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

27 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the primal scream of a dying regime?

2.798 - 24.236 Larry Schweikert

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.

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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.

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Chapter 2: How does Larry Schweikert explain his new book's concept?

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

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44.777 - 48.448 Stephen K. Bannon

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

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52.597 - 73.12 Larry Schweikert

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.

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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? When do you stop researching and start writing?

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98.969 - 129.084 Larry Schweikert

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.

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

Chapter 3: What historical insights does Larry Schweikert provide about American exceptionalism?

220.46 - 247.287 Larry Schweikert

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.

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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... for decades.

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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? Exactly.

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Let me give you one of the quickest and easiest observations you can make on how biased these existing textbooks were

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If you come to the post-Civil War period, there is always a section in these textbooks on the building of the transcontinental railroads, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, later the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, and almost without exception, I documented this in another book, my 48 Liberal Lives, but almost without exception, the established historians would come to a sentence where they would say almost this exact line,

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the transcontinental railroads never would have been built without government aid, which is simply a lie, because James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad without a dime of government assistance, and it was a stronger, more powerful, profitable railroad than any of those built with government assistance.

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But that's just an example of where you can look to these existing textbooks, and they don't just massage the truth. Often they just kind of destroy the truth. But you're absolutely right that teaching and writing modern history is incredibly difficult. Our challenge in writing the early parts of American history, Mike Allen and I, our challenge was to find enough sources or the right sources.

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The challenge for writing history in the last 10 years is you're deluged You just have so many sources. You look here, there. The information is out there in galaxy-level amounts. So that becomes the most difficult problem, and you have to apply the law of significance. How many people does this affect over how much time? That's what makes it significant. Walk me back.

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Let's go back to the – because the Patriots' history – when I was in Danbury, I was teaching civics. And, you know, they have a library there. It's actually a pretty good library. Most of the books are, in fact, all the books are by prisoners or prisoners' families. But they've got, it's a pretty, you know, I'm a voracious reader, and it's a really great library.

Chapter 4: How does the Mayflower Compact influence American governance?

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One of the first things I did is go to the library, and they didn't have a copy of the Patriot's History, so I think I ordered three. I kept one for myself, and I put two into the library right away, of which people just devoured. But I needed the book because you give such good overviews.

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So as I was getting into details about the Constitution, the Declaration, and the structure of the government, and

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uh issue these things that most of the prisoners had never really been taught or never had access to because they were quick learners and i will tell you larry they were absolutely fascinated by it i could tell right then that the education system in this country has failed so much because most of the prisoners and most of the prisoners that took my course were african-american or hispanic and uh they had they had a real thirst they had a thirst they want to understand the system um

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As you and Alan – and I started thinking about the book a lot because I've read Patriot's History a couple of times when it first came out and then another time before I got into the Trump campaign. It just happened getting caught up to speed. I think it was in the summer of 15, 16, 15, I think, and when I was in prison.

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What was it that you and Mike Allen – as you sat there, I think you were at the University of Dayton at the time, correct? Yes. Yes. And was Mike at Dayton also? He was a professor. Where was he? Where did he teach? Mike was at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

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We met around 1990 at a Western historical convention, then didn't meet again in person until after the book had been out for almost a year. We wrote the whole book by phone and by email at that time. So that in itself made it kind of...

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kind of interesting and by the way the book is correct me if i'm wrong if it's not the best-selling history book we've ever had it's one of the top two or three best-selling histories that have ever sold in the united states

Chapter 5: What are the challenges of teaching modern history?

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Well, of course, Zen's book, People's History, is probably the bestseller of trade books only because so many college classes picked up Zen's book. However, I did learn that our book, Zen said this, that our book outsold his in his first 10 years versus our first 10 years, which is kind of interesting. Now, once he got picked up by all of the college faculty, he began to take a lead over us.

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But Patriots History of the United States does very, very well for a 1,000-page comprehensive textbook. As you and Alan looked at the way American history was taught at the college level, what are the two or three things in your book that that are different than most things.

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In other words, as you guys went back and said, look, we got to go do it ourselves and got to do all the research and write it because these couple of things are fundamentally wrong and lead students, particularly in those formative years, down the wrong path. What were they? Okay, I'll give you three big ones. First one, as we say in our introduction,

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We don't believe in my country right or wrong, but we do believe that my country is not always wrong. As almost all these other textbooks did, they dwelled on America's faults and minimized all of America's successes. Number two, we introduced the four pillars of American exceptionalism.

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So when you go to teach government or civics, for example, the first two are really relevant, and that is this nation was built on a Christian, mostly Protestant religious tradition that emphasized individual church congregations or congregationalism.

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And the reason that's important is it gave America a bottom-up religious structure that emphasized and worked hand in glove with the second pillar, which is common law, which came over from England, which is a bottom-up political structure. So we had a great deal of practice there. in resisting government.

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I mean, everything from guys burning down the governor's mansions and whatnot to calling out their own militias. You would never have seen that in Australia or Canada. And then the third real thing that we do in the book is that we look at everything. We look at America's faults and failures, but we also look at all of America's successes.

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And there's a great deal of political, military, and economic history in Patriot's history, because my degree was in banking and financial history. So I think you'll get a lot of economic analysis that is not in other books, particularly good economic analysis, I'd like to think. No, I want to make sure I emphasize that. When you read, it is a comprehensive history.

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It reads as a narrative story, and you've got all the personalities and personages. But most time you read a history book, you can tell the professor is a political scientist or he's a professor of political history. So you get the politics with it.

Chapter 6: How does immigration impact the understanding of American history?

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so deeply. But as I can tell you, and I think Trump's the perfect example of that, unless you understand the economics and the underlying economic milieu and the forces, particularly the forces driving the economics and where it's taking you, it's very hard to understand

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the real meaning of politics, besides just counting up who, what party was running and what were their issues and what was the outcomes. That's one of the reasons I, I, I love it. Uh, we got about a minute here and of course you're going to be with us the rest of the time, but in thinking through the book on the 21st century, how did you use, what framework did you use for this?

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Well, as I said, I thought that there was a great deal of irony in so many of the accepted memes that we were seeing at the time, the accepted themes that, um, that Obama was the transformative president of the early 21st century. Bush committed us to a war. I'm convinced that if he had gone into Iraq, looked for WMDs after six or eight months, going, nope, not there, and just left,

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that in fact he probably would have ended up a much more popular president than he was. And then, of course, you have this final third of the period, kind of the last eight years, where you had this struggle between the Trump populist forces and the forces of the elite, something that I think historian Richard Hofstadter would have loved, except he would have looked at it the wrong way.

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The elites now are all entirely on the side of, not entirely, but mostly on the side of the Democrat Party. And the other groups, as we saw in the last election, are starting to move over onto the side of the MAGA movement and the populist movement. Larry, hang on for a second. We'll take a short commercial break. Birch Gold. End of the Dollar Empire.

865.671 - 885.447 Larry Schweikert

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Short commercial break. Back in the warm in just a moment.

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1022.251 - 1046.362 Larry Schweikert

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1067.283 - 1072.187 Larry Schweikert

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1073.078 - 1088.994 Trevor Comstock

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Chapter 8: How does Larry Schweikert view the future of American history and politics?

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1240.579 - 1256.462 Trevor Comstock

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1256.442 - 1271.92 Trevor Comstock

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1291.662 - 1309.639 Larry Schweikert

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