Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August twentieth.
Speaker 2: This is the warning the American crisis is deepening, and
Speaker 2: a surefire sign of that is these trucks, the ice
Speaker 2: vehicles protect the homeland.
Speaker 1: Nothing about the country. I wonder when.
Speaker 2: Trump intends to change it to Fatherland and defend the culture,
Speaker 2: what culture would that be?
Speaker 1: What is the American culture? What does it refer to?
Speaker 2: Is it the culture of Pete Hegseath's pastor, a man
Speaker 2: who believes that women should be subordinate, that they should
Speaker 2: be submissive, and that slavery is overstated as an evil.
Speaker 3: This is the first time we've had connections with as
Speaker 3: many people in national government as we do now. But
Speaker 3: this is this is not an ecclesiastical lobbying effort where
Speaker 3: we're trying to meet important people. We're trying to give
Speaker 3: some of these people an opportunity to meet with God.
Speaker 3: Church and the wider network believe in practice the idea
Speaker 3: that men and women have different roles, and women should
Speaker 3: not hold church leadership positions. My wife votes, my daughters vote.
Speaker 3: If people rush to conclusions from what they heard on
Speaker 3: the CNN piece, that's a sad thing. At the same time,
Speaker 3: I think that the nineteenth Amendment was a bad idea,
Speaker 3: and I had no problem with how Pastor Jared answered
Speaker 3: the question. I would support that our issue is not
Speaker 3: a problem with the enfranchisement of women. Our problem is
Speaker 3: with the disenfranchisement of the household.
Speaker 2: Is that the culture, the culture of the Confederate monument,
Speaker 2: the culture that venerates a trader and a hero Robert
Speaker 2: Lee as a patriot, when in fact he was a
Speaker 2: cruel slave master. Is it the idea that January sixth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one was like lexing cannon conquered as opposed
Speaker 2: to an insurrectionist mob attacking the Citadel of Democracy, the
Speaker 2: capital of the United States and assaulting thousands of police
Speaker 2: officers with political extremists chanting killed them, the N word
Speaker 2: being shouted. The violence was real, and it led to
Speaker 2: the deaths of multiple police officers.
Speaker 1: Does it mean accepting.
Speaker 2: The idea that the part in criminals her patriots. Does
Speaker 2: it mean bowing to the idea that masked men snatching
Speaker 2: brown people off of the street are somehow knights in defense,
Speaker 2: not of a nation, not of a constitution, not of
Speaker 2: ideas about the equality of human beings. No, they're cleansers
Speaker 2: of sorts. Cleaning the culture, the filthy inner cities that
Speaker 2: Donald Trump talks about, festooned with the homeless and the
Speaker 2: drug addicted and the brown in the black. That is
Speaker 2: the plain meaning of the Trump rhetoric. Listen to it.
Speaker 2: It's obvious, and it's plain as day. Our capital city
Speaker 2: has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving
Speaker 2: mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people.
Speaker 1: And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're
Speaker 1: not going to take it.
Speaker 2: Trump is able to connect with the American people in
Speaker 2: a way that they understand, even if it is a
Speaker 2: different variant of English than the platitudes that spill over
Speaker 2: them from the pundits, from the politicians, are out from
Speaker 2: most of corporate media. Reality of this moment is Donald
Speaker 2: Trump has made perfectly clear who he is, including on
Speaker 2: a question as profoundly simple to understand. A slavery the
Speaker 2: greatest evil in the history of the United States, the
Speaker 2: ownership of human beings by human beings, and it persisted
Speaker 2: in this country until eighteen sixty five. Not so long ago,
Speaker 2: there were Confederate veterans who lived into the nineteen forties,
Speaker 2: some into the nineteen fifties. When you think about time,
Speaker 2: it's incredible to ponder the tenth President of the United States,
Speaker 2: John Tyler, who served in the Confederate Congress. John Tyler,
Speaker 2: a traitor to the United States, has a living grandson.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Time that stands outside of our lifespans is not so
Speaker 2: far away, not so distant.
Speaker 1: And here's the reality.
Speaker 2: As Donald Trump instructs the Smithsonian that he's sick of
Speaker 2: museums to talk about how bad slavery was, the violations
Speaker 2: of human rights, human dignity, human freedom. These things must
Speaker 2: be remembered so they aren't repeated. So the great fog
Speaker 2: of amnesia that brings with it death behind it doesn't
Speaker 2: settle in. It's im possible to comprehend the United States
Speaker 2: without comprehending the United States slave people. And the United
Speaker 2: States had a great Civil War that emancipated the enslaved
Speaker 2: people and gave birth to the third oldest political party
Speaker 2: now in the world, the Republican Party, who once had
Speaker 2: a president named James Garfield who promised never to break
Speaker 2: faith with black Americans. There was an image when slavery
Speaker 2: existed in America. That shocked the conscience of the American
Speaker 2: people because the myth was even in the time, that
Speaker 2: most white masters were benevolent, and that propaganda was spread
Speaker 2: all over the North. And this photograph called Whipped Peter
Speaker 2: told the truth.
Speaker 1: Here are the.
Speaker 2: Images from Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday, one hundred years
Speaker 2: on from the end of slavery. And here we are
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five with a fascist in the White
Speaker 2: House putting the Confederate monuments back up, giving instructions to
Speaker 2: museums to to guild the lilly on the question of slavery,
Speaker 2: it was a good thing. He has a Defense secretary
Speaker 2: who's a Christian nationalist guided by an extremist pastor who believes,
Speaker 2: like Trump, that slavery wasn't so bad and believes that
Speaker 2: women don't have any rights. They should be submissive because
Speaker 2: that's what the Bible says. What Pete Hagsath in this
Speaker 2: sick pastor believe is that God is about domination and power.
Speaker 2: That's why they love Trump. God is about love in
Speaker 2: the United States, is about justice, and these people are
Speaker 2: perverting things in the most obscene way that are great,
Speaker 2: that are glorious, that have been preserved a great sacrifice,
Speaker 2: and the tearing down of our ideas and our ideals
Speaker 2: does not come without a cost. It brings with a
Speaker 2: tremendous danger, and that danger is drawn closer every day
Speaker 2: as the mass men roll out in their cars promising
Speaker 2: to defend the culture. Until recently, defending the culture was
Speaker 2: the province of white supremacist groups and their flyers in
Speaker 2: northern Idaho.
Speaker 1: I suppose the next time.
Speaker 2: They gather to burn across and look at those flyers,
Speaker 2: there'll be some satisfaction in knowing the journey has been
Speaker 2: a long one, but a successful one for that slogan.
Speaker 2: As it's made its way from the filth of their
Speaker 2: propaganda to government vehicles.
Speaker 1: That's no victory for you and me.
Speaker 2: It's a tragedy for our children, and it's a desecration
Speaker 2: of the sacrifices that have built the United States of America.
Speaker 2: But it's very real, and as was once prophecied and
Speaker 2: apocryphally attributed, fascism has come to America wrapped in the
Speaker 2: flag and carrying across. And that's warning enough, because these
Speaker 2: people keep telling us precisely what it is they believe
Speaker 2: and what they intend to do. And I guess it's
Speaker 2: fair to ask at a certain point why it is
Speaker 2: when they say it in English that no one in
Speaker 2: an English speaking country can seem to understand a word.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you
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Speaker 1: Thank you.