May 26, 2023

I get a lot of email from readers who think the American experiment is over.  They believe that the lights in Reagan’s “shining city on the hill” are being snuffed out by the advancing darkness of tyranny — and there’s nothing we can do about it.  I understand their frustration.  But they’re wrong.  Things are far from hopeless.

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Ronald Reagan had a different objective for the Cold War from other politicians’.  It was simple, and completely contrary to the Washington elite’s strategic thinking at the time.  In 1977, he stated his expectation:

My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: We win and they lose.

It was not containment, nor slowing the global advancement of communism.  It was face it and defeat it.  His notion was really that simple — decide to win rather than just to hold on.

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We’re facing another Cold War now — only this time, our enemies are domestic.  They’re the “fundamentally change America” communists who are attacking under any banner that demands more government encroachment on our freedom:

  • Liberal
  • Progressive
  • Democrat
  • Antifa
  • BLM
  • Social Justice
  • Climate Justice
  • Transgender justice
  • And anything else that sounds good but advances tyranny

But freedom-loving Americans still hold the high ground.  Our ground is the ground of righteousness, defending what God has given us.  We just need to stop hiding from creeping totalitarianism for fear of being called nasty names (e.g., racist).  We need to stand up for what we believe in — proudly and unapologetically.  If we decide to win — we do.  Our domestic communists have one path to victory, and it depends on breaking our spirit.  If they fail at that, they lose.

Let’s examine how their campaign is going.

The radicals have infiltrated virtually all of our institutions.  But Americans who identify as “liberal” — the 21st-century codename for communists — are only 25 percent of the population according to Gallup.  As our institutions have become increasingly radical, confidence in them has collapsed.  With the loss of confidence, they are also losing their effectiveness.  The 75 percent are having their say in the matter.

Our enemies can’t win ideologically, either.  Instead, they’ve tried to stifle debate.  But Biden’s plan to govern disinformation crashed and burned.  The DOJ’s attempt to censor dissenting opinions has been exposed as a major scandal, which may even threaten the existence of the FBI.  Conservatives are winning the debate — though slower than many would like.  Republicans now control a large majority of the states, conservatives are winning local elections, and parents are retaking their school systems.

The radicals can’t win elections, either.  Instead, they tried to institutionalize election fraud.  Their push to nationalize elections with H.R. 1 — the For the People Act — would have taken control away from the states.  The legislation failed to pass.  Even many of the rule changes that enabled the 2020 shenanigans have since been found unconstitutional.  Elections remain in the hands of the states, and most still have clean elections.