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Fox Nation originally launched with programs featuring some of the more strident conservative commentators that showed up on Fox News.

The most strident warnings have come from Gen Laura Richardson, who has just retired as chief of US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

But the people most strident about protecting this version of America — the showered-with-abundance and historically white version — they will not accept sacrifices only to give away what is gained to outsiders, he told me.

Going forward, I expect it to get a lot more strident this time around.

Meanwhile, activists have called for swifter and more strident action to halt the climate change which they say caused the flooding.