you were a great baseball player. but through all, particularly yale and harvard, how did you maintain your principles, feelgtfaith, belief in gods. i talk about the book i grew up in down den dunnedun, florida, my father from western pennsylvania and my mother north eastern ohio this is like steel country, blue collar salt of the earth. and florida is eclectic. we have a culture that i grew up in but the rust belt values that raise me. i get to yale, his no idea what i was getting into i didn t wasn t colleges were liberal, i was 18 years old, i show up my first day in florida we wear jean shorts and flip flops and t-shirts, i wear, that you have kids from andover, i was a fish
Exploring the fundamental values and principles undergirding American society, culture, politics, and current events, and their relevance to the nation s.
in current american society and how i think we have the best arguments, for the direction that n not only statstates but country should go in. mark: this is not a typical politician s book, this is written like an american citizen. the other thing i noticed is there is not gossip in the book. there is not telltale things there is not you don t really attack in the book. was that intentional. i wrote it, most elected officials are not writing their own books, you write yours, it not easy to do, it comes across more authentic because it is me writing this i don t believe in some gossip stuff, if we have a private conversation three years ago i why would i
it used to be some people did have rights but a courtesy of the state, we have the god given rights we loan power to the government under a constitution to protect those rights, i think that what we have seen in more modern society is we have seen unmooring of the constitutional foundation, we have an administrative state when is out of control, violates people s freedoms and really been weaponized against fak factions of country that ruling class does not like, we need to reconstitutionallize this government, we re facing now, i think is not what founders intended in terms of how government should be operating. mark: these principles are through out this book, my question, you went to yale. you went to harvard law. you grew up very modest
Exploring the fundamental values and principles undergirding American society, culture, politics, and current events, and their relevance to the nation s.