What in the all that is unholy f#*k?

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24. Allen C. Guelzo

There was a caption to the video which could have easily been included, but unhelpfully wasn't.

"Author Allen C. Guelzo joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book "Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment"."

From Wikipedia:

Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian who serves as the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.[2] He formerly was a professor of History at Gettysburg College.

Also from Wikipedia, about Princeton's James Madison Program:

Conservatism

In 2006, Max Blumenthal wrote in The Nation that the Madison Program is not like the Center for Human Values at Princeton or the Remarque Institute at New York University, but rather serves as "a vehicle for conservative interests." Blumenthal writes that the Madison Program uses "funding from a shadowy, cultlike Catholic group and right-wing foundations" to support right-wing politics at Princeton University, even becoming "the blueprint for the right's strategy to extend and consolidate power within the university system."[5] Similar institutions at Georgetown University, New York University, and Williams College have used the Madison Program as a template for their operations.[18] In 2017, the North Carolina-based think tank NC Policy Watch reported that the James Madison Program is funded and operated by conservative philanthropists and academics to promote conservatism in higher education, and that the University of North Carolina Board of Governors considered the Madison Program a "model."[7]

In 2016, Jane Mayer wrote for The Chronicle of Higher Education noting that the Madison Program was founded with funds from the conservative John M. Olin Foundation and that the program's founding serves as part of a broader strategy for conservative billionaires to infiltrate higher education in the United States.[19] Her piece was cited by Greenpeace as demonstrative of dark money being used to deceptively promote conservative perspectives and downplay the fossil fuel industry's role in climate change.[20]

In 2019, journalist Emma Green wrote in The Atlantic that the James Madison Program serves as a conservative hub for right-wing students and academics within the "largely apolitical or vaguely liberal" politics of the Princeton University community.[4]

In other words, he's a RW operative with a sinecure that labels him a "historian" for PR purposes.