J.D. Vance
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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While our elites tell us that diversity is our greatest strength, they destroy the very institutions that allow us to thrive and build a common sense of purpose and meaning as Americans.
If you think about it, identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence, that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time.
What do I mean by that?
Well, first of all, it would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of foreign citizens.
Who agree with the principles of the Declaration of Independence?
Must we admit all of them tomorrow?
If you follow that logic of America as a purely creedal nation, America purely as an idea, that is where it would lead you.
But at the same time, that answer would also reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists.
Even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
And I happen to think that it's absurd, and the modern left seems dedicated to doing this, to saying you don't belong in America unless you agree with progressive liberalism in 2025.
I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the
People who say they don't belong.
When my wife and I got when when I proposed to her, uh, we were in law school and I said, Honey, I
you're
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