Reaction from Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist.
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When you add a base ends labor day,
no one will be removing or
no one will be removing or
renaming the Washington Monument
or the Jefferson Memorial.
None of that is going to happen.
No one is saying that each of
these individuals was a perfect
human being.
I think that would be hard to
say,
but I will say this about each
monument.
Each monument was carefully
deliberated upon
carefully placed on our nations
mall.
Well, U Dot S Interior Secretary
David Bern, hearted, not
mentioning words after the
committee recommended Humannous
land marks like the Washington
monument, be removed, renamed or
contextualized arch ties to
slavery or racism.
The d dot c mayor now caving to some pressure tweaking it only
some pressure tweaking it only
so only city monuments can be
Ben Domenech joining us.
What if he is not power and what,
if Joe Biden is there and one hundred and fifty three
assets that have been pointed
out as targets of concern?
What do you think changes?
Well, I think that the real
critique of Joe Biden isnt that
he is going to tear down
Washington Monument
its that he is too weak to
stand up to the people within
his own coalition, who want to do
exactly that and thats what we
saw from d, DOT C mayor, Muriel
Bowser and this commission that
went through and found all these
different problematic entities,
problematic historical figures
where various things were named
after them, including not just
the normal folks that you are
used to hear about by this
pointed
Thomas Jefferson and George
Washington, but also people like
Ben Frank Lineal.
People like Alexander, Graham
Bell,
a long litany of things.
The problem really is Brian.
When you look at their standard,
it used, in this case
its the d dot C Human Rights ACT,
which includes twenty one, different
categories of problematic
situations, including a lack of
respect for essentially Trans
rights,
and I have something to tell
you Brian. If you look at any
historical figure of any kind of
earlier part of our history,
guess what
you know Ben Franklin not
really known for being ahead of
the curve when it comes to Lgbtq
issues,
no one can complete the
standards, one that involves a
new woke standard that will
either recontextualize shame,
put historical context around
these various monuments that
people take them down
under a Biden come down, because
is he not going to be willing to
stand up to these folks
Brian? I will give you a
scenario going to be asked: take
down the Jefferson Memorial
Upset about Francis Scott key
Statue,
of course not.
Why would I do that?
What would stop him from
changing his mind once? Is he in
office?
Nothing?
What makes you think, as he has
shown any tendency to stand up
to his left
when the what watch the way he F
flopped on debates on fossil
fuels and everything else,
I think that Joe Biden has
shown no willingness to standing
up to new young wokesters when
it comes to changing standards.
Regarding history,
he has never shown that he will
say to you in response to that
question obviously come on
man.
I do look like a guy who is
going to take down the Jefferson
Memorial,
but the answer to that is. We are
not actually worried, but
we are worry about the people,
how enable and how are unwilling
to stand up to and who actually
run the progressive left today,
people who are aggressively
seeking to tear down our
history,
the number one book in civics on
Amazon today Brian, is a book
called in defense of looting
written by a transauthor, and
from my perspective, that really
is the definition of the new
left.
Violently destroying or taking
your stuff is not violence, but
using the wrong. Pronoun is
Steve if you
is DOT Steve
Brian, if you change the way we
ever teaching in classrooms from
first to 12th grade. At the same
time, you are taking away our
past and its happening before
our eyes. This is no longer
fringe thought and a fear.
This is unfoiling in front of
us.
It is the central, an maghtd
focus of the left today run by
these folks, who believe that
you know, as one of their famous
anti racist authors has written.
Capitalism is racism, and racism
is capitalism.
They want to tear down all the
things that are at the center of
the American Founding and
american life because they hate
them.
They hate the values that they
animate.
They hate that the freedom is
inherent within them and that
views people not as members of
different tribes, but as
individuals deserving of these
rights
thats, something that is at the
core of their agenda now and,
unfortunately, I think we are
dealing with a political
situation that refuses to
wrestle with it pretend it
doesnt exist, looks the other
way
now its taking on official
character, as we saw in d dot C
Brian Ben Biden and Sanders
sigh length
put Biden in in order to have
input.
They are not getting out of
blocks with Trump
final thought.
I just think that this is a
situation. People have to pay
more attention
to say more and more, you are
going to see this spread
its not just going to stay in
places in d, DOT C
Brian got yourself good, add on
the Trump side. If you want to
run it and last chance to stop,
it might be in the debates which
we now know who the moderators
are going to be.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-08.