Dr. Bill McClay

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The Dan Bongino Show · This Is Going To End Badly (Ep. 2557) · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So that would be a reason for

Providence, as George Washington, he never liked to say God.

He always liked to say Providence with a capital T, to smile on us because we have stood for the utmost in human dignity at a real juncture in American history, in world history, in human history.

1776 is a moment in human history that we should cherish, not just we Americans, because it's a breakthrough.

Well, and you know, there are people even then who interpreted the words of the Declaration narrowly as saying just not that all men are created equal, which is what it actually says, but that American Englishmen are the equivalent of English Englishmen, you know, because in some ways the revolution was about American colonists saying, you're not going to take away our rights as Englishmen.

in order to sort of reconstitute the British Empire.

You know, you can't do this.

We've governed ourselves for 150 years.

That's one thing people don't take into account is how long colonies like Virginia and Massachusetts had been running and having their own legislatures, which levered their own taxes.

And basically they were free of the interference of Parliament and the King.

And then

And then after the French and Indian War, things changed.

And it just wasn't possible.

I actually try to give the British a fair shake when I teach this stuff at Hillsdale College because there's a tendency for everybody to be patriots.

But they did have a problem.

They were way in debt.

They had spent a lot of money, a ton of money, trying to defend their British heritage.

north american colonies and their british empire which they now had was expanded because of the outrageous success of the war against the french and they had to do something to get the colonies to in some way contribute to the general sort of operating funds of the empire what they did was extremely clumsy i think it could have it could possibly somebody should write a book about this that i haven't but it could have been done in a better way even without uh

the connectivity that we have today, even with an ocean separating.

But it wasn't done in a skillful way.

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