This is Bucks First Thoughts. The news you need to get for your day in 45 minutes. Make

sure you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts.

The purge is underway, as you know. In fact, it's gaining steam and they'll tell you that

it is for the worst elements of our society. They'll tell you that it's about getting

rid of white supremacist, domestic terrorists, awful, violent people, insurrectionists. But

when you listen to the actual language they use, it's much broader than that. It's really

an attempt to try to smear anyone who is right of center. If they voted for Trump, if

they were a part of any of the pro Trump rallies, particularly after the election, they must

be evil. And our institutions have to be cleansed of this. And cleansing is obviously a

term that should put everyone's hair on their arms standing up. That's not something

that we should be thinking of when we're talking about government bodies and especially

when you're looking at the military. But this is now the plain language of the Democrat

party today. You've got Joe Biden, for example, who's out there talking about white supremacy

as an enemy that we must combat. And I would just say, as we look at this, we need to remember

that this is a group of people. When you're talking about actual white supremacists, it's

a group of people who are marginalized and maligned all throughout society, including

on the right and rightly so. But how often do we go around really worried about flat

earthers overtaking the scientific community? I mean, how often do we go around thinking

that some fringe group of lunatics are really about to overthrow the United States government

or some radical, violent extremist entity from within is just days away from trying to

launch some kind of a coup. There's a hysteria around this. We should all recognize that.

We should see it for what it is. And it's very concerning to me because I've been

...