What do we owe to the pilgrims and what's our favorite side dish?

We'll discuss all this more on the special Thanksgiving edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always, by the right honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the Lappidary, Ramesh, Peneeru, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brennan Doherty.

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all the way back and start with the big questions and the run up to Thanksgiving here.

We're recording on Monday. We're going to post on Wednesday. How much does it

matter that among the first settlers from Britain here in North America were a godly people

determined to set up a godly society? Well, not all them are godly.

There are some so-called strangers on those initial ships that were secular British folks,

just looking to become tradesmen and whatnot.

But the purpose of this voyage was to set up a new godly society.

How much does that matter?

How much does that contribute to the American character? It matters hugely.

The success of America means that forever in the existence of sentient

life in the universe, theocratic settler colonialism is awesome and should be praised.

You should print T-shirts.

Theocratic settler colonialism is awesome.

No, it matters hugely.

We have had this character imprinted on us from before the founding documents of being a new

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