GOP Senate candidate T.W. Shannon says capitalism made America great, but now it’s under attack

Former Speaker of the Oklahoma Home T.W. Shannon, a Republican who introduced his candidacy for U.S. Senate final week, has mentioned the important thing purpose why he’s working is to guard free enterprise and capitalism. Nonetheless, he feels “capitalism” is not the one C-word that’s made American nice.  

“It is the Structure. It is capitalism, and it is Christianity for the needs of non secular liberty, as a result of we all know that our Judeo-Christian heritage is what actually gave the world the concept. In order that’s why I am working, as a result of these are the values which are below assault and Washington, D.C. has completed far too little, I feel, to assist propel ahead what made the nation nice,” Shannon advised Fox Information Digital. 

“My complete life story, my testimony, is that capitalism works for everyone,” he mentioned. 

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Shannon is searching for to fill retiring Senator Jim Inhofe’s seat after shedding to then-Congressman James Lankford in a runoff eight years in the past. 

“Like Most People, I’m involved in regards to the course of the nation, and I actually assist the America First agenda,” Shannon mentioned. “I additionally notice that you must ask the opposite query what made America nice within the first place, and I actually suppose it’s the three Cs.”

Shannon mentioned the concept of what he feels made America nice – the “three Cs” of Structure, capitalism and Christianity — are all below assault. Shannon can be an outspoken critic of the “woke agenda,” which he plans to fight just by telling the reality. 

“There’s a complete narrative on the market proper now that tells a whole era of people that appear to be me that in case you are African American, Native American, like I’m, I’m each… there’s this entire narrative that the nation doesn’t give you the results you want. That capitalism is just for a sure sect of people who find themselves born in a sure zip code or, you understand, come from a sure heritage. That’s the largest lie,” he mentioned. “The reality is, capitalism works for anyone who has a piece ethic, that’s prepared to make selections, take possession for the choices that they make, begin a household, develop a household and put money into their neighborhood. That’s the way you make American nice once more.” 

T.W. Shannon, the previous co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, mentioned the previous president advised him to “go on the market and win.”
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Shannon, the previous co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, spoke to the previous president earlier than he introduced his candidacy throughout a information convention on the First People Museum in Oklahoma Metropolis.

“He mentioned, ‘Go on the market and win,’… the conversations that I had with him over time have at all times been very, very constant. We have got to go win for America as a result of our children are grandkids are relying on it,” Shannon mentioned. “We discuss conservatism, and even you understand what it means to be the steward. Good stewardship is main issues in a greater situation in a means. There isn’t any query that President Trump, the 4 years that he was in workplace, he did rather a lot to maneuver America ahead, particularly African People.”

The 44-year-old Republican is especially peeved by the notion that American is systemically racist and feels capitalism is the one system identified to maneuver folks from generational poverty into the center class. 

“America is the house of systemic alternative,” he mentioned. “I’m the daddy of a 16-year-old and a 12-year-old and the very last thing I would like is a racist idea like important race idea, Marxist concept, telling them that they’re both a sufferer or going to be sufferer the remainder of their lives and that their White buddies are by some means the oppressor.”