Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Speaks About Shadi Hamid a Leftist Writer
Aired: 2021-06-26
Duration: 05:37


=== A Trump Rally's Focus (03:41) ===

[00:00:01]  They make this up.
[00:00:03]  The man has read the New York Times too often.
[00:00:06]  This guy Shadi Hamid.
[00:00:08]  What is he talking about?
[00:00:11]  You believe that 80 million Americans or whatever the number was that voted for Donald Trump are into a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism?
[00:00:20]  What the hell is that anyway?
[00:00:26]  You think that the average Trump voter did not ache?
[00:00:30]  To have non-whites in their movement?
[00:00:35]  I tell you, I ache to have this man on the show.
[00:00:40]  It'll show he has character.
[00:00:42]  Because almost every leftist ever invited never comes on.
[00:00:47]  For good reason, from their perspective.
[00:00:51]  Because they have no answers to very, very...
[00:00:54]  Politely asked questions, like the one of my piece this week.
[00:00:58]  If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks moved here in the last three decades?
[00:01:06]  Four or five decades.
[00:01:08]  Why?
[00:01:09]  They have no answer.
[00:01:12]  Okay, back.
[00:01:13]  So this is his view of the right.
[00:01:17]  Ethnocentric, excuse me, ethno-nationalist Trump-centered people.
[00:01:23]  Who still drape themselves in some of the trappings of organized religion?
[00:01:28]  What does that mean?
[00:01:32]  That means some of them are Christian?
[00:01:35]  God, Jews like me must drive them crazy.
[00:01:37]  You know, a third of the Jews in the United States, it's little, but it's not tiny, voted for Donald Trump.
[00:01:44]  I guess they didn't think it was an ethno-nationalist, Trump-centric movement.
[00:01:52]  Donald Trump's boisterous rallies were more focused on blood and soil than on the Son of God.
[00:02:03]  Whose political rallies since World War II was focused on the Son of God?
[00:02:10]  This is what goes for thoughtful writing, and this guy is better than almost anyone at the Atlantic.
[00:02:16]  The Atlantic is a rag sheet.
[00:02:18]  But it's a sophisticated sounding rag sheet, so they're all impressed with one another.
[00:02:26]  This is what they write.
[00:02:28]  What kind of line is that?
[00:02:32]  Blood and soil?
[00:02:34]  Blood and soil is a Nazi...
[00:02:36]  It's a Nazi...
[00:02:37]  It comes from the Nazis, by the way.
[00:02:39]  The German Nazis.
[00:02:41]  What blood and soil is he talking about?
[00:02:46]  And this is their best.
[00:02:48]  This is the best the Atlantic has to give.
[00:02:50]  He has actually some thoughtful lines in here.
[00:02:54]  A Trump rally was more focused on blood and soil than on the Son of God.
[00:03:00]  99% of the readers of this who read the Atlantic thought, wow, that is profound.
[00:03:08]  Wow.
[00:03:11]  God, I hadn't thought of it that way.
[00:03:15]  Trump himself played both savior and martyr, and it is easy to marvel at the hold that a man so imperfect can have on his soldiers.
[00:03:26]  So you marvel at it.

=== Character Over Cancer (02:08) ===

[00:03:28]  Really?
[00:03:29]  Well, I agree with soldiers, because we are fighting a war for the Western world.
[00:03:34]  That is correct.
[00:03:34]  I acknowledge.
[00:03:36]  I am one of those soldiers.
[00:03:37]  I agree.
[00:03:38]  And we do not ask about the character qualifications of our generals.
[00:03:43]  We ask whether we can win the war against those destroying Western civilization.
[00:03:48]  That is correct.
[00:03:50]  Would I like a man who was even better individually?
[00:03:55]  Sure.
[00:03:56]  Does it matter to me?
[00:03:58]  Very, very minimally, even though character is the most important thing to me in general.
[00:04:05]  That is the reason I raised my kids, telling them almost daily, I don't give a damn what college you get into.
[00:04:12]  I don't even give a damn if you go to college.
[00:04:15]  I only care about your character.
[00:04:17]  That is how I raised my boys.
[00:04:19]  So I'm pretty character-centered.
[00:04:23]  But my boys are not my president.
[00:04:26]  Get it?
[00:04:30]  I'll give you a baseball analogy.
[00:04:31]  How about that?
[00:04:32]  A sports analogy.
[00:04:34]  I gave medical analogies, in fact, throughout the Trump era.
[00:04:41]  You have two surgeons, one a man of impeccable character and one of dubious character.
[00:04:48]  The one with dubious character is known to be the best surgeon for pancreatic cancer that we have.
[00:04:56]  You have pancreatic cancer.
[00:04:59]  Would you choose the one with the impeccable character or the one with the great record?
[00:05:04]  And operating on pancreatic cancer.
[00:05:07]  So those of you who delude yourselves into thinking character is the only criterion, you are deluded.
[00:05:14]  You desire to be deluded like my last caller, a sweet man in Chicago who understandably lost a lot of his friends.
[00:05:22]  They didn't realize how foolish their dear, dear friend was.
[00:05:27]  Still preoccupied with Donald Trump's character rather than the fate of America.
[00:05:34]  I care about America not Trump.