The new resistance: How Trump shows the path to saving civilization
President Trump has not so much hit the ground running as performed an Olympics-level sprint flattening all obstacles.Hardly had he arrived in the Oval Office than he started signing dozens of executive orders fulfilling the promises he’d given the American people to push back against the forces destroying the country.It was an astonishing example of how leadership can change a mood and a set of presumptions.The black clouds of coerced conformity started to roll away.People stifled by years of vilification for wanting to live in an America they recognized suddenly dared to believe they could breathe again.Above all, Trump’s arrival in office has overturned years of talking America down and injected instead an ebullient optimism that America will become not just great but whole again.You don’t have to agree with everything he’s doing to acknowledge Trump has changed the political dynamic.Thousands of tinpot liberal emperors have suddenly been exposed as having no clothes at all.The rest of the world has looked on astonished and with no small amount of envy.
In Britain, my own place of birth, the Labour government that’s destroying the country with its refusal to uphold the nation’s historic culture and values can only gape impotently across the pond at what real national leadership looks like.This presidential energy may yet spark an even more vital revolution.Abolishing DEI, securing the border and expelling extremists from campuses and the country are important reforms that speak to voters’ most immediate concerns.These are all, however, the damaging outcomes of a way of looking at the world.
Even if Trump’s reforms mean America once again rejoices in only two genders, white people are no longer vilified for the color of their skin and universities return to the free play of ideas, the forces that caused the social fabric to unravel will still be there and capable of repeating the exercise.That’s because they were part of a seismic and destructi...