Historian: Correcting Myths of The Founding Fathers | C. Bradley Thompson Interview

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to C. Bradley Thompson (Professor, Clemson University) about the origins of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the American Mind. He debunks some of the myths about slavery in America at the time of the founding fathers and discusses their changing views and why it is more complicated than 1619 project from the New York Times would have you believe. C. Bradley talks about why the philosophical origins of the Declaration of Independence began in 1765. C. Bradley shares one of Donald Trump’s unique accomplishments, taking on the deep state. He also discusses if Donald Trump is in fact a moral person and if morality and virtue are personality traits we should expect in a president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.
0:06.4	Reminder guys to subscribe to our YouTube channel and click that pesky notification bell.
0:12.0	And joining me today is a professor of political philosophy at Clemson University and author
0:17.4	of the new book, America's Revolutionary Mind, a moral history of the American Revolution
0:23.7	and the Declaration that defined it.
0:26.4	See Bradley Thompson.
0:27.6	Welcome back to the Rubin Report.
0:29.4	Hi Dave, great to see you again.
0:31.7	It's good to have you Brad.
0:33.9	Well, we have to do what we legally have to do first, which is I have to ask you how you're
0:38.7	coping with COVID.
0:40.5	How's it going down at the university?
0:42.4	How's life?
0:43.0	What's going on with the school and the rest of that stuff before we get into the book?
0:47.2	Sure, everything's fine here.
0:49.4	The university's been closed now for about two months.
0:52.6	We finished the last month of the semester or so online, which was new and different.
0:58.9	But it actually worked pretty well.
1:00.4	I teach a seminar with 10 students and we did it by Zoom and that was fine.
1:05.7	But otherwise, I've been sitting every day all day in my, what I call my red neck office,
1:11.4	which is outside here in warm South Carolina and working on writing my next book.
1:18.9	You're a capitalist.
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