American Thinker Takeaways, July 21, 2026
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China is an interesting country. Its economy is weakening for myriad reasons, but it is also stockpiling energy and has a dangerous amount of control over our energy supply. For those tempted to say it’s a “paper dragon,” it’s not. It’s a powerful and weakened country, with that weakness meaning that it’s still a dangerous geopolitical rival.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 20, 2026
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For decades, whenever Democrats have run Northern leftists candidates (going back to Humphrey and McGovern), they’ve failed to take the White House. They’ve done well with Southern Democrats, though, which may explain Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mimicking Hillary Clinton’s fake Southern accent. That fakery didn’t work before, but AOC is a different kind of candidate and, more importantly, we aren’t the same Americans we were 50 or more years ago.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 18, 2026
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Two takeaways for you today: 0:00 Maine’s Ashley Webb shows how politicized transgenderism denies us the ability to pity people so disconnected from their bodies. 5:58 AI is a good servant but a bad master. We need it for personal productivity, national security, and America’s economic strength, but we must control it.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 17, 2026
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One of the left’s most common rallying cries is that Republicans, from Trump on down, are fascist. That’s a slur going back to the end of WWII and bears no relationship to reality. The world is divided between totalitarian and liberty-centric political ideologies. Fascism and the American left are on the totalitarian side, and American conservatives come squarely down on the side of liberty.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 16, 2026
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A Black Lives Matter era screen grab from Netflix shows the company describing the 1939 classic Gone With The Wind as racist and recommending that viewers check out Black Lives Matter (presumably as opposed to watching the movie). I argue the opposite: GWTW is truly a great American novel, written by a woman who clearly understood the rot of the Antebellum South.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 15, 2026 (UPDATED)
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This is a single-issue program about the D.C. gossip claiming that tonight—Thursday—Donald Trump will announce that he has evidence that the 2020 election in Georgia was illegitimate, meaning that Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are never elected. There are several problems with that, especially the fact that neither of those Senators was elected in the November 2020 election, but the rumor raises larger questions about election integrity and the process when fraud taints a Congressional election.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 15, 2026
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This is a single-issue program about the D.C. gossip claiming that tonight—Thursday—Donald Trump will announce that he has evidence that the 2020 election in Georgia was illegitimate, meaning that Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are never elected. There are several problems with that, especially the fact that neither of those Senators was elected in the November 2020 election, but the rumor raises larger questions about election integrity and the process when fraud taints a Congressional election.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 13, 2026
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This is a single-issue program. My topic is my “catch them being good” philosophy, which I used to raise my children. However, I’ve realized over the years that it can help us remake American society for the better.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 12, 2026
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Today I discuss just one subject: A crazy new recycling rule that may destroy a large part of California’s dairy industry or, at the very least, make an essential nutrition source for children much more expensive.
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American Thinker Takeaways, July 10, 2026
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In today’s podcast: 0:00 Zohran Mamdani rewrites New York City’s immigrant history 8:16 Ireland and the problem of mass Islamic immigration 11:25 The center cannot hold because there is no center
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