- Right now, fear, and lies, and distrust is more effective at gaining power than truth.

There's gonna be a point at which this country realizes lies and distrust will destroy us.

I don't know the broad answer to how to fix it.

I'd be implementing it if I did.

I know that I'm responsible to tell truth.

That's the only thing I'm called to do in this job is to tell people truth, and that's gonna be a battle.

You know, you talk about the impact of that day, but you guys won.

You guys held.

You know democracies are not defined by our bad days, we're defined by how we come back from bad days.

How we take accountability for that.

I think the word patriot has been so perverted, particularly since January 6th, a patriot is somebody that's tearing up the capitol, no.

For me, patriotism is somebody that believes in the fundamental basics of democracy and the republic, and will defend it and defend the rights of people they disagree with.

And I still think of the patriotic side of Don't Tread on Me as Americans standing up against, you know, tyranny, real tyranny.