Ben Harnwell

It calls itself conservative.

It says, oh, we're the oldest political party in the world.

We're non-ideological.

But it's imploding now.

We are assisting at its suicide because it has abandoned all pretense.

of conserving anything and it's abandoned all pretence of promoting personal liberty.

It talks the language of Margaret Thatcher but in every legislative act and amendment it produces it is a betrayal of Margaret Thatcher and its time has come and its time has come to end and it is being replaced in the UK as we speak by Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

That broadly is taking off where

where Margaret Thatcher left off.

So coming back to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute is the realization that Christian democracy, the center right, isn't capable of defending those things that we really care so much about, culture, values, community.

the judeo-christian tradition to use the american term um and one of the chief um what you know i mentioned that the christian democracy in in in europe is based on catholic social teaching and i have said i am a catholic um a bad one but i am a catholic

And don't mistake what I'm going to say now, because I'm going to attack the institutional church, the Vatican.

I'm not anti-Catholic.

I'm anti these people, these sociopaths, who somehow have been able over the last 60 years to hijack

the institution of the Catholic Church and run it into the ground.

They call me in Italy, they say I'm anti-Catholic, and it's ironic that these people who loathe the Catholic faith, they're prelates, they're bishops, they're cardinals,

These people who loathe and have made it their lives work to destroy the Catholic Church, call me and Steve Bannon and our collaborators anti-Catholic.

That is the supreme irony because we are trying to defend the Christian basis, the Catholic basis of continental Europe.

This is something that John Paul II had correctly intuited.

that the heart of culture is cult okay so you can put you know you can defend western society with the western liberal tradition but that comes out of something it didn't just emerge out of nothing it comes out of the the precepts that arise out of the christian faith and if i will make this suggestion but only very lightly today if you really want to defend western civilization we need to have