Early in an election year, rules for retrogrades announced Catholic Minimal Government Week.

This is what we call KathminGov Week, and we have five exciting guests.

On Monday, Father Robert Serico, on Tuesday, Mr. Trent Horn, on Wednesday, Miss Stephanie Slade of Reason.

On Thursday, Dr. Samuel Gregg, on Friday, Robert R. Riley.

And on Saturday, we have a special surprise guest.

It's an early election year, and the stakes have never been higher.

We need Catholic minimum government.

Welcome, parish orders and retrogrades to day five. Exciting day five of KathminGov Week here on Rules for Retrogrades.

My brother Dave and co-host is still in transit to the Midwest there, the war-torn Midwest, as we're all watching our television screens.

And so I did this week, Memorial Day Week, what's been called over five very effective days, Catholic minimum government week, each day with an exciting guest.

A more exciting guest than the last, I'll say here on Friday with my friend, Robert R. Riley, Bob, it's great to see you. We've talked a lot on the

phone. This is the first time we've ever Skyped. How the heck are you? Great, Tim. It's a pleasure

to be with you, to say the least.

And you, I don't do extensive bios here when I have a guest on Rules for Retrogrades,

but Bob, you're the author of a number of excellent books and have such an extensive bio that it's intimidating to read.

Today we're going to be talking about your book, America on Trial, A Defense of the Founding.

It's an excellent book.

It hits very dear to my heart and my mind because it's really a concomitant piece to Catholic Republic.

I have a skateboard deck made in the fashion of my book Catholic Republic. And we consulted a lot over the last two years on compared notes a lot

as you wrote this book. It's particularly important to have you on today because America is indeed

on trial. Yes, from the left liberals and the,

you know, barely concealed socialist. Who cares about them, right? They don't really matter that

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