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STEVE BANNON (HOST): Frank, you called this defund the police 2.0. What do you mean by that?

FRANK GAFFNEY (GUEST): Well, as you said earlier, Steve, in 2020 the pretext of the Floyd death was used to mount violent attacks on not just government property and private property but law enforcement personnel. And the result of all of that was this huge effort to blame the police for the problem and say they needed to be defunded.

Well, if that doesn't sound like déjà vu all over again at the moment, I don't know what this is. The law enforcement personnel who are doing their assigned missions as well as they can under extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to say nothing of life threatening circumstances in some cases, are now being told we need to defund them effectively. I mean, whether it's disarming them or simply dismantling any protection that they have from being doxxed and thereby having not only their own lives put at risk but their families.

I mean, the question has to be asked, Steve. Not only is this, you know, defund the police 2.0, who are we thinking are gonna do these jobs under these circumstances? It is just as was the first go round. Predictably the case that you will see people bailing out of ICE, people refusing to work under these job conditions, people making the eminently sensible decision that if they — we don't have their back, they're out of there. And then where are we?

And I just have to say, Steve, I did a commentary this morning, I think you're referring to it, about this being a moment when actually we need ICE more than ever. And it's not just because of the, the so-called worst of the worst, the gang bangers and the drug cartels and this, I'm worried sick about what we are told is multiple divisions worth of Chinese soldiers who were brought in across Joe Biden's open borders.

And what Sam Faddis has just written up at AND magazine, one of his stupendous pieces informed by his own experience in his last duty station at the Central Intelligence Agency where he was responsible for countering weapons of mass destruction terrorism. And he's warning about the second biowarfare laboratory by the same guy who had the first one and possibly they think there may be 20 more of these things.

You put those Chinese soldiers in positions to use bioweapons that, according to Sam, maybe have a mortality rate of 60 to 90%. You're talking about mass destruction of the United States, the population, and that's what the blood of — will be on the hands of these Democrats and some Republicans who are trying to get rid of ICE. We need them more than ever now.

BANNON: They don't care, they'd rather keep the 20 million, that's how they keep power.

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Mario Torres is in the front line for the defense of civilization.

Torres is the unassuming Columbia University janitor pictured defending Hamilton Hall from invading barbarians last week. The iconic photo of him pinning a protester against the wall became an instant social media meme.

The pro-terrorism protester he pinned is himself a poster boy — for everything reviled in America. He is 40-year-old millionaire anarchist Cody Tarlow, also known as James Carlson or Cody Carlson, a violent trust-funder with a long history of Marxist agitation, whose late parents were megadonor ad executives, and whose trophy stepmother is now dating singer John Mellencamp.

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For the promise of peace, Northwestern University and Rutgers University have promised to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Perhaps the schools, sophisticated and well-lawyered though they are, didn’t know they would violate the Act. Perhaps they’re so lost to an ideology obsessed with race, ethnicity, and oppression that they can’t imagine that the law sees things differently. Or perhaps the schools did know, and they hope that the law will provide them with a way out of agreements that they didn’t have the courage to oppose.

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The protesters disrupting college campuses across the country are the schools’ Marxist chickens coming home to roost.

For decades, U.S. universities, especially selective ones, have favored applicants who struck the right “social justice” notes, and hired faculty that reinforced those views. Then they cemented this zeitgeist with the jargon of identity and the “oppressed-oppressor” paradigm.

What did the universities now being rocked by pro-Palestinian protests expect? That there would not be consequences?

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How much do we know about hashtag#Marxism? Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka, authors of the book, “NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It,” recently sat down with NTD News to unpack it for us.

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He’s lost it.

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This is the THIRD time in less than 24 hours!! Biden just AGAIN told the dubious story about his "Uncle Bosey" and "a lot of cannibals" in New Guinea. He then AGAIN repeated the false "suckers and losers" claim.

Oh yeah, and he claimed D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).

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This morning's unanimous decision in the Muldrow case (a sex discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act) will make it easier to sue employers over many of their DEI policies: https://lnkd.in/eHYWpYBy

Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Sue Employers Over DEI Policies

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Presidents used to appoint diplomats to defend the interests of the United States and the public against foreign adversaries. That looks now like a gauzy past. Today, you have President Joe Biden’s appointees, who want to demolish the society they purport to represent.

Meet Zakiya Carr Johnson, the State Department's new DEI chief. Her views of the United States, the country she now represents, come straight out of the critical race theory (CRT) playbook: the U.S. is systemically rotten, and thus requires systemic overhaul.

“Because we live and work within systems, and those systems, as I mentioned before, are so deeply rooted in patriarchy, in colonialism, in racism, in otherism, we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes,” she said in a 10-minute video on intersectional feminism she made in 2020 for a consulting firm she founded. “In order to make any change, we’ve literally got to be about dismantling that traditional structure at every juncture.”

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If it looks like a Chinese spy app, functions like a Chinese spy app, and has a Chinese Communist Party card-carrying member on the board of its main domestic subsidiary, then it’s probably a Chinese spy app.

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Unacceptable. This infatuation/madness with gender identity has to stop. Parents have every right to know what is being taught to their children in any school environment, public or private.

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This is nuts - they're attacking moms trying to protect innocent kids now???

A teachers' union has brought a lawsuit against the mother of a 5 year old for asking to have a copy of the class curriculum.

She said they wanted to send a message to other parents: "If you ask questions, we will come after you".

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The Marxists never left, they only rebranded. Only by understanding how we got here, and the seriousness of the current cultural crisis, will Americans know what must be done to defeat today’s enemy. https://lnkd.in/ekNi239y

Meet the New Marxism, the Same As the Old Marxism

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Thank you, Mariana.

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Congratulations to Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka on this great release “Nextgen Marxism: What It Is and How To Combat It.” I look forward to reading it.

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My book with Katie Gorka is published today!

NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It

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If your school has a Chief Diversity Officer or other positions like it, your school will likely see diminished academic outcomes and a worse campus climate.

Want a simple way to improve schools? Get rid of DEI programs.

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Please share, Thank You!

My son, Caleb is still missing without a trace.

See something, say something call 361-826-2950 $25k reward for information leading to the safe return of Caleb Harris

MISSING: Caleb Harris - March 4, 2024 Corpus Christi TX

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An activist at a recent anti-Israel march performed a valuable service when he revealed what the real goal of the protest was: “Getting rid of America, getting rid of the West. This is what this is for,” he said, motioning toward the crowd of demonstrators. “Yes. Everyone here understands that at some level we need to get rid of America completely.”

My new book with Katharine Gorka, NextGen Marxism, What It Is and How To Combat it, explains the new battle to dismantle America, who's behind it, and why.

Meet the new Marxism, the same as the old Marxism

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If you're in DC next week, make sure you register for the launch of my new book with Katie Gorka on Wednesday, one day after book is published, or view online. https://lnkd.in/dcu2guQh.

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Extraordinarily disappointing to see from my alma mater. When the Free Beacon reached out to professor Lama Abu-Odeh, who wrote these antisemitic screeds, she told them to “F— off.” And not a word from Dean William M. Treanor, who put Ilya Shapiro through the wringer.

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Georgetown Law Professor Published Anti-Semitic Screeds to School's Scholarly Article Database. When We Asked Questions, She Scrubbed Them.

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Babylon Bee saw it coming

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DEI, CRT, ESG = Marxism by acronym

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We need to defund DEI. Stop investing your money in places that propagate its poison.

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What's going on at the ACLU?

“America’s special lawyers for speech freedom are the ones chasing whistleblowers, dissident political activists, and journalists for doing speech.”

Read Nellie Bowles full TGIF newsletter here: https://thefp.pub/3wVZ0WQ

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I parachute behind enemy lines--PBS!--and live to fight another day: https://lnkd.in/ejuQf5ev

Then write a companion column:

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To all my LinkedIn friends: if you're in Washington DC this Wednesday you should come to this event.

DEI and all the other cultural changes that have swept the country in recent years have met real resistance. The American people do not want to be sent to reeducation camp, see society uprooted, and their national security threatened, and are fighting back. But they need help, from their political leaders, real journalists willing to speak truth to power (not acquiesce to it), activists, and others who will make sure they do not fight alone.

Please join me and a star-studded cast of speakers. Registration is below:

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The Grapes of Wrath is an iconic 1940 film that brought together giants of their genres: John Ford, the most acclaimed director of his time, John Steinbeck, who wrote the bestselling novel of the same name, and Darryl Zanuck, Hollywood’s preeminent producer. The end product was pure Americana.

It is with the perspective of this film from more than 80 years ago that we should approach this year’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which brings together Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Where these two intensely political, election-year films about Oklahoma families overlap, and where they differ, tells us much about our moment in time. Spoiler alert: though they are both propaganda films for the federal bureaucracy, one left you feeling good about the American people, while the other went out of its way to make you hate the country. (I'll let you guess which is which).

My column this week:

Hollywood goes to bat for the federal bureaucracy

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We've published a booklet, "Race and the Constitution," which aims to provide a conservative view of those two topics and their interplay. Starting with those natural principles identified in the Declaration of Independence, the book traces their threads through American history, highlighting at key historical moments the eternal fight between principle and tribalism.

You can find a pdf of the booklet here, but if you or your organization would like printed copies, we'll happily send them to you.

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Conservatives are increasingly forging global ties, sharing cutting-edge practices, ideas, and strategies to conserve local traditions, ageless wisdom, and the nation-state itself against those who seek to condemn the past in order to impose a global order based on cultural erasure. Striking global alliances to defeat a nebulous global governance — and exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence to save and transmit to future generations the eternal truths of the classics, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment — may sound contradictory. But conferences and meetings across the Atlantic do attest that, yes, it’s supremely important to compare notes with conservatives here in Europe, the United States, and, increasingly, Ibero-America, to safeguard and then pass on what is particular to each.

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Conservatives from around the world should learn from each other as they battle the Left

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The woke fever that has gripped the country for a decade may be starting to break in some parts of academia and the corporate world, but the Biden administration keeps spreading the disease like it’s 2020. One of its recent rules has given American Indian tribes effective veto power over academic research and the curation of artifacts. This is leading to museums closing halls and exhibits related to Native American history, lest they fall foul of the Interior Department’s new regulations giving final say over scholarships to the leaders of the nation’s some 574 federally recognized tribes. Museums and universities that receive federal funds — practically all — will be affected if they are in possession of Indian cultural items.

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Biden administration’s latest woke rule undermines Native American culture and history

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His research didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings, then “all hell broke loose.”

Harvard economist Roland Fryer tells Bari Weiss at the University of Austin about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish it. https://thefp.pub/48b8af6

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Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) is a British historian and literary critic who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow.^[1]

He has written widely on Latin America, especially Cuba and the Cuban Revolution of 1959. He characterizes Cuba as a state-capitalist economy rather than socialist.

A long-time member of the British Socialist Workers Party, he testified in Tommy Sheridan's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Cuba, Castro and Socialism (with Peter Binns) (1980)
Cuba, socialism and the third world with Peter Binns and Alex Callinicos) (1980)
Nicaragua : revolution under siege (1985)
Nicaragua : what went wrong? (1990)
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile
Which way forward for the movement? (with Alex Callinicos) (2002)
Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2004)
Bolivia: Rising of a People(2005)
A rebel's guide to Marx (2005)
The split in the Scottish Socialist Party(2006)
Hugo Chávez: Socialist for the Twenty-First Century (2014)
The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (2015) with Marianella Yanes

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Mike Gonzalez Internet Archive
'Revolution Stalled? Venezuela and Bolivia: An Interview with Mike Gonzalez' State of Nature, July 2010

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Amazon blocked The Heritage Foundation from running ads for an investigative book on BLM: Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and formerly a Wall Street Journal journalist, recently released a book entitled "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution." Amazon blocked The Heritage Foundation's attempt to buy an ad for the book, allegedly claiming that the ad "no longer ...

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Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow, is a widely experienced commentator, international correspondent, and editor who has reported from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush administration, at the Securities and Exchange Commission and afterwards at the State Department, and is author of the book " BLM ...

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On today's Independence Day edition of Washington Watch, Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for Foreign Policy, and Dr. Ben Carson, Founder and Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute, join Tony Perkins to discuss the necessity of a correct understanding. Category: Religion Christianity.

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Public schools and universities are discriminating against students and staff on the basis of their race. American history is being redefined, Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez and Goldwater Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Butcher discussed Thursday during a special virtual event hosted by the Institute.

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Republican lawmakers and commentators questioned U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s allegiance to the United States — even calling for her to be deported — over a video clip with an inaccurate translation of her remarks from Somali to English.

The translation animating her Republican critics — including Minnesota colleague U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, who called for her to “resign in disgrace” — distorts Omar’s words, according to two independent translations obtained by the Reformer including one by a certified court interpreter. (See a transcription below.)

Omar was speaking at the Minneapolis Hyatt Hotel Saturday at a celebration of the recent election in Puntland, a region of Somalia. She spoke about the dispute between Somalia and the breakaway republic Somaliland, which is not recognized by the international community but recently made a sea access deal with landlocked Ethiopia.

Omar told the audience that Somalia would remain united, and that she would use her influence to keep it that way.

Social media posts have asserted Omar said they are “people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second.”

This led to a wave of attacks about Omar’s failing to state her allegiance to the United States.

“Ilhan Omar’s appalling, Somalia-first comments are a slap in the face to the Minnesotans she was elected to serve and a direct violation of her oath of office,” House Majority Whip Emmer, R-Minn., wrote on X. “She should resign in disgrace.”

Emmer shared a story about Omar’s remarks that was published by the conservative outlet Alpha News, which acknowledged in the text of its article that it had “not independently verified the accuracy of the translation.”

Neither of the Reformer’s translations show she said “Somalians first, Muslims second.”

Indeed, the term “Somalian” is not used by Somalis, who prefer the term “Somali.”

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A devout Muslim like Omar would have faced outrage from the largely Muslim audience had she placed her religion second, according to one translator.

During the remarks in question, Omar spoke of the unity of the Somali people: “Somalis are people who love each other. It’s possible that we might sometimes have disagreements but we are also people who can rely on each other. We are people who are siblings. We are people with courage. We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim. We are people who support each other.”

In an email to the Reformer, Omar said the attacks are “disingenuous attempts to malign my character and question my loyalty to my home, America.”

(Shortly after taking office in 2019, Omar faced criticism for seeming to accuse supporters of Israel of dual loyalties.)

She responded to Emmer directly: “I am embarrassed for Tom. This is clearly a desperate attempt to garner attention after his failed four-hour Speaker bid last year,” she said, referring to Emmer’s short-lived attempt at the House gavel.

Emmer’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

During her recent speech, Omar spoke assertively about her role in American foreign affairs, despite lacking any formal role in foreign policy; she was removed from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs last year by Republicans for what she has said were trumped-up charges of antisemitism.

“When I heard that people who call themselves Somalis signed an agreement with Ethiopia, many people reached out to me and said I needed to talk to the U.S. government. They asked, ‘What would the U.S. government do?’ My answer was that the U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do. That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis.”

That’s far different than what’s been attributed to her on social media, that the “the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders.”

That’s not what she said, according to the transcriptions of her remarks.

Omar’s remarks about the relationship between Somaliland and Ethiopia are not inconsistent with American policy.

The conflict between Somalia and Somaliland is related to an agreement signed last monthwith landlocked Ethiopia to give it access to the sea by way of Somaliland’s coastline.

The AP recently reported that “the deal has been condemned by regional and international groups, as well as Western countries, which say it interferes with Somalia’s territorial integrity and is causing tensions that could threaten stability in the Horn of Africa region.”

Asked about the conflict and her comments, Omar said she supports longstanding U.S. and Biden administration policy of a unified Somalia.

“I have joined the U.S. State Department in urging both the State of Somaliland and Ethiopia to continue to engage with the U.S., the African Union and other regional partners who oppose that action. We have partnered well with the government of Somalia in combatting Al-Shabab and are in agreement that any recognition of the (agreement) between the State of Somaliland and Ethiopia would be an unacceptable violation of Somali sovereignty,” she said in the email to the Reformer.

In her remarks at the Hyatt in Minneapolis, Omar also spoke of the return of “missing territory” to Somalia in an apparent nod to the push to unite ethnic Somalis across the Horn of Africa, including those living in land controlled by Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.

Asked if she was calling for Somalia to gain control over those lands, Omar said, “no.”

Like Omar in this case, American elected officials have frequently weighed in on foreign policy debates in their ancestral homelands, be it Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland or Cuba.

Omar was born in Somalia before her family fled the civil war there. She spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya and is the first African refugee to serve in Congress.

Remarks from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar:

We Somalis are people who love each other. It’s possible that we might sometimes have disagreements but we are also people who can rely on each other. We are people who are siblings. We are people with courage. We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim. We are people who support each other.

So when I heard that people who call themselves Somalis signed an agreement with Ethiopia, many people reached out to me and said I needed to talk to the U.S. government. They asked, what would the U.S. government do? My answer was that the U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do. That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis. We live in this country. This is the country where we pay taxes. This is the country that has elected a woman from your community. For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us. So feel comfortable Somali Minnesotans that the woman you sent to Congress is aware of this issue and feels the same way you do.

I want to tell President Hassan Sheikh that we are happy with the great work that you have done. We are happy that you have made the people of Somalia and those who live everywhere feel that no matter how difficult our current situation, we are people who have power and who believe in their country.

I want to congratulate Somalis living in Minnesota and elsewhere for being united, for standing with our president because he needs our support. Somalia is Somali. Somalia is one. We are siblings. Our land will not be divided. God willing we will seek to return our missing territory and will not allow the territory we have now to be divided.

I want to thank you for how you have welcomed me. May peace be upon you.

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Omar, who accuses Americans who support Israel’s right to exist of “divided loyalty,” seems to have forgotten her job is to look after American interests.

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The U.S. granted Omar and her family refugee status from a Kenyan refugee camp in 1995 after they had fled the horrors of civil war in their native Somalia. In 2000, the U.S. granted her naturalization, and she took the oath to become an American citizen. Within less than two decades, she was elected to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

As is our wont today, instead of commenting on her readiness for the job, let alone vetting her, the media lionized Omar as a woman of many firsts—the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, the first Somalian-American in Congress, and the first of two Muslims, among others.

This is how America is constituted today. Because all of life is seen through the prism of an epic struggle between categories of the oppressed and their oppressors, diversity becomes a goal in itself. In fact, it is an a priori good, trumping considerations of merit, character, and ethics.

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Multiculturalism has become our society’s goal while extolling Americanness is frowned upon. Focusing on America’s interests is seen as passe, even for those elected to do exactly that.

It should hardly surprise us, then, that, according to comments that have seen the light of day this week, Omar appears not just to put her Somali ethnicity first but to think of herself as a Somali—that is, a citizen of Somalia—and sees her job in Congress as representing the interests of the east African country and its government.

This is in contravention of the balance that America historically has struck as a nation that has taken in more than 100 million immigrants since the 1840s: You are let in and can become American and seen by others as such, but in exchange, you shed foreign allegiances. Our current system produces just the opposite—not new Americans, but residents who retain their foreign allegiances.

Omar’s comments came in a speech she gave in Somali to a crowd at a Minneapolis hotel, in which she criticized the fact that the breakaway Republic of Somaliland had negotiated a memorandum of understanding to give the landlocked nation of Ethiopia access to the sea in an area that Somalia claims.

A version of the speech with English subtitles circulated online. It brought a heap of criticism to Omar, and she posted that the translation was “not only slanted but completely off.” Curiously, however, she only protested that Somalia rightfully owns the disputed area.

“No nation-state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal government,” Omar wrote.

That in no way, however, answered her critics, who didn’t appear to give a hoot about a territorial dispute in a part of the world most people have to look up on a map, as I did. No. What rankled were other parts of the speech, such as her telling the crowd that the U.S. government will do what Somalis tell it to do.

“While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea,” read a translation that she retweeted.

I do not speak Somali, but I found an online AI translation service. It rendered that passage as, “During my time in Congress, Somalia is not sharing its waters and seas with other nations.”

The version I had translated, as well as others, makes amply clear that Omar gave an irredentist, patriotic speech that, at times, clearly strayed into ethnic nationalism.

But it wasn’t about America, the land that took her in, bestowed citizenship on her, and allowed her to achieve the American dream. Omar, one of the most woke members of Congress, would cringe at a speech like this if it were about America.

Indeed, all of the speech was blood and soil, only about Somalia, extolling the blood kinship of its people. In one of the online versions, she appears to bemoan that a substantial percentage of Somalia’s residents are not ethnic Somalis.

“We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims … We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it,” Omar said, according to my AI translator.

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“We understand that Somalia’s unity and identity are tied to its people, but our homeland is under threat, and we are scrambling to claim territories we no longer possess,” she added. “Somalia belongs to Somalis—it is unified, and we are all brothers.”

Which brings us to America. No member of either house of Congress is more supportive of keeping the border wide open than Omar is. Last year, she said, “No person seeking asylum is crossing the border ‘illegally.'”

An estimated 10 million people have surged the border in Biden’s three years in office, and unless we radically change ways, those who are not deported by a future president will not be taught the values of unity, identity, brotherhood, patriotism, and homeland—all things Omar extols in Somalia but detests here.

Worse still, Omar, who has the chutzpah to accuse Americans who support Israel’s right to exist of “divided loyalty,” seems to have forgotten her job is to look after American interests. While Israel is a cornerstone of America’s Middle East policy, the government of Somalia, whose president Omar refers to as “my president,” is led by supporters of terrorism. It could easily be in America’s interests to see Somalia share its waters one day.

She’s also forgotten the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance she took in 2000, which starts, “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”

This piece originally appeared in the Washington Examiner

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It is both legal and legitimate for legislatures and governors to redirect state universities toward a healthy understanding of culture and American life.

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Critical Race Theory has taken over our lives to such a degree that ordinary Americans are rising to say basta—enough!

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Critical Theory, and now Critical Race Theory, are fully-loaded howitzers aimed at all the pillars of the system.

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The woke capital issue is about whether to politicize all areas of life or to maintain a line between public and private.

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Demography is only destiny if we allow it to be, by accepting the left’s transformation of culture.

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The 1619 Project is more than a national charter of grievances and despair.

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The Revolution Is Upon Us

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The most important goal of the leftist project is to use the twin 2020 tragedies to alter the very storyline of America.

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