By Buck Sexton
THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE GREATEST TIME
I ngrates, snowflakes, and the perpetually aggrieved got far too much media attention in the run-up to Independence Day this year. For some people, it’s not enough that they can’t enjoy America. They don’t want anyone else having too much fun on behalf of “We the People” either. A dispiritingly influential Colin Kaepernick was able to scuttle a new Nike shoe that featured the Betsy Ross version of the American flag. The has-been NFL star felt that the iteration of our national symbol from back in 1777 had somehow become a symbol of white nationalism – never mind that former President Barack Obama had two such flags on stage behind him at his 2013 inauguration. Reality doesn’t matter when “social justice” is at issue. Then there were the hysterical before-and- after reactions to the Trump Independence Day rally on the National Mall... Allegedly serious journalists were comparing this family-friendly patriotic celebration to the Soviet Union and North Korea. Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School intoned on Twitter that the “resemblance to the days before Tiananmen Square is chilling.”
Public figures on the Left claimed that the sight of American tanks and a B-2 bomber flyover were worrisome signs that martial law could be upon us. Seriously. That the American Left has largely gone insane is a subject that requires another essay (or a book series). But the anti- American lunacy on display from liberals over the Fourth of July holiday is even more inexplicable when set against the backdrop of
an increasingly undeniable reality: America is kicking ass right now.
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For some people, it’s not enough that they can’t enjoy America. They don’t want anyone else having too much fun on behalf of “We the People” either.
I mean it. We are not fighting a major war. We are not faced with the serious possibility of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviet Union. Jihadist terrorism has, for the moment, receded. For the foreseeable future, China will be more concerned with economic espionage than kinetic warfare. There is not a single, massive, destabilizing conflict on the
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