I recently mentioned to someone that probably the last clear chance for the cultural standards of regular people - those despised, deplorable Trump voters - to demonstrate that they mattered was the release of "Baby Got Back" in 1992.
You laugh. >
But we agreed I was probably onto something.
And do you young people know who was the last great American political couple to retire from that bloody field of battle in ignonimous defeat?
America is bleeding: institutions captured by ideologues, borders that might as well not exist, schools teaching activism instead of the three R's, families under sustained assault,
and a culture that treats objective reality as optional.
Life-threatening.
And Trump is applying pressure to staunch the immediate damage and buy us time.
Securing the border, reining in bureaucracy, appointing judges who actually read the Constitution, restori g energy sanity.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.