book, which is called Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural 0.81

00:07:21.200 Marxism in America, this book chronicles how the radical left seized control of the major

00:07:28.760 institutions in our nation. And so chapter one of the book, it starts with universities. And I refer

00:07:34.880 to universities as the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. The universities are where it was invented, 0.96

00:07:43.580 where it was created, and they're where it mutated and they're where it spread. And then each chapter of

00:07:48.660 the book focuses on a different institution that the radical left has taken over. So it goes from

00:07:53.780 universities to K through 12 education, elementary school, junior high, high school. From there,

00:07:59.780 it goes to journalism. And sadly, most of corporate journalism is utterly destroyed, a world you know

00:08:05.160 very, very well. From there, it goes to big business. And big business, more and more woke corporations

00:08:13.340 are engaged in politics rather than business. From big business, it goes to big tech, which is engaged

00:08:20.420 in pervasive censorship. From big tech, it goes to entertainment, Hollywood, movies, TVs, TV, music,

00:08:28.420 sports, perhaps the most consequential of all of the institutions. And then from there, it goes to

00:08:34.500 science, the profound politicization of science. And then the final chapter in the book is on China.

00:08:41.000 And I explain how China is a nexus that connects all of these institutions. And the purpose of the

00:08:48.020 book is really twofold. Number one, to explain how and why radical leftists seized control from the

00:08:55.800 inside of these institutions. But then number two, to lay out a battle plan, a precise plan of action

00:09:02.880 for taking the institutions back. Because if we don't, we will lose our country.

00:09:07.900 And we're in the process of doing exactly that this very moment. And on this podcast, I occasionally

00:09:16.860 talk about Marxism and the just extraordinary control that the Marxist Dems, that's also taken

00:09:25.980 over the Democrat Party, I think it's important to add. And the Marxist Dems control every agency

00:09:32.640 in every department of the federal government. It is not an overstatement. It is not hyperbole.

00:09:38.660 It is the extant reality. Your judgment on how do we begin, begin at least, to roll back Marxism

00:09:49.280 in the government? And is it the appropriate institution to begin with? Is it a smarter play

00:09:54.840 to go to business, to universities, public schools, K through 12?

00:09:59.380 Look, I think we need to fight for every one of these institutions. You're absolutely right

00:10:03.880 that in the federal government right now, we see cultural Marxist setting policy. And there's a

00:10:09.680 chapter in the book that focuses on government and the weaponization of the Department of Justice,

00:10:14.660 of the FBI, of the IRS, of the entire federal government. And, you know, your first question you

00:10:20.220 ask, what is cultural Marxism? And I think it, understanding what it is helps us understand how

00:10:26.500 we fight back at it. Marxism originated, as you know, with, with Karl Marx, when he wrote the

00:10:31.780 Communist Manifesto. And he laid out a worldview that society is fundamentally and irreconcilably

00:10:38.040 a conflict, a conflict between oppressors and victims. And he looked at it from a socioeconomic

00:10:45.460 perspective. And so for Marx, the oppressors were the owners of capital and the victims were the

00:10:51.780 proletariat, the workers. And Marxist solution that he put forward was a violent revolution of the

00:10:57.700 proletariat to overthrow the owners of capital and to use government power to forcibly redistribute the

00:11:05.300 wealth and the power from the oppressors to the victims. Now, the book Unwoke chronicles how starting

00:11:11.520 in the 1960s and 70s, Marxists began infiltrating universities, getting tenured positions on college

00:11:18.320 campuses. And, and first of all, they were plain vanilla Marxists. They believed in, in communism,

00:11:23.400 as I just described. But from there, it mutated and, and, and, and critical race theory was born,

00:11:30.460 which uses the same Marxist frame of oppressors and victims. But instead of being socioeconomic,

00:11:36.300 it looks at race and it posits an irreconcilable conflict based on race and the same solution,

00:11:42.300 a violent overthrow of the victims over the oppressors. From there, it mutated to gender and

00:11:47.860 sexual orientation and gender identity. And, and, and we're seeing right now the manifestation,

00:11:53.760 you know, in, in the, the rabid antisemitism we're seeing. I, a couple of weeks ago, I was

00:12:01.360 talking with a very successful tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, someone who leans, leans left has

00:12:06.620 consistently been a Democrat. And Louie was asking me, he was befuddled, where did this vicious

00:12:13.380 anti-Semitism on the left come from? Whether it's the squad in the house or all of these protests

00:12:19.340 and riots on college campuses. And I explained to him that for the radical leftists, Jews are coded as

00:12:29.140 oppressors and Palestinians are coded as victims. And so the cultural Marxists support the violent

00:12:37.520 overthrow by the victims of the oppressors and using force to redistribute power. And that is why

00:12:44.300 you see the cultural Marxists celebrating the Hamas terrorists. It's why you see at Harvard, 0.57

00:12:50.420 my alma mater, you see 35 student groups putting out an absurd statement that all of the murders and

00:12:57.440 rapes and atrocities carried out by the Hamas terrorists are a hundred percent the fault of Israel. 0.60

00:13:02.980 That is because cultural Marxists support the violent overthrow. And we're seeing that across

00:13:10.400 the arena on the far left. And of course, that interpretation and that extrapolation on the

00:13:15.840 part of the Marxists is fundamentally flawed. And I think speaks to something of a cognitive issue

00:13:24.920 that is common to Marxism in this country and globally. We're going to take up that issue.

00:13:31.820 We're going to take up another important institution that I know is near and dear to

00:13:37.440 your heart. And that is the legal profession, the federal judiciary in particular, and what has

00:13:42.860 become of our law schools and the lawyers that they're graduating into our society. We're talking

00:13:49.840 with Senator Ted Cruz. The Great America Show will continue in one moment. Please stay with us.

00:13:54.680 We're talking with Senator Ted Cruz. Welcome back. And Senator, thanks again for being here.

00:14:05.420 A fascinating book, and we recommend it highly to everyone. Unwoke, something we need to get

00:14:11.960 underway right now. Let's turn to the legal profession. I was talking with Alan Dersowicz some

00:14:18.340 weeks ago. And he started explaining how the left and the Marxists have taken a foothold in the law

00:14:28.940 schools themselves that are turning out all of the lawyers, bright and able and ambulance chasers as

00:14:36.200 well, but all exposed to the Marxist ideology. And they have to conform or they don't do as well as they might

00:14:45.800 otherwise do. That is that ebbing. Is it intensifying? And how concerned should every American be about our

00:14:54.940 judiciary and the lawyers that make up the entire legal system?

00:14:59.540 So we should be very concerned. And unfortunately, it's intensifying. It's getting worse. You know,

00:15:04.660 as you know, Alan Dershowitz is a good friend of mine. He was my criminal law professor when I was in

00:15:09.780 law school. And I still remember I showed up as a 1L, a first year law student in 1993. And Dershowitz was

00:15:17.060 up front. And he said, listen, he said, on any objective measure, he said, I'm in the most liberal

00:15:26.320 one percent of America. I'm an old school liberal. But he said, the bizarre thing about Harvard Law

00:15:31.280 School is I'm considered relatively conservative here because Alan, among other things, is willing

00:15:35.460 to support Israel and he passionately supports Israel. And Alan also passionately supports free

00:15:41.220 speech. And today's illiberal left, the cultural Marxist, they don't believe in free speech. They

00:15:46.920 believe in power and censorship and forcing you to submit. And the opening chapter talk in the book

00:15:54.780 Unwoke, focusing on the universities, you asked about law schools. I talk about Stanford Law School.

00:16:00.620 And you may remember an incident a number of months ago where a federal appellate judge,

00:16:04.780 Kyle Duncan, went to give a speech, a sponsored speech on campus. And the law students there began

00:16:10.640 screaming and yelling epithets at him and screaming, I hope your daughters get raped. And it was it was an 1.00

00:16:18.060 unruly mob that shouted him down, prevented him from giving a speech. And it was really a disgraceful

00:16:23.260 performance. Now, if any lawyer tried to do what those law students did, if you tried to shout

00:16:29.860 down and curse at a federal judge, you'd be held in contempt and you'd go to jail. That is not lawyers

00:16:35.620 don't get to do what they just did. Now, when that happened, it was it was a very sad chapter. But I

00:16:42.200 described two things that I did in response that produced meaningful results. Number one, I wrote a

00:16:47.980 letter both to the Stanford president and to the and to the dean of the Stanford Law School calling on

00:16:53.300 Stanford to fire the administrator, the DEI administrator who came in and sided with the mob

00:16:59.420 over the federal judge. And Lou, remarkably, the administration of Stanford did exactly that. 0.98

00:17:06.160 And there's power to shining a light. And and and they fired their administrator. That was a major

00:17:12.680 victory. A second thing I did, I sent a letter to the Texas State Bar and called on the bar to to

00:17:20.880 impose extra scrutiny on graduates from Stanford Law School. Now, to be a member of the bar to be

00:17:26.000 admitted to the bar, you have to pass a character and fitness test. And in my view, if you are screaming

00:17:32.140 and cursing at judges, you are not demonstrating the character and fitness that a member of the bar is

00:17:36.960 expected to have. And I wrote the letter and I reproduce in the book the response I got. I got a

00:17:42.480 response from the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Nathan Hecht, whom I know well. And he wrote

00:17:48.540 back saying that that they he emphatically agreed. And going forward, the Texas bar would would would

00:17:56.700 conduct additional inquiry of graduates, especially from Stanford Law School and Yale Law School, where

00:18:02.820 they've had similar incidents because the administrators were not protecting free speech,

00:18:08.180 were not stopping unruly students. So the Texas State Bar was going to independently inquire to make

00:18:14.640 sure that they were not admitting to the Texas bar people that that could not engage in a civil,

00:18:20.940 respectful conversation with a federal judge. And so that's an example of the kinds of victories in

00:18:26.100 my book. I call for other state bars, for Florida bars and other at least red state bars to do

00:18:32.820 the same thing, because in order to stop what's happening, there have to be meaningful

00:18:38.900 consequences. People respond to incentives. And so one of the themes of the solutions that I push in this

00:18:45.480 book is on the cost benefit ledger, we need to substantially increase the cost of the radical behavior

00:18:53.900 that's becoming the norm.

00:18:54.900 And that that Marxist, the culture of Marxism in the in the bar. One final question. Lawfare, they have raised the

00:19:06.780 cost for every conservative, for everyone who disagrees with them. That is the Marxist left in this country, the

00:19:13.720 Marxist Dems. You mentioned the red and the blue states, the bars are they are colored. And the fact of the matter is,

00:19:21.740 those red state bars are getting fewer and fewer, and the blue deeper by the by the day. What is the

00:19:29.720 response from the judiciary, the chief justice of the Supreme Court? We'll start with that. He's

00:19:37.220 responsible. John Roberts is responsible for the federal judiciary. And what he is watching is eight

00:19:41.960 years of political persecution of Donald Trump. He is watching ignorance on the part of the left, and what

00:19:47.780 they are doing to to citizens who just simply, simply disagree with them on politics, and they're

00:19:53.720 being destroyed. And no, and everyone is mute on it. What do you recommend is the the solution?

00:20:00.520 Listen, I agree with you that what we are seeing from the Biden administration and from Democrat DAs

00:20:05.840 is an absolute abuse of power. The four indictments against Donald Trump are garbage. This is in over 200 0.99

00:20:13.900 years of our nation's history. We've never indicted a president or a former president or a major

00:20:17.940 candidate for president. And, and the Democrats have done so four times. And it's because they hate

00:20:23.880 him so much that they are willing to try to do anything they can to destroy him. And there's an

00:20:28.880 irony to this. So like all good Marxists, the cultural Marxist twist words, and often what they say

00:20:36.920 they are for is precisely the opposite as, as Orwell said in 1984, two plus two equals five. And if they

00:20:44.160 demand that everyone must, must agree with it. Well, in this instance, all virtue signaling Democrats

00:20:49.540 say they are defending democracy by which they mean electing left-wing cultural Marxist. But the irony is

00:20:57.000 this abuse of power against Donald Trump is a massive assault on democracy. The reason they are bringing

00:21:04.940 these cases is because they're terrified that next November, the American people will vote to

00:21:10.880 reelect Donald Trump. And that scares them out of their mind. And they're willing to do everything

00:21:15.400 they can. The Biden justice department is willing to do everything it can to abuse its power, to stop

00:21:22.420 democracy. And so this book on woke, I want to encourage all your viewers, all your listeners,

00:21:27.300 it's available in every bookstore in America. You can get it on Amazon online and, or Barnes and Noble

00:21:33.360 or books a million, go order a copy and, and, and Christmas is coming up. It makes a great gift.

00:21:39.300 Get it for your mom, get it, get it for your kids. Your kids need to understand what's going on in this

00:21:44.560 book. It's fun. It's readable. It tells stories. It's not an abstract academic tome. It is useful and

00:21:52.120 real world. And I wrote this because if we don't understand what's happening to the country, we're not

00:21:57.460 going to be able to pull it back. I think you've picked up on some very, very important marketing

00:22:02.640 skills, Senator. And we, we are sitting here in awe and you left out friends and neighbors as well.

00:22:10.700 Absolutely. I'm a capitalist, an unapologetic capitalist.

00:22:14.160 Amen, brother. Great to have you with us and best of luck again. Congratulations on the book. We recommend it

00:22:19.620 highly. Thanks so much, Senator.

00:22:21.140 Thank you. Senator Ted Cruz, the book is entitled Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.

00:22:29.380 And I want you to know, I recommend it to you highly. Thanks everybody for being with us today.

00:22:34.580 Our guests here tomorrow on the Great America Show will be our Great America foreign policy experts,

00:22:39.720 Gordon Chang and Tony Schaefer. Hope you'll join us for that. And each and every day, please join us.

00:22:45.960 Thanks everybody. God bless you and may God bless America.

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CRUZ—CULTURAL MARXISM SWEEPS AMERICA

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