Welcome back to the Dershow. Today I want to talk about the heritage and the legacy of

the United States Constitution and how it has endured longer than any constitution in

the history of the world. When I talk about the constitution, I mean to include also the

Bill of Rights in fact. I'm wearing my Bill of Rights tie. I also included in it the

14th Amendment and many of the other amendments, some of which are technical. Many of the others

of which convey rights. The right of women to vote, the right of young people to vote,

the right of people to vote without regard to race or religion. So it's an incredible

innovation that occurred on the shores of the United States in the last part of the 18th

century. And today it's being devalued. It's being manipulated. It's being exploited. And it's

being weaponized. All in the interest of partisan and identity politics. Today the constitution,

for many people, means what they wanted to mean. There are leading constitutional experts,

they call themselves experts, their advocates, who want to interpret the constitution to promote

their own personal values, political values, ideological values, racial values, you name it. But they

don't see the constitution as an objective or neutral guardian of liberty for all. It's due

process for me, but not for thee, for speech for me, but not for thee, freedom of religion, for me,

but not for thee. We've seen advocates both on the left and on the right, particularly hard

left and hard right throughout history that have tried to manipulate the constitution. But I've

never seen the court as bad as I see it today, particularly from the woke hard left, people who

you would expect more from. I grew up during McCarthyism, when it was the extreme right that was

trying to abolish the First Amendment and do process and use the mechanisms of the constitution to

promote their ideology. But in the last 10 years or so, perhaps even a little bit more, it's been

the woke hard left that has tried to weaponize the constitution. And so today I want to do what

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