Josh Hammer

and you let me first say that the fact that the enemy is slayed at least for the time being i agree does not necessarily mean that it will not one day god forbid possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to sow the seeds of discourse uh here in america so while i am definitely celebrating i agree that we should not rest on our laurels it is definitely time to keep the momentum going

But the reason that I picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me, I thought it was a very fun title as well, is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of this second Donald Trump administration is the most transformative cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably in our lifetimes. And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back.

But the reason that I picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me, I thought it was a very fun title as well, is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of this second Donald Trump administration is the most transformative cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably in our lifetimes. And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back.

Barack Obama declared war on America. He declared war on America and instituted our modern American civil war, our cold civil, roiling cold civil war. This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it. He famously said in February 2008 that he sought to fundamentally transform America and one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve.

Barack Obama declared war on America. He declared war on America and instituted our modern American civil war, our cold civil, roiling cold civil war. This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it. He famously said in February 2008 that he sought to fundamentally transform America and one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve.

And we saw this time and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney general, use so-called disparate impact theory.

And we saw this time and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney general, use so-called disparate impact theory.

That was kind of the predecessor to Ibram X. Kendi and anti-racism, whether it was all the foreign policy nonsense with the Iran deal. Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that he infamously called bitter clingers. that Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to as deplorables.

That was kind of the predecessor to Ibram X. Kendi and anti-racism, whether it was all the foreign policy nonsense with the Iran deal. Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that he infamously called bitter clingers. that Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to as deplorables.

And that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration, or at least three and a half years or so, until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there. And then we got peak woke.

And that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration, or at least three and a half years or so, until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there. And then we got peak woke.

The past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency, this was peak woke, Andrew, peak woke. He literally chose a vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, because she was a quote unquote woman of color.

The past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency, this was peak woke, Andrew, peak woke. He literally chose a vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, because she was a quote unquote woman of color.

He literally chose his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Katonji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote unquote woman of color.

He literally chose his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Katonji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote unquote woman of color.

Time and time again, as folks like Chris Ruffo have reported, they weaponized all of the various instrumentalities of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so-called DEI, to overtly discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks, Hispanics, and so forth there.

Time and time again, as folks like Chris Ruffo have reported, they weaponized all of the various instrumentalities of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so-called DEI, to overtly discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks, Hispanics, and so forth there.

And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years, this was the moment that woke reached, I think, its apotheosis. It's been slayed. It's been slayed because Donald Trump, Andrew, adopted a mentality to go back to the morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago. He adopted an old Reaganite mantra.

And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years, this was the moment that woke reached, I think, its apotheosis. It's been slayed. It's been slayed because Donald Trump, Andrew, adopted a mentality to go back to the morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago. He adopted an old Reaganite mantra.

And what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was asked for his approach to the Cold War, and he came into power in 1980, coming off the 1970s. You had differing opinions in the 1970s. There was Henry Kissinger in Dayton. There was kind of the Cold War hawks back then. Ronald Reagan famously said that his approach to the Cold War, we win and they lose.