Why Does Thanksgiving Matter? | Dr. Kevin Roberts

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for this year’s awkward dinner table political discussion? If not, don’t worry. Dr. Kevin Roberts joins the podcast to talk about why Thanksgiving is still important for Americans and how conservatives should approach this special holiday.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.7	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.4	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.5	To remind the current regime.
0:18.6	We the people tell the government what it is allowed to do.
0:22.3	All
0:22.9	all have to get back in their
0:26.7	box and stay there.
0:28.1	Lift-off.
0:29.0	We have a left-down.
0:31.9	From the Heritage Foundation,
0:34.0	this is Heritage Explains.
0:48.3	Music This is Heritage Explains. On Thanksgiving, 1944, the world was at war.
0:53.5	Many American soldiers were fighting against the Japanese army and
0:56.7	Navy in the Pacific, or facing a hard winter of fighting the Nazi war machine in France and across
1:03.0	Europe. But at home, while Americans tightened their belts, worked in factories and took
1:08.4	on volunteer duties to support the war effort, the tradition of
1:12.1	Thanksgiving carried on. The war created shortages of sugar, butter, fruit, even turkeys,
1:19.3	but people still found a way to celebrate the holiday in whatever way they could.
1:25.1	Karen Lee from the blog of newspapers.com
1:27.9	located the following section of an op-ed
1:30.4	that ran in the evening edition
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