David Barton: We Might Be On the Verge of Revolution

February 22, 2016

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The Context

The South Carolina primary was Saturday and Donald Trump came out the big winner followed by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz who were in a virtual tie for second place. David Barton joined the program and broke down the numbers behind the votes and what he found surprised him.

“Well, I thought there would be a revolution, but not in the sense of having a physical revolution,” Barton said Monday on The Glenn Beck Program. “I'm now more of a believer that it's a real thing. The numbers I saw in South Carolina . . . I was literally shocked. I was shocked at not only the numbers, but the words that were behind some of the numbers. The questions that were literally asked and how people responded to that, it really gave me a lot of pause in a way that I have not done in recent years.”

The Bubba Effect

If you've been a listener over the past few years, Glenn has talked extensively about a term called The Bubba Effect, something he believes is now here. The Bubba Effect is when a group of people feel they have been pushed over the edge by an overbearing government, and someone responds with force or violence. Even though they know it’s wrong, the majority of people support the violence.

“The Bubba Effect, I believe, is in full effect right now,” Glenn said. “I believe Donald Trump is The Bubba Effect, and I'll explain that later, based on some of these polls that are coming in. And they are frightening. They're truly frightening when you read the exit polls and you know what you're looking for.”

What was most frightening for David Barton? The term "betrayal."

“Well, the term we'll get into later is the term "betrayal," Barton said. “[Voters] feel betrayed. And when you look at betrayal and you look at what psychologists say that represents, that's a scary term. It's not like someone has just crossed me --- betrayal is deep stuff.”

Terrorism

The number one issue for South Carolina voters according to exit polling was terrorism at 32%, but the staggering number was that 75% of voters did not want Syrian refugees. Glenn explained why that is such a significant number.

“This is America saying, 'Look, we don't buy your bullcrap that it's a peaceful religion and the Muslim Brotherhood are largely secular.' What they know is, Muslims have come in from the Middle East, not necessarily American Muslims . . . Islamists is the better way to term this. Islamists are not peaceful. Muslims can be peaceful. But we have bent over backwards to say everybody is peaceful. And this guy is just a lone wolf, when we know that's bullcrap,” Glenn said.

What’s Sticking to Cruz

There may be several factors that hurt Cruz’ performance or why Rubio and Trump did so well, but there is one thing that Glenn believes is starting to take its toll on Ted.

“So here's the other thing that's hurting Ted Cruz that is sticking: that he's running the dirty campaign and that he's a liar. I have to tell you, I mean, I would not be with a liar. And I won't make any excuses,” Glenn said.

David has been hearing the same thing over and over and it might start to be something the Cruz campaign should be worried about even if it’s a lie itself.

“It's interesting the way they've gone at it. Trump says, [Cruz is] a liar. He lies about everything. He's the biggest liar --- just lie, lie, lie. That's the word [Trump] uses over and over, and people repeat that. And I say, 'Can you give me one example?' No, but [Cruz is] a liar,” Barton said.

Common Sense Bottom Line

If the exit polls in South Carolina prove anything it’s that we are a deeply divided country and at an extremely crucial point in our history. We have been pushed by an overbearing government and we might start to see violence, but we cannot let The Bubba Effect take root in our hearts. We must continue to be like Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and serve our fellow man with love.

“And this is why I have been saying, 'Jesus, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, pick one. Pick one.' You've got to hold on to who you are, the principles that you have, and you can't fight hate with hate.” Glenn said.

Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:

GLENN: So glad you've tuned in. We've run out of time for Courage Boys. We'll have to move that or hit it tomorrow.

I have David Barton here with us. And he's been looking at the poll numbers out of South Carolina. And we're going to get into those here in a bit. But, David, I wanted to talk to you a bit because I know one of the headlines is going to be, "Glenn Beck says there's going to be a revolution." I don't think you believed that until you saw the poll numbers coming out of the last three states.

DAVID: Well, I thought there would be a revolution, but not in the sense of having a physical revolution. You know, I thought there would be political or something. I'm now more of a believer that it's a real thing. The numbers I saw in South Carolina -- you know, I told you the email shocked me. I was literally shocked. I was shocked at not only the numbers, but the words that were behind some of the numbers. The questions that were literally asked and how people responded to that, it really gave me a lot of pause in a way that I have not done in recent years.

GLENN: And, quite honestly, if we had responsible journalists and responsible press, they would be talking to you now. And this is why I have been saying, "Jesus, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, pick one. Pick one." But you've got to hold on to who and you are the principles that you have. And you can't fight hate with hate. And that's exactly what's happening.

And people -- the Bubba Effect, I believe, is in full effect right now. I believe Donald Trump is the Bubba Effect. And I'll explain that later, based on some of these polls that are coming in. And they are frightening. They're truly frightening when you read the exit polls and you know what you're looking for.

DAVID: Yeah. The numbers are scary on this. And the terms are scary too.

GLENN: What do you mean "the terms"?

DAVID: Well, the term we'll get into later is the term "betrayal." They feel betrayed. And when you look at betrayal and you look at what psychologists say that that represents, that's a scary term. It's not like someone has just crossed me. Betrayal is deep stuff.

GLENN: So I want to make sure that you hear this. Because the media will spin this out of control. And they'll make it into another crazy conspiracy theory. But I just want to point out: '99, I talked about Osama bin Laden in New York and said that there would be blood and bodies in the streets and the signature would be Osama bin Laden. And nobody believed me. In 2006 and '7, I talked to you about financial crash, the crash of biblical proportions, based on the housing market. I told you that there would be a caliphate, and everybody mocked that. I'm telling you, we are on the path for revolution. And a violent revolution.

Right now, we're talking about a velvet revolution. But if we make the wrong choice at this point, we are -- and I'll make this case, based on the polls and what we're seeing. And nobody in the media is going to -- they're going to mock it. Don't mock this warning. Please don't mock this warning.

All right. So we'll get into that here in just a second. And I'm actually anxious for David to hear the -- the -- the founders, the black founders, because David is the one who originally turned us on to black founders. We had absolutely no idea.

Pat, do you know who this -- which is the black founder that we're hitting today?

PAT: Crispus Attucks.

GLENN: Who played a huge, huge role. I was just up in Boston a couple weeks ago. And I asked people, "So where is the Old North Church?" And they're like, "You know, it's been years since I've been there. I'm not really sure."

So what is that memorial over there?

That's Bunker Hill, I think. I'm not really sure.

I mean, It's amazing that people who live in that, with all of that history, how many people just dismiss it. And they're just -- it becomes old hat. I don't really -- I learned that in school. And I don't really remember.

PAT: Yeah, they don't pay attention. You only pay attention kind of when you go to Boston on vacation and you're there to see the revolutionary sites and do all of that, and then you appreciate that stuff. I think when you live there, you just kind of -- it's like living around Disneyland. You get immune to it.

STU: All right. But ask them where the nearest Dunkin' Donuts is.

PAT: Oh, they know where that is.

STU: They will know that. They will know that.

PAT: Yeah. Yeah. Ask them what channel the Apprentice is on, and they know that. Right?

GLENN: I will tell you that I've never seen them -- I was seeing them from the window. I've been to Boston a hundred times. I've never had the opportunity -- never had the time to do it. It's something I have to do with my kids because it's amazing. It's all still there. It's all still there. And maybe we should spend a little more time learning about it.

We'll learn something that no one in the mainstream media, no one in the educational system wants you to learn. The history of our black founders, next.

Hour 2

GLENN: I'll number Durango Hills today in Las Vegas. At noon. And 4 o'clock, I'll be in Elko, Nevada, which I've never been. And then in Reno tonight. Which is a beautiful city. And then tomorrow, we'll be around another few places tomorrow in Nevada. Just check GlennBeck.com for all the details or my Facebook page. We'll make sure you can find out where we are.

So in South Carolina, quite honestly, it was like a kick to the gut in South Carolina. But we learned an awful lot about what is happening in America and how high the anger is in America. We never make a good choice -- how many times have you ever said these words, "I was so angry today, and I made the best choice I've ever made?" We always start our apologies with, "I'm really sorry. I flew off the handle. I was really angry." Never have I made a good decision when I was angry.

And David is going to take us through some of the poll numbers and what really happened in South Carolina. David Barton is with us.

DAVID: You want to start with the angry side --

GLENN: You take us where you think we need to go.

DAVID: Well, I'll tell you the way it started for me. I was not in South Carolina the night the results came in. I was speaking at a big event in east Texas.

PAT: I'm just wondering if this is the David Barton --

GLENN: Come on. Let's get something out.

DAVID: What is the website, Pat?

GLENN: Oh, jeez.

PAT: Keepthepromise.com.

GLENN: We got it. Let me just say -- if you would like to help the super PAC for Ted Cruz, you can go to keepthepromise.com. Now, can we please move on?

JEFFY: So this is the David Barton from --

GLENN: Stop it right now. Please, I'm begging you guys. Turn the mics off, Sarah, in Dallas.

Okay. David, tell us what happened.

DAVID: So I looked at the result after the event that night was over, and I saw all sorts of headlines. I saw what had happened, that Cruz had come in third. I saw that evangelicals had abandoned him. That they did not do well. The conservative state did not go for him. And so I saw all these headlines. Then as I was with you this weekend --

GLENN: And you were as shocked as I was.

DAVID: I was shocked. I was absolutely shocked. Our numbers were not close to what the results came in as. Really, nobody's numbers were close. They missed Rubio by a long way. Trump overperformed. Cruz underperformed by what was predicted. So it was a gut blow. It was kind of a gut blow.

So I had not thought about it much. You asked -- you sent me the email and said, "What happened?" So I sent you back a few articles that had exit polls, but I hadn't really looked at them. And so as we were talking last night, I spent time going through the exit polls. And the headlines completely misportrayed what the numbers show.

So, for example, you take -- and let me put it in perspective and then we can talk about how things felt. The biggest issues that were on voters' minds in South Carolina, which were really different from Iowa and elsewhere, but the biggest issues that were out there -- number one issue was terrorism. That was the number one issue at 32 percent, followed by jobs and the economy for 28 percent, government spending 27 percent, immigration 10 percent.

GLENN: Okay. Listen. Now, when it comes to terrorism, it's specifically the Syrian refugees.

DAVID: That's right.

GLENN: And as I explained to David last night, this is the Bubba effect. Because David is like, where are the Syrian refugees? How is that even a story right now?

DAVID: And, by the way, the reason I was struck with that was 75 percent of South Carolina voters said we like Trump because he doesn't want any Syrian -- and I had no clue it would be 75 percent.

GLENN: Right. And why is that number so high? And I explained to David, this is the Bubba Effect. This is America saying, "Look, we don't buy your bullcrap that it's a peaceful religion. And the Muslim Brotherhood are largely secular." What they know is, Muslims have come in from the Middle East, not necessarily American Muslims and Islamists is the better way to term this. Islamists are not peaceful. Muslims can be peaceful. But we have bent over backwards to say everybody is peaceful. And this guy is just a lone wolf, when we know that's bullcrap.

So when the government is not protecting us, that is the secret of the Bubba Effect. When the government isn't protecting, the people push back on that. They get angry and say, "You know what, get out of our town. We know what the truth is, and you're part of the problem." And that's why the Syrian refugees was the -- by far, the number one concern of the people who went to the polls in South Carolina.

DAVID: And for those folks, Trump was their guy.

GLENN: Because he says no Muslims.

DAVID: He says, Muslims, shut it down. That's where they went. Although there were these other issues, 75 percent, that was a stunning number to me.

GLENN: Right.

DAVID: And the other numbers that stood out to me, is I was told -- let's see if I get the numbers. 74 percent were evangelicals that voted. As it turned out, 74 percent were not evangelicals. That was evangelicals born again. So in the evangelicals, Cruz did really good with the evangelicals. But among the born agains -- and evangelicals are born agains who are serious about their faith. So those serious about their faith, Cruz did really well with. Those who were not serious about their faith and not very conservative, that's where Trump cleaned up. And so the media said, oh, all the evangelicals are going for Trump. No, not so. There was a definite categorization difference between those who practice their faith and those who didn't.

GLENN: And actually those who practiced their faith, it was split between Rubio and Cruz.

DAVID: That's right. Rubio and Cruz had the high percentage of those who were serious about their faith.

GLENN: So here's the other thing that's hurting Ted Cruz that is sticking, that he's running the dirty campaign and that he's a liar. I have to tell you, I mean, I would not be with a liar. And I won't make any excuses. I think -- you know, I think like -- what was it? Oh, the thing in Iowa where he said, you know, they sent out fliers --

DAVID: Ben Carson.

GLENN: No, no. The fliers that they sent out and said, "You're in violation of voting violation." That's been done over and over again by the Democrats and the Republicans. So it's nothing new. I don't like it. I wouldn't have done that myself. But it's totally fair game. Nobody has ever had a problem with that in the past.

He's not playing dirty ball. But the problem is, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump are all saying the same thing because they know, if they take him out, then the whole landscape changes. And so he's an impediment to them. So they're doing what they did to, you know, Mitt Romney and everybody always does. You -- you target one, take him out. Then you retarget another one and take them out. So they're all targeting Marco Rubio -- Ted Cruz.

DAVID: It's interesting the way they've gone at it. Trump says, he's a liar. He lies about everything. He's the biggest liar -- just lie, lie, lie. That's the word he uses over and over. And people repeat that. And I say, "Can you give me one example?" No, but he's a liar.

Give me an example.

Well, he's a liar.

And it goes back to what William James said in the 1800s. He said, there's nothing so absurd, but that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

GLENN: Hitler said the same thing.

DAVID: That's right. And that's what's been happening. That did hurt Cruz in South Carolina. The negatives went up on him. We really can't trust him because he's a liar. No evidence of that. That's just a claim.

GLENN: I know Ted Cruz. That's the most incredible thing I've heard. He's trying to be friends with everybody. He's not taking these guys out. He's the only one not engaging in those nasty -- you know, this nasty kind of --

DAVID: Well, I'll tell you, when I -- when they asked me to take the super PAC and I did. I said, "Here's the deal, I'm not going to be an attack dog. I'm not going to do a super PAC that's going after everybody attacking. I believe in Romans 12:21. You overturn the evil with the good. We'll run positive messaging. I don't mind contrast ads. I don't mind if someone is vote is somewhere, I'll show that. But I'm not going to be attack dogs and demean the character of others." And that's the way we run this thing. And now we're liars for having run really a pretty straight-up campaign. Now, we can't speak for everybody that does everything in the name of Ted Cruz. But the super PAC side, our super PAC Keep the Promise. Oh, wait a minute. Keepthepromise.com. Our super PAC,keepthepromise.com, we have really run a straight-up thing. Because that's Ted's character. That's what we want to reflect.

GLENN: I will tell you this, David is in because he does want to raise money for the super PAC because he believes that the only reason why Kasich is still in is he wants to win Ohio. And Ohio, it doesn't even look like he'll win Ohio. And the super PAC needs to have the money to be able to go on and continue to fight. So if you do believe in Ted Cruz, you can donate to the super PAC.

Now, let me switch to -- and, Pat, I don't know if you have this audio. What Marco Rubio said this weekend on, I don't know if it was Meet the Press

PAT: I got the Stephanopoulos audio where he was --

GLENN: Okay. So I want you to listen to what he said.

VOICE: For what it's worth, PolitiFact has never been able to find -- none of us have been able to find any instance --

PAT: That's. Hang on a second.

GLENN: And this is important. Because here's the thing -- there's never been -- in modern history, there's never been somebody who has made it to the presidency without winning Ohio, New Hampshire, or South Carolina. You have to win one of those three. In modern history, nobody has made it without winning one of those three. Hang on just a second.

On the other side, Bill Clinton didn't win anything until Georgia, which was March 1st. So I want you to remember the comeback kid. He did win South Carolina. But South Carolina came later. It came March 6th. The first time he won any state was March 1st. So no matter what's happening at this point, it doesn't matter. You can win with the momentum. So don't be discouraged if you happen to be for a candidate. You know, I think you'll have a hard time -- anybody who hasn't won any of those three states. That's the only thing that's an impediment. This is truly a two-man race. Okay. Go ahead play the audio.

VOICE: Three big contests so far. You've come in third, fifth, and now second in South Carolina. The big question for you is: Where do you win?

GLENN: Now, listen to this.

MARCO: Well, when we get to these winner-take-all states, we have to start winning because they award all their delegates to one person. And if you look at what we're doing now, we're going to be doing a national campaign. I mean, I'm in Tennessee today. Then I'm going to Arkansas. Then we finish up in Nevada. And tomorrow, more of the same. We're campaigning everywhere.

So the way this process works, for people that are watching is, these states right now are awarding delegates proportionally. And -- and -- but come March 15th, if you win a state, you get all of their delegates. That's when it's really going to start to matter, and we'll be in real good shape for that.

VOICE: And Florida needs to be a win?

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

Go ahead.

MARCO: Well, I think that's true for everyone in this race, and it's always been true. We feel real good about Florida.

VOICE: True for everybody in this race.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. True for everybody in this race that you have to win Florida. He is currently polling third in his home state.

DAVID: And notice he was asked what state can you win, and he hasn't named one. He's naming where he's going to be, he's naming what they're going to work for, he hasn't given a state where he can win.

GLENN: Right. And if his strategy is, I'm going to win in Florida. It's too late. That was the -- what's-his-name's strategy?

DAVID: Jeb Bush.

GLENN: No. Not only Jeb Bush, but Giuliani. It doesn't work. It just doesn't work. So I don't know what that strategy is. But you can't win if you say I'm going to win in Florida and you're polling third and it's your home state. Imagine if, you know, Ted Cruz was polling third in Texas. By the way, how is he polling in Texas?

DAVID: He's polling first in Texas.

GLENN: First in Texas. Yeah, I mean, you just can't do that. You just can't poll third in your own state at this point. Rubio is not -- is not a winner. He's just not a winner. People are looking at him and saying, "Well, he can win in the general." I'm not so sure.

Featured Image: Supporters cheer as the South Carolina primary is called for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at his election night party February 20, 2016 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The New York businessman won the first southern primary decisively. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Breaking point: Will America stand up to the mob?

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: Supreme Court case could redefine religious liberty

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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I have been honored to receive the Defender of Israel Award from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post recently named me one of the strongest Christian voices in support of Israel.

And yet, my support is not blind loyalty. It’s not a rubber stamp for any government or policy. I support Israel because I believe it is my duty — first as a Christian, but even if I weren’t a believer, I would still support her as a man of reason, morality, and common sense.

Because faith isn’t required to understand this: Israel’s existence is not just about one nation’s survival — it is about the survival of Western civilization itself.

It is a lone beacon of shared values in the Middle East. It is a bulwark standing against radical Islam — the same evil that seeks to dismantle our own nation from within.

And my support is not rooted in politics. It is rooted in something simpler and older than politics: a people’s moral and historical right to their homeland, and their right to live in peace.

Israel has that right — and the right to defend herself against those who openly, repeatedly vow her destruction.

Let’s make it personal: if someone told me again and again that they wanted to kill me and my entire family — and then acted on that threat — would I not defend myself? Wouldn’t you? If Hamas were Canada, and we were Israel, and they did to us what Hamas has done to them, there wouldn’t be a single building left standing north of our border. That’s not a question of morality.

That’s just the truth. All people — every people — have a God-given right to protect themselves. And Israel is doing exactly that.

My support for Israel’s right to finish the fight against Hamas comes after eighty years of rejected peace offers and failed two-state solutions. Hamas has never hidden its mission — the eradication of Israel. That’s not a political disagreement.

That’s not a land dispute. That is an annihilationist ideology. And while I do not believe this is America’s war to fight, I do believe — with every fiber of my being — that it is Israel’s right, and moral duty, to defend her people.

Criticism of military tactics is fair. That’s not antisemitism. But denying Israel’s right to exist, or excusing — even celebrating — the barbarity of Hamas? That’s something far darker.

We saw it on October 7th — the face of evil itself. Women and children slaughtered. Babies burned alive. Innocent people raped and dragged through the streets. And now, to see our own fellow citizens march in defense of that evil… that is nothing short of a moral collapse.

If the chants in our streets were, “Hamas, return the hostages — Israel, stop the bombing,” we could have a conversation.

But that’s not what we hear.

What we hear is open sympathy for genocidal hatred. And that is a chasm — not just from decency, but from humanity itself. And here lies the danger: that same hatred is taking root here — in Dearborn, in London, in Paris — not as horror, but as heroism. If we are not vigilant, the enemy Israel faces today will be the enemy the free world faces tomorrow.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s about the courage to call evil by its name and to say “Never again” — and mean it.

And you don’t have to open a Bible to understand this. But if you do — if you are a believer — then this issue cuts even deeper. Because the question becomes: what did God promise, and does He keep His word?

He told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” He promised to make Abraham the father of many nations and to give him “the whole land of Canaan.” And though Abraham had other sons, God reaffirmed that promise through Isaac. And then again through Isaac’s son, Jacob — Israel — saying: “The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and to your descendants after you.”

That’s an everlasting promise.

And from those descendants came a child — born in Bethlehem — who claimed to be the Savior of the world. Jesus never rejected His title as “son of David,” the great King of Israel.

He said plainly that He came “for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And when He returns, Scripture says He will return as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And where do you think He will go? Back to His homeland — Israel.

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And what will He find when He gets there? His brothers — or his brothers’ enemies? Will the roads where He once walked be preserved? Or will they lie in rubble, as Gaza does today? If what He finds looks like the aftermath of October 7th, then tell me — what will be my defense as a Christian?

Some Christians argue that God’s promises to Israel have been transferred exclusively to the Church. I don’t believe that. But even if you do, then ask yourself this: if we’ve inherited the promises, do we not also inherit the land? Can we claim the birthright and then, like Esau, treat it as worthless when the world tries to steal it?

So, when terrorists come to slaughter Israelis simply for living in the land promised to Abraham, will we stand by? Or will we step forward — into the line of fire — and say,

“Take me instead”?

Because this is not just about Israel’s right to exist.

It’s about whether we still know the difference between good and evil.

It’s about whether we still have the courage to stand where God stands.

And if we cannot — if we will not — then maybe the question isn’t whether Israel will survive. Maybe the question is whether we will.

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