Trump’s Reach for Greatness

Article author: 
Daniel J. Mahoney
Article publisher: 
American Mind
Article date: 
25 January 2025
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

... President Trump and his supporters believe, rightly in my view, that the Left’s zealous commitment to DEI and the new racialism, transgender ideology, "saving democracy" by burying it, "lawfare" directed against political opponents (most notably Trump himself), and the censoring of free political speech in the name of fighting "misinformation" threatens the very fabric of our constitutional republic, along with its indispensable moral and cultural prerequisites...

But before one feels too sorry for the likes of presidents Obama and Biden, it must be remembered that they had indeed promoted wokeness at every level of government and society, including the military. They had racialized American life in a way that exacerbated racial discord, and they had engaged, as Trump said, in "the vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department." They had encouraged a malign gender cult that led to deep confusion among young people, which was often accompanied by physical mutilation and psychological manipulation. They had shown deep hostility to the traditional American view that liberty is always "under God" and had promoted national self-loathing (not to be confused with necessary and salutary self-criticism) that gave the young little reason to esteem their country or display gratitude toward our forebears...

In a word, they were inebriated with ideology and a "progressivist" worldview that has become nothing less than a totalizing secular religion...

In his [inaugural] address, Trump boldly repudiated repudiation. He unapologetically reaffirmed American "sovereignty" and the sacrosanct character of our borders, without which there can be no self-governing nation or even a "people." He firmly rejected any effort to "socially engineer race and gender into public and private life."...

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