July 17, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Headed down south to the land of the pines.
I'm coming my way out of North Carolina.
Staring up the road and pray to God I see it lights.
I made it down the coast in 17 hours.
Picking me a book and dog with flowers.
And I'm a hoping variety I can see my family tonight.
So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel.
Rock me, mama, any way you feel.
Hey, mama, rock me.
Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain.
Rock me, mama, like a southbound train.
I want to dedicate that song right there to all the friends we met last week in our remote broadcast from South Carolina.
As a matter of fact, one of the bands that was playing at that private gathering actually played that song, which is why it's been on my mind for the last few days, as we welcome you back to tonight's live broadcast of TPC, James Edwards and Keith Alexander.
And yes, we went straight into our interview with Charles Bosman, who stayed up so late in Russia tonight to be with us.
Because of the time differential, we have to do that more and more, it seems.
Well, that's well, sometimes.
I mean, you know, normally we like to welcome you to a program and sort of settle in and set the table and then get into the meat and potatoes of the night.
But certainly we didn't want to say now, Charles, we need you to stay up till 3 in the morning instead of just 2 in the morning because we've got to get the show set.
So he'll think he'd like it more at 6 in the morning, get up early than to stay up late until 3.
Well, he had three choices, 2 a.m., 3 a.m., or 4 a.m.
And none of them are good.
But I guess 2 o'clock is the least of the bad as opposed to 3 or 4.
I mean, that's really in no man's land there.
But nevertheless.
It's the other side of the world, literally, isn't it?
That's absolutely right.
The only other person guest we've ever had that I think has been more inconvenienced by the time zones is Simon Roche in South Africa.
But anyway, I bring back up, and we're not going to talk about it too much more because we talked about it.
I mean, what more could we say that we didn't say last week during the three-hour extravaganza that we had in South Carolina?
But there is a reason I'm bringing it back up, and I feel a little bit better.
If you don't know it, ladies and gentlemen, I was a little bit off last week on the broadcast.
Perhaps you could tell it in my voice.
When I got home on Monday, I could barely even swallow.
So I don't know what was going on, if it was just all the partying or all the shouting and all the singing and all the stomping or what it was.
But it felt as though I had water in my mouth the whole show last week.
But in any event, we had a great time, and I was no worse for the wear after a couple of days back.
But I want to share with you some of the correspondence we got as a result of that show.
Keith, you listened to that show.
What'd you think about it?
What'd you hear?
Well, it was just like non-stop jubilation, basically.
I think everybody was enjoying themselves.
That was obvious.
All the guests were enjoying themselves.
All the people that were in attendance that spoke were enjoying themselves.
And that's, you know, having something like that, you know, people might say, well, you know, why don't you get down to some real issues and stuff?
We do enough of that.
We need to have some celebratory show.
That's right.
Well, I think once a year is okay.
And that was it.
But there's a reason I'm bringing up South Carolina.
Again, I'm going to get to that.
It's a contemporary political topic.
I'll tell you in just a second.
But first, listen, I'm just going to read a couple of emails here.
Dear James, heard your show up in the great state of South Carolina.
Even though I have Confederate heritage and ancestors who have been in the South ever since White set foot on this continent, I am a native New Yorker.
No, no, no, this isn't Rick writing here.
Rick was on the show last week and really stole the show.
But this listener writes: So it was good to hear Rick, a guest from South Brooklyn.
Even though I am bound to the South by genetics only, it still has a place in my heart.
I called up my grandparents after your show last week, and I told them I love them and I thank them.
I will make it one of my goals to reconnect with the South.
I was sad to hear about Robert E. Lee Monument being taken down.
This broadcast of yours helped lift me up and make me feel better.
I have a Confederate flag on my property.
I'm probably one of the only New Yorkers who can say that.
One other thing: the fact that I felt like I was there cheering along with you and inspired shows how good of a host you are.
You really have a talent to bring the party to us.
And Keith, again, that's what you were saying.
That's what we were trying to do last night.
And I'm glad that somebody else could feel that even through the airwaves.
One more email.
This actually was not to us, but rather to the host of the event last week who brought us to South Carolina to do that remote broadcast.
And this is what one of the participants wrote to him.
He shared it with me.
I'm sharing it with you.
It was great to finally meet you.
Just wanted to let you know how much my wife and I enjoyed the festival.
Everyone was so kind, courteous, and respectful and treated us like we were part of their own family.
It was so amazing to us that we felt totally safe and comfortable around a group of people that we were meeting for the first time.
Everyone acted like they knew us all of our lives.
Thank you so much for the invite.
And we both talked about coming back next year if you do it again.
Please text me with any information.
The grounds were awesome.
I wish we could have stayed there longer.
But I did walk away with a bunch of giveaways that I will treasure from my first visit.
Thank you again for a fantastic day.
And may we do it again.
So this is the thing.
So much, we're going to be doing a tribute to Bill Regnery, who passed away in the third hour.
This wasn't planned.
Obviously, you don't plan when someone passes away, but we're going to do a tribute to Bill Regnery.
And the reason I bring that up is there's so much hatred and vitriol being projected onto Bill Regnery from the liars in the media.
And I look at the people that I met last week.
And I'm reading you some of their correspondence right now.
And I knew Bill Regnery.
And I'm thinking, I know Bill Regnery.
I know the people that we have on this broadcast.
I know the people we met last week, and I know them to be good people.
And it seems as though, Keith, we have a real topsy-turvy thing here, inso much as the people who claim that we're so full of hatred, I think a lot of that is projection on their part.
They are the ones.
If the comments that I've read in response to Bill Regnery's passing or any indication, there is some sickness and hatred out there.
And I can tell you, it's not coming from our people.
There was no hatred in South Carolina last week.
Look, the people that are supposedly the purveyors of tolerance are the most intolerant people in the world.
Bill Regnery, I met him one time over a weekend, spoke to him several times.
Really a nice guy.
And he was something that the left just can't tolerate.
He was a wealthy person that put his wealth to work for the cause of conservatism, true conservatism.
And that's the last thing that our left-wing media wants, our left-wing establishment wants.
They want no wealth at all.
They want us all impoverished and trying to, you know, use communicate with string and two tin cans and whatnot.
And Bill Regnery provided publishing for very, very important publications that otherwise would not have been published back in the day.
And he was really a, you know, he was a fountain of hope for us because without him, I don't believe that our movement really would have survived.
I really mean that seriously.
Well, I believe he believed that too.
And he was not an ostentatious guy.
I'll talk more about this in the third hour.
That's what the third hour is going to be dedicated towards.
We're going to bring on people who knew Bill.
I knew Bill.
I worked with Bill for the last 10 years.
But he was a good man.
He was a good man.
He was a decent man.
And if you didn't know Bill, if you didn't know his family, if you didn't know who he was, you would have never thought he was anything other than just Bill, a guy that you see and have a good time with a few times a year or a couple of times a year.
But anyway, we're going to have Sam Dixon, Kevin McDonald, and others in the third hour to share their reflections with Bill Regnery.
But that's not what we're doing this hour.
I did want to give you that teaser because I know Peter Brimilo put it up on video that we're going to be doing that.
And we are doing that.
And we actually planned it all last night.
We planned it on the fly.
That's coming up.
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From the cold up in New England, I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band.
My baby plays a guitar, a big band you now.
North country winters keep forgetting me, and I lost my money playing poker, so I had to walk with me.
But I ain't gonna turn it back, to live that old life no more.
So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel.
Rock me any way you feel.
Hey, mama, rock me.
Right in mama like a southbound train.
Just beautiful music I was actually, after the band played that song last week in South Carolina, I was listening to it on my drive home going through the Smoky Mountains.
I went back home through the Knoxville route as opposed to the way I went down, which was through Atlanta and up.
But a great time was had.
I really liked what Rick said on the program.
Gentleman we met from New York when he said he had spent time in Eastern Europe.
And when he saw how Eastern European men carried themselves, he said he was embarrassed.
How could he have ever believed that our people didn't have a future?
And that goes back to the first hour, of course, with Charles Balsman.
But I also liked what Jason Kuna said.
There was something Jason said, and Jason did a great job, by the way, filling in as a guest host on that program.
With me being a little under the weather, Jason really picked up the slack and just was fantastic, fantastic.
But he said something that really was striking to me.
When he was surveying the spirit of the people who were assembled there in South Carolina, what he said was, when the river is allowed to flow freely, this is where it leads.
And what he means by that, of course, is when our people aren't encumbered, when our people aren't set by punishments and draconian enforcement trying to keep them from being who they are, they naturally flow back to their roots.
And that's what we saw last week.
Yeah, it's something, it was the type of gathering that could have happened three centuries ago, and it would have been very similar.
You know, that's a or at least one century ago.
Well, the thing is, really, you know, our zeitgeist as a people was on display there.
And the fellowship and the camaraderie that just was natural.
None of it was scripted.
None of it was induced.
None of it was manufactured.
Everything that was happening over there was happening spontaneously and naturally.
And that is what we need.
We need to have get-togethers like this.
We need to support one another.
We need to get ourselves out from under the censorship iron curtain that the left wants to impose upon us so that we can get together, share fellowship, share ideas, share camaraderie with one another, because that's exactly what is needed of, I think, more than anything else in our movement.
To Jason's point about this is where the river flows if allowed to flow freely.
This is a new holdout that a reporter for the Washington Post was citing.
Brad Griffin was the one who informed it to me, was the one who informed me about it rather at Occidental Descent.
Brad wrote, This is fantastic news.
I couldn't wait until the morning to share it.
We must keep pushing.
And what he's talking about is this.
The Washington Post reporter writes, this is the most disturbing data point I've seen in a while.
And here's what the recent poll fleshed out, Keith, that two-thirds of Southern Republicans say the South should break away from the Union, up from 50% just this January.
Two-thirds of Southern Republicans.
So you're talking about millions and millions of people here.
I was talking to a person before the show started last week in South Carolina.
He was making the point that he had read a book that suggested that if only 10%, if 10% were committed to an outcome and applied themselves toward it and were organized, that 10% can change the world.
Here you have two-thirds of Southern Republicans.
You're talking about millions of people, far more than 10% of the population.
And two-thirds want to secede up from 50% in January.
Keith, it's in our blood.
If the river is allowed to flow freely, this is where it flows.
Well, look, it's forced upon us.
That 10% figure comes from the American Revolution.
I said that only 10% of the American people really wanted to secede from the British Empire.
Now, what we have now is two-thirds of the people in the South that are Republican, the whites of the South, would see that it's becoming more and more an inevitability that there be some type of separation because otherwise we're just going to be ruled over like peons by people that hate our guts and basically wish that we would disappear from the planet.
You know, we're not, we're like Greta Garbo, like I said in the last segment.
The Russians are like Greta Garbo.
They want to be left alone.
Southerners and red staters generally just want to be left alone from a regime that seems bound and determined to bend us to their will in every respect.
We have to believe and think and parrot everything they say or think.
And until we do, we're going to be getting a full court press with increasingly unveiled threats to our well-being.
Here's another poll for you, also cited by Occidental Dissent this week.
The latest survey found that Republicans were more united on the issue of Confederate monuments than Democrats.
While 54% of Democrats say the statue should be taken down, 83% of GOP voters voiced the opposite opinion.
What's more is that Republicans are now even more likely to hold that view than they were nearly four years ago when 75% said that they should remain standing.
So 84% of registered Republicans, or excuse me, 83%, 83% are in favor of the Confederate monuments being left alone, and that makes the Confederate monuments much more popular than the Republican Party itself.
Well, I think people understand that taking down the monuments is symbolic.
The monuments are symbolic.
Their opposition to us is symbolic also.
They want us to disappear from the world stage.
They don't want our values as represented by those Confederate heroes and other white historical figures to have any influence on the future.
And they, you know, once they go after the statues and get them out and find out that they're basically telegraphing their punch, the next punch is going to be against the flesh and blood people that support those ideas embodied by those heroes in the statues.
This is another comment from Brad, a good friend of ours, one of the people who regularly informs this show via his website.
We're always taking stuff from Brad because he's always writing interesting things.
I say, yeah, we should talk about that.
Well, this was his opinion on the issue that we're currently discussing.
Confederate monuments remain more popular than the Republican Party.
In spite of what you may have heard about America's racial reckoning, public opinion hasn't shifted on the issue.
And only about 30% of voters nationwide want to erase Confederate symbols and monuments from the public square.
Republican voters have become even more supportive of Confederate monuments than they were years ago.
So the woke mobs in cities like Charlottesville may have temporarily toppled some of our monuments, but it has come at the price of ripping the social fabric asunder.
And it may even be worth it in the end.
I think so.
I think that's exactly right.
What we have is that only 30% are in support of it, but that's the money 30%.
We live in a dollar democracy.
Not how many votes do you have, but how much money do you have?
These people are interested in beating us down.
That's exactly what the Civil War is about, folks.
In final analysis, the abolitionist wing and the Yankees just could not give up the exquisite pleasure of bossing us, people outside of that area, around.
And that's what they're doing.
Again, they're trying to push us around the way they did back in the Civil War and before then.
And they will not tolerate any type of true compromise.
It's win at all costs in their eyes.
And they're going to do whatever it takes to stifle us, including, and not limited to, killing us.
You know, and if you look at the number of people who say they're in favor of taking down the monuments, you've got to understand that some of the people are going to say that, even though they don't really believe it, because that's what's socially expected of them.
So what I would say is the numbers, for the numbers to be this high when there's so much pressure to disavow and to walk away and to be in favor of the current political trends.
What if there was no social pressure?
What if everybody could just be who they are?
What would the numbers look like then?
You know, with all this pressure and this relentless drumbeat of hatred against our people, our people are still kicking.
Maybe not in the leadership positions, but in our hearts, we are.
We'll be right back.
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I caught a trucker out of Philly.
Had a nice long toque.
But he's headed west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee.
And I've got to get a move on before the sun.
I hear my baby calling my name.
And I know that she's the only one.
And if I die, Riley, Lisa, we die free.
So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel.
Rock me, mama, any way you feel.
Hey, mama, rock me.
Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain.
Rock me, mama, like a southbound train.
Really proud to be your correspondent here, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm proud of the work we do.
I'm proud of the people we talk to.
I'm proud of the places we go.
And I'm so proud of you and the correspondence we receive from you, this relationship that we share from program to audience, and vice versa.
This came in, Keith.
Letters like this just always, always, always put the wind in my sail.
I've had a mountain of mail that has been accumulating, and I always pluck from the mail some of the pieces of correspondence that I'd like to share on the program.
We have been so busy this year.
There hasn't been a lot of time for that, but I want to work in at least just a couple right here.
This is one that just came in a few days ago.
Dear James and Keith, I'm writing to say hello and to tell you how much I've loved your show for many years.
I'm also a bit embarrassed that I haven't donated in the past.
So we get this from people from time to time, people that have listened for years and years, and it's always so good to finally hear from them.
It was quite sad to hear, the listener writes, that you've been deplatformed and unable to accept credit card donations.
As a result, the silencing of dissenting and conservative voices is terrifying, and it doesn't appear that there is any end in sight.
So it's high time that I support the show.
And he sent in a contribution and he asked me if I'd be kind enough to send him an email to let him know that I received it.
Well, I'll do you better than that, my friend.
I'm going to answer you here live on the air.
And much more than that, we've sent you a gift package with a lot of goodies in it, and it's going to arrive to you next week.
So be on the lookout for that.
He thanks us for all that we do, Keith.
We thank him and the rest of the audience for all that they do.
That comes from a listener in Maryland.
And we get these short notes like this all the time, like this one from Frank up in New England.
Thank you for all that you do.
May God bless you and your family.
Another first-time contributor and correspondent here, Tim, writes, James, I'd like to make a donation to your program.
Really enjoy the work that you and Keith do, and I want to help it continue.
So, Keith, the audience is here, and we get to, it's especially, I think, important to give them the credit as often as we can, but even more so after the opportunity you had last week to break bread and share some in-person fellowship with so many of them.
Well, we often say that we're a voice in the wilderness, but apparently the wilderness isn't as unpopulated as we might think it is.
There are a lot of people listening in, just like those old commercials for Radio Free Europe that I saw when I was a child.
A lot of people are influenced by this program and programs like this and websites like this.
And I would encourage people to get the word out.
You know, we love your contributions.
We love your listenership.
On the other hand, we've got to recruit more people into this movement, people that know that you can't be timid in the face of the type of threats that we're facing today.
You know, we were talking about with Charles Balzman of Russia Insider about the run-up to the Bolshevik Revolution.
And he said that really the Tsar wasn't weak.
I don't think he was weak.
He just was too nice a guy.
You know, he caught Lenin dead to rights doing seditious things, doing treasonous things, and he banished him.
When the shoe was on the other foot, what did Lenin do to the Tsar and his family?
He murdered them at the first opportunity.
And I should say, I should say, and this will be brought up in the third hour, the mindset, that Bolshevik communist mindset has not changed with the left's modern day contemporaries.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, please stay tuned.
I'm going to toss it right back to Keith.
Keith is with us for the rest of this hour, and we hadn't planned to do this tribute to Bill Regnery, but I felt compelled to.
I didn't want it to appear as though we were using his passing as an occasion to draw an audience or to put attention onto ourselves.
And I debated whether or not it would be appropriate.
Obviously, if it's a member of our team, we would always do that.
And Bill was a friend, but at the same time, he was a private man.
But the thing is, it's never improper to honor the people who knew him best, Jared Taylor, Sam Dixon, Kevin McDonald.
But they're all coming up in the next hour.
The point I was going to make to your point with what the Russians did to the Tsar and what modern day people are doing, I have seen so much hatred lavished upon this good man, Bill Regnery, in the form of what you just said.
People saying, rot in hell, rest in piss.
I hope he was afraid.
I hope he was scared before he died.
I hope it hurt.
I hope his wife and children die horrible death.
I have seen all of this on Twitter.
This shows you what the spiritual essence of our opponents are.
These people are hateful, malevolent people.
They disguise themselves and for the longest time got away with portraying themselves as being voices of benevolence, like in the civil rights movement or in the feminist movement or in the homosexual marriage movement or in the no-fault divorce initiative, things like this.
They were always trying to take the moral high ground, but now the mask is off.
They feel like they've got the power and they're showing just how evil and how hateful they truly are.
Bill Regnery was the type of guy that would have gotten along with anybody.
Anybody that met him and wasn't intent upon trying to destroy him, you would have a good conversation with him.
He was a witty man.
He was a smart man.
He was a kind man.
And he was also an indispensable man without the money that he pumped into the coffers of the true conservation.
Well, namely, well, he donated to a lot of different people, but namely his organizations were the Occidental Quarterly and the National Policy.
He did his best public record.
And he also published a lot of books.
Well, his family did.
I mean, I don't know how much of a hand he had in the day-to-day operation.
They sold that in the 90s, but that was his family's legacy.
But see, that right there, this is pre-internet.
And he kept the fires burning in that pre-internet period.
And for that, he deserves all of our thanks because without him, I don't think, you know, it probably would have just passed away.
The fire would have gone out.
Well, I know one thing that would have never happened.
You know, we've been such big fans of the work of Kevin McDonald.
And especially, well, I mean, Kevin McDonald was Kevin McDonald before he became the editor of the Occidental Quarterly.
But, you know, the Occidental Quarterly certainly wouldn't exist without Bill.
Well, I mean, there is a legacy of that.
And you know what?
These are thoughtful publications.
I thought diversity was good, but apparently diversity of opinion is not good.
And this is thoughtful dissent here.
This isn't the gutter hatred like we've seen the left bestow upon Bill Regnery in the day since his passing.
This is thoughtful, well-reasoned.
You can debate it, but to say it's hatred?
No, I don't think so.
Well, see, what the left is showing with those type of comments about Bill Regnery.
And let me tell you, it wasn't a handful.
I'm sorry, Keith, but it wasn't a handful that I just cherry-picked.
It was hundreds, if not thousands, that I just glanced through in passing.
And see, what these people are showing is that they are committed to no principles of fair play.
When they say that they are, they're just gaming you.
They say that when it's like Vilfredo Pareto, the famous 19th century Italian socialist said, when I am weak, I ask you for equality and justice and fair play because those are your principles.
He said, when I am strong, I deny equality, justice, and fair play to you because that is my principle.
They're showing exactly who they are, exactly who Vilfredo Pareto.
These people just want to win, and that means that we've got to lose.
We've got to lose catastrophically.
Peaceful coexistence with people of a different mindset is not in their agenda.
And this is the thing.
I mean, you know, honestly, maybe we need to take a page out of their playbook.
Maybe we need to be a little more intolerant.
Maybe we need to be a little more ruthless, not in a maniacal or lawless way, but we need to.
And intellectually, we need to not concede to them because that doesn't work.
That's what critical theory is all about.
You don't have to reason yourself to winning a debate.
You just shout down your opponent with vituperative language.
That's what they're doing.
That's what critical race theory is.
It's just critical theory as applied to racialism.
But you want to talk about critical theory.
There was one particular piece.
I'll bring this up again in the third hour.
So when you hear me repeat this with one of the third hour guests, just be prepared for that.
But you want to talk about critical theory.
There was an article that came out about Bill Regnery.
It wasn't a lengthy article.
It was just a regular sized article, not necessarily a screed.
But there was a great comment about it that was left by an internet commenter that said it read like a piece from Pravda.
written by 8th graders and it included I had to get through and count it because I couldn't believe it It included no less than 40, 40 slurs, white supremacists, white nationalists, Nazi, neo-Nazi, extremist, bigot, Klansmen, all used to describe Bill Regnery and his associations.
40 in one article.
Now, I'm not even counting right-wing, far-right, and alt-right, which they intended to be slurs, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt because I don't consider them to be slurs.
But 40 slurs.
That was almost one percent in this article from the Hotel Post.
That's amazing.
They've learned.
They have learned from our people, you know, from their people, from Adorno and Gramsci and whatnot.
They don't have to win a debate.
They just need to amp up the story.
Critical, critical, critical.
We'll be right back.
Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President?
In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.
More babies will mean forward-looking adults, the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.
American babies in particular are likely going to be wealthier, better educated, and more conservation-minded than children raised in still industrializing countries.
As economist Tyler Cowan recently wrote, quote, by having more children, you're making your nation more populous, thus boosting its capacity to solve climate change.
The planet does not need for us to think globally and act locally so much as it needs us to think family and act personally.
The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids.
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I liked what Rick, the native New Yorker that we spent some time with last week, said about that song.
When he heard the band fire it up last week at the event in South Carolina, he said, every hair on his hand, on his arm stood up.
This is a native New Yorker.
There is something about an affirmation of who we are that is transcendent.
It transcends time and space and it transcends regions too.
I've known a lot of people up north that I would trade for a lot of skyly wags down here.
I can tell you that.
And here's the thing, folks.
You know, hate, I don't know.
I've never hated anybody enough to come in and work like this for 17 years.
Hatred is not that big of a motivating factor for me to spend time away from my family, to do this as a labor of love for as long as I've done it and to endure all the slings and arrows that come from being a person who has had success publicly in this arena.
And that, of course, makes you a target.
No, hate isn't that motivating factor.
Love, love would do it.
I do love my people enough to stand and face whatever it is, come what may.
I don't hate anybody enough to do it.
I do love my people enough to do it.
And that's the motivating factor.
I know that's where our people are coming from, Keith.
I know the people.
Unlike the media, the New York Times, all of these other articles that I've read about Bill Regnery today, written by people who never met him, never once talked to him.
No, no, but I did.
And so that's why we're going to be talking about him in the third hour.
So stay tuned for that.
We're going to have a trio of TPC mainstays.
And this is something that actually got put together just last night.
I was calling these guys at about 10 and 11 o'clock last night when I decided to pull the trigger and do this tribute.
Sam Dixon, Jared Taylor, Kevin McDonald.
Peter Brimlow is going to join us at a conflict, but he's promoting it at V-DARE.
So we're going to have a tribute to Bill Regnery.
If they can say what they're saying about him, we'll let the people who know him say something about him and then we'll let the people come if they can find where the truth is told.
Well, Regnery charts back to the civil rights movement.
He was involved.
He was country when country wasn't cool.
And let me tell you, I have an acid test for who is a true conservative and who isn't.
Because right now, conservatism is somewhat in the ascendancy because the left has made the mistake of showing exactly what they're all about.
The hatefulness that has been emanating from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, the late night talk show hosts and whatnot.
The mask is off.
And there are a lot of people claiming to be torchbearers for conservatism.
But the real acid test on whether you're an authentic conservative is what is your position on the civil rights movement.
you say that if you come down on the anti-white side or the anti-Southern side of that, you're a lost ball in high weeds.
You don't understand what it was about.
It set the blueprint for every subsequent left-wing movement.
And that's what, you know, we've got so many people that have been so browbeaten by the left that they feel they've got to concede that they are on the quote-unquote right side of the civil rights movement.
The right side of the civil rights movement was opposition to the changes that they made because that civil rights movement was the beginning of the end of traditional America.
They did this on purpose and they used it as a way to beat us down.
And Keith, as you have said, it was never so much to them.
And obviously this is true because this is incontrovertibly how it's played out.
It was never really about gaining equal standing to whites.
It was about having whites trade places with them.
And that's exactly what we're talking about.
All these smears, these slurs, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, whatever it is that they call us, they are calling everybody that now.
I mean, you know, we can't.
And what is racism?
Racism means that you're a white person now.
So, you know, all these people that feel compelled, all these church leaders, we are always against racism and whatnot.
Well, if you're always against racism in today's America, that means you are anti-white because any white person is racist.
That's what critical race theory is about.
That's what systemic racism is about.
That's what white privilege is about.
Wake up and smell the coffee, folks.
This is where the road leads.
And the thing about it is, I mean, well, it goes back to this old joke.
What do you call a black man who's proud to be black?
A black man.
What do you call a white man who's proud to be white?
A white supremacist.
And that's where we're at.
But it's gone much further than just people like Bill Regnery or those of us who do offer a dissenting point of view, a diversity of opinion, if you will, about these so-called taboo topics.
Now, keep in mind that the Regnery family sold Regnery Publishing, I believe it was in the 90s.
So the Regnery family is no longer involved in Regnery Publishing, although the name still stands because they bought the name because the name was so iconic.
And Regnery Publishing still does produce quasi-conservative tracks, but it's now people like, I think they're going to be publishing a book by Josh Hawley out of Missouri.
Now, Josh Hawley is now being called a white supremacist in a neo-Nazi.
So, I mean, really, and I wrote a book about that 10 years ago.
It wasn't published by Regnery, but it was self-published, but a lot of people have read it.
And we were onto something there where the R word is just a slur that they do to keep conservatives spinning the ball.
The reason they do it is because of the template that was set in the civil rights movement that racism was bad, white supremacy was bad, bigotry, all these words, all these labels that they hung on to the opposition to the civil rights movement.
Well, what did the civil rights movement accomplish?
Well, one thing it accomplished, particularly with Brown versus Board of Education, Topeka Board of Education, was complete another devastation of American public education.
Look at where America's public education system was in 1954 at the top of the first world.
Where is it now?
Almost at the bottom of the first world.
This is what the wonderful civil rights movement, what changes have been wrought by them.
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee, to call a spade a dirty shovel, as my wife's grandfather used to say, and tell people that this thing has been a resounding failure.
And trying to pretend that it was a resounding success is Orwellian.
It is, you know, new speak.
It is doublethink, all of those things.
And it's time that we started recognizing that people that will not criticize the civil rights movement and the fruits of the civil rights movement can't be leaders.
Because if they were leaders, they would be trying to correct the public education.
You can't correct what has gone wrong with American public education without pointing out where it went astray and why it went astray.
This is what has happened to American public education.
They are raising a generation of black and white children that hate white children.
White children are taught to hate themselves.
Black children are taught to hate white children.
Non-whites of other types, Orientals, Hispanics, they're being also taught to hate white kids.
This cannot end well.
And if you don't speak up and give our side of the argument, then the other side doesn't say, well, they're too deferential and polite to say anything.
They say they have no argument.
They have no reply.
We really hit the nail on the head.
We've got to find people to represent us that will really represent us, not people that will sell us out.
And that's what the Republican Party has done.
In this coming election, 2022, we've got to get some people that are really unashamed to say that the Republican Party, their primary constituent base are white people in America.
We've got to have people that will speak up for the interests of white people.
We can't go by half measures.
You can't be coy about this.
We need some champions, just like all the left constituency groups have their champions.
They're just saying that they think is the pathway to power is just embarrassing, really.
Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Martin Luther King was a conservative.
Democrats were the real racists.
Martin Luther King would have really been against critical race theory, and he would have been on our side.
You know, Bernice King came out this week and said, stop misrepresenting my father.
He was not one of these Republicans.
Sean Hannity would have been an anathema to him.
These type of people.
Well, Sean Hannity is an anathema to us.
Yeah, well, the thing is, trying to put, see, Martin Luther King was an opportunist just like Vilfredo Pareto, as I was saying before.
He would say what was necessary to further his argument at the time.
But did he have any commitment to those principles of fair play, like I want my daughters to be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character?
Heck no, he wants them judged according to the color of their skin.
And by the time of his death, he was coming right out with that.
He was in support of affirmative action.
He was in support of black reparations and things like this.
Don't ever be under any, you know, what Martin Luther King said in the early 60s was opportunism, pure and simple.
All right, Keith Alexander, we'll talk to you next week a little bit of a change in programming from what we were considering a few days ago.
But a tribute to Bill Regnery featuring Sam Dixon, Jared Taylor, and Kevin McDonald.
It's coming your way in the next hour.
And I'll be there with it as well.
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