 But this is part of the course of Donald Trump. This is who he is. This is what he is. I think much more concerning than actual Fourth of July parade has been Donald Trump's cozy relationship with the murderous dictator, who I never call by name, by the way, because I don't think he deserves that kind of respect, the murderous dictator of North Korea, the floundering kind of non-strategy in Iran. The actual policies and actual presentation of the presidency by Donald Trump is what really scares me and upsets me. There was this beautiful video of this North Korean dissident, this girl who managed to escape North Korea at a massive cost to herself and to her family. And, you know, she said it like it is. She said, what message is Donald Trump sending the North Korean people who are being enslaved, who are being tortured, who are being raped, pillaged, murdered by this regime? What message of hope is he sending them? He's basically telling them, oh, no, your ruler is just like any other ruler. Your dictator is just like any other dictator, just like any other political leader out there in the world. I'm going to treat him with respect. I'm not going to fight for you. I'm not going to even morally fight for you. I'm not advocating for the United States fighting for the people of North Korea. But morally, what does this mean? When America sanctions the kind of evil that Donald Trump is being sanctioning in his relationship with the North Korean brutal, murderous dictator, shaking hands with him, hugging him, calling him as he's got a love thing going on. And then walking into North Korea as if it's any other country, as if it's just another border, it's just another regime. The message he sends to North Koreans, the message he sends any oppressed people in the world is that America is nothing that America is meaningless. And America will not stand with them. That America is no longer that beacon, not fighting for their freedom, but a beacon, for freedom, that that is long past, that has gone, and America does not actually stand for their freedom. That is, that is a real travesty and a real, and it's not that other presidents have been significantly better about this, but Donald Trump has taken it to the next level. Donald Trump is in this sense more deflating of America's value. I mean, everybody criticized Obama for America not leading and they criticized Obama for kind of moral equivalence between America and other nations. They criticized Obama for bowing to the Saudi prince. You know, everybody went after Obama for not being a real leader, a real defender of American principle as well. I mean, Donald Trump is doing Obama 10 times better with his groveling before the, you know, before the motorist dictator of North Korea. This is the lowest, I think, American foreign policy has sunk in terms of abandoning the idea of the value of liberty and the value of freedom to people around the world. And, you know, it's hard for me to understand the people who are defending this and there are plenty of them and there are plenty of people who listen to the show that have been defending, oh, this is the best alternative because this beats going to war. Why is war an alternative to this? Was not an alternative to this. You can shun this brutal dictator and still not go to war with him. Indeed, North Korea doesn't want war. This guy doesn't want to commit suicide. He doesn't want to die. He is just a thug, he's just a thug. And to treat him like anything else is a great travesty. Many people say, you know, this is just like Nixon going to China in many respects it is. Just like Nixon going to China and Nixon going to China was a true travesty. I'm actually right now trying to find this quote from Mayan Rand where she wrote about, you know, Nixon going to China and what that represented and what that meant. And, you know, and she thought it was an abomination. And she wrote very eloquently, that's why I'm trying to find it because I think it was so, it was a powerful statement of the United States basically abandoning the principles, the banning the principles of which it stands, abandoning what it represents in the world and what this meant for people in countries that are striving towards freedom and what this meant when the United States abandoned them. You know, is completely gone. So anyway, I can't find it. So if I find it in a little while, I'll read you that quote. So, you know, I think this is a particular sad time for America. It's a particularly sad time for America. It's a particularly sad time to be celebrating the Fourth of July with a president who has no, I mean, no understanding of what this country really stands for. And we'll get to that in a minute, but here is the quote from Wang Yuan. This is what she wrote about Nixon in China. Quote, morally, it was impossible to watch all those gracious ceremonies, benevolent smiles, lengthy handshakes, cordial speeches and hold in mind the actual nature of red China when kept alternating between two feelings. The kind of unreality and childish amusement one feels at a circus and the shock of returning to reality. The reality of China's terror, starvation, torture chambers, mass slaughter. I kept thinking of the thousands of men who tried to escape from China by swimming many miles under the gunfire patrol boats to reach freedom in Hong Kong. What about them? I kept thinking. Whenever somebody uttered one of those ringing speeches about universal peace and love for mankind, isn't there anyone to defend them? The shock came from the realization that the smiling figure in the midst of the ghastly pretense on the TV screen was the president of the United States. It is America that all the enslaved peoples of the world look up to as the symbol of freedom and as their last hope for the Chinese to see an American president drinking toasts to their jailers is so cruel a blow that in the name of humanity, no one should ever permit himself to deliver it. Now, that's how I ran at a finest. That's how I ran at your beautiful articulation. I could have never said it any better, but that is, there is no different between that and what we are witnessing right now in the case of North Korea. Now, some have said, but Nixon led to the opening up of China and to all these Chinese being freer today. Well, no, he did not. His trip was never necessary for that. China was not opened up, China was not freed up until Mao Tse-tung was dead deep in a grave. And only then China was freed up somewhat. And that freedom was not a result of America opening up. It was a result of the pragmatism, the brutal unwavering, brutal pragmatism of Deng Cha-peng. Deng Cha-peng was a bad man, but when it came to freeing up his country in the name of pragmatic economic reform, he did it because he saw it worked. He's also the man responsible for the slaughter in Tiananmen Square. So he's no hero of freedom. So no, Nixon's gesture did not bring freedom to the Chinese people. Nixon's gesture did not create economic progress. Nixon's gesture was just a sheer unequivocal, unmedical-ended betrayal, betrayal of those in countries like China and North Korea who still strive for freedom, who still look up, who still dream of escaping as was articulated by that brave young girl who criticized President Trump for his meeting. Free, China, as I said, is a brutal evil regime, but it is not a communist regime. It's an authoritarian regime. It is far closer to fascism than communism, but it is neither fascist nor communist. It is a different type of authoritarianism. Nothing has to necessarily fit into neat little boxes like left and right, this tribe or that tribe. There are new forms of authoritarianism. And China has created one. It keeps the Chinese Communist Party label because it is a convenient label and because it would like to rewrite history and present Mao Tse-tung as a hero and the Communist Party is good. But there was no communism in China. There are no communists in China. There is a market, to a large extent, a market economy, at least in vast segments of the Chinese economy, are relatively unregulated, relatively free, relatively low taxed. The welfare state in China is actually smaller than the welfare state in the United States, smaller than the welfare state in Europe. So no, trading with China is not like sanctioning a regime, a brutal regime, where there is a single dictator who rules over everything, where there is no economic freedom, no political freedom, no freedom to travel, no freedom to enter, no freedom to leave, where you're shot at the border. That is the border, by the way, that Donald Trump crossed. A border that if any North Korean was going in the other direction, they would be shot. That is not a border one recognizes. That is not border one crosses in a friendly gesture. It is hard, and I don't know what to do to convey to you the extent of the evil that that represents. I read the quote from Mainland. I mean, to me, if that does not convince, I don't know what does, but his whole, Donald Trump's whole relationship with the murderous dictator of North Korea and is representative of his absolute unmitigated pragmatism, anti-freedom, anti-principles attitude. And the fact that so many people, so many people who have called themselves pro-American, who still call themselves pro-American, support the president in this action. I see it on Facebook. Is truly, truly scary, ominous for our future and ominous in terms of the understanding that Americans today have of what it means to be an American and what America actually represents. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broods.