By S. David Sultzer The left sees the truth about Arday as a mortal threat not just to their goals but also to their very existence, and that it must be crushed. They are right.
Professor Penn uses Tom’s question — “what can we do?” — to move from theory into political action, arguing that the future of the country will not be saved by national talking points, but by local community, precinct work, and citizens willing to rebuild power in their own backyard. He breaks down how BPOUs, state parties, Reagan-era Republicans, MAGA, and the old money wing of the GOP all sit inside a larger fight over who controls the Republican Party’s Overton window. The episode warns that fractured conservative groups, personal grudges, and purity fights could repeat the 1912 Republican split that handed power to Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Reserve, income tax, and the rise of globalism. Penn also responds to the Supreme…
Professor Penn and Royce White use America’s 250th anniversary to trace the country’s fight for self-governance from the founding, through the Civil War, and into today’s political realignment. The episode frames slavery, abortion, tariffs, banking, manufacturing, and empire as recurring battles over who controls life, labor, money, and national destiny. Penn argues that the Civil War was not only about slavery, but also about competing visions of political economy: agrarian free trade versus the American System of tariffs, national banking, and domestic infrastructure. Royce pushes the conversation into the present, warning that single-issue politics, whether rooted in abortion, race, taxes, or money, can become a form of…