Clarence Thomas' remarks on progressivism, its foundations, history, and impact -- from his appearance at UT Austin today, 4/15/26. Entire unedited appearance attached below.

Just watched this in full, made my eyes sweat. That man is a truly great American.

Full unedited video of Clarence Thomas' speech. 41:48 is when the clip on progressivism above starts. There is a Q&A portion where he expresses a bit more relaxed personal candor at 59:30.

One bright side of ABC being incompetent and not attaching the video of his speech to their article...*on his speech*...is it gives self-righteously indignant people like me an opportunity to learn how to use things like yt-dlp -- a great little tool that makes downloading from YouTube extremely easy, even for larger files like this that might not work on random sites. So thank you ABC, I earned a new skill due to your engagement bait garbage journalism.

My favorite part of the speech. Had me ready to run through a wall.

The message in Justice Thomas' response to the last question should be heeded. "If we don't stand up and take ownership of our country and take responsible for it, we are slowly letting others control how we think and what we think. The beauty of going to school is that you learn how to think for yourself. You develop the discipline to think things through. You don't sit on the sidelines. If you think the state is being running inconsistent with how you feel, you get up and you participate. We need to take ownership of our country. It is our country. It is not on automatic pilot. People know more about how to program their cell phone than they know about participating in their government. It is government by consent. That means we take ownership. It's our consent. It's our country. If you let someone use your car and you never check on it, and you get it back. What condition do you think it would be in? That's what we are doing to our country."

Best Supreme Court Justice. I think I like him even better than Scalia. Top notch. I wish there were 9 of him.

Thank God men like Justice Thomas are still with us. His wisdom is profound. May his words be remembered for generations to come.

That ending. Wow. I needed that.

Babe wake up, new Clarence Thomas ASMR just dropped

He is spot on! He is a national treasure

As I have said many times, Wilson was one of our worst presidents. Even after having a stroke he was going to run again. Hmmm. He was a bigot too. Calvin Coolidge was a great president but sadly overlooked.

Fascinating. Thomas is a treasure.

Hm. He rails against “American progressivism,” but then mentions China, Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as its shining examples. Fails to mention that American progressivism led to the New Deal and an EXPANSION of rights that led to the most prosperous century in American history.

Well said!! To bad he’s not Chief Justice 🙏

Best Supreme Court Justice ever. Thank you for your service.

He is a treasure

@thepalmerworm @kellyske @coddlethis42 he mentions John Dewey early on.

Justice Thomas is a great American

This man is such an absolute legend

Progressivism seeks to undermine the founders principles in the Declaration of Independence.

@grok please summarize Thomas’s argument in this video.

Woodrow Wilson was a terrible president

@grok can you provide an accurate transcript

Clarence Thomas is an American Constitutional treasure.

He is the best Supreme Court Justice the USA will ever have. If only we could clone him.

Thank you for this.

Amen!!!!!

Great man! No other words necessary, has always been a man of class!

He is an outstanding constitutionalist and judge

Here is the entire speech transcript for Justice Thomas' speech at Austin - PLEASE let me know so I can fix the article if something is really wrong as I fought with several software tools to try to get it "mostly right ."

SPEAKING FROM HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES FROM ABOVE. LIBERTY, LIFE & SEEKING IT WITH A PURE SACRED HONOR FOR ALL PEOPLE. ENLIGHTENED WISDOM & KNOWLEDGE FROM JUSTICE THOMAS...WE WERE BLESSED. THANK THE LORD

Ask Sasha Reilly about this fucking stain on America.

Best speech I've listened to in a long time.