Constitutionalism Versus Nationalist Populism

It's all quiet in the underground bunker Doors closed, loocks bolted. But the great one isn't just resting on his laurels. He's making sure your weekend is even better by giving you his best. This is the best of Mark Loin You know, I got a phone call. I'm not going to get into detail Fr one of the federal agencies and they said, Mrter Levin, I said, yes said What the hell did I do? They said nothing. We came across something, we want to bring it to your attention If you find anything weird happening on your internet on your mail or whatever Give us a heads up. Okaykay, I'm giving you a heads up. You know who you are out there They just blew out my entire email. They being Iran, of course No, can you prove it, Mark? Heather, how can I prove it? Everything was working fine. The show begins. We've had this problem from time to time And you know, they have their little urchins out there working away And I've tried many ways to block this, but I'm unsuccessful at it. Let me start this way I want to congratulate All the people pat themselves on the head and pat themselves on the back on the internet They've finally figured out this marriage between Marxism and Islamism that you and I have been talking about. How long? Rich? I don't even know years and years We're not going to go back and bore you with the audio and so forth, but it was very, very. Lonely out here. I don't really care And not that you will and not that you should, but for reference. If you look at my last three books American Marxism which sold about one point three to one point four million copies or the Democrat partarty hates America where I explain the Democrat Party's role in this radicalism or my last book on power All these books are intended to be basically chapters in a massive book, which of course you can't possibly read or I certainly can't write it that way. And what's going on now, America is this. What's going on in your country And again, we've talked about it, but I'm trying to figure out ways to highlight it and underscore it and put a mark here around it and so forth and so on This Marxist movement, this American Marxist movement, and I called it an American Marxist movement becausecause it has been customized to America, that is Marxism We've gone through the whole history of it, till I'm blue in the face progeny of Mx, which is the so called self identified progressives. They are American Marxists. and go back to Woodrell Wilson and several others that I've written about and we've talked about in the past They did not like the American system. They rejected the Declaration of Independence. They rejected the Constitution of the United States And so apply this redistribution of wealth presser Oressed and on and on. all these All these approaches Not because the people want them, not because this is some kind of a bottom up revolution No, because the elitist want it. The ruling class wants it and they've imposed it on us And most of it through the Democrat Party becausecause the Democrat Party has never really accepted Americanism Constitutionalism It just never has and it still hasn't That's why the rise of so called Democratic socialists within the Democrat Party. That's why the rise of Marxists within the Democrat Party. That's why the rise of radical Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran supporting Islamists. in the Democrat partarty You don't see it in the Republican Party. I'm not giving a pass to the Republican Party. We see other things We see other things. We see the woke Reich It's not R I G H T. It's R E I C H. These are neo fascists These are authoritarians And just like with Marxist, when everybody was calling the progressives and socialists. and I said over and over and over again on Fox on this station. Radio. Stop calling them socialists, stop calling them progressives. stop calling them Democratic socialists Marxister, if you prefer communist Tall them by what they are And now everybody does. And that's very, very important Islamists Stop calling them radical Muslims, St calling them this of. They're Islamists. They self identify as Islamists They are jihadis. That's what they are And they're in our country by the thousands, by the tens of thousands Since at least after World War two, there was a big push as Europeans came into this country, particularly from Germany Pushing this ideology of communism. No, don't get me wrong. I've already explained W Jrew Wilson and so forth embrace this They embraced it John Dewey embraced it And they promoted it the more virulent kind The nineteen forties, thirties, forties The Frankfur Communists and so forth and so on. they imported it into the United States. importorted it into the United States. Look and others Cse. German It's not Americanism because Marxism rejects The Judeo Christian belief system. It rejects all religion It rejects all social institutions even the nuclear family That's why these radical teachers unions and their school boards want to make decisions about your children without your parents Marx specifically says in the Communist manifesto, you've got to break that social chain And religion, he says is mysticism and gets into the way of advancing the people and on and on and on. And then we have This Islamist movement. So how did this happen It happened Because whether it's the when you look in Europe, the Labor partarties, the Liberal parties, the left wing parties in Europe Our Democrat partarty in America They laid the way for the importation into this country of the Third worldld. That's what they did Immigration is supposed to be about bringing people into the country who will benefit the citizens who are here to transform the country, not to destroy the country, not to change the makeup of the citizenship of this country. yet those are the three reasons we have open borders when we do which Trump has shut But I fear the damage has been done And they exploit our due process rules, our Bill of Rights, our constitutional system while attacking them That's the beauty of their revolution They can use the greatness of the American system to destroy the American system And so the Marxists ped the way for the Islamists. Now you might say, but Islamists they believe in Allah and Marxists don't believe in a God Of course you're right But they have a single enemy, the same enemy, and it's the West. It's us They'll work out the details after they destroy us. They'll kill each other. We've seen it before But that's not where their heads are at. theirir heads are at Number one mission, you must destroy the West You must conquer it For the Marxist, you must destroy it For that ideology, for the Islamist, you must destroy it for their political religious ideology, their fundamentalistm Because Americanism, not nationalism, populism and all the other isms Americanism is not an experiment. I hate when people, the American experience. It's not an experiment It's truly the only humane way. for a civilized people to survive. That's what it is That's what it is Now these have converged on us The Marxists monopolize our universities and colleges, particularly those that are considered Ivy Lague And the hiring of I've written about all this, but everybody can read the book, so I'm explaining it. The faculty Hi's the faculty now? It's completely incestuous And so you have almost no conservatives. Almost done Academic freedom they call it, which of course, is the opposite It's brainwashing, it's propaganda. It's strong arming, it's thuggish. And so you have more and more young people born in our own country. in our own country who hate it? because they're indoctrinated. And if they're not indoctrinated in school, they're indoctrinated online with foreign governments and Bots and all the rest of it They are relentlessly, relentlessly hit with this So if you're If you're Joe and Sally and you work all day and you come home and your kids going and sing, you're going, what the hell's going on? It's because they are being brainwashed when they're not Under your tutelage. They're being brainwashed They're being brainwashed online They're being brainwashed in a social circles And then you have the Islamist who're being imported into this country And because of our Horrendous immigration laws. And you watch what the Supreme Court does tomorrow You watch what it does with birthright citizenship And I'll get to that in a minute too This is a strategic effort by a political, ideological fundamentalist releligious cult. that uses immigration strategically, that uses population locations strategically that has figured out how to exploit our primary and general voting systems Let' figure out how to exploit our bill of rights It makes it a thousand times harder to remove them than to bring them here That's why there's a war on ice Not because they're wearing masks for God's skes They all forced us to wear a mask five years ago Now all of a sudden Now all of a sudden it's frightened to everybody These two What you might think are divergent ideologies The means justifies their ends They're together likeike a hand in a glove when it comes to the destruction of the Judeo Christian belief system. and the Elightenment principles that make this such a fantastic and wonderful society But then we have a third problem That's converged here And it's the woke right neo fascist You know who they are. I've been a war with them for what? A year and a half. Aain Warned over and over and over. Don't do that Mark. You'll hurt your listenership. You'll hurt your viewership, you'll hurt your sponsors And then the and then the quizzlings behind my back Keep it up, Mark, you're doing a great job. You're doing a great job, who do nothing and say nothing Now I think we all realize That they are attacking Christianity. They are attacking Judaism. They are anti Semitic. they are pro pututant. They're pro Sharia law. That's who these people are Some of them are hanging ono Republican positions into the administration into the media. We know who they are We know who they are You're here because you want to know what's going on and I'm here to tell you what's going on Of course, they're attacking Jews Of course they're attacking Israel. Of course they're attacking Christian Zionists and evangelical Christians. What holds this country together is the Judeo Christian belief system The Marxists don't believe in the Judeo Christian belief system. The Islamists don't believe in the Judeo Christian belieelief system. So we're under attack The Constitution protects us from them So it's under attack The Declaration of Independence, which we're about to celebrate on july fourth lays out lays out in the most concise, brilliant form imaginable. What we're all about And they're incompatible with Marxism and Islamism As I used to explain to Charlie Kirk, as I used to explain to anybody who would listen incompatible because they seek to destroy us. They seek to destroy it H That it. As America celebrates two hundred and fifty years of independence, we're reminded that freedom is a blessing and a responsibility. America and Israel share a unique bond of friendship rooted in faith, freedom, democracy, and the belief that every person is created with dignity and purpose. 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Something I hope you'll Fine, interesting I saw somewhere today and I mentioned this earlier that JD Vance had mentioned he prefers Hamilton to Mt to Milt a Freeman Well a lot of liiberals like Hamilton. Remember the play Hamilton that was in New York? Maybe it's still there They loved it Because in modern parliance, he's considered the big liberal bigig central government liberal. And he and Jefferson hated each other's guts and Matt he and Madison hated each other's guts I'd love to discuss that. We've tried to get JD on and he's tried from time to time They contacted Mr. Producer earlier this week asked about Tuesday at at six hundred forty. The problem with six hundred forty is that gives us five minutes. So we said, how about six hundred thirty five? that gives us ten minutes and they couldn't do it I don't know why Um I mean, if they want to talk, it's going to take more than five minutes. I'll ask one question, it'll take four minutes and that'll be the end of it, right? Rich? I mean, we can't do that. So that's kind of ridiculous Happy to have themem, though. It's a lot to get into, but this is my new interest because of him raising it And u Hamilton is very interesting since he brought it up So the left likes Hamilton The the so called nationalists populist, they like Hamilton I'm a Jeffersonian Madisonian And I know I am and I'll be that way for the rest of my life Let's talk about this I'm looking up the section here that I wanted to read to you of my book on powerower The most important little book, I think in twenty years. Let's look at this Let's look at the most influential founders, Alexander Hamilton His notion about liberty and the role of government often conflicted with Jefferson's and Madisons Indeed, it turns out that Hamilton is among the most popular, if not the most popular founder, among those who today support a more centralized iv his govern There's good reason for this Hence the popularity of Hamilton the Broadway musical, especially with the elites in entertainment, media and politics among others, and most academicians examxamining Hamilton, I begin with Madison who wrote in Federalist forty five the powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined Those which try to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite Madison wrote the formmer will be. exercise principally on external objects as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce with which the Last, the power of taxation will be for the most part connected too the states Powers reserved to these several states will extend to all objects which in the ordinary course of affairs concernning the lives, liberties and properties of the people in the internal order improvement and prosperity of the state. So you can see that Madison, like Jefferson likeike so many the foundoundist believe in a very limited central government. Now this was the overwhelming view of those who I'm getting this from my book on power just so you know This was the overwhelming view of those who drafted and ratified the Constitution Obviously, Hamilton fought for the Constitution's ratification along with Madison and to a lesser extent, John Jay He wrote the pro Constitution Federalist papers. Nonetheless It is important to recall That as the constitutional that at the constitutional convention, Hamilton, according to Madison's notes on the proceedings. clearly demonstrated his affinity for a powerful central government Is that what you folks favor And if so, what's happened to you powerful central government can turn against you on a dime consonsider that he proposed that his Hamilton, quote, letting one branch of the legislature hold their places for life or at least during good behavior Executive also be for life Anybody here support that appeal to the feelings of the meembers present This is Madison writing Whether a term of seven years would induce the sacrifices of private affairs, which an acceptance of public trust would require os to ensure the services of the best citizens On this plan, we should have in the Senate a permanent will awaiting interest Which would answer essential purposes. So a permanent president Hamilton's idea was quickly dropped as it had almost no support. Professor Raell Berger, one of the greats in his book Federalism, the Fers design did more than Most to delve deeply into the matter of implied, this is important, implied and conversely expressed powers That's crucial to determining how much liberty actually exists within democracies The exercise of implied powers is too frequently an abusive exercise an unauthorized power. Oh, that power is implied. No, it's not. Oh yes, it is Central to the constitutional scheme, Reitzberger was restriction of the federal government to few defined and limited powers and assurances the state's residuary powers would be In valuable He explains that in federalist number thirty three, it was Hamilton who sought to ease any concerns that states have had to the Constitution that they were establishing. a federal government. that would reach outside its expressed powers. Hamilton wrote, and I quote, What is power but the ability or faculty of doing a thing. What is the ability to do a thing but the power of employing the means necessary to its execution What are the proper means of executing such power but necessary and proper laws Madison stated, Witzbererger, that the clause gives no supplementary powers It only enables them to execute the delegated powers. So in other words, Hamilton saying Hey, look, what's the big deal I need whatever power I need I should get and take whatever power I need to execute as I'm free to execute Madison says, wait a minute No You get no supplementary power. You do only what you're allowed and delegated to do Moreover, this was the clear understanding in the state ratification Conventions, the plain text of Article one, Section A Clause eighteen of the Constitution refferred to as the necessary and proper clause, this is what leftists hang their hat on to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers No other powers vested by this cononstitution in the government of the United States. Professor Berger observed that The records make plain that the necessary proper cllause was merely designed. specifically authorizing the employment of means to effectuate to carry into execution, granted powers and granted powers only augment them And they strongly read against the doctrine of Applied powers Imlied powers, which means anything you want it to mean, right? So to be clear, Congress was not granted discretionary power by way of implied powers to legislated will Despite Hamilton's assurances He believed energetic central government. He was doggedly committed to this end. as a close confidant of President George Washington, as Treasury seecretary So putting aside his eloquent defense of the Constitution during the crucial state ratification debates Subsequently after that, it appears Hamilton had different intentions once the state legislature has adopted the document For example, in seventeen ninety one at the request of Washington and in defense of the constitutionality, the proposed bank of the United States which was vehemently opposed by both Jefferson and Madison. Hamilton wrote in part It is not denied that there are implied as well as expressed powers and that the former implied powers are as effectually delegated as the latter And for the sake of accuracy, it shall be mentioned that there is another class of powers which may be properly dominated resting powers It is conceded that implied powers are to be considered delegated equally with expressed ones. Now that's obviously not the case He said this restrictive interpretation of the word necessary of necessary and proper clause is also contrary to this sound maxim of construction, namely that powers contained in a constitution of government, especially those which concern the general administration of the affairs of the country, its finances Trade and defence, etca are to be construed liberally An advancement of the public good This role does not depend on the particular form of government or on the particular demarcation of the boundaries of its power. but only on the nature of the object of government itself. So you get the rest. I'm not going to read it all, but it's pretty bad See, I'm not a Hamiltonian And when JD says he is a Hamiltonian, this is very, very interesting to me and I think That ought to be a point of discussion And, you know, they'll say, well, he favor the bank and he saved our financials. So what We know that's true, but he believed in more than that. That's just the That's the short explanation. There's much more here. Hamilton argued for a tatonic shift away from the near universal understanding of the Cstitution structure which drew the strong ire both Jefferson and Madison and among others And they argued that Congress had no power to create such a national bank that it was the role of the states to create banks if they so desired They were furious with Hamilton's assertion of implied powers in his expansive reading of the Constitution, especially when they had conveyed exactly the opposite in the federalist papers and in the arguments in the states to ratify the Constitution The debate over how to interpret the Constitution erupted early in the Republic and it would only get more intense Not only would the manner of interpretation be disputed, but also Who should interpret the Constitution and had the final say. And I go on there dealing with Marshall So Hamilton was relatively radical early on in breaking away from the confines of the Constitution And this is the problem with so called nationalism populism They have slogans. America first thingsings of that sort. But what are their principles? What are their governing principles? What are Political principles. What are they And this is where the overlap, if you will. occurs with the left There's nothing new with this sort of paleoconservative or nationalist populist ideology. It's been tried before goinguring various courses, cycles in our history But is that what you are or you a constitutional concern? I mean, if we have Republicans who believe that a powerful central government is the way to go, and you have Democrats believing it also, then where does I leave us? This is why you have people who are huge fans of Theodore Roosevelt. I think the president is a fan of Theodore Roosevelt. I think The vice Pident others are too, I am not Theodore Roosevel was a progressive By his own definition, When he ran third party againgst Tafton Wellils and he ran on the Progressive Party. They called it the Bll Moose partarty, but it was the Progressive partarty. And he wrote a very extensive article in the New Republic back then in the early nineteen hundreds which laid out the case for effectively a quasi socialist economy I'm telling you the truth The reason they wanted to get him the hell out of New York is governors because he was rad fairly radical Interventionist So I'm not look, I respect him a lot. H presidency, the man was shot. You know And he kept giving his speech and so he's a remarkable man. He was a great war hero too. So don't get me wrong. I'm just saying it's not on my top of the list and yet for many people he is particularly those who are so called nationalist populists. The Constitution exists for a reason. It's not just if you're Republican or a Democrat or You're national populist or a Marxist Islamist, it's there to protect you and me from all these people all their ideas all ideologies There's a gentleman God who wrote GA D GAAD, I'm sorry. He was on the program and wrote a book called suicidal empathy It's a great book But it's built on the notion that Montescu talked about that we've talked about here too where he's warning about so called virtuous people And he explains, it's not the only one but prominently so during the Enlightenment Montesquieue explains you got to keep an eye on the people who want to use government to pursue virtue because they' virtue may not be what you think virtue is And they are so righteous and so self confident about their ideas about virtue. said to become a grave, grave threat. CS Lewis warned about the same thing The same thing Virtue Now they're virtuous people doing virtuous things. That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about politicians who want to use government in ways They become almost impossible to question or match or check or whatever. Keep in line We want equality We want affordability We want to low prices. Oh great. What does all that mean? if you're a politician? mean It could mean a number of things And so he was right So I side with the Jeffersonians and the Madisonians One, the author of the decclaration, the first draft, the other the follow the Constitution And I do not side with Hamilton. It's not to say he didn't do some good things. I mean, a lot of people who I disagree with have done some good things. That's not the point point is what things pushing, what's their ideology? what's their objective, generally And a lot of what Hamilton was preaching was very This evening From my perspective. Buck Oin What would you do if your online store converted thirty six percent more shoppers? You could take thirty six percent more vacation, another pina Corada? Yes, please. 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We have you know it's become a tourism birthing tourism, they call it, you know a trend where people would just come and you just come onto the soil and have your child and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else. It's been abused. It's one of those things that was intended to serve a noble and important purpose and has been thwarted and and overused and abused. And so I'm sure that we'll continue to look at that I'm sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be that you got to have you got to amend the Constitution to fix that. As we all know, it's a big challenge to amend the cononstitution. It's only happened twenty seven times in our whole nation's history. And the reason is because you got to have two thirds of the both chambers of Congress and three fourths of the states to ratify, it's usually you at least many years long process and very complicated. We'll see. I'm sure there's going to be lots of discussion about that. I will say I'm very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we'll have to deal with it as a Cgress. be difficult to doal it. I can tell that right now They constitutionalize this. You hear people making stupid comments. Let's amend the Constitution. o As long as you have Democrats in the House and Senate, you're not going to get two thirds votes of the House or the Senate, plus the rhino Republicans to do anything As for a statute, the statute can't change the core fact now This has been constitutionalized. Statutes don't change the Constitution as you well know. So we'll see what What can be done on the periphery on the fringe, but the heart of it is the heart of it Han Piker is a low life. He's a Jew hater. He is a terror supporter. is part of these Islamist Marxist movements. He was born in the United States. He is a birthright maybe or was Brought to Turkey, where he was radicalized and then brought back to the United States and uh He's just a little example of what's going to happen and is happening to our country with this nonsense And here he is on this issue as well. Cut five go This is such an insane And fundamentally un American comies. I really get sick and tired of Islamist comis tellell us what is un American Don't you They hate America They hate our cononstitution. This is what I always talk about. Yet now they're going to wave around the fourteenth Amendment, the ruling by Roberts and his ellk on the court Wave it around as some great victory when in fact, their whole goal is to burn down The entire constitutional cronstuct of the country. Go ahead I cannot begin to explain this to you, okay? Ellis I shut up. I don't want to hear your stupid voice You make me sick to my stomach Mhm I don't know, by now you probably saw this hearing Michael Aller I like Mike Lawler a lot. You don't have to agree with him on everything, but I agree with him on a lot. He's just a good guy. He's in a marginally, Blue Democrat district We have to carry districts like his in New York and other places or we can't win Oh But he's a smart guy. He's a principple guy. He's a fighter And there he is. they're on this committee They have The Gorn family, Gorman family there, among others And you have this low life Jayapa This is our fourth hearing on the subject of these of these families and what took place or. We could be focused on other things like, you know, health care and food. and there's the poor woman sitting there and you probably saw this on Fox and elsewhere. They lost their beautiful daughter. She was shot in the head She literally ran for forty feet. while this animal chased her and executed her. And she's saying, what could she have said in the forty feet? callalling out to her mommy, calling out to her daddy, calling out for help, knowing that she was going to be gunned down. Can you imagine? Ladies and gentlemen, can you imagine this happening to your family? Can you imagine going through this nightmare every damn second of every day Without your baby anymore The inhumanity of the Democrats. They don't want to talk about it. It's the fourth time. We're not going to talk about this And by the way, one of the things that's never been said about this birthright crack. And these open borders The inhumanity that A has involved in all these years withith hundreds of thousands of missing children and women sold into sex slavery Cut seven, go, Mike Lawler So while some of my colleagues may not want to hear the truth, The same outrage you feel about Renee Good and Alex Prety sh about Sharon Gorman and Lop right here. So this is Jayia Paal trying to shut them down. She's the head of the comi wing of the Democrat, but they call themselves progressive. That's comy. herear progressive it's comy And then Raskin Wh's? whose father was a big time Stalinist and started the Institute for Policy Studies Go ahead and Google it G and Google These are two big time comies, two big time comies. goo ahead very anual family in this country I do feel that outrage. You do not. do you Be if you did, do you support you feel the outrage about Alex beate yourself. You should you should be ashamed. You don't belong this committee. You should get the hell out of disgrace. You don't understand thege committeeace. You don't understand the consecration mister of mister in handackful of disgrace supporting the whole are. one word about Get rid of wor about Alex I did I wrote a whole New York Times opet about it. You should be absolutelyly yourselfosing sanctuary policies that resulted in their going. The committee will be in order. mis. Chairman, I just want to say we will have sh Shut up, you Jekus. Y victims family members testifying on sanctuary policies he's whining about This is the fourth hearing. Go ahead on that one. cut eight, please go. Unfortunately, this hearing is' the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. the fourth time And there's many other things that we could be doing other than this I would have loved to have had some hearings on the unconstitutionality of the presresident's executive order on eliminating birthright citizenship. This is something that the Supreme Court just ruled today in a six three majority. So why would you need a hearing, genius Go ahead. And yet this is understand. Understand Jessica Gorman, the mom of Sheridan Gorman, who was executed by this animal. is sitting there with her husband and her other daughter, her younger daughter as are other individuals whose children were murdered. Due to sanctuary city policies in blue cities and states. And she's listening to this woman complain. This is our fourth hearing. Go ahead that causeed so much fear and trauma across the country. We could have been discussing that Well, here's the response from Jessica Gorman, this poor mother is going through Unimaginable hell Cut nine go And in what world does the child who spent her life making sure no one was lonely Die terrified and alone on a peer in Chicago. In what world does the girl who saw everyone become invisible to the people in power responsible for protecting her? This cannot be explained away and it cannot be buried beneath a list of unrelated issues that you all paraded before us. Thanks for telling me without telling me that You know, you're here, but you don't want to be. This is the fourth this is the fourth time you had Angel families. Thanks for telling me you don't care This cannot be buried under your slogans, your statistics or excuses, and this just can't stand You feel the agony and you share it don't you Tear up just listening to this poor mother This family's been destroyed All over the country this takes place all over the country And the Democrats are nominating and electing in their primaries. Communists Islamist with ties to Hamas? indndividuals who are talking about destroying the state of Israel, Individuals are talking about nine eleven is a good thing Our country The Democrat Party is nominating these people. They're going to be serving in your United States Congress We have got to inform ourselves. That's why I spent an hour and a half at the beginning of this program. We've got to be the beacons here We've got to help Talk to our family and friends. and acquaintances We don't push back it's over This is our country. We can't rely on other people to do all of our are talking and battling on these things We have to do it Now you and I right here We help strengthen and give birth to the Tea Party movement. You and I right here Help get Birert to with Mark Meler in the in the folks. The Convention of states movement. You and I right here. after the The early primers in twenty sixteen, we all pulled together when we got behind our president now, Donald Trump And we fought for him We fought against the lawfare they were using and the impeachments they were using to try and destroy them And you and I and certainly he and others We were involved in his re election And we're going to have to defend him again because they're coming after him and we'll do what we have to do you and I are uniquely positioned Not the internet, not the podcasters. 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What is it that we celebrate and acknowledge on july fourth? two hundred and fifty years ago We had delegates sent from the colonies to the secondecond Continental Congress in Philadelphia On july fourth They issued a declaration a declaration stating why They were prepared to go to war for their independence from the British Empire the most powerful military force The planet The men who would sign this document We're signing a death warrant The British were actually very brutal Very brutal if they caught any of them They would have hanged them. It also meant their families were on the line, their farms and businesses were on the line. Very, very brave men and men I should say. And even so, only about forty percent of the population supported them About thirty percent did not about thirty percent We're neutral But what was it about july fourth that was so special The Declaration of Independence. Okay, big deal, right The big deal is this. Never before. Never before had a document contained They kind of phhilosophy about individualism. and about humanity a representative government Never before in all of human history was a country Pople Willing to go to war Over these beliefs? These beliefs came from the Judeo Christian values and principles. They came from the Enlightenment We know this just by reading it. We also know because The main author of the first draft of the declaration said so Thomas Jeffers At least men didn't agree on all matters. Some were agarian, some were more City like and and so forth, but they agreed on the principles on the principles What makes this especially remarkable and rare They're prepared to go to war. Not for power They were prepared to go to war. for liberty and not just their own liberty but for the liberty of all the inhabitants of America What did they say? They weren't bashful about what they believed They've talked about unalienable rights. What does that mean that these are Rite said or not subject to government Not subject being removed or destroyed. because they're God given unalienable rights as a matter of birth This was a new idea This was a grand idea It's an idea that came from John Locke, among others And what else what else was it about this Declaration of independence was an acknowledgement. that the civil society pre existed before any government this civil society with the social contracts. where individual citizens freely. C together to form a society Protect each other to do commerce with each other We've never seen anything like this before Ever They talked about natural rights and natural law. What in the world is that Natural rights and natural law This underscores their point that the right to have Don't come for man. They come from nature, they come from God natural laws of the law of the civil society Again, predate Chini government They talked about These truisms These essential truths Whatuchs an essential truth It's something that's true No matter where you live, no matter who you are For instance The golden Rule do to others as you would have them do unto you. That's not Limited to national boundaries or any government What about the T commommandments Starting with thou shalt not murder. That's a universal truth, is it not? So they come together Be told the Revolutionary War had already actually begun. Boston and New York in other parts of of the colonies And they came together. South Carolina and Georg Massachusetts and New York and Pennsylvania Virginia. They came together And in a very short order, they wrote this or agreed to this Declaration of Independence. There were five drafts in all fiveive draves in all We're celebrating on july fourth not just a document We're celebrating The reason, the purpose for this country The Constitution is a governing document It's the most magnificent governing document average drafted by human beings But the Declaration serves It's the principal basis for everything. It's concise And yet It's expansive in its application. The declaration is rejected by Barack Obama used to leave out the part about the creator is mentioned several times in the document It is rejected by Mandami, who's going to do greatve damaged to our celebration because he plans to give a speech I went back when I wrote one of my books, ladies and gentlemen And I looked at the speech that Woodrow Wilson gave on a july fourth, nineteen fourteen Woodrow Wilson was an early American Marxist He'd been a professor, He'd been president of Princeton is a radical ideologue prorogeny of Marks. I wrote American Marxism, so you would understand all that to give a speech on the The steps outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia onn that july fourth essentially eviscerating the document pay attention to the first part the declaration, he essentially said pay attention to the second half of the document You see the first half of the document lays out the purpose for the revolution and the purpose for the nation The second half is a list of grievances against the king. Widel Wilson said, L Back then In seventeen seventy six These colonists, these Americans They had their own issues And they espouse them and The key is that they raised all these These concerns with the king And he said, look We're new. nineteen fourteen We have our own issues, we have our own problems, our own Our own society We have a right just as they did to assert what we believe the country is about We're not required to parrot and mimic what they said in seventeen seventy six on july fourth, and he says it again in front of Independent Saul in nineteen fourteen. And so they go to the list of grievances and I suspect Mond Dami and the others will do it because they don't believe in the first part. the Declaration If you're a Marxist and an Islamist, you can't. because your ideology is not about It's not about the founding of America s not about declaration and the principles that undergd it But you're more than happy to regurgitate the list of the problems that they presented to the king because that's what it's all about, you see Pase Fundamental principles, No, no, fundamental beliefs and values. No, we're rejecting those It's about all the problems you want to raise with society and government. That's the focus Not long thereafter Another president Coolidge great Great Pident He gave a speech almost at the exact same spot as Woodrow Wilson in front of Iependence Hall about the Declaration of Independence And he basically condemned Wilson and condemned what Wilson said And Coolge said These are not old ideas. These are not ideas just for one generation of Americans These are universal These are ideas that should exist in perpetuity They go back to Aristotle They go back to lock They're not to be dismissed for some kind of a newew ideology This is our founding belief system. Declaration of Indend. So Coolidge basically used the opportunity to straight now Wilson. When Barack Obama spoke He did the same thing Wilson did Because you know, they all their little cheat sheets, they see what the prior Marxists have said The Declaration of Independence is the most concise substantive ingenious statement. of who we are as a people The problem to the Marxist to the Islamists The fascist is that in order to embrace the Declaration of Independence, you must condemn them This is why I've written in two books and I've stated here over and over again And others have regurgitated what I've said a long time ago that these ideologies, they came out of Marx, they came out of The American Marxists that come out of these Islamists. are utterly inc compompatible with Americanism That's why their candidates now openly trash our country. and seek to destroy it, Mug The vin The biggest tournament in soccer is here and I'm already planning my watch parties. 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We're not a democracy And that's a good thing Be we don't want people voting on our property rights, do we We donre't people voting on whether we can keep our income, do we No, remember our declaration we talked about the first hour We have rights that belong to us given to us by God People don't get to vote and take them away or alter them and so forth and so on. So I don't know what populism actually means It was a word that was used in the late eighteen hundreds by socialists Populists. Now what's a nationalist Again, there's some confusion there It's not about Americanism, America first, a nationalist. we have a federal system, right? We have states, state rights, local rights You and I don't want an all powerful central government, do we Well if we do, that's not the Constitution, is it And how does that differ from what the Marxists and these so called democratic socialists are pushing? No, we are constitutional conservatives. So people who Th you who push this stuff are really quite ignorant. We're not nationalists, We're not populists. constitutionalist Now Theodore Roosevelt, veryy interesting. President was at the library Yesterday, I thought it was beautiful. I thought hisech speech was one of the greatest he's ever given, quite frankly. It was hilarious He was very charismatic, He was very substantive and so forth Roosevelt was heroic. B bigger than life He was But he was no conservate Roosevelt pushed what he called a new nationalism And he wrote about it in the New Republic And I wrote about him writing about it in one of my books And I went back and I got a copy of that article, the original, and I read it Roosevelt believed in a very active government firstirst as governor of New York, which is why they wanted to get him the hell out of there, and then as president of the United States His new nationalism was a progressive quote unquote political platform And he introduced it in a speech in Kansas. in nineteen ten He later wrote about it and it was published And it became The foundation for his nineteen twelve campaign, we ran third party in the Bullmoose partarty, but the official name of that party was the Progressive partarty. And he argued vehemently for a much stronger federal government He argued for human welfare over property rights Whatever that meant You argured for Strong regulation of labor, strong regulation of industry As I said, significant federal authority He wanted significantly higher taxes on wealth In other words, much of the left wing agenda that we talk about today wasn't all that different from Woodrow Wilson's agenda Now this may shock some of you, I understand. He called it the new Nationalism I get it But that's what he promoted So when people talk about Theodore Roosebt's one of my favorite presidents, and I get that. I really do You do need to understand that he was really the first so called progressive president And he ran on the Progressive Party Bullmooz Party, third party And as a result of that . the sitting president who had been his vice president and Howard Taft lost Roosevelt lost. And Woodrow Wilson came in a disaster See, my view is we've had enough powerful, centralized govern It's enough already And one day it'll be handed over to the Marxist Islamists. It'll be there for the taking One of the strengths of our system is as was envisioned and originally set up was you don't have all this centralized power except where you're supposed to have it and the power belongs in the state. So it's much more difficult. first say the The Marxis and the Islamist to walk in and have an entire infrastructure ready to go. The Democrats keep pushing that, don't they? National health carere National this, national that, national housing, national that. Yeah, exactly This is a totalitarian mindset So when people push this nationalism, populism, new nationalism They have an obligation, as far as I'm concerned, to explain to us Beyond the generalizations and the slogans What exactly do they mean and what are its limits? and how do we draw those limits, especially When people come to power, who mean us no good. Remember what we've talked about before onn power Remember what Montesquue said in the spirit of the laws. What did he saying Power must check power. When you look at your Cstitution, that's what it's all about seepparation of powers Pers divided between this new federal government and the state government. And then of course power of the individual, the sovereign, each of you. The more you centralize government, I don't care if you make it a populist centralization, a Nationalist centralization, whatever you want to call it. The more you are destroying the entire purpose of this country Declaration The more you were destroying the constitutional limits on power Let's take it one step further Why do we believe That the centralization of power, that nationalism and so forth and so on is a good thing. Why? have critical decisions made by fewer and fewer of our fellow citizens What is it that these fellow citizens of ours have that makes them smarter moreore wise Prudential What is it that they have that's so special? Nothing. Nothing. Why do we keep giving more and more power to Washington, more and more power to In the case of New York mayors goovernors, what is the point? because we don't want to make decisions for ourselves anymore because they're going to make these Righteous Incredible decisions. pololiticians, whyy are they going to do that So this is a problem We're talking about a twenty nine year old that just won a house race in Colorado who barely got out of law school was such a bad lawyer She had to leave the corporation she was working for. a complete failure. She runs for Congress. She gets a elected on the Democrat sides, which means she's going to win. it's Denver you go down the list Why is it that she and a handful of others are more capable of making decisions about your life, your medical care, your housing, everything When she said complete and utter Failure What is it about her O anybody else for that matter That gives him this kind of authority. Now, let's go back to Hamilton. When we have somebody who says I prefer Hamilton to Freedeman These kinds of individuals that I'm talking about this representative soon to be representative in Colorado, she would agree with Hamilton. about implied powers. about necessary and proper powers. to execute Institute Lgs And so what are the limits? There are no limits. There are no limits Nationalism, populism, which to me is socialist like It's not capitalism and it's certainly not Republicanism, small are Repubanism It's not constitutionalism Everybody thinks they're smarter. than Aristotle Cicero. Locke, Montescu, the founding fathers They all think they're smarter Why are they smarter They're not smarter because they managed to get elected to office. they're smarter No Mans they managed to get elected to office That's all. You know, the opinion of most politicians in this country is very low and yet we are willing to confer on them Choices about our healthcare, choices about our educational system, choices about on and on and on why. Why is that? What were you celebrating on july fourth is our independence. from a monarchy, a dictatorship For what? For our liberty for unalienable rights P individual sovereignty We're not celebrating nationalism and populism We're celebrating Americanism