Ep. 1878 - War In Venezuela？ Trump Addresses The Nation
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Vivek Ramaswamy has an essay in the New York Times called What is an American? in which he weighs in on the right-wing civil war, all these questions about American identity. And he makes a lot of good points, but he leaves out some good points too.
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American warships off the coast of Venezuela, blowing up Venezuelan drug boats, demands that dictator Nicolás Maduro leave the country.
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And amid all the tensions, the threat of war with Venezuela, President Trump calls a White House address on all the networks in prime time.
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We were all waiting for the declaration of war.
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And President Trump, as always, subverted our expectations.
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Our pal Vivek Ramaswamy has an essay in the New York Times, we'll forgive him for the New York Times, called What is an American?
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In which he weighs in on the right-wing civil war, all these questions about American identity.
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And he makes a lot of good points, but he leaves out some good points, too.
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We'll get into exactly his view, where it fits in with this brutal, bare-knuckle brawl on the right of what the future of America is.
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All the news networks, they all cover President Trump's major announcement.
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It's all being reported in the liberal media amid tensions with Venezuela, a major announcement from the president.
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And he walks up there and you know what he does?
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Sorry, I should have maybe said this at the top.
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He goes in and he just talks about all of his biggest wins from the first year.
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Everything on the economy, on migration, all the good stuff that's coming.
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It was just a recap of all the great stuff that he did.
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All from this cozy looking room in the White House with all the Christmas decorations up.
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He pulled the old war with Venezuela fake out to make all of his enemies at the news networks cover all of his successes in prime time.
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A lot of people still watch prime time TV, even though everything's online.
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It makes all of the, even the digital media pay attention to him.
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I'm usually not watching it in real time because I'm doing something else.
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I had to, I was going to, I was going to get my Christmas tree off my car and I stopped.
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And eventually I just took the phone out with me as it's going.
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Whether you love him, whether you hate him, it is beyond dispute at this point.
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President Trump is the greatest media manipulator ever to hold that office.
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And it served really important political purposes because the Democrats right now have historically low approval ratings.
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The Democrats are in a really, really bad spot.
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They have no leading candidate for president for the first time in 25 years.
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But President Trump's approval ratings have lagged a little bit in certain areas, especially on the economy.
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And this is frustrating for the White House because the White House has really good economic numbers this year.
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The White House has outperformed on GDP, on jobs.
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We were all told the tariffs were going to destroy the country.
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The economy has done very, very well under Trump.
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And yet, people still feel the pinch in this economy.
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But the point that Trump is making is they feel the pinch because eggs cost two bucks a carton five years ago.
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And now eggs might be down to six bucks a carton or something like that.
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But everyone's remembering the halcyon days when they were two bucks a carton.
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Never mind that Trump has reduced costs on a whole host of things.
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Because don't forget, Biden oversaw this massive spike in inflation.
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It was also the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which even Bernie Sanders admitted didn't reduce inflation.
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It was also the big infrastructure bill that ballooned government spending.
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It was also Biden destroying the energy sector and killing the Keystone Pipeline.
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And energy, which causes inflation throughout the economy.
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Biden really was responsible for a lot of the inflation.
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And so Trump needed to take this opportunity to set the record straight to control the narrative.
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Here's so fitting, given the setting, given the time, we're right before Christmas.
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Here's a new little bonus that President Trump gets that he is offering to some of our most deserving citizens.
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Because of tariffs, along with the just passed one big beautiful bill, tonight I am also proud to announce that more than 1,450,000, think of this,
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1,450,000 military service members will receive a special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas.
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In honor of our nation's founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776.
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Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago.
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We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs and the bill helped us along.
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And by the way, we now have record enlistment in our military.
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And last year we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our military's history.
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Democrats never met federal spending they didn't love.
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I dare the Democrats to oppose a bonus for the vets for $1,776.
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The year our country was founded on the 250th anniversary of our country.
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And it's not just pandering to a very sympathetic and very revered group of Americans.
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Trump is also looking down the line at the Supreme Court, which potentially could overrule his tariffs.
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He comes out and he says the tariffs have worked.
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They brought in a lot of money for this country.
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And we're going to give some of that money out.
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We're not just going to hoard it for ourselves.
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We're not even going to use it just to pay down our debt.
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We're going to give it to some of our most deserving Americans who are often overlooked.
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Okay, Supreme Court, I dare you to get rid of my tariffs now.
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You want to take money out of the hands of hardworking veterans who have sacrificed for this country?
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Trump then pointed out that not only are his jobs numbers good this year, they're actually much, much better.
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Some would say almost infinitely better than Biden's job numbers.
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Job numbers we've seen in recent years, really even recent decades, because the jobs under Trump have gone to actual Americans.
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For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration as migrants go back home, leaving more housing and more jobs for Americans.
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In the year before my election, all net creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants.
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Since I took office, 100 percent of all net job creation has gone to American-born citizens, 100 percent.
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In the end, government either serves the productive, patriotic, hardworking American citizen, or it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system, and seek power and profit at the expense of our nation.
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There's a little-known fact that the job growth in recent years has largely been illusory, because those jobs are going to foreign-born workers.
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But this year, because of the Trump immigration policy, because he closed off the border, so he stopped another one to three million illegals from coming into the country,
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because he formally deported over half a million of them, and because he caused at least 1.6 million, probably significantly more, to self-deport,
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you see all the jobs going to actual Americans.
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When the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe.
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We are respected again like we have never been respected before.
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To each and every one of you, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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I loved, there was, one person responded when I tweeted out, I knew exactly what he was doing.
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The minute he opened his mouth, I said, ah, that's what he did.
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He's going to give a year-end roundup right before Christmas.
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Great optics, great numbers, sets the record straight.
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And one person responded and said, I've been had.
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All these panic hands, you know, so we're going to war, we're going to war.
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I don't freak out about Trump, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
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And it's not just because I blindly follow a leader or something like that.
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It's just based on reason, looking at precedent.
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The guy has been the best foreign policy president in my lifetime, probably including George H.W. Bush, who was good in his own right.
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So he just has earned a little grace with me when it comes, especially to foreign policy.
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Now, a major shakeup also was announced yesterday.
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Another one that's been a media rumor for months now.
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Dan Bongino, our pal Dan Bongino, is leaving the FBI.
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Dan, you know, had a very, very successful podcast business, news aggregator business.
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He's a great guy, Dan Bongino, and he's obviously a great broadcaster and a businessman.
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I don't have the exact numbers of how much money he was bringing in through his business empire, his media empire.
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He was doing very, very well, and he gave it all up to take the job as deputy FBI director to serve the country.
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And I'm sure that's a very frustrating thing, especially when you're in the deputy position.
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You know, Trump and Dan have gotten along for a long time.
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And some jobs in a presidential administration, that's a lifetime.
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He says, now I think Dan probably wants to go back to his show, which I think will be great.
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And now I'm excited that he's going to have a show again.
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This is the first quasi-major shakeup in the admin.
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From the beginning, President Trump has had the media gunning for a lot of his top appointees,
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Notice, the media have been trying to, not just the media, the Democrats, the activists,
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have been trying to get rid of Hegseth since before he was confirmed.
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Every three days, it seems, there's some rumor.
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Notice that Dan, deputy FBI director, is the first one to leave.
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Big, big difference between that and the first administration,
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when the secretary of state finds out he's getting fired via tweet.
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And there's a lot of turnover in the first admin.
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And this, to me, is something that Trump didn't mention.
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But I think it's important to note, we were going around here at the Daily Wire the other day
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to talk about what are the biggest wins and losses for Trump in the first year.
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To me, really the biggest win was the personnel.
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Trump, he was totally new to it in the first term.
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That little interregnum period, I think, actually probably helped him focus a little bit,
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figure out who the friends are, separate the wheat from the chaff.
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The second term notice, there's basically no turnover.
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Very, very good people in these positions, for the most part.
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There are a couple of people who are not quite as good as the others.
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But for the most part, very, very good people in these positions.
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We have a lot more soaring political rhetoric to get to this time,
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not from the President of the United States, but rather from Jasmine Crockett.
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Jasmine Crockett, the gift that keeps on giving,
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apparently trolled into running for Senate by the Republican Senate Committee,
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inserted her name in a poll, now actually gets her to run,
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the gamble being that it'll screw it up for Democrats in Texas.
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Jasmine Crockett laying out her immigration plan,
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the reason why the Democrats support mass migration and open border,
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Democrats for years have told us it's because of humanitarian reasons,
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because we care so much about the oppressed people on the other side of the border,
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The reason we need them is because I don't want to pick any more cotton.
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So I had to go around the country and educate people about
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what immigrants do for this country or the fact that we are a country of immigrants.
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The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now.
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We need to import third world peasants because we want a new slave class.
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For years, the Republicans have pointed out the Democrats support mass migration from the third
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world, especially illegal immigration, but even some legal immigration.
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The whole reason that the Democrats wanted it is, one, to cynically give them a permanent
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electoral majority by fundamentally changing the demographics of the country, and two, because
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they're in cahoots with big business because they want cheap labor.
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They want to commit one of the sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance, namely defrauding
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the poor, oppressing the poor, the workers, giving them substandard wages.
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And then Jasmine Crockett comes out and goes, you're totally right.
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That was Jasmine Crockett putting on her 1970s jive voice.
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Of course, she engages in interviews where she sounds like a perfectly normal person.
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But I guess whichever group she was talking to there, she thought she had to dial it up,
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You know, I said, listen here, man, we done picking that cotton.
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What it means is we are bringing these people in to treat them like slaves.
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You have totally admitted the Republicans were right the whole time.
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Amazing, too, that this clip is going viral right after you had this very sorry display
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in the U.S. Capitol where even Republicans went along with it.
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They said, Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest Americans ever to live.
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A man who said he rejoiced at the end of slavery, even though he was the general defending his
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homeland in the Civil War, he said he rejoiced that slavery would end.
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He called slavery, quote, a moral and political evil in any country.
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General Lee was a much, much better person, a much more moral person than any of the people
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General Lee was a much more moral person than Jasmine Crockett and had a much more moral
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General Lee, on the one hand, saying, look, I have to defend my home, my countrymen, my
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Slavery is a moral evil, not only in America, anywhere.
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That's the guy they're tearing down and the one that the Democrats are going to run for
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Senate in Texas saying, we need a new slave class.
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Men, you tear down the ancestors, the forebears, the people who built our country, the giants
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on whose shoulders we stand and we think that we're flying.
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You tear them down because of some moral failings that they had, real or imagined.
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We put the modern Democrat Party and the squish collaborators in the Republican Party.
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Much less moral, much less dignified people in every single way.
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My friend Vivek Ramaswamy published a very thoughtful essay on this in the New York Times.
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We can forgive him for publishing in the New York Times.
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I really encourage you to check out this essay because Vivek makes an important point,
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He opens up, he says, there are two competing visions now emerging on the American right,
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One vision of American identity is based on lineage, blood and soil.
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The purest form of an American is a so-called heritage American,
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one whose ancestry traces back to the founding of the United States or earlier,
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even earlier, I guess referring to the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand.
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It says, this view is now popularized by the Groyper right,
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a rapidly ascendant online movement that argues for the creation of a white-centric identity.
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This is a predictable response, one I anticipated in my book,
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to anti-white discrimination over the last half decade.
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The alternative Vivek proposes, and in my view,
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the correct vision of American identity, is based on ideals.
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Americanness is not a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry.
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You are an American if you believe in the rule of law,
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in freedom of conscience, in freedom of expression,
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in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream,
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and if you are a citizen who swears exclusive allegiance to our nation.
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So, Vivek is saying that he fully endorses what is called the creedal view of America.
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If you believe in the ideals of America, and if you check a box,
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you become naturalized as a citizen, then you are an American.
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It has nothing to do with heritage, the people you come from, your family's history here.
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And look, there's obviously a creedal aspect to the country.
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So, he's getting at something that is partially true.
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Here's the problem for Vivek's argument, is what about the guy who lives in West Virginia?
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What about the guy who lives anywhere in the middle of America,
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But they've been Americans for many, many generations.
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But maybe he doesn't believe in absolute freedom of expression or something like that.
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Which, as I argue in my book, Speechless, is not really part of the American free speech tradition.
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That this belief in total freedom of expression,
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that's not really the American free speech tradition.
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There were blasphemy laws on the books for much of American history.
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The notion of colorblind meritocracy, even take the colorblind part out for a second.
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The notion of meritocracy is, in its most extreme form,
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If we believe in pure meritocracy, whatever that means,
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does that mean that we have to oppose legacy admissions in universities?
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Does this mean that people can't give some preference in hiring, say, in their family business?
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They have a mom-and-pop family business that's been in the family for generations.
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You can't pass that business along to your kids or your grandkids.
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You can't favor hiring your grandkids over, I don't know,
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some random person on the street who maybe scored higher on the SAT.
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Take it to its fullest extreme, does that mean that we have to support totally free and open trade?
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Where we're competing against not just our countrymen, but the whole rest of the world for spots in schools, for jobs, for, I don't know.
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That's not really part of the American tradition.
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And I think there are plenty of people in America who don't totally go along with those ideas.
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There's someone from Tibet who comes over to America, let's say, last week.
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And he gets naturalized as a citizen by hook or by crook.
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He doesn't have any of the learned traditions that come about, not just through a lifetime, but through the generations.
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He doesn't really know about hot dogs on the 4th of July.
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He's not, you know, he passed a civics test, but he doesn't, he's not really part of the community.
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You're telling me that guy, because he has memorized some portion of the Declaration of Independence, that guy is American.
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But the guy who, I don't know, maybe he hasn't memorized every line of the Federalist Papers.
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Nevertheless, his family's been here for 300 years.
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I don't think that really makes a lot of sense.
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I see what Vivek is looking at, but I think it's a false dichotomy.
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I don't think the only two choices are blood and soil nationalism, where heritage is all that matters, or this creedal conception, where belief in what is imagined to be the American idea, which in many ways was a construction of the 20th century, that that's all that's American.
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I don't think that the view that, you know, having rootedness in America is purely the domain of some fringe or unseemly or bigoted online right wing.
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He points out that anti-Semitic statements are now normalized online.
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Now, in fairness, all sorts of nasty, ugly things are normalized online.
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You know, we tried to, actually, we tried to circumscribe that in the 1990s with the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, and it passed with Republican and Democrat support.
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And then, unfortunately, judges gutted it because judges had a very, very liberal view of the American free speech tradition that wasn't really historical.
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I hate nasty, cruel racism and misogyny and all the rest of that.
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Online is not, you know, the Internet is not the same as real life.
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He says, this pattern eerily mirrors the hesitance of prominent Democrats to criticize woke excesses in the run-up to 2024.
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So, in other words, if the right does not excise the nasty fringes of its movement, it's going to end up in the same electoral quagmire that the Democrats ran into because they adopted all the pro-trans radical woke stuff that killed them in 2024.
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Any political movement has to circumscribe itself, you know, just as a nation is known by its borders.
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That's what distinguishes it from other nations.
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So, too, with political movements, you got to invite as many people in as you can in a way that is just and successful while also keeping some people out.
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However, I just think the premise is a little bit wrong.
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No, I don't think that you need to ascribe perfectly to the present day's understanding of what America means as a creed.
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And countries are made up of people, made up of geography, made up of actions and traditions and sacrifices, and made up of creedal beliefs, of course.
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So, it seems to me that there is a synthesis of some of these ideas.
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I alluded to this the other day when I talked about the book of Ruth.
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I think the book of Ruth is really instructive on what it means to be part of a political community.
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I think, actually, it provides the type of what a political community is because Ruth is a Moabite, but she assimilates and joins into the Israelites.
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We'll get to what that is, and we'll get to really the heart of this question that we're going to be debating for a year.
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Yes, there's a creedal aspect to American identity, but there are two other aspects.
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One way that people have been Americanized in the course of history is when they fight in wars.
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Or when they contribute something really great.
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He's an immigrant, and he's generated a lot of prosperity for people.
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He's sacrificed some of his private interests to help the good of the country,
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If you took all the people in America today, 330 some odd million people,
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and you swapped them out, and you filled up the country with 330 million other people,
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and they all had memorized the Declaration of Independence.
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They all had memorized whatever the current conception of the American creed is.
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Israel, which is the particular nation that is the type of all the nations,
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Children that go down into the line of David and into the lineage of Christ.
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And when she marries her second husband, Boaz, after her first husband dies,
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And he says, everything you've done for your mother-in-law,
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everything you've done for us, for our tribe, for our nation,
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that's been radically changed over the centuries.
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And then since 1967, we've had this mass influx of immigration and demographic change.
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I mean, for me, use the example of the Mayflower.
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And even of the quarter English, the Knowleses got here in 1660,
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and they married into the Mayflower line that got here in 1620.
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There was a long period of assimilation over the generations.
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That's the part that no one wants to talk about in our totally abstract modern life.
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That tells us, modern liberalism, that tells us that America is not a real country.
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John Adams says that the principles of the Christian religion
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are the general principles on which independence was won.
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John Jay writes about this in Federalist No. 2.
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And so there's a civic belief and there's a religious belief,
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Right now in American identity, we have none of the three.
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You actually, you're going to commit welfare fraud.
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You're going to take all the money from the taxpayers.
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But going all the way back to classical political philosophy,
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which men have to think about three times a day,
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all the way up to the present, you need all three.
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And to divorce one or the other, say it's only creed,
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or it's only stock, or even that it's only sacrifice,
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And it will be insufficient to persuade Americans now
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who are seeing the real results of demographic change,
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massive demographic change, contrived demographic change
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But the Washington Post has a very important report out.
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The report is on Charlie Kirk's alleged killer.
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You see this news, what Charlie Kirk's alleged killer
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Really, really long piece, but important reporting.
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and killed right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk,
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Some of his friends, people referring to family interactions.
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His mother told police he'd become more, quote,
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Friends confirmed the pair's romantic involvement
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says the roommate was distressed about anti-trans sentiment.
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He wrote that in a message reportedly hours after the killing.
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The Post reached out to all of these other people,
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and this is the kind of stuff that's all going to come out in the prosecution.
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on the personal side of the right-wing civil war.
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but sometimes it gets hotter than at other points,
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in the prosecution and in the courts, I'm sure,
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which is that when things become really personal
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A lot of people love that in politics and media.
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and you win the elections by forming coalitions
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And you can't allow yourself to get distracted.
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