Episode · The Rubin Report · 2022-11-06
Books mentioned on Exposing the Plan to Destroy America from Within | Tom Cotton | POLITICS | Rubin Report
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about his book, "Only the Strong: Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power"; what specific warnings Joe Biden received about an Afghanistan withdrawal; how Biden's plan to withdraw all U.S.
Dave Rubin recommended Only the Strong by Tom Cotton.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Only the Strong
Only the Strong by Tom Cotton offers a hardline national security perspective and highlights various geopolitical and domestic episodes involving foreign policy and leadership.
Recommended“The book is Only The Strong, we'll link to it right down below, and I'm gonna be in DC a little bit after the election doing some live interviews”
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“- Well one of the main themes I have in Only The Strong is that the decline sensed by so many Americans is not an accident”
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“- I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is a Senator from the great state of Arkansas, as well as author of the new book, Only The Strong: Reserving the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power.”
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“And I wanted to lay out for my readers exactly how the left in America has for over 100 years plotted the sabotage American power.”
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“- And I wanted to lay out that case in Only The Strong, as well as a roadmap of the future.”
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“Remember in 2009 as I lay out in Only The Strong, he had insisted then on cutting and running immediately.”
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“As I write in Only The Strong, President Biden didn't just withdraw our troops, he withdrew the Western mechanics and contractors that kept the Afghan Air Force flying.”
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“- Oh, there's no question. I mean, Joe Biden spent his first year in office appeasing Vladimir Putin, enticing him and tempting him to a trial of strength to use Churchill's famous line that I quote, in Only The Strong.”
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“That's, again, to get back to one of the main themes of Only The Strong, they're deeply ambivalent about American power and America itself. -”
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“I disagree, as I write in Only The Strong, that Joe Biden should have announced that in advance.”
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“- So in Only The Strong, I explained that much of modern left wing thinking goes back to the progressive era, specifically Woodrow Wilson,”
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“So you don't get to the extreme left wing views, the extreme anti-American views that you mentioned until the 1960s, but it's not a very long step from repudiating our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our founding principles, which happen with Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives to having outright rejection of America itself as I lay out in Only”
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“I write a lot about Kennedy in Only The Strong. No doubt he was capable of soaring rhetoric, but it masked a terrible record.”
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“And as I explained in Only The Strong, waging war on America's energy production.”
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“So as I write in Only The Strong, we have to reinvigorate the fossil fuel industry in America.”
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“Most alarming as I write in Only The Strong is it seeping into our military as well.”
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“I'll tell you a story that I tell in Only The Strong as an example.”