Thank you for the warm welcome.

It's going to be a different kind of speech tonight.

I've been giving mostly campaign trail-style speeches,

but this is a different type of conversation we're going to have tonight

about what I see as an interesting, friendly, intellectual

rift within our own America First National Conservative movement. But before I get into that

rift, I want to say a word about the man who I hope we are going to be successful in putting

back in the White House.

Donald Trump is not only the 45th, but the 47th President of the United States.

And accomplishing that goal this year is certainly more important than anything we're going to accomplish in this room today.

But we all agree on that already.

I talked to the man twice today, and every time the sense of energy and revival that he brings

to our party is something that's not lost on me, and that's where I actually want to begin.

It's going to be a tour of a short history since 2016 and what Donald Trump did in the eight

years since he first ran for U.S. president.

The thing that made him so compelling as a candidate in that 2016 primary was that unlike

the other candidates, he didn't just blindly parrot the party's historical orthodoxy

with fancy verbiage wrapped around it. He offered an entirely

new worldview, actually, one that shattered the historical neoliberal consensus to its core,

but one that had by that point become pervasive in the Republican Party. He offered a nationalist

vision for America's future. On foreign policy, he reimagined our relationships with other countries.

He rejected the idea that it was America's job to be the arbiter between the good guys and the bad guys.

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