Revisiting A Conservative View of the Vigilante Right

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mona Charen discusses the true meaning of conservative and the radical shift in the GOP.

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0:00.9	What would you consider a patriotic act?
0:03.6	I have no idea, neither.
0:05.2	Representing like where you come from.
0:06.9	It depends on what patriotism is perceived as, right?
0:10.4	It's nice when people are proud of their country,
0:13.2	but I think when patriotism is seen as exclusive,
0:16.4	then I think it's not really patriotism anymore.
0:18.8	Would you consider patriotism a good or a bad thing today?
0:22.4	I guess more negative side.
0:23.8	Patriotism is never a bad thing.
0:25.5	I don't feel it.
0:26.5	It is a good thing at all.
0:28.0	I would like to distance from that term completely.
0:30.4	It seems people who are patriotic go towards like a nationalist extreme.
0:36.6	It's an abused term used to justify things that are running your society.
0:40.8	Wights of pharmacy and white power.
0:42.6	It's a really good way to get people to do what you want them to do
0:46.3	without them questioning it, which is it's unpatriotic.
0:49.2	I want to go around bragging, that I'm a patriot, I'm sorry.
0:52.0	This is the United States of anxiety.
0:59.4	I'm Kai Wright and welcome to the show.
1:02.5	It's happening again, or really, honestly, it just never stopped,
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