Higgins' book.
The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First, Rich Higgins, 2020.
H. R. McMaster. On February 20, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump nominated McMaster for National Security Advisor following the resignation of Michael T. Flynn on February 13. Trump asked McMaster to remain on active duty while he served as national security advisor.
Rich Higgins, 1974-2022. Frank Gaffney provides a eulogy.
Stunning. Play this interview of Rich Higgins and follow the transcription below, starting at the 8:15 mark titled, "Patriotic."
8:16. For people that hear the term "narrative," it's not a simple thing to grasp beyond the fact that repetition and purposeful statements, factual or counterfactual, true or not true, have this ability to penetrate into a society and to shape societal thinking. So what we see is by our enemy in this war a deliberate and purposeful attempt to marry our perception of who they are with left-wing political narratives, terms like "phobia." They know how to use terms that are common to westerners to fulfill their objectives. So they put together a concept, for example, Islamophobia. 15 years ago we never heard the term Islamophobia, and we have to ask ourselves, where did that come from? And when you walk it back, you realize that Islamophobia is a term concocted by the generators of these narratives, oftentimes Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, groups like Council of American Islamic Relations, CAIR, or Muslim Public Affairs Council, who generate this term, but from their side it's actually a weaponized version of what is in Islamic law, the law of slander, prohibiting any discussion of Islam that is critical of Islam. And so by doing this, you've collapsed our ability to do two things that are absolutely pivotal to Western civilization anybody who has spent time in the Middle East will recognize this. Critical thinking and reason do not exist in the Middle East as we understand them here, and the purpose of the term like Islamophobia is to enforce that Islamic law of slander on westerners to shut down critical thinking and reason that would actually enable us to understand why the enemy fights, why Omar Mateen was drawn to shoot 100 people, 49 who passed at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, in 2016.
