The title of this article reflects the question raised by Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—in the next-to-the-last paragraph of an article entitled "A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win":
Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.
He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message.
Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Trump declared: "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities."
These mobs are made up of Marxists, criminals and anarchists. Their cause is a cultural revolution. "Their goal is not a better America. Their goal is the end of America."
After reciting the achievements of his four predecessors, Trump added: "No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart."
Then he put it right into the basement hideaway of Joe Biden: "No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future."
Trump is calling out Biden's silence in the face of an onslaught against our heroes and history as manifest political cowardice that makes Biden a moral accomplice of the mobs.
One day, Basement Boy is going to have to speak out.
Where was Biden when Trump was standing up for America on Independence Day?
As his Party tweeted that Trump's trip to Mount Rushmore was aimed at "glorifying white supremacy," Biden was wailing about the need "to rip the roots of systemic racism" out of America.
Does that sound like Harry Truman or JFK?
So the lines are drawn for 2020.
On one side are those who believe America is a good country, the greatest the world has ever seen, and that the men who created this miracle should be respected, revered and remembered.
That is not the view of the left wing of the Democratic Party.
For even as the fireworks were exploding on the Mall, a Baltimore mob was tearing down, smashing up and dumping into the Inner Harbor a landmark statue of Christopher Columbus.
That statue stood next to the Baltimore neighborhood of Little Italy and had been dedicated in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.
Do the haters of Columbus think that destroying Columbus' statues across America will not anger and alienate Americans of Italian descent who revere the explorer? Does Biden think Italian-Americans will reward a candidate and party that will not renounce the mob that did this?
As the left wing of the Democratic Party embraces the "defund the police" movement, how long will it hold onto voters who are today watching murder rates climb to new records?
During Independence Day weekend in Chicago, 80 people were shot, and 17 of them killed.
In New York City, the number of shooting victims has risen this year by 50%. In June, there were 250 shootings, an increase of 150 over June 2019. Mayor Bill de Blasio's response: cutting $1 billion from the NYPD budget.
Over July 4, an armed Black militia arrived at the reopening of the Stone Mountain monument in Georgia, which features huge carved images of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They want its destruction.
Trump is charged with "dividing the nation."
But it is not Trump trashing cops or providing cover for "protests" marked by looting and arson. Nor is it Trump tearing down memorials and monuments to the great Americans of the past.
Where the Democratic Party has been a portrait in indecisiveness, Trump has been clear. He stands with the cops who have gone through a hellish six weeks. He stands against defacing statues and destroying monuments. He has denounced the rioting, looting and arson that have accompanied protests the media never cease to describe as "peaceful."
It is not Trump who is dividing America. He has pledged to resist the rampages with all the weapons in his presidential arsenal.
There are four months until November's election, 18 weeks until America decides: Do we want to continue an era of protests that revert to rioting, looting and arson? Do we want to see police departments further constricted and trashed as neo-fascist?
Do we wish to see statues of presidents from Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant to Teddy Roosevelt trashed by mobs that hate America, hate her heroes and hate her history?
Trump's stand for tradition and against mob rule is the only stand the president can take. And it is a necessary stand. For this culture war is going to last long after this presidency. And it is going to determine what kind of country we shall become.
Will it be the great and glorious republic of the past or the social and cultural Marxist hellhole that is the promise of the mobs?
Trump just played the patriotism card, the correct card to play, and it may just work for his reelection.[2]
As a nation, we have not come this far to have its future snuffed out by the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels—also known as the "Black Lives Matter" and Antifa criminals—who must be put down like rabid animals. Their "destiny" is not ours.[3] Among other things, we do not have a choice because we have external enemies who seek to destroy us as a nation. China launched the deadly Coronavirus as a bioweapon or inadvertently; and it seeks to dominate the world.[4]
George Orwell wrote of this phenomenon in his prescient “Animal Farm,” where all of the animals were equal until the Pigs reigned supreme and subjugated the other animals.[5] Today’s “Pigs” reside in China and among America’s Left and its media, and include the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels who burn and loot our cities, attack our police, perpetuate black-on-black crime (especially against elderly black women who have been terrorized for decades), and seek to desecrate our history and what our great American "experiment" has accomplished. They must be crushed, ruthlessly.
Instead of being feted as a hero, former NFL player and race hustler Colin Kaepernick—who refused to stand for our national anthem, and has called our July 4th Independence Day a “celebration of white supremacy”—must be banned from football forever; and his corporate sponsors such as Disney must be boycotted.[6] Indeed, because of Kaepernick and other racist thugs who play in the NFL, lots of Americans are boycotting the sport. None of the players should be coddled for a nanosecond.
© 2020, Timothy D. Naegele
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see www.naegele.com and Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-6-30). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., Commendation Medal). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and Articles), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win ("A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win")
[3] See American Blacks Constitute Less Than 14 Percent ("American Blacks Constitute Less Than 14 Percent") and The Campaign To Cancel History ("The Campaign To Cancel History") and Let's Remove All Evidence That Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. And JFK Ever Existed ("Let’s Remove All Evidence That Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. And JFK Ever Existed") and The War On Cops ("The War On Cops") and I Tore Down My First Black Lives Matter Sign Today ("I Tore Down My First Black Lives Matter Sign Today") and History Repeats Itself: Thugs Riot In America ("History Repeats Itself: Thugs Riot In America") and Minneapolis Burns ("Minneapolis Burns")
[4] See Can We Coexist with Asia's Communists? ("Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?") and The Coronavirus And Similar Global Issues: How To Address Them ("The Coronavirus And Similar Global Issues: How To Address Them") and Coexistence With China Or War? ("Coexistence With China Or War?") and The Coronavirus Must Become China's Chernobyl, Hastening The Collapse Of Its Evil Regime ("The Coronavirus Must Become China’s Chernobyl, Hastening The Collapse Of Its Evil Regime") and Why Should The World Trust China Ever Again? ("Why Should The World Trust China Ever Again?") and China Infects The World, Then Lies And Blames America ("China Infects The World, Then Lies And Blames America") and Expert Warns Quarantine Process Failed, As China Stands Ready To Crash World Economy ("Expert Warns Quarantine Process Failed, As China Stands Ready To Crash World Economy")
[5] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm (“Animal Farm“); see also This Is War-Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan Understood This, And Donald Trump Does Too (“This Is War—Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan Understood This, And Donald Trump Does Too“) and Timothy D. Naegele, The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them, 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please click on the link to the left of this note] and 140,000 Businesses Listed on Yelp Are Still Closed Because of Covid-19 Pandemic ("140,000 Businesses Listed on Yelp Are Still Closed Because of Covid-19 Pandemic")
[6] See Colin Kaepernick Calls July 4th 'Celebration Of White Supremacy' ("Colin Kaepernick Calls July 4th 'Celebration Of White Supremacy'"); see also Is Redemption Possible For Tiger Woods? ("The Nike Boycott Must Continue And Intensify") and Is Barack Obama A Racist? ("Race Hustlers Like The NAACP, Colin Kaepernick And Barack Obama") and Colin Kaepernick Signs First-Look Deal With Walt Disney ("Colin Kaepernick Signs First-Look Deal With Walt Disney")