Joining us on the line is Senator Ted Cruz, the Center for Texas Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee has a brand new book out called Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. Senator, thanks for joining each. I really appreciate it. Ben, great to be with you. Thanks for having me on. So, honestly, I'm not sure that you've ever written a more timely book. The book is about how Marxism has gained such a foothold in America. And you can see how it spread its tentacles nearly everywhere.

When people are wondering why you see wide coalitions, The book is about how Marxism has gained such a foothold in America. And you can see how it spread

its tentacles nearly everywhere. When people are wondering why you see wide coalitions of people marching

in support of Hamas, the answer is that cultural Marxism has a lot to do with it. Why don't you talk a little

bit about what we are saying on the streets of our major cities these days, people ripping down

posters, trying to justify terrorist atrocities. Where is all this coming from?

Well, look, you're exactly right. We're seeing manifestations of this every day. And I wrote the book

because like millions of Americans, I'm looking at the country wondering what the hell is going on.

How did we get in this mess? And so this book tries to explain it. And it examines how the radical

left has seized each of the major institutions of our society. And so chapter one focuses on

universities, which I call the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. Universities are where the virus

was created, where it mutated, where it spread.

And then each chapter goes to a different institution.

So it goes from universities to K through 12 education, to journalism, to government, to big business, to big tech, to entertainment, to science.

And the last chapter is China, which is a nexus that connects all of them. Now, you ask how

cultural Marxism is producing what's happening right now. I explain the origins of this, that

Marxism began, as you know, with Karl Marx writing the Communist Manifesto and describing his

worldview that we have an inevitable conflict

between oppressors and victims.

And he viewed it in socioeconomic terms.

So his oppressors were the owners of capital.

His victims were the proletariat, the working man.

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