Posted on 08/21/2025 10:14:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Of the 45 men who have been president of the United States, there are three who can be considered indispensable to either the nation’s establishment or survival. They are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Donald Trump.
Other than radical leftists, most Americans would recognize why Washington and Lincoln were indispensable: Without Washington’s character and leadership, the nation as we know it would not have been established. And without Lincoln’s principled character, the Union would not have been maintained, and American society would not have been restored through slavery’s abolition.
How does Trump fit into this panoply? It is Trump who has rescued the country from an irretrievable headfirst dash into a permanent one-party socialist oligarchy that would have eventuated in an inevitable fracturing and potential demise of the United States.
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Donald Trump’s inclusion on this list derives not only from his political, legislative, and unprecedented international accomplishments but also from his impact on the psyche of the vast majority of citizens and the way he transformed a feckless Republican Party into a viable and resolute opposition made up of patriotic Americans of all races, creeds, and ethnicities.
Trump showed a nation stuck in a 28-year morass of political mediocrity and collectivism that fearlessness, determination, and an implacable conviction in the principles of the nation’s founding would defeat the Beltway elitists and the Marxist-dominated Democrat party in their endgame of transforming the nation.
What would the landscape and future prospects for the United States be today if Donald Trump, in 2015, had decided not to run and Hillary Clinton had been elected the 45th president by the average margin predicted in the polls?
That outcome would have resulted in Democrats winning two closely contested Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, giving them control of that chamber. During...
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Trump showed a nation stuck in a 28-year morass of political mediocrity and collectivism that fearlessness, determination, and an implacable conviction in the principles of the nation’s founding would defeat the Beltway elitists and the Marxist-dominated Democrat party in their endgame of transforming the nation.
Love seeing the old fashioned, hand colored etching style used in this.
Agreed. And reading the entire article is a chilling reminder of how close we were to the Hillary nightmare. Even if she was just 8 more years of Obama (not like a witch jacked up on Red Bull), just the judiciary changes alone would have destroyed the country.
Democrats are using the Cloward Piven Strategy converting the USA into a communist State. Bankrupting the nation is the first objective.
There’s a fourth: Ronaldus Magnus. Not only did he lead us out of the economic doldrums of the Carter years and restore American confidence and greatness to be that shining city on the hill, but President Reagan boldly tossed away detente with the Soviets and said, “They’re an evil empire. We need to win this thing.” And win we did.
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I have come to see Lincoln in a more measured view. No arguing he saved the union as we know it but one could argue the southern states had the right to secede. Just as the Canadian western provinces are considering.
But, like you, I believe they had a right to secede. And IMHO, Lincoln was about abolition like Trump is pro-life. Neither was/is very hard core abolition/pro-life. Both were cool with getting the federal govt out of the way and letting the states decide. And both had assassination attempts before entering office. Lincoln was in Maryland in February 1861 during his president-elect months (back then presidents were inaugurated in March, not January) telling the slave, but neutral, Marylanders that he wasn't going to try to get the federal govt to force Maryland to free slaves. He was just wanting to undo the SCOTUS decision Dred Scott and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act -- both of which made it harder for free states to be free. And yet on multiple occasions the Marylanders tried to kill Lincoln. This was before the confederates attacked Fort Sumter (April 1861).
Just like the rampant hatred the Dims had against Trump after the Dobbs decision let states be pro-life if they want (or still be pro-abortion if they want). And Trump was saying he's happy with it as is and wasn't going to do pro-life legislation at the national level. Yet the left tried multiple times to kill Trump (albeit before the 2024 election, not after the election like with Lincoln).
The union was never under threat during the CW. The question is would that union include the 11 Southern states.
IMHO Not Abe Lincoln.
He is probably the most over-rated president of all.
Never understood the Lincoln worship. He was hated by almost all in 1865 then Booth turned him into an icon.
He was a butcher.
IMO Washington is #1, the “Father of our Country,” but I put Trump as #2, ahead of Lincoln, who I think is lower than Reagan and McKinley.
Lincoln deserve critism for his picking of Generals, and not fighting an all out war until 1864.
As a Jacksonian, I have my criticisms of him.He was too willing to tolerate corruption, and his Generals dawdeled.He grew the Governmrnt, and allowed gar too much Whigish Hamiltonianism. If Jackson had been President, the war would have been over in under 6 Mounths.
Jackson and Polk.
Davis and Reagan
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