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Our guest today is Tyler O'Neill, senior editor at The Daily Signal,

an author of the new book, The Woktipus,

The Dark Money Cabal manipulating the federal government.

Thank you so much for joining us, Tyler, on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Hey, thanks so much for having me, Matt.

It's an interesting title, and I know what it means right away.

You look at it and you say, hmm, this book is filled with tentacles, is it not?

Yes, very much so. So, yeah, the woktopus is this octopus that's driving the woke ideology.

And my basic intention is that the woke elites that want to control the way that you and I think and the way that you and I

live have infiltrated the federal government. So, you know, it's funny, there are a lot of onions

to peel back here, layers of the onion to peel back. For those of us who are lucky enough to be told about the Constitution in school,

you know, I almost assume that people have, but unfortunately, I can't assume that anymore.

But those of us who do know about the Constitution and learned about the Constitution,

it's nifty checks and balances and the way that congress and the president

and the supreme court are supposed to work well you can pretty much forget much of that

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