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TRUMP DEFENDS THE WEST
While critics display their embarrassing ignorance of history.
July 10, 2017
Bruce Thornton
President Trumpâs ringing defense of Western civilization during his speech in Poland was a welcome answer to the phony cultural relativism, fashionable self-loathing, and smug hypocrisy of leftist Westerners who bash the West but wouldnât live anywhere else. So itâs no surprise that the progressive establishment bashed the speech as âracial and religious paranoia,â as one screed in the Atlantic was titled.
That headline, and the essaysâ claim that âthe West is a racial and religious termâ and a dog-whistle for alt-right racists, bespeak a profound ignorance about what defines the West. The core ideas of the West began in the city states of ancient Greece, then for centuries were further elaborated by the Romans before Christianity existed. Most important of these ideas was the notion of citizenship, the belief that the laws and customs comprising the political order were a collective possession of free and equal citizens, not of a king or elite defined by birth and lording over subjects. Power no longer belonged to men, to be used to further their personal status or wealth or ambitions. Power became abstract, embodied in the laws, offices, and electoral procedures used by citizens to make the decisions about who should use power, and for what power should be used.
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The attacks on Trumpâs speech represent the bankruptcy of internationalist idealism and the hypocrisy of noble-savage multiculturalism. No matter what they say, the critics of the West have already voted with their feet for the superiority of the West in which they have chosen to live. The self-proclaimed âPalestinian activistâ Linda Sarsour, who after Trumpâs speech called for a âjihadâ against âfascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House,â would never go to Riyadh, Tehran, Ramallah, or Gaza and âspeak truth to powerâ in such a way.
But Sarsour is a creature of the corrupt progressive university and a badly educated intelligentsia, both full of spoiled children who have turned biting the cultural, political, and economic hand that feeds them into a fashion statement and status symbol. If like the Poles theyâd had to live under a brutal, totalitarian state, they would be cheering Trumpâs speech as enthusiastically as the Poles did. It is a testimony to how ideologically debauched our intellectuals are that a supposedly crude, badly educated businessman and reality television celebrity understands the West better than the eggheads do.
Trump Defends the West
TRUMP DEFENDS THE WEST
While critics display their embarrassing ignorance of history.
July 10, 2017
Bruce Thornton
President Trumpâs ringing defense of Western civilization during his speech in Poland was a welcome answer to the phony cultural relativism, fashionable self-loathing, and smug hypocrisy of leftist Westerners who bash the West but wouldnât live anywhere else. So itâs no surprise that the progressive establishment bashed the speech as âracial and religious paranoia,â as one screed in the Atlantic was titled.
That headline, and the essaysâ claim that âthe West is a racial and religious termâ and a dog-whistle for alt-right racists, bespeak a profound ignorance about what defines the West. The core ideas of the West began in the city states of ancient Greece, then for centuries were further elaborated by the Romans before Christianity existed. Most important of these ideas was the notion of citizenship, the belief that the laws and customs comprising the political order were a collective possession of free and equal citizens, not of a king or elite defined by birth and lording over subjects. Power no longer belonged to men, to be used to further their personal status or wealth or ambitions. Power became abstract, embodied in the laws, offices, and electoral procedures used by citizens to make the decisions about who should use power, and for what power should be used.
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The attacks on Trumpâs speech represent the bankruptcy of internationalist idealism and the hypocrisy of noble-savage multiculturalism. No matter what they say, the critics of the West have already voted with their feet for the superiority of the West in which they have chosen to live. The self-proclaimed âPalestinian activistâ Linda Sarsour, who after Trumpâs speech called for a âjihadâ against âfascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House,â would never go to Riyadh, Tehran, Ramallah, or Gaza and âspeak truth to powerâ in such a way.
But Sarsour is a creature of the corrupt progressive university and a badly educated intelligentsia, both full of spoiled children who have turned biting the cultural, political, and economic hand that feeds them into a fashion statement and status symbol. If like the Poles theyâd had to live under a brutal, totalitarian state, they would be cheering Trumpâs speech as enthusiastically as the Poles did. It is a testimony to how ideologically debauched our intellectuals are that a supposedly crude, badly educated businessman and reality television celebrity understands the West better than the eggheads do.
Trump Defends the West
