SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked about the 2016 Presidential election and how it informs national security at Augustana University Tuesday evening.
Before a packed Elmen Center of nearly 4,000, Rice talked about what she called “the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: populism, nativism, protectionism and isolationism.”
Rice explained that the 2016 election, one she described as the “Do you hear me now?” election, provided an opportunity for those figurative horsemen to ride out from the shadows.
“....was a desperate cry from people for whom the system didn’t work,” Rice said. “We need an answer as a society and as a country to ‘Do you hear me now?’ or America won’t be confident enough to lead.”
Rice was the featured speaker at the 2018 BOE Public Policy Forum, hosted by Augustana and the Center for Western Studies.