Taking the Reins

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Section One of the 2025 Mandate for Leadership dives right in to what they believe is the primary function of the presidency. It starts on page 19 with a hearkening back to the bicentennial, perhaps to give us the warm fuzzies for a moment. I remember that the wagon train celebration rode through my small town in northern Pennsylvania, and many folks dressed up in clothing reminiscent of 1776, complete with long dresses and bonnets or wool pants and suspenders. But it wasn’t 1776, and the men and women lining the streets for the festooned parade all had equal voting rights and property rights, and even civil rights.

That doesn’t appear to be what the writers of this project have in mind moving forward.

This chapter tells us that “America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution. The former believe that America is — and always has been — “systemically racist” and that it is not worth celebrating and must be fundamentally transformed” (p19). It goes on to say that the latter are the better, in that they still believe in the heroes of America, its way of life, and its principles. They call themselves “Americanists.” Noting that Lincoln warned that America’s greatest threat would come not from without but…