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Making July 4th Great Again
Front Page Magazine ^ | July 4, 2025 | Bruce Thornton

Posted on 07/04/2025 12:40:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In only a few months, Trump has corrected his predecessors’ Titanic course of our ship of state.

In the postwar period, the rise of the New Left and its “long march” through the institutions accelerated the erosion of patriotism, particularly among those who spent time in universities. Love of one’s country joined faith as a malign superstition, while sexual restraint and virtue became cultural shorthand for repression, ignorance, unsophisticated gullibility, and fascism. The United States was transformed by the left from the “shining city on a hill” to a cesspool of tyranny, racism, oppression, philistinism, and heartless greed.

But this year Donald Trump’s spectacular successes at home and abroad, the fruits of his Make America Great Again movement, has restored Constitutional order, common sense, and tradition to our government. Now the “vibe,” as the kiddies of all ages say, is triumphantly patriotic, and the celebration of our nation’s birth, of freedom, and of political equality, is once again exuberant. And our exceptionalism is obvious to all except the enemies of freedom.

Earlier, there were moments of renewal. Ronald Reagan’s presidency marked a powerful pushback against the left’s collectivist trends and policies, and reform of our foreign policy of cringing accommodation of our enemies and rivals. With wit and passionate resolve, Reagan challenged the self-loathing clichés of the cognitive and cultural elites, slaughtering whole herds of their foreign policy, economic, and culture war sacred cows. Most important, he shocked the world and befuddled the foreign policy clerks by engineering the collapse of Soviet communism, freeing millions from tyranny.

But the rot of self-loathing had spread too wide and deep in our culture. The terrorist attacks on 9/11 should have swept away the juvenile leftist conceits and ideologies, and the policies which continued to fail at home and abroad. But the left-leaning Democrats,...

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1 posted on 07/04/2025 12:40:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Front Page can start making it great again by correctly referring to it as Independence Day.


2 posted on 07/04/2025 12:45:38 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

I loved the 2020 celebration at Mount Rushmore.


3 posted on 07/04/2025 1:02:42 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He went on about his amnesty for illegals yesterday. That’s not Independence Day celebration-worthy in my book.


4 posted on 07/04/2025 1:04:36 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: T.B. Yoits

Correct.


5 posted on 07/04/2025 1:28:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Be sure not to read the article.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 1:42:50 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
Be sure not to read the article.

???

It's not just the title. The article doesn't refer to it as Independence Day either.

7 posted on 07/04/2025 1:54:07 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: 9YearLurker

Give it a rest.


8 posted on 07/04/2025 1:54:22 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

You want amnesty? Just gonna go along with it? No push back?


9 posted on 07/04/2025 1:58:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

I didn’t say that. I said give it a rest.


10 posted on 07/04/2025 2:23:03 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

I said I don’t want amnesty.


11 posted on 07/04/2025 2:23:53 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MileHi

Go clean up your act.


12 posted on 07/04/2025 2:24:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Stuff a sock in it.


13 posted on 07/04/2025 2:26:22 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read the article and came to comments looking for intelligent people comments. Instead we have insults between freepers. Very sad


14 posted on 07/04/2025 2:41:57 PM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: MileHi

Please do!


15 posted on 07/04/2025 3:33:49 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; T.B. Yoits; cnsmom; 9YearLurker; Jacquerie; MileHi; larryjohnson; rlmorel; ...

The long game of creating open source Founder audio books we have engaged in is going to do more to restore American knowledge about the Founding Fathers than most other efforts.

PragerU will likely always be ahead of us to be sure, also Hillsdale. They are the only two I can think of. The schools stopped teaching about the Founders generations ago. I wasn’t taught about them.

But since today is Independence Day, here is an audio book we created, free and in the public domain, about every one of our Founding Fathers along with an in-depth analysis of the Declaration of Independence and what each of the 27 grievances stands for:

New audiobook release: Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293433/posts


16 posted on 07/05/2025 12:30:06 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read the article and came to comments looking for intelligent people comments. Instead we have insults between freepers. Very sad


17 posted on 07/05/2025 2:25:31 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Thank you so much for posting this information. What a wonderful resource. Will be sharing with many others.


18 posted on 07/05/2025 2:52:33 AM PDT by vis a vis
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To: cnsmom

That was memorable.


19 posted on 07/05/2025 3:39:38 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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