Erik Prince

But industrial control of the south by the north and tariffs and all those things played a huge factor.

The fact is of the people that fought for the south –

Very, very few.

I think less than 5% actually owned slaves.

So they were planning to defend the way they wanted to govern themselves or the way they wanted to trade with Europe or an agrarian-based economy.

So I'm not here to relitigate the entire Civil War, but today, that political divide is largely rural versus urban.

would play out very differently it's not regional it's not north versus south it's it's uh it's county and you know rural areas versus cities and that's that can be ugly how close are we to that well uh if if trump was assassinated and the gap and the chaos that would have ensued who knows what would have happened and who knows what the federal overreach would have been

And, yeah, there's a lot of people that don't have a lot of confidence in the federal institutions anymore.

And it doesn't take much.

I have a lot of confidence in the men from the units, the kind of units that we came from.

I don't have supreme confidence in all the officers, but I have a lot of confidence in, let's say, 04, 05, and below.

Because they're the right kind of people.

I recently attended a Special Forces Q course graduation, and it was so heartening.

It was 220 studs.

They knew exactly which bathroom to use.

They were there to serve their country, and it was great.

I say that tongue-in-cheek.

I mentioned the Chevron deference, right?

The Chevron case and how it unleashed the federal bureaucratic state.

Because in 1984, there was a Supreme Court case, Natural Resources Defense Council versus Chevron.