Has Trump begun to destroy or to defend America?
“…Before we hopefully return Winston Churchill´s bust back to the Oval Office in 2016…” was how my wife Leni and I began our July 4 2015 “Open letter to Donald Trump.” Then we surely belonged to a very tiny minority of observers who believed Trump had a prayer of becoming our president. But it happened and Churchill’s bust removed by Barack Obama is back in the Oval Office. Moreover Martin Luther King’s has not been removed despite fallacious rumors to the contrary spread by the anti-Trump brigade.
Our airports are now flooded with anti-Trump demonstrators in the wake of his temporary ban on visas for citizens from states that are “hotbeds of terrorism.” Here it is essential to recall past history. To win the fight against Fascism and Communism Franklin Delano Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan had to first battle domestic opposition. Long before Pearl Harbor FDR was besieged by the conservative wing of the GOP — then the “opposition party ” as Trump today calls the press. “The Statue of Liberty is weeping ” they cried reviling him as a fear monger posturer dictator and destroyer of the American image.
Yet even before any declarations of war FDR risked impeachment by ordering the US Navy to engage in anti-sub warfare (ASW) against German subs. He also initiated anti-Nazi immigration laws to prevent terrorist attacks and propaganda from coming to America.
Among the three “furies” of the then “opposition party” were newspaper moguls Robert R. McCormick and two Pattersons — Joe Albright’s grandfather and his sister Cissy. The Pattersons owned America’s then most widely read newspaper the New York Daily News.
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