"} e6:{"type":"p","text":"So you’ve called our current time period the third existential crisis facing the West. What were the first two? And what makes this moment, in your opinion, so uniquely dangerous?"} e7:{"type":"p","text":"Mr. Metaxas:"} e8:{"type":"p","text":"I don’t say facing the West; I say in American history the first existential crisis is the revolution, of course. The second is the Civil War. For the first time since the Civil War, we have, in the last few years, been facing the loss forever of liberty. If you go back to 1980, there’s always been contests of ideas and ideological conflicts, but it’s never been existential. It was existential in the revolution. If they don’t win, it’s over. They became enslaved by the British effectively, and they knew that in the Civil War, you know, if the Union doesn’t win, whatever we had won in the revolution effectively goes away."} e9:{"type":"p","text":"I think because of the threat of globalism, Marxism, and now Islamofascism, if we’re not awake to these threats, and if we’re not awake to the answer, what I would see as the answer to these threats, we can lose everything. I mean, you know, it’s not—I didn’t think I'd ever live to see it. But in the last number of years under the Biden administration, I was staggered by the ignorance of many Americans to what our liberties are and how things work. They seemed all too willing to say, I will go along with it."} ea:{"type":"p","text":"I’ve written about the Germans. Many Germans in Germany just said, oh, I’m just going to go along with it. I don’t want any trouble. I just want to be able to keep my job, and I don’t want to be demonized by anyone. So I’m just going to go along with it. In the case of Germany, we see where that led. We’re now in a season where, and I think we will prevail, but..."} eb:{"type":"p","text":"Mr. Jekielek:"} ec:{"type":"p","text":"But what is it that you think we need to reassert? Is it going back to the D

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