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Thomas Piatak is a contributing editor to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He writes from Cleveland, Ohio.
In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra recorded a song that proclaimed American virtues, entitled "The House I Live In." How quaint, I thought, that Americans used to believe those things. Old Blue Eyes would have written a different song were he writing today.
Trump energized tens of millions by showing that opposition to the globalist consensus is possible. He achieved just enough to give a future dissenter from that consensus a chance to overcome the media's negative portrayal of populist nationalism.
Despite the overwhelming institutional opposition he faced, Trump's reelection campaign was a bravura performance. It strongly suggests that the nationalist and populist themes that propelled Trump to victory in 2016 have lost none of their potency.
We have forgotten God. America's journey from Camelot to COVID was the result of many wrong turns, but abandoning our faith was central to our political, economic, moral, and cultural decline.
The left has used its growing cultural power to paint the darkest possible picture of the history of our country and our civilization, seeking nothing less than the abolition of America. We need to once again insist on the superiority of the West.
Certain armchair conservative writers seem perfectly content to criticize the ordinary Americans who are locked away in their homes unable to work.
Tariffs' beneficial effects have not been limited to the economy, despite the efforts of interested media parties to say otherwise.
The contemporary elite class has presided over widespread American decline, brought about in part by the succession of bad ideas they have embraced.
America might do well to listen to the words of Otto von Bismarck, and ensure American lives aren't wasted in the Middle East in vain.
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought Americans together like nothing has since.
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