Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. We've got a great guest and book today that needs very little

introduction. Speaking with Florida Senator Marco Rubio is making his return of hearings on the

Realignment. We are going to discuss his new book, Decades of Decadence, Power of Spoiler

Deletes, Blue America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security and Prosperity. By the way, if you'd like

to get more into the Decadence topic and critique, definitely listen back to Soger and my interviews

across Douthit, about his 2020 book, which was all about Decadence itself. Hope you all enjoy

this conversation and quick note recording another one of our Q&A episodes. So if you'd like to get

the full episode, go to Realignment.supercast.com or click the link right in the show notes.

Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation. We're going to work in this podcast.

Hope you'll enjoy the episode.

Senator Marco Rubio, welcome back to the Realignment.

Thank you. Thanks for having me back.

Yeah, it's great to have you back. We had you in 2020 and lots of things have happened between

now and then let's just start with the very obvious things. It's been a while since we had

Rost out that on to talk about Decadence. So listeners are going to need to refresh. What is Decadence?

I think Decadence obviously you can go to the dictionary version of it, but my view of it is

this belief that we can do whatever we wanted, that things that have always mattered to every country,

every society, every culture throughout human history didn't matter anymore. That somehow we could

afford to drive public policy on the basis of theory completely unsupported by what

5,500 years of human history teaches us about human nature, about reality, about truth.

You know, Decadence is pretending that the Sun isn't going to rise in the East every day because

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