It's Wednesday, August twentieth.
This is the warning the American crisis is deepening, and a surefire sign of that is these trucks, the ice vehicles protect the homeland.
Nothing about the country. I wonder when.
Trump intends to change it to Fatherland and defend the culture, what culture would that be?
What is the American culture? What does it refer to?
Is it the culture of Pete Hegseath's pastor, a man who believes that women should be subordinate, that they should be submissive, and that slavery is overstated as an evil.
This is the first time we've had connections with as many people in national government as we do now. But this is this is not an ecclesiastical lobbying effort where we're trying to meet important people. We're trying to give some of these people an opportunity to meet with God. Church and the wider network believe in practice the idea that men and women have different roles, and women should not hold church leadership positions. My wife votes, my daughters vote.
If people rush to conclusions from what they heard on the CNN piece, that's a sad thing. At the same time, I think that the nineteenth Amendment was a bad idea, and I had no problem with how Pastor Jared answered the question. I would support that our issue is not a problem with the enfranchisement of women. Our problem is with the disenfranchisement of the household.
Is that the culture, the culture of the Confederate monument, the culture that venerates a trader and a hero Robert Lee as a patriot, when in fact he was a cruel slave master. Is it the idea that January sixth, twenty twenty one was like lexing cannon conquered as opposed to an insurrectionist mob attacking the Citadel of Democracy, the capital of the United States and assaulting thousands of police officers with political extremists chanting killed them, the N word
being shouted. The violence was real, and it led to the deaths of multiple police officers.
Does it mean accepting.
The idea that the part in criminals her patriots. Does it mean bowing to the idea that masked men snatching brown people off of the street are somehow knights in defense, not of a nation, not of a constitution, not of ideas about the equality of human beings. No, they're cleansers of sorts. Cleaning the culture, the filthy inner cities that Donald Trump talks about, festooned with the homeless and the drug addicted and the brown in the black. That is
the plain meaning of the Trump rhetoric. Listen to it. It's obvious, and it's plain as day. Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people.
And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to take it.
Trump is able to connect with the American people in a way that they understand, even if it is a different variant of English than the platitudes that spill over them from the pundits, from the politicians, are out from most of corporate media. Reality of this moment is Donald Trump has made perfectly clear who he is, including on
a question as profoundly simple to understand. A slavery the greatest evil in the history of the United States, the ownership of human beings by human beings, and it persisted in this country until eighteen sixty five. Not so long ago, there were Confederate veterans who lived into the nineteen forties, some into the nineteen fifties. When you think about time, it's incredible to ponder the tenth President of the United States,
John Tyler, who served in the Confederate Congress. John Tyler, a traitor to the United States, has a living grandson.
In twenty twenty five.
Time that stands outside of our lifespans is not so far away, not so distant.
And here's the reality.
As Donald Trump instructs the Smithsonian that he's sick of museums to talk about how bad slavery was, the violations of human rights, human dignity, human freedom. These things must be remembered so they aren't repeated. So the great fog of amnesia that brings with it death behind it doesn't settle in. It's im possible to comprehend the United States
without comprehending the United States slave people. And the United States had a great Civil War that emancipated the enslaved people and gave birth to the third oldest political party now in the world, the Republican Party, who once had a president named James Garfield who promised never to break faith with black Americans. There was an image when slavery
existed in America. That shocked the conscience of the American people because the myth was even in the time, that most white masters were benevolent, and that propaganda was spread all over the North. And this photograph called Whipped Peter told the truth.
Here are the.
Images from Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday, one hundred years on from the end of slavery. And here we are in twenty twenty five with a fascist in the White House putting the Confederate monuments back up, giving instructions to museums to to guild the lilly on the question of slavery, it was a good thing. He has a Defense secretary who's a Christian nationalist guided by an extremist pastor who believes, like Trump, that slavery wasn't so bad and believes that
women don't have any rights. They should be submissive because that's what the Bible says. What Pete Hagsath in this sick pastor believe is that God is about domination and power. That's why they love Trump. God is about love in the United States, is about justice, and these people are perverting things in the most obscene way that are great, that are glorious, that have been preserved a great sacrifice, and the tearing down of our ideas and our ideals
does not come without a cost. It brings with a tremendous danger, and that danger is drawn closer every day as the mass men roll out in their cars promising to defend the culture. Until recently, defending the culture was the province of white supremacist groups and their flyers in northern Idaho.
I suppose the next time.
They gather to burn across and look at those flyers, there'll be some satisfaction in knowing the journey has been a long one, but a successful one for that slogan. As it's made its way from the filth of their propaganda to government vehicles.
That's no victory for you and me.
It's a tragedy for our children, and it's a desecration of the sacrifices that have built the United States of America. But it's very real, and as was once prophecied and apocryphally attributed, fascism has come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying across. And that's warning enough, because these people keep telling us precisely what it is they believe
and what they intend to do. And I guess it's fair to ask at a certain point why it is when they say it in English that no one in an English speaking country can seem to understand a word. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to join this community, where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack.
Thank you.