The host of The Rubin Report might have written a ebook detailing all the present assaults on the American lifestyle.
That might get loads of consideration, little question, particularly given Dave Rubin’s celebrated standing on the Proper.
As a substitute, Rubin delivered an unofficial proprietor’s handbook to being an American citizen within the Age of Woke.
“Don’t Burn This Nation,” the intelligent sequel to 2020’s “Don’t Burn This E-book,” affords sensible tricks to surviving in a topsy-turvy tradition. It’s additionally a handbook for restoring freedoms we might see slip away earlier than too lengthy.
Rubin spoke to Proper on Hollywood this week about his new tome, how the woke mob conquered America and why Jon Stewart disappoints his inside stand-up comedian.
The self-described “classical liberal” doesn’t cling to labels, however he says the trendy conservative motion represents a broad swath of the citizens.
They could disagree on hot-button points, however their alarm on the woke revolution unites them. That, he notes in each the ebook and his Proper on Hollywood chat, is a golden alternative. Heart-left souls and rock-ribbed Republicans should unite, and shortly, earlier than the woke revolution conquers much more cultural turf.
“By no means thoughts our variations on difficulty to difficulty … now we have to save lots of America first,“ Rubin stated.
The woke mindset, Rubin added, is the “most anti-human political motion that has existed in our lifetimes. That’s what we’re up in opposition to.”
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“Don’t Burn This Nation” affords a pithy, however highly effective, popular culture throwback as an example his factors. Bear in mind the 1979 traditional “Alien,” the place the ship’s medical officer turned out to be an android working for the corporate behind the mission? Actor Ian Holm’s character admired the creature slaughtering crew members one after the other. It was relentless, a pure life pressure that wouldn’t cease till it ravaged the ship.
The woke, Rubin writes within the ebook, provide a equally aggressive method. There’s a lesson to be gleaned from the comparability.
“It’s important to give the satan its due,” Rubin stated. “They’ve finished rather a lot, and it’s been a number of dangerous. Till you acknowledge that, you possibly can’t battle it correctly.”
He additionally defined how they moved up to now, so quick.
“They obtained in utilizing liberalism in opposition to itself … screaming liberal slogans, however louder,” he stated. The sober liberals noticed this new, aggressive method as sexier, simpler, a minimum of at first.
“In the event you put tolerance above all else, you’ll begin tolerating intolerance,” he stated. “That’s what occurred to the trendy liberal occasion.”
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Rubin applauded liberals like Glenn Greenwald who’ve caught to their core ideas because the Left moved into the woke camp, though in Greenwald’s case the Rubin Report host has a bone to select.
“It is a man who principally referred to as me a racist on a regular basis 5 years in the past, and now he repeats all of the issues I’m saying,” Rubin stated.
Rubin isn’t only a celebrated writer and speak present host. He’s been working the stand-up circuit for years, which provides him a particular perception into comedy’s woke downside.
Fellow comedians like Ricky Gervais, Invoice Maher, Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan “all sound like conservatives today …they’re defending liberal ideas,” he stated.
Others, like Marc Maron and Stephen Colbert, both embrace Cancel Tradition or deny it’s an issue for his or her group.
Which brings Rubin to Jon Stewart, who the writer dubs the “most disappointing” of contemporary woke comics. Stewart’s new Apple TV+ present, “The Drawback with Jon Stewart,” absolutely embraced identification politics in latest weeks.
“Jon Stewart is aware of he’s a center aged, super-rich white man… He’s principally in a hostage scenario together with his personal viewers,” Rubin stated of his woke followers. “His day is finished. That’s nice. You have been related for some time. It’s what it’s.”
Rubin applauds Maher’s latest assaults on the woke mindset however isn’t offered on how devoted he’s to eradicating the issue.
“Invoice Maher is a bit more wise, however till he’s keen to vote the appropriate means or cease calling all of the Republicans racists then he’s not fairly there, both,” he stated.
Take heed to the total interview right here, and please choose up Rubin’s “Don’t Burn This Nation.“
