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Somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-descript building, we once again make contact with our leader, Mike Lodin.

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What did I say? 877-3813811-877-3813811. Sorry.

Probably a pizza place. Don't call the other one.

There's a wonderful piece in the city journal by Harry Stein, spring 2019, the red decade redo.

And I want to get into this with you, because it really cuts across so much of what's going on in this country.

And as I give you a few excerpts from this piece,

you've been watching the media this weekend, you've been watching the Sunday shows, you've been watching the vicious interrogation of the president,

rude reporters interrupting him, all pushing the same agenda, whether it's immigration or climate change and so forth.

What I try to get across and unfreetom of the press, and you'll notice the cover is red, for a reason.

Is that this is a very, very, very dangerous thing the media in this country are doing.

And then, of course, being progressive, hardcore leftists, they attack people who disagree with them, whether it's certain hosts on Fox, whether it's me, whatever it is.

It's not enough to engage, it's not enough to a debate, they wish to destroy.

And this has been a long time practice of the left.

And it's happening in the media today.

So in this piece, Harry Stein writes about Eugene Lyons, who, by the way, happens to be in my book too.

It a book he wrote in 1941, called The Red Decade.

And he writes in part, looking back from a time when, according to surveys, more millennials would rather live under socialism than capitalism.

It's apparent that author Eugene Lyons was documenting not just a historical moment in 1941, but also a species of historical illiteracy, as unchanging as it is poisonous.

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