But it also is refreshing to hear someone express his patriotic pride, and President Trump believes that America is a special place and he isn’t afraid to declare it, even overseas. He championed the values that have made us what we are, and made us the magnet for oppressed people all over the world. As has been said – “Without America there is no Free World.” That bears repeating. Donald Trump knows that. He also knows who the enemy is, and does not shy away from naming “radical Islam” and “Russian aggression” as major threats to world peace. President Obama still can’t utter the first and ignored the second.
Anyway, while Poland cheered President Trump, and most of America nodded in agreement, the Progressive left was outraged at his remarks. They especially did not like his praise of “western” values – that, they think, somehow is racist and discriminatory and ethnocentric and demeaning, but President Trump did not degrade other nations, he championed our own, but only in the context of Western civilization. His critics don’t think very highly of America, seeing us a blot, a bane and a curse. If we can repeat the lyrics from a popular song from the World War II era: President Trump thinks that “this is worth fighting for.” Almost everyone in this country used to believe that; we are not sure if that is true today.