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Hey, folks. Welcome to the show, or to this part of the show. I have the privilege and joy of having, as my guest, in this hour, someone many of you are familiar with Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. He is, as you probably know, if you know anything about him,

a Christian constitutional conservative. So am I. He is a combat veteran. 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. As you know, I am currently the senator from the great state of Wyoming. Actually, just kidding. Alan West, Colonel, welcome the program.

It's good to be back with you, Eric, and thanks for lowering your standards and allowing

an old paratrooper to come on.

An old paratrooper, yeah.

I don't think anybody thinks of you that way, but thank you for being so humble.

I got to ask you, there's a lot to talk about, but you wrote an article.

You write a weekly article for townhall.com. And the new one is called the pitfalls

of identity politics. Let's just start there. What is the gist of what you have to say there

in the new article at townhall.com? Sure. Well, I think that when you start to listen to this whole thing about equity, what it

means is that we're not going to be judging people based upon their character or, you

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