LM#60--The Counter-Revolution Has Begun

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Those are the drums of liberty, and those drums have been banging loudly, more loudly in the last five weeks than they ever have in over 100 years.

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Why?

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Let's talk about it on this Liberty Minute.

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Welcome to the Theory to Action podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books in less time, to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life.

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Now here's your host, David Kaiser.

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Hello, I am David and welcome back to another Liberty Minute.

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Hello, I am David and welcome back to another Liberty Minute.

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Over 100 years ago America was roughly 95 million Americans.

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In the 1912 election, roughly 15 million Americans voted.

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The voting age was 21 years old back then and women's suffrage was not nation or wasn't nationwide until 1920.

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So roughly about 13% of the US population at the time was foreign-born and many of them were not yet citizens with the right to vote.

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We actually did enforce that back then.

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That calculates to about 6 million non-citizens and sadly, in the American South Jim Crow laws had disenfranchised most African American men of voting age Upwards.

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Between 70% and 90% of them had been suppressed for over two, three, sometimes five or six decades Because of the post-reconstruction policies of racist governors and legislatures.

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So in total, roughly 85 million folks could not vote for one reason or another.

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And liberty always suffers and is hurt when human freedom is restricted by evildoers.

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So when a revolution is taking place and that is the world in which Woodrow Wilson began his attack on the founders of our country, it was a revolution of sorts more like a slow-moving prairie fire of a revolution that no one wants to fully put out the flames.

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So you fast forward to today, 2025, and we are watching.

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What we hope at the Mojo Academy is a counter-revolution to all that rubbish that has happened over the last 100 years.

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Now you might ask what is all that rubbish, David, that you're speaking of?

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Well, it took us a five-part series in this podcast to put it all together, so we'll leave the links for you in the show notes if you want to dig deeper.

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But we do have a great quote that can catch us up very quickly, and so with that, let's go to our first pull quote.

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At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing To have any country left.

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Some president would eventually have had to restore a non-existent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.

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Stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.

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Some commander-in-chief, finally, would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.

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But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled.

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And so none did Until now.

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Not since Franklin Roosevelt's rapid mass implementation of the New Deal administrative state have Americans seen such radical changes so quickly as now, in Trump's first month of governance.

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Americans are watching a long-awaited counter-revolution to bring the country out of its madness by restoring the common sense of the recent past.

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It's easy to run up massive debts and hard to pay them back.

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Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands with someone else's money or creating new programs by growing the debt.

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Yet it is unpopular and considered.

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Quote mean to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.

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And to create a lean, competent workforce.

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1776, not 1619, is the foundational date of America.

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And that, my friends, is some excellent, excellent writing from the hardest-working historian on this God's good green earth, and that man is Victor Davis Hanson.

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We featured him before and he has written, frankly, one of the very best columns about one of the very best subjects in probably the last three decades.

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Why?

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Because the trend that we as a country were on with escalating $36 trillion deficits, and that's $36 trillion with a T, $36 trillion in debt was beyond unsustainable.

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We were hemorrhaging and both parties, frankly, were addicted to the spending of other people's money.

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In fact, let's go back to VDH, as we call him here, for some more goodness.

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Biological men should not manipulate their greater size and strength to undermine the hard-won accomplishment of women athletes.

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Affordable fossil fuels, when used wisely, are still essential to modern prosperity.

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American education must remain empirical and inductive, not regress into indoctrination and deduction.

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If college campuses no longer abide by the Bill of Rights, then perhaps they should pay taxes on income from their endowments and guarantee their own student loans.

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If American citizens are arrested and arraigned for violent assaults, destroying property and resisting arrest, then surely foreign students who break those laws, especially of their host, should be held to the same account and, if guilty, go home.

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Tribalism and racialism and government spoils allotted by superficial appearances are the marks of a pre-civilized society.

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Such racialism leads only to endless factions and discord.

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It's easy to destroy a border and it's hard to reconstruct it.

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It was not Trump who invented a $12 million unaudited illegal aliens and a half a million of them criminals.

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Who is the real culprit in the Defense Department?

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The new secretary with the hard task of restoring the idea among the depleted ranks that our race, religion and gender are incidental, not essential, to defeating the enemy and ensuring our national security?

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Is it really wise to divert money from needed combat units and weapons to indoctrinate recruits with social and cultural agendas that do not enhance but likely undermine our national defenses.

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And who is the real callous actor?

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Elon Musk, who is trying to prevent the country from insolvency by eliminating fraud, waste?

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Or those who bloated the bureaucracy in the first place with jobs and subsidies for their constituents, friends, clients and fellow ideologues?

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No one likes to fire FBI agents.

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That is certainly an unpleasant job for the new FBI Director, Kash Patel.

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But again, who are the true culprits?

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Who so cavalierly turned a hallowed agenda into a weaponized tool to warp elections, harass political enemies, lie under oath, surveil parents at school board meetings, doctor court documents and protect insider friends?

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Oh yes, Right on, right on.

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Hubba hubba.

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This is the best Victor Davis Hanson writing in the last three decades.

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Guarantee, it has to be a top 10.

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This is like watching Michael Jordan score 63 in Boston Garden against Larry Bird.

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Now, folks, for the last 100 years plus, we have seen a slow-moving revolution happening in our country.

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We were the frog in the pan of water, with the heat slowly being turned up on us, year after year after year, and no one could turn it around.

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Let's go back to VDH for some more goodness.

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Massive borrowing is an opiate addiction that needs shock treatment.

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No more deficits to break the habit.

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An unchecked administrative state becomes an organic organism that exists only to grow larger, more powerful and more resistant to any who seek to curb it.

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Yet those who brought the cultural revolution of the last years are now screaming that it is unfair to restore what they have undermined.

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It is as if a patient blames only the tough chemotherapy and not the invasive cancer that it seeks to cure.

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Most of the Trump people are not high-fiving.

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While firing people, they're not laying off minors or frackers or directing them to go code or dismissing half the country as deplorables.

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The left screams that those who are tasked with balancing a budget, pruning back a strangling bureaucracy, are heartless.

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No, the pitiless are those who recklessly sought to hire with borrowed money and fired people on the basis of their race, used federal programs to feather their own nest and harassed and arrested those for their policies and politics.

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No SWAT teams are now raiding the homes of ex-presidents.

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Perhaps they should be.

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That's not VDH, that was me.

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No one is trying to take a presidential rival off state ballots.

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No one is coordinating local, state and federal prosecutors to indict, harass and bankrupt an ex-president.

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And no president.

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His dementia, sheathed by political insiders and a toadish media, is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences or stonewalling reporters' questions.

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No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.

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As they used to say, down on the farm, we doggy, he is cooking.

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That is so good, so so good Way.

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Back in Liberty Minute 35, we spoke about this radical revolution, Called it the most radical revolution since the days of the Civil War.

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It was like it caught fire for the whole country, exacerbated itself in the 1912 election and has been like a prairie fire spreading for those 100 years.

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And back in Liberty Minute 57, we said of the election of November 2024 that the cultural revolution was over.

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And, folks, just five weeks in, we are more pleased than ever.

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Let's put the foot on the gas, please.

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The cleanup of this revolution will take years, likely 10 to 20 years, but it has begun and let it continue to go faster and faster.

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So in today's Liberty Minute, what began in the Civil War continued on through Reconstruction in the South and then continued to spread like a prairie fire across the country for over 100 years in various forms and fashions, with progressivism and then liberalism and then radical liberalism and then finally and frankly, despotism.

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Now is being confronted head on and that fire is being put out, that fire is being extinguished fully and completely, and we are very excited to see where this counter-revolution takes us, what it is in fact can restore to the American people.

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If indeed liberty is one of those gifts given back to the great men and women of this country after some 100 years of that cultural revolution going at breakneck speed, if liberty is given back only in drips and drabs, well then let us say unequivocally praise be Jesus Christ, Because, looking back over the last 100 to 160 years, only God's providential hand could have undone the damaged landscape of our country's past.

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And so it is with extreme pride, as this counter-revolution begins, that we can repeat two of the greatest quotes from two great Americans.

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The first, from the great civil rights activist Martin Luther King, said this on April 7th 1957 in a speech about the birth of a new nation.

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Quote freedom must ring from every countryside, sorry, from every mountainside.

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Freedom must ring from every mountainside.

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And so this afternoon I have a dream.

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I have a dream deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

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Now, this was obviously delivered years before his famous I have a Dream speech on the Washington Mall, but this sermon ties in the King's view of liberty to be the founding ideals of America, of its equality, of its self-evident rights, which all Americans can proudly say now amen.

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And finally, our second great American is our 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

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When he says, you and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

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We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness, to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

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Now Reagan's framing of liberty as a fragile gift that must be actively defended against the creep of a big bureaucratic, centralized, control-administrative state.

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Folks, we were staring directly at that big centralized, administrative state.

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We were staring directly at it and behind it was a thousand years of darkness.

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We were staring at that darkness in November of 2024.

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So again, praise be Jesus Christ, that we chose right.

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I thank God for all you liberty lovers out there.

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Thank God that the counter-revolution has begun.

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Let us pray that it continues.

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Please, Lord, let it continue and, as always, let's keep fighting the good fight.

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Thank you for joining us.

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We hope you enjoyed this Theory to Action podcast.

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Until next time, keep getting your mojo on.

LM#60--The Counter-Revolution Has Begun

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