Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made this speech in defense of our country:
We’ve got a lot of problems in America today. A pandemic. A recession. A surge of violence in our major cities drowning out a nationwide call for justice and hope.
We have work to do in this body and in this city to solve these problems and to heed that call. And our voters sent us here to make things better. To rebuild. To heal.
But that’s not what we’re doing.
No, for the last several weeks, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and their allies in the media, and some professional political activists on a payroll, have been trying to divide us against each other, to paralyze us, to stoke resentment of our fellow citizens and hatred of this nation that we all call home.
It’s really remarkable, if you think about, that just a few short weeks ago we were united in outrage at the murder of George Floyd. We were united in impatience for justice for his family.
All people of good will still want justice to be done. I do.
Only some institutions of government are really committed to that cause. Only one party can be trusted to govern in good faith. Only one political coalition is righteous enough to rule over the other. You don’t hear talk of unity watching MSNBC or reading the New York Times these days. Instead, those outlets are drawing up a list of new villains: the police, the military, the flag, oh, and of course, the president.
Actually what it’s really about are the president’s voters. It’s about the people, who elected him. It’s about the red states, like mine. It’s about the people who live there. The elite media, the woke mob, they don’t like these people. And they want the rest of America to dislike them too.
This is why they are telling us that it wasn’t a homicidal cop who killed George Floyd. No, his death now is the product of “systemic racism,” we’re told, and anyone who doesn’t acknowledge their role in his death — anyone who doesn’t bend their knee to this extreme ideology — is complicit in violence.
It’s not enough, apparently, to bring Derek Chauvin to justice for his crimes. Now we have to defund all police.
The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project
This is a propaganda campaign designed to recast America’s founding as an evil event and American democracy as a system of violent racial oppression.
It won that prize despite wide criticism by historians who objected to its historical revisionism. And now, with the Pulitzer seal of approval, the Times is developing a 1619 grade school curriculum so that our children will be indoctrinated to hate this country, at taxpayer expense.
They want to do to our public schools what they’ve already done to the universities.
You’d think the way some in the media talk about this country that they’re sad we’re still not fighting the Civil War. They would like us to fight a new civil war in our culture, day and night, without end.
We should learn from Lincoln, who called our nation to unity at Gettysburg.
The Americans who visit these hallowed grounds, all across our country, want to know why this nation fought a war against itself — why brothers could not live under one flag together. We teach them there, in those places, how we became a better nation through the crucible of that terrible war. And we teach them there to be proud that we did so.
That hard-fought pride, in the shared struggle that unites us, is now fading. That story is being erased. A nation united in the cause of justice is dividing
This cannot continue.
For the full transcripts, click here.
