THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY

#032 | No Country For Bold Men Jan 09, 2023

In this season's final episode of THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY, Paige discusses the risks to the GOP of continuing to behave as the noncommittal “party of nothingness.” She attributes some of their disappointments at the ballot box to defective strategy, including notable failures to differentiate themselves from the dysfunctional status quo and the entrenched, unpopular political establishment.

Paige presents a series of essential policy priorities the GOP must embrace to escape special interest capture and campaign and govern as the credible champions of the American people.

SHOW NOTES

Paige Willey in the American Mind: "No Country For Bold Men"

#031 | How To Take On The Political Establishment As An Outsider (Featuring Former U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann) Dec 19, 2022

Paige interviews former United States Congresswoman Michele Bachmann about the nation’s discontent that led to the rise of the Tea Party movement, media hostility toward disruptive outsider candidates who challenge the Washington establishment, and her path from concerned Minnesota parent to major leader of the nationwide grassroots conservative movement.

#030 | Problems Facing The American Worker And What To Do About Them (Featuring Oren Cass) Dec 12, 2022

Paige interviews Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass and author of “The Once And Future Worker,” about the problems facing American workers and families, and the benefits and drawbacks of different policy solutions.

Show Notes:

“The Once and Future Worker” by Oren Cass: https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-once-and-future-worker/

“Where’s The Growth?” Economic Analysis by American Compass: https://americancompass.org/wheres-the-growth/

#029 | The Man Behind The Curtain (Featuring Matt Palumbo) Dec 12, 2022

Paige interviews Matt Palumbo, author of “The Man Behind The Curtain” for a discussion of George Soros’ political activity and influence, including policies worsening crime, violence, and illegal immigration.

#028 | The Falsification of US History, The Ruination Of California, And The Consequences of Globalization (Featuring Victor Davis Hanson) Nov 21, 2022

Paige interviews historian and author Victor Davis Hanson about the difficulties of achieving historical consensus in the era of a propaganda press, the policies that triggered the transformation of “Mexifornia,” and more far-reaching threads running through American politics. SHOW NOTES https://www.city-journal.org/html/do-we-want-mexifornia-12236.html https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/mexico-what-went-wrong-economy-based-on-exporting-poor-people/

#027 | What It Takes: The Mechanics Of Winning And Losing (Midterm Post-Mortem Analysis) Nov 15, 2022

Paige reviews the underappreciated structural factors and predictable messaging failures that explain GOP underperformance in the midterm elections. These issues all must be addressed for Republicans to perform adequately in the future, but long-standing complacency and malpractice by the GOP party apparatus shows they do not appreciate or understand what it takes to win.

SHOW NOTES Paige’s Post-Mortem Election Analysis on Substack: https://thisisyourcountry.substack.com/p/post-mortem-the-mechanics-of-winning

#026 | Midterm Special: How To Protect American Elections (Featuring Mollie Hemingway) Nov 07, 2022

Paige interviews Mollie Hemingway about past and continued threats to election integrity including an unscrupulous intelligence bureaucracy, electioneering disguised as “charitable giving,” the hyperpartisan role of the media and big tech, and more.

#025 | How The Government Deprives Voters Of A Voice On Immigration Policy (Featuring Pedro Gonzalez) Oct 24, 2022

Paige interviews Chronicles Magazine senior writer and associate editor Pedro Gonzalez about the specific developments used to put immigration policy out of reach of voter recourse for decades, despite growing costs and difficulties for taxpayers, states, and localities across the nation.

This episode reviews the critical decision points in the past half-century of immigration policies including the 1986 Immigration and Control Act, Plyler v. Doe, and California’s 1994 Prop. 187 and more.

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#024 | How Ideology Is Compromising Medicine & Healthcare, And What To Do About It (Featuring Dr. Stanley Goldfarb) Oct 17, 2022

Paige interviews Dr. Stanley Goldfarb about the growing trend of "anti-racism" ideology and "medical reparations" activism compromising education in medical schools and undermining healthcare, and the efforts by his organization "Do No Harm" to fight back in court against the destructive, discriminatory practices. Show Notes:

New York’s Race-Based Preferential COVID Treatment

Vermont To Give Minority Residents Vaccine Priority

“It’s Time To Scrap The MCAT: Why Doing Away With The Test Would Be One Step Toward Improving Diversity In Medicine.”

Boston-Area Hospital To Offer Preferential Care Based on Race

University of Minnesota medical students swear an oath to "honor all indigenous ways of healing"

"Keep Politics Out Of The Doctor's Office" by Stanley Goldfarb

NY Post: UPenn Doctor: "Anti-Racist" Policies Are Wrecking American Medicine

Do No Harm

#023 | Chasm Of Horrors: Jorge Ventura Reports On The US Southern Border Oct 10, 2022

While Biden’s open borders doctrine is portrayed as a humanitarian imperative, Jorge Ventura’s reporting on the front lines reveals the horrors: tiny towns overwhelmed with dead bodies, low-income counties exploited for scarce public services, and an endless pipeline for drug smuggling and human trafficking.

#022 | How America Was Taken Hostage By Doctrines Of Legal Discrimination (Featuring Richard Hanania) Sep 26, 2022

Paige interviews Richard Hanania about his data-driven research across numerous topics including affirmative action, the weaponization of mandated "diversity," corruption and ineptitude in American foreign policy, the tyranny of politicized experts, and his recent self-imposed exile from Twitter in protest of the company’s censorship policy.

Show Notes:

Affirmative Action As A Magic Bullet: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-as-a-magic-bullet

How Reagan Almost Crushed Wokeness: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-as-a-magic-bullet

Woke Institutions Is Just Civil Rights Law: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights

‘Just Trust The Experts,” We’re Told. Maybe We Shouldn’t: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/opinion/afghanistan-experts-expertise.html

Follow Richard Hanania:

-Substack: https://richardhanania.substack.com/

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Follow Paige Willey:

-Substack: https://thisisyourcountry.substack.com/

-Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/midwesterneur

#021 | How To Revive America From Managed Decline & ”Palliative Liberalism” (Featuring Daniel McCarthy) Sep 12, 2022

What do you call it when a country’s leaders write off whole segments of voters as unworthy of representation, relegating them to welfare dependency, drug use, or political exile? Modern Age Editor Daniel McCarthy calls it "palliative liberalism:" pushing superficial "compassionate" solutions to relieve pain (and reduce backlash) without addressing the cause of the condition. Eventually, this doctrine can succeed in disenfranchising and eliminating political resistance altogether.

In this interview, Paige and Dan discuss urgent priorities for the conservative movement to counter the decline, including fitting advantageous “culture war” issues into a more substantial policy agenda, reviving traditional American standards of self governance, and more effectively building on Trump-movement populism.

SHOW NOTES:

The Conservative Affirmation, with foreword by Daniel McCarthy: https://www.regnery.com/9781684513864/the-conservative-affirmation/

"A New Conservative Agenda" by Daniel McCarthy: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda

Canada's Euthanasia Policies: https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/disturbing-experts-troubled-by-canadas-euthanasia-laws/

"Harm Reduction" Policies: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/health/overdose-harm-reduction-covid.html

Washington Post Says "Systemic Racism" To Blame in Jackson, Miss. Water Crisis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/04/jackson-water-crisis/

#020 | Perverse Incentives: How The Government Worsened The Opioid Crisis & More (Featuring Casey Mulligan) Sep 02, 2022

This interview with Former White House CEA Chief Economist Casey Mulligan explores a number of problems created by poorly designed government policy, ranging from publicly-subsidized prescription opioids worsening narcotic addictions and death, to regulation that helps powerful special interests squeeze out competition. The conversation touches on perverse incentives affecting our trade, energy, immigration, and welfare policy, leading to dysfunctional outcomes for the American people. This is the second in a series of interviews that Paige will conduct with policy experts who break from the traditional Washington orthodoxy and who offer a variety of solutions that we can consider to revive our country's prosperity and promise. SHOW NOTES

#019 | How Globalization Ate The American Economy (Featuring Clyde Prestowitz) Aug 26, 2022

“Free trade” globalism is one of the most consequential ideologies of the past century—and a marked departure from the policies that enabled America’s astounding surge in prosperity and industrial accomplishment from the country’s founding to WWII. How did globalization come to dominate U.S. economic policy? Why did its influence persist despite catastrophic harm to our labor force, industrial base, and international competitiveness? How can we restore pro-American policy in Washington? Paige interviews former U.S. trade negotiator, presidential advisor, and best-selling author Clyde Prestowitz about his book, “The Betrayal of American Prosperity,” and his front-row seat to history as Washington’s commitment to the “religion of globalization” intensified. This is the first in a series of interviews that Paige will conduct with policy experts who break from the traditional Washington orthodoxy and who offer a variety of solutions that we can consider to revive our country's prosperity and promise.

#018 | The America Last Establishment Attempts To Co-Opt MAGA Rhetoric Aug 08, 2022

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Aiming to stave off political backlash, entrenched America Last institutions are cynically co-opting "America First" rhetoric after years of discrediting the MAGA agenda.

Reviving American industry and formulating tougher policies against China are popular with voters, but at odds with the political establishment’s longstanding doctrine of destructive globalism. This episode documents the Swamp’s recent attempts to deceive the public with a "tough on China" rhetorical pivot while maintaining policies that undercut American prosperity.

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#017 | The Biden Doctrine: Human Sacrifices for Open Borders Jul 22, 2022

The recent story of a young Ohio girl—a rape victim who received an abortion—has taken on a new horrifying dimension. The revelation that the alleged rapist is an illegal immigrant now raises questions about how far the Biden administration and their allies are willing to go to protect the open borders experiment from scrutiny and accountability, no matter the human toll. This episode explores the government's deliberate immigration policies that enable and protect criminal behavior, victimizing both American citizens and new arrivals. Show Notes:

#016 | Real Independence Jul 08, 2022

Globalism and its attendant foreign entanglements, ideological experiments, and perverse policy demands have so grievously compromised U.S. leaders that our government often knowingly acts against the interests of the nation and its people.

This episode draws direct comparisons between the policies weakening our country today and causes the Founding Fathers considered perilous to the nation when they declared independence from Great Britain and designed our government.

Citing iconic and poignant wisdom from Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay, and Washington, this episode proves our country must look to its roots to rediscover the meaning of true independence—this time liberating itself from America's extractive class of misery profiteers.

#015 | Dealing With The Degradation Of Air Travel Jul 01, 2022

Washington is able to get together on all kinds of “bipartisan” issues as payouts for special interests, but can never tackle quality of life issues for the average voter. Paige makes the case for the GOP to investigate and address the abuses and humiliations Americans suffer at the hands of TSA and the exploitative publicly subsidized major airlines. Links to show notes:

#014 | How Business Lobbies Support Illegal Immigration Jun 24, 2022

Profiting from open borders is not just for the activist left. This episode explores the role of powerful business lobbies and the establishment wing of the GOP in supporting and justifying illegal immigration.

#013 | Criminalizing Dissent Jun 17, 2022

Disturbing evidence shows how government power is being abused under the pretext of January 6th to criminalize dissent and neutralize Democrats’ political opposition. The GOP must demonstrate how the January 6th narrative, persecutions, and show trials gravely threaten the rights of all Americans. Links to show notes:

#012 | Open Borders Extremists Jun 09, 2022

This episode discusses the common myths and lies told by open borders extremists to silence debate about the effects of our dysfunctional immigration policy. Instead of smearing skeptics, our leaders should fix policies that are hurting people.

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#011 | Open Borders = Exploitation, Not Compassion May 26, 2022

It is irrefutably true that the United States government replaces its obligation to the interests of the American people with ever-expanding commitments to global causes and fealty to powerful Washington swamp factions and lobbies. The most concerning way in which they do this is with policy designed to maximize immigration, no matter the cost, downside, or destructive consequences to the people of this country. This episode explores the government's shockingly exploitative, unjust, and cruel immigration policy that harms American citizens and even the new arrivals under the guise of compassion and humanitarianism. Illustrating the depths of the depravity, this episode features a discovery Paige made that the government resettles the most unaccompanied illegal immigrant children in areas of the country where industries that seek cheap foreign labor, such as meatpacking plants, are located. Links to the show notes: https://im1776.com/2022/05/17/renaud-camus-interview/ https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/15/16141456/renaud-camus-the-great-replacement-you-will-not-replace-us-charlottesville-white https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/immigrant-kids-fill-this-towns-schools-their-bus-driver-resents-the-system-that-brought-them-here/2019/09/22/861c0fb4-d321-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html https://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/246960-hhs-expands-protections-for-unaccompanied-children-immigrants/ https://www.axios.com/2021/09/01/migrant-children-biden-administration https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/20/meat-plant-pork-close/

#010 | The Ukraine Charade May 13, 2022

This episode tracks well-documented yet rarely discussed evidence that Biden’s inept diplomacy and commitment to outdated, delusional globalist fantasies played a central role in provoking the conflict in Ukraine.

Now, Biden’s failures are sleepwalking us toward disaster. The media and Congress have not countered the Ukraine narrative he has falsified to the American people. Instead, much of Congress participates in the farce, wasting American resources and damaging our credibility. Worse, they are potentially prolonging and inflaming the suffering in Ukraine instead of compelling Biden to negotiate a truce.

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#009 | “Our Democracy” May 02, 2022

Our leaders eagerly undermine our country and its people while speaking reverently of “our democracy.” What do they mean by this?

Primarily: their increasingly concentrated and unaccountable power and influence, and the efforts they must undertake to protect this arrangement despite the public’s growing discontent. As such, this episode studies the desperate and frenzied reactions to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the prospect of President Trump’s return to politics.

This episode also zeroes in on a key liability for the GOP in 2022 and 2024: embittered, unpopular establishment Republicans seeking vengeance against President Trump and his voters for relegating them to eternal irrelevance.

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#008 | The Media Playbook Against Populism Apr 25, 2022

Ruling institutions work to discredit and ultimately silence candidates who are disruptive to the status quo.

This episode explores several case studies of the media running a predictable playbook against populist GOP candidates. In targeting these candidates and their causes, their true aim is to deprive many American voters of representation in Washington.

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#007 | This Is Your Country On Drugs Apr 11, 2022

Fentanyl now kills more Americans under age 45 than car accidents, suicide, COVID, or cancer. Some leaders' responses--claiming the mantle of compassion--are enabling this crisis and creating more suffering and death. This episode explores the human toll of the Biden Administration's doubling down on frivolous, wasteful, and sadistic "harm reduction" policies instead of meaningful, humane solutions to the nation's fentanyl epidemic. Links to the show notes:

#006 | A Government Against Its Own People Apr 04, 2022

Inspired by our leaders' fixation on Ukraine while our own homeland falls apart, this episode explores a defining question of our era: whose interests are being advanced by our government despite obvious contradictions to the welfare of the American people? This episode explores shocking case studies of government policy working against the interests of our citizens, ranging from Biden's sustained and deliberate effort to open our borders to the government's major role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis, and more.

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#005 | Low Energy Joe Mar 14, 2022

The media and big tech enjoy the privilege of interfering in elections without consequences through their control over public discourse. This episode explores their efforts during the 2020 campaign season to disguise Joe Biden’s decades of failure in Washington and obfuscate his true policy stances on substantial issues—including foreign policy and energy. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost as the populace contends with the consequences of his regime of managed decline.

Links to the show notes:

NYT Gets Nervous: “Democrats’ 2020 Problem: How to be Tougher on Trade Than Trump”: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/politics/democrats-trade-trump.html
WSJ Op-Ed: “End the Media’s Campaign Privilege”: https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-the-medias-campaign-privilege-11567551611
Expert Senate Testimony on Google’s 2016 Election Bias: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Testimony.pdf
NYT Puff Piece from 2020 on Biden’s Alleged Foreign Policy Prowess: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/politics/joe-biden-foreign-policy.amp.html

#004 | Ultimate Matchup: Globalism vs Sovereignty Mar 06, 2022

The 2016 election was a national backlash to the destruction wrought by globalism. This kicked off a feverish effort by elites to discredit patriotism and the cause of our own country, advocating instead for worship of government, bureaucracy, and global institutions.

In this episode, Paige shares a stunning revelation from Anthony Fauci’s performance during a White House Task Force meeting that illustrates how seriously globalism harms the American public. Devotion to globalism also harms American credibility, as heard in clips contrasting Biden staffers’ frivolous platitudes with Trump’s no-nonsense rhetoric.

This evidence-packed episode lays out numerous shocking case studies. Americans must decide which will rule our future: globalism or sovereignty?

Links to the show notes:

Media uses “studies” to dismiss Trump voters as "racist"
Media advocates worship of bureaucrats such as Fauci
Media idolizes Vindman for spying on POTUS
Biden restores WHO funding on Day 1 despite Fauci admitting Tedros compromised by China
Frivolous rhetoric from Biden staffers: Ned Price, Anthony Blinken, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Jen Psaki
No-nonsense rhetoric from Trump: We Have No Country If We Have No Border, On Threats from North Korea
Clinton adviser admits NAFTA didn’t work
Mayorkas’ abuse of visa process for rich, well-connected foreigners during Obama DHS tenure
Spencer Brown: DHS changed mission statement for key immigration agency
Todd Bensman: United Nations Grantee Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration
John Boehner’s pathetic exit a warning against GOP weakness

#003 | 1 Billion West Virginians Mar 01, 2022

Paige explores ruling institutions' hostility to rural Americans and red states, and lessons to be drawn from President Trump's 2016 campaign successfully reaching underserved parts of the nation and giving them a voice. Special segments include:

The Well-Oiled Regime: Failures to represent rural America are intensified by pernicious special interest groups and warped priorities, ranging from the government-facilitated reliance on cheap foreign labor to the revolving door between the DEA and the pharmaceutical industry worsening the opioid epidemic and politicians privileging lucrative global causes over duties to our own citizens.
With Friends Like These: A case study of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and his unfortunate struggle to prioritize his own voters' welfare.

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#002 | The Politics of Demoralization Feb 21, 2022

From education to basic law and order, many domains of public life have been degraded due to neglect or deliberate government policy. Instead of offering meaningful solutions to reverse the decline, the party in power seeks to compel Americans to accept worse and demand less of their leaders. This is the politics of demoralization.

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#001 | A Strange Time in America Feb 14, 2022

Americans are suffering the consequences of failed leadership. Those in charge—blessed with the opportunity to take this nation to new heights of prosperity and achievement—have treated it so poorly. The interests of the American people go unrepresented in Washington at great detriment to our country and its future.

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