Pete Hegseth

Do you know any Latin words?

I don't know.

Maybe some military Latin words?

I know none.

Did I know the history of Western civilization, say the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, all the things, the revival that happened in America before the revolution that created the fertile ground for the... I didn't learn any of that.

I remember coming home from public school in like 10th grade and saying, Dad, why is Ronald Reagan always the bad guy in the textbooks?

Why is he always the bad guy?

And I grew up in a conservative...

God-fearing, regular old small-town America, Minnesota.

Because the textbooks are written by lefties in New York City.

And they all hate Ronald Reagan.

And I got to read that Ronald Reagan's a bad guy.

Like, this has just been the case for a really long time.

And we've ignored it for too long.

And I do think we're in a huge educational renaissance.

Because it's never the, it's not going to be the,

50% of Americans that wake up.

It's the one, two, 3% that wake up, change course for their kids, they get faithful, they get involved, they grow a backbone, and they fill their kids with goodness and give us a fighting chance.

And that's where my hope lies.

And that's really, if there's a contribution that I hope to have in this world, it's,