Dr. J. Budziszewski

And I lectured about the Lincoln Second Inaugural Address too in that class and made something like that point.

Innocent populations that were not military targets, but chosen because they were civilian population centers.

Right.

Look, I'm an American.

I understand myself to be patriotic.

I love my country.

Because I love my country, I also want it to become better.

I want it to correct its wrongs.

I'm glad that we ended slavery.

I'm not going to say, oh, what a bad country, how horrible, because we had slavery.

I'm going to say, boy, slavery was bad, and I'm glad we ended it.

And I'm glad that there was the courage to do that.

We ended segregation.

We ended a lot of awful stuff.

And there's awful stuff to end now.

And I'm not – does that make me –

a hater of my country or a puller down of statues.

I don't believe in that pulling down of the statues anyway.

I think you need to talk about these things.

Yeah, and then there's that misquotation of Alexis de Tocqueville, America is great because it is good.