In the darkest doldrums of one of the feeblest, yet imperious presidencies it very much appeared that literally every positive symbol of America’s past would be stripped from public places.
The little that stayed was slapped with “warning labels” by so-called experts, kept in a carefully gatekept bubble to ensure that Americans were fed a nonstop diet of the narrative about America’s racist and illegitimate past.
Celebrating the Founding Fathers, the Constitution of the United States, and the American Revolution were examples of “structural racism,” nothing more.
The message from this country’s most elite institutions was that when you think of your country you must feel nothing but shame.
But history isn’t static, it doesn’t move on a wheel. It can still be shaped by great men and millions of ordinary, free men capable of greatness and…