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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP27: Hour 3 - The Beginning of the End of the GOP

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Is the Republican Party in trouble? Here's my take.

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0:00.0

Hello there. How are you? It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 87797977-9-7-37-4-25. Should you wish to be a part of this program? Someone who wants to be on the program is Tim. You are up next. Welcome.

0:22.8

Thank you. How are you, sir? I'm great. How are you?

0:27.1

Good. Going back to what we were talking, you were talking about earlier about Harvard and

0:33.1

races. I mean, if you look at today's society, the government itself, everything they want to do is either made about race or as racial outcomes are based on it.

0:46.5

I mean, today, they're, you know, they're talking about the Supreme Court nominee.

0:51.7

Instead of just saying, we're going to pick the best person, you know, they call out,

0:56.1

we're going to have a black woman, period.

0:58.6

I mean, that comes across the affirmative action, somewhat racist.

1:06.0

I went in the military in early 80s.

1:09.3

And when I went in for an entry's exam, as a Caucasian, we had a

1:14.5

certain score we had to reach. A black male had a lower score, and then a Hispanic male had a

1:22.2

lower score than that. And so they were all equal. They broke it out by race as to what we had to score to get in.

1:30.3

I mean, our government as a whole is the one who perpetuates the systematic racism they all want to talk about.

1:38.2

That's what I think.

1:39.5

You're right.

1:40.5

And not only that, it perpetuates doubts, envies, resentments along the way.

1:48.4

It's deeply frustrating from my vantage point that we are in this sort of situation in the United States.

1:57.7

I don't find it helpful.

2:01.1

I find it degrading and there will be people will say,

2:04.5

well, you're a white dude.

2:07.7

It's true.

2:09.4

I am reflectively white.

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