Watch: JD Vance Steamrolls CBS' Margaret Brennan When She Says America 'Is a Country Founded by Immigrants'
January 27, 2025 at 8:26am
Say this much for the propagandists in the establishment media: They remain impervious to humility or truth.
Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” during an interview with Vice President J.D. Vance, establishment journalist Margaret Brennan, with equal parts smugness and ignorance, confidently repeated the trite liberal falsehood that “this is a country founded by immigrants.”
With his preternatural patience and characteristic erudition, Vance calmly but firmly dismantled Brennan’s nonsensical claim.
Needless to say, she soon found herself overmatched against the vice president.
“This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers,” Vance replied. “But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn’t mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”
Indeed, one can scarcely overstate the importance and brilliance of Vance’s reply. More on that in a moment.
Thus, Vance elaborated on the Trump administration’s position.
“No country says that temporary visitors — their children — will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship. America should actually look out for the interests of our citizens first. And that means, again, if you’re here permanently and lawfully, your kid becomes an American citizen. If you’re not here permanently, if you’re not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and don’t plan to be, why would we make those people’s children American citizens permanently?” Vance said, there by concluding his masterful reply.
Readers may view the full Vance-Brennan exchange in the clip below, posted to the social media platform X.
For instance, Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire thought it crucial to distinguish America’s forebears from mere immigrants.
Glad he got the settler part in there. The whole liberal premise is wrong: at a fundamental level, America was not founded by immigrants! https://t.co/V18PFOCP7H
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) January 26, 2025
“Have you noticed how you can never win? But you can win. You can refuse to play the game and ruthlessly exercise your power,” Schlichter wrote.
The preposterous argument that “immigrants” founded America depends on a deliberately muddled version of history.
In short, the United States was founded not by immigrants but by revolutionary patriots born in Britain’s American colonies. But the modern globalist establishment and its media minions need you to forget that.
Then, immigrants came to the new United States because the sovereign people permitted it. “We the People” invited the world’s oppressed masses to emigrate legally, not to sneak into the country and remain indefinitely.
Thus, “immigrants” did not “found” the United States. Sovereign citizens did.
And therein lay the brilliance in Vance’s reply. Note that he included “some” immigrants in that group of revolutionary patriots. A young Alexander Hamilton, for instance, arrived in the American colonies in 1772. Thomas Paine emigrated from England two years later, though he eventually returned to Europe before finally settling in America.
Moreover, note the date that Vance chose: “240 years later,” he said.
A man of Vance’s intelligence did not choose that number at random. Instead, he did so because it referred to a specific event.
Venturing 240 years into the past would take us to the 1780s, when the Founders signed and ratified the Constitution.
Instead, Vance cited the critical moment at which the Founders fulfilled their pledge to establish a self-governing republic. He turned Brennan’s absurd comment about “immigrants” into a powerful statement about the sovereign American people.
In short, establishment journalists like Brennan use “immigrant” propaganda to deceive American citizens into relinquishing control of their own country. Thus, the Brennans of the world do the bidding of their globalist masters.
Those globalists and subservient journalists, however, have proven themselves no match for the likes of Trump and Vance.
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