Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Folks, welcome to hour two of the Eric Mataxis show.

I'm playing the role of Eric Metaxis.

Go with it.

Suspend your disbelief.

John's Merak is playing himself.

John, at the end of Hour 1, you were talking about some really disturbing stuff.

Unfortunately, we have to go back there.

What you just said, that the folks that trespassed, which to me seems like technical

trespassing, most of these people had no idea they were trespassing. I know people who were in

the Capitol on that day, and they told me about it. And these are the sweetest people.

I mean, no kidding. These are the kindest, sweetest people,

people of deep faith. They were just wandering around, thrilled to be where they were. They

weren't part of any, anything coming near to the idea of insurrection. They're being demonized.

They're being arrested, investigated by the FBI.

I know some of these people.

You're telling me, you've told my audience, that Julie Kelly wrote an article at American

greatness saying that in order to get out of 23-hour solitary confinement lockdown, the public defenders of these poor people are saying that they will read books on critical race theory and all of this nonsense.

I simply can't believe that in America this is happening. I cannot,

John, I can hardly believe it. Eric, it's worse than that. They're being subjected to denotification.

They're being given books about the Holocaust, as if they were neo-Nazis or Holocaust deniers.

With the left has a very clear message. The message is if you disagree with us,

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