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Delingpole: Trump’s 1776 Report Is a Marvel. It Makes Me Ashamed to Be British
by James Delingpole

The 1776 Report – produced by President Trump’s Advisory 1776 Commission — is a thing of such beauty, dignity, and scholarship that it makes me wish I were American, not British.

If you haven’t yet read it, you should. (You’ll find it here). It explains to Americans why their country is special, why their republic is so unusual and cherishable, how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution came about, and why it is so important that they should be honoured. Then it goes on to outline the task of National Renewal that lies ahead, taking in the role of the family, education, and ‘reverence for the laws’.

Here’s the part that makes me ashamed to be British: I find it utterly inconceivable that any administration in the UK would be capable of producing a document of such gravitas or wisdom.

Take this bit from near the end:

To be an American means something noble and good. It means treasuring freedom and embracing the vitality of self-government. We are shaped by the beauty, bounty and wildness of our continent. We are united by the glory of our history. And we are distinguished by the American virtues of openness, honesty, optimism, determination, generosity, confidence, kindness, hard work, courage and hope. Our principles did not create these virtues, but they laid the groundwork for them to grow and spread and forge America into the most just and glorious country in all of history.

There’s a confidence, there, a pride and a clarity of purpose that you simply would not find in anything produced by Boris Johnson’s flaccid regime, nor by any of its recent predecessors (except perhaps Margaret Thatcher’s) nor by any of the parties currently likely to form the next government.

Continues:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/20/trumps-1776-report-is-a-marvel-it-makes-me-ashamed-to-be-british/

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