Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson 10/22/2025
How We Got Mamdani: The Left “understood that if they can get control of the educational system, they can change the country”How NYC is on the verge of electing a socialist jihadist: “The left was very savvy and very strategic. They identified the weakness in our society and the weakness in our society is the educational system.”Key Excerpts
(transcript autogenerated may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity)
Shines (06:10):
And one of the things, William, I’m really concerned about is even here in our own country, I took a little heat for saying this. … Why would we allow individuals to come into our country whose objective is Sharia law that is antithetical to the constitutional republic that we have in this nation? Why are we not able to talk like this in a civil way and then at the same time prohibit individuals that would be so divisive that they’ll tear this nation apart if we don’t do something? Am I going too far, William, for making that assertion?
WAJ (07:18):
No. And we have not only almost 1400 years of history, we have current events. Look at what has happened in London. Look at what has happened in Paris. We don’t want to become London and Paris. We want to continue to be America.
And it’s a tension that we have because we do have a constitution and everybody has individual rights. On the other hand, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and we’re entitled to maintain a republic that upholds that constitution. And so by allowing people in who are not committed to that, by allowing people in who do not view our constitution as valid, by allowing people in who come for the very purpose of subverting our society, we are committing suicide.
There’s a term, I don’t know if you know of Gad Saad’s term, suicidal empathy. And that’s really what we’re going through.
So we are entitled to protect our country. We are entitled to preserve our republic, and we are entitled to have immigration policies that support those goals.
And calling us names and making all sorts of accusations may be effective publicly, but it shouldn’t deter us. We are entitled to preserve our constitutional republic against enemies, domestic and foreign, and the foreign ones we should keep out of the country.
Shines (08:44):
…. Do you think our institutions are also guilty? I’m talking about institutions of higher learning, our high schools as well, even local colleges, for helping create an environment that could even elect a socialist communist that looks to be on the road to victory right there in New York City. Again, am I going too far, sir, when I say that I?
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