[ April 19, 2024 ]
President Trump gave the American people the very thing they were desperately in need of — a loud, proud, defense of Americanism.
At Mt. Rushmore, Trump Scoops the Democrats
Editorial of The New York Sun | July 4, 2020
With a rousing Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore, President Trump certainly laid down the principles on which he will now go to the hustings. His choice of a setting put him before the famed monument to four presidents — each of which is a target of the movement that has been seeking to besmirch or destroy statues of our national leaders. Mr. Trump left no doubt in respect of which side he is on.
Story continues below advertisementHad the President left any such doubt, the morning papers cleared them up. The Times led with a long geschrei about how Mr. Trump had sent a “discordant” message. The Washington Post complained that Mount Rushmore is “painfully complex.” Our guess, though, is that tens of millions of Americans managed to figure it out — that Mr. Trump intends to stand against the attacks on our national heroes.
We’ve no doubt that tens of millions of Americans have been, and will be, as we have been, waiting to see which of our candidates will lead that defense. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, essayist Lance Morrow estimates that “there is quietly building a powerful backlash,” one that will “express itself” on November 3, if not before. That is clearly the bet that the President is making, and eloquently, at Mt. Rushmore.
Mr. Trump reprised the logic of American liberty — rights given by God, and therefore inalienable. Then he warned of “a growing danger” that threatens the blessings “our ancestors fought so hard for.” He called it a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children . . . ” Here the audience started to boo such defamation.
“Angry mobs,” the president continued, “are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.” He reckoned that many of them “have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.” They think, Mr Trump said, that the American people are “weak and soft and submissive.”
His vow was that the American people “will not allow our country, and all of its values, history, and culture, to be taken from them.” At this point the audience was chanting “USA!” Mr. Trump then laced into “cancel culture,” which he called “driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.” He called it “completely alien to our culture and our values.”
It would be one thing were any of the major Democrats saying such things. The cat, though, has got their tongues. Not a peep of support from, say, Vice President Biden or Speaker Pelosi or even Governor Cuomo or Mayor de Blasio, nor such vice presidential contenders as Senators Harris and Warren. Five weeks into this uprising, and Mr. Trump has scooped them all — and marked that the Democrats are part of the problem.
Not that Mr. Trump was indifferent at Mount Rushmore to the glory of the American mosaic. He was full of praise for the Rushmore presidents, of course, even touching on Jefferson’s Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the fact that Teddy Roosevelt, whose statue in New York is being ousted by the Museum of Natural History, holds both the Nobel Prize in peace and the Medal of Honor.
In the speech, Mr. Trump managed to extol everyone from Muhammad Ali to Harriet Tubman, Irving Berlin, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Wright Brothers, Jesse Owens, Frederick Douglass and Wild Bill Hickok. He declared for “equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed,” adding: “Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.”
It’s not our intention here to predict that Mr. Trump’s Rushmore strategy will work. We get that the President is behind in the polls. It’s hard to recall, though, a moment in this campaign in which the lines have been more clearly articulated by any Republican. Why Mr. Biden failed to get in ahead of him in defense of the Rushmore presidents is as much of a mystery as Mrs. Clinton’s failure to campaign in Wisconsin.
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15 Comments
3 years ago
We need a revival of American spirit. Trump was right on every point. Do not be silenced or shamed by these communist reprobates. They call themselves “progressives”, but they are the exact opposite – regressives.
They cling desperately to a failed economic and political ideology- Marxism. It has failed everywhere it’s been tried, Russia, Yugoslavia, Albania, China, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. it exploits people and crushes all freedom.
Speak out against this vile scum. Drive them out. Tell them to leave America and move elsewhere!
3 years ago
Trump or Fight!
3 years ago
#2020 is not a choice of Trump v. Quid Pro Joe
… it’s not between Demokkkrats v. Republicrat Virtue Cons
… it’s not even Left v. Right
… or *Liberal* v. Conservative
It’s America v. Evil … it’s right v. wrong …
… it’s whether our nation will turn away from wickedness and towards our God, our Culture, and our Civilization …
… or fall into darkness
… and become the Natzee s*hole Libtards dream of …
***
Americans are with the President. We’re fed up with the American Last agenda …
… we only have to defeat the Left’s voter fraud machine …
*** Everyone here have a wonderful week!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
It’s the continuation of this country versus the end of this country.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
WELL SAID! PUTS IT IN A NUTSHELL! I STILL SAY WE REPUBLICANS SHOULD COME TO THE RESCUE OF THE STATUE OF PRES. TEDDY ROOSEVELT IN NYC & TRADE THE STATUE OF FOUNDER OF THE MODERN democ-RAT PARTY FOUNDER AND COMMITTER OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL THEFT OF NATIVE AMERICAN PROPERTY AND GENOCIDE, ANDREW JACKSON TO THEM SO WE CAN MAKE TRUMP 2020 ONLINE VIDEO OF THE democ-RATS DESTROYING THAT STATUE! WE NEED TO PROTECT STATUES OF LINCOLN AND PRES. TR!
TO THIS DAY, THE DEMON-CRATS HAVE THE JEFFERSON-JACKSON DINNER AS AN INTERNAL FUNDRAISER RECOGNIZING JACKSON’S ROLE IN THE CREATION OF THEIR PARTY WHEN HE DROPPED “REPUBLICAN” FROM JEFFERSON’S PARTY NAME OF DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN BELIEVE IT OR NOT! THIS WAS AFTER JACKSONIAN IGNORANCE DESTROYED THE NATIONAL BANK OF THE USA SET UP BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON THAT GAVE THE SEC OF THE TREASURY EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF CURRENCY AND BANKING SO NO ONE COULD “DEBASE THE U.S. COINAGE”! IT SET UP THE COUNTRY FOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WHICH IS FLAWED! SUPER SUMMER RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
““It’s America v. Evil … it’s right v. wrong …
… it’s whether our nation will turn away from wickedness and towards our God, our Culture, and our Civilization …
… or fall into darkness”
Dan, these words are as pure gold. Let this admonition “fall like rain and” your “words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”
3 years ago
Reply to
eassa
Amen and amen Eassa! Honestly, when I read Dan’s post it felt like I was hearing our President’s beautiful words again!
Dan: Have you given thought to being published? “The American Thinker” would love your wordcraft I should think: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/a_catholic_college_disses_crusaders.html
3 years ago
I have to wonder what microscopic element of the street mobs currently on the rampage, including the agenda-driven “journalists”, ever wore a uniform in defense of this country?
It would require several decimal places to express.
3 years ago
What surprises me is the nimbleness or alertness of President Trump to spot An issue before others do, and then say or do something to give it prominence.
The left, caught flat footed, then give the issue more prominence, making his position better and their own worse.
Rushmore is a good example.
3 years ago
AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
