Trump’s “Always Be Free” Fairy Tale |
In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.” That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill. But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as members of Congress?
Americans are indoctrinated in government schools to presume that our national DNA practically guarantees we will always be free. But few follies are more perilous than presuming that individual rights are safe in perpetuity. None of the arguments on why liberty is inevitable can explain why it is becoming an endangered species. Presuming that freedom is our destiny lulls people against political predators of all parties and creeds.
Sorting out the absurdities in Trump’s “always be free” assertion is like peeling a political onion.
A key theme in the Trump’s presidential campaign last year was that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were tyrannizing American with censorship, DEI mandates, and idiotic regulations. When Trump said Americans “will always be free,” did he presume that the Biden presidency never happened, or what? Were all of the Biden administration’s abuses expunged on the day that Trump took his oath of office as 47th president? Trump has vigorously nullified many of Biden’s worst policies and executive orders. But the feds were oppressive long before Sleepy Joe arrived in the Oval Office.
Trump raised a similar claim six years ago in his 2019 State of the Union address. Trump announced, “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.”
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