People need to understand this.

Leftism, as opposed to liberalism or conservatism,

is always tyrannical.

This is the Daily Smoke Podcast for Thursday, May 25th.

I'm Virginia Allen, and that was Dennis Prager.

The Daily Smoke's Tyler O'Neill had the chance to sit down with Prager

at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.

According to Prager, the American left's tendency

to enforce its ideological speech codes reminds him

of the Soviet opposition of Jews that he studied in his youth.

He calls this phenomenon totalitarian and nightmarish.

Prager says, you can ask almost any person who lived in a communist country

and they will say to you, I can't believe

what I fled is now happening in America.

Stay tuned for Tyler's conversation with Dennis Prager after this.

Americans use firearms to defend themselves

between 500,000 and 2 million times every year.

But God forbid that my mother is a refaced with a scenario

where she has to stop a threat to her life.

But if she is, I hope politicians protected

by professional armed security didn't strip her of the right

to use the firearms she can handle most competently.

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