America's Dueling Narratives on the Fourth of July

Townhall.com ^ | June 9, 2019 | Christopher Chantrill

[Kaslin]

Last Thursday, President Trump gave an hour-long speech celebrating the United States of America. If you talked to the ordinary Americans in the crowd attending the speech, they liked it. They liked it, in particular, because it celebrated America, according to folks interviewed by Kristina Wong.

“The show was very patriotic. I’m glad we got the politics out of it. And we were just joined as a nation to celebrate our great nation,” a father and Marine Corps veteran from Maryland said. “I thought it was beautiful,” his wife said.

Of course, the speech was full of politics. The President recited the National Myth of the United States of America. And that’s as political as it gets.

Liberals didn’t like it. Of course they didn’t. Because they don’t believe in the National Myth of the United States. They have their own Sacred Myth, about oppression and racism and sexism and homophobia and how liberals are selfless activists, the only people in a fallen world that care about peace and justice.

Trump’s America is today’s America, a glorious and world-dominating success, and, in the president’s words,

We will always be the people who defeated a tyrant, crossed a continent, harnessed science, took to the skies, and soared into the heavens because we will never forget that we are Americans and the future belongs to us. (Applause.)

President Trump is talking about an America that already had its revolution.

[BenLurkin]

It should come as a surprise to no one that liberal and Americans share no common ground.