Dan Caldwell

We are in a world of constrained resources, and we're in a world of constrained resources because we've de-industrialized over the last 30 years.

We squandered thousands of lives and trillions of dollars in the Middle East.

And that same foreign policy establishment allowed the Europeans to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker.

And Bridge has called that out.

And he acknowledges, as you said, we are in a world of limited resources, so we have to prioritize our own hemisphere's defense and deterring and containing the Chinese in the Pacific.

This is also about Bridge as a symbol.

He represents the rising class of America first foreign policy talent.

And they think if they can take out Bridge or sideline him, then they can take out all the great people that Secretary Hegseth and President Trump have appointed at the Department of Defense, or they can take out people like Will Ruger, Joe Kent, or Tulsi Gabbard at the Office of Director of National Intelligence.

So that's what it's really about, is they think if they can sideline Bridge or take him out, then they can take out the rest of the America First talent within this administration.

Well, again, I think it goes back to delusion.

And I don't use that term lightly, is that you talk to a lot of these people and they still think it's either 1983 or 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed or 2005 before things really came off the rails in Iraq or Afghanistan.

And that they want to pretend the last 20 or 30 years hasn't happened.

And again, their North Star is not America first or the national interest.

It is this global liberal hegemony.

And they think the United States role,

The role of America's sons and daughters and the American taxpayer is to fight and fund for this global liberal hegemony, and they don't want to give that up.

And they don't care if it risks, pursuing that risks a national security or economic catastrophe.

And anybody, again, I just have to say, Bridge isn't some radical.

He's not some non-interventionist.

He's not even a restrainer as some people say.