Former congressman Dave Brat (R-Va.) said Friday that voting for “big state” policies amounts to exchanging liberties for fleeting protections and it will ultimately lead to tyranny. Brat told The Epoch Times at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—the largest annual conservative conference—that Americans who value limited government need to act and oppose what he described as a resurgent left. “The left has overtaken us on the cultural front, they own every institution, not only culturally,” Brat said, pointing to liberal dominance in higher education, the mass media, and Wall Street. He argued that, in the face of this cultural capture—which he said has its roots in Marxist ideology—”the state of our character is weakness right now, everyone’s scared.” He said Marxism seeks to maximize power rather than the good of the people, and pointed to phenomena like the shadow cast by Big Tech on the freedom of public conversation, the …
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