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I know we're all supposed to spend this week every moment, every day, just listening to

all the analysis from the Trump haters out there of how he incited an insurrection, how

this was worse than 9-11, how if you, if you don't agree with people who are exaggerating

and, and in pure hysterics over the riot of January 6th, you're complicit, you're a bad

person.

I don't want to do that.

Instead I want to talk to you about something that I think is a longer term and much more

minute issue for American politics because it's everywhere.

It's all over and it's ruining our country every day.

It's not a one off.

It's not just a thing where you can point to a few bad actors.

It's all over the place and it is the wokeness.

And you have now a story in the daily mail that I found very interesting and it is essentially

telling us, well, here's the title out of control, woke leftism and cancel culture from

the US is a threat to France because it attacks the nation's heritage and identity according

to French politicians and intellectuals.

I'm explaining why I think this is so important.

During the post 9-11 period known as the global war on terror, there were a handful of

countries that were known as the main exporters of jihadism, which is the radical Islamic belief

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