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President Trump was in China this week, negotiating with Xi Jinping over Iran, Taiwan, and trade deals. China’s economic miracle has transformed the country into a major global power over the past few decades. The American left likes to spin that success story as a win for central planning and socialism, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Scandinavia tells a similar story. Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani laud the “Nordic model” as proof that democratic socialism works, but leaders across the political spectrum in those countries would disagree. During the ‘70s and ‘80s, Sweden tried going in an actually socialist direction and soon paid the price. Since then, the country has successfully backtracked, balancing budgets, privatizing schools and hospitals, lowering taxes, and enjoying the fruits of capitalism.
How many supposed “wins” for socialism have to exposed as capitalism before the left updates its priors?
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I sat down with Gad Saad, author of “Suicidal Empathy,” to discuss the evolutionary psychology behind why the West is self-destructing in the name of tolerance.
Empathy is a perfectly adaptive human trait, but like any biological mechanism, it can misfire. When ideological parasites like gender ideology and critical race theory are the basis for empathy, it stops being a virtue and becomes a civilizational death wish.
We also get into why intelligent people are paradoxically the most vulnerable to bad ideas, why communism keeps coming back no matter how many times history buries it, and what it will actually take for the West to rediscover its survival instinct.
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Outline:
[0:00] A Canadian trying to save America
[2:08] What happens when empathy misfires?
[8:21] Even victims of crimes feel guilty now
[17:06] The evolution of the parasitic mind
[31:40] Christian ethics and self-sacrifice
[36:03] Can we trust evolutionary psychology?
[46:18] There are different kinds of truth
[54:24] Why don’t bad ideals die out?
[105:04] Is comfort driving us crazy?
[1:08:34] How to protect your kids from the mind virus
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New York City is broke under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His socialist buddy, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, is turning off the crime detection system and letting violent offenders walk. LA Mayor Karen Bass is still dodging responsibility for mishandling the 2025 wildfires. This is the reality of progressive central planning.
Cities are the centers of civilization. Unfortunately, they’re also a breeding ground for bad ideas. Marx formulated his communist worldview while observing early industrial cities. The Soviet Union replaced organic neighborhood life with microdistricts engineered by bureaucrats who thought they knew best. Today, progressives dream of “15-minute cities” while failing to address the basic problems of urban life.
America’s greatest cities have been centrally planned into the ground. Luckily, we have a chance to retake control of our neighborhoods.
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I sat down with Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, to discuss her new book “Alito” about the underappreciated Supreme Court justice’s fight to restore the original meaning of the Constitution.
Justice Samuel Alito authored the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and as Mollie describes, he’s been the driving force behind the conservative majority on many important issues during his 20 years on the Court.
We also cover the rise of the administrative state, what really happened during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, and the conservative movement’s 50-year crusade to retake the Court.
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[0:00] What makes Justice Alito special?
[4:16] How Roe v. Wade was overturned
[20:52] Woodrow Wilson and liberal fascism
[26:23] The value of “norms” in politics and on the Court
[32:14] What happened to Brett Kavanaugh?
[38:29] Chevron deference and the administrative state
[44:19] Will birthright citizenship be overturned?
[47:13] Originalism vs the “living constitution”
[51:39] Attacks on the First Amendment
[1:00:37] Propagandizing the American people
[1:05:24] Why journalists cheer for censorship
[1:07:04] The case against the Southern Poverty Law Center
[1:18:49] We need principled men of action
[1:22:57] What’s the deal with Ketanji Brown Jackson?
[1:26:58] The Europe Union’s censorship regime
[1:29:05] What happened to the ACLU?
[1:31:12] Lessons to learn from Justice Alito
[1:35:24] How the Federalist Society reshaped the Court
[1:37:10] Take responsibility for your kids’ education
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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short last Saturday by yet another assassination attempt against President Trump. A Caltech-educated game developer armed with two guns charged the Secret Service checkpoint, ending in a brief shootout that injured one Secret Service agent.
This attack followed the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center over allegations of funding the very hate groups it fundraises against. A decade of radical rhetoric from celebrities, activists, and institutions like the SPLC has broken the brains of even relatively intelligent people. The same group that shaped FBI threat assessments, debanked homeschool moms, and labeled classical liberal thinkers as white supremacists was apparently running a grift the whole time.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-splcs-hate-hoax-playbook-turns?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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