From: The Rubin Recap - The Sunday return to normalcy
A Supreme Court Justice for all ...
From: The Rubin Recap —The Sunday return to normalcy
A Supreme Court Justice for all ...
The wit and wisdom of Clarence Thomas, a justice for all
Note from Reynolds: The previous note included the entire speech by Thomas. Here you will find a link to the video, as well as his comments after the address. Rubin’s comments on his site today are included below.
[Dave Rubin]
In last week’s edition, I focused on how Donald Trump has made it uncomfortable for career politicians like Nancy Pelosi to remain in his version of Washington, D.C. In fact, since I launched this Return to Normalcy edition of the newsletter, pretty much everything I’ve focused on is how Trump has, in one way or another, began to usher normalcy back into dominant American life and culture.
He has created an atmosphere for normalcy, but it’s going to take more than Trump if America wants to achieve the level of normalcy that this country once enjoyed — not so long ago — and that was obliterated by the policies and bullying of modern Democrats.
That’s why a speech Clarence Thomas gave this week is so important. The speech is nearly an hour long, but I recommend listening to it all if you have time. Otherwise, I’m going to highlight one key point he made that came later on in the speech, but really underscores the incredible danger of progressivism.
Thomas discussed the origins of progressivism in the U.S., and said it all started with the country’s 28th president, Woodrow Wilson.
“Since Wilson’s presidency, progressivism has made many inroads into our system of government and our way of life,” Thomas said. He went on to point out that Wilson and other early progressives argued that it was time for the U.S. to move away from the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers and adopt more European styles of governance. Feels a little too familiar.
“The century of progressivism did not go well,” Thomas continued. “The European system that Wilson and the progressives scolded Americans for not adopting, which he called nearly perfect, led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our declaration are based. Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people. It was a terrible mistake to adopt progressivism’s rejection of the declaration’s vision of universal unalienable natural rights.”
Thomas is the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court right now, and is known for speaking very little from the Supreme Court bench. He, by far, uses the fewest words of the nine justices during arguments made before the court. But in the speech he gave at the University of Texas at Austin this week he had a lot to say.
Thomas also participated in a discussion at the university. We played a clip of it on the show this week, and I put it here below because it cuts to the heart of why he decided to give this speech, why he thought it was important to speak out, even if he’s not always comfortable making big public statements.
“I want to say what I actually think, and I think if we don’t stand up and take ownership of our country and take responsible for it, we are slowly letting others control how we think and what we think.”
This is exactly what the progressives have done over the last 10-15 years. They’ve tried to control how you think and speak. Remember what happened during COVID, or how they forced pronoun usage upon us. There are dozens of other examples.
“Progressivism, in other words, is retrogressive,” Thomas said at one point. Wise words. I haven’t said it in a while, but for a long time I talked about the excesses of what I called “the regressive left.” This is exactly what Donald Trump diametrically opposes, and what Thomas bravely speaks out about. I point all of this out in the hopes that it inspires you, even in some small way, to say what you actually think, so that we — we the people — don’t lose ownership of our country. So that we can have a normal America.
Clarence Thomas Makes Crowd Go Quiet w/ This Chilling Warning
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