Aaron Reitz

American history didn't just spring up out of nowhere.

Our culture, our Western civilization, American culture, our constitution, our declaration, our constitutional Republican small r values didn't just come out of nothing.

All those things, everything that we enjoy today was informed by centuries and centuries of well-developed language, history, culture, art, religion, values, ethics, family structure, gender, all these sorts of things.

fed into what we now enjoy as the greatest country that world history, that humankind has ever seen.

And I use this soil analogy very intentionally because there are certain plants, there are certain trees that can take root in certain soils, and those same trees or plants can't take root in other soils.

And so the Western and American soil

the culture, the civilization, the language, the history, the art, the music, the religious views.

All of these things are what set the conditions for a beautiful flourishing flower, a beautiful American tree to take root and grow and create an environment for human flourishing to exist.

The soil composition in other parts of the world

cannot give rise to those same kinds of fruits.

And so what we see in the Islamic world is we see a soil in which advanced civilization, free thinking, human expression, ethics, integrity, economic development, artistic development, all the sort of markers of civilization, they simply can't take root.

Why?

Because the soil composition's not there, no matter how hard you try.

Now, what we see with the influx, the invasion of third-worlders that kicked up really in the mid-60s with the Hart-Celler Immigration Act, and then especially from the Muslim world after 9-11, is we see that rootless soil, that salted soil getting transported from the Muslim world to the Western and American world.

And we think that it's going to provide the conditions for human flourishing, but really it doesn't.

So I went there as a true believer, thinking that we'd be able to get the thing done.

But I looked at this civilization in the eye, and I concluded with absolute certainty that these are anti-civilizational forces that cannot be redeemed by military action or unassimilated invasions into the Western world.

And look, one of my things that's motivating me to run for attorney general is to preserve

that soil composition, preserve our American culture, preserve Western civilization to fight against the anti-Western, anti-Christian, anti-American forces that are invading our country.

And in particular, as you often say, Steve, view Texas as the crown jewel that they want to capture.