The Brion McClanahan Show Podcast

The Brion McClanahan Show is international, and the largest number of listeners outside of the United States hail from Canada. I told you I like to produce listener generated episodes, and when I received two requests from listeners North of the U.S. border, I thought it was the right time to feature a Canadian themed show. Most people in the United States don’t realize that …more

A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece for Chronicles magazine taking the 1776 Commission Report to task. You can’t be called a “conservative” if you’re attempting to “conserve” a left wing agenda. Case in point, the Commission trumpeted Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King while placing all the evils of American society at the feet of John C. Calhoun, the …more

Both the Senate (by unanimous consent) and the House of Representatives approved a bill making June 19th a federal holiday. Fourteen Republicans voted against the bill in the House. There should have been more. This isn’t because we shouldn’t celebrate liberty and emancipation. On the contrary. A case could easily be made that such a celebration should have happened decades ago. Slavery in all forms …more

According to a few news outlets, Trump has suggested to some advisors that he thinks he’ll be back in August. And by “back” he means in the presidency. Is this really going to happen? Not likely. It would take a legal miracle. The Constitution does not have a “reinstatement” clause. Trump would need the Supreme Court to declare him the rightful winner of the 2020 …more

Joe Biden can’t get out of his own way. He can’t even find where he is supposed to go. His administration is an open embarrassment. Everyone knows it, even the Left, which is why they keep providing cover. Kurt Schlichter wrote a funny piece at Townhall the other day on “Coma” Joe. He asked, “What comes next?” If Biden really is a placeholder, what will …more

You might remember the Washington Post slogan that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” This was an attack on the Trump administration and the perception that Trump peddled lies and false narratives. Democrats and those on the Left firmly believed that they were fighting the forces of evil and that only they could save “democracy.” Except democracy is structurally bound to fail. Why? Because “Democracy Dies in …more

Every problem we face in American politics can be boiled down to one word: nationalism. Out of many, one. It’s on our “money.” But did the founding generation really believe this phrase? Nope. Not if you read the documents that led to the ratification of the Constitution. Americans more properly identified with their States, their sections, and their neighbors than some imaginary American nation. Not …more

The 1776 commission is back in the news. Erased by the Biden administration, the 1776 commission report seemed to be dead. Not so fast. The leadership team will be launching a new website and has refocused its energy at the State and local level. Just like the 1619 project. Both of these groups realize that thinking locally and acting locally is the way to change …more

Jeremy Carl at American Greatness thinks we are in the midst of another secession crisis. The Democrats, he says, have seceded from the American order, and it’s up to real America to save the Union, just like Abraham Lincoln saved the Union in 1861. You see, Carl thinks we need a Lincolnian revival. In his opinion, conservatives have acted too much like James Buchanan in …more

Yesterday marked the 77th anniversary of Operation Overlord, better known as the D-Day invasion of Northern France. Some “conservative” commentators mark it down as a secular holiday, the day that American democracy doomed Nazism in Europe. If only they kept it out of the United States, and I am not just talking about the stupid neo-Nazis who run around mostly Northern States today. No, I’m …more