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Morning Brief 2025-04-02

April 02, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Stephen Moore
TOPIC: What we should expect from President Trump's newest round of reciprocal tariffs.

Micah 2:12

Micah 2:12

Liberation Day?...

Here is a look at what tariffs are expected to hit Wednesday, on Trump's 'Liberation Day'
The White House said the president would reveal even broader tariffs than he has already indicated during an event on Wednesday afternoon in the Rose Garden.

White House: Tariffs to take effect immediately upon the announcement
Leavitt suggested that Trump remains open to negotiations, saying, “Certainly, the president is always up to take a phone call, always up for a good negotiation, but he is very much focused on fixing the wrongs of the past and ensuring that American workers get a fair shake.”

WaPo: Trump aides draft tariff plans as some experts warn of economic damage
The president’s team is exploring using trillions of dollars in new import revenue for a tax dividend or refund, people familiar with the matter said.

Europe warns Trump: We have ‘a strong plan’ for retaliation against tariffs
“Europe has not started this confrontation,” Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, said in a speech. “We do not necessarily want to retaliate but, if it is necessary, we have a strong plan to retaliate, and we will use it.”

China Says It Is Aiming to Coordinate Tariff Response with Japan, South Korea
China is seeking to coordinate its response to U.S. tariffs with Japan and South Korea, Chinese state media said Monday, as the world’s second-largest economy looks to bolster regional economic collaboration.

Israel nixes all US import tariffs, day before Trump set to levy duties on trade allies
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday signed a directive to scrap all remaining tariffs on imports from the U.S. with immediate effect.

Canada answers US tariffs with billboard ads in swing states
No word if Canadians are also going to have someone sit on a flagpole in protest.

CNBC: Trump’s tariff gambit will raise the stakes for an economy already looking fragile
As Trump prepares sweeping reciprocal tariffs to punish foreign trade barriers, economists warn the move could trigger inflation, stall growth, and rattle markets — though supporters say it’s the bold reset America needs to reclaim manufacturing and end global freeloading.

BBC: Trump poised to reshape global economy and how world does business
Every time Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the U.S., there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down, or rowed back.

‘Nowhere to absorb it’: From consumer small business to big food CEOs, Trump tariff costs will hit wallets
As "Liberation Day" tariffs take effect, small-business owners warn of collapsing margins and abandoned growth plans, while food giants say there’s no slack left to absorb the costs — putting supply chains, prices, and product diversity at serious risk.

Doocy Asks Karoline Leavitt What Will Happen If Admin Is ‘Wrong’ About Tariffs
“They’re not going to be wrong, they are going to work,” Leavitt said. “And the president has a brilliant team of advisers who have been studying these issues for decades, and we are focused on restoring the golden age of America and making America a manufacturing superpower.”

Trump / DOGE...

Trump suggests Elon Musk may leave DOGE
“I think he’s amazing, but I also think he’s got a big company to run, and so at some point he’s going to be going back,” Trump said.

Lawsuit tracker: New resistance battling Trump's second term through onslaught of lawsuits taking aim at EOs
Dozens of activist and legal groups, elected officials, local jurisdictions and individuals have launched more than 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration since Jan. 20.

Obama-appointed judge blocks Trump admin from ending protected status for Venezuelans
"The Secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries. Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism."

Trump Admin Gives DC Health Bureaucrats A Choice: Move To Alaska Or Resign
As part of a sweeping reorganization, 10,000 HHS employees were laid off and senior officials were told to relocate to Indian Health Service offices in places like Alaska or face termination.

Trump’s Labor Department claws back $4.3 billion in misused COVID unemployment funds
The DOL uncovered $1.4 billion in untouched pandemic-era cash and is recovering another $2.9 billion, blasting states for abusing the program and vowing to keep rooting out waste.

Kid Rock Dishes On Trump’s Meeting With Bill Maher: ‘Everybody’s Mind Was Kind Of Blown’
"Everyone was so surprised. It was so pleasant."

Video: Kid Rock plays FDR’s historic White House piano gifted by Steinway in 1938
The rocker performed on President Roosevelt’s gold-leaf Steinway grand piano during a White House visit.

News...

FBI Gagged Agents In 2020 To Prevent Voters From Ever Learning The Truth About Hunter’s Laptop
A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Federal employees caught secretly defying Trump’s DEI and climate crackdown
Project Veritas exposes how NASA and State Department staff are quietly rebranding banned DEI and climate programs to dodge President Trump’s executive orders and keep their agendas alive under new names.

PBS Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm Amid GOP Threats To Scrap Budget
PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, amid Republican threats to scrap federal funding for the public news outlet.

AG Pam Bondi Seeks Death Penalty for UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder Suspect Luigi Mangione
"Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America," Bondi said in a statement.

Demolition Crews Finish Off Black Lives Matter Plaza
Construction workers on Monday completed the removal of Black Lives Matter Plaza from Washington, D.C.’s 16th Street in front of the White House following weeks of demolition, photos and videos show.

Chicago woman in wheelchair fears for safety after teen mob swarms her neighborhood
Michele Lee was trapped outside her home during a violent "teen takeover" near Navy Pier, saying she no longer feels safe to go outside after dark.

Father arrested after leaving children in McDonald's while interview for a job
This restaurant location notably has a play place inside for children to enjoy while dining in. After Louis allegedly left his kids at the McDonald’s, a customer noticed that the three children, ages 1, 6, and 10, were all alone without supervision.

Babylon Bee: Actual Nazi Struggling To Stand Out Now That Everyone Is A Nazi
"You'd think I'd be happy with all Nazi symbolism everywhere, but I'm not," said Polhaus. "I used to be special, you know? Superior. Now I'm just like everyone else."

Politics...

Leftist Judge Projected To Win Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
High turnout in the Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Dane County fueled Crawford’s victory. While the leftist justice won, Wisconsin voters did overwhelmingly vote to add a voter ID requirement to the state constitution in a win for Republicans.

Republicans defeat Democrats in two special elections in Florida to retain slim margin in US House
While both victories were in the double digits, the margins in the overwhelmingly red districts were smaller than expected.

8 Republicans back Rep. Luna to defeat opposition to proxy voting; Speaker Johnson blames them for failure to support Trump agenda
"We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table."

House Republicans push back on activist judges with bills to rein in rogue injunctions
California Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the No Rogue Rulings Act to restrict U.S. district judges' ability to issue broad injunctions. The bill passed the House Rules Committee on Tuesday in a 9-4 vote along party lines.

Cory Booker’s sad stunt epitomizes Democrats’ empty agenda
Sen. Booker’s pointless imitation filibuster epitomizes Democrats’ pathetic incoherence in the wake of last November’s defeats.

Guns for me, not for thee: Staffer arrested for gun inside Capitol works for gun-law advocate Booker
Senator Booker has been the leading Democratic advocate for increased gun control, including mandatory federal licenses for gun purchases.

WaPo: Cory Booker set a historic example for other Democrats to follow
It was a symbolic but powerful act of protest.

Flashback WaPo: Ted Cruz’s phony Obamacare filibuster was really about ... Ted Cruz
His time on the Senate floor was an exercise in self-promotion.

Immigration...

Illegal alien faces new charges related to 'gruesome' murder of Georgia mom — including necrophilia
An illegal alien paroled into the United States by the Biden administration is accused of raping and murdering a Georgia mom.

Pro-Hamas student self-deports after Trump lawsuit doesn't go his way
"I have lost faith that ... the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs."

WAR News...

‘We don’t have the leverage’: US options limited as adversaries expand their nuclear arsenals
China, Russia, and North Korea are building up their nuclear arsenals at a frightening pace to intimidate Washington. At the same time, America has little diplomatic leverage to strike new, traditional arms control deals to limit that nuclear expansion.

Trump White House Confronts China Over Taiwan Military Provocations
President Trump "is emphasizing the importance of maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait."

China’s New Barges Could Make a Tough Task Easier: Invading Taiwan
The barges, which link up to form a bridge, could give China a way to land large numbers of vehicles and troops on Taiwan, solving a major logistical problem.

World...

World Health Organization reports adverse effects following US withdrawal
According to an internal WHO memo seen by Reuters, the organization — facing an income gap of $600 million in 2026 when the withdrawal takes effect — is looking to slash its budget for 2026-27 by 21%, from $5.3 billion to $4.2 billion.

Europe...

WaPo: White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights
“The point is, ‘We’ll pay you more than Denmark does.’”

Trump says ban of France’s 'leading candidate' Marine Le Pen is a 'very big deal'
"She was banned from running for five years and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country. That sounds very much like this country."

Entertainment...

Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Top Secret,’ Dies at 65
Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone‘s “The Doors,” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Media...

Ben Shapiro: The Atlantic’s Giant Fake News Screwup
The Atlantic framed an “innocent Maryland father” deported to El Salvador as a victim — ignoring that an immigration judge found him to be MS-13, a danger to the community, and a flight risk.

Left-wing pundit calls all pre-1965 laws ‘presumptively unconstitutional’ on ‘The View’
Elie Mystal claimed the U.S. was “functionally an apartheid country” before the Voting Rights Act and slammed the Trump administration for using the 1952 immigration law to deport a pro-Hamas Columbia protester, calling immigration enforcement “the crime of existing.”

CBS News mocked for absurd claim that 1 in 15 adults witnessed a mass shooting
"Four seconds of critical thinking and math tell me it is not at all possible that 17.3 million adults in the U.S. have witnessed a mass shooting."

Stephen A. Smith smacks down MSNBC smear, says calling out Democrats doesn’t make him MAGA
Seriously — how low does your IQ have to be to think Stephen A. Smith is wearing a red hat?

LGBTQIA2S+...

Youngkin Edits Far-Left Legislator’s Gun Bill, Making It Prohibit Secret Gender Transitions For Kids
Virginia Dems must go on the record Wednesday to say whether schools should hide gender transitions from parents.

Education...

Trump admin pauses $210M in grants to Princeton University over anti-Semitism, campus chaos
"Princeton has perpetuated racist and anti-Semitic policies,” a Trump administration official told Daily Caller White House reporter Reagan Reese.

Brown University investigates student for asking staff what they do all day
After emailing 3,800 administrators to expose bloated bureaucracy and DEI waste, sophomore Alex Shieh is now under investigation for “emotional harm” and “privacy violations.”

Religion...

Glenn Beck: Does the CIA know where the Ark is?
I have to admit it: I dropped the ball. We’ve spent the last week asking if the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination, but the real question we need to be asking is, “Did our intelligence agencies hire psychics to find the Ark of the Covenant?” The answer? Yes!

Jesus’ burial spot yields new biblical clues about his death and resurrection, scientists say
There has been an ongoing debate for many years over where Jesus was crucified and buried — with many experts believing the site to be on the grounds of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Now, new archaeological evidence might confirm their belief to be true.

Technology...

Google hit with lawsuit alleging anti-male bias in top sales division
A former global business leader at Google is suing the company, claiming he and other men were harassed, denied promotions, and replaced by less-qualified women under a female executive, who openly disparaged male employees.

Travel...

FAA air traffic controller charged with assault for alleged fight in Reagan National's control tower
The facility is already under massive scrutiny following January’s deadly midair collision between an American Airlines flight on final approach and an Army helicopter.

Doctor accused of trying to toss his wife off 'must-visit' Hawaiian cliff
Dr. Gerhardt Konig — a 46-year-old anesthesiologist from Maui — was charged with second-degree attempted murder of his wife.

April 2, 2009 - Fascism... Raising taxes on charities... Tea parties... Obama's new tobacco tax... G20 global network... Science: Obama's 'greenhouse'... Fascism is the new socialism... Gitmo... Cap and trade... Recommended books...

The melting pot fails when we stop agreeing to melt

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Shocking: AI-written country song tops charts, sparks soul debate

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A machine can imitate heartbreak well enough to top the charts, but it cannot carry grief, choose courage, or hear the whisper that calls human beings to something higher.

The No. 1 country song in America right now was not written in Nashville or Texas or even L.A. It came from code. “Walk My Walk,” the AI-generated single by the AI artist Breaking Rust, hit the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and if you listen to it without knowing that fact, you would swear a real singer lived the pain he is describing.

Except there is no “he.” There is no lived experience. There is no soul behind the voice dominating the country music charts.

If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

I will admit it: I enjoy some AI music. Some of it is very good. And that leaves us with a question that is no longer science fiction. If a machine can fake being human this well, what does it mean to be human?

A new world of artificial experience

This is not just about one song. We are walking straight into a technological moment that will reshape everyday life.

Elon Musk said recently that we may not even have phones in five years. Instead, we will carry a small device that listens, anticipates, and creates — a personal AI agent that knows what we want to hear before we ask. It will make the music, the news, the podcasts, the stories. We already live in digital bubbles. Soon, those bubbles might become our own private worlds.

If an algorithm can write a hit country song about hardship and perseverance without a shred of actual experience, then the deeper question becomes unavoidable: If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

What machines can never do

A machine can produce, and soon it may produce better than we can. It can calculate faster than any human mind. It can rearrange the notes and words of a thousand human songs into something that sounds real enough to fool millions.

But it cannot care. It cannot love. It cannot choose right and wrong. It cannot forgive because it cannot be hurt. It cannot stand between a child and danger. It cannot walk through sorrow.

A machine can imitate the sound of suffering. It cannot suffer.

The difference is the soul. The divine spark. The thing God breathed into man that no code will ever have. Only humans can take pain and let it grow into compassion. Only humans can take fear and turn it into courage. Only humans can rebuild their lives after losing everything. Only humans hear the whisper inside, the divine voice that says, “Live for something greater.”

We are building artificial minds. We are not building artificial life.

Questions that define us

And as these artificial minds grow sharper, as their tools become more convincing, the right response is not panic. It is to ask the oldest and most important questions.

Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of freedom? What is worth defending? What is worth sacrificing for?

That answer is not found in a lab or a server rack. It is found in that mysterious place inside each of us where reason meets faith, where suffering becomes wisdom, where God reminds us we are more than flesh and more than thought. We are not accidents. We are not circuits. We are not replaceable.

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The miracle machines can never copy

Being human is not about what we can produce. Machines will outproduce us. That is not the question. Being human is about what we can choose. We can choose to love even when it costs us something. We can choose to sacrifice when it is not easy. We can choose to tell the truth when the world rewards lies. We can choose to stand when everyone else bows. We can create because something inside us will not rest until we do.

An AI content generator can borrow our melodies, echo our stories, and dress itself up like a human soul, but it cannot carry grief across a lifetime. It cannot forgive an enemy. It cannot experience wonder. It cannot look at a broken world and say, “I am going to build again.”

The age of machines is rising. And if we do not know who we are, we will shrink. But if we use this moment to remember what makes us human, it will help us to become better, because the one thing no algorithm will ever recreate is the miracle that we exist at all — the miracle of the human soul.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Is Socialism seducing a lost generation?

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A generation that’s lost faith in capitalism is turning to the oldest lie on earth: equality through control.

Something is breaking in America’s young people. You can feel it in every headline, every grocery bill, every young voice quietly asking if the American dream still means anything at all.

For many, the promise of America — work hard, build something that lasts, and give the next generation a better start — feels like it no longer exists. Home ownership and stability have become luxuries for a fortunate few.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them.

In that vacuum of hope, a new promise has begun to rise — one that sounds compassionate, equal, and fair. The promise of socialism.

The appeal of a broken dream

When the American dream becomes a checklist of things few can afford — a home, a car, two children, even a little peace — disappointment quickly turns to resentment. The average first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. Debt lasts longer than marriages. The cost of living rises faster than opportunity.

For a generation that has never seen the system truly work, capitalism feels like a rigged game built to protect those already at the top.

That is where socialism finds its audience. It presents itself as fairness for the forgotten and justice for the disillusioned. It speaks softly at first, offering equality, compassion, and control disguised as care.

We are seeing that illusion play out now in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani — an open socialist — has won a major political victory. The same ideology that once hid behind euphemisms now campaigns openly throughout America’s once-great cities. And for many who feel left behind, it sounds like salvation.

But what socialism calls fairness is submission dressed as virtue. What it calls order is obedience. Once the system begins to replace personal responsibility with collective dependence, the erosion of liberty is only a matter of time.

The bridge that never ends

Socialism is not a destination; it is a bridge. Karl Marx described it as the necessary transition to communism — the scaffolding that builds the total state. Under socialism, people are taught to obey. Under communism, they forget that any other options exist.

History tells the story clearly. Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba — each promised equality and delivered misery. One hundred million lives were lost, not because socialism failed, but because it succeeded at what it was designed to do: make the state supreme and the individual expendable.

Today’s advocates insist their version will be different — democratic, modern, and kind. They often cite Sweden as an example, but Sweden’s prosperity was never born of socialism. It grew out of capitalism, self-reliance, and a shared moral culture. Now that system is cracking under the weight of bureaucracy and division.

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The real issue is not economic but moral. Socialism begins with a lie about human nature — that people exist for the collective and that the collective knows better than the individual.

This lie is contrary to the truths on which America was founded — that rights come not from government’s authority, but from God’s. Once government replaces that authority, compassion becomes control, and freedom becomes permission.

What young America deserves

Young Americans have many reasons to be frustrated. They were told to study, work hard, and follow the rules — and many did, only to find the goalposts moved again and again. But tearing down the entire house does not make it fairer; it only leaves everyone standing in the rubble.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them. The answer is not revolution but renewal — moral, cultural, and spiritual.

It means restoring honesty to markets, integrity to government, and faith to the heart of our nation. A people who forsake God will always turn to government for salvation, and that road always ends in dependency and decay.

Freedom demands something of us. It requires faith, discipline, and courage. It expects citizens to govern themselves before others govern them. That is the truth this generation deserves to hear again — that liberty is not a gift from the state but a calling from God.

Socialism always begins with promises and ends with permission. It tells you what to drive, what to say, what to believe, all in the name of fairness. But real fairness is not everyone sharing the same chains — it is everyone having the same chance.

The American dream was never about guarantees. It was about the right to try, to fail, and try again. That freedom built the most prosperous nation in history, and it can do so again if we remember that liberty is not a handout but a duty.

Socialism does not offer salvation. It requires subservience.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Rage isn’t conservatism — THIS is what true patriots stand for

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.