1029: Cancelling 1776. @VDHanson; @HooverInst
Image: Frederick Douglass Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; @HooverInst, Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re: The country did not start in 1619; it started in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. We issued a report: slavery, terrible—but from Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, they never rejected the Constitution; they said that [non-Blacks] needed to live up to the Constitution. The New York Times cooked up the 1619 Project, but couldn’t defend it even to its own fact-checkers. The left simply calls people names. Cancel culture. They’re very afraid: no confidence that their ideas are persuasive, nor that on election day they can win over more than 50% of the voters. Everybody knows that you can't have a country without borders; and that you can't trust the Iranians, and what the Chinese are up to. 1776: cancelled. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/thoughts-on-the-1776-commission-and-its-report/#slide-1