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Mike Biedenbaugh

Mike Biedenbaugh

Mike Bedenbaugh, South Carolina author of "Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses" and former executive director of the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation

Oct 31, 2026

46:47
How's that happening? But now you also you're doing it more not on conservative principles, but constitutional principles.
46:53
Absolutely.
46:54
And that's the difference between what I do and what the Heritage Foundation or the John Birch Society does.
47:00
Mine is not ideological or care about what you believe in as far as partisan politics or legislation.
47:09
Mine is about how you govern and how you look at the Constitution and how your votes align.
47:16
with what the Federalist Papers said, what the Washington's Farewell Address looked at on the intention of how our government is supposed to work.
47:24
So a perfect example is on my app, you can go in and compare congressional members.
51:18
But then if we're going against our own founding principles, what's the difference between us or someone else doing it?
75:10
So talk to us about your thoughts in regards to the USS Abraham Lincoln and the fact that they have not had the opportunity to take care of, like to be at all treated as though they're not just service members, but human beings.
75:25
So I come at this with a perspective of being in the Navy.
75:29
The Lincoln is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
75:33
And when I was in the Navy in the 1980s, our ship, the USS South Carolina, escorted the Nimitz for a nine-month cruise.
75:41
We were out in the Mediterranean stopping and everything.
75:44
And I never will forget the work that everybody did and the teamwork we felt.
75:49
And all I could do was feel for these poor sailors who obviously understands that their chain of command above the captain and admirals over the fleet care nothing about them except using them as tools for their machismo, testosterone, field agenda of being the toughest guy on the block.
81:13
It's wild.
75:10
So talk to us about your thoughts in regards to the USS Abraham Lincoln and the fact that they have not had the opportunity to take care of, like to be at all treated as though they're not just service members, but human beings.
75:25
So I come at this with a perspective of being in the Navy.
75:29
The Lincoln is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
75:33
And when I was in the Navy in the 1980s, our ship, the USS South Carolina, escorted the Nimitz for a nine-month cruise.
75:41
We were out in the Mediterranean stopping and everything.
75:44
And I never will forget the work that everybody did and the teamwork we felt.
75:49
And all I could do was feel for these poor sailors who obviously understands that their chain of command above the captain and admirals over the fleet care nothing about them except using them as tools for their machismo, testosterone, field agenda of being the toughest guy on the block.
81:13
It's wild.
40:49
Yeah.
40:49
Well, cause they know what it means.
40:51
They know exactly what it means.
40:53
I have my representative here.
40:55
That's my local representative in the South Carolina state house.
40:58
And he just despises the concept of it, but it's the concept of it.
41:03
I told him, I said, if we, cause he had a certain person he wanted to win in the primary for, uh, Or for the House.

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47:03
And tell us a little bit about the app that you're working on.
86:29
Mm-hmm.
86:30
It will be under their control.
86:32
And that type of fulcrum caucus is the way out of this, to, to try to get the other folks to come alongside.
86:41
Um, one of the things when we were talking I wanted to mention, one of the things I think is most important, uh, 'cause people talk about Citizens United and all of these decisions that put so much money into corporate hands for our elections, you know, this is another amendment we have to do.
86:56
We have to differentiate between natural persons-

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113:06
Yeah, that's right.
113:06
Because that's the ultimate con- conservatism, is the rule of law.
113:11
Uh, and also it'll give a chance for people, uh, politicians who are running to have a page on this site, and they can take the test on the Reviving Our Republic score.
86:29
Mm-hmm.
86:30
It will be under their control.
86:32
And that type of fulcrum caucus is the way out of this, to, to try to get the other folks to come alongside.
86:41
Um, one of the things when we were talking I wanted to mention, one of the things I think is most important, uh, 'cause people talk about Citizens United and all of these decisions that put so much money into corporate hands for our elections, you know, this is another amendment we have to do.
86:56
We have to differentiate between natural persons-

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113:06
Yeah, good point.
113:06
Because that's the ultimate con- conservatism, is the rule of law.
113:11
Uh, and also it'll give a chance for people, uh, politicians who are running to have a page on this site, and they can take the test on the Reviving Our Republic score, and if they ...

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