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The Eric Metaxas Show

Allen West

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Former Congressman Col. Allen West discusses his latest column: "The Pitfalls of Identity Politics."

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Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12 Eric Metaxa. Hey folks welcome to the show

1:17.5

which is this part of the show. I have the privilege and joy of having as my guest in this hour

1:25.8

someone many of you are familiar with Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. He is as you probably know

1:32.4

if you know anything about him a Christian constitutional conservative so am I. He is a combat veteran.

1:39.7

I am not. He's a former member of the U.S. Congress. I'm also not a former member of the U.S. Congress.

1:46.1

As you know I'm currently the senator from the great state of Wyoming actually just kidding.

1:51.8

Allen West Colonel welcome the program. It's good to be back with the Eric and thanks for

1:57.4

lowering your standards and allowing an old paratrooper to come on. An old paratrooper yeah I don't

2:02.4

think anybody thinks of you that way but thank you for for being so humble. I gotta ask you there's

2:08.4

a lot to talk about but you wrote an article you write a weekly article for townhall.com and the

2:14.4

new one is called the pitfalls of identity politics. Let's just let's just start there. What is the

2:25.0

gist of what you have to say there in the in the new article at townhall.com? Sure well I think that

2:31.7

when you start to listen to this whole thing about equity what it means is that we're not going to

2:36.3

be judging people based upon their character or you know evaluating them based upon merit merit

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