John Daniel Davidson

Today, we're joined by some of our favorite recurring guests, a trio of familiar faces for all of you here.

We've got John Daniel Davidson, senior editor with The Federalist, Jesse Arm, VP of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute, and Julian Epstein, former Democratic strategist and chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee.

Gentlemen, it's great to have all of you.

Uh, we're gonna jump around a good bit here, so feel free to take your time diving in on your answers, and, and jump in if you wanna respond to anybody.

I mean, there's always that, that kind of thing going on.

But over at The Federalist today, John Daniel Davidson has a really nice piece that hits the essence of what this about.

And his, his thesis is that in France and the UK for right now, and maybe coming soon, uh, to a town near you, what this is all about is multiculturalism leading inevitably to authoritarianism.

And in this post, he describes a bit of what's happening right now, and he points out that in France, it's simply no secret or even debatable that these riots are being manipulated by political parties.

And the same thing is gonna happen in England with their, uh, multicultural unrest and in Germany.

If this gets started in Germany, because the anti-migrant party is picking up steam over in Germany, and the plans are already being laid for massive unrest in the streets to take the wind out of their sails, and it'll be the same story.

And what John Daniel Davidson points out is that this anarchy or chaos in the streets is really pretty much like anarchy always is.

It's always a prelude to authoritarianism.

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This is John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist talking to Rob Finnerty about France.

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corporate press over the weekend reported what's happening in France initially as student protests, like that students were upset about poor classroom conditions and the new budget that didn't have enough funding.

You can't be proud of something you can't describe, and you can't defend it, and you sure as heck can't hand it down to your kids because nobody ever handed it to you.

So who's offering to fill that gap? On my side of the aisle, there's an answer getting a lot of attention right now, and it comes from The Federalist, which ran a piece on September eighteenth by its senior editor, John Daniel Davidson, under the headline, "What is an American? The Civic Nationalists Have No Idea." His argument is that America as a creed, a set of principles anyone can sign up for, is empty, and that being an American takes more than agreeing with some ideas, and in his words, certainly more than just some paperwork.

And on that line, he's right.

I'd underline it.

So thanks so much, Ashley.

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I'm going to follow up on this link.