Clay Travis (31:46)
I don't think we talk about it enough as a society. I love that Trump said this is maybe the greatest partnership in the history of the world. I think he's right. And we are all in debts of gratitude for Western civilization and what it has provided all of us around the world, in terms of economic, in terms of basic human rights, in terms of all of the freedoms that we in many ways take for granted. They're all rooted in the exceptionalism of Western Civilization and much of so called, so called woke collective culture is really just about tearing down the fabric of Western civilization and arguing that it's rooted in illegitimacy. And once you see that that is what's going on, it becomes so important that all of us stand up and speak stridently and forthrightly in favor of Western civilization and basic human rights around the world, everywhere. And that's why it was so dastardly, that's why it was so pernicious. When the New York Times decided, hey, we're going to redefine American history through the prism of slavery as opposed to the American Revolution, because they knew exactly what they were doing. If, as Nikole Hannah Jones, for instance, in the New York Times, decided, they didn't say, hey, America's founding happened in 1492, you know how most people really don't talk about that? And when I'm saying 1492, obviously I'm talking about the discovery of the New World, Columbus, all of that. Because from 1492 to 1619, there was no slavery in the colonies. There was indentured servitude, but no slavery. So for whatever the math is on that, the first 140 years of the New World, there was no slavery, and then there was slavery from 1619 to 1863, but only about 80 years of that was the American Republic allowing slavery. So they don't take 1492 as the founding. They don't take 1776, when we declared independence and became a independent country, as the founding. They say 1619 is the founding of the United States because effectively, that's the time that the first slaves from Africa arrived on United States shore. And if this is really important, but if they can define America as fundamentally rooted in the illegitimacy of slavery, then they can tear down the entire fabric of the country. It's all very calculated. It's all based in story. How do we define the story of the United States? Is it one primarily defined by triumph, or is it one primarily defined by evil and, and an awful exploitation? If it is awful and exploitative, then everything that is built is rooted in a foundation of illegitimacy and hence can be swept away. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, none of it means anything. And that's what they're actually after. And I think Trump gets it. I know JD Vance gets it at his essence and at his core. And all of you, if you haven't really spent enough time thinking about it, spend more time thinking about it. All of this is rooted in Western civilization. And certainly Charlie Kirk got it. And in fact, if you look at that big picture and if you contemplate it, it's also rooted in religion in many ways. And even if you are listening to me right now and you are not religious, as I know some of you are, maybe even many of you, we all benefit from other people who are religious because their attempt to live a more honorable life benefits all of us. You sin less. You engage in violent behavior. Yeah. Less you think about the larger context of your life as you're going to be judged for it, which in general leads to better life choices. And all of that is rooted in Western civilization, which I do think Trump was right in that. Toast. The United States and England have historically stood for more than any countries in the world, at least in recent history. Now, what does it say that many of these countries that have basked in the legitimacy of Western civilization for a very long time, Italy, England, Germany, France, many of these Western European countries are now turning their back on Western civilization. We, and this is kind of wild to think about, have actually infected them with the WOKE virus. And it has run rampant, I would argue, in those countries even more now than it has here, where I think Trump is acting in many ways as an inoculation against the WOKE virus. It hasn't happened yet in Europe. And in fact, if you go back and look at the way that the WOKE virus has spread all throughout Western Europe, they blamed us for bringing it to them, and yet their countries may be more susceptible to it because they don't have a Donald Trump. Just think about it. I, I, I was, you know, nerd style as I watched some of that state dinner, thinking about the mutuality of impact and how Western Europe certainly has created the republic that we're fortunate enough to live in right now and how much smarter and better versed in history our founders were because they learned from all of recorded history the flaws that prior governments had made when they tried to build our own. And now this WOKE virus, which I like to think that we have extinguished to a large degree in this country, although there's still pockets that need to be attacked and inoculated against, it actually is running more rampant in Europe right now than it even is here. And I hope we can change that. We'll take some of your calls. I want to dive into the Jimmy Kimmel thing a bit more, Buck. Like I said, on the road, he'll have you tomorrow solo, when I'm traveling up to Michigan to be one of the keynote speakers at their big event up there. 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