David Rutherford Show: How Communism Took Over Public Schools | Robert Bortins
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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ποΈ 4 February 2026
β±οΈ 49 minutes
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Summary
π Today, David sits down with Robert Bortins, who co-authored the book Woke and Weaponized: How Karl Marx Won the Battle for American Education with journalist Alex Newman.
Robert breaks down the hidden historical blueprint behind modern ideological capture — from early collectivist movements and Prussian education models, to teachers colleges, federal bureaucracy, and the modern classroom.
This isn’t just theory. Robert argues today’s public school system isn’t “broken” — it’s wildly successful at producing the outcomes it was designed for.
Find Robert’s Book Here: https://robertbortins.com/woke-and-weaponized/
Timestamps:
00:00 - Investigating The Root Cause of Wokeness In America
05:13 - The Hidden History of Corrupt Public Education
09:50 - Why Business Tycoons Funded Leftist Education
12:51 - How Marx Infiltrated Public Education
17:05 - When The Active Decline of Education Began
25:01 - How Schools Deceive Parents on What’s Being Taught
30:13 - Schools Now Teach Activism
38:10 - How Current Activist Protests Come From The Education System
42:38 - How Do We Fix Schools?
47:00 - How To Learn More
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | It's obvious that the revolutionary spirit is becoming overwhelming in the United States. |
| 0:13.3 | And today, we're going to get into where that comes from, why it started, and what you can do about it by reviewing woke and weaponized a book by Robert Bortons. |
| 0:26.3 | Today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:39.9 | Robert, welcome to the show. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm really excited about digging into this issue. |
| 0:49.8 | As everybody who's paying attention to what's going on in America right now knows, |
| 0:53.4 | the activists that we're seeing all over the country, |
| 0:56.1 | in particular in Minnesota, these are people that are trained activists. And what it would appear by looking at their manuals, |
| 1:03.2 | whether it's Antifa or the socialist movements they come from, all of this originates basically |
| 1:08.8 | in Marxist ideology. Now, you and the award-winning journalist Alex |
| 1:17.4 | Newman got together and did a deep dive on this and wrote a book about the whole thing called |
| 1:24.3 | Woke and Weaponized. And thetalk title of that is how Carl Marx won the |
| 1:30.8 | battle for American education. Let's just start out. What made you want to dig into this and write a |
| 1:38.6 | book about this? Yeah, David, I homeschool my three young kids and I just see this country going in the wrong direction. |
| 1:46.1 | And there's so many goodhearted people that are trying to make it better for us, |
| 1:50.6 | people like Donald Trump. |
| 1:52.2 | And, you know, there's a lot of political pundits on the right. |
| 1:57.0 | And to fix a problem, you have to understand the root cause. And a lot of times I see solutions |
| 2:04.1 | that maybe correct an issue, but aren't addressing the root cause. And so Alex and I wanted to go back |
| 2:12.0 | to the root cause. How did we get to where we are today? Because you and I grew up in an America |
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