Nick Freitas: The One Prayer President Trump Needs Today

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What is the purpose of this special episode and who are the hosts?

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Mike Slater 0:15
Thanks for listening to Politics by Faith. This is part two of our special about what is MAGA after Donald Trump. Couldn't be more impressed with Nick Fritos here and then we'll wrap up with Psalm seventy five.
Mike Slater 0:34
Welcome back to Politics by Faith. Special today, The Future for MAGA. I'm wanna go to the great Nick Fritas. He's the host of Making the Argument podcast on the Blaze and author of The Man Book, a point by point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done. Nick, how you doing, brother? Doing well. Thanks for having me on. You got a uh pot or a um documentary coming out about immigration that I wanna talk about as well in just a minute. Make sure that people watch that too. But first, uh let's go to the very beginning about the future of MAGA. What is MAGA? W and now we're I don't know, what are we, ten years into it or so? Eleven years? Wha what is it?
Nick J. Freitas 1:12
You know, I I think it's it's one of those things that we've never quite fully defined. And and so a lot of it has been vibes. But but if I if I had to try to quickly define it, it would be the idea that we want to prioritize uh America as a nation, as a culture, and as a people with respect to our public policy, with respect to our foreign policy. And so as we're looking at it it's people that actually believe in the greatness of America, but we believe it not simply because uh we we Maybe the wealthiest nation or the most militarily powerful nation, but we believe that we are those things because of the unique culture. uh that exists within the United States, the the recognizing our dependence upon God, recognizing that we are beautifully and wonderfully created in the in the image of God.
Nick J. Freitas 1:54
And because of that, we believe in things like individual liberty. We believe in rugged individualism, but we also believe in a very, very strong sense of family and community. We believe in private property rights, freedom of exchange, freedom of inquiry. But we also place a great deal of emphasis on personal responsibility. And so when I look at all those things, which I think are are distinct American traits, I think what MAGA represents is kind of a reorientation of our politics to once again recognizing that that's what makes us great, wanting to make sure that that is protected and advanced within our policy fields. Um, and by the same token, recognizing that there are elements not just external to our country, but internal to our country that don't believe those things.
Nick J. Freitas 2:35
And would like to fundamentally alter the United States. So MAGA is both uh looking forward to something that we're or looking back to something that we want to preserve and and to once again making it great again at the same time that we understand that it's opposition to the people that would try to fundamentally alter this country in a way that it was never designed to be.
Mike Slater 2:53
Well, that's an unbelievable answer. Uh I love how you didn't start off with a policy.

How does Nick Freitas define the core principles of the MAGA movement?

Mike Slater 2:58
You started off with bigger principles and vision and culture. Why?
Nick J. Freitas 3:03
That's what our founders did. Uh, you know, we we like to we kind of like to gloss over uh the religious nature of of the founders and how important uh Christianity was to the founding. But when you actually look at not just the federal constitution, but the state constitution, when you look at the conversations that took place between the founders long before they were quoting uh, or at least not to the same uh, you know, they they were quoting the Bible far more than they were quoting Montesquieu or Locke or Blackstone. That's not to say that those Those people weren't incredibly influential. You know, the founders understood what Polybius was trying to say when he was trying to prevent the concentration of power and trying to get the best out of the various methods and modes of government.

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