Episode 5027: WarRoom Saturday Special: The Patriot's History Of America cont.

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What is the primal scream of a dying regime?

Larry Schweikert 0:02

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

Unknown 0:24

And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

How does Larry Schweikert explain his new book's concept?

Unknown 0:34

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

Stephen K. Bannon 0:44

War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

Larry Schweikert 0:52

Saturday, 27 December, Year of the Lord 2025. Larry Schweikert's my guest. Larry, you have a new book. Anytime that you come out with a new book, it's an event. You've got a new book that's coming out here in a month or two. And you're the author of the famous Patriots History of the United States. You had a couple of additional editions of that. You wrote a book. for War Room on the Patriots' History of Globalization. You've got so many irons in the fire and you understand Trump politics and MAGA as well as anybody. Talk to me about not just the new book, but the concept of it. How did you come to this concept? And people are always fascinated about writers. How long did it take you to do the research?

Larry Schweikert 1:35

When do you stop researching and start writing? We found after the last edition of Patriots History of the United States came out in 2018 that Sentinel was not interested in doing a 20th anniversary edition or updating it in any way, and I felt an obligation to our readers to keep the book current. It is in its 45th printing, and just last week I think we sold 1,700 copies, and it just continues to be a a best-selling book all the time. But since then, I've been researching stuff in case I ever had another edition. And then last year, I decided, well, I'm going to write two more chapters that will bring everything up to 2025 and make them free available to anyone who emails me. So if you're out there and you want the new chapter 23 and the new chapter 24 that go from 2018 to 2025,

Larry Schweikert 2:32

email me at larry at wildworldhistory.com and I'll send you the free copies. I think after, they'll be in PDFs, not the whole book. I'll send you two, three PDFs with the new stuff in it. And I think after we did our show on Thanksgiving, I probably sent out four or 500 of those requests. So I had all this material that I'd been researching and I realized there's a lot of depth that needs to be developed here And the 21st century in particular, I love historical irony, and the 21st century in particular just seems to be rife with historical irony. For example, we start off with a virus, the Y2K bug that turned out not to be anything because the business people took it seriously, and we pretty much end the first quarter century in 21st

Larry Schweikert 3:26

2020 to 2021, with another bug, the China virus. Obama was supposed to be the transformative figure of the 21st century. He's not transformative at all.

What historical insights does Larry Schweikert provide about American exceptionalism?

Larry Schweikert 3:40

Trump is the one that has transformed the first quarter of the 21st century. So the book is full of historical irony, and I would say I researched it off and on, for, I don't know, five or six years, just filing stuff away as it came to me. You know, this would be a neat story to tell, or this is an important thing people need to understand. And talk to me about the 21st century. As a historian, it's always tougher to, I guess, because journalism's called, I think it was Time Magazine that said they were the first draft of history. It's always harder to write it when you're in the moment than able to go back. Like, for instance, when you did Patriot's History, Ewan, is it Mike Allen? You guys had taught history...

Larry Schweikert 4:28

for decades. In fact, one of the reasons you wrote the book is that you couldn't find, as you told me, you couldn't find a history text that you thought was unbiased enough to actually explain the American experience to your students, that they were so biased, had become so left-wing, that you and your co-author finally said, hey, I guess we're going to have to do this ourselves, right?