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A year ago, the great American historian Adam Hochschild came on KEEN ON AMERICA to discuss American Midnight, his best selling account of the crisis of American democracy after World War One. A year later, is history really repeating itself in today's crisis of American democracy? For Hochschild, there are certainly parallels between the current political situation in the US and post WW1 America. Describing how wartime hysteria and fear of communism led to unprecedented government repression, including mass imprisonment for political speech, vigilante violence, and press censorship. Hochschild notes eery similarities to today's Trump's administration. He expresses concern about today's threats to democratic institutions while suggesting the importance of understanding Trump supporters' grievances and finding ways to bridge political divides. Five Key Takeaways* The period of 1917-1921 in America saw extreme government repression, including imprisoning people for speech, vigilante violence, and widespread censorship—what Hochschild calls America's "Trumpiest" era before Trump.* American history shows recurring patterns of nativism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and scapegoating that politicians exploit during times of economic or social stress.* The current political climate shows concerning parallels to this earlier period, including intimidation of opposition, attacks on institutions, and the widespread acceptance of authoritarian tendencies.* Hochschild emphasizes the importance of understanding the grievances and suffering that lead people to support authoritarian figures rather than dismissing their concerns.* Despite current divisions, Hochschild believes reconciliation is possible and necessary, pointing to historical examples like President Harding pardoning Eugene Debs after Wilson imprisoned him. Full Transcript Andrew Keen: Hello, everybody. We recently celebrated our 2500th edition of Keen On. Some people suggest I'm mad. I think I probably am to do so many shows. Just over a little more than a year ago, we celebrated our 2000th show featuring one of America's most distinguished historians, Adam Hochschild. I'm thrilled that Adam is joining us again a year later. He's the author of "American Midnight, The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis." This was his last book. He's the author of many other books. He is now working on a book on the Great Depression. He's joining us from his home in Berkeley, California. Adam, to borrow a famous phrase or remix a famous phrase, a year is a long time in American history.Adam Hochschild: That's true, Andrew. I think this past year, or actually this past 100 days or so has been a very long and very difficult time in American history that we all saw coming to some degree, but I don't think we realized it would be as extreme and as rapid as it has been.Andrew Keen: Your book, Adam, "American Midnight, A Great War of Violent Peace and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis," is perhaps the most prescient warning. When you researched that you were saying before we went live that your books usually take you between four and five years, so you couldn't really have planned for this, although I guess you began writing and researching American Midnight during the Trump 1.0 regime. Did you write it as a warning to something like is happening today in America?Adam Hochschild: Well, I did start writing it and did most of the work on it during Trump's first term in office. So I was very struck by the parallels. And they're in plain sight for everybody to see. There are various dark currents that run through this country of ours. Nativism, threats to deport troublemakers. Politicians stirring up violent feelings against immigrants, vigilante violence, all those things have been with us for a long time. I've always been fascinated by that period, 1917 to 21, when they surged to the surface in a very nasty way. That was the subject of the book. Naturally, I hoped we wouldn't have to go through anything like that again, but here we are definitely going through it again.Andrew Keen: You wrote a lovely piece earlier this month for the Washington Post. "America was at its Trumpiest a hundred years ago. Here's how to prevent the worst." What did you mean by Trumpiest, Adam? I'm not sure if you came up with that title, but I know you like the term. You begin the essay. What was the Trumpiest period in American life before Donald Trump?Adam Hochschild: Well, I didn't invent the word, but I certainly did use it in the piece. What I meant by that is that when you look at this period just over 100 years ago, 1917 to 1921, Woodrow Wilson's second term in office, two things happened in 1917 that kicked off a kind of hysteria in this country. One was that Wilson asked the American Congress to declare war on Germany, which it promptly did, and when a country enters a major war, especially a world war, it sets off a kind of hysteria. And then that was redoubled some months later when the country received news of the Russian Revolution, and many people in the establishment in America were afraid the Russian Revolution might come to the United States.So, a number of things happened. One was that there was a total hysteria against all things German. There were bonfires of German books all around the country. People would take German books out of libraries, schools, college and university libraries and burn them in the street. 19 such bonfires in Ohio alone. You can see pictures of it on the internet. There was hysteria about the German language. I heard about this from my father as I was growing up because his father was a Jewish immigrant from Germany. They lived in New York City. They spoke German around the family dinner table, but they were terrified of doing so on the street because you could get beaten up for that. Several states passed laws against speaking German in public or speaking German on the telephone. Eminent professors declared that German was a barbaric language. So there was that kind of hysteria.Then as soon as the United States declared war, Wilson pushed the Espionage Act through Congress, this draconian law, which essentially gave the government the right to lock up anybody who said something that was taken to be against the war. And they used this law in a devastating way. During those four years, roughly a thousand Americans spent a year or more in jail and a much larger number, shorter periods in jail solely for things that they wrote or said. These were people who were political prisoners sent to jail simply for something they wrote or said, the most famous of them was Eugene Debs, many times the socialist candidate for president. He'd gotten 6% of the popular vote in 1912 and in 1918. For giving an anti-war speech from a park bandstand in Ohio, he was sent to prison for 10 years. And he was still in prison two years after the war ended in November, 1920, when he pulled more than 900,000 votes for president from his jail cell in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.So that was one phase of the repression, political prisoners. Another was vigilante violence. The government itself, the Department of Justice, chartered a vigilante group, something called the American Protective League, which went around roughing up people that it thought were evading the draft, beating up people at anti-war rallies, arresting people with citizens arrest whom they didn't have their proper draft papers on them, holding them for hours or sometimes for days until they could produce the right paperwork.Andrew Keen: I remember, Adam, you have a very graphic description of some of this violence in American Midnight. There was a story, was it a union leader?Adam Hochschild: Well, there is so much violence that happened during that time. I begin the book with a graphic description of vigilantes raiding an office of the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, taking a bunch of wobblies out into the prairie at night, stripping them, whipping them, flogging them fiercely, and then tarring and feathering them, and firing shotguns over their heads so they would run off into the Prairie at Night. And they did. Those guys were lucky because they survive. Other people were killed by this vigilante violence.And the final thing about that period which I would mention is the press censorship. The Espionage Act gave the Postmaster General the power to declare any publication in the United States unmailable. And for a newspaper or a magazine that was trying to reach a national audience, the only way you could do so was through the US mail because there was no internet then. No radio, no TV, no other way of getting your publication to somebody. And this put some 75 newspapers and magazines that the government didn't like out of business. It in addition censored three or four hundred specific issues of other publications as well.So that's why I feel this is all a very dark period of American life. Ironically, that press censorship operation, because it was run by the postmaster general, who by the way loved being chief censor, it was ran out of the building that was then the post office headquarters in Washington, which a hundred years later became the Trump International Hotel. And for $4,000 a night, you could stay in the Postmaster General's suite.Andrew Keen: You, Adam, the First World War is a subject you're very familiar with. In addition to American Midnight, you wrote "To End All Wars, a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914 to 18," which was another very successful of your historical recreations. Many countries around the world experience this turbulence, the violence. Of course, we had fascism in the 20s in Europe. And later in the 30s as well. America has a long history of violence. You talk about the violence after the First World War or after the declaration. But I was just in Montgomery, Alabama, went to the lynching museum there, which is considerably troubling. I'm sure you've been there. You're not necessarily a comparative political scientist, Adam. How does America, in its paranoia during the war and its clampdown on press freedom, on its violence, on its attempt to create an authoritarian political system, how does it compare to other democracies? Is some of this stuff uniquely American or is it a similar development around the world?Adam Hochschild: You see similar pressures almost any time that a major country is involved in a major war. Wars are never good for civil liberties. The First World War, to stick with that period of comparison, was a time that saw strong anti-war movements in all of the warring countries, in Germany and Britain and Russia. There were people who understood at the time that this war was going to remake the world for the worse in every way, which indeed it did, and who refused to fight. There were 800 conscientious objectors jailed in Russia, and Russia did not have much freedom of expression to begin with. In Germany, many distinguished people on the left, like Rosa Luxemburg, were sent to jail for most of the war.Britain was an interesting case because I think they had a much longer established tradition of free speech than did the countries on the continent. It goes way back and it's a distinguished and wonderful tradition. They were also worried for the first two and a half, three years of the war before the United States entered, that if they crack down too hard on their anti-war movement, it would upset people in the United States, which they were desperate to draw into the war on their side. Nonetheless, there were 6,000 conscientious objectors who were sent to jail in England. There was intermittent censorship of anti-war publications, although some were able to publish some of the time. There were many distinguished Britons, such as Bertrand Russell, the philosopher who later won a Nobel Prize, sent to jails for six months for his opposition to the war. So some of this happened all over.But I think in the United States, especially with these vigilante groups, it took a more violent form because remember the country at that time was only a few decades away from these frontier wars with the Indians. And the westward expansion of the United States during the 19th century, the western expansion of white settlement was an enormously bloody business that was almost genocidal for the Native Americans. Many people had participated in that. Many people saw that violence as integral to what the country was. So there was a pretty well-established tradition of settling differences violently.Andrew Keen: I'm sure you're familiar with Stephen Hahn's book, "A Liberal America." He teaches at NYU, a book which in some ways is very similar to yours, but covers all of American history. Hahn was recently on the Ezra Klein show, talking like you, like we're talking today, Adam, about the very American roots of Trumpism. Hahn, it's an interesting book, traces much of this back to Jackson and the wars of the frontier against Indians. Do you share his thesis on that front? Are there strong similarities between Jackson, Wilson, and perhaps even Trump?Adam Hochschild: Well, I regret to say I'm not familiar with Hahn's book, but I certainly do feel that that legacy of constant war for most of the 19th century against the Native Americans ran very deep in this country. And we must never forget how appealing it is to young men to take part in war. Unfortunately, all through history, there have been people very tempted by this. And I think when you have wars of conquest, such as happen in the American West, against people who are more poorly armed, or colonial wars such as Europe fought in Africa and Asia against much more poorly-armed opponents, these are especially appealing to young people. And in both the United States and in the European colonization of Africa, which I know something about. For young men joining in these colonizing or conquering adventures, there was a chance not just to get martial glory, but to also get rich in the process.Andrew Keen: You're all too familiar with colonial history, Adam. Another of your books was about King Leopold's Congo and the brutality there. Where was the most coherent opposition morally and politically to what was happening? My sense in Trump's America is perhaps the most persuasive and moral critique comes from the old Republican Center from people like David Brooks, Peter Wayno has been on the show many times, Jonathan Rausch. Where were people like Teddy Roosevelt in this narrative? Were there critics from the right as well as from the left?Adam Hochschild: Good question. I first of all would give a shout out to those Republican centrists who've spoken out against Trump, the McCain Republicans. There are some good people there - Romney, of course as well. They've been very forceful. There wasn't really an equivalent to that, a direct equivalent to that in the Wilson era. Teddy Roosevelt whom you mentioned was a far more ferocious drum beater than Wilson himself and was pushing Wilson to declare war long before Wilson did. Roosevelt really believed that war was good for the soul. He desperately tried to get Wilson to appoint him to lead a volunteer force, came up with an elaborate plan for this would be a volunteer army staffed by descendants of both Union and Confederate generals and by French officers as well and homage to the Marquis de Lafayette. Wilson refused to allow Roosevelt to do this, and plus Roosevelt was, I think, 58 years old at the time. But all four of Roosevelt's sons enlisted and joined in the war, and one of them was killed. And his father was absolutely devastated by this.So there was not really that equivalent to the McCain Republicans who are resisting Trump, so to speak. In fact, what resistance there was in the U.S. came mostly from the left, and it was mostly ruthlessly silenced, all these people who went to jail. It was silenced also because this is another important part of what happened, which is different from today. When the federal government passed the Espionage Act that gave it these draconian powers, state governments, many of them passed copycat laws. In fact, a federal justice department agent actually helped draft the law in New Hampshire. Montana locked up people serving more than 60 years cumulatively of hard labor for opposing the war. California had 70 people in prison. Even my hometown of Berkeley, California passed a copycat law. So, this martial spirit really spread throughout the country at that time.Andrew Keen: So you've mentioned that Debs was the great critic and was imprisoned and got a considerable number of votes in the election. You're writing a book now about the Great Depression and FDR's involvement in it. FDR, of course, was a distant cousin of Teddy Roosevelt. At this point, he was an aspiring Democratic politician. Where was the critique within the mainstream Democratic party? Were people like FDR, who had a position in the Wilson administration, wasn't he naval secretary?Adam Hochschild: He was assistant secretary of the Navy. And he went to Europe during the war. For an aspiring politician, it's always very important to say I've been at the front. And so he went to Europe and certainly made no sign of resistance. And then in 1920, he was the democratic candidate for vice president. That ticket lost of course.Andrew Keen: And just to remind ourselves, this was before he became disabled through polio, is that correct?Adam Hochschild: That's right. That happened in the early 20s and it completely changed his life and I think quite deepened him as a person. He was a very ambitious social climbing young politician before then but I think he became something deeper. Also the political parties at the time were divided each party between right and left wings or war mongering and pacifist wings. And when the Congress voted on the war, there were six senators who voted against going to war and 50 members of the House of Representatives. And those senators and representatives came from both parties. We think of the Republican Party as being more conservative, but it had some staunch liberals in it. The most outspoken voice against the war in the Senate was Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, who was a Republican.Andrew Keen: I know you write about La Follette in American Midnight, but couldn't one, Adam, couldn't won before the war and against domestic repression. You wrote an interesting piece recently for the New York Review of Books about the Scopes trial. William Jennings Bryan, of course, was involved in that. He was the defeated Democratic candidate, what in about three or four presidential elections in the past. In the early 20th century. What was Bryan's position on this? He had been against the war, is that correct? But I'm guessing he would have been quite critical of some of the domestic repression.Adam Hochschild: You know, I should know the answer to that, Andrew, but I don't. He certainly was against going to war. He had started out in Wilson's first term as Wilson's secretary of state and then resigned in protest against the military buildup and what he saw as a drift to war, and I give him great credit for that. I don't recall his speaking out against the repression after it began, once the US entered the war, but I could be wrong on that. It was not something that I researched. There were just so few voices speaking out. I think I would remember if he had been one of them.Andrew Keen: Adam, again, I'm thinking out loud here, so please correct me if this is a dumb question. What would it be fair to say that one of the things that distinguished the United States from the European powers during the First World War in this period it remained an incredibly insular provincial place barely involved in international politics with a population many of them were migrants themselves would come from Europe but nonetheless cut off from the world. And much of that accounted for the anti-immigrant, anti-foreign hysteria. That exists in many countries, but perhaps it was a little bit more pronounced in the America of the early 20th century, and perhaps in some ways in the early 21st century.Adam Hochschild: Well, we remain a pretty insular place in many ways. A few years ago, I remember seeing the statistic in the New York Times, I have not checked to see whether it's still the case, but I suspect it is that half the members of the United States Congress do not have passports. And we are more cut off from the world than people living in most of the countries of Europe, for example. And I think that does account for some of the tremendous feeling against immigrants and refugees. Although, of course, this is something that is common, not just in Europe, but in many countries all over the world. And I fear it's going to get all the stronger as climate change generates more and more refugees from the center of the earth going to places farther north or farther south where they can get away from parts of the world that have become almost unlivable because of climate change.Andrew Keen: I wonder Democratic Congress people perhaps aren't leaving the country because they fear they won't be let back in. What were the concrete consequences of all this? You write in your book about a young lawyer, J. Edgar Hoover, of course, who made his name in this period. He was very much involved in the Palmer Raids. He worked, I think his first job was for Palmer. How do you see this structurally? Of course, many historians, biographers of Hoover have seen this as the beginning of some sort of American security state. Is that over-reading it, exaggerating what happened in this period?Adam Hochschild: Well, security state may be too dignified a word for the hysteria that reigned in the country at that time. One of the things we've long had in the United States is a hysteria, paranoia directed at immigrants who are coming from what seems to be a new and threatening part of the world. In the mid-19th century, for example, we had the Know-Nothing Party, as it was called, who were violently opposed to Catholic immigrants coming from Ireland. Now, they were people of Anglo-Saxon descent, pretty much, who felt that these Irish Catholics were a tremendous threat to the America that they knew. There was much violence. There were people killed in riots against Catholic immigrants. There were Catholic merchants who had their stores burned and so on.Then it began to shift. The Irish sort of became acceptable, but by the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century the immigrants coming from Europe were now coming primarily from southern and eastern Europe. In other words, Italians, Sicilians, Poles, and Jews. And they became the target of the anti-immigrant crusaders with much hysteria directed against them. It was further inflamed at that time by the Eugenics movement, which was something very strong, where people believed that there was a Nordic race that was somehow superior to everybody else, that the Mediterraneans were inferior people, and that the Africans were so far down the scale, barely worth talking about. And this culminated in 1924 with the passage of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act that year, which basically slammed the door completely on immigrants coming from Asia and slowed to an absolute trickle those coming from Europe for the next 40 years or so.Andrew Keen: It wasn't until the mid-60s that immigration changed, which is often overlooked. Some people, even on the left, suggest that it was a mistake to radically reform the Immigration Act because we would have inevitably found ourselves back in this situation. What do you think about that, Adam?Adam Hochschild: Well, I think a country has the right to regulate to some degree its immigration, but there always will be immigration in this world. I mean, my ancestors all came from other countries. The Jewish side of my family, I'm half Jewish, were lucky to get out of Europe in plenty of time. Some relatives who stayed there were not lucky and perished in the Holocaust. So who am I to say that somebody fleeing a repressive regime in El Salvador or somewhere else doesn't have the right to come here? I think we should be pretty tolerant, especially if people fleeing countries where they really risk death for one reason or another. But there is always gonna be this strong anti-immigrant feeling because unscrupulous politicians like Donald Trump, and he has many predecessors in this country, can point to immigrants and blame them for the economic misfortunes that many Americans are experiencing for reasons that don't have anything to do with immigration.Andrew Keen: Fast forward Adam to today. You were involved in an interesting conversation on the Nation about the role of universities in the resistance. What do you make of this first hundred days, I was going to say hundred years that would be a Freudian error, a hundred days of the Trump regime, the role, of big law, big universities, newspapers, media outlets? In this emerging opposition, are you chilled or encouraged?Adam Hochschild: Well, I hope it's a hundred days and not a hundred years. I am moderately encouraged. I was certainly deeply disappointed at the outset to see all of those tech titans go to Washington, kiss the ring, contribute to Trump's inauguration festivities, be there in the front row. Very depressing spectacle, which kind of reminds one of how all the big German industrialists fell into line so quickly behind Hitler. And I'm particularly depressed to see the changes in the media, both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post becoming much more tame when it came to endorsing.Andrew Keen: One of the reasons for that, Adam, of course, is that you're a long-time professor at the journalism school at UC Berkeley, so you've been on the front lines.Adam Hochschild: So I really care about a lively press that has free expression. And we also have a huge part of the media like Fox News and One American Network and other outlets that are just pouring forth a constant fire hose of lies and falsehood.Andrew Keen: And you're being kind of calling it a fire hose. I think we could come up with other terms for it. Anyway, a sewage pipe, but that's another issue.Adam Hochschild: But I'm encouraged when I see media organizations that take a stand. There are places like the New York Times, like CNN, like MSNBC, like the major TV networks, which you can read or watch and really find an honest picture of what's going on. And I think that's a tremendously important thing for a country to have. And that you look at the countries that Donald Trump admires, like Putin's Russia, for example, they don't have this. So I value that. I want to keep it. I think that's tremendously important.I was sorry, of course, that so many of those big law firms immediately cave to these ridiculous and unprecedented demands that he made, contributing pro bono work to his causes in return for not getting banned from government buildings. Nothing like that has happened in American history before, and the people in those firms that made those decisions should really be ashamed of themselves. I was glad to see Harvard University, which happens to be my alma mater, be defiant after caving in a little bit on a couple of issues. They finally put their foot down and said no. And I must say, feeling Harvard patriotism is a very rare emotion for me. But this is the first time in 50 years that I've felt some of it.Andrew Keen: You may even give a donation, Adam.Adam Hochschild: And I hope other universities are going to follow its lead, and it looks like they will. But this is pretty unprecedented, a president coming after universities with this determined of ferocity. And he's going after nonprofit organizations as well. There will be many fights there as well, I'm sure we're just waiting to hear about the next wave of attacks which will be on places like the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation and other big nonprofits. So hold on and wait for that and I hope they are as defiant as possible too.Andrew Keen: It's a little bit jarring to hear a wise historian like yourself use the word unprecedented. Is there much else of this given that we're talking historically and the similarities with the period after the first world war, is there anything else unprecedented about Trumpism?Adam Hochschild: I think in a way, we have often had, or not often, but certainly sometimes had presidents in this country who wanted to assume almost dictatorial powers. Richard Nixon certainly is the most recent case before Trump. And he was eventually stopped and forced to leave office. Had that not happened, I think he would have very happily turned himself into a dictator. So we know that there are temptations that come with the desire for absolute power everywhere. But Trump has gotten farther along on this process and has shown less willingness to do things like abide by court orders. The way that he puts pressure on Republican members of Congress.To me, one of the most startling, disappointing, remarkable, and shocking things about these first hundred days is how very few Republican members to the House or Senate have dared to defy Trump on anything. At most, these ridiculous set of appointees that he muscled through the Senate. At most, they got three Republican votes against them. They couldn't muster the fourth necessary vote. And in the House, only one or two Republicans have voted against Trump on anything. And of course, he has threatened to have Elon Musk fund primaries against any member of Congress who does defy him. And I can't help but think that these folks must also be afraid of physical violence because Trump has let all the January 6th people out of jail and the way vigilantes like that operate is they first go after the traitors on their own side then they come for the rest of us just as in the first real burst of violence in Hitler's Germany was the night of the long knives against another faction of the Nazi Party. Then they started coming for the Jews.Andrew Keen: Finally, Adam, your wife, Arlie, is another very distinguished writer.Adam Hochschild: I've got a better picture of her than that one though.Andrew Keen: Well, I got some very nice photos. This one is perhaps a little, well she's thinking Adam. Everyone knows Arlie from her hugely successful work, "Strangers in their Own Land." She has a new book out, "Stolen Pride, Lost Shame and the Rise of the Right." I don't want to put words into Arlie's mouth and she certainly wouldn't let me do that, Adam, but would it be fair to say that her reading, certainly of recent American history, is trying to bring people back together. She talks about the lessons she learned from her therapist brother. And in some ways, I see her as a kind of marriage counselor in America. Given what's happening today in America with Trump, is this still an opportunity? This thing is going to end and it will end in some ways rather badly and perhaps bloodily one way or the other. But is this still a way to bring people, to bring Americans back together? Can America be reunited? What can we learn from American Midnight? I mean, one of the more encouraging stories I remember, and please correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't it Coolidge or Harding who invited Debs when he left prison to the White House? So American history might be in some ways violent, but it's also made up of chapters of forgiveness.Adam Hochschild: That's true. I mean, that Debs-Harding example is a wonderful one. Here is Debs sent to prison by Woodrow Wilson for a 10-year term. And Debs, by the way, had been in jail before for his leadership of a railway strike when he was a railway workers union organizer. Labor organizing was a very dangerous profession in those days. But Debs was a fairly gentle man, deeply committed to nonviolence. About a year into, a little less than a year into his term, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson's successor, pardoned Debs, let him out of prison, invited him to visit the White House on his way home. And they had a half hour's chat. And when he left the building, Debs told reporters, "I've run for the White house five times, but this is the first time I've actually gotten here." Harding privately told a friend. This was revealed only after his death, that he said, "Debs was right about that war. We never should have gotten involved in it."So yeah, there can be reconciliation. There can be talk across these great differences that we have, and I think there are a number of organizations that are working on that specific project, getting people—Andrew Keen: We've done many of those shows. I'm sure you're familiar with the organization Braver Angels, which seems to be a very good group.Adam Hochschild: So I think it can be done. I really think it could be done and it has to be done and it's important for those of us who are deeply worried about Trump, as you and I are, to understand the grievances and the losses and the suffering that has made Trump's backers feel that here is somebody who can get them out of the pickle that they're in. We have to understand that, and the Democratic Party has to come up with promising alternatives for them, which it really has not done. It didn't really offer one in this last election. And the party itself is in complete disarray right now, I fear.Andrew Keen: I think perhaps Arlie should run for president. She would certainly do a better job than Kamala Harris in explaining it. And of course they're both from Berkeley. Finally, Adam, you're very familiar with the history of Africa, Southern Africa, your family I think was originally from there. Might we need after all this, when hopefully the smoke clears, might we need a Mandela style truth and reconciliation committee to make sense of what's happening?Adam Hochschild: My family's actually not from there, but they were in business there.Andrew Keen: Right, they were in the mining business, weren't they?Adam Hochschild: That's right. Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Well, I don't think it would be on quite the same model as South Africa's. But I certainly think we need to find some way of talking across the differences that we have. Coming from the left side of that divide I just feel all too often when I'm talking to people who feel as I do about the world that there is a kind of contempt or disinterest in Trump's backers. These are people that I want to understand, that we need to understand. We need to understand them in order to hear what their real grievances are and to develop alternative policies that are going to give them a real alternative to vote for. Unless we can do that, we're going to have Trump and his like for a long time, I fear.Andrew Keen: Wise words, Adam. I hope in the next 500 episodes of this show, things will improve. We'll get you back on the show, keep doing your important work, and I'm very excited to learn more about your new project, which we'll come to in the next few months or certainly years. Thank you so much.Adam Hochschild: OK, thank you, Andrew. Good being with you. This is a public episode. 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This is episode 219 — a new Governor has sailed into Table Bay. Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, born in 1811, eldest child of Edmond Wodehouse who married his first cousin Lucy, daughter of Philip Wodehouse, uncle Philip to Sir Philip Edmond. How very Victorian. Queen Victoria herself, who married her first cousin Prince Albert—did allow and even encourage cousin marriage, particularly among royalty and the upper classes to consolidate power, property, and lineage. But it also increased the risk of birth defects by 2 percent, and if both parents carry a recessive gene mutation, their child has a 25 percent chance of expressing the disorder. Scientists have a well-worn phrase for this — its called inbreeding. Wodehouse junior entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1828, and was installed as superintendent of British Honduras between 1851 to 1854. From there he sailed to British Guiana where he served as Governor between 1854 to 1861 — before heading to the Cape in 1862. It's illuminating to touch on Sir Philip Wodehouse's disastrous time in British Guiana. Two years after he took office in the South American country, the Angel Gabriel riots broke out. His implacable opponent was John Sayers Orr, whose nom de guerre was the Angel Gabriel, was half Scottish, half African. Edinburgh's Caledonian Newspaper of the time reported that his mother Mary Ann Orr was a respectable coloured woman and married to a respectable Scot — John Orr senior. Young John Sayer Orr was rabidly anti-papal, hated the Pope and had an anti-Catholic obsession. He took to the Guianese streets with bullhorn in hand, whereupon the distant Glasgow Herald noted he spoke “rampant anti-papist froth and lies..” Between 1850 and 1851 he popped up in Boston, then New York, Bath in Maine, and Manchester in New Hampshire. In 1854 he was hustled off by police in Boston. Apart from the usual racial insults levelled at him, the Boston police report says he had more impudence than brains .. “…who with a three cornered hat and a cockade on his head, and old brass horn .. took advantage of the political excitement .. travelled around the city …tooting his horn … collecting crowds in the streets, delivering what he called his political lectures and passing around the hat for contributions…” Sounds like a modern political influencer, the bullhorn, the disinformation, the extreme rhetoric, not to mention his hat which is literally crowd sourcing. He was arrested at least 20 times for what was called his international harangues tour — where he'd shout confusing messages like “Scorn be those who rob us of our rights — purgatory for popery and the Pope — Freedom to man be he black or white — Rule Britannia…!!” Bizarrely, the resonances to today's crazy politics continued, Orr was associated with the fantastically named Know Nothing Party in America. Wait to hear about this bunch, you'll recognise bits of modern USA. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, and that providing the group with its colloquial name. Before you wonder aloud what relevance all this has, let me quickly point out that the so-called Know Nothing Party had 43 representatives in Congress at the height of its power in the late 1850s. In 1855 this strange 19th Century character pitched up in British Guiana, and Sir Philip Wodehouse had his work cut out. Soon Orr was up to his old tricks, walking about with his bull horn, carrying a flag and a British imperial badge, followed by a group of …. Well .. followers. They were not repeating they Knew Nothing, but attacking the British establishment. We'll also hear about the Angel Gabriel riots. By 1862 Wodehouse who survived a public stoning in Guiana, had arrived in the Cape as Governor. Here he was to face the implacable enemies - the Westerners and the Easterners. Two parts of the Cape that did not get along.

This is episode 219 — a new Governor has sailed into Table Bay. Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, born in 1811, eldest child of Edmond Wodehouse who married his first cousin Lucy, daughter of Philip Wodehouse, uncle Philip to Sir Philip Edmond. How very Victorian. Queen Victoria herself, who married her first cousin Prince Albert—did allow and even encourage cousin marriage, particularly among royalty and the upper classes to consolidate power, property, and lineage. But it also increased the risk of birth defects by 2 percent, and if both parents carry a recessive gene mutation, their child has a 25 percent chance of expressing the disorder. Scientists have a well-worn phrase for this — its called inbreeding. Wodehouse junior entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1828, and was installed as superintendent of British Honduras between 1851 to 1854. From there he sailed to British Guiana where he served as Governor between 1854 to 1861 — before heading to the Cape in 1862. It's illuminating to touch on Sir Philip Wodehouse's disastrous time in British Guiana. Two years after he took office in the South American country, the Angel Gabriel riots broke out. His implacable opponent was John Sayers Orr, whose nom de guerre was the Angel Gabriel, was half Scottish, half African. Edinburgh's Caledonian Newspaper of the time reported that his mother Mary Ann Orr was a respectable coloured woman and married to a respectable Scot — John Orr senior. Young John Sayer Orr was rabidly anti-papal, hated the Pope and had an anti-Catholic obsession. He took to the Guianese streets with bullhorn in hand, whereupon the distant Glasgow Herald noted he spoke “rampant anti-papist froth and lies..” Between 1850 and 1851 he popped up in Boston, then New York, Bath in Maine, and Manchester in New Hampshire. In 1854 he was hustled off by police in Boston. Apart from the usual racial insults levelled at him, the Boston police report says he had more impudence than brains .. “…who with a three cornered hat and a cockade on his head, and old brass horn .. took advantage of the political excitement .. travelled around the city …tooting his horn … collecting crowds in the streets, delivering what he called his political lectures and passing around the hat for contributions…” Sounds like a modern political influencer, the bullhorn, the disinformation, the extreme rhetoric, not to mention his hat which is literally crowd sourcing. He was arrested at least 20 times for what was called his international harangues tour — where he'd shout confusing messages like “Scorn be those who rob us of our rights — purgatory for popery and the Pope — Freedom to man be he black or white — Rule Britannia…!!” Bizarrely, the resonances to today's crazy politics continued, Orr was associated with the fantastically named Know Nothing Party in America. Wait to hear about this bunch, you'll recognise bits of modern USA. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, and that providing the group with its colloquial name. Before you wonder aloud what relevance all this has, let me quickly point out that the so-called Know Nothing Party had 43 representatives in Congress at the height of its power in the late 1850s. In 1855 this strange 19th Century character pitched up in British Guiana, and Sir Philip Wodehouse had his work cut out. Soon Orr was up to his old tricks, walking about with his bull horn, carrying a flag and a British imperial badge, followed by a group of …. Well .. followers. They were not repeating they Knew Nothing, but attacking the British establishment. We'll also hear about the Angel Gabriel riots. By 1862 Wodehouse who survived a public stoning in Guiana, had arrived in the Cape as Governor. Here he was to face the implacable enemies - the Westerners and the Easterners. Two parts of the Cape that did not get along.

The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 18, 2025How Quickly We Forget; If You Were an Irish Catholic Immigrant in the 1850s, the Xenophobic ‘Know Nothing' Party Tried to Suppress Your VoteHow quickly we forget.  If you were an Irish Catholic immigrant in the1840s through the 1920s, many of your Protestant fellow Americans, some of whom joined the xenophobic Know Nothing Party, tried to suppress your vote.Some podcasting platforms strip out our links.  To read our resources and see the whole script of today's report, please go to our website at https://AmericanDemocracyMinute.orgToday's LinksArticles & Resources:Smithsonian Magazine - How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American PoliticsVillanova University - The Know Nothing Party History Channel - When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century's Refugee Crisis Historic Ipswich - 1854: Anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party Sweeps Massachusetts ElectionsNPR - (2019) With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came FromUC Berkeley News - How Trump's immigration policies compare to those of America's pastRegister or Check Your Voter Registration:U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Register And Vote in Your StatePlease follow us on Facebook and Bluesky Social, and SHARE! Find all of our reports at AmericanDemocracyMinute.orgWant ADM sent to your email?  Sign up here!Are you a radio station?  Find our broadcast files at Pacifica Radio Network's Audioport and PRX#Democracy  #DemocracyNews #StPatricksDay #IrishAmericans #VoterSuppression

Send us a textEpisode 183William Poole ~ The Butcher of the Five PointsNew York City, March 8th 1855. The streets of Lower Manhattan are a battleground of politics, power, and blood. At the heart of it all is William Poole—a gang leader, a prizefighter, a political enforcer, and a man whose very name struck fear into his enemies.That man is about to draw his last.Born into a butcher's family, Poole carved out his own empire, not with a cleaver but with his fists and his ruthless ambition. As leader of the Bowery Boys, he was a fierce advocate for the Know-Nothing Party, a group that thrived on nativist fear and anti-immigrant violence. He terrorized his rivals, clashed with the notorious Dead Rabbits, and made enemies in the city's most dangerous circles. But in the end, it wasn't the streets that took him down—it was a bullet.Who was William Poole? A patriot? A villain? Or just another product of a city where survival meant being the meanest man in the room?This is the story of William Poole—the Butcher of the Five Points.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

In this St. Patrick's Day episode of Diversity Dialogues, we chat with Shane O'Donoghue, the child of Irish immigrants who discusses the centuries long ethnic and religious persecution of his ancestors in Ireland, and the discrimination and hatred the Irish endured in America. Shane, a management analyst in the Court System's Division of E-filing, covers the Cromwell reign of terror, the Great Hunger and, in this country, the nativist Know Nothing Party, which accused Irish and German immigrants of destroying the country by “poisoning the blood” of the nation, committing crimes and taking jobs that rightfully belonged to native born Americans. Diversity Dialogues is a production of the NYS Unified Court System's Office of Diversity & Inclusion. We live in a nation of immigrants, and our Diversity Dialogue segment is designed to highlight people in the court system who bring unique experiences and different perspectives to everything we do behind the scenes and in the courtroom. "[Diversity] is incredibly important," Shane said. "It creates an atmosphere of empathy. Once you see that diversity and you can see what other people's socio and economical challenges are or what their cultural problems that they faced, what their stories are, you kind of have a sense of empathy for them, and you want to give them a helping hand. You understand why things are the way they are and how things can get better." Transcript: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2025-03/Shane%20O%27Donoghue.pdf #StPatricksDay #DiversityDialogues #IrishImmigrants #HistoryLesson #CulturalHeritage #ImmigrationHistory #CourtSystem #DiversityAndInclusion #EmpathyInAction

Regardless of what happens next in the United States, the American experiment ends with Donald Trump. But Trump is a Trojan Horse. The real dismantling of our systems and norms is embodied by the man he ceded power to, the wealthiest person in the world. Elon Musk is the living avatar of the new corporate colonial era and there’s no going back to the way it was. This administration serves as the capstone to the neoliberal era, which itself was the professional culmination of previous social and political movements such as the John Birch Society and the Know Nothing Party. The only way to stave off economic, social and political collapse is for the left to mount a coordinated counteroffensive to the tech oligarchs who seek to consolidate all of the wealth and power in the world. Resources The Globe and Mail: Opinion: Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world Washington Times: Elon Musk: Judge Paul Engelmayer should be impeached for thwarting his DOGE squad - Washington Times Propublica: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight Planalto: Brazil announces Indonesia as full member of BRICS -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, TikTok and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is hosted by Max and distributed by 99. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic."Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GWhat a CreepSeason 26, Episode 10“The Know-Nothing Party," Nativism, and Springfield, Ohio Today”If you have been keeping up with the news, you may have heard about the city of Springfield, Ohio, where there have been over 33 bomb threats (as of this posting) targeting its Haitian residents. How did this situation come about? Today, we will delve into the origins of the Know Nothing Party, also known as the American Party, a nativist political movement in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. Understanding the history and policies of this party provides valuable insight into the current immigration debates in the U.S. Content Warning: Racism, bigotry, and general awfulness Sources for this episodeSmithsonianBritannica PolitcoCNNNewsweekSpringfield News-SunNew York TimesThe GuardianBBCSpringfield Commission Meeting August 27, 2024New York MagazineWashington PostNBC NewsThe AtlanticThe Dollop “Know Nothing”Be sure to follow us on social media. But don't follow us too closely … don't be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple PodcastsTwitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPodFacebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcastVisit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreepEmail: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We've got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

The year is 1854 and you are walking down Commercial Street in Bath, when you see a man in a bathrobe yelling aggressively about Catholics and how they are ruining the country. What do you do? You decide to go commit arson? Odd choice, but go off! Join B & Jackson as we dive into the political circumstances that led to Maine's other good old fashioned riot! Sources: Maine: A History Vol. 1 by Louis Clinton Hatch  "The Riot at Bath, Maine—Church Burned in Open Daylight—Effects of Street Preaching—An Unmolested Mob of Fifteen Hundred" from The New York Times, July 11, 1854  The Catholic Church in the United States: Pages of Its History by Henry De Courcy Before the Burning of Old South Church in Bath, Maine from The Huntington The Burning of the Old South Church by Dennis Carr for The Huntington Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854 from the Maine Memory Network Know-Nothing Riots of Bath, 1854 by Meg Steele Barker for Embark Maine Tours Abraham Lincoln on the Know Nothing Party from Digital History  The Know-Nothing Riot of July 6, 1854 by Bob Cram for The Patten Free Library  Encyclopedia Britannica Wikipedia You can reach out to us via email at homegrownhorrorpod@gmail.com - send us stories, questions, Maine movie recommendations, or just say hi! Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/homegrownhorrorpod/⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hghpod/support

S2E14 - As the Whig Party dies and the Republican Party begins forming, a party based on bigotry and xenophobia surges in popularity. Trent and Marissa track the secret societies that end up creating the Know Nothing Party, profile its major players, and analyze the impact the party had on American History. Plus, a best-selling book that turns out to be a hoax, Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York, trains taking jobs, voter fraud, and more!  Email pardonme.presidentialpod@gmail.com to contact us or issue corrections (with sources, please)! Produced and Edited by Trent Thomson and Marissa Macy Original music by Noise of Approval Graphic design by Darcey Mckinney   Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5i4AQ7lB8 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25012185?typeAccessWorkflow=login&seq=6 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/immigrants-conspiracies-and-secret-society-launched-american-nativism-180961915/

In the mid-19th century, the United States began to change. The country had initially been settled by people from England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, the vast majority of whom were Protestant.  However, in the 1840s, there began a dramatic change in the composition of immigrants to the United States. A large number of them began coming from Ireland and Germany, the vast majority of which were Catholic.  The reaction to these immigrants had an enormous impact on American politics. Learn more about the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of sports and entertainment with DraftKings, where every day is game day! Join the millions of fans who have already discovered the ultimate destination for fantasy sports and sports betting. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code EVERYTHING to score two hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly when you bet just five dollars! Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. Noom  Noom is not just another diet or fitness app. It's a comprehensive lifestyle program designed to empower you to make lasting changes and achieve your health goals. With Noom, you'll embark on a personalized journey that considers your unique needs, preferences, and challenges. Their innovative approach combines cutting-edge technology with the support of a dedicated team of experts, including registered dietitians, nutritionists, and behavior change specialists. Noom's changing how the world thinks about weight loss. Go to noom.com to sign up for your trial today!   ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily  Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is a brief history of the Know Nothing Party; a nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this first episode in a three-part series, we will look politics in California by setting first some context before digging into the Know Nothing Party's heyday at the state level in California.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace articulated the inconvenient truth that the Republican Party is dead. Matthew Dowd broke down exactly why and how they got there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/politicsdoneright/support

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 672, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Celebrity Ailments 1: In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete. Lou Gehrig. 2: (I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market. asthma. 3: Hepatitis C is not named for this sufferer, the C in the singing group CSN. David Crosby. 4: Musician Michael Wolff suffers from this, inspiring his wife Polly Draper to write the film "The Tic Code". Tourette's syndrome. 5: Kathleen Turner is a sufferer of and spokesperson about R.A., short for this. rheumatoid arthritis. Round 2. Category: File Under "S" 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. Shampoos. 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. Saber. 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. Scurvy. 4: This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles. Saluki. 5: Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations. Winfield Scott. Round 3. Category: Zeus 1: In honor of Zeus, these were held by the Greeks every 4 years. Olympics. 2: Zeus' counterpart in Roman mythology. Jupiter. 3: Hera was not only Zeus' wife but also related to him this way. his sister. 4: Zeus' father Cronus was part of this group whom Zeus and his brothers overthrew. Titans. 5: The 9 kids Zeus had with Mnemosyne all girls, are known collectively as these. Muses. Round 4. Category: "G" Whiz 1: This astronomer had a brother named Michelangelo who was a musician, not an artist. Galileo. 2: From Japanese for "art person", she's trained in the art of entertaining men. geisha. 3: A Soviet republic, or a U.S. state. Georgia. 4: A voracious eater, or someone with an enormous capacity "for work" or "for punishment". a glutton. 5: In a 1960s ad jingle, Mr. Clean was supposed to get rid of these 2 "G"s in just a minute. grease and grime. Round 5. Category: "Nothing" Doing 1: What a magician says to the audience as he pushes up his shirt cuffs. "Nothing up my sleeve". 2: Little, unimportant things that you'd whisper in your beloved's ear. Sweet Nothings. 3: Completes the line from "Macbeth", "... A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...". "Signifying Nothing". 4: According to "Me and Bobby McGee", "Freedom's just another word for" this. "Nothing left to lose". 5: In 1856 Millard Fillmore was its candidate for president. Know-Nothing Party. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

In a remarkably short span of time, American children went from laboring on family farms to spending their days in classrooms. The change came from optimistic reformers like Horace Mann, who in the early 1800s dreamed of education, literacy, and science spreading throughout all levels of American society. But other supporters of universal education had darker motives. They feared the influx of Irish Catholic immigrants and thought they'd bring their papist ideas to the young republic. Only compulsory education could break these European children of their Catholic ways and transform them into obedient, patriotic Americans with a Protestant outlook in their worldview if not in their theology.This episode explores the origins of compulsory education, from the Protestant Reformation (and how it was used as a weapon in the religious arms races of sixteenth-century Europe), Prussia's role as the first nation with universal schooling, how America adopted compulsory K-12 education, and whether modern-day schools are actually based on a factory from the 1800s.

Dimitri and Khalid discuss Gustavus Myers' final 1939 work “The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes”, including: the Revolutionary overthrow of primogeniture, entail, and mortmain, all of which enraged the colonial American aristocracy, chartered corporations becoming the new manifestation of aristocratic perpetuities, critical support for Hamilton's nemesis Aaron Burr, Jefferson's warnings about the “aristocracy of our moneyed corporations”, the rise of the based Workingmen's Party, bribery and corruption in securing the charter of Aetna Fire Insurance Company in 1820, Jackson's war against the Bank of the United States, the decidedly less based rise of the Know Nothing Party, Irish Catholic/Nativist race riots in multiple cities, the 1834 book “Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States”, its author “Brutus” aka Samuel F.P. Morse (inventor of Morse Code), the vast Jesuit conspiracy to flood the US with Catholic immigrants to institute a demonic system of Popery, the Populist Party channeling Alex Jones in 1892, Newport, Rhode Island as the seat of Mammon, the outrageous moral degeneracy of the inheritor class, the total economic collapse of 1929, class traitor FDR's rollout of the New Deal, and finally, to what extent the American Plutocratic Class used World War 2 and the Cold War to resurrect the icy, inescapable grip of capitalist mortmain over these United States. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

On this episode of Now & Then, “Attacking and Defending Voting Rights,” Heather and Joanne discuss the history of American voting rights and the antecedents to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021. They look at New Jersey's surprising history of female voting, the violence of the Know-Nothing Party, and the long congressional struggle to secure full suffrage for all Americans. Who has worked to deny the vote to marginalized populations? Which laws have been most effective in bolstering enfranchisement? And what still needs to be accomplished?  Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. And for a limited time, use the code HISTORY for 50% off the annual membership price. Head to www.cafe.com/history Join us each Tuesday for new episodes of Now & Then, and keep an eye out for live events with Heather and Joanne and the rest of the CAFE Team.  For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/attacking-and-defending-voting-rights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here we explore the Native American influence on the founding of the United States and how putting our country back together in full integrity requires us to remember and respect the living roots of our nation. Parry states that the ultimate reason he is interested in politics is so that we can get to more kindness, compassion, and respect for Mother Earth. Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D. is an educator, international speaker, entrepreneur, and visionary whose life-long passion is to re-form thinking and education into a coherent, cohesive whole. He's the founder and past president of the SEED Institute, and is currently the president of the think tank The Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 - 2011 that brought together Indigenous Native Elders and Western scientists in dialogue. This series of conferences was moderated by Leroy Little Bear. Parry is an avid outdoorsman and makes his home in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, dog, and cat. He is the author of Original Thinking: A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books 2015) and Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (Select Books 2020)Interview Date: 2/19/2021   Tags: Glenn Aparicio Parry, Paula Gunn Allen, sacred, genocide, Pilgrims, Plymonth Rock, Haudenosaunee, The Peacemaker, Roger Williams, Benjamin Franklin, Chief Canasatego, caucus, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Matilda Gage, Women’s movement, suffragists, Vandana Shiva, Turtle Island Renaissance, Leroy Little Bear, reconstruction, Van Jones, John McCain, Ramana Maharshi, Know-Nothing Party, Social Change/Politics, History, Indigenous Wisdom

These were my top ten quotes that resonated the most with me from her biography. "For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. In the mid-1850s, the first significant third-party movement in the United States, the so-called Know-Nothing Party, rose to popularity on an anti-immigrant platform. In 1882, an act of Congress banned Chinese immigrants to the country. In 1917, Congress established a host of new restrictions on immigrants, including a requirement that immigrants would have to know how to read. In 1924, the number of newcomers allowed into the country from Southern and Eastern Europe was cut dramatically. In 1939, nearly 1,000 German Jews fleeing the Nazis in a ship called the St. Louis were turned away from the United States."  "Children of immigrants also faced a new kind of torment: bullying. Kids are being taunted by other kids, told they will be deported, told their parents will be deported, told they should go back where they came from. The cruel words and actions of one prominent, powerful bully in the White House have been mimicked and adopted as the rallying cry of bullies everywhere. But how do you handle a bully? You stand up to him."  "Whenever I travel to a country for the first time, I try to visit the highest court in the land. They are monuments of a certain kind, built not just to house a courtroom but to send a message. In New Delhi, for example, the Supreme Court of India is designed to symbolize the balancing scales of justice. In Jerusalem, Israel's iconic Supreme Court building combines straight lines—which represent the rigid nature of the law—with curved walls and glass that represent the fluid nature of justice. These are buildings that speak. The same can be said of the United States Supreme Court Building, which, to my mind, is the most beautiful of them all. Its architecture recalls ancient Greece and the earliest days of democracy, as though you are standing in front of a modern-day Parthenon."  "For most families, buying a home is the biggest purchase they will ever make. It's a really special moment in your life, proof of all your hard work. You trust the people involved in the process. When the banker tells you that you qualify for a loan, you trust that she's reviewed the numbers and won't let you take on more than you can handle. When it comes time to finish the paperwork, it's basically a signing ceremony that feels like a celebration. When the bankers put a stack of paper in front of you, you trust them, and you sign. And sign. And sign. And sign."  "But the real reasons lie deeper in our complex financial system, of which mortgage lenders are just one piece. Lots of powerful people bent the rules and built elaborate schemes to make money off these bad loans. Even though most Americans didn't realize it, our entire economy had grown dependent on these scams. But it was like building a tower of blocks on top of a balloon, and when the balloon popped, the entire economy came crashing down, and we ended up with the Great Recession."  "But in the 1970s and '80s, corporate America—the owners of big companies—decided to go its own way. Instead of spending the money the company earned on workers, the corporations decided that their only real obligation was to their shareholders, those who bought company stock and therefore owned a piece of the company. From big business's perspective, it was those owners who deserved the lion's share of the riches, not the people who made the company run. So while productivity kept improving—a whopping 74 percent between 1973 and 2013—workers' pay rose just 9 percent. In the 1980s, President Reagan made that idea core to the Republican Party's view of economics. Cut taxes for corporations. Cut taxes for shareholders. Oppose minimum wage increases for workers. Oppose the very idea of a minimum wage. Crush organized labor—unions—the most powerful force fighting for workers' rights to fair wages and decent working conditions. Roll back government regulation of corporations. Ignore the human cost."  "Second, I choose to speak truth. Even when it's uncomfortable. Even when it leaves people feeling uneasy. When you speak truth, people won't always walk away feeling good—and sometimes you won't feel so great about the reaction you receive. But at least all parties will walk away knowing it was an honest conversation."  "In the spring of 1966, Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile march of Latinx and Filipino farmworkers from California's Central Valley to its state capital in an effort to draw attention to the mistreatment and terrible working conditions of his fellow farmworkers. That summer, the United Farm Workers was formed, and under Chavez's leadership, it would become one of the most important civil rights and labor rights organizations in the country."  "When I travel the country, I see that optimism in the eyes of five- and seven- and ten-year-olds who feel a sense of purpose in being part of the fight. I see it, and feel it, in the energy of the people I meet. Yes, people are marching. Yes, people are shouting. But they are doing it from a place of optimism. That's why they've got their babies with them. That's why my parents took me in a stroller to civil rights marches. Because as overwhelming as the circumstances may be, they believe, as I do, that a better future is possible for us all." "In fact, in 2016, researchers found that more than half of Silicon Valley's billion-dollar start-ups were founded by one or more immigrants."

i'm joined by @thebluehawk1, a phd student studying America in the 19th century, and we talk about a movie that hardly has a plot, but has the most phenomenal backdrop also, Justin provided a massive reading list to accompany the episode: For History of New York in this era see: - Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th Century New York Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York: Penguin Group, 2001. - Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. - McNeur, Catherine. Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the - Antebellum City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. For history of mobs in the 19th century see: - Gilje, Paul A. The Road to Mobocracy Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. - Grimsted, David. American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. - Towers, Frank. Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War. Charlottesville: Univ of Virginia Press, 2008. For a History of the Know Nothing Party see: - Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. For History of Firefighters see: - Greenberg, Amy S. Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. For an early history of urban policing see: - Malka, Adam. The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States, has chosen Kamala Harris as his running-mate. If elected, they would pose the most grievous threat to the Catholic Church in America since the fall of the Know-Nothing Party.Your hosts Michael Warren Davis and Philip F. Lawler discuss this—and so much more!—on episode 10 of the Crisis Point.Support the show

America has had many different political parties in its 232 year history. We had the Know Nothing Party, the Socialist Party, the Green Party, and many others. One lesser known party from the 1830’s was the Anti-Masonic Party. It was a precursor of the Republican Party, and as their name suggests they were dedicated to rooting out the influence of Free Masonry in government. They believed the secrecy of the Masonic Order was dangerous and that through the influence of Free Masons in high positions the society was too powerful. Republican congressmen, Thaddeus Stevens, was the leading voice for the abolition of slavery during the Civil War. He had also been a former member of the Anti-Masonic party. He said about Free Masons in government in the mid-19th century, that they had "contrived by concert" to place themselves into most of the positions of high profit and power. The Anti-Masonic Party may not be around today, but the threat they feared of secret societies such as Free Masonry controlling the government may be alive and thriving. Is there any evidence that a secret society is controlling public policy in America? If so, what does it mean for you and your family? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #63.

This week, Emma looks at the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Know Nothing Party for your APUSH exam. She goes through the election of 1956, the formation of the Republican party and the Dred Scott decision. Ideal for preparing you for your AP US History exam. Click here for the full course, or visit this link: http://bit.ly/2O1gaJx

In this episode the Crowdsourced Politics podcast crew discusses the ins and outs of the Alt-Right: how it differs from and is similar to traditional American conservatism; tactics they use and their effectiveness; and where we think the movement is headed. With special guest Timothy Patrick.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcements Agents threatened raids to deport thousands of undocumented families, the President sent out tweets calling for sitting U.S. Congresswomen of color to go back where they came from. Actions and words which added fuel to the already raging flames of debate over how immigration ought to be handled in this country. When looking for an analog in the past, we find the Know Nothing Party, the nation's first party that based its stances on the ideology of nationalism and being anti-immigration. What can the Know Nothing's teach us about today and how can the concerns of those drawn to nativism be addressed in a healthier way: this week on Context, Please. Sources and Images are available at this episode's webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/context-please/episodes/immigration-and-the-know-nothing-party Follow us on Instagram and Facebook: @contextpleasepod to stay up to date on all our latest stories. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field, a controversial figure or a fellow human being trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. Today my guest is Pete "Mance Rayder" Raymond. Pete is a podcaster, an author and one of my favorite voices in the liberty movement. He is the host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, a contributor to LibertarianInstitute.org and author of the book "Freedom Through Memedom - The 31 Day Guide to Waking Up To Liberty" and "The Kids Are Not Alright: A Meme Inspired Primer on Encroaching Marxism in the West" both of which you can purchase on his website which is linked below along with his youtube, patreon and other links below in the show description. I am so excited to talk to Pete today about his story, Liberty in our lifetime and about the work he is doing. Pete's Links:https://freemanbeyondthewall.com/https://libertarianinstitute.org/mance/https://www.youtube.com/user/tmjm3714https://www.patreon.com/ManceRayderhttps://bitbacker.io/user/peteraymond/________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in's. All set to original music my yours truly. "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream random Wednesday's 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 3x a week. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, ideas, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQGoogle Play: https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/I5kph3etuhhvphbsykohdslvkgy?t%3DCall_Me_Ignorant%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16More to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBitBacker: https://bitbacker.io/user/stephenignoramus/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephenIgnoramusSubscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/stephen-ignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field, a controversial figure or a fellow human being trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest today is Ford Fischer. Ford is a journalist and the editor-in-chief of News2Share.com which bring yous the latest on activism and politics in the nation's capital . We are going to talk about #YouTubePurge, his work as journalist, and his recent demonetization on Youtube. Link for Ford Fischer:http://news2share.com/start/https://www.youtube.com/user/DCNews2Sharehttps://twitter.com/FordFischerhttps://www.patreon.com/FordFischerhttps://www.facebook.com/N2Sreports/________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in's. All set to original music my yours truly. "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream random Wednesday's 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 3x a week. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, ideas, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQGoogle Play: https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/I5kph3etuhhvphbsykohdslvkgy?t%3DCall_Me_Ignorant%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16More to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field, a controversial figure or a fellow human being trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. We are streaming live right now to Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Mixer, DLive and Picarto. If you can’t catch the show live, you can find it after the fact on the above mentioned platforms, also on Bitchute and FreedomScoop.com. Call Me Ignorant is also available in podcast format on Apple, Spotify, Google Play and Podbean. You can find me on twitter at Ignoramus Steve, or send me an email at StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com. Topic ideas, questions and potential guests for the show are much appreciated. My guest today is Wyatt Berckenhoff. He is a recently graduated high school senior, a youtuber and the creator of Round Table Decision, which is a Youtube channel and Discord server that focuses on politics, philosophy and debate that he started as a high school project. Links for Round Table Decision:https://discord.gg/FHnUCfBhttps://twitter.com/RoundTableIBhttps://gab.com/RoundTableDecisionhttps://www.minds.com/roundtabledecisionhttps://www.bitchute.com/channel/Qw6________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQGoogle Play: https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/I5kph3etuhhvphbsykohdslvkgy?t%3DCall_Me_Ignorant%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16More to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field, a controversial figure or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest today is William Denison. William is an Author, a journalist and manual laborer. He has a bachelor's degree in African studies. We are here today to talk about his book, "The Segregation of Dialogue" and to talk about culture and society in America and the West. Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SegDialogueWill on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqm7yq1ChgldGABqTZmgKAWill's Email: TheSegregationofDialogue@gmail.comThe Segregation of Dialogue on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Segregation-Dialogue-Critique-Left-Within/dp/1520501439/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8Will's blog: https://activismundercover.wordpress.com/ ________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field, a controversial figure or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest tonight is Mackenzie aka KenziePuff. She is a cosplayer, a liberty activist and a lover of books. You can find her on twitter @_Kenziepuff and at facebook.com/Kenziepuffcosplay, both of which are linked in the show notes. I'm very excited to talk to her tonight and learn about a few subjects that are completely new to me. Mackenzie on twitter: https://twitter.com/_KenziepuffMackenzie on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kenziepuffcosplayMackenzie on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa2-piBMbmik7L5-zPFmPTA________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. We are streaming live on Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Mixer, DLive and Picarto. If you can’t catch the show live, you can find it after the fact on the above mentioned platforms, also on Bitchute and FreedomScoop.com. Call Me Ignorant is also available in podcast format on Apple, Spotify, Google Play and Podbean. You can find me on twitter at Ignoramus Steve, or send me an email me at StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com. Topic ideas, possible guests for the show and things I can look up are much appreciated. My guest tonight is Steffi Cole. She is a YouTuber, a Bookworm and a Promoter of Liberty. You can find her on twitter and instagram at Steffi_Cole and on youtube at SteffiCole. Steffi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steffi_cole/Steffi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steffi_ColeSteffi on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SteffiCole________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest today is Scott Cecil. Scott is a podcaster, an activist and a newly elected city council member of Mt. Rainier, Maryland. His podcast, Prohibited, explores the impact of various forms of Prohibition, from cannabis, opiates and sex work all the way to plastic straws. His podcast takes an unflinching look at the policy outcomes of prohibition through conversations with those working to dismantle systems of prohibition as well as those seeking to build and maintain them. You can find prohibited on the various podcast platforms as well as at prohibitedpodcast.com and you can find Scott on twitter @ScottCecil. Prohibited podcast: https://prohibitedpodcast.com/Prohibited on twitter: https://twitter.com/ProhibitedPodProhibited on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prohibitedpod/Scott on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScottCecil ________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. Tonight my guest is Nathaniel Slattery. Nathaniel is an author, a friend of mine and has a youtube channel where he focuses on Christianity and passages from the bible. He participated on the Dictionary debate that I moderated last week that you can find on The Generational Gap's youtube channel, as well as my own. He claims to get into fights online from time to time and I tend to believe him when he says that. Nathaniel on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2eML4JtDM_XBNHaiZGh-w________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Hey everybody. Stephen Ignoramus here and welcome to Call Me, Ignorant. So pleased you could be with us. Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show. Whether with an interesting content creator, an expert in a field or a fellow human trying to spread a message, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest today is Keenan Wallace Dunham. Keenan is running for President in 2020 as a Libertarian. He is Vice-Chair of the Horry County Libertarian Party and has aided numerous local candidates running for office since 2016. He is highly active in politics and community service. His campaign for US President consists of four domestic plans to expand the US economy. Keenan Wallace Dunham's website: https://dunham2020.nationbuilder.com/2020 Bid Press release: https://think-liberty.com/candidates/keenan-wallace-dunham/Keenan on twitter: https://twitter.com/KDunham4Peace________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

Call Me, Ignorant is a live conversation show where guests and I will get to talk, and also let the internet do the talking. Whether it's with a interesting content creator, an expert in a field or a chance for fans to call in, Call Me Ignorant will try to solve the problems of the world, conversationally speaking. My guest tonight is Robert from The Generational Gap. Robert is a live streamer, a Youtuber, a Gen-X'er and a big fan of discourse and debate. Generational Gap on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvOr-VaxkXSmGk4ZPziTqAGenerational Gap on twitter: https://twitter.com/TheGenGapP________________________________Streaming "The Daily Ignoramus" around midday every weekday. News, History, Idiocy, Call-in "The Know-Nothing Party" live music stream every Wednesday 8PM Eastern "Call Me Ignorant" is my interview/podcast show, I try to do it 2x a week. You can find it on Spotify and Podbean (links below) Follow on twitter @IgnoramusSteveAll other Social Media: Stephen IgnoramusEmail w/questions, collabs: StephenIgnoramus@gmail.com Streaming and Videos:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjJeSvwztALX2HuPu401mgBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/stephenignoramusDLive: https://dlive.tv/StephenIgnoramusMixer: https://mixer.com/StephenIgnoramusTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stephenignoramusPeriscope: https://www.pscp.tv/StephenIgnoramus Podcast:Podbean: https://stephenignoramus.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gPqpCLKQDq6gSfuCfHOy7?si=WyuNC4LjScmL1MA1PskHgQMore to come! Support:PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/StephenIgnoramusStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/stephenignoramusBTC: 3Q8GL2w52hWVYfWwc8B2zf1ngvCLknA7ehLTC: MLmurVpEyJxVfVGpdouwWffMeaJjSnen47ETH: 0xd9c6b80068Cc0e38938B9ab4234F0a6fe5C759E6 Go Inform Yourselves.

[EPISODE] Ireland and New York We will explore the past, and present of Irish immigrants who made New York City their home. My guests will be Joyce Gold of Joyce Gold History Tours, and Ronan Downs, owner and partner in many New York businesses, including the Stone Street Tavern, and The Factory. Segment 1 Jeff welcomes Joyce Gold back to the show to discuss the history of Irish immigrants in New York City. Joyce and Jeff detail the history Irish immigration to New York beginning in the years after the 1840's Irish famine. Joyce explains how Irish immigrants settled in the Five Points and Hell's Kitchen. Joyce notes the types of work the Irish found in New York and the challenges faced by early immigrants. Segment 2 Jeff and Joyce touch on notable Irish Catholic churches throughout New York City. Joyce discusses how the Know Nothing Party in the 1850's, the Civil War draft riots, and race relations affected Irish immigrants in New York. They trace the Irish assimilation post Civil War and how discrimination waned. Segment 3 Jeff is joined once again by Ronan Downs, who shares his experience of emigrating to New York from Ireland. Ronan shares his story of playing college soccer in the U.S. and his short professional soccer career. Ronan tells how he got his first job in America. Ronan then shares his career as a business owner from his first business through his 5 current ventures. Segment 4 Jeff and Ronan discuss what they love about New York. Ronan describes the importance of diversity in New York and his love for the city’s architecture. They touch on Ronan's latest project, the wizardry themed “The Cauldron”. They move to Ronan's Andy Warhol inspired bar. Ronan then details his charitable work with Self Help Africa.

Untreated spinal conditions, rusty medical equipment, and a fly infestation are a few of the complaints alleged by a group of doctors at the VA Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. We speak with a reporter who’s following the story. And a Massachusetts man, in prison for murder, fights to get a new trial after over 30 years in prison. Plus, we bring you the brief and fascinating history of a little-known anti-immigration party that swept the Massachusetts government in 1854, and more. Darrell “Diamond” Jones, a man convicted of murder more than three decades ago, is seeking a new trial. He appeared at a hearing in a Fall River, Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday. Photo by Jesse Costa for WBUR Casting Doubt Darrell “Diamond” Jones was convicted of the 1985 murder of alleged Cuban cocaine dealer Guillermo Rodriguez in Brockton, Massachusetts. Photo by Jesse Costa for WBUR There was dramatic testimony during an unusual hearing in a Fall River, Massachusetts courtroom on Tuesday. Darrell Jones, a man convicted of murder more than three decades ago, is seeking a new trial. Tuesday’s hearing raised questions of racial bias by jurors. And a key juror who alleged the discrimination said that she was never summoned to court to testify. WBUR’s Bruce Gellerman has the story. Last year, Bruce Gellerman and Jenifer McKim of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting collaborated on an investigation of Darrell Jones' case. Carol DiPirro talks with neighbor Andrea Inamorati about a health survey following water contamination in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Photo by Emily Corwin for NHPR Over a year ago, residents near Merrimack, New Hampshire learned their drinking water had been contaminated by emissions from a nearby plastics plant. The chemicals found in area wells, known as PFAs, have been linked to thyroid disease, cancer, immune system changes, and other health problems. Some residents there now say state and federal officials still aren't doing enough to protect them. A few neighbors are taking things into their own hands. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Emily Corwin reports. Every day, nearly a million commuters travel on the Northeast Corridor — the rail network between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Many of those passengers cross over a small river in the coastal city of Norwalk, Connecticut. But the only way for a train to get across that river is via a 120-year-old “swing bridge,” which rotates to let boats pass. And sometimes that bridge gets stuck mid-swing, causing chaos for commuters. State officials want to replace the deteriorating bridge, but locals worry about collateral damage. WNPR's Ryan Caron King reports. Un-Cared For Ed Kois, one of the doctors who went public with allegations of substandard care at the Manchester VA. Photo by Peter Biello for NHPR The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire has come under fire for allegedly delaying care to some patients with spine conditions, resulting in their paralysis. Whistleblowers also allege that the purchase of important medical equipment had been delayed because of budgetary concerns. And the medical center has been struggling with an infestation of flies for at least a decade. These were some of the concerns doctors brought to VA investigators, who took no action. But when these same concerns were reported by the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, response from the VA was swift. Our guest Peter Biello covers veterans affairs for New Hampshire Public Radio and has been following the story as it develops. Reggie Moton of Hartford, Connecticut suffers from depression and substance use disorder. Moton was homeless for 20 years before a nonprofit called Journey Home found him this apartment in 2016. Photo by Ryan Caron King for NENC Between a quarter and a third of homeless people have a mental illness, and roughly that same percentage suffers from substance abuse disorder. Columnist Susan Campbell, who writes about housing and homelessness for the New England News Collaborative, told us the story of one man, Reggie Moton, who fits both of these categories. Campbell says Moton illustrates the years of systemic neglect of mentally ill homeless people in New England. Read Susan Campbell’s column and watch a video interview with Reggie Moton below. Know Nothings The flag of the mid 19th Century American Party. The party was commonly known as the Know Nothing Party because when asked about their secretive meetings, members were instructed to reply, “I know nothing.” Back in January, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh spoke in defiance of President Trump’s executive order promising to strip funding from so-called sanctuary cities — cities like Boston, where local police do not detain or question anyone based solely on their immigration status. At a press conference, Walsh said immigrants fearing deportation could live in City Hall if they wished. And as we've reported, leaders of other Massachusetts cities have embraced immigrant-friendly policies. But back in the 1850s, a new political party — formed in opposition to waves of European immigrants — swept to power in Boston and other Massachusetts cities, and captured the state legislature by a landslide. Anna Fisher-Pinkert tells the story of the Massachusetts Know Nothing Party. The piece was originally produced for the Commonwealth Museum in Boston. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Peter Biello, Susan Campbell, Ryan Caron King, Emily Corwin, Bruce Gellerman, Anna Fisher-Pinkert Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads and photos of your favorite New England bridge to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the Know Nothing Party and nativism in America. SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

It’s funny how history repeats itself.  In the mid 19th Century, partly in response to the Great Famine, waves of Irish immigrants came to America. Most landed in New York, to seek a new and better life.  Then as now, questions of immigration, assimilation and criminal behavior filled the air.  The appropriately named Know Nothing Party  grew up in opposition to these waves of immigration and filled the political dialogue with fear and hatred.  But fortunately leaders emerged in the Irish community that showed them how to be Americas. One of those was Thomas Francis Meaghar. He would become not just an Irish hero, but an American hero. Sometimes forgotten he is given new life by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Timothy Egan in The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero My conversation with Timothy Egan:

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TRANSCRIPT The shift within self-identified political-conservative circles to embrace sodomy has been stunning. It is the Achilles' heel for those looking to destroy the nation. In fact, it might be better referred to as lurching toward homosexuality rather than just embracing it. This has happened largely because of the greed for power among those who pass themselves off as "leaders," but are little else than cowards whose lust for power makes them go along with the prevailing winds. Every now and then, you may find a political leader who has the backbone to stand against those winds, but such a man or woman is pretty rare. But here is the question that needs to be asked: How is it that the prevailing winds have so shifted — so much so, in fact, that American conservatism isn't really American anymore and certainly not conservative? America hasn't really been conservative since the days of the sexual revolution a half-century ago. Once divorce and contraception were introduced into the mainstream, Americans, by the millions, simply gave in to their passions and reorganized their lives around having an orgasm — and not just an orgasm, but an orgasm with whomever, whenever and wherever they wanted, with whatever sex they wanted and as often as they wanted. First, unleash the sexual passions, and, eventually, a culture collapses and an empire is destroyed. True, during that time following the sexual revolution, there have been periods of so-called conservatism (the Reagan years spring to mind), but while Satan knows his time is limited, he is pretty darn accomplished at playing his version of the long game. Even with Reagan, it was a mixed bag where it really counted. All the flag-waving and "Americana" aside, Reagan put Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy on the high court, both of whom supported abortion (although Reagan assured conservatives they wouldn't). And, of course, Kennedy penned the infamous words in support of child killing in the wicked 1992 Casey ruling: "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." That philosophy would come in handy when Kennedy put his seal of approval on sodomy as "marriage" in the infamous Obergefell decision enshrining homosexual marriage as a "constitutional right" in 2015. It's all a process: First, unleash the sexual passions, and, eventually, a culture collapses and an empire is destroyed. But there are, of course, some steps in between, and one of those is the embrace of homosexuality, something which has become mainstream within so-called conservatism. This needs to be said: At the heart of political conservatism today is a rejection of Catholicism. It's like the 1920s Know Nothing Party has resurrected, wrapped itself in the American flag and started beating up Catholics in dark alleys all over again. This has come about for a huge number of reasons, but the driving force is that Protestantism, with its theologically untenable position of "make up your own Jesus," laid the dynamite for the destruction of not only political conservatism but most especially Catholicism. The collapse of the Catholic Church in the United States is owing directly to its embrace of the Protestant heresy by Mass-going Catholics, beginning with the baby boomers. From there, it's been all downhill, both for politics and religion. The Protestant heresy, American style, accepted birth control and divorce long before they became fashionable from sea to shining sea. But again, you open Pandora's sex box and it's "Nellie, bar the doors." But for Catholics sitting in the pews, it wasn't just societal pressures from Protestant friends and workmates and their own passions that caused the collapse. It was pressure from the pulpit, where not just a sexual revolution happened, but a homosexual revolution had taken place a generation before. It was Catholic clergymen, especially in the episcopate, who led the Catholic march toward mass acceptance of homosexuality — perverts in miters who dressed up acceptance of sodomy in the language of love and compassion and tolerance. What they didn't say was they themselves were active homosexuals, some of whom were raping altar boys (but all promoting homosexuality behind the scenes in seminaries, religious houses, parishes, universities, you name it). But to ensure that the evil advanced, candidates for priesthood were routinely screened to ensure they were either gay themselves or sufficiently weak men to not oppose it and go along with it. And once they mounted the pulpits, the propaganda flowed so much so that, according to multiple polls, of all Christian religious bodies, it was Catholics more than any others who accepted first civil unions, and then, eventually, sodomitic marriage. Today, not only is homosexuality a well-established principle among Catholics and Protestants, it has become such among conservatives as well. In fact, conservatism has embraced the rainbow precisely because Christians did so first. And Christians did because they couldn't resist the lure of unbridled sex. Today, every single noteworthy Protestant denomination accepts birth control, and most adopt the same attitude toward homosexuality. And that's officially — not just what some adherents believe personally. In the world of Catholicism, a majority of the baptized accept all the same sexual sins introduced to them by Protestantism, in some ways, even more enthusiastically. But on the level of Church teaching, not only has it not happened, it can't. Unlike Protestantism, which is man-made, all 40,000 variations of it, the Catholic Church was created by the Son of God — divinely constituted. Its members, like Judas, for example, can become corrupt; but it can never become so because of the protection afforded it by the Holy Spirit. So here's the bottom line: Anyone who wants to engage in the political fight to preserve a culture, despite pretty long odds, needs to be Catholic (and not just like most Catholics today, but an authentic Catholic). Catholicism built Western civilization. It was Protestantism that set the course for its destruction. And here we are today, having arrived at the logical conclusion of that centuries-long journey. Catholicism provides the unchallenged intellectual heft, the deep philosophical underpinnings and, most importantly, the grace from the sacraments to create saints. The culture does not need 'conservatism'; it needs Catholicism. The culture does not need "conservatism"; it needs Catholicism. Conservatives can't save the nation because conservatism doesn't possess what it needs to save. The conservative movement can't even save itself, much less a country. You cannot give what you do not have, and the conservative movement does not have what it pretends to have. Self-described conservatives will not — cannot — save the nation. Saints will. And only the Catholic Church can produce saints, because only the Catholic Church has that ability, through the divine authority and power granted to it by the eternal Incarnate Logos. Any movement, for good or ill, is destined to die if it does not comport fully with the will of God and His truth. This is true not just of movements, but of the individuals who comprise the movements. God is an all-or-nothing proposition — always has been, is, and always will be. A people, a nation, a movement, a person can only survive to the extent this truth is embraced. Only saints can save a nation. And they will save it, if, in fact, it is the will of God that it be saved. But whether they are able to save the nation or not, they will save their souls, and that, we know, is the will of God.