Pete Hegseth

And so the book was meant to just wake people up to that so that we have a fighting chance in the future and that we have thoughtful, free-thinking, virtuous kids who don't think the world is upside down.

There's a lot of ways we can go there.

Oh my goodness, yes.

Yeah.

So the book, we started the book before COVID.

And then COVID happened and the whole, I mean, we were writing the book and we're like, we can barely keep up with the insanity because COVID brought the classroom into people's homes.

And then they were looking into the Zoom screen of their laptop and they're like, whoa, what is this?

Why are we doing a land recognition?

Or what is the 1619 project?

Or why are we using pronouns?

1619 Project was written by, her name is Hannah Jones.

She's a quasi-academic, wrote something for the New York Times, also wrote a book on it.

And the basic theory is the real founding date of America is not 1776.

The real founding date of America is 1619, when the first slaves were brought to the continent.

And that we should think of America, and not in the spirit of 1776, but in the spirit of 1619, because everything about America is...

stolen from Indians and built on the backs of slaves.

And only understanding the sinful founding of America can you understand how, why we are so, such a terrible country today.

So it's meant to turn the whole thing on its head and say, no, no, no, 1776, white racist dudes who were all basically Christian nationalists or extremists.

And we have to understand it instead through this racial lens.

And you know what it comes back to?