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In the hours and days after a near-miss assassination attempt on Donald Trump — and his defiant reaction in real time — we have discussed the quality of courage in multiple contexts. Trump’s first social-media statement exhorted his followers and all Americans to „FEAR NOT“, but to trust in their own ability to defy their enemies and to rally together for our common values.
At the time, I wrote that this presents a real test for us, individually and as a nation, to choose whether to retreat, blindly retaliate, or stand defiant with wisdom and courage:
In the face of wickedness and evil in any context, do we hug the ground and find a corner into which to crawl and protect ourselves out of very rational and understandable fear? Do we panic and retaliate blindly and stupidly, out of anger and fear, another impulse that feeds wickedness and evil? Or if we are still able, do we choose to stand defiant, shake our fist into its face, and yell „Fight!“ and demonstrate what character and faith looks like as an example to all?
Fortunately, my longtime friend Tammy Bruce had already written at length on this very critical issue. Her new book, Fear Itself: Exposing the Left’s Mind-Killing Agenda, will get published next Tuesday, July 23rd. Normally, authors don’t start doing interviews until publication day, but Tammy agreed to give us a preview and to discuss her work in the context of what happened on Saturday.
I have embedded the video at the end, and have some highlights from an edited version of the transcript. Tammy explains the thesis well, but also its application — and why she thinks America is finally ready to shut down the Fear Industrial Complex.
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TAMMY: I’ve got my book right here. Fear itself, exposing the left’s mind killing agenda, which actually comes from the phrase mind killing comes from Herbert’s Dune. Which of course the youngsters watching this know from the films, but our generation read those books. And it was really, of course, a great deal about withstanding the issuance of fear and control of society by a massive government and really embracing our own selves when it comes to the nature of individualism and power.
