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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Let me begin with a personal story, if I may, that illustrates the challenge we face. I’ve told you that after many years of prodding, my muse, my darling wife, Katie, surprised me. She is far better suited temperamentally to being involved in politics than I am. You know me, I am an intellectual bomb thrower. I call a spade a spade. I have no time for the nice formalities and the niceties. I just say the truth is more important than waiting to get to a point where you can say what needs to be said.

She, however, is a little bit more restrained. And as such, I was very pleasantly surprised when a few weeks ago she said, “I’m running for local office.” Unbeknownst to me, after she heard that the local library had held a drag queen story hour for young children, she said, “That’s it, enough is enough. This is insanity. If you want to be an adult, if you want to cross-dress, if you want to do other things that are abnormal in the literal sense of the word — yes, abnormal and perverse — you do it on your own time. You don’t do it in front of little children and you don’t do it on the taxpayer dime at the local community center and public library.”

So, this community center has a board of nine individuals and three positions are now open. My wife, Katie, is running for one of those positions. And one of the things that the local community center organized is a meet-the-candidate event, which happened this weekend. So instead of getting away for the weekend, having some fun somewhere at Easter weekend, we stayed home and then I decided to do my thing as the dutiful spouse for two hours and stand around the community center as my wife explained herself in her campaign to local residents who may have had questions. I behaved myself. It’s okay. I behaved myself as much as I could.

“I don’t know a lot of Republicans who virtue signal in such a way.”

Very early on, a diminutive older woman came up to me wearing a t-shirt with just the words, “I vote.” I don’t know a lot of Republicans who virtue signal in such a way. So, I had a sneaking suspicion that she’s not exactly a fan of what I or this show represents. I proffered my hand and she took it. And the first thing she said is, “We do not share the same political views.” Okay. That’s quite honest, thank you.

Turns out she wasn’t a local resident curious of the other candidates. She was a candidate herself who, shockingly, as an avowed Democrat, a retired lawyer, had only one issue she cared about. They were about to spend a lot of our money to put in electric vehicle charging stations at the library, which she thought was stupid. Because if you’ve just come two miles from your house, you don’t need to plug in your car so you can go back the two miles to your house after you’ve pick up some library books. Makes sense. Frighteningly logical. And I was shocked. She is an environmentalist, but she thought this was not a good shepherding of the taxpayer funds.

We continued to talk, chit-chat, small talk about her travels, how she does home exchanges with people around the world. She’s traveled everywhere and lived in other people’s homes who then rent out or exchange her house here in America in the DMV area. We talked about her family background — Jewish, from Central Europe — her trip to Budapest. I spoke about my time in Budapest, the synagogue refurbished by Tony Curtis that she didn’t even know about. And then she said, “You know, you’re more agreeable than I expected.” A kind of backhand compliment, if you will.

And then we started to talk about politics a little bit more openly. At one point, President Trump’s name and Hunter Biden’s name cropped up in the discussion, after which she said, “The trouble is, at least half of those who voted for President Trump are fascists.” And she used that word, “fascists.”

“That’s when you realize the enormity of the work we have to do.”

That’s when you realize the enormity of the work we have to do. If a Jewish American believes that 20, 30 million Americans are literal Nazis, that person is a victim, a victim of groupthink and indoctrination. Because if I were a Jew living in America and I thought literally millions of Americans were Nazis, I’d probably pick up a gun to defend myself from potential extermination. Or, with a heavy heart, I’d leave the country. But to remain here, really under that influence of what is simply a talking point — because remember, “half of the Trump voters are fascists,” that is nothing more than, of course, Hillary Clinton’s talking point, the “basket of deplorables,” which she said is half of those who voted for President Trump.

Our mission is to ignore people like Lauren, that lady, because she is beyond helping. But to talk to those, the likes of which I also met with over the weekend, who are Democrats who’ve had had enough. Who have had it with the pedophilic books in the libraries, which Lauren says don’t exist. They do, my friend. Who’ve had it with the inflation, the gas prices, the 2 million illegal immigrants. Those are the people we must engage with in the next six months before of the midterms. Because otherwise, the crazies and those who are the sheep like Lauren will affect the destruction of this, the greatest nation on God’s earth.