On his campaign bus tour, in early July, the president said: “I believe we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.”
It’s very strange to hear a president talking about the fall of the nation he presides over.
It is diametrically opposite to Ronald Reagan’s inspiring vision of the United States — “a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds.” It’s also so different from the declaration of statesmen such as Winston Churchill: “We shall never surrender!”
Under this president, which direction are we moving “forward” to: the rise or the fall?