Announcing the U.S. mission to go to the moon within 10 years, President John F. Kennedy told a crowd at Rice University in September 1962 “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Jack Kennedy had a number of faults, but a vision of the greatness of the United States certainly wasn’t one of them. He knew, at that time, that despite Soviet “victories” in the space race, they could never defeat us. The moon would be ours, if not forever, at least first.
I return to my current mission—-that of combatting the pervasive McClellanism, the “Whataboutism,” and the pessimism so prevalent on the political right (but not the political left). it is ironic that although DemoKKKrats have three times as many atheists and/or agnostics in their party than Republicans, it is our side that has the most limited vision.
Many today look at the national debt in excess of $32 million; or at the between 2-4 million illegal criminal aliens who have entered the country; or at the horrific setbacks in our military caused by wokism and almost 20 years of bad policies, and collapse into defeat. “How can we ever reverse these policies? How can we ever recover?”
I don’t have a handy-dandy policy handbook for specifically how to address these. Obviously, when it comes to the illegal criminals, they can be, and will be, deported. How many depends on the steadfastness to which President Trump (who will be elected) adheres to his promises. But it is worth noting that in Ireland and the UK, illegal invaders are now being deported. Just five years ago this would have seemed impossible.
If there is one thing American history teaches, it is that change comes rapidly, unexpectedly, and usually from a quarter no one expected. A president no one wanted, Chester Arthur, became the leader of the anti-corruption and anti-spoils movement of the 1870s. And he had been one of the leading advocates of “spoils” before his presidency!
The high taxes, massive debt, and big government era of World War I was reversed in astonishingly quick order by Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, who paid off one-third of the national debt in just eight years! Many free-market economists point to the role of Andrew Mellon’s tax cuts in this miracle. Indeed they were important. But more important was an almost instantaneous new attitude that cloaked Americans in the “Roaring ‘20s,” an optimism that produced an explosion of production and rising wealth for all Americans. Automobiles, telephones, radios, and electricity spread like wildfire among the American public.
No one knows what would have happened had Kennedy lived, but without question the entire moon program perpetuated his vision. Those who have small dreams get small results.
So how does it happen? As of now, it seems unlikely President Trump will have the benefit of more than a one or two-vote Senate majority, which saddles him with the predictable turncoats, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkoski, and likely the new Maryland senator, Larry Hogan. Republicans will likely retain the House, and increase their margin, but only nominally. I guess they will have a 10-15 seat majority. In short, neither of these outcomes will provide President Trump what he needs to achieve momentous change. To attain greatness—-not for himself, but for America.
But it is coming nevertheless. The more I look at the recent political climate, the more convinced I have become that it is precisely by divine arrangement that Republicans do not have an overwhelming advantage, because then they would be tempted to claim credit for the greatness that is coming.
Doing that which is hard is coming. And God is going to ensure that Trump pushes the nation to an unimagined level, but that it can only be explained as the hand of the Almighty.
Larry Schweikart
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