Below are the video and transcript of a powerful speech by Monica Crowley at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2023 Restoration Weekend. The event was held Oct. 26-29 at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans.
This from frontpagemag.com.
This 39 minute speech is well worth the time. If you can think faster, click on the * symbol on the lower right tool bar to speed up the video.
Below is the transcript—in brief—due to its original length. I cut it as much as I possibly could without removing any of the meat. If nothing else, read the emboldened lines, please:
I want to start by keeping Israel, the Israeli people and U.S. military personnel in the region in our thoughts and prayers tonight and in the days and weeks ahead.
This is absolutely a battle of good versus evil. This is a spiritual war.
As many of you know, I started my career with former President Richard Nixon. I get a lot of questions about him as well as a lot of questions about the other American president with whom I’ve worked—President Donald Trump. I like to joke: Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, man do I know how to pick them or what. Only the most controversial. All anti-establishment presidents for me.
I saw on social media, too, that the pro-Palestinian, pro Hamas terrorist sympathizers had taken over the Grand Central Station. Things like this don’t just organically pop up. They take years and decades to fester, develop, be cultivated, and then you get situations like this. So, what is really important to understand about this absolutely dangerous moment that we are all in, is that this is the tipping point for the United States and the West. The modern assault on the West, on the United States—the biggest of them all began in the 1930s—as a KGB operation to destroy the United States.
And the Russians came up with a very clever way of doing it, which is infiltration, because they realized they couldn’t defeat us from an external way, so the best way to defeat us would have to be from within. [T[hey set themselves on this long-term project to infiltrate the United States and grab control over all of the levers of American society and life.
[N]ow, after over a century, we are in this position where the country is literally hanging by a thread. All of our institutions, culture, big tech, it has all been compromised. It is deeply, deeply corrupt. [W]hat you’re seeing in terms of the raging anti-Semitism is a result of Israel defending itself out of this unspeakable act of terror from Hamas.
Everything that you’re seeing blowing up now is the logical endpoint of this. What we all need to understand…the universities have been the incubators of this. They have been steeped for decades in Marxism, in anti-Semitism, in all forms of radicalism. And so many of us thought, well, it’s contained there. [But it hasn’t been and] we are at a saturation point where subsequent generations have been so indoctrinated that nothing and no one can penetrate the brainwashing that they have undergone. These younger generations have been so deeply indoctrinated…they are excusing a terrorist massacre in the state of Israel. [T]hey think violence is okay in service of liberating the oppressed. They see the entire world as: the oppressed and the oppressor. That is how they’ve been indoctrinated.
[T]he Marxists who have been engaged in this global revolution for nearly a century, originally focused on higher education, and we’ve all been focused on that. But in the meantime, they’ve gone all the way down to preschool. And so, of course, the end result is these kids are morally bankrupt because that’s what they’ve been taught with no or very little counterbalance. I always say communism never dies. It just gets rebranded. And so rebranded now is drag queen shows for children. It’s the transgender agenda. All of that is cultural Marxism. The other day, they burned down the beautiful statue of Robert E. Lee. We can debate the Confederacy and Robert E Lee all day long. But that is a critical part of our history.
We [have] political Marxism where the Marxists have control of all our government institutions, and we [have] cultural Marxism coming at us from every direction. And then on top of that, [we] have the globalists–international institutions, like the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and so many others that you never hear about. They’re all working hand in glove to move this world. They call it the Great Reset. Klaus Schwab has literally written books called The Great Reset. So, when people say it’s a conspiracy theory, you send them to Amazon and say, it’s right there. Go order the book and learn.
That wide open border, there’s a political element to it. They want to flood the zone, get these people in, get them on a path to citizenship, get them voting, and then have a permanent Democrat voting majority. But there’s something bigger and darker going on here. And that is the globalist agenda about erasing the world’s borders to try to get the world to this one world government with them atop of all of it. Of course, in Marxism, the ruling elite is called the Vanguard, and in Marxist-Leninist theory, the vanguard is the elite ruling class. It’s supposed to bring the peasants into full Communism.
So you have the globalists and the Marxists, and they’ve been working hand-in-glove for a very long time to get us to the World Economic Forum slogan: ‘By 2030, you will own nothing and be happy.’ What is that? That’s global Communism. We are so close to [the] moment of this happening.
There were two radical communists—are there any other kind? Radical communists named Cloward and Piven, who were Columbia University professors in the sixties, my alma mater. So proud. And they had a theory that stipulated that the United States needed to be destroyed, as all communists believe. [And] the most effective way to destroy the United States [is] to overwhelm all of her systems, overwhelm all of her institutions, and implode the system that way.
[W]hat do you think the wide-open border is? What do you think the trillions of dollars in inflationary spending are all about? What do you think all of the Soros ideas allowing violent criminals out after spending 5 minutes in the criminal justice system is about. What do you think all of this is about? This is about overwhelming our systems. It’s about overwhelming our institutions. And it’s about overwhelming all of us.
So it’s very difficult for us to understand that the enemy is within and it’s us. This brings us to our contemporary political moment, because we have a presidential election year coming up next year, and they seem to come back faster. [I]t seems like we just had a fraudulent election. And I’m very worried about next year for all of us and our personal safety and the safety of the country.
Donald Trump came out of nowhere in 2015. They didn’t take him seriously until they did. And they have subsequently thrown the kitchen sink at this man to try to stop him. Why? Because, like Richard Nixon, he was an outsider, not beholden to anyone or anything and wanted to do two things: One, put America first; and two, make peace.
[D]o you think the deep state removed President Nixon? …Watergate was essentially a setup. And this is not to excuse Nixon’s bad judgment, but when the Deep state wants to go after someone who they deem as a threat, they will make sure you get limited information so you are making bad decisions. And we’re starting to get the actual truth about what went down in Watergate. And it does look increasingly like it was a deep state operation to remove Richard Nixon. Why? [H]e wasn’t one of them and he was making peace all over the world, ending the World War in Vietnam, detente with the Soviet Union. Opening the door to China, we cannot have that. The military industrial complex, the deep state, what they recognize is that peace ain’t profitable. And so if you get a peace maker as president, they can ‘t have that either.
Fast forward to Donald Trump, same thing: America first and a peace maker—for bringing the troops home, saving the tens of billions of dollars that would have gone into those pointless wars, striking peace agreements in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords, historic, historic peacemaking. They can’t have that, cannot have it. The forces we are up against are so dangerous, they will destroy, they will ruin. They will kill you. And this is what I mean about the spiritual nature of the battle that we are in. This is a spiritual war. And once you see it in those terms, you can’t unsee it. So, yes, we are in a very secular struggle now, and we’re all here to fight for our country and fight for the West and fight for Israel and fight for what’s right. But the forces arrayed against us are very dark.
I want to wrap it up by giving you a couple of things to go forward with and some hope.
Throughout Trump’s presidency, they pounded him into the ground with the Russia hoax to fake an impeachment, you name it. They threw the kitchen sink at this man to try to stop him. They cannot believe that he is still standing. [H]e is the strongest person. You have to be tough to get to that level and earn that office. Donald Trump is by far the strongest. I don’t know where it comes from, maybe ordained by God, the Hand of God, the spiritual nature of all of this.
In a clean election, Donald Trump wins in a landslide. [L]ike he did in 2020, won a landslide. [But] because he is an existential threat to all of these dark forces they have mobilized and they’ve been mobilized since 2015, and they’ve literally pulled out all the stops. So now they have to change tactics and now they’re using lawfare as a way to try to get him out of the picture.
They want him tied up in court, drain his resources, keep him distracted all into next year, and ultimately, they want the man in prison. [In] 2020 they did to try to stop this man, they released a virus. They shut down the global economy in order to shut down the booming Trump economy. They burned down the country with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and they rigged the election for major catastrophes that they were willing to inflict on all of us and the world in order to stop one man. That’s how powerful Donald Trump is and what he represents.
But it’s so much bigger than Trump. It’s about everybody in this room. You know, when he says they’re after me because they’re after you, it is 100%, you and your guns. You and your Second Amendment are the only things that stand between us and this kind of tyranny of the Marxists and the globalists. Never give up your guns. And if you don’t have any, get some, because it’s about to hit the fan. Okay. So given what they were capable of doing in 2020, what are they capable of doing in 2024? I don’t know. I have no idea. But I have a sinking feeling it’s going to be even worse than what we saw.
We have the Middle East aflame. We have Russia, Ukraine. We have China chomping at the bit to go after Taiwan. There could be a catastrophic global conflagration. Nuclear, chemical, biological—what do you think COVID was? Chemical—[what] do you think the fentanyl invasion is? We are already under [a] mass destructive attack. And our leadership in Washington, forget about Joe Biden. The rest of the leadership, not up to the moment, but there is one man who is and that’s Donald Trump, one man.
So in preparation for next year, I want to leave you on a hopeful note and give you some tools to think about and we can all implement.
The first is to recognize what this is. It is in fact, a war. This is one of many reasons why Donald Trump is going to be the nominee. [T]his is a war.
The second thing I want to mention is that we really have to get on top of these new election rules. [T]he left went in and changed state by state, changed all of these rules from early voting to mass mail in voting, to ballot harvesting, ballot curing. And our side is still so far behind on all of this. A lot of states changed the rules. Some of them changed back, but not nearly enough and certainly not the critical states. Our RNC leadership is pathetic. Ronna McDaniel Forget it. We were able to bounce McCarthy Thank God, and we’ve got someone much better in there. Get on top of the new election rules.
Number three, get involved locally. Understand that change happens in the streets. It doesn’t happen…at the Ritz-Carlton. [Our enemy understands] community organizing. They’re revolutionaries. Revolutionaries take to the streets, and that is where the change happens. So for us to counter that, we all need to be involved at the local level as well. [I mean] church, schools, communities. I would encourage everybody, and we have this—a lot of people running for their local school board, running for their local town council. And, of course, the left saw that, recognized that we understood our power and sicked the FBI on parents showing up to school board meetings. It is the weaponization of our government coming into full blast. We cannot be intimidated. That scares the crap out of the left when we mobilize locally. They hate when you show up. But the local activism is absolutely critical if we’re going to take this country back.
And finally, getting back to the spiritual nature of this, I would say, you know, next year is going to be rough, I think. So I would just encourage you to get right with God. Make your base secure. Have situational awareness at all times, wherever you are, but really focus on your spirituality and start to see what’s happening through that wider lens. Because if God is with us, who can be against us, Right? And God is the ultimate warrior for human freedom because he gave it to us. So if he’s on our side, as we know he is, well, we’re going into battle with the ultimate warrior. And that makes me feel much, much more secure about what we’re heading into and the ultimate end of this war that we’re in. And that’s why we’re all here tonight.
Thank you so much. God bless you and God bless America.
God speed to the return of Conservatism and to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
