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DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a gathering of about 100 conservatives in north Des Moines on Friday morning that their beliefs are under “assault,” but they can “retake” their country by getting engaged now.
“There is an assault on the ideas you all got up to come work hard for — and the candidates you all are working hard for,” Pompeo said in a speech and question-and-answer session for which he earned a standing ovation at both ends. Pompeo’s comments came at the Northside Conservatives Club gathering early Friday morning at the District Venue in the Ankeny neighborhood of Iowa’s capital. The address represents one of the earliest forays of a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2024 into the first state that will help decide who represents the party in the next presidential election.
“It’s your values that they just don’t like,” Pompeo said. “They don’t like that you practice your faith. We said this beautiful prayer this morning, we pledged allegiance to our flag — we’re in a whiskey joint,” Pompeo said to laughs from the crowd. “This is America and they have a fundamentally different conception of it. You see it every day — you see it in schools where they’re trying to condition and indoctrinate the next generation. This is dangerous. You see it in our colleges. My mother in law is a University of Iowa grad… I think today, we call them American universities, but frankly they are not so American and not so universities anymore. We’ve got to fix this. You’ve got Chinese money in these schools. You got outside influences and people who were telling us our founding — they tell us our founding was just wrong. It was deeply troubling, that these great people who created our great nation, that’s the most exceptional in history, the United States, that they said there was something fundamentally flawed about it. They said ‘a more perfect union’ — we get it, there’s always work to do and it’s a rambunctious country — that’s okay. Every country I traveled to — and frankly you can see this by people who want to come, if somebody is given a chance to search for freedom this is where they want to be. For them to attack these central ideas — America as a Judeo-Christian nation — for them to attack these ideas in the way they are does put the republic at risk. So if you ask what keeps me up at night, it’s that we’ll get this piece wrong for our generation and for the next one.”
Pompeo cited the surging battle by parents across America against Critical Race Theory as a point of inspiration and urged parents from coast to coast to continue speaking their minds at school board meetings, whenever possible. He also said that they should be “fearless” like he and former President Donald Trump were during the Trump administration.