Is anyone really surprised by New York governor Andrew Cuomo saying, "We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great." The Left has been saying that, if not quite so bluntly, for decades.
The Left now asserts that Robert E. Lee's soldiers in gray were proto-Nazis; that Ulysses S. Grant's soldiers in blue were genocidal Indian-killers; that America's women still struggle against a colonial, patriarchal legacy of plantation owners in powdered wigs who kept their wives in comfortable confinement and their slaves as exploitable chattel; and that President Trump, far from being "a very stable genius," which should be pretty obvious to everyone by now, is actually a moronic, unstable, but very clever agent of Vladimir Putin who quotes Mussolini in his sleep.
If you surrender your history, you surrender the future, and there is no reason why a nation founded in oppression, as the Left would have us believe America was, should survive, no reason why America's constitution or its economic system should be respected, no reason why America should not be remade into something else through socialism.
In the 1970s, after the first eruption of the New Left's historical revisionism and its cultural revolution, America's retreat from Vietnam, and the malaise of stagflation, a narrative of inevitable American decline set in, accepted by the Left and mourned by the right.
Immigrants who come to America today have no mystic chords of memory to bind them to our common culture.
If we do not weave these imaginative chords, their view of America will be ideological-and dictated by the Left.
Cuomo tweeted that Trump's making America great again "Would not be great at all. We will not go back to discrimination, segregation, sexism, isolationism, racism or the KKK." But that's not how the French thought of us in World War I. It's not how Winston Churchill thought of Franklin Roosevelt and the United States in World War II. It's not how the suppressed people of Eastern Europe thought of us during the Cold War.
https://townhall.com/columnists/hwcrockeriii/2018/08/18/the-late-great-usa-n2510918
The Left now asserts that Robert E. Lee's soldiers in gray were proto-Nazis; that Ulysses S. Grant's soldiers in blue were genocidal Indian-killers; that America's women still struggle against a colonial, patriarchal legacy of plantation owners in powdered wigs who kept their wives in comfortable confinement and their slaves as exploitable chattel; and that President Trump, far from being "a very stable genius," which should be pretty obvious to everyone by now, is actually a moronic, unstable, but very clever agent of Vladimir Putin who quotes Mussolini in his sleep.
If you surrender your history, you surrender the future, and there is no reason why a nation founded in oppression, as the Left would have us believe America was, should survive, no reason why America's constitution or its economic system should be respected, no reason why America should not be remade into something else through socialism.
In the 1970s, after the first eruption of the New Left's historical revisionism and its cultural revolution, America's retreat from Vietnam, and the malaise of stagflation, a narrative of inevitable American decline set in, accepted by the Left and mourned by the right.
Immigrants who come to America today have no mystic chords of memory to bind them to our common culture.
If we do not weave these imaginative chords, their view of America will be ideological-and dictated by the Left.
Cuomo tweeted that Trump's making America great again "Would not be great at all. We will not go back to discrimination, segregation, sexism, isolationism, racism or the KKK." But that's not how the French thought of us in World War I. It's not how Winston Churchill thought of Franklin Roosevelt and the United States in World War II. It's not how the suppressed people of Eastern Europe thought of us during the Cold War.
https://townhall.com/columnists/hwcrockeriii/2018/08/18/the-late-great-usa-n2510918
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