"A 100% AMERICAN" - Emmett Tyrrell: Jul 09, 2020, https://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2020/07/09/a-100-american-n2572095 [AS I SEE IT: This is about as accurate a statement of President Trump as I have heard, though nothing he has ever said makes me consider him anything but a conservative. - Stan]
For some reason, Americans both on the left and the right have taken a pass on defending American values and beliefs. Trump is not taking a pass. He is indignant. If he has to stand alone, he will stand alone for American values. He did not come to Washington to get along with the establishment. He came to defend our values and to use the American system of capitalism and democratic values to assure our prosperity. He is doing just that. Did you note this past week's economic news? Or how about the good economic news of the month before? My guess is that Donald will not be standing alone this Election Day. That is my prophecy. He will have the American people with him, and Official Washington will again be without a clue.
His two speeches, one at Mount Rushmore on Friday and a second at the White House on Saturday, outlined what he believes and what he thinks the American people believe. It is not just capitalism or the rule of law. It is also the ordinary stuff: family, religious services, freedom of association, saluting the flag, unions for union folk, nonunions for nonunion folk, the great outdoors for some Americans, the environment for others. After watching him -- unimpeded by the Trump-haters or even by the Trump-lovers -- I have come to the belief that the president is a practical American who understands how to get things done. He is neither a conservative nor a leftist. He is just an American. I wish I could report that he was a hardcore conservative, but I cannot, and that is OK by me.
He trusts capitalism, though he is aware of its vulnerability to excess. He trusts government, though he wants to keep it limited. He believes in the American spirit at work and at play. He would not be embarrassed to be reminded that he loves America -- and he hates those who would belittle America. Most of us Americans do, too.
When he spoke out against defiling monuments, he saw it all coming. First, you tear down statues to Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the president said, and what comes next? As the president said, next will be George Washington, the father of our country, and Thomas Jefferson. That sounded extreme, but it has happened.
Now we have assaults against Christopher Columbus and St. Junipero Serra.
But wait, it gets worse. There are threats to statues raised for the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln. He was assassinated for freeing the slaves and saving the Union by the first of a long line of public-spirited actors, reaching right up to Jane Fonda and Alec Baldwin. The cowardly killer was John Wilkes Boothe. And forget not the defilement of a statue raised by the great sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to America's first all-Black regiment, the historic 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Boston.
And now the ignoramuses are threatening the great -- and, need I say, Black -- Frederick Douglass.
Finally, the mob, in its ignorance, has attacked a statue in San Francisco to Ulysses S. Grant, the general who beat the Confederate armies and, as president, sent our army repeatedly into the South to protect the recently freed Blacks. Grant was Trump's kind of guy. He was greater than all the generals of the South or the North, and there would be no defiling of monuments if he were alive today.
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Source: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
Washington -- Many Americans, after they have been in Washington, D.C., for a few years, become less fervent about their beliefs. President Donald Trump has become (SET ITAL)more(END ITAL) fervent about the things he believes. After this past weekend and Donald's solemnly expressed indignation about the shredding of our shared values and beliefs, he is being excoriated by the media -- the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post -- for being divisive, racist and provocative.For some reason, Americans both on the left and the right have taken a pass on defending American values and beliefs. Trump is not taking a pass. He is indignant. If he has to stand alone, he will stand alone for American values. He did not come to Washington to get along with the establishment. He came to defend our values and to use the American system of capitalism and democratic values to assure our prosperity. He is doing just that. Did you note this past week's economic news? Or how about the good economic news of the month before? My guess is that Donald will not be standing alone this Election Day. That is my prophecy. He will have the American people with him, and Official Washington will again be without a clue.
His two speeches, one at Mount Rushmore on Friday and a second at the White House on Saturday, outlined what he believes and what he thinks the American people believe. It is not just capitalism or the rule of law. It is also the ordinary stuff: family, religious services, freedom of association, saluting the flag, unions for union folk, nonunions for nonunion folk, the great outdoors for some Americans, the environment for others. After watching him -- unimpeded by the Trump-haters or even by the Trump-lovers -- I have come to the belief that the president is a practical American who understands how to get things done. He is neither a conservative nor a leftist. He is just an American. I wish I could report that he was a hardcore conservative, but I cannot, and that is OK by me.
He trusts capitalism, though he is aware of its vulnerability to excess. He trusts government, though he wants to keep it limited. He believes in the American spirit at work and at play. He would not be embarrassed to be reminded that he loves America -- and he hates those who would belittle America. Most of us Americans do, too.
When he spoke out against defiling monuments, he saw it all coming. First, you tear down statues to Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the president said, and what comes next? As the president said, next will be George Washington, the father of our country, and Thomas Jefferson. That sounded extreme, but it has happened.
Now we have assaults against Christopher Columbus and St. Junipero Serra.
But wait, it gets worse. There are threats to statues raised for the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln. He was assassinated for freeing the slaves and saving the Union by the first of a long line of public-spirited actors, reaching right up to Jane Fonda and Alec Baldwin. The cowardly killer was John Wilkes Boothe. And forget not the defilement of a statue raised by the great sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to America's first all-Black regiment, the historic 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Boston.
And now the ignoramuses are threatening the great -- and, need I say, Black -- Frederick Douglass.
Finally, the mob, in its ignorance, has attacked a statue in San Francisco to Ulysses S. Grant, the general who beat the Confederate armies and, as president, sent our army repeatedly into the South to protect the recently freed Blacks. Grant was Trump's kind of guy. He was greater than all the generals of the South or the North, and there would be no defiling of monuments if he were alive today.
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