The Racist Left: Thousands Spew Racial Slurs at Tim Scott on Twitter

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Thousands spewing racial slurs at Tim Scott after he delivers the response to Joe Biden's speech. Live from Washington, DC. Sekulow Live. Phone lines are open for your questions right now.

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Not a lot of guests, they had virtual guests. But it was just, you know, I mean it was just bullet point after bullet point of massive spending. A total of over six trillion dollars that we'd all have to pay for. And we're not addressing the fact that we're not even open as a country. That instead of addressing when are schools going to open, when are people going to be able to go back to work, when are the towers in New York going to reopen, when are the buildings in New York going to reopen, when are people, the border crisis, those weren't addressed. Instead it was things that will literally not happen during Joe Biden's life. Even if it was approved by Congress, he would probably not live to see any of these programs.

And that's not a mean statement, that's just reality. Because these were 25, 30 year long New Deal type plans that Congress 50-50 is not going to pass. Well that's why he kept invoking the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal and the Work Progress Administration and that kind of approach to governing.

But I'm going to start with some of the atmospherics of the room if I can. I found that very disheartening. Especially since the roll out of the vaccine has been so successful. First of all, Joe Biden never gave any thanks or praise to the Trump Administration for getting a vaccine approved.

In record times. Never happened in human history and it was approved and done. He claimed the credit for the roll out and admittedly the roll out has been very good. But it was under the Trump Administration that the vaccine was developed. Then explain this to me, and I'm all for taking precautions. We wore masks in here for a long time, I've been vaccinated, most of us have been vaccinated here. Everybody in that room was vaccinated.

They were way apart, yet they were all wearing masks. And that doesn't, it takes away from the hope I think that some people have. And then it gives people that are skeptical a reason to say, well what's really going on here. Then you get into the substance of the socialist moment.

That's what I call it. It was a socialist moment. A six trillion dollar package and when he talked about infrastructure, what every commentator, at least honest commentator said, was that it's not rebuilding the roads and bridges.

That's not what he's really talking about. But I gotta say this also, and then I'll send it back to you Jordan. Tim Scott, the Senator from South Carolina, who we've represented on a lot of briefs to the Supreme Court, in fact one right now, a friend of ours. It was the best post-speech, response speech, that I ever heard delivered. And there were some good, Bob McDonald from Virginia did a very good one a number of years ago. And that's how rare it is to say that those are... Yeah, you can think of two in your lifetime. It's a very tough job. Tim Scott was phenomenal.

Yeah, I mean so you got... But then attacked. But attacked with serious racist slurs. Because he has the audacity to be black, a Republican from the South who said he's voted his whole life in the South and had not had issues.

He represents a more modern look at where we are as a world and had the audacity to say that America is not a racist country overall. Not to say we don't have issues, but overall the country is not racist. Because painting America like that is very anti-American, it plays into the Chinese who are human rights abusers. Because they say, well if you're calling yourselves racist in this horrible country, don't tell us that we're committing genocide against some groupie.

You know, don't clean up your own house first kind of thing. And again, it's that anti-Americanism, we the people means the government, and we can get into that as well. Joe Biden is saying we the people means the government.

And we all know this is the exact opposite, but we want your thoughts too. 1-800-684-3110, that's 1-800-684-3110. We'll be right back. At the American Center for Law and Justice, we're engaged in critical issues at home and abroad. Whether it's defending religious freedom, protecting those who are persecuted for their faith, I'm covering corruption in the Washington bureaucracy, and fighting to protect life in the courts and in Congress, the ACLJ would not be able to do any of this without your support.

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Absolutely. And no one should be surprised with the vitriol and with the venom that was expressed against Tim Scott. How dare he declare independence from the progressive plantation? How dare he express any independent thought about the future of the country, the future of African-Americans? How dare he talk about the tremendous progress that African-Americans, Latinos and women have made under the Trump administration? In some sense, the progressives believe that the only reason to support African-Americans and to support African-American voters is when they go to the ballot box. They cannot be seen as independent. And so progressives consistently express the bigotry, the soft bigotry or the harsh bigotry of low expectations. And that includes disallowing African-Americans from having an independent thought. Harry's absolutely correct.

I'm going to go to Than Bennett. Than, what has been the colleagues of Tim Scott, have they made statements yet on this? Yeah, they're starting to, Jay.

I mean, first of all, I think you're hearing a trend. You saw last night how effective Senator Scott was on a number of issues. He drew from his faith in that very powerful closing. He drew from his personal story caught in a Congress in one generation. And then obviously drew from his personal knowledge that, yes, America has flaws that we need to work through, but we're also the land of opportunity. And he spoke to both of those in such an effective way. I thought Lindsey Graham actually was one of the ones that, obviously, a personal relationship from the same state expressing support for that. But, Jay, two things I would say about that.

That's one of the reasons why he is the lead in our brief that we're filing in that tax case where the COVID bill is blocking states from reducing taxes because he can speak to that school choice issue like few others. The second thing I would say quickly, Jay, can you imagine if it had been a conservative that was leading that racial slur on Twitter? How soon do you think would Twitter have blocked that phrase? It took Twitter a little while to do it, unfortunately, with the double stay of the evening. Until this morning. I mean, so it took, you know, not 24 hours, but 12 hours.

Yeah, ridiculous. And here's the thing, and I'm not, whether they ban it or not, it's not what I'm talking about. The fact is, people, I want to see people condemning those kind of statements aimed at a good man. Now, Andy, you sent me a text during Tim Scott's speech, and you said, this is the future. This is the way the Republican Party should be moving forward.

That's exactly right, Jay, and it should be. The bright shining star on the firmament of the Republican Party is someone like Senator Scott. He's articulate, he is sincere, he is Christian in his thoughts. What a terrible thing to express your Christianity and to embrace it. What a terrible thing that he quoted from Scripture at the end of his speech and made a statement about the grace of God. What an awful thing to say. What a horrible thing that progressives condemned him for doing that.

A person who grew up in South Carolina with just a mother to raise him, who had a grandfather who couldn't read, but put the newspaper in front of him as an example for others to read, who went to Chick-fil-A and got his start, who really brought himself up. No, that's not what he's supposed to do. He's supposed to wait for the government to hand out stuff to him because he's African American. He's supposed to wait for the progressives to give him stuff. He's supposed to get food stamps. He's supposed to get Section 8 housing. He's supposed to wait and get all the benefits of big government.

No, that's not what Tim Scott did. And he made the statement that we're not a racist country, and we're not. We're not a racist country. There are racists in this country.

There are racists all over the world. But Tim Scott, as I said, was the shining star in the firmament yesterday, and that is the face and the future of the Republican Party. If it is, I'm all for it, Jay. Didn't Vice President Harris agree that the United States is not a racist country? Wasn't there an agreement? Yeah. She said it. I think last night she issued a statement. I can't hear you well. I'm sorry.

Yeah, let's play it. Senator Tim Scott said last night that America is not a racist country. Do you agree with that? And what do you make of his warning against fighting discrimination with more discrimination?

No, I don't think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country. Okay, so there you go. That's exactly what Tim Scott said. Is anyone going to call out – no one would have the nerve, Harry, to say to Vice President Harris, okay, you know, some kind of racial epithet, and that's what it is.

I think that is correct. I think Vice President Harris has achieved a level of protection. Why? Because she is willing to, after admitting that the United States is not a racist country, then accept the progressive narrative that virtually everything in the United States is about race, and the only way we can solve everything from climate change to U.S. energy policy is by focusing on race and perhaps white supremacy. And so I think the American people reject this progressive narrative, and that is why Tim Scott's statement last night was so dazzling and was so welcome, I think, in the homes of most American people. Yeah, again, Joe Biden's speech was just unrealistic. It didn't seem like he was speaking to a half-empty room about all these massive programs, and people can't even go back to the job that they have right now.

If they've kept it, they're still working virtually. Big corporations are afraid to open up their headquarters and their buildings, don't even know if they're ever going to have the people back. And he's talking about rebuilding Pittsburgh.

It's wonderful to talk about rebuilding Pittsburgh, but are you going to allow the people even into the factory enough people to where it would affect the people working there? If any of these plans were funded, who is gathering together if you can't gather into Congress? So instead of sending a message, what would have been a powerful message is if Joe Biden would have taken the mantle of this vaccine's working, and that was a full room, packed house. Say you could go inside in Washington, D.C., in a packed house instead of empty seats looking weak, looking scared, looking feeble, which is his specialty, and someone, again, you just don't believe anything he's saying is reality.

Because look at the room. It's just kind of old and quiet and absurd, and it's virtue signaling, and it's telling people to be a good American, don't go back to your office, don't go back to work, don't go back to a concert, don't go back to your bars and restaurants. You have to be six feet apart from everybody even after you've been vaccinated. So either he doesn't trust the vaccine or they like the idea that more and more people need the government.

They love the idea that so many people need to get on Obamacare because of economic problems that came from this. I mean, that's not a positive. That's a negative because we had to deal with a pandemic in our country.

You know, the irony of this, and I've got something for Harry, but I'm going to save it for the next segment. I want to talk about this We the People issue. But Andy, and you and I have both, we've been, I'd say everybody in the studio has been vaccinated, but the imaging they sent to me sends the wrong message to the United States, to our citizens.

They were safe. Even the former head of Planned Parenthood who's a CNN commentator, former Baltimore, do we have any of the statements from her Baltimore officials? She said this. She said it. And I will tell you, she said that this was unnecessary to be double masked and masked when everybody had been vaccinated.

Andy? Yeah, well, Jay, that's the progressive agenda. The progressive agenda is to squelch the idea of self-enrichment, progressive ideas, try to portray a sort of a feeble attitude, as Jordan said, that we are, you know, sort of locked up in our cages without going out into the public. And this is the idea of dependence, because that's what federal, rather progressive ideas and Democratic power grab ideas want to portray. And that is one of dependence and feebleness. And that is not at all what Senator Scott portrayed or what the United States is all about.

And that's exactly the vision that I got looking at that empty House chamber last night that looked absolutely awful. You know, her opinion piece says with masks and distancing, Biden's speech sent the wrong message about the power of our vaccines. It was message wrong. The substance was wrong. The atmospherics were wrong.

And Tim Scott was phenomenal. And Biden also admitted this idea of American defeatism, which is that we can't solve everything on our own. America can't handle problems. We can't handle this. We can't.

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Welcome back 1-800-684-3110. You see massive contrast. I saw last night, too, the most excited member of Congress, Bernie Sanders.

Of course. He was not excited by Barack Obama. Nothing was big enough for him. But this time around, he was right up front. He was not falling asleep.

He was not bored. This was like his wish list that you had a so-called uniter with a soft voice go through. So it may not have been delivered the way that Bernie Sanders would deliver it, but these are his ideas. Basically, that the government is you. You are the government.

We're indistinguishable. That's China. That's the idea of China and the Communist Party in China is that the government, the party, the idea is bigger than the individual. Take a listen, because Joe Biden said, our Constitution, his interpretation of we the people is we the government.

Take a listen. Our Constitution opens with the words as straight as it sounds, we the people. Most time remember that we the people are the government. You and I.

Not some force in a distant capital, not some powerful force we have no control over. It's us. It's we the people.

First of all, I'm going to break this down as straight as it sounds. We the people. First, let's say we the people in order to form a more perfect union. That means we the people will form the union, we will establish the government, which is what it says, but we are not the government. And Harry, you and I talked about that from a policy standpoint and then Andy you can talk from a historical standpoint. It's completely wrong.

Absolutely. So we are being encouraged to do one thing, to substitute our belief in God for a belief in government and the superiority of government. Who could forget, for instance, what Governor Cuomo said with respect to dealing with the pandemic.

God had nothing to do with it. In other words, humankind, human innovation, that's all we need. But we are one nation under God, indivisible, not one nation under the elites in Washington, D.C., indivisible. Here's what President Reagan said in 1986 about the government.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Joe Biden got this, Andy, completely backwards. Well, he did and obviously he doesn't know history and he hasn't read history. Look, there was a famous statement made by King Louis XIV.

They asked him about the state and the government and he said in French, L'etat, c'est moi. The state, that's me. And that is exactly what we fought a revolution against England to prevent from happening. The state is not the government, is not rather the people. We gave the government limited powers in our constitution. We retained the sovereignty.

We retained the ultimate decision making authority. We the people and the government are not at all the same thing. We have given the government limited powers over us and we retain the sovereignty ultimately to determine our fate. So when Biden says the government and the people are the same thing, he has obviously never read history and never heard of the French Revolution or the American Revolution for that matter. And to say that about a President of the United States is pretty pitiful. The idea that it's not this behemoth that's out of care, I mean, it is. We don't, I mean, the fact is that, yes, you get to elect your leaders and there was a lot of controversy in the last election. I mean, the fact that he just got over the fact that 50 percent of the country didn't think that the election was held correctly or properly, that address is somebody who's supposed to be unifying. And the idea that you have, again, a divided Congress, but also this bureaucracy that is a behemoth.

And if you try to do anything to that, you know, it attacks you. Donald Trump is living proof of that. It's ongoing as we speak, still, the attack of what it means to even try and clean up what is a government that is out of control, that you can't touch, that you can't impact, that seems like it doesn't matter who you elect, they are still there, they're still in their job with their politics playing a role inside their nonpolitical positions.

And we have to do a lot of work. Now, this is the question that America has to face. Do you want the government running your life and so taking over every aspect of your decision-making, calling you a racist, telling your kids they're racist, telling everybody how horrible the country is, even when the vice President said, you know, I don't think we're a racist country, but we have this racist history, it's the constantly going back instead of looking forward to say you're all bad. This is a newer strategy to try and pose, but then they're using the pandemic to say, do you really want a free economy? Do you really want trickle-down economics? Talking about 650 rich people, that's not really that important in a country of 300 million plus. Yeah, there's 650 really successful people who are mostly in tech, so they weren't as impacted by a pandemic.

That's just the nature of the industry that they're in. Yeah, but I think there's another aspect of this, and this is this push for an expansive government. And Biden made it very clear, the President made it very clear, he wants an expansive role in government in our lives, in healthcare and everything else. I mean, a wish list of socialist ideals.

No wonder Bernie Sanders was smiling. Now, I want to play what Joe Manchin said, this is a Democrat from West Virginia, and then get fans' comments on, is this thing I got a chance to get through? Let's play what Joe Manchin said. Are you concerned about this push for a more expansive government? Oh, most certainly.

Yeah, I am, but I want to see the details as we talked before. But we can't overreach to the point where we're stymie investments, we're stymie basically growth for 2022, 23, 24, and on. So we're going to look at all that. So, Van, how do you see it playing out? I mean, this new act that's coming, this $6 trillion program, is it going to get through?

Well, I think Portia certainly has a chance. I mean, it's going to be up to Joe Manchin and a few others in the Senate to keep it from going through. But look, Jay, I mean, I think you can tie all these strings together. I mean, the message last night from President Biden was that Washington is the answer to all of these problems, when the American people know very good and well that Washington is actually the problem. They're not the solution. They're not the answer. They're the problem. Jay, I think the reason that President Biden is confusing the government and the people is because he's been a part of the government for nearly half a century.

So it might be true for him, but it's certainly not true for the rest of us. Yeah, I mean, Washington is very out of touch for most Americans. They don't feel like they have a lot of, especially, you know, senators who are only elected every six years.

So once they get elected, it's a long time until they're kind of back. And yes, some are more effective, some I think do a better job of speaking out to their constituents, but to feel as an individual American, you know, why do we organize into groups like the ACLJ? Why do we put ourselves together to take on these entities?

Because you cannot do it by yourself. You can have the right ideas, but you can't take on the government by yourself or in these portions of the government. So this idea, again, that we are back to praising the big government programs instead of being the honest truth. The reason why there's a vaccine is because the Trump administration told the FDA cut the red tape. Right. So emergency approvals.

They would never, they'd still be in their testing process on pigs if this was the real, if this was the Joe Biden government running the vaccine. They'd still be testing and testing and testing and we'd still be shut down completely. You're absolutely right. But they want us to stay shut down.

I mean, that's the interesting thing. They want us to stay on that edge where you need the stimulus check from the government. Oh, they want to do another stimulus.

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Welcome back to Sekulow. So you had Joe Biden's address to Congress. It's basically the State of the Union. Obviously, you don't do that until you've been in government for a year.

But you still make the address. This address came later than most and usually around springtime. But also, it was bizarre because we've had the vaccine. They pushed the vaccine. They've all been vaccinated. They still had all this space in between the senators. Listen to, this is kind of like how the evening started.

And there's obviously all what you could get focusing on different areas. I think the big themes are big government, individual liberty at war. But listen to Kevin McCarthy. These are the finer points of how absurd these Biden plans are when we are a nation that is still not reopened. This is how the night started for those few members of Congress that actually did attend last night.

Take a listen. They handed out a mask to every member, an N95. And you know what was planted on the front of that mask? Made in China. And in the U.S. Congress, every single member, a mask that said, Made in China. Well, they're right about this. Now, the mask was made in China and so was the virus. And here's the reality. Everybody in that room was vaccinated.

Every single person in that room was vaccinated. And yet, in the speech, Biden himself said, Buy American. There's nothing wrong with that. He said it's been that way since the 1930s. It's the law.

Listen to what he said. American tax dollars are going to be used to buy American products, made in America, to create American jobs. That's the way it's supposed to be and it will be in this administration. And that's great. And there'd be criticism, of course, if Donald Trump had said it, because that's exactly what Donald Trump said. But they're not buying in America. No, they're not buying in America because he later on said there's exemptions and, of course, the government has tried to tighten up these exemptions. But all he's talking about there's not you making the decision to buy American products. He's talking about the government using your taxpayer dollars to buy American products, which you'd think they'd be doing in the first place, but they have all these exemptions.

Why? Because our manufacturing is not up to speed. Why those N95 masks say, Made in China? Is because we don't have the kind of capacity to put those together at a cost that is viable by the U.S. government. And, Harry, from an economic standpoint, well, first of all, the imaging of that is horrific. I mean, the virus comes from China. We have Chinese masks that are produced to do it while the President is saying, Buy American.

Absolutely. So one of the things that you should take away from that particular statement from President Biden is that President Biden remains massively confused. We are still a dependent country. We depend on China for a disproportionate number of drugs and many important drugs. And what is the Biden administration doing? What are the Democrats doing? They are expanding, as we speak, our dependence on China.

And they don't seem to be driven by any urgency to change this particular pattern. So if Joe Biden really wants to deliver on making products in America as opposed to China, one place he should start, and start very, very quickly, and that is by ensuring that all essential drugs are now made in the United States. All right, we've got a lot to talk about. We'll get your thoughts to 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. And if you have the audacity to put out a different idea about the country, to say, you know, hey, our country as a whole, we're not all racist. This is not like the entire country, the problems that we see, we deal with, but we can move forward and look forward to the future instead of telling our kids how bad they are while they're kids. And you get called, your racial slurs used against you if you have a different idea about what the government should be. We're taking your calls, 1-800-684-3110.

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Request your free copy of Mission Life today online at ACLJ.org slash gift. Now, it's interesting where we are at now because it is dangerous ground when you are a President, you're an administration, but your activists are out of control because you spew the same hate that they take on. You just might do it in a more politician style. But the fact that Tim Scott's speech and the reaction by the hard left to the speech is a bigger story than just Joe Biden saying all these plans they would like to do, but it's a divided Congress, so some will get through, some might not get through, and he didn't really explain when any of this would actually happen because we're not even an open country yet. To me, the whole thing is like he's speaking to a half-empty room because they won't let people in, and we're supposed to believe in these massive spending plans for a country that you're not even allowed to go to a concert inside, and schools aren't reopened everywhere, and we don't even know if they're going to reopen in the fall.

Those are the kind of priorities I think that people actually would care about the government being involved in, where the government can take this role. But instead, the response, which usually is politically fraught, I mean, I think everybody will tell you it's a big job you get, but it can lead to political – it could end your political career, or just not make any news at all. But last night it did, and let's play from Tim Scott. Let's go to that bite. I've also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called Uncle Tom and the N-word by progressives, by liberals.

Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family's poverty was actually privilege because a relative owned land generations before my time. Believe me, I know firsthand our healing is not finished. You know, I'm going to just say it. This is – I keep saying that this is the future of the Republican Party. I think this is the future of the United States.

And I want to go to Harry First and then Andy. It was a fantastic speech, but he dealt with the reality of what the progressive left, Harry, is trying to do. Absolutely. And the progressive left has always had a consistent policy of suppression and subordination for independent African Americans, Latinos, and for that matter, women. So if you go back to the 1930s in the United States, what did we see from progressives?

And I mean Democrats. We saw genocide. We saw eugenics. We saw abortion. We saw exclusion from the labor force through deliberate and premeditated federal government policy.

And if you go back even further, guess what? We saw Jim Crow. And we saw voter suppression coming from whom?

Coming from Democrats. So I think it is clear beyond question that Tim Scott represents a new breed of American, an American who is willing to stand up to the prevailing narrative of the left. He is willing to stand up to The Washington Post, which basically suggested that he was privileged without referencing the fact that it's actually the owner of The Washington Post who is privileged. And that is Jeff Bezos, who is one of the world's richest men, worth something like 150 to 200 billion dollars. And so Tim Scott, I think, is a great American story, but the progressive left is quite prepared to ignore it.

Why? Because he's an independent-thinking African American. You know, Andy, I thought about the fact that, you know, Biden got his history wrong and then Tim Scott delivered such a compelling statement on the real principles of America.

I mean, what we—listen, we always did not always reach our ideals, to be sure. But the idea of equal justice under the law, I mean, Tim Scott in his life has strived for that and has seen it. And, I mean, I've talked to Clarence Thomas about that before, I mean, and our friend Larry Thompson, a former assistant attorney general, deputy attorney general of the United States. This is—and then for him to receive the vitriol of the left on social media platforms, and as you said, can you imagine if somebody like Jordan said, if somebody from the right did that?

But to receive that vitriol tells you there is a divide in the country, but a lot of it's coming from the so-called progressives. Well, that is, and you know, you've really brought up three very important figures. Clarence Thomas, who I do not know, Tim Scott, who I do not know, but Larry Thompson, who I do know, and for whom I worked, who was the United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. He didn't come up with any privilege. He was from Hannibal, Missouri. He went to work for Monsanto. He worked his way up.

He became United States attorney for Atlanta and then became deputy attorney general of the United States. He's an African American. Did he do it because he had some kind of privileged background?

Absolutely not. He did it because he had drive, because he had independence, because he had the American dream behind him, and he made one of the most fantastic public servants ever that we ever had, and it was a pleasure and a privilege for me to work under him. And it's the same thing with Tim Scott. What the progressives want black Americans to be, what they want women to be, what they want Asians to be, and anybody who is in a minority is dependent on the government. We don't want you to think for yourself. We want you to depend upon the government to do the thinking for you, and we're going to tell you what you need to do and what you don't need to do, and we're going to make statements like Tim Scott is Uncle Tom or a racist. How dare he say that America is not racist, because he doesn't fit the mold.

Let me tell you something that scared me. When Joe Biden starts quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt in the year 2021 and starts making those analogies, you better start getting scared about where this federal government is headed. Also, these individuals that they bring up were racist, had very racist policies. This 1930s America was not the – but yet they can use them as it's like Margaret Sanger and all this stuff.

That's fine. Finally a prime parent who has now said Margaret Sanger, our founder, was wrong, was horrible, but they admit she was a eugenics, eugenist. Yeah, and support of the KKK. All of their pet projects, that's their strategy. It's always divide and conquer. You divide it around racial lines, economic lines, sex, men, women, and anything you can do to put people into categories.

They love checking these boxes, and that's the opposite of what Republicans come for, which is that it doesn't matter what box you check. We don't care if you're Elon Musk or if you're Jeff Bezos. It doesn't matter.

You can make it in America. But I think that the idea, like SpaceX, what got us, our space program, to the next level was private industry working with the government, not the government. NASA was dead.

They could not even figure out how to – they got lots of money and they still couldn't launch anything. Yeah. Harry, you're smiling over there. What are you thinking? Well, I'm thinking that Jordan's analysis is spot on. It's clear beyond question that the original progressive architects and some New Deal renovators were partisans of what? Human inequality. For example, the labor legislation that they pioneered was designed to exclude immigrants, women, and African Americans. Additionally, progressives were what?

Enthusiastic biologers. Biologers believed that biology, that is race, determined human worth. American labor reformers judged an impressive array of human groups unworthy of work. They called them the so-called unemployable and they engaged in deliberate and premeditated policies to ensure that they were unemployed. And that is the legacy of the Joe Bidens of the world. And yet, they now want to assert that it is Tim Scott standing in the doorway preventing African American progress when it is their own racist history that does so very effectively.

Harry is 100 percent correct. I hope we clip this out and we send this out. But listen also to what Senator Scott said right on that point. We are family. We are all in this together and we get to live in the greatest country on earth.

The country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime. So I am more than hopeful. I am confident that our finest hour is yet to come. Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption. I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times. I think it's the checking the box.

We recently had our third child. So you fill out the social security. It was like four different questions to try to get your race.

It's like, are you this? Are you also Hispanic? But even if you said no the first time, the second box, how many different ways to categorize Americans.

It's one thing to say we want statistics on this. But these are the individuals, they grew up in the American south. When he says that, there were plenty of people he's talking about too who were white who had the same experience. Who were from cotton to Congress also.

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Give a gift today online at ACLJ.org. Last night, we had an opportunity as a country to have our President tell us that it could have been demonstrated by a packed room, 1,600 seats full. It's safe for us to do it, safe for your business to do it. We can reopen. That really should be the message, right? We got the vaccine, so reopen.

You've all had the opportunity to get it, so reopen. And we're going to reopen the schools in the fall. But instead, we're still sitting six feet apart, when no Americans, by the way, are living this way. So only the elites now who have been vaccinated, who have been vaccinated first, regardless of whatever, if they met any kind of those statistics, from 30 years old to 100, however old they are, they got vaccinated, but they are not putting on the message of, only an elitist gets to decide, I'm going to have six feet in front of me.

I get to have this many chairs, and I don't have to show up to work. And they didn't do all that. They were shaking his hands.

They were fist-pumping. Oh yeah, it's a joke. I mean, when your face mask is matching your jacket and your tie, it's become an industry. It is an industry.

It's an industry. And I love it, because this is government on display. We're going to not even allow government to come to its own speech. Was it not possible for the vice President and the vice President and the speaker to not have masks on when they've both been vaccinated? I mean, really. It's also bizarre, because you see the movement, but you don't… What was the sense you're hearing from members about all of that?

I mean, it would be one thing if we were where we were six months ago, but thank God we're not. I think there were lots and lots of members who thought like Kevin McCarthy did. They thought it was theater over unity. Because Jay, look, if the intent had been this speech is going to unify, this would have been the perfect example, because this was an effort that was begun by the Trump administration.

Operation Work Speed was an overwhelming success, and then the Biden administration picked it up and carried it through. That would have been a message that could have unified, but they chose theater over unity. Jay, it was an opportunity to lead by example, but instead they wanted to keep the issue on the table for the reason that Jordan just talked about.

If you want to engage in identity politics and you have to divide America to accomplish that, you don't really want to achieve the unity. They are such hypocrites. I mean, Gavin Newsom has the private dinner with tons of people there when you can't do it. And then our team here pointed out that Nancy Pelosi, I remember this now, wore a mask last night, but not when the height of the pandemic, when she was getting her hair done in California.

She was very vulnerable to this. Look, I'm getting my hair cut this afternoon. You know what? I'm going to be wearing a mask, and I've been vaccinated. You don't have a choice.

Exactly, you don't have a choice. But the irony of this, the irony of this is then Joe Biden juxtaposes all this imagery around this statement, number 27. After 100 days of rescue and renewal, America is ready for a takeoff, in my view. We're working again, dreaming again, discovering again, and leading the world again. We have shown each other and the world that there's no quit in America.

None. Okay, we're leading again. First of all, the imagery that was shot in the Senate chamber, which I have spoken at, and Jordan has been in it as well during the impeachment, Andy, you too. That did not show we were leading again and open again and viable.

It looked like a lot of elderly people, okay? There you go. Almost. I mean, I hate to say it.

Jordan said it, I'm not going to say it. But the fact is that it sent the wrong message, and then he has the nerve, the gall, to say we're leading again. Meanwhile, Russia has amassed troops on the border of Ukraine, Iran is surrounding American warships, and the Chinese are threatening Taiwan. Other than that, Harry, we're leading again. And the masks that they gave out in Congress were made in China. Absolutely. But you have to hand it to the Democrats. They have mastered theater, and at the end of the day, however, it's all about control, it's not about unity, and it is not about science. Keep in mind that the Congress was socially distanced last night during the speech, despite an MIT study, which shows that there is virtually no difference with respect to COVID transmission, and we're not talking about vaccinated people, if you're six feet apart or 60 feet apart. Why?

Because the air is being recirculated. So the whole notion of socially distancing Congress last night is contrary to science, but it is pro-control, and it is pro-dividing the American people, so I think Thanh made a very excellent point. If you believe in identity politics, you have to pursue division. I just wonder, Jordan, the invocation, I'll go to Jordan and Andy on this one, the invocation of FDR so much. Now, a lot of people loved FDR because we were in a depression, but we got out of a depression in part because we ended up in a world war. If we study our history, okay, let's be clear, I was a history major, and I've studied a lot of history, Andy's a history major, but the idolization of FDR, do we really want to go back to where the work progress administration and all these agencies?

I don't think so. Hundreds of thousands of troop casualties, women building missiles and bombs and planes, you were having to do, it worked for the time, but it's not modern. It's not the way our economy works now, and because of labor unions, because of what killed the manufacturing, that was built out of that.

We became this economy based off education, and we put out a lot of people with bachelor's degrees and no jobs for that, and didn't train people for work, didn't train people, and then you needed three more years of school, four more years of school, eight more years of school to be qualified to do anything. So all these plans rely on an America that doesn't exist anymore. It's just an America that is, and I think it's people like Tim Scott speaking out from the southern states, red states, states that have gone through historical changes, but yet where's the massive protest on the races you're having?

Minnesota. Not the states that have dealt with it at most in your face, I would say, and addressed it, but it's maybe these very blue states that are now, it's this woke culture. They've now realized, wait, they were all racist. So the FDR issue, and we can talk about this maybe on the Mars program a little bit, but the FDR analysis, and I know a lot of people like FDR, but some of those policies were socialism. Yeah, I mean, my grandparents thought he was the greatest thing who ever lived, and as a historian I realized the important role that he played at a critical time in the United States history. But as you correctly pointed out, Jay, there was a world war that mobilized the nation and mobilized the economy, but when you quote Franklin D. Roosevelt in the year 2021, that is an inapposite analogy. You don't make that, and that's not the kind of big government that we want in the year 2021. We have education, we have computer learning, we have science, we have things that have developed since then that make this a completely different country. And to quote FDR and to analogize that kind of big government, as Biden did last night, was totally inapposite and inappropriate and really very scary.

I just think the world that we live in now is still trending, and the people who are making jobs, creating jobs, are the people who are much more libertarian, and that's where the next American boom is. We all know that. Support the work of the ACLJ. We've got 24 hours left on our matching challenge. ACLJ.org. Double the impact of your donation if you donate today and you have it until midnight tomorrow. That's ACLJ.org.

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