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Speaker 1: All the intellectual, uh, parts of American society have been really,

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Speaker 1: if you will, sort of infiltrated with these ideas and

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Speaker 1: this ideology and these beliefs, and they reflected and these

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Speaker 1: get reflected down the road in the political realm. And

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Speaker 1: this is why the country socially, culturally Marlly has been

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Speaker 1: moving dramatically to the left. You know, Jonathan, when I

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Speaker 1: gave I don't know how old you were when I

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Speaker 1: gave that culture war speech down at the Republican Convention

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Speaker 1: in UH in Houston in nineteen ninety two, uh saying

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Speaker 1: that we're in a cultural war which is at rude

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Speaker 1: to religious war, and Irving Crystal, who was a neo conservative, said, yuh,

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Speaker 1: that's correct, but I regret to inform pet Buganan the

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Speaker 1: war is over. We lost, and this is the point

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Speaker 1: you're making. Did we lose? And can we come back?

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Speaker 1: And I've always sort of believed that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: struggle is worth it whether no matter how the battle ends,