and i like her the outside view just like alexis de tocqueville was able to look at america with such clear eyes and see all of our problems and all of the greatness of this democracy the fact that she said we've never been free. here there was a shooting take was a. show has been a mission to space. the constitution for a mission for free speech so spent for a mission speech and she contrast that with bitcoin which is permission to list so what is that what does that mean to you like or does it where does that leave oh right now to post anything on facebook requires the atlantic council to approve of your post the atlantic council is a think tank funded by the u.s. state department various bodies of the u.s. department of defense the united arab emirates which is mainly also from funneling funds from that saudi arabia so saudi arabia the guy who is chopping. journalists and then dispersing their body throughout istanbul thank god i get to decide whether your thoughts are legitimate and whether your thoughts can advance the notion of democracy and liberty in america. i don't want that

time in recent weeks rereading the great book "democracy in america" written by alexcih de tocqueville. -- by alexis de tocqueville. and while historians disagreement with de tocqueville ever said it, he's credited with having said that the reason america is a great nation is because the american people are good people. he concluded that if the american people ever cease to be good, america will cease to be great. and the fact of the matter is, this shutting down the government, not paying public servants, not giving vital services to people and communities who need them, is demonstrative of the fact that americans are losing their goodness. let's not do that, it will cause the greatness of this nation to be brought into danger. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from washington, mr. newhouse. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. newhouse: i thank the lady, my friend from texas, for yielding. madam speaker, i rise on this first d

alexis de tocqueville, aristotle other times, as best as anybody can tell, come from op-ed in the daily oklahoma man man in the 1, by a retired state legislator. democracies get in trouble, leave aside the extreme scenarios of the 1930s, people with assets, become convinced letting everybody vote they will lose the assets. way democracies survive, small price they have to pay to keep their assets is worth it. the greatest stability of a democratic system. and what is happening in the united states right now, is that, asset holders are frequented out. obama, depression, recession freaked them out. obama freaked them out. they thought, my god, this kenyan miss lump will take everything from -- muslim will take everything from me and few hundred billion dollars to rub in my pants. in order to defend what they had, they became open to more radical solutions. >> host: you, in your concentric circles of enablers who talked about conservative intellectuals who accommodated themselves to trump, what has the rise of donald trump done to conservative thought? there's a recent essay in the "washin

and when alexis de tocqueville visited during the jacksonian era, he came away with three impressions of what made the united states so unusual then and i believe today. in the first was the religiosity of the americans, how many churches he saw. how many houses of worship he saw. the second was the american capacity and indeed passion for voluntary association, our civil society. i think this might be related to jake's second unique attribute, which is our can-do spirit. but it is an important aspect of that. and third of course, and this is just indeed debatable whether the distinctions still hold, but it was our equality of condition. that americans were broad-based middle-class, the land was plentiful. that there was no pre-magenta work, there was not aristocracy, and it was not hereditary it was based on property. but this was all the things that made us unique and exceptional. so, jake correctly identifies that our nation is founded on the basis of certain ideas. but i think it's important to also recognize that just as important as these ideas to the founders were the instituti

when alexis de tocqueville visited during the jacksonen yan era. he came away with three impressions of what made the united states so unusual then. and i believe today. and the first was the religionty of the americans, how many churches and houses of worship he saw. the second was the american capacity and indeed passion for voluntary association our civil society. this might be related to jake's second unique attribute which is the can do spirit. but it's an important aspect of that. and third chk -- and this is it is debatable whether this distinction still holds. but it was our equality of condition, that americans were broad based middle class, the land was plentiful. there was no prima jenn tour. it was not aristocracy. this made us exceptional. jake correctly identifies our nation is founded on the basis of ideas. but it's important to also recognize that just as important as these ideas to the found erps were the institutions any created to substantiate them. it's not just the ideas making us exceptional. within. and we marry a lot in the

time in recent weeks rereading the great book "democracy in america" written by alexcih de tocqueville. -- by alexis de tocqueville. and while historians disagreement with de tocqueville ever said it, he's credited with having said that the reason america is a great nation is because the american people are good people. he concluded that if the american people ever cease to be good, america will cease to be great. and the fact of the matter is, this shutting down the government, not paying public servants, not giving vital services to people and communities who need them, is demonstrative of the fact that americans are losing their goodness. let's not do that, it will cause the greatness of this nation to be brought into danger. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from washington, mr. newhouse. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. newhouse: i thank the lady, my friend from texas, for yielding. madam speaker, i rise on this first d