Feb. 18, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Because you make everything interesting. | |
| So, by the way, I had a silver lining in productivity because I also have not been on the road almost at all, albeit periodically, maybe once every two months, but nothing to speak of. | |
| And I was able, therefore, to finish my next volume of my Bible commentary, Deuteronomy, which turned out to be the toughest of all the books. | |
| And so it's a good thing if you could make something out of a bad situation. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I've tried to do that. | |
| I mean, I tried to do that with my case with the Obama administration, which is to say, you know, I found myself parachuted into a sort of world that I would never otherwise have set foot in. | |
| And I looked around and said, you know what? | |
| Let me think of myself as being in Papua New Guinea. | |
| There are some very interesting human specimens walking around. | |
| Let me try to understand who these people are, how they function, how they think. | |
| And weirdly, at the end of it, I was able to link the kind of gang mentality, you might say, in confinement centers with the mentality of the Democratic Party. | |
| Some may call that a leap, but for me it was a logical inference. | |
| No, we're in many ways kindred spirits. | |
| I did this when I was single. | |
| I did this with regard to boring dates. | |
| Because I'm easily bored. | |
| So if I was on a date with someone who I found boring, I decided I would study boring people. | |
| And boring dates became unbelievably interesting. | |
| And there's no cuteness here. | |
| I wanted to understand, why would I find somebody boring? | |
| And I came up with great reasons, which I've applied to human life. | |
| So I agree with you. | |
| You make something constructive if you have no choice. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I also think one of the things that we can learn from, Dennis, and this is true, by the way, in literature, but it's also true in life, we can learn a great deal from silence. | |
| You know, when Abraham Lincoln was elected in November of 1860, he didn't take office until March. | |
| In those days, you assumed office four months later. | |
| And this was sometimes called the Great Secession Winter. | |
| Lincoln made almost no public statements for four months. | |
| And it's very interesting to think why, because there was a huge debate raging in the country about secession. | |
| Lincoln said a few things, but by and large it was private notes and letters. | |
| This public silence of Lincoln, you could almost write a whole thesis on it. | |
| Why did the man say nothing? | |
| Trump is relatively silent right now. | |
| And everyone's like, well, Trump's been silenced on social media. | |
| But by and large, Trump has been quite reticent now for several weeks. | |
| Just a few short statements here and there. | |
| Recently, I think he made a few more statements a couple of days ago. | |
| But interpreting the silence can also be very illuminating. | |
| We'll hear about that in a moment. | |
| As always, a delight to speak to Dinesh D'Souza, who now does a daily podcast through the Salem Radio Network. | |
| And available everywhere, basically. | |
| As is Relief Factor. | |
| Actually, it's not available everywhere. | |
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