Ben Weingarten

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Ben Weingarten Guest Hosts “The Buck Sexton Show:” American Exceptionalism vs. Anti-American Progressivism, China Deep Dive with Dean Cheng, Khashoggi Caper with David Reaboi, 2020 Election Preview with Tammy Bruce

On New Year’s Eve my friend Buck Sexton gave me the opportunity to guest-host his “The Buck Sexton Show.”

During the episode, I talked everything from American exceptionalism and the progressives’ brazen effort to propagandize beginning with toddlers to undermine it, China and the Trump administration’s underappreciated but utterly vital efforts to counter Beijing’s malign influence with the Heritage Foundation’s Dean Cheng, the Khashoggi Caper with Security Studies Group’s David Reaboi and a preview of 2020 and the significance of the Trump presidency with Fox News Contributor and Independent Women’s Forum President Tammy Bruce.

You can listen to the episode in full below, followed by the individual segments themselves:

The Imperative to Defend an Exceptional America Against Progressive Anti-Americanism

Deep Dive on China’s Hegemonic Ambitions, the Trump Administration’s Revolutionary Effort to Counter Her

Interview with Dean Cheng on China’s Global Ambitions and America’s Response

The Khashoggi Caper with David Reaboi

Interview with Tammy Bruce on the True Significance of Trump and the Race for 2020

Clips shared with permission from Premiere Networks

John Bolton Rattles the Muslim Brotherhood Echo Chamber

In The Federalist, I write that Ambassador John Bolton’s appointment as National Security Advisor (NSA) is rattling the Muslim Brotherhood echo chamber.

Indeed, attacks on the former ambassador have inadvertently served as some of his strongest endorsements.

One of the largely overlooked but truly revelatory areas of criticism concern Bolton’s positions on Islamic supremacism, which reflect an understanding that jihadists pose a mortal threat that must be countered using every element of national power. You know these attacks are meaningful because they have been made under cover of a smear campaign.

Bolton has been castigated in a flurry of articles as an “Islamophobe” for the thought crime of being a counterjihadist who supports other counterjihadists.

“Islamophobe” is being lobbed at Bolton to try and discredit him and ultimately scuttle policies he supports intended to strike at the heart of Islamic supremacism. The “tell” is that the articles raising such accusations frequently cast counterjihadist policy positions themselves as de facto evidence of Islamophobic bigotry.

As the representative par excellence of the position that America should exit the Iran deal, it should come as no surprise that the Iran deal echo chamber in exile has sprung into action in savaging the ambassador with the most outlandish of insinuations. For the Islamophobia campaign, the lesser-recognized and perhaps more insidious Muslim Brotherhood echo chamber has been re-activated. Bolton is on record as supporting its designation as a terrorist organization, and Brotherhood apologists and true believers cannot abide this.

In The Federalist I expose this smear campaign — a campaign led by a Muslim Brotherhood echo chamber that previously proved successful in apparently dissuading the Trump administration from designating the Brotherhood a terrorist organization — and suggest that the administration should not concede one inch to the Brotherhood and its backers in the national security and foreign policy establishment. Further, I suggest that the specious and slanderous slurs leveled at Bolton precisely because of his keen understanding of the Islamic supremacist threat reflects all the better on his appointment as NSA.

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