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Slack.com slash DHQ. Once again, last night, the Republican candidates

for president gathered to debate how to keep America safe from an enemy dedicated to the

destruction of everything we hold dear. But for all their big talk, Hillary Clinton

is still at large. Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clayton, and this is the Andrew Clayton

show. I love that, Trump. We need a theme song. We have to get to show a theme song. We're

working on it, folks. The people are getting the music together, and I'll sing it myself,

by Collie. We'll have it all soon. All right, so the debate I have so much to say today

that I have a feeling that I'm actually not going to be able to say it all and may continue

into the next day. I want to talk about the debate. We sort of have to talk about the

debate, but I don't want to talk about it from the position of political opinion. If you

want to talk about national security, you can get a national security expert. I'm here

to talk about the culture. I just want to talk about my reactions to the culture, my

cultural reactions to the debate. We talk a lot on the show about periods in Western

history when Western ideals go out of fashion. It's almost as if Western thought were a tower

resting on the twin pillars of Jesus and Socrates, a Jew and a gay guy. The tower is built

on them, and we build ideas on them. Then every now and again, people start to think,

oh, we can just leap off the tower and fly after those ideals and touch them like we're

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