Walker Wildmon: Welcome to At the Core here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon here with you on this edition of the program. I'm in for my good friend Rick Green today. He's typically with you on Thursdays and Tuesdays, but he was unavailable today, so I raised my hand and said I'd be glad to do it. This afternoon, we're going to be recording tomorrow's program of At the Core, so tune in tomorrow as well and you'll get our next episode tomorrow afternoon from one to two Central. Walker Wildmon: Once again, it's good to be with you today on the program. I'm Walker Wildmon. This is the American Family Radio Network. You can download the AFR app or visit AFR.net to listen to our content live and also listen to past episodes of not just this program, but all the main programs that you hear throughout the day on AFR. You can get all of those podcasts over at AFR.net or on the AFR app. Walker Wildmon: We would greatly appreciate it if you specifically subscribed to this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll queue up the latest episode in your library each and every afternoon for your convenience, and you can share it with family and friends. We hope you do. Walker Wildmon: Let's turn our attention to Scripture, and then we'll turn to other items that we're going to talk about today on the program. I've been speaking about Acts chapter 26 this week and finding a little bit of humor in how Festus responds to Paul's defense of the faith, his conversion, and his faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Walker Wildmon: Festus says in verse 24 of chapter 26 in Acts, "Paul, you are beside yourself. Much learning is driving you mad." Then, of course, in verse 25, Paul says, "No, I'm not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and reason." Walker Wildmon: Two things here. The first one that's interesting is that this phrase, "being beside yourself," originates here in Acts chapter 26. But secondly, this accusation that Christians are crazy or are off our rocker, in this instance Festus accuses Paul of basically learning too much, reading too much, and being too knowledgeable. The same accusations that were lobbed at the early church are still lobbed at Christians today, whether it's being called outright crazy. Walker Wildmon: "I can't believe you believe in someone being risen from the dead. I can't believe that you believe in a literal six-day creation account." I could go on and on about how the world looks at the faith and belief system of Christians. Though, out of all the worldviews and belief systems in the world, the Christian belief system actually makes the most sense on paper when you add it all up. Walker Wildmon: Nonetheless, the unbelieving world looks at us and thinks that we're just the crazy folks. We're off our rocker. We're beside ourselves. That's part of being blinded. That's part of not being a believer, having this animosity, if you will, toward people of faith. That's what Jesus warns us about when he says, "You'll be hated because of me." Walker Wildmon: Here Paul is being treated some of the same ways that we're treated today and being dismissed. The problems and challenges that Christians face today are not new to the church. Paul and others faced very similar challenges, and we can see that here in Acts chapter 26. Walker Wildmon: I want to remind you of our Christmas shoebox campaign. We're partnering with Operation Christmas Child on this. National Collection Week is next week, November 16th through the 23rd. If you haven't packed your shoebox, go ahead and pack it. If, for some reason, you can't pack a shoebox, you can go over to SamaritansPurse.org/OCC and donate, and they'll build a box for you. Whether you build a box yourself or donate to Samaritan's Purse to build one for you, either way, you can participate. Walker Wildmon: Jumping into the topic I want to talk about this segment, I'm viewing what is somewhat of an abandonment by the Republican Party of people of faith, specifically evangelical Christians. This abandonment is not a whole sellout. It's not a complete abandonment, but at a minimum, it's a partial abandonment of the evangelical Christian voting bloc that makes up a large portion of the Republican Party. Walker Wildmon: Looking back on the midterm results, I'm not going to try to claim that the only reason Republicans lost is because of what I'm talking about here, because I don't think that would be accurate. But I think it definitely played a part in the results, including the watered-down turnout among the Christian voting bloc in the midterm election. I'll explain specifically what I'm talking about, give a few examples, and then we'll talk about what I think the conservative movement and the Republican Party more broadly need to do to win over and win back many evangelical Christians around the country who have just been disappointed by the Republican Party. Walker Wildmon: This internal struggle within the conservative movement and the Republican Party, which are not necessarily the same thing, although there's a lot of overlap, has been going on for some time, even going back to the Bush administration in the early 2000s. There was this push to neutralize, if you will, the evangelical lobbying arm and tell us, "You guys just need to calm down. We don't need to focus on this marriage thing. It's not a problem." It turned out it was a problem, and it came back to haunt us. Walker Wildmon: This struggle is not new. It's been around for several decades, but I'll give you a couple of modern examples of how evangelical Christians have been stiff-armed by the Republican Party. In 2024, there was a struggle and a fight over the Republican Party platform. Prior to 2024, the Republican Party platform was very good, to be honest. It aligned biblically with the core tenets of the Christian faith, and people of faith felt very good about it. Walker Wildmon: As a matter of fact, the 2016 Republican Party platform was arguably one of the best ever in the Republican Party's history when it comes to the issues that Christians care about. But in 2024, the Republican Party and the Trump campaign decided to take a different path. They decided to take a path toward more ambiguity, fewer specifics, and less definitive stances on issues involving marriage and family, abortion, and other matters. Walker Wildmon: The first issue that the Republican Party platform went soft on was marriage. A report on the 2024 platform discussions said that the Republican Party's 2024 platform had notably softened the party's stance on marriage, pulling back from earlier language that affirmed the traditional definition of marriage and announced the Supreme Court's earlier rulings on the matter. Walker Wildmon: In its 2016 platform, the GOP had defended traditional marriage and family, which it said was based on marriage between one man and one woman and constituted the foundation for a free society. The 2016 platform directly criticized the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor, which said that the federal government could not treat state-sanctioned same-sex marriages differently from traditional heterosexual marriages. The platform also condemned the landmark 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Walker Wildmon: According to the 2016 party platform, the Obergefell ruling robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. The party did not release an updated platform in 2020. However, in its 2024 platform, the GOP significantly dialed back its language on marriage, mentioning it only briefly while vowing to empower American families. Walker Wildmon: How vague can you be? "Republicans will promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundation and role of families, and supports working parents." The platform said, "We will end policies that punish families," and that's it. Nothing about one man and one woman, and nothing about God being the author of the marriage institution. That's one area in which the Republican Party softened its platform in 2024. Walker Wildmon: The second area is abortion. This is very important. On the topic of abortion, the Republican National Committee, in updating its 2024 platform, went away from calling for a nationwide abortion ban. Walker Wildmon: The problem here, folks, is that in an attempt to win over independent voters or Democratic voters, which is a pragmatic, more political approach, you are denying fundamental scientific, biological, biblical, and historical truths. It's one thing to take a more pragmatic and political approach to what I would call tertiary issues, noncentral issues of the Christian faith. Walker Wildmon: But when you go weak, when you go soft, when you abandon core, fundamental tenets of the Christian faith, reality, and truth for the advantage of political gain, the long-term consequences far outweigh any short-term gain you would get politically. Walker Wildmon: For every voter you claim to pick up by watering down the Republican Party platform, think about how many Christian voters are now staying at home. As we look back at the midterms and forward to 2027, 2028, and beyond, the Republican Party needs to retether itself to the fundamentals of the Christian faith, which was also the faith of our Founding Fathers and helped set up this Constitution and republic. Walker Wildmon: Everything lines up, from our Founding Fathers to the Republican Party platform to the core tenets of the Christian faith. Proclaiming these truths in our culture, government, and society perfectly syncs up with a message of truth to American culture and American voters. When the Republican Party abandons these core truths and sends mixed signals to voters, that only hurts the movement and the party in the long term. Walker Wildmon: The Republican Party must clearly state that marriage is between a man and a woman and that abortion should not be legal under any circumstances. Those are core truths that will help win back people of faith and their Christian voting bloc, which makes up tens of millions of voters within the Republican Party alone. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. This is our second segment of today's program. I'm sitting in for Rick Green. Those who listen frequently know that my brother Rick usually hosts the program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and he's out today, so I figured I would step in and be a fill-in host for my own show. So here we are on this Thursday edition of the program. Walker Wildmon: You just heard a clip of my dad talking about some of our domestic trips, our spiritual heritage tours here in the States, whether it be Washington, D.C., Boston, and so forth. Those dates are available at tours.afa.net for 2027. Walker Wildmon: One tour that's a little more time-sensitive is our trips in March to Greece and Italy. We're first going to Greece for a Footsteps of Paul tour. My brother and I have taken that group. The week after that, immediately following it, my parents are going to Italy, where they're touring many of the historical Christian sites along with other sites as well. Walker Wildmon: Both registrations are going to close the first week of December. December 1st is the deadline for those trips. We want to make sure we communicate that because, in the past, some folks have been confused about the registration deadlines. We have to get all of this information to the airlines and travel agencies months in advance. So, if you want to register for Greece or Italy, now is the time to do it. Walker Wildmon: Back to our topics for today. I wanted to play this clip. Senator McCormick from Pennsylvania was on with Laura Ingraham on Fox yesterday evening, talking about all the things that the Republican Congress can accomplish over the next six to eight weeks. Clip: Are you on board with those priorities as laid out by the House? It seems like a lot of wishful thinking. They couldn't get it done over the last couple of years, but they're going to get it done in five weeks? Clip: Good evening, Laura. We got thumped in the election, and when you get thumped, I think you've got to do two things. You've got to make sure there's accountability, and you've got to reflect on what the lessons learned were from that thumping. Clip: We had a great session earlier this week. I think seven or eight hours we were together, and I think our conference came out aligned on a couple of key priorities. Number one, those judicial appointments. We can make a lot of progress, and I think there was a consensus that everybody's willing to expand the calendar as much as possible, as you said, to make the most of every single day. Clip: I think the second thing, which would be an absolute legacy issue for the president, is permitting reform. This is something we have to have to remain the energy leader in the world. It's critical to national security and critical to our innovation agenda. Clip: The third thing you mentioned is reconciliation 3.0. I'm glad the House is talking about it. I think there's a real shot we could get something done in the Senate, and the question is whether we can also get that done in the House. That allows us to do a number of key things in terms of funding defense and potential agriculture supplements for agriculture and potentially Save America. Clip: Reconciliation 3.0 allows us to do other key priorities. I think those are the three things we came out with a lot of alignment around, and you're right, using every available minute to get it done. Walker Wildmon: I think he's right, and it's good that we have Republican senators talking about this. Here's what he's getting at and what ultimately can happen. Democrats are going to come in, and it's going to be a circus. Let's just prepare ourselves. Anyone who thought that Democrats would come in and be the adults in the room and fix anything was woefully naive, to put it mildly. Walker Wildmon: Democrats, mark my words, are not going to fix anything. As a matter of fact, Representative Al Green just went on the House floor and said, quote, "As early as next week, I will call for a vote to impeach Donald Trump. I do not take this lightly." Walker Wildmon: Affordability, inflation, war with Iran, whatever issue drove these voters to the polls by the millions in favor of Democrats, the Democrats don't care about those issues. They want socialized medicine. They want government control of the private sector. They want censorship of their political opponents, and ultimately they want us in jail. Walker Wildmon: They're not the party of common sense. They're not the party of the working class. They're the party of Marxists, and they're the party of what is going to be an absolute political circus. Walker Wildmon: What Republicans can do in these last weeks of Congress is remind American voters that they're still the party of common sense and the party that actually gets things done in the legislature. More importantly, if Republicans can position themselves as the firewall between common sense and sanity and these left-wing radicals, they can protect the country from the consequences of Democratic control. Walker Wildmon: This can be done by approving every single judicial nominee and executive branch nominee pending before the Senate before the first week of January, before the new Congress is sworn in. There's absolutely no excuse. We must staff up and judge up the entire executive branch, including the Article III courts. Walker Wildmon: Secondly, anything that we want funded over the next two years that is an absolute priority for the America First agenda and the conservative movement, including the border wall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, border security, Customs and Border Protection, and the military, must be funded now. Walker Wildmon: Whatever we need to fund that Democrats will hold over our heads during the next two years, with the House of Representatives controlling the budgetary process, we need to get it funded now. We need to use the majority to fund the rest of the Trump administration's term when it comes to the issues and priorities we care most about. Walker Wildmon: Doing all of this could build what I'm calling a firewall against the lunacy, a firewall against the crazies. At a minimum, the Trump administration and Republicans could go into 2028 saying, "Voters chose the Democrats in large part in 2026. We respect your decision, but the Democrats are ultimately the party of the crazies. We knew we had to build up a firewall to protect the republic and the country because the Democrats can't be trusted with anything." Walker Wildmon: You could play clips of the Democrats over the next two years. All they want to do is talk about impeachment, investigations, putting Republicans in jail, funding transgender clinics for minors, and abortion on demand. All of these things the Democrats want to do should be played before the American people. Republicans have to have a firewall against the lunacy and against the crazies. President Trump can use his veto pen day in and day out over the next two years. Walker Wildmon: Another clip I want to play is a Fox report. There's something Brian Kilmeade says at the end of the report that I completely disagree with, and I'll counter it when we get back from the clip. This report discusses the globalists and illegal immigrants sending caravans to the United States now that they see Democrats getting within striking distance of power in Washington, D.C. Clip: It's like 1,500 to 2,000 people from Central America and South America. They are coming up and marching toward the southern part of Mexico toward the United States. This was all organized after the midterms. It prompted President Trump to threaten double tariffs on Mexico if the march does not stop. On Truth Social, he said that migrants will not be accepted into the country. They need to remember that President Trump is still in charge for two more years. Clip: Look at the encounters: 85,000 in 2025, and then this year more. But the question is, how many are getting through? None. Compare that to Biden: 1.4 million in 2021, and then in 2022, 2.3 million. It's all about what signals are being sent. They follow our politics. If I sell my mud hut and get to that border, will I be able to get in? Under Joe Biden, and maybe under a Democrat, the answer is yes. That's why the president has to leave with immigration reform, because we're going to be subjected to this next. We can't absorb another 10 million people. Walker Wildmon: The first part of the report is about the caravan heading our way, and this tells you all you need to know. Democrats get elected, and illegal immigrants start flooding the border. Texas is going to have a Democratic governor, by the way. It will be the first time for Texas in more than 30 years that you have a Democratic governor. Not only do you have a Democratic governor, but you have a Democratic governor who is for open borders. Did Texas really want that? That's hard to fathom, and we'll see how this goes. Walker Wildmon: Nonetheless, we don't need, as Brian Kilmeade says, "immigration reform." What are we going to reform? We have to be more specific. We can't simply say we need immigration reform. Do you think that's going to stop the caravans? Absolutely not. Walker Wildmon: The fact that we don't need immigration reform is borne out by the fact that President Trump gets sworn in and illegal border crossings go to zero. There was no legislation that did that. It was voters sending the president to the executive branch and the executive branch telling Border Patrol and the federal government to lock the border down. Walker Wildmon: Even if you could tell me that there are a couple of things in the legal process that don't work as well as they should, the problem is that you're assuming Congress is going to come in and do the right thing. We couldn't even get good things done with a Republican Congress. Do you think the Democrats are going to come in and strike a deal with President Trump that is positive or good? Absolutely not. Walker Wildmon: We don't need to meddle around with immigration statutes. We need a president to enforce the law, which President Trump has been doing over the last two years. President Trump polled very well when it came to his handling of immigration and the border. Voters were pleased overall with his handling of border security and immigration. Walker Wildmon: We don't need immigration reform, and we don't need amnesty. We just need to continue having a president who enforces our immigration laws. That's what President Trump has been doing. But here come the caravans because Democrats are within striking distance, a couple of months away from power in both the House and the Senate in Washington, D.C. Walker Wildmon: Continuing this discussion of the Democrats and whether this is what voters really wanted, we're going to have to live with it for the next couple of years. I'm not of the belief that the republic is lost or that we'll never recover from this. None of us knows the future, and those types of predictions are always wrong, at least in the American context. We live to fight another day. Walker Wildmon: This defeat for Republicans and conservatives was quite historic, probably a 70- to 100-year defeat when you look at not just Washington, D.C., and federal elections, but what happened at the state level as well. That's what makes it extra difficult to accept. Both parties have faced serious losses in seats and power in previous elections, and we've gone through that before on the program. Walker Wildmon: What we're going to talk about next segment is the level of violence that the left is willing to use, not just to achieve its political purposes, but to silence its opposition, to silence you and me. Walker Wildmon: Ever since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the left hasn't let up in its use of intimidation tactics, threat tactics, and ultimately physical violence. Nearly every week now, conservatives and Christians are being physically assaulted at some level and in some place in the country because of our politics, beliefs, and worldview. Walker Wildmon: This level of intimidation has been mainstreamed by the Democratic Party and its Marxist allies. The evidence is overwhelming that this is a one-sided issue of the left assaulting its political opponents physically, verbally, and otherwise for the pure purpose of intimidation and silencing. Walker Wildmon: I wish it weren't the case, but the left is emboldened now with its election victories around the country. For the next few years, the level of violence and intimidation will probably go up because they feel justified. They feel emboldened. They'll say, "The voters want this." We'll talk more about this after the break. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. The last segment is now underway. I'm glad you're joining us. AFR.net and the AFR app are where you can get the program. If you go over to AFR.net, we have a fairly new Watch Live feature. You don't have to log in or enter anything. You just click Watch Live, and you can watch the latest live program there at AFR.net. Walker Wildmon: Let's go back into our clips. We've got several to get through before we wrap up the program. Some of these were originally pretty vile. Some of them still are, but we've bleeped out what I believe is all of the profanity to make them radio-friendly. Walker Wildmon: These clips have to do with Jennifer Welch, the comedian Dave Chappelle, and a TikToker talking about stabbing MAGA. My point in playing all of these clips is to show you that our political and ideological opponents are ultimately engaged in a spiritual battle of light versus darkness and good versus evil. The Bible bears this out in its teachings on spiritual warfare. Walker Wildmon: Sadly, many of our political opponents are ultimately being used as tools of Satan, tools of evil, agents of evil, if you will. When you hear the vile nature of some of these comments, you can't leave this conversation believing that evil and darkness don't exist. They absolutely do. Walker Wildmon: The more these radicals and God-haters achieve positions of power and authority, the more power-hungry they're going to get and the more amped-up their rhetoric is going to be. They're all feeding off one another. Walker Wildmon: Before we play these clips, let's not forget that Charlie Kirk was a Christian conservative political activist who spent his time on college campuses peacefully debating people about their ideas and telling people why his worldview and the Christian faith are the best and true way. All of that was done through peaceful means. He was assassinated in broad daylight, ultimately in front of hundreds of millions of people who ended up seeing the video of him being assassinated. Walker Wildmon: The left is officially engaged in political assassinations. People can lie and say that the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk was MAGA, but he wasn't. He was a left-wing radical. There was nothing about Tyler Robinson that was MAGA or conservative. These are sick weirdos. Walker Wildmon: The same thing applies to the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump's life. These aren't conservatives. These are disgruntled Republicans and hardcore left-wing activists. All the facts bear that out. Walker Wildmon: This is Jennifer Welch laughing at someone on X saying that we should, quote, "dig up Charlie and do it again." Clip: Good. Okay. Let's get back to more of these. I can't get enough. Tap the vein. Okay, my favorite's in this one. Clip: Dandelion says, "You can't even fathom the pronouns we're going to invent. You can't even pronounce them. We're going to have a..." It has a bunch of symbols on it. Clip: Normal person tweets, "They're going to give newborn babies septum piercings at the hospital." Clip: Brandon tweets, "Make sure you open that up on Sundays from here on out, Chick-fil-A." Clip: No more Sunday school homophobes. No more mega-church Sunday-school homophobe. Clip: Dad Morrow says, "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." I'm zooming in to the post. Clip: No comment. Walker Wildmon: That's Jennifer Welch and another woman doing a livestream reading X comments after the midterm election. That's the context. They're talking about how left-wing activists are going to have new Supreme Court justices with different pronouns, that Chick-fil-A is going to have to open on Sunday, and all of this anti-Christian hate. Walker Wildmon: They were having fun and joking, and they were giddy over their left-wing Marxist election sweep on Tuesday. They even thought it was funny when one of the X users said that we should be, quote, "digging up Charlie and doing it again." They're talking about Charlie Kirk. Walker Wildmon: The reason I played that clip and kept it going while they were laughing is because I wanted you to hear their reaction. It wasn't a pause followed by, "We shouldn't have read that. I'm sorry. That's inappropriate. We shouldn't make jokes like that." They got a kick out of it. They thought it was one of the best tweets ever. They couldn't recover because they were laughing so hard. Walker Wildmon: This is where we are. This is the left. These are the Democrats. It gets worse because Jennifer Welch isn't the only one who thinks this stuff is funny. Walker Wildmon: Comedian Dave Chappelle was at Madison Square Garden last week after the midterms. You notice the trend here, the vibe shift. When conservatives and Republicans are in charge of Congress and the White House and the vibe is moving in our direction, some of these people don't do this stuff. But when they think the pendulum is going to swing the other way and the crazies are in charge, they start playing to that tune. It's absolutely sick. Walker Wildmon: This is Dave Chappelle talking about how much better he feels now that Charlie Kirk has been murdered. Clip: I feel famous. It's merely being a public speaker. Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better. Walker Wildmon: Thankfully, the woman recording that said, "He's a messed-up human being," after Dave Chappelle said that. Some people, to their credit, did walk out. Some people booed, and others cheered and laughed along. Walker Wildmon: At the same event in Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle said, quote, "I'm sure Charlie Kirk is looking up at us right now, laughing so hard he can't breathe." Walker Wildmon: Charlie Kirk, a man in his early thirties, a father of two, a husband, and the founder of one of the most effective conservative Christian groups in the last ten or twenty years, gets assassinated in cold blood for his political and Christian views. The best we can do is Dave Chappelle making jokes about it. This is sick stuff. This is very depraved stuff. This is spiritual darkness. This is evil. Walker Wildmon: I want to play this last clip before I read a post that I put out earlier in the week after my trip to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. This is a TikToker saying, quote, "Let's stab them," when referring to MAGA. Clip: It's unacceptable. We shouldn't get away with it. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Clip: Yeah. Clip: Let's stab them. Clip: You have our mind. Clip: Yeah, your thing. Let's stab them. Walker Wildmon: That's the quote, "Let's stab them," when it comes to MAGA. The thing is, folks, in their minds, anyone who opposes their wickedness is MAGA. Even if you don't politically identify as MAGA, if you oppose their lunacy, you're MAGA. Walker Wildmon: I could go on and on. We could play montages and do shows and shows on this violence. You go online, and this is commonplace. Walker Wildmon: I want to read a post that I put out on Tuesday as I was coming home from Washington, D.C. I was visiting with people at one of the leading conservative groups in our nation's capital. I'm not going to mention the name of the organization to draw attention to it. I was meeting with conservative leaders at one of the major headquarters of the organization, and here's what I posted as I was on the plane headed home. Walker Wildmon: "Recently, comedian Dave Chappelle stated, 'Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, I feel better.' Fast-forward to today. I visited with my friends at a conservative organization in Washington, D.C., to discuss a variety of topics. Walker Wildmon: "As I was wrapping up the day, I kept hearing yelling and profanity outside the window. It was rather distracting as I was trying to be attentive to those I was meeting with. As it turned out, this group of vile hecklers has been protesting weekly outside of this organization and harassing its visitors and employees. Walker Wildmon: "When I made it to the lobby to depart, there was a gathering of security officers. I told them I was walking outside to get a ride to the airport. They advised against this. As a matter of fact, they didn't even consider it an option. Walker Wildmon: "After a few minutes of back and forth, the head of their security team came up with a plan to discreetly get me out through the back, safely. Now all is well. Walker Wildmon: "Why is this relevant? There is a growing element within American politics that uses fear, intimidation, and violence to silence others. Today was my firsthand experience with these tactics. Walker Wildmon: "The Democrats are telling us to lawyer up and promising to use lawfare to bankrupt innocent patriots. There are more good people who will be caught up in this. War Secretary Pete Hegseth is probably the most notable target in recent days. Hegseth is a good man and a patriot. Walker Wildmon: "While I understand why some voters were disappointed with Republicans and the Trump administration regarding a few important issues, electing Democrats doesn't solve a single problem. We'll look back in two years, and Democrats will have solved effectively zero problems that hardworking Americans care about. Walker Wildmon: "Instead, we'll get two years of political circus in Congress, and many good people will face violence, harassment, and likely bankruptcy as a result of the left's warfare on its political opponents. Walker Wildmon: "May the Lord protect and bless the patriots who love their country and have fought for what's right over the last few years." Walker Wildmon: That was a Facebook post I put out as I was headed home from our nation's capital. I'll tell you two things. The first thing is, if I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing. I'll guarantee you that if Pete Hegseth could go back, he wouldn't change a thing. Walker Wildmon: The American public and voters overwhelmingly elected President Trump to reform and bring about a conservative revolution in our nation's capital. In large part, he has done that. There are a few things we could say we didn't like, but compare President Trump's governance style and administration to Barack Obama or Joe Biden, and it's night and day. Walker Wildmon: President Trump has reshaped the executive branch in a good way and brought about so much reform at the executive level. It is phenomenal. We've been getting dozens of good federal judges on the judiciary. Before the end of this term of Congress, we will have, Lord willing, zero federal Article III judgeship vacancies. They will all have been filled with constitutionalists and conservatives who can help install a firewall against these radical God-haters. Walker Wildmon: Pete Hegseth has done a phenomenal job as War Secretary. He's gotten rid of DEI, transgenderism, and the insanity and politicization of the War Department. He has gotten rid of all of that. Walker Wildmon: Conservatives in Washington, D.C., and around the country, conservative leaders, have been fighting day and night to ensure that the Trump agenda gets through. If we could go back, we wouldn't change a thing. Walker Wildmon: The Democrats won't solve a single problem. Voters are quickly going to realize that electing Democrats doesn't fix affordability, doesn't end the war with Iran, and doesn't do anything to help hardworking American people.
Walker Wildmon: Welcome to At the Core here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon here with you on this edition of the program. I'm in for my good friend Rick Green today. He's typically with you on Thursdays and Tuesdays, but he was unavailable today, so I raised my hand and said I'd be glad to do it. This afternoon, we're going to be recording tomorrow's program of At the Core, so tune in tomorrow as well and you'll get our next episode tomorrow afternoon from one to two Central. Walker Wildmon: Once again, it's good to be with you today on the program. I'm Walker Wildmon. This is the American Family Radio Network. You can download the AFR app or visit AFR.net to listen to our content live and also listen to past episodes of not just this program, but all the main programs that you hear throughout the day on AFR. You can get all of those podcasts over at AFR.net or on the AFR app. Walker Wildmon: We would greatly appreciate it if you specifically subscribed to this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll queue up the latest episode in your library each and every afternoon for your convenience, and you can share it with family and friends. We hope you do. Walker Wildmon: Let's turn our attention to Scripture, and then we'll turn to other items that we're going to talk about today on the program. I've been speaking about Acts chapter 26 this week and finding a little bit of humor in how Festus responds to Paul's defense of the faith, his conversion, and his faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Walker Wildmon: Festus says in verse 24 of chapter 26 in Acts, "Paul, you are beside yourself. Much learning is driving you mad." Then, of course, in verse 25, Paul says, "No, I'm not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and reason." Walker Wildmon: Two things here. The first one that's interesting is that this phrase, "being beside yourself," originates here in Acts chapter 26. But secondly, this accusation that Christians are crazy or are off our rocker, in this instance Festus accuses Paul of basically learning too much, reading too much, and being too knowledgeable. The same accusations that were lobbed at the early church are still lobbed at Christians today, whether it's being called outright crazy. Walker Wildmon: "I can't believe you believe in someone being risen from the dead. I can't believe that you believe in a literal six-day creation account." I could go on and on about how the world looks at the faith and belief system of Christians. Though, out of all the worldviews and belief systems in the world, the Christian belief system actually makes the most sense on paper when you add it all up. Walker Wildmon: Nonetheless, the unbelieving world looks at us and thinks that we're just the crazy folks. We're off our rocker. We're beside ourselves. That's part of being blinded. That's part of not being a believer, having this animosity, if you will, toward people of faith. That's what Jesus warns us about when he says, "You'll be hated because of me." Walker Wildmon: Here Paul is being treated some of the same ways that we're treated today and being dismissed. The problems and challenges that Christians face today are not new to the church. Paul and others faced very similar challenges, and we can see that here in Acts chapter 26. Walker Wildmon: I want to remind you of our Christmas shoebox campaign. We're partnering with Operation Christmas Child on this. National Collection Week is next week, November 16th through the 23rd. If you haven't packed your shoebox, go ahead and pack it. If, for some reason, you can't pack a shoebox, you can go over to SamaritansPurse.org/OCC and donate, and they'll build a box for you. Whether you build a box yourself or donate to Samaritan's Purse to build one for you, either way, you can participate. Walker Wildmon: Jumping into the topic I want to talk about this segment, I'm viewing what is somewhat of an abandonment by the Republican Party of people of faith, specifically evangelical Christians. This abandonment is not a whole sellout. It's not a complete abandonment, but at a minimum, it's a partial abandonment of the evangelical Christian voting bloc that makes up a large portion of the Republican Party. Walker Wildmon: Looking back on the midterm results, I'm not going to try to claim that the only reason Republicans lost is because of what I'm talking about here, because I don't think that would be accurate. But I think it definitely played a part in the results, including the watered-down turnout among the Christian voting bloc in the midterm election. I'll explain specifically what I'm talking about, give a few examples, and then we'll talk about what I think the conservative movement and the Republican Party more broadly need to do to win over and win back many evangelical Christians around the country who have just been disappointed by the Republican Party. Walker Wildmon: This internal struggle within the conservative movement and the Republican Party, which are not necessarily the same thing, although there's a lot of overlap, has been going on for some time, even going back to the Bush administration in the early 2000s. There was this push to neutralize, if you will, the evangelical lobbying arm and tell us, "You guys just need to calm down. We don't need to focus on this marriage thing. It's not a problem." It turned out it was a problem, and it came back to haunt us. Walker Wildmon: This struggle is not new. It's been around for several decades, but I'll give you a couple of modern examples of how evangelical Christians have been stiff-armed by the Republican Party. In 2024, there was a struggle and a fight over the Republican Party platform. Prior to 2024, the Republican Party platform was very good, to be honest. It aligned biblically with the core tenets of the Christian faith, and people of faith felt very good about it. Walker Wildmon: As a matter of fact, the 2016 Republican Party platform was arguably one of the best ever in the Republican Party's history when it comes to the issues that Christians care about. But in 2024, the Republican Party and the Trump campaign decided to take a different path. They decided to take a path toward more ambiguity, fewer specifics, and less definitive stances on issues involving marriage and family, abortion, and other matters. Walker Wildmon: The first issue that the Republican Party platform went soft on was marriage. A report on the 2024 platform discussions said that the Republican Party's 2024 platform had notably softened the party's stance on marriage, pulling back from earlier language that affirmed the traditional definition of marriage and announced the Supreme Court's earlier rulings on the matter. Walker Wildmon: In its 2016 platform, the GOP had defended traditional marriage and family, which it said was based on marriage between one man and one woman and constituted the foundation for a free society. The 2016 platform directly criticized the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor, which said that the federal government could not treat state-sanctioned same-sex marriages differently from traditional heterosexual marriages. The platform also condemned the landmark 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Walker Wildmon: According to the 2016 party platform, the Obergefell ruling robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. The party did not release an updated platform in 2020. However, in its 2024 platform, the GOP significantly dialed back its language on marriage, mentioning it only briefly while vowing to empower American families. Walker Wildmon: How vague can you be? "Republicans will promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundation and role of families, and supports working parents." The platform said, "We will end policies that punish families," and that's it. Nothing about one man and one woman, and nothing about God being the author of the marriage institution. That's one area in which the Republican Party softened its platform in 2024. Walker Wildmon: The second area is abortion. This is very important. On the topic of abortion, the Republican National Committee, in updating its 2024 platform, went away from calling for a nationwide abortion ban. Walker Wildmon: The problem here, folks, is that in an attempt to win over independent voters or Democratic voters, which is a pragmatic, more political approach, you are denying fundamental scientific, biological, biblical, and historical truths. It's one thing to take a more pragmatic and political approach to what I would call tertiary issues, noncentral issues of the Christian faith. Walker Wildmon: But when you go weak, when you go soft, when you abandon core, fundamental tenets of the Christian faith, reality, and truth for the advantage of political gain, the long-term consequences far outweigh any short-term gain you would get politically. Walker Wildmon: For every voter you claim to pick up by watering down the Republican Party platform, think about how many Christian voters are now staying at home. As we look back at the midterms and forward to 2027, 2028, and beyond, the Republican Party needs to retether itself to the fundamentals of the Christian faith, which was also the faith of our Founding Fathers and helped set up this Constitution and republic. Walker Wildmon: Everything lines up, from our Founding Fathers to the Republican Party platform to the core tenets of the Christian faith. Proclaiming these truths in our culture, government, and society perfectly syncs up with a message of truth to American culture and American voters. When the Republican Party abandons these core truths and sends mixed signals to voters, that only hurts the movement and the party in the long term. Walker Wildmon: The Republican Party must clearly state that marriage is between a man and a woman and that abortion should not be legal under any circumstances. Those are core truths that will help win back people of faith and their Christian voting bloc, which makes up tens of millions of voters within the Republican Party alone. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. This is our second segment of today's program. I'm sitting in for Rick Green. Those who listen frequently know that my brother Rick usually hosts the program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and he's out today, so I figured I would step in and be a fill-in host for my own show. So here we are on this Thursday edition of the program. Walker Wildmon: You just heard a clip of my dad talking about some of our domestic trips, our spiritual heritage tours here in the States, whether it be Washington, D.C., Boston, and so forth. Those dates are available at tours.afa.net for 2027. Walker Wildmon: One tour that's a little more time-sensitive is our trips in March to Greece and Italy. We're first going to Greece for a Footsteps of Paul tour. My brother and I have taken that group. The week after that, immediately following it, my parents are going to Italy, where they're touring many of the historical Christian sites along with other sites as well. Walker Wildmon: Both registrations are going to close the first week of December. December 1st is the deadline for those trips. We want to make sure we communicate that because, in the past, some folks have been confused about the registration deadlines. We have to get all of this information to the airlines and travel agencies months in advance. So, if you want to register for Greece or Italy, now is the time to do it. Walker Wildmon: Back to our topics for today. I wanted to play this clip. Senator McCormick from Pennsylvania was on with Laura Ingraham on Fox yesterday evening, talking about all the things that the Republican Congress can accomplish over the next six to eight weeks. Clip: Are you on board with those priorities as laid out by the House? It seems like a lot of wishful thinking. They couldn't get it done over the last couple of years, but they're going to get it done in five weeks? Clip: Good evening, Laura. We got thumped in the election, and when you get thumped, I think you've got to do two things. You've got to make sure there's accountability, and you've got to reflect on what the lessons learned were from that thumping. Clip: We had a great session earlier this week. I think seven or eight hours we were together, and I think our conference came out aligned on a couple of key priorities. Number one, those judicial appointments. We can make a lot of progress, and I think there was a consensus that everybody's willing to expand the calendar as much as possible, as you said, to make the most of every single day. Clip: I think the second thing, which would be an absolute legacy issue for the president, is permitting reform. This is something we have to have to remain the energy leader in the world. It's critical to national security and critical to our innovation agenda. Clip: The third thing you mentioned is reconciliation 3.0. I'm glad the House is talking about it. I think there's a real shot we could get something done in the Senate, and the question is whether we can also get that done in the House. That allows us to do a number of key things in terms of funding defense and potential agriculture supplements for agriculture and potentially Save America. Clip: Reconciliation 3.0 allows us to do other key priorities. I think those are the three things we came out with a lot of alignment around, and you're right, using every available minute to get it done. Walker Wildmon: I think he's right, and it's good that we have Republican senators talking about this. Here's what he's getting at and what ultimately can happen. Democrats are going to come in, and it's going to be a circus. Let's just prepare ourselves. Anyone who thought that Democrats would come in and be the adults in the room and fix anything was woefully naive, to put it mildly. Walker Wildmon: Democrats, mark my words, are not going to fix anything. As a matter of fact, Representative Al Green just went on the House floor and said, quote, "As early as next week, I will call for a vote to impeach Donald Trump. I do not take this lightly." Walker Wildmon: Affordability, inflation, war with Iran, whatever issue drove these voters to the polls by the millions in favor of Democrats, the Democrats don't care about those issues. They want socialized medicine. They want government control of the private sector. They want censorship of their political opponents, and ultimately they want us in jail. Walker Wildmon: They're not the party of common sense. They're not the party of the working class. They're the party of Marxists, and they're the party of what is going to be an absolute political circus. Walker Wildmon: What Republicans can do in these last weeks of Congress is remind American voters that they're still the party of common sense and the party that actually gets things done in the legislature. More importantly, if Republicans can position themselves as the firewall between common sense and sanity and these left-wing radicals, they can protect the country from the consequences of Democratic control. Walker Wildmon: This can be done by approving every single judicial nominee and executive branch nominee pending before the Senate before the first week of January, before the new Congress is sworn in. There's absolutely no excuse. We must staff up and judge up the entire executive branch, including the Article III courts. Walker Wildmon: Secondly, anything that we want funded over the next two years that is an absolute priority for the America First agenda and the conservative movement, including the border wall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, border security, Customs and Border Protection, and the military, must be funded now. Walker Wildmon: Whatever we need to fund that Democrats will hold over our heads during the next two years, with the House of Representatives controlling the budgetary process, we need to get it funded now. We need to use the majority to fund the rest of the Trump administration's term when it comes to the issues and priorities we care most about. Walker Wildmon: Doing all of this could build what I'm calling a firewall against the lunacy, a firewall against the crazies. At a minimum, the Trump administration and Republicans could go into 2028 saying, "Voters chose the Democrats in large part in 2026. We respect your decision, but the Democrats are ultimately the party of the crazies. We knew we had to build up a firewall to protect the republic and the country because the Democrats can't be trusted with anything." Walker Wildmon: You could play clips of the Democrats over the next two years. All they want to do is talk about impeachment, investigations, putting Republicans in jail, funding transgender clinics for minors, and abortion on demand. All of these things the Democrats want to do should be played before the American people. Republicans have to have a firewall against the lunacy and against the crazies. President Trump can use his veto pen day in and day out over the next two years. Walker Wildmon: Another clip I want to play is a Fox report. There's something Brian Kilmeade says at the end of the report that I completely disagree with, and I'll counter it when we get back from the clip. This report discusses the globalists and illegal immigrants sending caravans to the United States now that they see Democrats getting within striking distance of power in Washington, D.C. Clip: It's like 1,500 to 2,000 people from Central America and South America. They are coming up and marching toward the southern part of Mexico toward the United States. This was all organized after the midterms. It prompted President Trump to threaten double tariffs on Mexico if the march does not stop. On Truth Social, he said that migrants will not be accepted into the country. They need to remember that President Trump is still in charge for two more years. Clip: Look at the encounters: 85,000 in 2025, and then this year more. But the question is, how many are getting through? None. Compare that to Biden: 1.4 million in 2021, and then in 2022, 2.3 million. It's all about what signals are being sent. They follow our politics. If I sell my mud hut and get to that border, will I be able to get in? Under Joe Biden, and maybe under a Democrat, the answer is yes. That's why the president has to leave with immigration reform, because we're going to be subjected to this next. We can't absorb another 10 million people. Walker Wildmon: The first part of the report is about the caravan heading our way, and this tells you all you need to know. Democrats get elected, and illegal immigrants start flooding the border. Texas is going to have a Democratic governor, by the way. It will be the first time for Texas in more than 30 years that you have a Democratic governor. Not only do you have a Democratic governor, but you have a Democratic governor who is for open borders. Did Texas really want that? That's hard to fathom, and we'll see how this goes. Walker Wildmon: Nonetheless, we don't need, as Brian Kilmeade says, "immigration reform." What are we going to reform? We have to be more specific. We can't simply say we need immigration reform. Do you think that's going to stop the caravans? Absolutely not. Walker Wildmon: The fact that we don't need immigration reform is borne out by the fact that President Trump gets sworn in and illegal border crossings go to zero. There was no legislation that did that. It was voters sending the president to the executive branch and the executive branch telling Border Patrol and the federal government to lock the border down. Walker Wildmon: Even if you could tell me that there are a couple of things in the legal process that don't work as well as they should, the problem is that you're assuming Congress is going to come in and do the right thing. We couldn't even get good things done with a Republican Congress. Do you think the Democrats are going to come in and strike a deal with President Trump that is positive or good? Absolutely not. Walker Wildmon: We don't need to meddle around with immigration statutes. We need a president to enforce the law, which President Trump has been doing over the last two years. President Trump polled very well when it came to his handling of immigration and the border. Voters were pleased overall with his handling of border security and immigration. Walker Wildmon: We don't need immigration reform, and we don't need amnesty. We just need to continue having a president who enforces our immigration laws. That's what President Trump has been doing. But here come the caravans because Democrats are within striking distance, a couple of months away from power in both the House and the Senate in Washington, D.C. Walker Wildmon: Continuing this discussion of the Democrats and whether this is what voters really wanted, we're going to have to live with it for the next couple of years. I'm not of the belief that the republic is lost or that we'll never recover from this. None of us knows the future, and those types of predictions are always wrong, at least in the American context. We live to fight another day. Walker Wildmon: This defeat for Republicans and conservatives was quite historic, probably a 70- to 100-year defeat when you look at not just Washington, D.C., and federal elections, but what happened at the state level as well. That's what makes it extra difficult to accept. Both parties have faced serious losses in seats and power in previous elections, and we've gone through that before on the program. Walker Wildmon: What we're going to talk about next segment is the level of violence that the left is willing to use, not just to achieve its political purposes, but to silence its opposition, to silence you and me. Walker Wildmon: Ever since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the left hasn't let up in its use of intimidation tactics, threat tactics, and ultimately physical violence. Nearly every week now, conservatives and Christians are being physically assaulted at some level and in some place in the country because of our politics, beliefs, and worldview. Walker Wildmon: This level of intimidation has been mainstreamed by the Democratic Party and its Marxist allies. The evidence is overwhelming that this is a one-sided issue of the left assaulting its political opponents physically, verbally, and otherwise for the pure purpose of intimidation and silencing. Walker Wildmon: I wish it weren't the case, but the left is emboldened now with its election victories around the country. For the next few years, the level of violence and intimidation will probably go up because they feel justified. They feel emboldened. They'll say, "The voters want this." We'll talk more about this after the break. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. The last segment is now underway. I'm glad you're joining us. AFR.net and the AFR app are where you can get the program. If you go over to AFR.net, we have a fairly new Watch Live feature. You don't have to log in or enter anything. You just click Watch Live, and you can watch the latest live program there at AFR.net. Walker Wildmon: Let's go back into our clips. We've got several to get through before we wrap up the program. Some of these were originally pretty vile. Some of them still are, but we've bleeped out what I believe is all of the profanity to make them radio-friendly. Walker Wildmon: These clips have to do with Jennifer Welch, the comedian Dave Chappelle, and a TikToker talking about stabbing MAGA. My point in playing all of these clips is to show you that our political and ideological opponents are ultimately engaged in a spiritual battle of light versus darkness and good versus evil. The Bible bears this out in its teachings on spiritual warfare. Walker Wildmon: Sadly, many of our political opponents are ultimately being used as tools of Satan, tools of evil, agents of evil, if you will. When you hear the vile nature of some of these comments, you can't leave this conversation believing that evil and darkness don't exist. They absolutely do. Walker Wildmon: The more these radicals and God-haters achieve positions of power and authority, the more power-hungry they're going to get and the more amped-up their rhetoric is going to be. They're all feeding off one another. Walker Wildmon: Before we play these clips, let's not forget that Charlie Kirk was a Christian conservative political activist who spent his time on college campuses peacefully debating people about their ideas and telling people why his worldview and the Christian faith are the best and true way. All of that was done through peaceful means. He was assassinated in broad daylight, ultimately in front of hundreds of millions of people who ended up seeing the video of him being assassinated. Walker Wildmon: The left is officially engaged in political assassinations. People can lie and say that the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk was MAGA, but he wasn't. He was a left-wing radical. There was nothing about Tyler Robinson that was MAGA or conservative. These are sick weirdos. Walker Wildmon: The same thing applies to the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump's life. These aren't conservatives. These are disgruntled Republicans and hardcore left-wing activists. All the facts bear that out. Walker Wildmon: This is Jennifer Welch laughing at someone on X saying that we should, quote, "dig up Charlie and do it again." Clip: Good. Okay. Let's get back to more of these. I can't get enough. Tap the vein. Okay, my favorite's in this one. Clip: Dandelion says, "You can't even fathom the pronouns we're going to invent. You can't even pronounce them. We're going to have a..." It has a bunch of symbols on it. Clip: Normal person tweets, "They're going to give newborn babies septum piercings at the hospital." Clip: Brandon tweets, "Make sure you open that up on Sundays from here on out, Chick-fil-A." Clip: No more Sunday school homophobes. No more mega-church Sunday-school homophobe. Clip: Dad Morrow says, "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." I'm zooming in to the post. Clip: No comment. Walker Wildmon: That's Jennifer Welch and another woman doing a livestream reading X comments after the midterm election. That's the context. They're talking about how left-wing activists are going to have new Supreme Court justices with different pronouns, that Chick-fil-A is going to have to open on Sunday, and all of this anti-Christian hate. Walker Wildmon: They were having fun and joking, and they were giddy over their left-wing Marxist election sweep on Tuesday. They even thought it was funny when one of the X users said that we should be, quote, "digging up Charlie and doing it again." They're talking about Charlie Kirk. Walker Wildmon: The reason I played that clip and kept it going while they were laughing is because I wanted you to hear their reaction. It wasn't a pause followed by, "We shouldn't have read that. I'm sorry. That's inappropriate. We shouldn't make jokes like that." They got a kick out of it. They thought it was one of the best tweets ever. They couldn't recover because they were laughing so hard. Walker Wildmon: This is where we are. This is the left. These are the Democrats. It gets worse because Jennifer Welch isn't the only one who thinks this stuff is funny. Walker Wildmon: Comedian Dave Chappelle was at Madison Square Garden last week after the midterms. You notice the trend here, the vibe shift. When conservatives and Republicans are in charge of Congress and the White House and the vibe is moving in our direction, some of these people don't do this stuff. But when they think the pendulum is going to swing the other way and the crazies are in charge, they start playing to that tune. It's absolutely sick. Walker Wildmon: This is Dave Chappelle talking about how much better he feels now that Charlie Kirk has been murdered. Clip: I feel famous. It's merely being a public speaker. Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better. Walker Wildmon: Thankfully, the woman recording that said, "He's a messed-up human being," after Dave Chappelle said that. Some people, to their credit, did walk out. Some people booed, and others cheered and laughed along. Walker Wildmon: At the same event in Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle said, quote, "I'm sure Charlie Kirk is looking up at us right now, laughing so hard he can't breathe." Walker Wildmon: Charlie Kirk, a man in his early thirties, a father of two, a husband, and the founder of one of the most effective conservative Christian groups in the last ten or twenty years, gets assassinated in cold blood for his political and Christian views. The best we can do is Dave Chappelle making jokes about it. This is sick stuff. This is very depraved stuff. This is spiritual darkness. This is evil. Walker Wildmon: I want to play this last clip before I read a post that I put out earlier in the week after my trip to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. This is a TikToker saying, quote, "Let's stab them," when referring to MAGA. Clip: It's unacceptable. We shouldn't get away with it. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Clip: Yeah. Clip: Let's stab them. Clip: You have our mind. Clip: Yeah, your thing. Let's stab them. Walker Wildmon: That's the quote, "Let's stab them," when it comes to MAGA. The thing is, folks, in their minds, anyone who opposes their wickedness is MAGA. Even if you don't politically identify as MAGA, if you oppose their lunacy, you're MAGA. Walker Wildmon: I could go on and on. We could play montages and do shows and shows on this violence. You go online, and this is commonplace. Walker Wildmon: I want to read a post that I put out on Tuesday as I was coming home from Washington, D.C. I was visiting with people at one of the leading conservative groups in our nation's capital. I'm not going to mention the name of the organization to draw attention to it. I was meeting with conservative leaders at one of the major headquarters of the organization, and here's what I posted as I was on the plane headed home. Walker Wildmon: "Recently, comedian Dave Chappelle stated, 'Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, I feel better.' Fast-forward to today. I visited with my friends at a conservative organization in Washington, D.C., to discuss a variety of topics. Walker Wildmon: "As I was wrapping up the day, I kept hearing yelling and profanity outside the window. It was rather distracting as I was trying to be attentive to those I was meeting with. As it turned out, this group of vile hecklers has been protesting weekly outside of this organization and harassing its visitors and employees. Walker Wildmon: "When I made it to the lobby to depart, there was a gathering of security officers. I told them I was walking outside to get a ride to the airport. They advised against this. As a matter of fact, they didn't even consider it an option. Walker Wildmon: "After a few minutes of back and forth, the head of their security team came up with a plan to discreetly get me out through the back, safely. Now all is well. Walker Wildmon: "Why is this relevant? There is a growing element within American politics that uses fear, intimidation, and violence to silence others. Today was my firsthand experience with these tactics. Walker Wildmon: "The Democrats are telling us to lawyer up and promising to use lawfare to bankrupt innocent patriots. There are more good people who will be caught up in this. War Secretary Pete Hegseth is probably the most notable target in recent days. Hegseth is a good man and a patriot. Walker Wildmon: "While I understand why some voters were disappointed with Republicans and the Trump administration regarding a few important issues, electing Democrats doesn't solve a single problem. We'll look back in two years, and Democrats will have solved effectively zero problems that hardworking Americans care about. Walker Wildmon: "Instead, we'll get two years of political circus in Congress, and many good people will face violence, harassment, and likely bankruptcy as a result of the left's warfare on its political opponents. Walker Wildmon: "May the Lord protect and bless the patriots who love their country and have fought for what's right over the last few years." Walker Wildmon: That was a Facebook post I put out as I was headed home from our nation's capital. I'll tell you two things. The first thing is, if I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing. I'll guarantee you that if Pete Hegseth could go back, he wouldn't change a thing. Walker Wildmon: The American public and voters overwhelmingly elected President Trump to reform and bring about a conservative revolution in our nation's capital. In large part, he has done that. There are a few things we could say we didn't like, but compare President Trump's governance style and administration to Barack Obama or Joe Biden, and it's night and day. Walker Wildmon: President Trump has reshaped the executive branch in a good way and brought about so much reform at the executive level. It is phenomenal. We've been getting dozens of good federal judges on the judiciary. Before the end of this term of Congress, we will have, Lord willing, zero federal Article III judgeship vacancies. They will all have been filled with constitutionalists and conservatives who can help install a firewall against these radical God-haters. Walker Wildmon: Pete Hegseth has done a phenomenal job as War Secretary. He's gotten rid of DEI, transgenderism, and the insanity and politicization of the War Department. He has gotten rid of all of that. Walker Wildmon: Conservatives in Washington, D.C., and around the country, conservative leaders, have been fighting day and night to ensure that the Trump agenda gets through. If we could go back, we wouldn't change a thing. Walker Wildmon: The Democrats won't solve a single problem. Voters are quickly going to realize that electing Democrats doesn't fix affordability, doesn't end the war with Iran, and doesn't do anything to help hardworking American people.
Filling in for Rick Green, Walker Wildmon opens with Acts 26 and the enduring challenge Christians face when biblical convictions are dismissed as foolishness. He then argues that the Republican Party is alienating evangelical voters by weakening its positions on marriage, abortion, and other issues central to Christian belief. Walker examines the party’s 2024 platform, midterm turnout, and what conservatives must do to regain the trust of people of faith.
Walker also reviews congressional priorities after the election, including judicial appointments, energy and permitting reform, reconciliation, border security, and immigration enforcement. In the final segment, he addresses political intimidation and violence, presenting clips involving Jennifer Welch, Dave Chappelle, and comments about Charlie Kirk before describing his own experience leaving a conservative organization in Washington, D.C. Walker frames the broader conflict as both political and spiritual and urges Christians to remain engaged.
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