Dennis Speaks On an Atlantic Article About the Right and Trump Supporters
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But what I find most interesting is his observations about the right and how he has identical views of the right and Trump supporters as any leftist does.
The only difference is he also sees the left as profoundly flawed.
And it's fascinating to read it, that yes, we who supported Donald Trump were into blood-and-soil ethno-nationalism.
It's amazing.
He would certainly not be able to account for me and for the vast number of people that, relatively speaking for an individual that I know, some of the finest, most open human beings.
As I said for much of my life, if you are black and you feel a little unloved, just go to a Trump rally or go to any conservative.
Or any Republican event.
You will get more love than you will the rest of thee here, all put together.
But we're blood-and-soil ethno-nationalists.
All right, so I have read to you that part.
There are some more here that is very important, though, actually, in this article.
The man's name is Hamid.
I assume he is, I'm not assuming, he is of Middle East extraction.
Shadi Hamid, H-A-M-I-D, America without God.
That is the name of the piece.
So obviously anything like that I read, especially if it's in the Atlantic.
And he observes correctly, though the United States wasn't founded as a Christian nation.
Christianity was always intertwined with America's self-definition.
Without it, Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike no longer have a common culture upon which to fall back.
That's what Christmas served as.
It's a Jew who wrote, in fact, Jews, I was thinking a Jew who wrote God Bless America, but Jews wrote half of the most popular Christmas songs.
I mean, statistically, this is not, it's just a fact.
And even though it was not their religious holiday, it was their national holiday.
Christmas was a unifying thing for Americans until the left crapped on Christmas and changed Christmas party to holiday party and Christmas vacation to holiday vacation and Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays.
And then...
As usual, they deny they did it.
Just like now, they deny that they ever called for the defunding of police.
Every leftist lies or they wouldn't be a leftist.
Liberals lie and tell truth.
Conservatives lie and tell truth.
But leftists all lie.
They lie with the ease with which they speak.
We make war on Christmas?
How laughable.
We called for the defunding of police?
What, are you out of your minds?
I read to you that last week.
That's the new thing.
We never said defund the police.
Yeah, that's right.
We changed everything with the word Christmas into holiday, but hey, there's no war on Christmas.
And people believe it.
For better and worse, The United States really is one of a kind.
And he speaks about America, as I have often, is based on an idea.
It's the point.
It's not an ethnic country.
It's an idea.
You have the American idea.
You are American.
That's the way it is.
We don't care about your ethnicity, believe it or not.
So he gives an example.
Listen to this.
This is in support, whether he knew it or not, of us conservatives.
An American who moves to Germany, lives there for years, and learns the language remains an American.
If America is a civil religion, which it is, it would make sense that it stays with you unless you renounce it.
As Jeff Gedman, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, described it to me, quote, You can eat strudel, speak fluent German, adapt to local culture, But many will still say of you, Er hat einen deutschen Pass.
He has a German passport.
That's not the same as being German.
No one starts calling you German.
End of quote.
But if a German moves to America, doesn't even speak English fluently, but becomes an American, we think of the person as American.
There is no other country where you were thought of as that country, not as a citizen, but as a fellow American.