BlazeTV host Nick Freitas says the country is approaching a serious constitutional crisis, one he worries could become harder to resolve without violence.
Speaking with Hillsdale College political science professor Kevin Slack, Freitas said he once disagreed with people on the left over policy but did not think they hated the country. He said he now sees that differently. After serving 10 years in a state legislature, he added, he could not identify an elected Democrat whose vision for governing matched the kind of country he would want to live in.
Freitas pointed to Democratic strategist James Carville, whom he characterized as a moderate establishment Democrat. Carville has proposed making Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states and adding four seats to the Supreme Court, Freitas said. If those changes happened, he argued, progressives would effectively be able to define the Constitution as they wished.
Freitas asked Slack whether the Constitution, as it stands, gives Americans enough tools to resist such changes, or whether protecting the republic might require action outside the constitutional system.
Slack credited President Donald Trump with pushing back against the bureaucracy, but said the deeper issue was a loss of shared rules and principles. He pointed to immigration policy, which he argued could benefit Democrats electorally, and to the education system, which he said has taught students for decades to see the United States as racist and colonial.
Slack cited a document he described as having been issued by the National Education Association in the early 1970s. It argued that white Americans benefit from institutions structured to advantage them, even when they hold no conscious racial prejudice. Slack said teaching that view had divided the public.
Slack said the country has begun to reckon with the ideology, particularly among younger people, but still needs to bridge divisions between urban and rural communities. He argued that a return to an older understanding of the Constitution, changes to education, and a pause in legal immigration could help restore a sense of shared purpose.
