This time, we’ve traveled to the very edge of the abyss.
Somehow, news that the Antifa-Black Lives Matter nexus burned a stack of Bibles
in front of the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland
the other night put me in mind of President Trump’s magisterial speech
in Krasinski Square, Warsaw, just over three years ago.
A short digression: has any other
modern president delivered so many brilliant speeches? The Warsaw speech
was tip-top, but then so was his 2020 State of the Union speech and, just last month, his magnificent speech at Mount Rushmore. And let’s not forget his speech before both Houses of Congress in 2017 or his speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations that same year. Barn-burners all.
I said at the time that the president’s Warsaw speech was worthy of comparison with Pericles’ Funeral Oration
as described by Thucydides. Naturally, that comment occasioned much
obloquy, but mostly, I’d wager, from people who have never read
Thucydides.
Mounting a wide-ranging and spirited
defense of core Western values and achievements, Trump noted that what
made the West so important was not just its wealth and power. Equally
important was its commitment to such enabling civilizational values as
individual liberty, the rule of law, religious freedom, and a generous
and innovative spirit of curiosity and exploration. “The world has never
known anything like our community of nations,” Trump said...........To Read More....
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