Trying to celebrate the fourth of July in the middle of year marked by a Sturm und Drang insurgency proved a bit challenging for everyone, I think. It was almost like sailing with an anchor dragging along the bottom of the lake—the sun and waves are beautiful but we’re not quite moving freely. While there is much in this country to be proud of, the roving bands of raving lunatics who want to dispense with our history aren’t part of it.

Fortunately, president Trump did his part to clarify what is happening in our country without mincing words during his speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota on Friday.

In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.  If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished.  It’s not going to happen to us.

Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.  In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.

To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.

What impressed me about that section was that he included “corporate boardrooms” in his list of institutions that have fallen to the Left. It’s true. For some reason, big business has determined that they must play by the new rules in order to succeed. Trump went on:

The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.

Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.  The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.

That last sentence is powerfully accurate and it’s about time a national leader said so. He needs to say it again and again because the media contribute to the distortions, as The Washington Post’s headline proved: “Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him.”

If you haven’t listened to his speech, I encourage you to take the time to do so. I read a few pundits claim this speech was so good that it will define his presidency. (My only complaint is that while his words are powerful, Trump’s delivery needs work.) I’ve linked to the video immediately below, and to the White House transcript below that.

Remarks by President Trump at South Dakota’s 2020 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration | Keystone, South Dakota (whitehouse.gov)

There’s work to be done, no doubt. But at least we have a president who understands what is happening and isn’t afraid to confront it head on.