It is to vote for the party whose mayors, governors and district attorneys allow violent riots and seek to "defund" police, a policy even most blacks oppose. (When Blumenthal alleged that the entire Russia scandal was really just a militarist pretext for NATO enlargement, Carlson flippantly raised the prospect of his son having to fight a war against Russia, as he did in a contentious exchange earlier this year with Russian dissident Garry Kasparov. Would somebody please help me out here: Im confused, read the email to me from a conservative Republican activist and donor. You know where I am going with this, dont you? The Russians are alleged to have interfered in the 2016 election by hacking into Dem party servers that were inadequately protected, some being kept in Hillarys basement and finding emails that were actually written by members of the Clinton campaign and releasing those emails so that they could be read by the American people who what, didnt have the right to read these emails? Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League described it as "filled with anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric". The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. [46], Climate Feedback, Reuters and the Weather Channel have found that PragerU's videos promote inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change. What I never expected was that the Republican Partywhich once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Unionwould become a willing accomplice of what the previous Republican presidential nominee rightly called our No. [41], By 2015, PragerU developed two partnership programs to promote its views, including religious material, in public and private schools. PREP released its first content in April 2021. Voting for any Democrat -- whether for mayor, district attorney, state legislature, state governor, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate or president -- is to vote for someone who will enable the left to destroy America as we know it. For the past four years, I worked at a think tank, the Foreign Policy Initiative, that was bankrolled by Republican donors and regularly criticized the Obama administration. PragerU is an American advocacy group that creates videos and content to promote a conservative viewpoint on various political, economic, and sociological topics. Republican voters announced that they prefer to lose an election than have a Republican who in any way supported expansion of the federal government. Meanwhile the Heritage Foundation, one of Washingtons most influential conservative think tanks and a former bastion of Cold War hawkishness, has enlisted itself in the campaign against George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist whose work promoting democracy and good governance in the former Soviet space has made him one of the Kremlins main whipping boys. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to vote in Palm [1] PragerU has ranked highly in influence compared to other free-market advocacy organizations, such as Reason and National Review. Townhall.com is the leading source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? [4] The next-largest donor is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. E Pluribus Unum2. Meaning that the current Republicans (Previously named Democrats) created and pushed the KKK. Prager University has a comparatively small footprint on Twitter, with just over 200,000 followersbut it does have a parody account called No Context Prager U that tweets screenshots from videos without captions. In South Carolina, a small-business man named Tim Scott is the Republican candidate for South Carolinas first congressional district. It is this ethical rot that allows Dennis Prager, one of the rights more unctuous professional moralists, to opine with a straight face that The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does. Why wouldnt a religious right that embraced a boastfully immoral charlatan like Donald Trump not turn a blind eye towardor, in the case of Franklin Graham, embracean oppressive regime like that ruling Russia? This article is a co-publication with Eurozine. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizens right to vote.And how was all of this enforced? I should not have been surprised. This is due to many reasons, as Factmyth.com points out: The parties changed over time as platform planks, party leaders, factions, and voter bases essentially switched between parties. http://l.prageru.com/2ylo1YtFollow Carol Swain on Twitter! In this video, Vanderbilt University professor Carol M. Swain argues that the Republican's Southern strategy is a "myth" and is not what caused the South to become Republican. Echoing Kremlin complaints that Russia is a country which has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled a self-pitying justification for Russian aggression throughout history Weekly Standard senior editor Christopher Caldwell extolls Putin as the pre-eminent statesman of our time.. Here, laid bare, are the impulses of a large swathe of todays Republican Party. At this time in American history, to care more about an individual candidate than the party is to support the unraveling of America. Prager University is a non-profit, but not an actual accredited college in any way, though Prager does refer to some of the conservative pundits who have made videos for him as faculty. These include both mainstream conservative intellectuals (Charles Krauthammer, Dinesh DSouza) and younger, more influential fire-breathers like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk. 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Long gone was its principled opposition to the evil empire. What was left was an intellectually and morally desiccated carcass populated by con artists, opportunists, entertainers and grifters operating massively profitable book publishers, radio empires, websites, and a TV network whose stock-in-trade are not ideas but resentments. [1] From 1927 to 1929 he habilitated. Its hard to say what effect Prager University videos have on college students. Addendum: I have received 7 comments on this article as of 2/11/19, and not a single one of them showed any evidence at all that the party switch never happened. It was obviously a credit to the Republican leadership. Donate today to PragerU! They say that they would vote for any Republican except Donald Trump because they find his character so objectionable. "[37] She also demonstrated an algorithmic connection on YouTube between PragerU, Fox News, and alt-right personalities. PragerU is an American advocacy group that creates videos and content to promote a conservative viewpoint on various political, economic, and sociological topics. Nor was Trump Jr. the only Republican to seek Russian assistance against Clinton. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is "The Rational Bible," a commentary on the book of Genesis. There is also no evidence that the south went from being a group of kind people fighting for civil rights, to suddenly being racist bigots. Robinson CEO Sid Verdoorn. But Prager University unabashedly reflects modern conservatism in the Trump era: divisive to the extreme, anti-abortion, anti-immigration, unbelieving in human-caused climate change, anti-same-sex marriage, pro-traditional family, and vocally pro-Trump. [10] In 2019, it ranked among the 10 biggest political spenders on the platform. But while she has held fast to the principles that made her a star in the conservative movement, she believes that Donald Trump has utterly discredited conservatism. The Republicans? All three passed only because of universal Republican support.During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. But is Prager University winning hearts and minds on college campuses? The term party has since come to be applied to all organized WebPaul Prager (age 88) is listed at 7069 Haviland Cir Boynton Beach, Fl 33437 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. I also do not take Prager U, or any other right-wing think tank as a legitimate source of information. Trump Sr., after all, explicitly implored Russia to hack Clintons private email server. Back in 1866, the Democratic party started the KKK, kind of. You know not what you have done. [15] PragerU claimed that Google's demonetization and flagging violated the First Amendment by arguing that YouTube was a public forum. This was an astonishing accomplishment. [4], An August 2019 article by Drew Anderson in GLAAD, noted PraegerU's "interviews with many controversial public figures who are often hailed by the white supremacist movement" and accused it of a "horrific Anti-LGBTQ record. [21][22] In August 2018, Facebook removed two PragerU videos from its platform. In Alaska, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Miller has a resume that reads like something a Hollywood screenwriter would make up. Logan Paul Prager (age 26) is listed at 5805 Trace Meadow Loop Apt 104 Riverview, Fl 33578 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. A USNA graduate, Paul Prager is CEO and Chairman of Beowulf Energy and principal of Bluepoint Hospitality Group. The Democrats in 1866 created and pushed the KKK. This is not a conspiracy. Prager gets about 2 million daily radio listeners (far fewer than Rush Limbaughs 14 million) and is known for his vast licensing empire. Willy Prager studied civil engineering at the Technische Universitt Darmstadt and received his diploma in 1925. [4] In 2019, 40% of its budget came from almost 130,000 online donors; the Los Angeles Times noted that PragerU attracted more donors than some Democratic presidential primary contenders had at the time. It really started as more of a grassroots movement, that was picked up by the democrats of the time. is another video that the SPLC says contains such dog whistles. WebPaul Prager (age 88) is listed at 7069 Haviland Cir Boynton Beach, Fl 33437 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. 5. This is a great time to be a Republican. Prager sued Google in 2017 for blocking some of its videos on YouTube, which was dismissed a year later. [1] PragerU consistently spends more on Facebook advertising than major political campaigns and national advocacy groups. Here, laid bare, are the impulses of a large swathe of todays Republican Party. I criticized his Russian reset, his Iran nuclear deal, his opening to Cuba, even his handling of political conflict in Honduras. Instead, the Russia scandal has incurred a wrathful defensiveness among conservatives, who are reaching for anything paranoid attacks on the so-called American deep state, allegations of conspiracy among Obama administration holdovers to distract attention from the very grave reality of Russian active measures. And third, they are producing a Republican Party that actually stands for something other than being an alternative to the Democratic Party. Radio host Dennis Prager co-founded Prager University to fight supposed leftist and secular indoctrination on college campuses, which he believes instillun-American values in students. [9] PragerU encourages students to join "PragerFORCE", an international student organisation to promote PragerU's videos and ideology, about 6,500 college and high school students promoted its videos as of 2020. By terror -- much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest. At the time, I asked Carlson if his son serves in the military. In Michigan, the Republican candidate against John Dingell is Rob Steele, a distinguished cardiologist. Its denial of widely accepted climate science aside, PragerU tends to find itself on both ends of a great deal of controversy. The Democratic Party was once largely liberal. In 2013, an Irish photographer sued Prager University for using his material without permission,which caused the site to drop all photos from its videos and use animation onlypulling 80 videos from the site as a result. Liberty3. After I became a Republican in the early 1990s in a recent column, I explained how emotionally difficult it is for a Democrat to vote Republican, let alone become one I concluded that I had left the dangerous party and joined the stupid party. Generally, PragerUs videos are factually accurate, though often presented without greater context or opposing viewpoints, and with a great deal of right-wing bias. Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of TeraWulf Inc. Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. It is so irrational as to be incredible. So no, the modern Liberal Kombucha tea drinking vegan left wing POC-loving feminist SJW Democrats did not make or perpetuate the KKK, the modern Republicans did. Turn on Fox News and you will come across the networks most popular star, Sean Hannity, citing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a reliable source of information or retailing Russian disinformation such as the conspiracy theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Richwho police say was killed during a robbery attemptwas the source of last summers leaks, not Russian hackers. Don't miss out! He and many other Americans (we will soon know how many) who support the president's Republican policies will vote for the party that stands for almost everything they oppose because they will "vote for the man, not the party.". In God We Trust@DennisPrager calls this the American trinity. WebPaul Prager - $36,800 in Political Contributions for 2020, Campaign Finance, Money, American politics, American political campaign contributions, presidential campaign When I spoke to Ruth McClung on my radio show, I was struck by her seriousness, her lack of any political guile and her intellectual depth. All Rights Reserved. [49][50][51][52], In 2019, Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator from Alaska, launched The Gravel Institute, a progressive left-leaning think tank, to counteract PragerU. There are reasons why black voters flocked away from the Republicans at the same time that this party switch supposedly never happened. The fact is that, since the inception of the Republican Party, which was founded to counter the Democratic Party's defense of slavery, there has almost never been a time when the philosophical differences between the parties were not great. This is a small, almost random sample of the impressive Republican candidates coming from outside politics. Prager was also on a sabbatical at IBM's research lab in Zurich. And this is bad? The derivation of the emails (stolen by Russian hackers) and the purpose of their dissemination (to sow dissension among the American body politic) have either been ignored, or, in the case of my conservative interlocutor, ludicrously held up as an example of Russian altruism meant to save American democracy from the perfidious Clinton clan. WebPaul Prager - $10,800 in Political Contributions for 2016, Campaign Finance, Money, American politics, American political campaign contributions, presidential campaign It really started as more of a grassroots movement, that was picked up by the democrats of the time. Thousands of sources and facts at your fingertips.iPhone: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsnbGAndroid: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsS5eJoin Prager United to get new swag every quarter, exclusive early access to our videos, and an annual TownHall phone call with Dennis Prager! [10] In 2020, PragerU reported to have received about $28 million in revenues, most of it from donations, and reported approximately $28 million in expenditures, with 39% going into marketing. Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. Overall, Prager University claims to have received 625 million views in 2017, and over a billion in 2018. His political beliefs were characterized by support of civil rights, human rights and safeguarding the environment, but with an equally strong commitment to oppose totalitarianism in general, and communism in particular. American conservatism is no better encapsulated today than by the self-satisfied, smirking mug of Carlson, the living embodiment of what Lionel Trilling meant when he wrote that the conservative impulse is defined by irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.. Full stop. Kenneth Reightler, Alexa Seip, and Langley Shook. Lincolns vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. Just as real universities have donors, so too does Prager University. John C. North II, Capt. Republicans ought to have considered how an America First foreign policy, despite its promises to build up the military and bomb the shit out of ISIS, might actually be more attractive to Moscow than the warts-and-all liberal internationalism of the Democratic nominee, who, whatever her faults, has never called into question the very existence of institutions like the European Union and NATO, pillars of the transatlantic democratic alliance. Political parties originated in their modern form in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, along with the electoral and parliamentary systems, whose development reflects the evolution of parties. Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. But alas there has been no such reckoning within the party of Reagan. Dennis Prager is famous for coining the mantra that, happiness is a moral obligation. What he means by this is that regardless of whether you are truly happy at the moment, you have a moral obligation to have a pleasant demeanor to those around you. And I will laugh in your face if you think that is because the south was kinder towards civil rights at that time. But, still, being a Republican engendered little pride. Historians and political scientists have also heavily criticized PragerU's videos for containing misleading claims about topics such as slavery and racism in the USA, immigration, and the history of fascism. William Prager, (before 1940) Willy Prager, (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe March 17, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician. The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based think tank and lobbying group, drafted state legislation to strip child workplace protections, emails show. In October 2016, PragerU claimed that YouTube had put 21 of PragerU's videos in the "restricted mode" setting, which ensures content is age appropriate. The most obvious examples are Republican "Never Trumpers." political party, a group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power. During the campaign, as operatives linked to Russian intelligence dumped hacked emails onto the internet, few Republicans stood on principle, like Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and condemned their provenance. The third myth is that the Republican Party has maintained a stronghold on the South with their use of the so-called Southern Strategy.. Prager also does a longer fireside chat video every week. Secondary school teachers and college professors can register their classes through PragerU's Academic Partnership program, which lets students sign up and allows teachers to monitor their students' progress. Nowrasteh wrote that the video was full of errors and half-truths and omitted relevant information. The same can be said about the comparison between Whitman and Jerry Brown. PragerU has 3.2 million Facebook followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers, though some of these might overlap. The Republican Party, of course, was founded in 1848 with the abolition of slavery as its core mission. Tomorrow it could be us.. [45] She found that PragerU relies on search engine optimization and "suggested content" to market its videos. [11] PragerU reached a billion views in 2018. Anyone whos followed my writing knows Ive infuriated liberals and Democrats plenty over the years, and I have the metaphorical scars to prove it. [6][15] YouTube responded, saying: "We aim to apply the same standards to everyone and we dont censor anyone. Mike Rothschild is a writer who specializes in researching and debunking conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs. So angry are many Americans at what the left is trying to do to America that spectacularly bright and accomplished individuals from every walk of life have decided to leave their professions and run for office. Today, these figures are no longer on the fringe of GOP politics. To be sure, the Republican Congress, at least on paper, remains hawkish on the Kremlin, as evidenced by the recent 98-2 Senate vote to increase sanctions against Russia for its election meddling and other offenses. "[40], Reason has criticized PragerU's claims of being censored by big tech companies for being false, as the company's content had not been removed from any social media platforms, and that they indicate a misunderstanding of the First Amendment as protecting a party from any type of censorship, when that law merely protects content from censorship by the government. His career as an entrepreneur, executive, developer, and According to Snopes, the video is inaccurate as recent history and statistics indicate that white privilege still exists. Or when he praised Putin on Morning Joe in December of 2015. Posted on Mar 19, 2019Updated on May 20, 2021, 4:47 pm CDT. The article also noted that it had received comparatively little attention from news and media analysts due to PragerU's lack of coverage of topical issues, such as Donald Trump. But that, of course, would raise questions implicating Donald Trump and all those who have enabled him, questions that most Republicans prefer to remain unanswered.
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