The Heart and Soul of Our Country

The far-right Republican candidate for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, Lauren Boebert, has proclaimed that she’s battling for the “heart and soul of our country.” Since she’s identified herself as “an avid Trump supporter,” what better way to ascertain how she envisages the heart and soul of our country than by reading Trump’s iconic Fourth of July speech at the Mount Rushmore National Monument. The full text is available on the internet, but you can learn all you need to know about it from Jennifer Rubin’s description of the speech as a “raving, paranoid one peddling hate and dystopia.”