Guest Post by Daniel Greenfield
There are two stories of America. One is the American story and the other the un-American story.
On one side there are pilgrims settling a new land and on the other colonists ethnically cleansing the native population. One side sees war heroes and the other sees killers. One sees brave police officers and the other genocidal bigots in uniform. One sees America. And the other hates it.
At the State of the Union, we saw those two halves divide up the House Chamber. We saw American elected officials stand for the flag, for the anthem, for veterans, for Jerusalem and for In God We Trust. And we saw the un-American officials selected by corrupt urban machine politics stay seated.
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The leaders of America and un-America were there in one room while America’s story was told.
We saw heroes rise in the House Chamber and we saw the Congressional Black Caucus members in kente cloth scowling through the good news about African-American unemployment. Rep. Pelosi grimaced and Senator Schumer glared through President Trump’s appeal for bipartisanship. Senator Booker stared hatefully and Elizabeth Warren ranted hysterically on Twitter.
The Democrats and the media called the speech divisive. And it was. But not in the way they meant.
There was little in the way of partisanship in President Trump’s remarks. They were meant to unite the men and women in the House Chamber “not as Republicans or Democrats, but as representatives of the people.” Even his tough talk on immigration came with offers of a negotiated compromise.
The New American Moment laid out a “clear vision and a righteous mission — to make America great again for all Americans.” But not everyone who happens to live in America wants it to be great.
President Trump’s speech wasn’t divisive. But it did divide. It divided those in the House Chamber who love this country from those who don’t. It divided those who honor our troops, our anthem and our flag from those who take a knee. It divided those who want to make America great again from the left.
The State of the Union vision exposed the divisions between America and un-America.
We saw a child honoring veterans, the grieving parents of children murdered by illegal aliens and a true refugee who had fled the Socialist tyranny that un-American leftists want to bring to this country. We saw small businessmen, hard workers, soldiers, police officers and an elected official shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter who wouldn’t let a murderous Socialist stop him from fighting Socialism.
We were reminded what we are capable of. And we were reminded of how much the left hates that.
President Trump’s State of the Union address was more than a great speech. It was our story. It was a reminder of who we are and what makes us great. It was the living soul of America soaring once again.
Americans, on the left and the right, are told every day who we are by an un-American media and its entertainment industry. We’ve been told it so often that it’s easy to forget who we really are.
A great speech doesn’t just score political points. It does more than move us. It wakes us up.
And President Trump’s State of the Union speech wasn’t just the greatest political address of his career. It’s the greatest American speech of the century. There have been significant un-American speeches that told us the traditions we believed in were dead, that the country we knew would never return and that we must become compliant citizens of un-America or be left behind on the wrong side of history.
President Trump succeeded by echoing the anger, the pain, the outrage and the common sense of a frustrated America. Some pundits found the echoes of this insurgency abrasive, disconcerting or vulgar. But this was not an insurgent speech. It wasn’t a call to arms. Instead it was a celebration of the changes wrought by the people’s revolution in Washington D.C. and of the growing power of a restored America.
It was a story told through the people who were living it. Through the ordinary heroes who rush into the great catastrophes of floods and firestorms, and the ordinary catastrophes of homelessness and misery.
The heroes of President Trump’s New American Moment, in his words, “live not only in the past, but all around us — defending hope, pride, and the American way.” American exceptionalism isn’t in the past. It’s in the present and it’s all around us. History didn’t end a hundred years ago or in the last generation.
“The people built this country. And it is the people who are making America great again.”
It’s been a tremendous year for America. The media keeps focusing on the drama in D.C. But the real changes haven’t been happening in the marble, steel and stone of Washington D.C., but in the lives of ordinary people who have been freed to “dream anything” and “together… achieve anything.”
The 2.4 million jobs, the 200,000 manufacturing jobs, the $8 trillion in stock market gains, the new bonuses and investments weren’t ordered by the government. They’re the bonuses of freedom. When the government cuts taxes, slashes regulations and frees us from the burden of bureaucracy, we prosper.
“Together, we are rediscovering the American way,” President Trump declared. “In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of the American life. Our motto is ‘in God we trust.'” But the left’s motto is, “In Government we trust.” And only when they’re in charge.
The left thinks that the ultimate power lies in government. That is why they’re scrambling to take over. It’s why the 2020 primaries are already looking like a clown car of senile senators and affirmative action wonder boys and girls. It’s why their judges are trying to block everything that President Trump does.
But the real power in this country lies with the people.
“We are appointing judges who will interpret the Constitution as written,” President Trump declared. He spoke of protecting the “Second Amendment” and “religious liberty.” “We have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in history,” he informed Americans.
He called for holding Federal employees accountable and freeing Americans to make their own decisions. He celebrated the death of the ObamaCare mandate and the growth of individual initiative. Huge tax cuts are being met with incredible job growth in business across the country.
The New American Moment is built on empowering Americans by recognizing that the people of this country are not an interchangeable mass of social problems, but an exceptional nation.
In the State of the Union, President Trump committed to securing jobs and opportunities by protecting our physical and economic borders. “The era of economic surrender is over,” he declared. Bad trade deals will be renegotiated and open borders that allow “millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans” will be made safe and secure.
The government of this nation will work for its people instead of for the special interests of the left.
“The United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country to help the needy, the struggling, and the underprivileged all over the world. But as President of the United States, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, and my constant concern is for America’s children, America’s struggling workers, and America’s forgotten communities… My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans — to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers too.”
Americans are dreamers too.
The un-American left plies us with the dreams of others. It prods us about their suffering. It tells us their stories. And it insists that we are to blame for their pain. But it doesn’t care about our pain.
The Democrats who sat through the stories of suffering and courage showed that they didn’t care. The forgotten American men and women whom the President of the United States led out of the shadows never mattered to them. But in the State of the Union, President Trump showed us their dreams.
The American Dream was here long before the dream of illegal migration. It will be here long after the wall is built and Islamic terrorism is defeated. And yet so many of us have come close to forgetting it.
The un-American left has filled our heads with its dreams and at times we can no longer dream our own.
In the State of the Union, President Trump reminded us of our dreams and of the American Dream.
Americans “forever remind us of what we should never forget: The people dreamed this country. The people built this country. And it is the people who are making America great again. As long as we are proud of who we are, and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve.”
You lost me at loving Jerusalem ; What the hell does that have to do with loving America? Some Americans are Jewish but most are NOT!
Good catch, Doug. Greenfield is Jewish, but that’s still an oddball to throw in that sentence. I liked this line, “One side sees brave police officers and the other genocidal bigots in uniform.” Liberalism is a mental disorder
That’s Savage.
EXCELLENT COMMENTARY !!!!!!
MAGA
Why don’t we just quit calling them “the Left” or “Democrats” or “Liberals” and start calling them what they really are: COMMUNISTS
“President Trump’s speech wasn’t divisive. But it did divide. It divided those in the House Chamber who love this country from those who don’t. It divided those who honor our troops, our anthem and our flag from those who take a knee. It divided those who want to make America great again from the left.”
From the racial divide created by the usurper to the left right divide being pushed now, it will be one messy cluskerfk when things boil over.
That “divide” officially started under Clinton and was fully and irreconcilably established under Obama, with Bush between the two getting us ready for it.
Nope. The divide has been there for decades. It’s been growing for years. The Communists have been here forever. The Soviets infiltrated agents provocateurs almost from day 1 of the USSR (they started sending moles overseas from practically the beginning with the long-term plan of world revolution.) They controlled the protest movement in the 1960s and 70s. Prior to that, we had our own communists and big government statists working to wreck the country. Look at FDR and Wilson. You can even trace the rot back to Lincoln’s tyrannical rule and his move to put the Fedgov over all.
But Clinton made it official, and Obama finalized it as irreconcilable.
Switching back and forth earlier this evening between Fox News and MSNBC was like watching two trains speed away from each other in separate directions.
The collective insanity of the political left is reaching epic proportions.
And the irony is striking.
We have a Hollywood movie in theaters now about the Washington Post’s noble fight to release the Pentagon Papers while, at the same time, that newspaper is now reporting on the dangers of releasing the House Intelligence Committee’s memo regarding FISA spying on a presidential candidate; and the ensuing efforts to derail his presidency.
We recently witnessed Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein’s unilateral release of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s summer 2017 testimony. Yet, she is now warning the public about the end of the world over #ReleaseTheMemo.
During the last few days, the Mainstream Media has been obsessing over White House communications director Hope Hicks’ alleged obstruction of justice for burying non-existent emails between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russians. But they never really cared about Hillary Clinton’s bona fide lost emails, or Uranium One, did they?
These people are insane.
If the memo tomorrow is as devastating as some House Republicans have claimed, it makes one wonder how far the Neocons might go to Wag The Dog.
The Storm Trump mentioned a month ago must be the Maelstrom about to burst upon the Political Traitors in WDC that were following Hussein’s and Harpy’s Unconstitutional Orders. They should call it Hurricane Deep Throat or Watergate because it will suck the two of them in and tear them to pieces like a Category 5 Hurricane.
Or it could fizzle like every other Obama and Clinton scandal from Fast & Furious to Benghazi.
We’re about to find out. One way, or the other.
The speech was divisive and so was the clapping. It was telling the socialists and communists we are going to run this country as our forefathers visioned.
By ending the surveillance state?
Good article other than the seemingly out of place mention of Jerusalem.
I thought that it sucked.
I think most people here expected you to.
Stopped reading the propaganda after referring to the murderous fascist police state and ISIS and heroin importation supporting military as heroes. Handing out tickets and running a child porn website that takes bitcoin doesn’t qualify for being a hero. Purely UnAmerican propagandistic bullshit! It is why I said that I didn’t know if Trump was aware of all of the lies in the speech.
In case you hadn’t noticed the time of the western civilization loathing leftist/liberal/progressive is going to join the 20th century that spawned it on the ash heap of history. Throughout Europe and the Anglosphere the nihilistic, hateful, retarded, leftist dogma you bitterly cling to is being rejected along with your beloved barbarian “immigrants” you champion. (BTW Have you been gang banged by 20 or so of your beloved “poor Muslim refugees” yet? If not you are not doing your duty to you dogma. You’ll get extra bonus points if they hack your carcass up and dump it afterwards.)
I suggest that, seeing as you apparently loathe everything about western civilization, you should select a place to live outside of Europe and the Anglosphere and move there while you still comfortably can and before you are forced to. I hear Venezuela, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and North Korea are especially lovely. You’ll be right at home in any of those countries.
You and the rest of your ilk have just about worn out our last nerve.
Andrea,
Here’s an entire nation that agrees with you, perhaps you can escape to there where you will be happy: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/02/01/north-korea-white-paper-lustful-old-man-trump-turned-u-s-living-hell/
Make America White Again
Why would white people want to have children in this fascist shithole country?!
Make America the land of the free and the home of the brave again! That would MAGA!
Make America the land of the free and the home of the brave again! That would MAGA!
The first thing American’s would do if this could happen, is to rid itself of people who would call this a fascist shithole country, by whatever means possible.
Facist how?
“And President Trump’s State of the Union speech ….. It’s the greatest American speech of the century.”
I liked the speech.
But, greatest of the century??? Gimme a fucken break!
I sort of agree with you, about it being good but not outstandingly so,but what Presidential speech would you consider the greatest of the century in its place?
Three big things. Am I being divisive? Un-American?
1) When Prez Oreo talked about all the jobs he helped create, well, folks here cried “bullshit” in 2.3 nanoseconds …. rightfully pointing out the lies and bullshit the BLS spews forth. Admin especially did a great job exposing the lies.
But, Trump talks about the lowest jobless rate in history for kneegrows and Hispanics …. something we all KNOW is pretty much bullshit …. and I have yet to see anyone here crying out “you lie!”. Why is that?
2. Trump may be drained the swamp. But, he is doing nothing to reduce the size of government. This, too, is something that used to be discussed here often, but hardly brought up anymore. Why is that?
3. Lastly, the most obvious; debt and deficits and government spending. The 800 pound gorilla in the room. Trump is spending like crazy, the national debt will almost certainly increase to dizzying new heights …. yet, here again, most are giving Trump a pass. Why is that?
You’re right. But he’s only been in office 1 year, and most of the time he was fighting his own party, the lamestream media, the bureaucracy, and the dummycrats. Perhaps next year will be better news.
But in his column- The local news reported last month EPA is seeing mass retirments and departures. So at least 1 part of govt is shrinking.
This article is black and white thinking. I agree with some democrat points and I agree with some republican points. Whichever is more about freedom.
Here is something difficult to swallow imo…because every inch of the earth is controlled, owned, off limits etc., everyone deserves something. SHUT UP and listen before you go off all half cocked. Without population control, this problem gets worse and worse. A man used to be able to simply claim a piece of land and live. Not any longer. We either have eugenics, population control, the 4 horseman etc.
I’m a hater. This America sucks. Death to it.
And, of course, that will include death to you along with it in case you haven’t thought that through yet.
You don’t know the meaning of “death to…” You are a “death to…” n00b.
@ Stucky
Trump is just one man that needs at least 8 hours sleep and a family life. How much can you expect out of him a day in hours?
With all you expect of him I would say that is unrealistic. When you expect one man to solve all social problems you are asking for a dictatorship. That takes a special man.
I think in my humble opinion that our civilization has grown so complex that even government can no longer control it. Information is coming in so fast that we cannot absorb it. We have identified with technology at the expense of our cultural roots. So many young people are really mixed up because they cannot identify their purpose in life.
It is easy to blame the system; an imperfect construct, for most of our economic and social problems, but that would be a slap in the face to our human evolution.
The wheels of nature run slow but these wheels make their impact. Our lifespan is nothing compared to the timelessness of the processes going on in mother earth. We tend to think our short period of recording the weather makes us experts at predicting future weather patterns. Our problem is we fail to look at the total picture. And that is our exceptional purpose in life; to see that whole picture. Our common purpose in life is to support the biosphere.
Malama Na Ka Ina
That is our mother and the Sun is our father
“With all you expect of him I would say that is unrealistic.”
Very nice post, and I pretty much agree with all you say.
My expectations are NOT the Trump FIX all our problems in one year … or even four years.
I just want a little truth …. less lies. For example, why lie about black unemployment being the lowest in history? I’m pretty sure he knows that it doesn’t count the many millions which the BLS doesn’t consider.
And our YUGE debt problem. I don’t expect him to fix it in such a short time. But, I expect he could at least acknowledge it … which, as far as I know, he has not done. It appears to me he’s taking a head-in-sand approach, and that will lead to disaster.
EDIT. Wow, I didn’t even log off and now I’m anonymous. It was me, Stucky.
@Zarathrustra
When you talk about death what do you mean?