Donald Trump’s Independence Day Speech - An Opinion Article

Donald Trump’s Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore was a call to arms to take on the evil mob destroying the beloved country’s ‘values’. It was a thunderous condemnation of the political left, and a promise to seize the country from the “totalitarian” proponents of “social justice” who are destroying our culture of “free and open debate,” replacing it with “cancel culture and speech codes” The picture that Trump painted with his speech is far detached from reality. Totalitarianism involves guns and concentration camps. His argument is the same conservative persecution complex we have heard for decades; some of the richest and most powerful people in the world complaining that the “far left” are totalitarians. What’s going on here should be made clear. Trump’s economy, which he boasts about nonstop, is failing. Well over 100,000 people have died of coronavirus and cases are on the rise. 8 out of 10 people report that they are dissatisfied with the direction the country is going, and Joe Biden is outpolling Trump consistently. Americans have only gotten more sympathetic to immigrants over time, so he can’t run on scapegoating Mexicans like he did in 2016. He has one approach left: to try to reignite the culture wars and convince people that a censorious left is trying to destroy their freedom. Donald Trump has risen to power by spinning tales about an America that doesn’t exist, one plagued by marauding hordes of immigrants, vandals, and Stalinists. He promises the public that he will restore a better America, one that also never existed. His speech was full of misinformation, vague innuendos, and selective details about the ‘cancel culture’, the ‘fascist left’ and the ‘great’ America under him.