Trump versus Biden on the "Cultural Revolutionaries"

MSNBC this morning says the Duce's weekend, 4th of July speeches were American Carnage all over again.

They were racist and divisive instead of healing and celebratory and uniting.

They were wrong and harmful and wicked altogether.

The network showed videos of excerpts.

Trump actually made two speeches on the same themes, one at the White House and one at Mt. Rushmore.

Two points.

First, in both speeches Trump made no reference to the Confederacy, instead defending public honors for the Founders, defending the revolution of 1776, celebrating our nation's founding and our history, and by name celebrating Christopher Columbus at the White House, tracing back to him the story of the building of America.

Tammy Duckworth's public charge that Trump's spent his entire Rushmore speech defending "dead traitors", an apparent allusion to the debate about public honors for the Confederacy and Confederate leaders, was a ridiculous lie.

Those things could all have appeared in a speech by Joe Biden, as they reflect what we know of his rarely mentioned and all but concealed official position.

But none of that was in any weekend message or speech of Biden's, so far as I can tell from media reporting.

[Biden's near silence on these matters invites conservative "interpretation".]

Second, the Duce characterized the vandals tearing down and destroying monuments as radical leftists with a divisive and destructive program who want to "overthrow the American Revolution" and tear down America and replace it with a repressive regime featuring massive levels of indoctrination of the whole population, particularly of the young in schools.

The actions and words of the cultural revolutionaries increasingly, daily, bear that out.

Recall the statue of Columbus was wrecked by a white anarchist.

Recall Kaepernick's tweet deliberately echoing and going beyond the bitter but entirely justified remarks of Frederick Douglass about what Independence Day means to the slave before the Civil War, repudiating the revolution, the Founders, the republic, and the history of the nation from that day to this.

Neither he nor anyone of the racial left ever mentions Douglass's utter reversal when at last Lincoln and his allies ended slavery at so massive a cost in lives and treasure.