The Greatest National Sin: Forgetting Your Purpose and Failure to Finish Your Job

I read an article from the great History Professor, Victor Davis Hanson, detailing the vision and actions that have made President Trump such a great President.   A friend suggested that we need someone to tell the public the story of Trump and his accomplishments.  I rebutted his assertion that we need someone to tell Trump’s story in the election of 2020.  I respectfully disagree.

The 2020 election isn’t and won’t be the problem for Trump or the nationalist Americans who voted for him:  He’s safe for the 2020 round of elections, because the American citizens who voted for him remember that a vast left wing conspiracy decided to stage a coup d'état and void the will of the people who elected him.  They haven’t forgotten that key factor - yet.  Much like Great Britain in World War II, our Churchillian Bulldog, Sir Winston Churchill (or maybe the late Sheriff Buford Pusser might be a better all-American example), Trump, although he doesn’t smoke a Cigar, nor does he drink to excess in public, is still in the midst of the incomplete, unfinished battle, where he calls out his enemies with Tweets.    

But, it’s only a matter of time, until those who elected him forget why they elected him.   It will happen when most of his work is done, the mission is nearly complete and the battle is seemingly won, at the end of his Constitutionally limited terms.  Just before the final nail is driven in the coffin containing the monster that came so close to killing us.   The danger of his mission will be forgotten and the course that has been mostly corrected.  Then the public will lose focus and the slow creeping slide toward socialism will rear its head with mediocre candidates (like George H. W. Bush, after Ronald Reagan) to continue to take us to our oblivion of a national perdition.  Having failed to find another leader with the same vision and stomach for the battle, to which he could pass the baton of leadership, Americans will forget his accomplishments, only to remember his “vile tweets,” uncouth and unbecoming behavior that is “beneath the dignity of the office.” They will forget that we chose him as our champion, specifically because he brought the fight (our fight) to our mutual enemy.

Our example here is Europe after World War II.  

• Instead of unleashing Patton to finish the job and defeat Leninist Marxism, we just didn’t have the stomach for it.  So we throttled our real leaders and deposed  them (or killed - many  claim that the car wreck that paralyzed Patton and shortly thereafter took his life was planned).  This allowed a dying enemy to recuperate and return from the dead.  
• Churchill was defeated, because he was a warrior, and England decided that the time for war was over and past.  We were civilized, and refused to finish the cruel job at hand.  
• General Douglas McArthur tried again during the Korean War, only to be rebuffed and told to stand down.  He resigned his commission over the difference in opinion.  

And what did these decisions get us?  A Cold War and Germany, who now dominates the European Union economically, having decimated Great Britain’s economy.

The greatest “sin” any civilization can have is to forget and deny its greatness.  And the English speaking civilizations are ALL GUILTY of this infraction.  Our heroes are only remembered after they’ve expired and we notice we’re sliding down that slippery slope towards perdition.

Get ready.  In 2024, we start sliding toward oblivion again.