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Chapter 1: How is culture impacting politics today?
Well, folks, it turns out that when it comes to getting things done, the image of the thing matters an awful, awful lot. And this is something Democrats have understood for a very long time, that the image that any particular department gives off has a cultural impact. There are people like me who learned from Andrew Breitbart who said that politics is downstream from culture. But the truth is.
It's more of a cycle. It's more that politics is downstream of culture, which is downstream of politics, which is downstream of culture. What I mean by this is that politics, the power of government, can in fact shape culture to its own whims. And so if you give off an image of DEI or ESG, From the government, you create an unofficial sanction against people who disagree.
Sometimes you have actual formal strictures against people who disagree. In other words, the government does an awful lot to shape culture in this country. This is something the left has understood for a very long time in a way that the right traditionally has not. And that includes people like me.
Because I tend to believe that the government should have a set of delegated powers, and the government performs those delegated powers, and we elect that government. So really, culture should shape – our politics should shape our governance. But the truth is it works the other way, too.
And this is a point that many people on the MAGA right have been making for a long time, is that when you have, for example, a defense department that decides that it's going to put out ads that feature – lesbian families finding themselves, that this actually has an impact on the kind of people who are recruited into the military.
And that in turn has an impact on how people think of the military. And that in turn has an impact on how people around the world think of the United States. And they're not wrong about this. That's obviously true. The reason I say this is because now nature is healing and things are going back to normal, and it's starting with governmental action.
Now, you can say that culture led to that governmental action. You can say that the culture in the United States changed. There was a backlash against the insane, radical left-wing wokeism of the last decade and a half. in the United States. And that is why President Trump was reelected. It's why he has a conservative Supreme Court.
It is why he has a Republican-led Senate and a Republican-led House. And all of that is true. But it is also true that now that the cycle has begun, now that culture has shaped politics, politics is shaping culture again. Perhaps the tip of the spear in this battle is the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
So again, remember, the Defense Department, when we were growing up, when I was a mere child, the Defense Department was all about the idea that America was winning wars, a battle machine made up of strong, particularly men, who were going to go into difficult places and do things that no one wanted to see them do in order to keep America safe. That was always the image of the military.
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Chapter 2: What changes is Pete Hegseth making in the military?
Okay, I do love the idea that it is greedy and grubby to go into government and cut it. That's what he's doing. He's going in and he's making cuts. And they're saying, oh, that's so greedy of Musk. I mean, look at him being all greedy. By cutting? I'm going to need an explanation for how him cutting the federal spending initiatives, cutting waste, fraud, and abuse is somehow an element of greed.
I'm going to need an explanation. Democrats are barking up the wrong tree, but this is desperation because, again, they are losing control over the institutions they themselves built. Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, they keep looking for good acronyms for what DOGE is supposed to be, and they keep failing. So you heard there something about, you know, grabbing everything.
And now here's another version. They're going to need to come up with something better. It's not good.
Every time you hear DOGE... The Department of Government Efficiency. You just remember, it is the Department of Government Evil.
Government Evil? They're literally cutting the government. It seems to me the Department of Government Evil is very often just called the government. In just a moment, we'll get to Democrats and their continued attempt to foster a constitutional crisis, largely through judges. I mean, they're actually doing some pretty incredible things via the judiciary that are totally unconstitutional.
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Because the executive branch is being cut by the executive branch. Well, now the New York Times has an article titled Trump's actions have created a constitutional crisis. Scholars say my favorite type of news piece from the New York Times and like minded institutions. What they do is they have a premise. The premise is Trump bad. Then they go find an expert who says Trump bad.
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