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This Thanksgiving, Chris Salcedo took a moment on his show to honor the memory of Rush Limbaugh by sharing what conservatives rightly call the true story of Thanksgiving — a story of faith, charity, and neighborly cooperation. Salcedo reminded listeners that the holiday is rooted in gratitude to God and the Pilgrims’ decision to govern themselves and share bounty with those who helped them survive. His segment aired on The Chris Salcedo Show and was circulated on the show’s streaming channels for the holiday.
Salcedo’s retelling wasn’t some sanitized mall-Christmas version of history; it echoed the conservative tradition Rush championed for years, that Thanksgiving celebrates self-reliance and mutual aid rather than the modern left’s victimology. Limbaugh himself used to remind Americans that the Pilgrims’ survival depended on law, order, faith, and commonsense cooperation — not the revisionist narratives that paint America as a perpetual oppressor. This is the same message Salcedo resurrected for a generation being taught to despise their own history.
Make no mistake: the cultural elites and their media allies have been working to strip this country of its heritage and replace gratitude with grievance. When conservative hosts dare to tell a simple story about Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing a harvest, the left sneers and the mainstream press looks for ways to ridicule rather than to remember. That contempt for tradition is not harmless; it is an attempt to sever Americans from the values that bind families and communities together.
What Salcedo emphasized — and what Rush long argued — is that Thanksgiving is fundamentally about giving thanks to God and recognizing the virtues of personal responsibility, faith, and neighborly charity. The Pilgrims’ experience, including their reliance on help from Native Americans and their subsequent choices to organize themselves and share resources, is a story of practical virtue and humility, not of a simple oppressor-victim binary. Passing that narrative on to our children is patriotic duty, not optional nostalgia.
If conservatives do not stand up for these truths, the left will continue to hollow out our holidays until our children only know grievance and group identity politics. Chris Salcedo’s Thanksgiving segment was more than nostalgia; it was a call to defend the stories that teach gratitude, courage, and faith. Keep telling the real history at your table, teach your kids the lessons of self-government and charity, and honor the legacy of voices like Rush who kept these truths alive for ordinary Americans.
So this Thanksgiving, let us be thankful for family, for faith, and for a free country worth defending — and let us reject the cynical historians who would trade gratitude for guilt. Turn off the broadcast feeds that scoff and gather your family close, tell the story the way our forebears would, and remember that patriotism is not optional. America’s story is worth saving, and it starts at the dinner table.
