In recent conversations about my last newsletters, the subject of what is happening to the very fabric of American culture seems to come up quite often. My response has been, based on the research I have done over the past decade or so, that the progressives have pursued the destruction of what has made America great. Many of the conversations have been quite intimate and complicated. However, I know what the American strengths are. Unfortunately, the progressives, following the fundamental precepts of Marxism, have been insidiously attacking these strengths for nearly two centuries now.
As most of you know, I am a Russell Kirk acolyte. His basic precepts, laid out in his many writings, lead one to certain conclusions about how unique the American experience really is in world history. There has never been any nation ever constituted like our nation—NEVER. The strengths of America are: