There's this new virus...only, I think we've seen it before...

We are actually fighting the same adversary Lincoln identified early in his political career when he referred to the locofocos and mobocrats-terms he used for the Democrat party. In the years leading up to his presidency he, also often referred to them as the enemy. He was describing them even further when he said, "Evil can't stand discussion... What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself. What a skunk wants to do is keep snug under the barn in the daytime, when men are around with shotguns..." Whatever we call them, know that they have been skunks hiding under the barn for decades...coming out in the night when we're all asleep when darkness hides their havoc. But today they have become bolder and even more destructive in the daylight! Trump underestimated how serious and intense was the Left's genuine hatred for him. Newt Gingrich would say "these people are your mortal enemies. You represent the end of their world. They will never give up as long as you are in office." They don't seem to give up when he is out of office. They fear him-he is one of the men with "shotguns." We as a party consistently make one fatal mistake in how we deal with our "friends across the aisle"- Republicans always underestimate the depths of depravity and the heights of absurdity of the Democrat party. There are no limits to these. The Left in America today is not bound by morality, honesty or ethics, especially since God no longer is welcome on their platform. They have two guiding principles in everything they do. The first is: the end always justifies the means. It's interesting to note that Lincoln had the same idea about his political adversary Democrat Stephen Douglas when he said "he never lets the logic of principle displace the logic of success." Their 2nd guiding principle? Exhaust the opposition by never conceding loss or failure. How did Abraham Lincoln know America's enemy would not be foreign but domestic? He said, "Shall we expect some trans Atlantic military giant to step the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!... If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Lincoln delivered this speech when he was 29 years old. He knew then what he was up against. The next two decades would see slavery and antislavery sentiment gradually fester and polarize the nation. A similar Conflict today has festered and grown until two Americas stand at the threshold of what I believe to be another enormous crisis. America is in the midst of a war of sorts - subversive, constant, and not at all civil. Lincoln Famously predicted: "a house divided against itself cannot stand... I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free...It will become all one thing or all the other." You see, these skunks are not content to keep their stench to themselves... "For decades, this conflict has been fought quietly in City Hall's, classrooms, school boards, courtrooms, town squares, and statehouses across the country." Wrote Newt Gingrich, "However, the election of Pres. Trump clarified the battle lines ... and elevated these individual fights into a United national conflict. On one side is an anti-Trump coalition full of liberals, globalists, hostile, and blatantly anti-American groups, and establishment elites from both parties. On the other side is Trump's America -the millions of hard-working middle Americans United by respect for our flag, historical freedoms, and traditional values. One side wants to see America return to prosperity and strength. The other wants a weak, apologetic, government - controlled American people." In his 1858 Chicago speech, two years before the first shots were fired, Lincoln tried to appeal to peace and unity with "Let us discard all this quibbling about this race, that race and the other race being inferior,... Let us unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal." And even up to the very brink of war his first inaugural ended with "...We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory ...will yet swell the chorus of the union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better Angels of our nature." It all sounded so good... But there were no triumphant "better Angels." It was no longer a time for nice, room for compromise had dissolved. It was a time for truth, for conviction, and for courage. Four long, devastating years had yet to be fought and endured before Lincoln could make America great again. Near the end of his first inaugural Trump also appeals to unity and patriotism: "A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sites and heal our division. It's time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag,." ...Not quite.... One thing Abraham Lincoln hated was hypocrisy and always called it out where he found it. In the years leading up to Civil War The absurdity of the Democrats went from "Slavery is a necessary evil" to "Slavery is a positive good." Lincoln said "as a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar... it is the only good thing which no man ever sees the good of for himself"..."Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." And when the Southern Democrats blamed him for their seceding Lincoln said, "That is cool, a highwayman puts a gun to my ear, says 'Stand & deliver' or I will shoot you, then you will be a murderer." They've become experts at that blame game. Trump dared to call out the hypocrisy of the Democrats, too. They promote diversity and religious freedom unless of course you are a Christian and even Jewish. Laura Ingraham said "you all know why in your heart Donald Trump won... Because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long." Both American presidents foiled the Democrats' easy path to their own slave nation. They forced the skunks out from under the barn and that's when things really began to stink! They lie and cheat and steal. And It's awful and uncomfortable and infuriating. And just may get worse before it gets better. Would you rather have them tucked away, hidden again or are you ready to take them on honestly and openly? Lincoln did not just foil their plans; He had to crush them as the antithesis of freedom and the American dream. Lincoln faced a clear enemy - - squarely, courageously and without compromising. Our enemy today is even more formidable and more insidious. And whoever wins this fight gets to choose which America we leave to our children. The first major battle of the Civil War was fought near Manassas, Virginia on July 21, 1861. Certain of a union victory, many of the Washington DC social set rode out in their carriages to watch the battle. Untrained and undisciplined, the battle soon turned into a rout that sent the union army scattering in retreat. The panicked civilians added to the confusion as they fled. Our battle, now, is no less real than any other fought in the history of the world. But it isn't an afternoon picnic in the Park. But, just as the union Army trained and adapted and eventually became their own formidable force, so too must we conservatives learn to fight with equal intensity! Lincoln gave this direction to Congress on Independence Day at the outset of the Civil War, "and having thus chosen our course without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts." Let us follow his charge to ..."stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively... Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves (you see, cancel-culture existed then, too.) ...Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Lincoln went on--"That Army of Republicans, their work is before them, and from which they may not guiltlessly turn away." "The Fight must go on!" according to Lincoln; "We have to fight like hell!" as expressed in Trump's unique presidential lingo. Trump once wrote, "Our National anthem gets it right: this is the land of the free and home of the brave. It's time we lived that message and let the world know we're willing to back it up." He's almost right ... Do you realize the Anthem we sing ends with a question? "Oh say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and home of the brave?" A question--as if there may be doubt as to our flag's ability to remain the mighty symbol of a Free nation of Brave people. Turns out, it's only as strong as the hands holding it up. Francis Scott Key wrote four stanzas to his famous poem; the first became our national anthem over 90 years ago... But perhaps we should be singing part of the last stanza instead... "Oh thus be it ever when free men shall stand... ... Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto "in God is our trust" and the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

When we know who we are, then we must be sure of what we're fighting for...And we are fighting for our history! Abraham Lincoln revealed once that as a boy, after reading the great histories of America's founding fathers, especially George Washington, he recollected thinking that there must have been something more than just independence that those men struggled for. What was it that made 56 men in signing the Declaration of Independence, pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor? "But those histories are gone." Lincoln said, "They can be read no more forever... but, what invading foeman could never do, the silent artillery of time has done,..." He was lamenting the passing of the heroes of the American Revolution much like our time is witnessing the quiet extinction of World War II and other veterans... Those who knew personally what that special something was... Without the firsthand remembrances of those revolutionary struggles, the next generation must be taught patriotism and love of country...and the courage to stand up and fight. In a nation which has spent a year denying a free citizenry the right to risk illness as a personal choice, forced us to hide our faces, imposed isolation forbidding freedom of assembly and church congregation, for how long can we still call our lives our own? what about our fortunes? And what in the world is sacred honor? Lincoln found out, and I believe Trump did, too. Fighting for our future means understanding our past. We must know where true history ends and fake history begins. The Trumpian phrase "fake history" is what Lincoln called "imploring men to unsay what Washington said and undo what Washington did." We've been here before... Lincoln was a big believer in history lessons. In 1832 he wrote "upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in (Why?) "that one may be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, [and thus] duly appreciate the value of our free institutions...". Like Lincoln, Donald Trump believes that true history is at the heart of what makes us Americans.The core principles of our past are as timeless today as they were in 1776 or even 1861. It's what Lincoln called mystic chords of memory that unite a nation of diverse people under one common identity. That common identity has been eroding for years under the Liberal Left's quiet and persistent elimination of patriotic history in our public schools. Why this aggressive war on our past? If the truths of history can be hidden, then they can be denied. For years we have sent our children to schools which are prejudiced against those very things that are so dear to us - patriotism, morality, common sense and critical thinking. In fact, few protest against the absurdities being taught in public schools today." And they become more absurd all the time. What specifically is so threatening in our history that the liberal left must "revise" it? Dinesh DeSousa explains: "the stories of our past show the Republican Party to be the only friend of blacks following the Civil War; and they expose the Democrat party as the true white supremacists still fighting to hold on to the slave plantation." We must stand and defend these truths of our past... America is not a racist nation: slavery, bigotry, and racism were perpetrated by some Americans other Americans stopped them. Let's be clear, Democrats are the authors and inventors of racism and white supremacy and Republicans fought them all the way. We were the original promoters of colorblindness. But today it is credited to Martin Luther King Jr.even though The GOP first proclaimed this over a hundred years ago. Frederick Douglas, an escaped slave turned abolitionist is America's greatest black leader, yet Democrats shun him. This silent treatment is not merely because Douglass was a Republican, for that alone would be enough, but because he denied the Democrat mantra of dependence: When asked what should be done with former slaves, Douglass said: "Do nothing with us! You're doing with us has already played the mischief... If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall... if you will only untie his hands and give him a chance to stand on his own, I think he will live." The ultimate Democrat heresy. All the villains of the civil rights movement in the 1960s were Democrats. And progressives and Democrats were the ones in bed with fascism and Naziism in the 1920s and 30s. Let me pause briefly here and do something Lincoln would have done-simplify for your understanding. Via Ann Landers...called "-isms:" socialism - you have two cows, give one to your neighbor. Communism - you have two cows, give both to the government they may give you some milk. Fascism - you have two cows, you give all the milk to the government, and the government sells it. Naziism-- you have two cows, the government shoots you and takes both cows. Anarchism - you have two cows, keep both cows, shoot the government agent and steal another Cow capitalism - you have two cows, sell one, and buy a bull. Lincoln treasured the simplicity and wisdom of our founders especially in his favorite historical document the declaration of independence. He once admitted "I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the Declaration..." "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights..." You know the thing... Lincoln knew all Americans were not equal at the time, after all, slavery did exist in the colonies even after the revolution. Then why place it in there if, in his words, "the assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain.?"... He explained In the Gettysburg address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..." All 13 colonies were needed to fight that fight and the wisdom of "one war at a time" kept the slavery battle at bay until some future point. Fake history labels Thomas Jefferson and the other founders as white supremacists because they owned slaves. Nonsense! Early drafts of the Declaration contained extensive text arguing against slavery... But these were edited out so as to not alienate the southern colonies from the fight at hand. They had to choose the lesser of two evils. Jefferson wrote, "we have the Wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other." The abolition of slavery would have to wait. And our nation WAS founded on Christian principles: Lincoln said, "while Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves,...he used the strong language that "he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just..."" Great leaders always see hypocrisy... Pres. Trump quoted Jefferson in 2017, saying "the God who gave us life gave us liberty... Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" George Washington coined the phrase "under God" in 1776. Ben Franklin's letter to the Pres. of Yale read, "I believe in one God, creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence, that he ought to be worshiped." Our founders believed the church was the principal source of morality necessary for a free, self-governing society. That the religious community should be healthy and diverse and continue to grow without constraints of government. In his letter to the Dan Barry Baptist Association in 1802 famously mentioning building a wall of separation between church and state...Jefferson clearly meant freedom of religion not freedom from religion. One of Pres. Trump's Executive Order removed the teeth from the Johnson amendment (in short-endorse a candidate, lose your tax-exempt status) which has kept religious organizations politically muzzled for years. He said, "the founders envisioned a nation in which religious voices were integral to a vibrant public square, and ...were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by the federal government." The left hates the idea of repealing this amendment because they want to silence as many Americans with traditional values as they can. Republicans guided the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments all critical to the freedom of former slaves)-- the latter two without any help from "across the aisle." True history shows most blacks were Republicans until the Depression era New Deal in which economic hardship forced many to exchange Republican credentials for the Democrat welfare state. That the 2 parties somehow switched ideologies and no longer resemble what they were hundred and 50 years ago is also fake history.. If any switching occurred, it's when the Nazis went from originating on the left side of the political spectrum to somehow magically ending up on the right... Convenient for Democrats falsely connecting Republicans with Nazis. Oh,and our new national holiday on June 19?. Whatever else you may be told about it Juneteenth celebrates the same date in 1865-It was the day Republicans in the union Army freed the remaining slaves from Democrat slaveowners. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Free speech made a comeback under Pres. Trump. He revealed how the Liberal Left has been chipping away at our right to speak freely.He called them out; he stood up and said "Enough!" Media Bias and Political correctness have evolved into cancel culture and outright censorship today, all under the guise of inclusion, diversity and "peace". To put it simply, half of America wants to be free, Declaration of Independence free, and the other half wants to shut up and enslave an entire population under a socialist state. Ben Franklin wisely concluded: "in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." Big Tech censorship of conservatives is akin to Alexander Graham Bell choosing who could talk on his telephone, or Thomas Edison deciding who could use the lightbulb. In America we believe our right to speak our minds and express the truth does not come from Industry and business Giants but from God. Trump continues the fight for us today-against FB, Twitter & Youtube!