Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Trump Administration is over. Democrats have officially assumed total control of the government. Where do we go from here? Also Five Headlines, including Trump’s confusing pardon of a corrupt Democrat politician, the media gets back to licking the boots of those in power, and the mayor of DC defends the political vetting of troops. And in our Daily Cancellation, we will cancel multiculturalism.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Trump administration is over.
Democrats have officially assumed total control of the government.
Where do we go from here?
We'll talk about that today.
Also, five headlines, including Trump's confusing pardon of a corrupt Democrat politician.
Plus, the media gets back to licking the boots of those in power.
That's the position they're comfortable being in.
And the mayor of D.C.
defends the political vetting of troops.
And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel multiculturalism.
All of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Here we are now at the end of all things.
Well, the end of the Trump administration.
So not all things, but that thing at least.
Joe Biden, a man with the mental acuity and awareness of an oyster, is now in the White House, where he will be taken by the hand, guided into a closet somewhere, given some coloring books to keep him busy, while Kamala Harris runs the government.
And it will be, let's face it, a radically far-left government, the most far-left government in American history, by a mile.
We can pretty much guarantee that.
To make matters worse, there will be no constraints.
There will be no restraining it.
They will be unfettered.
They will be free like birds to fly off and fulfill their Marxist dreams.
Republicans, you know, aren't good for much, as we've learned, especially when it comes to actually enacting and acting upon their own agenda, but they can at least play defense.
They're decent at that.
They can block the Democrat agenda, even if they can't or won't push forward their own when they have the power.
Only now, they will be unable, or certainly at least less able, to block anything, given that the Democrats won Georgia and thus the Senate.
The Republicans could have won Georgia, if not for the fact that the Georgia race became a circus sideshow of grifters and carnival barkers raising money for their own benefit while telling Republicans to stay home and forfeit Congress to the left.
Also not helping matters, the Republican candidates in those races could not themselves have been any less exciting or less inspiring if they tried.
And they did try, it seemed.
The upshot is that, again, Democrats have full control, and they will exploit that control to the fullest possible extent.
They will show us what it looks like when power is wielded.
Make no mistake.
They will do everything that they have the legal right to do and a whole bunch of things that they do not have the legal right to do.
Democrats impose their will when given the opportunity, love them or hate them, and I'm very much a member of the second club.
The fact is that when put into a position of power, the Democrats do what their voters put them there to do.
Republicans, on the other hand, twiddle their thumbs and bide their time waiting to be out of power again so that they can finally pretend to care about the agenda that they didn't enact when they had the chance to do it.
Democrats don't play that game, as we have seen.
And we will see even more in the years ahead.
Making matters worse, the Democrats have a taste for vengeance now, a taste for blood.
They feel that those who inflicted the last four years upon them, those responsible for making it happen, so, you know, 75 million people or so, should pay for what they've done.
And they are determined to prevent such indignities from ever happening again.
Whatever progress may have been made in the last four years, whatever good may have been done, it's all mostly stuff that can be easily reversed and undone, mostly by executive order.
Trump actually reversed some of it himself on the way out the door.
For example, rescinding his own executive order, banning administration officials from taking lobbyist jobs within five years of leaving government.
So Trump saved Biden the paperwork on that one, I guess.
The rest, Biden or his handlers can do on their own without much trouble.
Meanwhile, the conservative movement is fractured into a million pieces.
Trump leaves office impeached and deplatformed, facing the possibility of a Senate conviction.
Many other much less famous conservatives have also been deplatformed and censored, with the powers that be currently dreaming up ways to silence the rest of us.
We are under suspicion.
We are under attack.
The left won, by whatever means necessary, and now we are on the outside.
We are scattered.
We are disorganized.
We are weakened.
That's the reality of the situation.
It's best now that we look it straight in the eyes, as uncomfortable as it may be.
I'm not here to tell you fairy tales or delude you into a false sense of security.
The right has been deluding itself for far too long, telling itself stories about secret plans and 4D chess and insisting that everything will magically work out in the end.
Up until last night, I saw people still insisting that Trump would remain in office today and the plan would unfold and everything would be okay.
They held on to the delusion until the bitter end.
Some of them probably still holding on to it, even now.
I wouldn't be surprised if the new theory is that Trump is really president still and is secretly running the government from his bat cave somewhere.
I'm not joking.
This is what some people will believe.
Those of us with the boldness to face reality, though, will face it.
And reality is as I have described it here.
So the question is, what now?
Where do we go from here?
What does the road ahead look like?
Is all hope lost?
Are we doomed?
Should we give up?
Well, I can answer those last three questions with a no, no, and no.
Hope is not lost, we're not doomed, and we should not give up.
As for what exactly happens, or what precisely the future holds, that I don't know for certain.
Nobody does.
But I do know that even if we're bruised and beaten at present, we are not in a hopeless state.
Despair is not the answer.
And though I may be known as a guy who can be quite bleak at times, I'm not exactly a ray of sunshine, I must admit, I have never been in despair, and I am not now.
And you shouldn't be either.
Despair is what happens when you have not only no hope but no meaning in your life.
Despair is when you wake up and look around and you can't see that your life has any purpose.
It's when everything is empty or appears to be, from your perspective.
You know, I would hope that nobody would ever be tempted to feel this way because of political events.
But from the sound and look of it, it seems that some people really are teetering close to that.
It's not that these are Trump-obsessed cultists who can't bear to live without the man.
It's that they look around and they see that our government and our institutions are overrun and run by people who hate them, and they think it's all lost, and there's nothing ahead but more defeat, and there's no point.
And that's where the despair comes in.
But it shouldn't.
In fact, there is a silver lining to our present condition.
The silver lining is that now conservatives can stop looking to one man in Washington to save them and save their families, and instead focus on making an impact where it really matters and where it can really be felt.
You know, the fight going forward is where it's always been, though we've neglected and ignored it, focusing instead on national politics as though national politics is the be-all and end-all.
The fight is in our communities, it's in the culture, on the local level, The true battle for everything is happening right around us, right now, directly around us.
And we can make a profound impact there if we're willing to put in the effort.
Let me just give you one tangible example.
The school system.
Millions of children, do you hear me railing about this all the time?
Millions of children are sent into these buildings, or into Zoom meetings now, I guess, where they are conditioned and indoctrinated into the doctrines of the far left.
We could have only Republican presidents for the next 50 years.
It would make almost no difference culturally, as long as we keep feeding our kids into this system.
This is something we can change.
We can change it.
Right now, we could.
But it takes work.
It's not always fun.
We could pull our kids out.
We could form homeschool co-ops, supporting each other in our communities, taking charge of our children's education.
We can do this.
We can do that.
Lots of us are already doing it.
If enough of us do it, we can radically change the culture in immeasurable ways.
Overnight.
No matter what anyone in Washington says or does.
50 million children are currently enrolled in public school.
50 million.
Cut that number in half, let's say?
We could have Democrat presidents for the next 50 years, and that would also almost not matter at all, because we will have so significantly taken back control of our own families, and thus the culture.
The condition of the family is what determines the condition of the culture.
This, as I said, is just one example.
There are plenty of others, including in the realm of politics, local politics.
Go to your town hall meetings.
Figure out who your local council members are.
Do you even know?
These people have more control over you than you think.
Speak out when things are happening in your neighborhood and community that you don't like.
Protest the drag queen story hours.
This stuff matters.
Don't listen to people who tell you it doesn't.
In fact, at this point, any conservative who tells you that the culture wars don't matter, please, if there's going to be any change we make, disregard them, dispense of them, throw them out, we don't need them.
How can you expect your voice to have any impact on anything if there are drag queens performing for children at your local library two blocks away and you say nothing and do nothing about it?
Oh, we can't do anything about it.
Really?
We can't.
If all the people in the community that didn't like it showed up at that library, you don't think that'd be enough to put an end to it?
It would.
It happens because we don't show up and we don't do anything.
We could, but we don't.
It's not all a matter of protesting things either.
You know, on the other end of it, we can support the people who are making a positive difference.
Donate to your local pregnancy center.
Give to your church.
Get involved in your church.
These are all things we can do.
There are plenty of other things, too.
It may not be dramatic or flashy, but the real work of fighting to reclaim the culture and your country is rarely dramatic or flashy.
The real work is being done by serious, sober-minded people, usually without fanfare and without notice.
That's where our focus should be.
It's where our hope lies.
It's why I haven't given up.
Quite the contrary.
I'm ready to fight.
Fight in a meaningful way.
And I hope you are too.
So let's get to it.
And now time for our five headlines.
All right.
I know we just had a serious talk there about all the things in the culture to fight for.
Can I just mention one other thing?
Not quite as serious, but it's on my mind because right before I Went on the air here, I was in the break room, and somebody brought doughnuts to the office.
And there's a box of doughnuts there.
And there's this moment, of course, when you walk into the break room and there's a box of doughnuts.
And a moment of joy, when you see that box.
And you think, the whole day is made.
A free doughnut, I wasn't expecting this.
But then, what always happens?
You open the box, and this is what just happened to me.
Nothing but powdered doughnuts and jelly doughnuts in there.
That's all that's left.
There's like one half of a powdered, and then a few jelly doughnuts left.
Okay, here's my point.
Why do we bother putting these trash filler doughnuts in the box?
They are always the last ones left.
Everybody knows this.
At the end of the day, there's always a couple of doughnuts left, and they're always the jelly and powdered doughnuts.
So when you're going to Dunkin' Donuts to get the doughnut, it's not like they're cheaper.
Why tell them to put those filler doughnuts in there in the first place?
Stick with the classics, the ones everyone likes.
Glazed, chocolate.
There's never a glazed left.
When's the last time you picked up a box and there's a glazed left?
Never.
Those get eaten.
This is very important.
This is another thing we could do to reclaim the culture.
Get control of the way that we set up our boxes of donuts. Okay, number one, Trump released his list
of pardons earlier today. Lots of people hoping he'd pardon Assange and Snowden.
That didn't happen.
Instead he pardoned some rappers, some drug dealers. He pardoned
Lil Wayne.
He pardoned this guy, Kodak Black, as a rapper.
By the way, a rapper who I believe made a music video where he's portrayed choking a Trump supporter.
He's an anti-Trump rapper, as Trump commuted his sentence.
Also, one of the guys behind Death Row Records back in the 90s, also a drug kingpin, he was arrested for a bunch of charges, including kidnapping and attempted murder.
And he got a pardon because his friend Snoop Dogg asked Trump.
Now Snoop Dogg also has a video, and in his video I think he's actually killing Trump himself.
Not actually Trump, but an actor.
But he asked for a pardon, he got one.
Sanjay Snowden didn't.
Also, this is kind of confusing, the ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got a pardon.
Democrat mayor.
Cartoonishly corrupt, this guy is.
He's like the mascot for corrupt politicians.
He pretty much did everything that a corrupt politician could possibly do.
He was corrupt in every possible way.
Very efficient in that way, in his corruption.
Let me read a little bit from the Detroit Free Press on this.
It says, U.S.
Attorney Matthew Schneider, who has long argued that Kilpatrick deserves his 28-year prison sentence and should not be released early for his crimes, blasted the commutation decision.
He said, my position on the disgraced former mayor of Detroit has not changed.
Kwame Kilpatrick has earned every day he served in federal prison for the horrible crimes he committed against the people of Detroit.
He is a notorious and unrepentant criminal.
Schneider added Kilpatrick has served only one quarter of the sentence that was very appropriately imposed.
Thankfully, under Michigan law, he cannot hold state or local public office for 20 years after his conviction.
But Detroit Mayor Mike Dugan, Democrat, had a different take.
He said, I know how close he is to his three sons and I could not be
happier for them being together again.
This is the decision that President Trump got right. So it's not even that he's innocent or
he didn't commit. No, he committed the crimes, but he's talented and, you know, he has kids.
So just let him out of prison. Kilpatrick, who resigned from office in 2008 following a text
message scandal disclosed by the free press, has been serving a 28-year federal prison sentence
following his 2013 conviction on multiple corruption crimes, including racketeering,
bribery, extortion, and fraud.
All of his appeals failed over the years, though both Kilpatrick and a group of his supporters, including millionaire businessman Peter Karamos, had appealed to Trump last year seeking clemency.
And now he gets it.
He does have a lot of debt, though.
A lot of debt stemming from the fraud and corruption that he committed while in office, bilking the taxpayers.
I mean, this is just, this again is a corrupt politician who actually got what he deserves.
He got 30 years, he got three decades in prison.
Thank God, right?
How many of these people get away with it?
Get to go on, become lobbyists or whatever, or they, you know, they stay in office.
He actually went to prison.
For once!
And then Trump comes along and says, never mind, you can get out of prison.
You're good.
It is, it's just outrageous.
Law and order, right?
Law and order, folks.
This is what law and order is all about.
Meanwhile, Trump also is, he hasn't said this himself, but he is purported to have entertained the idea of starting his own political party, third party, that he would call the Patriot Party.
I like the name.
I'll say that much about it.
But I will say, though, whatever your position is on this, just so you know, if somebody comes along from the right and makes a serious attempt at a third party, here is what will happen.
We can put aside any fantasies about what we hope happens.
Let's talk about, again, we're dealing with reality.
Here's what will absolutely happen if we get a third party from the right.
And it actually gets some attention.
Like, it actually tracks some people.
It makes a serious run.
What will happen is that we will have Democrat supermajorities in Congress and a Democrat president for the next 20 years.
Or really, forever.
They'll just be in office forever.
Because the opposition can... We barely have enough numbers as it is now.
You split it in two or into thirds, you start fracturing, there's no chance.
We just don't have the numbers.
We can't do it.
So that is just a horrible idea.
And that is not something that we should at all entertain.
But again, in fairness, this is just a report for the media.
I don't think Trump said it himself.
So hopefully it's all it is, just something for the media.
Okay, the mayor of DC, Mayor Bowser, Speaking of bad mayors, had some things to say in a press conference yesterday.
Let's take a listen to that.
Yesterday, I was also heartened to see Washingtonians posting photos of their neighborhoods on social media and tagging them with WeAreDC.
It is a much-needed reminder to the world that our city has so much to offer outside of the federal enclave.
And actually, all of these neighborhoods are what will become the 51st state of Washington, D.C.
So keep sharing those photos.
Make sure that you're signed up for inauguration alerts.
Remember that if you see something unusual, say something.
When you have guards coming, guardsmen and women coming from all over the country at this time, I do think that it is prudent to make sure that they are being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge allegiance to their mission and may be pulled by other views needs not only to be removed from this duty, they need to be removed from the guard.
Okay, so we have a couple of things there.
First of all, she's talking about statehood for D.C.
You want to talk about another thing that will guarantee Democrats in office forever?
There's another one.
And that's why I said Democrat.
Now, I don't know if that's actually going to happen or not, but Puerto Rico, they want statehood for Puerto Rico, too.
But once again, Democrats, when they have power, they use it.
They will use their power when they have it.
And they're going to use it this time.
Not Republicans, though.
That's the dirty little secret about Republicans that, at this point, I hope is not really a secret.
I hope everyone's caught on to it by now.
They don't actually like being in power.
Now, they might like some aspects of having political power.
They like some of the perks that comes with it, the prestige, the money, the opportunities for money, both legally and not.
But the responsibility that comes with power of actually having to do all the things that you said you were going to do, that's the part they don't like.
And so they much prefer to be in power, but to not actually have the ability to do much with it.
That for them is the sweet spot.
Democrats, say whatever you want about them.
They actually, they don't want just the prestige of being in power.
They want the control too.
They want that because they want to do something with it.
That's what we're going to see here.
And then also she's talking about political vetting, vetting of the troops, political vetting.
And this is just blatantly illegal.
But once again, this is what they this is what they can do and will do.
Number three, I have to say, this is almost comforting just in its normalcy for
the media to be back to doing what it does best, which is licking the boots of those in power.
They haven't been able to do it really at all in the last four years and
you could tell.
They've been starving.
They've been starving for some boots.
And now, or some Chuck Taylors, as you know, that's why they're so obsessed with Kamala Harris's shoe
choices.
So now they can get back.
They can assume the position and they can get back to doing what they love to do.
And here's, you just see the glee on their face.
Like finally, once again, we can worship those in power.
Here's somebody on CNN talking about, fantasizing really, about Joe Biden embracing the whole country.
Joe Biden reaching out his arms and embracing the country.
Personally, I don't want Joe Biden to embrace me, but let's listen to this.
to this. And the contrast on display tonight was so stark.
I mean, those lights that are that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along
the reflecting pool. I look, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing
America, embracing America.
Oh, yeah. Joe Biden will embrace America. All right.
He'll embrace us all.
It's Joe Biden reaching out and, if you will, sniffing the hair of America.
He is sniffing our collective hair.
Only I'm not very comforted by that.
And this paternalistic, this is the thing that's going to really nauseate me.
You know, the hero worship, the idolatry of politicians, I'm not a fan of that, but especially when it takes on this sort of paternalistic flavor.
As if this is our great father that we are looking to for comfort in this time.
But also, I could take on a religious flavor, and that's what we hear now on MSNBC.
Listen.
I'm thinking about all of those folks who, just for the moment, the nation shared their grief.
Oh, what a first step.
What a beautiful step.
So I'm gonna, you know, I'm reminded of the psalmist.
You know?
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Um, maybe the death will speak to us now.
Maybe they can rest now.
It sounds to me like he's... I don't misinterpret him, but it sounds like he is comparing Joe Biden to God.
As healing the brokenhearted.
Repairing our wounds.
Yeah, I think that's what he was going for.
Of course, during the primaries, you know, it goes without saying, but the media wasn't saying any of this really about Biden during the primaries, or especially Kamala Harris.
So this religious idolatry, this embracing him as this almost godlike character, that only happens after he wins, obviously.
All right, number four, Axios has a story about that garden of heroes that Trump was trying to get off the ground.
Who knows what will happen with that now, but that was all the statues of American heroes that Trump wants to erect.
Love the idea.
As I said yesterday, I think whenever a Republican is in office, if that ever happens again, they should just put up statues all over the place.
And yeah, the Democrats are going to come back around and start tearing them down.
But it's just a war of attrition now.
Just keep putting up the statues.
Make them bigger and bigger and bigger.
That's why I say 2024 Republican primaries, whichever Republican gets up there and promises to build a 50-foot statue of Christopher Columbus and put it right in the middle of Washington, D.C., I will vote for that person.
I don't even care who it is.
But Axios is complaining because their headline is, Trump's American heroes are 73% men.
Delivering on a promise he made at Mount Rushmore this summer, President Trump yesterday released his 244 candidates for a National Guard of American Heroes.
By the numbers, men outnumber women nearly four to one.
86 of the nominees, nearly a third, were born between 1900 and 1950.
And then we get some of the other numbers.
But I guess we're supposed to be upset About that, that so many of them are men.
You know, there is, you could see that as sexist if you want to.
The other way of looking at it is, wow, there have been a lot of men who are American heroes.
That's great.
Maybe we should be grateful to them.
You know, maybe men aren't so horrible after all.
Maybe toxic masculinity isn't such a bad thing because when you go back through history and you look at American history and Many of the people, not everybody, but many of the people who have achieved great things and have helped to form and establish this civilization that we all are living in were men.
Wow.
Maybe a little bit of gratitude.
Just a thought.
Number five, a report from Oregon Live.
It says a car thief who discovered a small child in the backseat of the SUV he boosted on Saturday in Beaverton drove back to the child's mother, demanded she take the child out of the backseat and drove off once more, according to police.
Officer Matt Henderson said he actually lectured the mother for leaving the child in the car and threatened to call the police on her.
The crime occurred at 9.10 a.m.
in the parking lot of Basics Meat Market.
The mother parked just outside the store's front door, went inside to buy a gallon of milk and some meat.
She was never more than 15 feet from the car, but she made a critical error.
She left the engine running and the doors unlocked.
What she did was not a crime, she was within sight and sound of her child, but she left the car running, so that extra step.
Take the car keys with you.
It's a good reminder to take extra precaution when we have our little ones.
This is the police officer being quoted.
Anyway, in that little bit of time, car thief jumped into the car, didn't realize there were kids in there, and he drives off and then sees the kid, turns around, comes back, delivers the kid, gives the mother a little lecture about parenting safety, and then drives off.
You know, this thing... I don't wanna get myself into trouble, but...
This stuff about leaving kids in the car, well, you never leave a kid in the car, ever, even for one second.
I mean, I hear from mothers, this is their excuse when I go off on my normal rant about returning your shopping cart in the parking lot.
And one of the excuses I hear from mothers, and I assume this is just an excuse, or maybe they really mean it sincerely, is that they don't want to leave their kid in the car to return the shopping cart.
So what you're saying is you don't want to leave your kid in the car and walk 20 feet away when you could see the car the whole time.
You won't even do that?
What do you think is going to happen?
Now, yes, in this extreme circumstance, the car was actually stolen.
But even then, just to show you how rare it is, actually, that kids are kidnapped by strangers, it almost never happens.
In almost every single case where it happens, it's a family member.
So even in this case, it was a bad guy, stole the car.
He still came back around and said, here's your kid.
So really, that's not much of a concern.
So I don't quite understand this idea of like, you never ever.
I mean, obviously, you got a young kid, it's 100 degrees outside.
You don't leave your kid in a locked car, no AC.
Obviously, you don't do that.
But it's a mild day out, no concern, you lock the door, you run 15 feet away, come back, I don't see a problem.
When I was a kid, this was really common.
I don't want to get my parents in trouble, but I feel like when I was a kid, when my generation, we were kids, I can remember many a time of waiting in the car for my parents to go do something.
It wasn't hot, we weren't dying from the heat, but it's a pretty common thing back in the day.
And it's just another thing that we've decided now that there are so many things that our parents used to do and it was normal for parents to do for generations.
And now we've decided that if you do that thing, you are an abuser and you should go to prison.
So many kind of like shortcuts and just little things like that, that our parents were allowed to do.
We can't do that anymore.
Not for any like statistical or reason, but just we've decided you can't do that.
So, there's a long way of saying I am, I'm gonna defend the mother on this, on this one.
Just don't, you know, yeah, probably don't leave the key, the car,
keys in the car and the door unlocked in the future.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel multiculturalism.
Now what precipitates this cancellation is a tweet from the now former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo, as I'm informed by the New York Times, infuriated many American diplomats and many other Americans when he attacked multiculturalism, saying, he tweeted this, Wokeism, multiculturalism, all the isms.
They're not who America is.
They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about.
Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.
That's what he said, Mike Pompeo.
Now, this, of course, is completely true and well said.
And the sort of politically incorrect truth that we certainly will not hear emanating from a presidential administration at any point again in the next four years.
He was condemned, though, as a racist for this.
Just one example, our dear friend Ibram X. Kendi said, in a multicultural society like the U.S., what happens when people oppose multiculturalism?
Well, they standardize the cultures of white folk.
Call them America.
Implore the rest of us to assimilate.
When we refuse and opt to be ourselves, freely, they call us anti-American authoritarians.
That's what Kendi said.
Now this is an interesting critique because he references the culture of white folk.
But I've been reliably informed that white folk don't have a culture.
I've been told that there's no such thing as white culture.
I've been told that this is precisely the reason why white people aren't allowed to talk about white pride or express any positive or affirming feelings about being white.
I've been told that other races or ethnicities are allowed to have pride in their race, in their ethnicity, because they are, you know, really expressing pride in their culture, in their heritage.
But white people don't have a culture or heritage, I have been told.
So that if a white person says he has white pride, what he really means is that he's racist.
Now, though, Ibram X. Kendi, who we recall is an expert in matters of race, he'll tell you himself, he says that white culture is a thing.
Does that mean that white pride is back on the table?
Well, no, because, you see, white people have a culture, but the culture is racism.
That's all that defines a white person.
So, if you have pride in your white culture, you have pride in racism, which means you're racist.
You're also racist regardless, because all white people are, inherently.
It's not racist to say that about white people, though, because only white people can be racist.
Which is a pretty sweet deal for everybody else.
Everyone else, you can just say whatever you want.
Can't be racist.
But this is all irrelevant anyway, because the critique of multiculturalism has nothing to do with race.
Culture, if you believe the dictionary, is the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or social group.
What this means is that a multicultural country, not multiracial, multicultural, is one where there is a hodgepodge of customs, institutions, arts, etc.
And if there is such a hodgepodge, such a multiple of cultures, that means there is no shared culture.
There is no shared American experience.
If America is a multicultural country, then America is a culture-less country.
This is the paradox.
If a country has multiple cultures, then it has no culture.
And so the critique of multiculturalism in America is not that there are too many cultures, but that there isn't any culture.
We have no shared cultural identity as a nation.
And if we do not have any shared cultural identity, then we do not have a cultural identity.
Unless our shared identity is our lack of one.
Christopher McCandless, whose story was documented in the book and then the movie Into the Wild, worth watching the movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it.
He left his family and friends to go off into the wilderness decades ago.
Eventually, he had traveled all the way to Alaska, where he lived in the forest for a time before dying after eating some poisonous berries.
Shortly before he died, he wrote in his notebook, happiness is only real when shared.
That's the lesson he learned in his journey, and he learned it the hard way.
We're learning a similar lesson, also the hard way.
We're learning that culture is only real when shared.
And that's the problem with multiculturalism.
The left would say that this is not a problem, that cultures can all live together in the same country in harmony and with a common sense of purpose.
But if that's possible at all, which I doubt, they are the very ones making sure that it does not happen, because they pit cultures against each other, rank them on a hierarchy of victimhood, and insist that cultures do not share anything with each other.
Now, perhaps in theory, The multicultural experiment could work if all of the cultures shared and were influenced by each other, forming the fabled melting pot that we used to hear so much about.
I'm skeptical about whether such a thing could even happen theoretically, but we know that it's not happening in reality, and the very people pushing multiculturalism are the ones ensuring that it doesn't.
We cannot borrow from a culture or be influenced by another culture because then we're accused of appropriation.
As if a culture claims actual proprietary rights over its customs and cuisine and art.
And if somebody else from the outside partakes in it, then somehow the members of that culture are losing something.
They're having something taken from them.
You know, if you wear a traditional outfit of another culture, Then in some way, somehow, that means that, what, you're stealing it from someone in that culture?
They are now being deprived of something because you're wearing the same thing they do?
If multiculturalism could work, it certainly will not work if the interactions between cultures is treated as a zero-sum game.
And that is how the left treats it.
All but guaranteeing that their own experiment will fail.
Fail at least to produce a prosperous and healthy country, if that was their goal.
But if the goal is to produce a shiftless, weak, and decadent country, then it has succeeded beautifully.
And that is their goal, and so we have to say that, in fact, they have succeeded.
But it's not a very good one, not a very good goal, and that's why multiculturalism today is cancelled.
We're talking about what to do to fight for the culture, giving you some ideas.
Well, I'll tell you, this is another thing I'm going to do.
I'm putting the work in, okay?
For the next four years, I am going to be canceling stuff.
That makes a difference.
Somehow.
I hope.
But probably not.
We'll leave it there for today.
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