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There's this argument going on among artists.

They're like, oh, there's no such thing as a conservative artist.

They're all leftists or you're a silent conservative.

That's what is expected out of you.

And I'm not a silent conservative.

My name is out there. It's been out there for a long. And I'm not a silent conservative. My name is out there.

It's been out there for a long time.

I don't believe in shutting my mouth.

And if no one wants to hire me, I consider that their problem.

Let's just take that recent image of the four box of the girl on the train.

Just tell us a little bit about how you bring, you know,

these ideas or images to life in your art.

One of the most challenging things, in my opinion,

is how to capture culture in a way that's outside of what we're traditionally inundated

with political punditry or, you know, hammering people on YouTube or calling people out.

You know, I think there's always a unique way that can emerge through a medium that I've

been passionate about since I was a little kid and that's through art or that's through

writing or poetry or whatever it might be. And so today's guess, George Alexopoulos, is,

I don't want to call him a conservative artist or a right-wing

artist, because I don't think that's appropriate to constrain any artist in that measure.

But certainly George's images have and are having a profound impact on kind of the social consciousness of the conservative movement.

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