Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, our two.

Greetings conversationalists across the fruited plane.

It is Eric Erickson here.

I am delighted to have you with me.

The phone number is 877-97-97-9-7-3-7-4-25.

As promised, some of you would like to weigh in on the farce we witnessed last night,

and I am very happy to do that. I want to play one more piece of audio

for you before we go on, and this was, it was nice to hear one of the candidates bring this up last

night. It was DeSantis on the Chinese cultural influence in America. And the reason why we're in this mess is

because elites in D.C. for far too long

have chosen surrender over strength when it comes to the CCP. Some people in our country got rich,

our industrial base got hollowed out, and they have been able to build the second most powerful

military in the entire world. We need a totally new approach to China. We are going to have real hard power

in the Indo-Pacific, like Reagan, to deter their ambitions. We're going to have economic independence

from China, where we're decoupling our economy. And we are going to go after the cultural power

they have in this country. As governor of Florida, I ban the CCP from buying land in our state.

We should do that all across these United States. We shouldn't have them in our university.

We shouldn't have Confucius Institutes. Amen. We've got to get rid of the Confucius institutes.

And good for DeSantis saying that. 877-97-9-73-7-4-25.

Alex, you're going to be up first.

Welcome.

Hey, Eric, how are you doing today?

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