Oct 8, 2026 · 59 min · 16 segments
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Trish ReganHostOver time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional.
We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world.
Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt.
We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.
The word nationalism became a dirty word, and so we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit.
In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.
And with every passing year, we seem to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control.
I mean, when did loving your country, think about it, become something that you had to explain? I'd like to know.
You know, y- you think about a parent who wants a better future for her children.
You think about workers that want to be able to exist in a country where they can earn a living, and, and citizens that want a government that puts its interests, their interests first.
And somewhere along the way, I don't know how, maybe because all the lefties and the, you know, the [laughs] emerging market countries that wanted their fair share figured us all out, figured he, they could just trap us with all this guilt, because somewhere along the way, that became controversial.
Well, today, in Athens, Marco Rubio set the record straight, and boy, oh, boy, he's putting nationalism front and center back into the conversation in a massive, major way.
We are at an inflection point, an inflection point not only in the history of my nation, but an inflection point in the whole of our civilization.
The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity.
National interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions.
War did not disappear simply because we preferred peace.
Other states continued to arm, to seek influence, to compete for territory and technology and resources and markets and energy and power.
power.And now there is war again.
There is new competition between great powers again.
There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new threats and attacks again.
And so we must rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together, understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them.
It is to defend them, and that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests.
Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional.
We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world.
Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt.
We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.
The word nationalism became a dirty word, and so we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit.
In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.
And with every passing year, we seem to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control.
I mean, when did loving your country, think about it, become something that you had to explain? I'd like to know.
You know, y- you think about a parent who wants a better future for her children.
You think about workers that want to be able to exist in a country where they can earn a living, and, and citizens that want a government that puts its interests, their interests first.
And somewhere along the way, I don't know how, maybe because all the lefties and the, you know, the [laughs] emerging market countries that wanted their fair share figured us all out, figured he, they could just trap us with all this guilt, because somewhere along the way, that became controversial.
Well, today, in Athens, Marco Rubio set the record straight, and boy, oh, boy, he's putting nationalism front and center back into the conversation in a massive, major way.
We are at an inflection point, an inflection point not only in the history of my nation, but an inflection point in the whole of our civilization.
The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity.
National interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions.
War did not disappear simply because we preferred peace.
Other states continued to arm, to seek influence, to compete for territory and technology and resources and markets and energy and power.
power.And now there is war again.
There is new competition between great powers again.
There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new threats and attacks again.
And so we must rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together, understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them.
It is to defend them, and that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests.
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