The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown
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The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't like kings either.
And if that's getting you back in touch with your 1776ness, if, for example, you would say from this lesson that, hey, maybe when my party has the presidency, we will also give the president less power because then he will abuse it in ways that George Washington wouldn't have liked.
I would love that to be a conclusion.
It's not going to be a conclusion at all.
But I will take baby steps towards the direction of actually being happy and proud of the American founding and trying to be rejuvenated by it.
I think we all can benefit from it.
In Portland.
Yeah.
That is incredibly funny.
But to Matt's point, really, really important point of that, particularly going through the whole kind of 1619 era, which was a long era for people who live in certain states and went to certain universities, that this idea that.
America has been one long uninterrupted string of indignities and horrors visited upon X group.
The love of the country, that everything has been great, according to Robert De Niro.
Until now, it's like, good Lord, that's like a Paul Johnson version of American history rather than a Noam Chomsky one.
And just one small point, we didn't save democracy in World War I. We shouldn't have been there.
That was a big mistake.
But World War II is great, but big mistake in World War I. But getting back to that idea that there's something worth saving, but the problem is they don't believe any of this shit.
And the second it's no longer relevant to the points, the protests they're having, the points that they're making, they're going to go back to saying that this country has that original sin and it can never get beyond it, which is the thing that frustrates me.
Yeah, I mean, they're virtually obliged to make an argument.
Because he's disabled and I feel bad.
Then he has to answer it.
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