Russ Vought
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409 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Apr
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Because Putin had just invaded and gone over them. We didn't want that, but we knew where this was headed. And that was a long time for us to educate all stakeholders.
I do believe Ukraine should be a litmus test for the national security team, for sure. Well, it hasn't been, unfortunately. Well, it's certainly in terms of getting a read on where someone is, and then you can have whatever conversations you want to have with them.
And it has. And so over time, that coalition, that conversation we're having about what conservatives need, what does conservatism need to be to save the country? Not protecting your little niche within that, but to save the country. You were given resources to do nothing else but to save the country. And that's what your donors are giving.
That conversation on the ideas is why when you come to one of our events with our donors. I hand out books. I don't want you to just necessarily read our policy paper. I'm sure you're going to do that anyways. I want you reading Whitaker Chambers. I want you reading Rusty Reno, Return of the Strong Gods. I want you reading this stuff. We're giving out Pat Buchanan books.
I want the whole conservative movement to be going deep in these books so that you're both enlightened, encouraged, and you come out of fighting force, whether you are the practitioner here in D.C., the funder on the outside. And that's a long-term project, honestly. But I think it's one that's absolutely vital. Yeah.
Yeah, and this has been an undercurrent that has been popped up at times, but is largely suppressed by the Republican establishment and their intellectual praetorian guard, National Review and others. And Pat Buchanan was a major... opportunity for it to punch through. And then Donald Trump really punched through. And now it's ascendant.
And it's about us going back and trying to think through, like, what are some of these viewpoints mean? Like, where were they right? We're wrong. What does it look like in health? What does it look like with AI? What does it look like in all of these different areas? But I think it's primarily remembering that we're individuals. We're with souls. We're a nation. We're not just an economy.
These are the kinds of kind of first building blocks that if you get in place, then you can have a much more coherent, convincing and satisfying public policy life. But ultimately, you know, I think it's like Whitaker Chambers married to Pat Buchanan, married to someone like a Donald Trump. I think that that
movement over time is something that trying to find how to give it flourish in life and institutions and will ultimately be successful in saving the country.
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