In this monologue, Dennis Prager critiques a recent Atlantic article by Shadi Hamid titled “America Without God.” Prager argues that Hamid and the broader left mischaracterize Trump supporters and conservatives, portraying them as blood‑and‑soil ethno‑nationalists, while ignoring the positive aspects of the right. Prager defends the historical intertwining of Christianity with American self‑definition, emphasizing Christmas as a unifying cultural touchstone that the left has allegedly “crapped on” by replacing it with generic “holiday” language. He accuses leftists of habitual lying, citing the recent claim that the left called for defunding the police, which he says is false. Prager reiterates the idea that America is defined by an abstract set of ideas rather than ethnicity, using an anecdote about an American living in Germany who remains “American” despite cultural assimilation, contrasted with a German immigrant in the U.S. who is quickly labeled “German.” He concludes with a promotional plug for the supplement ReliefFactor. The overall tone is polemical, conversational, and strongly supportive of conservative viewpoints while sharply critical of liberal narratives.
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But what I find most interesting is his observations about the right and how he has identical views of the right and Trump supporters as any leftist does. The only difference is he also sees the left as profoundly flawed. And it's fascinating to read it, that yes, we who supported Donald Trump were into blood-and-soil ethno-nationalism. It's amazing. He would certainly not be able to account for me and for the vast number of people that, relatively speaking for an individual, that I know, some of the finest, most open human beings. As I said for much of my life, if you are black and you feel a little unloved, just go to a Trump rally. Or go to any conservative or any Republican event. You will get more love than you will the rest of the year all put together. But we're blood and soil ethno-nationalists. All right, so I have, I've read to you that part. There's, there's some more here that is very important though, actually, in this article. The man's name is Hamid. I assume he is— I'm not assuming— he is of Middle East extraction. Shadi Hamid, H-A-M-I-D. America Without God, that is the name of the piece. So obviously anything like that I read, especially if it's in The Atlantic. And, uh, he, he observes correctly Though the United States wasn't founded as a Christian nation, Christianity was always intertwined with America's self-definition. Without it, Americans, conservatives and liberals alike, no longer have a common culture upon which to fall back. That's what Christmas served as. It's a Jew who wrote— in fact, Jews. I was thinking a Jew who wrote God Bless America, but Jews wrote half of the most popular Christmas song. I mean, statistically, this is not— it's just a fact. And even though it was not their religious holiday, it was their national holiday. Christmas was a unifying thing for Americans till the left crapped on Christmas and changed Christmas party to holiday party and Christmas vacation to holiday vacation. And Merry Christmas to happy holidays. And then, as usual, they deny they did it, just like now they deny that they ever called for the defunding of police. Every leftist lies or they wouldn't be a leftist. Liberals lie and tell truth. Conservatives lie and tell truth. But leftists all lie. They lie with the ease with which they speak. We Make war on Christmas? How laughable. We called for the defunding of police? What, are you out of your minds? I read to you that last week. That's the new thing. We never said defund the police. Yeah, that's right. We changed everything with the word Christmas into holiday, but hey, there's no war on Christmas. And people believe it. For better and worse, the United States really is one of a kind. And he speaks about America, as I have often, is based on an idea. It's the point. It's not an ethnic country. It's an idea. You have the American idea, you are American. That's the way it is. We don't care about your ethnicity, believe it or not. So he gives an example. Listen to this. This is in support, whether he knew it or not, of us conservatives. An American who moves to Germany, lives there for years, and learns the language remains an American. If America is a civil religion, which it is, it would make sense that it stays with you unless you renounce it. As Jeff Gedman, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, described it to me, quote, you can eat strudel, speak fluent German, adapt to local culture, but many will still say of you, "Er hat einen deutschen Pass." He has a German passport. That's not the same as being German. No one starts calling you German. End of quote. But if a German moves to America, doesn't even speak English fluently, but becomes an American, we think of the person as American. There is no other country where you were thought of as that country, not as a citizen, but as a fellow American. We are the last best hope. ReliefFactor.com. Phone number is 800-583-84. Relief Factor is an amazing supplement. Can't say— I don't want to say drug. It's over-the-counter, obviously. Keep taking it as I have for years.
