Dave McCormick: “When I was a soldier in the Cold War, I would have never…”

“We're being called into question who we are as a country and who we are as individuals. And as we have this debate once again over communism, it's going to define the next 50 years of American character. When I was a soldier in the Cold War, I would have never imagined that 50 years later as the Soviet Union collapsed, that we would be defending, or have to defend against the ideas of communism, socialism, anti Semitism. I thought those ideas were in the dustbin of history. They've had a reemergence. They have shown to be failed. They are anti American.” (02:01–02:17)

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