And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

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to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is political strategist and policy

leader John Tillman, author of the new book, Political Vice, How the Radical Left Controls America

and the path to regaining our liberty.

John, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Great to be with you, Matt. Thanks for having me on.

Absolutely. You have seen a lot of the left in Illinois.

You have covered politics and policy for a long time.

And I think the left is the dominant feature, the radical left is the dominant feature in Illinois under

Governor J.B. Pritzker.

Give us a little sense of how all of this domination from the left started. Because you ask a very

interesting question. How does the radical left keep winning even when it's losing?

The radical left understands that politics is about pressure.

And in order to apply pressure to politicians in the political system, you have to gain power.

And where does power come from?

Power comes from media capacity.

Power comes from being able to

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