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Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

What Should The Right Want? w/ Michael Knowles

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.9992 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The Right is arguably more fractured than ever before. Why is that, how did we get to this point, and what should we do about it? Nick sits down with Michael Knowles to ask him: What Should the Right Want?

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0:00:00 Intro

00:01:23 The Divide on the Right

00:03:39 Where Does Michael Knowles Fall on the Right?

00:08:22 Was the American Revolution a Liberal Project?

00:15:10 The American Founding has been Redefined by the Left

00:21:55 Liberalism and Individualism

00:27:15 What Should We be Working Towards?

00:34:20 Religion and Politics

00:44:11 How Michael Responds to Objections

00:49:16 What is the Proper Role of Government?

01:00:29 The Cultural Foundation of America

01:02:47 What Should the Right Want?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to Making the Argument. I have a special guest today continuing on our series of what should the right want. And this particular gentleman has not just been preparing to answer this question his entire life, but he's also been preparing to launch another crusade. And I got to go out there and train with him a little bit on that. And again,

0:22.8

I'm telling you, I'm encouraged. I encourage. I think this guy, now that he's properly armed,

0:27.4

I fully trust Michael Knowles to lead us back into the glorious days of the kingdom of Jerusalem.

0:33.1

So Michael, how are you doing, sir? I'm doing very well, Nick. I want to let you know that I've trained very hard. I'm not sure that using the excommunicator that you gave me, I'm not sure I could blow the enemy's head off, but I could hit my head with the recoil. So I know I've got that. And I want you to know that over Thanksgiving, you scandalized my father-in-law, who is a little bit on the other side of the aisle.

0:57.8

He's a New Yorker, not very familiar with guns.

1:00.7

I said, hey, you want to see something crazy?

1:05.1

What?

1:05.7

What is that?

1:06.8

Oh, yeah.

1:07.5

Jerusalem process.

1:08.2

If you wanted to introduce a member of the left or

1:12.2

left to a firearm, the excommunicator Desert Eagle 50 Cal is definitely the way to do.

1:19.7

Way to ease him into it there, Michael.

1:22.8

Well, as I said, we've, you know, we've done a lot of these interviews so far talking about what

1:27.8

should the right want because we're all pretty, we're all pretty sure about what we don't want.

1:33.2

And there seems to be a lot of what, what Doug Wilson referred to as co-belligerence

1:38.5

when it comes to trying to defeat wokeism, modern progressivism.

1:43.8

But co-belligerence doesn't necessarily mean allies.

1:46.7

And so one of the whole purposes of this is try to figure out what do we actually want,

1:51.3

right, instead of just focusing on what we don't want.

1:53.8

And so I'm going to start this off by framing it up with three categories.

1:59.5

And the first category is, could probably be described as I

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