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.