The Sun Sets on Great Britain
But it was the second aspect of Trump’s speech that contained multiple layers and triggered the Left even more:
The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic…. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is: glory, destiny, and pride. The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance.
A conspicuous lack of courage, “glory, destiny, and pride” marks Great Britain’s current retreat from its historic confidence and greatness, as Trump has candidly declared in other settings recently. While he referenced Churchill in this speech, surely some listeners had to recall his recent remarks that when it comes to Kier Starmer, “We aren’t dealing with Churchill anymore.”
His reference to Churchill and his close cooperation with FDR in World War II contained a subtle point that verges on the esoteric. After a typically Trumpian recollection of his mother, who came from “the very serious Scotland…where they had their greatest of warriors,” he circled back to King Charles, noting he had been the longest-serving Prince of Wales in British history. What few listeners likely remembered was that Churchill and FDR launched their World War II grand strategy on the decks of a British battleship, Prince of Wales.
Here, perhaps, only World War II history geeks will recall that the Prince of Wales was ignominiously sunk off Singapore in the earliest weeks of the Pacific theater, rolling over to port (that is, its left side) before slipping beneath the waves. Today, Britain is listing heavily to port and is in danger of drowning on account of its lack of courage.
On Friday, Mark Steyn wrote “The Future Shows Up,” noting that despite gains made by Reform in last week’s UK elections, “Last time round, ‘independent Muslims’ won thirty-one council seats. Yesterday, they won 208. How many next time? As my former GB News colleague Colin Brazier observed:”
“Unlike me, [Brazier] presents as very moderate and reasonable, but he takes demography seriously, and, unlike most of the British media, he knows what yesterday’s results are telling us about where we’re headed,” Steyn adds.
Exit quote: “To put it another way: for two decades now, we have been told — sotto voce — that the reason hundreds of thousands (likely millions now) of schoolgirls have to be gang-sodomised, urinated on and doused in petrol in towns up and down England is because the Labour Party needs the Muslim vote. Alas for the nominally ruling party, the Muslim vote no longer needs Labour.”
