Dennis Prager Show - Why Democrats Fear Pete Hegseth As Secretary of Defense
Aired: 2025-01-15
Duration: 03:19


=== 28 Principles of Liberty (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  Why the left fears Pete Hexeth.
[00:00:04]  They fear Pete Hexeth.
[00:00:07]  They fear Trump because they fear America.
[00:00:09]  Carl, what do you mean?
[00:00:09]  That's so outlandish.
[00:00:11]  That's so broad.
[00:00:12]  That's so fake.
[00:00:13]  No, the founders outlined 28 principles.
[00:00:16]  I don't know if you guys have ever read this book, 5,000 Year Leap, but I've read it and honestly I read parts of it at least.
[00:00:24]  Several times a year.
[00:00:25]  Just to re-familiarize myself with some of the principles.
[00:00:29]  Sometimes it may be a specific principle.
[00:00:31]  But just think of some of the things that the founders laid down.
[00:00:34]  The 28 Principles of Liberty.
[00:00:35]  I won't go through all of them.
[00:00:37]  Just not enough time to do so.
[00:00:39]  But the first one.
[00:00:40]  They came up with this.
[00:00:42]  The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is natural law.
[00:00:48]  Another one.
[00:00:49]  Life and liberty are secure only so long as the right of property is secure.
[00:00:56]  Can we say Democrat wildfires of L.A.? A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
[00:01:07]  That's why the constitution exists.
[00:01:10]  To protect us, we the people, from our rulers.
[00:01:13]  That's what makes us different, or one of the things that makes us different.
[00:01:17]  That's one of the things that sets us apart.
[00:01:20]  Only limited and carefully defined power should be delegated to government, all others being retained in the people.
[00:01:27]  Efficiency, actually strong local self-government, is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
[00:01:33]  A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
[00:01:39]  Just for a split second, go back to this idea of the rule of law and why it is so crucial.
[00:01:45]  And we'll get into Jack Smith's report, which Jonathan Turley said, a well-known Georgia University.
[00:01:53]  George Washington University professor, also a contributor on Fox News.
[00:01:58]  But a free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
[00:02:03]  That's what sets us apart.
[00:02:04]  We don't have dictators in the United States of America.
[00:02:07]  I know the left, Hemden Hawn, Trump is a dictator, yet he's going through all of the processes and his cabinet picks are going through all of the processes.
[00:02:16]  This is a guy that deregulated the government.
[00:02:18]  This is a guy to give you more power.
[00:02:21]  This is a guy that cut taxes to a lot.
[00:02:25]  This is a guy that didn't want to get into entangling alliances like the Paris Climate Accord, right?
[00:02:31]  But he's the dictator.
[00:02:32]  No.
[00:02:33]  They hate Trump because he's too freaking American.
[00:02:36]  And they hate...
[00:02:37]  Pete Hexeth for the same exact reasons.
[00:02:40]  He's too American.
[00:02:41]  They actually believe in this stuff.
[00:02:43]  They actually believe in the Constitution.
[00:02:45]  They actually believe in a strong military.
[00:02:47]  And that is dangerous to the left.
[00:02:49]  Because if you don't bow down to Uncle Sam, the left is over.

=== Embrace Freedom Not Democrat Party (00:26) ===

[00:02:53]  And they get that.
[00:02:54]  So they've got to do everything they can.
[00:02:57]  They've got to keep you mad.
[00:02:58]  They've got to keep you angry and frustrated.
[00:03:01]  And they got to keep you drugged up on that welfare drug, if you will.
[00:03:07]  They got to keep some of the poor people high on welfare.
[00:03:10]  That's the only way they have you.
[00:03:12]  Because if you embrace freedom, you won't embrace the Democrat Party, at least not as it exists today.
[00:03:17]  And they can't stand that.