"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
America's Founders understood civilization's long struggle for individual liberty and against the ideas whose consequences are tyranny and oppression. The world was changed by their choice and courageous actions on behalf of liberty.
It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was for liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles which had been capsulized and embodied in their Declaration of Independence.
The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."
Inasmuch as the current battle is a "battle of ideas," one cannot assume that a mere man or woman can "restore America." American liberty can be restored, "IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based." See
A knowledgeable and willing leader can be instrumental in helping "the PEOPLE" to rediscover and assert those ideas, but John Adams' words remain a wise caution for today's citizens who remain, in the words of Justice Joseph Story, "the only KEEPERS of the Constitution." - Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."