Americans are cheering Trumps passionate patriotism and teaching the world a lesson
President Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night was both a second-term statement of intent and a stunning piece of political theater.And what difference a play makes.“America is back,” the headliner announced.He kept saying it for the next 90-plus minutes.Trump is on a mission to “revive the righteous cause of American liberty,” jumpstart a new age of “American marvels” and plant the Stars and Stripes on Mars.To infinity and beyond: Trump’s feel-good buzz is light-years away from the slurs and stumbles of the hoarse whisperer Joe Biden, let alone the halfwit hectoring and contrived cackling of Kamala Harris.For in some dismal parallel universe, it was President Harris, not President Trump, who was at the podium on Tuesday night.But the real stars of the speech were in the balcony.The mother and sister of Laken Riley, a nursing student who went out for a jog one morning and was murdered by an illegal immigrant.The wife and daughters of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who died shielding them from the gunman’s bullets at Trump’s rally in Butler, Penn.Elliston Berry, a 15-year-old girl victimized by “deep fake” cyberbullying at school.Stephanie Diller, whose police officer husband Jonathan was murdered at a traffic stop in Queens by a repeat offender.“The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must,” Thucydides wrote.
The Democrats did whatever they wanted.The suffering fell not only on the weakest, on women and children.It also fell on the strong, like Jonathan Diller.Like Roberto Ortiz, the Navy veteran who gets shot at by the cartels when he is on Border Patrol duty on the Rio Grande.The Democrats have taken liberties with the trust of the American people.
Trump wants to restore the social contract.The Democrats are so out of touch that they still cannot understand why Trump would do it.The answer, like most things about him, is very simple and also pretty complex.Trump is a patriot.
He loves his country.He wants...