In the Southeast Missourian, Victor Davis Hanson methodically demonstrates that the Donald Trump Administration has successfully launched a vast number of urgently needed reforms – from restoring control over America’s borders to slashing the bloated federal bureaucracy and cutting spending, to taking on anti-Semitism and DEI/reverse racism at elite universities. Consolidating these gains, warns Hanson, will require holding the “moral high ground” and keeping the “ethically bankrupt” Democratic opposition off-balance.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
