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comes to getting things done, the image of the thing matters an awful, awful lot. And this is something Democrats have

understood for a very long time, that the image that any particular department gives off has

a cultural impact. There are people like me who learned from Andrew Breitbart who said that

politics is downstream from culture. But the truth is, it's more of a cycle. It's more that

politics is downstream of culture,

which is downstream of politics, which is downstream of culture. What I mean by this is that

politics, the power of government, can in fact shape culture to its own whims. And so if you

give off an image of DEI or ESG from the government, you create an unofficial sanction against people who disagree.

Sometimes you have actual formal strictures against people who disagree.

In other words, the government does an awful lot to shape culture in this country.

This is something the left is understood for a very long time in a way that the right

traditionally has not, and that includes people like me, because I tend

to believe that the government should have a set of delegated powers, and the government performs those delegated powers, and we elect that government. So really culture should shape our politics should shape our governance. But the truth is, it works the other way too. And this is a point that many people on the MAGA right have been making for a long time, is that when you have, for example, a defense department that decides that it's going to put out ads that feature lesbian families

finding themselves, that this actually has an impact on the kind of people who are recruited

into the military. And that in turn has an impact on how people think of the military. And that in turn

has an impact on how people around the world think of the United States. And they're not wrong about this. That's obviously true. The reason I say this is because

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