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The Brion McClanahan Show

The Brion McClanahan Show discusses history, politics, and society with the slogan, “Think Locally, Act Locally.”

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Episode 410: Lincoln's Mercenaries Mar 02, 2021

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Why did Union soldiers go to war in the 1860s? No one really asks this question. The focus is typically on the South, but if Southerners went to war to "fight for slavery" as the establishment likes to wrongly suggest, then shouldn't we find that Union soldiers went to war to fight against slavery? Nope. In fact, William Marvel contends that the majority of Union soldiers went to war to because they received a paycheck; hence, "Lincoln's Mercenaries." I discuss this revelation this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 409: The Myth of American History Mar 01, 2021

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What is a myth? To many Americans, a myth denotes a lie, a fairy tale that cannot be proven. Take for example the "Lost Cause" myth and how establishment historians use the term myth as a pejorative. But myths are the foundation of much of our historical consciousness, and a recent piece in The Smithsonian Magazine wants Americans to subscribe to a certain myth about American history, the Lincolnian myth. I discuss the prospect in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 408: The Original Intent of the Tenth Amendment Feb 25, 2021

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What did the authors of the Tenth Amendment intend it to do? We should just ask Samuel Adams who explained its meaning in February 1788. These are the most important documents on the Constitution because the men who ratified the document told us how it SHOULD be interpreted, not how some judge would late interpret the document. This is an important episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 407: The Thomas Dissent Feb 24, 2021

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Clarence Thomas dissented from a recent decision by the Supreme Court not to hear several challenges to the 2020 election from Pennsylvania. This is different than Texas challenging Pennsylvania in court, a topic I discussed in Episode 387. But was Thomas's dissent correct from an originalist position? I talk about the case, the dissent, and originalism in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 406: Beating Incorporation Feb 23, 2021

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The "incorporation doctrine" is one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century and completely obliterates the original understanding of the Constitution. But it can be defeated. All we have to do is listen to St. George Tucker. I discuss Tucker, incorporation, originalism, and a great essay in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 405: Cruz, Biden, and MarioKart Feb 22, 2021

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Joe Biden should play more MarioKart and Ted Cruz should have gone to Mexico. Why not? The more Biden is out of the executive office the fewer executive orders he can sign. Likewise, Ted Cruz had no role in the power failure in Texas and was not responsible for getting the lights back on or turning on the water. Going to Mexico created bad optics, but Cruz couldn't do anything about the situation and didn't need to stick around. Alexandria Ocascio-Cortez capitalized on the situation by raising money for people affected by the winter storms, but his was not something the general government had a role in solving, though you could make a case it had a role in creating. Either way, the less time a president or a congressman spends "working" the more liberty we will have. I discuss this in Episode 405 of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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Episode 404: Blue State Secession? Feb 17, 2021

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You know you are winning when so called "Blue States" want out of the Union. This would have been unheard of nearly a decade ago, but this week, the leftist publication The Nation ran an article calling for the "Blue States" to at least threaten secession. He doesn't really want it to happen, but the fact that progressives are talking about it is amazing, particularly because they control the general government.

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Episode 403: The Real Reason for Union Monuments Feb 17, 2021

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If Confederate Monuments were erected to honor white supremacy and slavery, then Union Monuments should have been built to honor abolition and egalitarianism. Except they weren't, as anyone who has studied them knows. This is a big piece to the puzzle. Both Union and Confederate monuments were constructed to honor the men who fought and died in the War and to remember the respective causes for which those men fought--the Union and Independence--as the inscriptions, written by the men who fought, typically note.

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Episode 402: Obama the Best President? Feb 15, 2021

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According to a poll from YouGov and The Economist, a plurality of respondents think Barack Obama is the best president in American history. This is stunning. Donald Trump was also ranked in the top five, which means most Americans don't know history beyond the last two decades. Sad, but true. Which is why you need this show. I talk about the poll and "President's Day" in this episode of the Brion McClanahan Show. Follow this link to get $51 off my American Presidents course at McClanahan Academy. https://mcclanahanacademy.com/p/the-american-presidents/?product_id=1712497&coupon_code=PD21&preview=logged_out

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Episode 401: The 2020 Political Conspiracy Feb 10, 2021

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You almost can't make up the hubris of the political left. No one holds them accountable, so they can be as corrupt (and stupid) as possible. Case in point, an article in Time Magazine that openly admits to a political conspiracy before the 2020 election in an effort to defeat Trump. The term is included in the title to the piece. What's funny, of course, is that the author suggests Trump had wild conspiracy theories while admitting to a political conspiracy. I cover the piece in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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