Dr. Kevin Roberts

But the key point you're making, Vince, about the governor,

the attorney general of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, who in addition to being a goofball is also fomenting unrest.

There has to be an account.

The American people are upset not just with the loss of life and not just with the disorder, but the fact that this is such a pattern and it's being fomented by a political institution, the Democratic Party of Minnesota.

I think there are two huge factors that play into that.

The first is politics has become their religion.

This group of people, largely speaking, I'm sure there are exceptions, are people who have among the lowest church attendance in the country.

They're part of the accelerating trend of a lack of religiosity.

And what that means is that that's going to be replaced by something.

And that something has become politics, which is just an awful thing to worship, right?

That's not an altar we want to build.

But the second thing is, and you know I'm going to answer this as an educator too, you can't love what you don't know.

And so two generations of not only poorly teaching American history and civics and philosophy and economics, but actually using that time for other projects like indoctrination have finally come home to roost.

This is what we're confronting as the rotten fruit of that miseducation of the American populace for such a long time.

Well, and you're right that it's completely connected to this dynamic of someone like Renee Goode, because what's happened during this period of miseducation is the deterioration of institutions, schools and universities, but the deterioration of the greatest institution in human life, and that's the family.

And so what we're saying at Heritage in this landmark study we released a few days ago,

is that in addition to very important cultural, economic, social factors that play into someone's decision about whether they will be married, and if so, if they will have children, is a set of government policies at the federal level that have disincentivized marriage and childbirth.

What we're arguing, bottom line at Heritage, is that we want to invert those policies and actually eliminate those disincentives and use a couple of tax credits to incentivize what we think will be a modest uptick in marriage and birth.

If we do that, and if we see an improvement in those even more important factors of culture, society, and economics, I think we can see a reversal in this downward trend of the American family.

It is the single greatest indicator of stability and success.