West Point Grad Congressman: "We got our country back"; "Identity politics is dead."

Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04 and wearing a West Point jacket, recently had this to say on the Benny Johnson podcast:

Congressman Hunt:

“. . . . . I feel like life is back in America. Freedom is back in America. The air just feels a little bit more crisper now, doesn’t it? I just feel like we got our country back.

We stood up against all this ridiculousness. Being called garbage, being called fascist, being called racist. Now, as you articulated it, they’re calling this of Latinos and black men. We’re now racist and we’re now sexist. It’s laughable.

And I want them to keep on going, because what this tells us is that they have learned absolutely nothing about the referendum that happened in this country a couple of days ago, which means that in 2028, you’re going to see it again.

Because now that President Trump is back, and when he brought his war with him, now all of a sudden they’re scattering like roaches.

Keep it up. Keep doing what we’re doing because we’re going to have a great time here, the next election as well, and in our midterms—until you figure out that America simply wanted our country back, we wanted our economy back.

We wanted safety. We wanted more mortgage rates back to a reasonable place so we can buy homes again. We want safety. It is just that simple.

We are speaking this in clear language that these people can’t understand, and they are trying to tap dance around the fact that they got that wrong and they have absolutely no message to address these issues that impact minorities more than you could ever imagine. Benny, I am in heaven now.

. . . . This goes back to Barack Obama a few weeks ago, wagging his finger at black men because they weren’t going to vote for Kamala Harris just because of the color of their skin.

It was completely nonsensical and insulting to assume that black men and that black Latinos and that other minority groups are stupid, and we’re simply going to vote for somebody because of the way they look, even though we cannot afford to live day to day, we’re living paycheck to paycheck.

We are in record debt. We are in record credit card debt. And Obama’s looking at black people saying, you know what? I want you to forget about that. I need you to vote for Kamala Harris because she understands the way you live just because of the color of her skin and they tried this joke for the past ten years, and it’s backfired.

And by the way, they have let 15, 20 million people into this country illegally right there at that southern border in Texas. And you still lost by 15 points because we don’t believe you. We are living in this economy every single day. And the only thing that we want is to be able to afford to live in this country again.

We don’t care about race, religion, color or creed. We just want safety. And that goes for all Americans. That goes for black people, white people, Hispanic people, you name it. We want safety.

And Barack Obama whiffed because what is he doing all the time? Identity politics? Yes. And this is 2024, brother.

I understand. A couple of generations ago, this was a rough time in this country. But we’ve come a long way. Look at this country. We are all Americans in the same boat. We’ve made a lot of progress.

And if they don’t want to recognize that, as I just said, they’re going to continue to lose, by God. Keep playing the identity politics game and assuming that people are stupid because we don’t understand what’s going on in our country.

Identity politics is dead. I believe that Barack Obama’s political dynasty is now in shambles. That house has been razed to the ground.

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