{"id":446989,"date":"2022-05-14T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/america-as-we-know-it-is-under-assault-and-must-be-defended\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T13:47:01","slug":"america-as-we-know-it-is-under-assault-and-must-be-defended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/america-as-we-know-it-is-under-assault-and-must-be-defended\/","title":{"rendered":"#America as we know it is under assault, and must be defended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256fe43a73f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256fe43a73f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/america-as-we-know-it-is-under-assault-and-must-be-defended\/#%E2%80%9CAmerica_as_we_know_it_is_under_assault_and_must_be_defended%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;America as we know it is under assault, and must be defended&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAmerica_as_we_know_it_is_under_assault_and_must_be_defended%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;America as we know it is under assault, and must be defended&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-498414579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><em>National Review magazine asked a wide array of writers, thinkers, and public officials to sign on to a statement describing the challenge to the American project and how to respond. The followin<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>g <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/americas-crisis-of-self-doubt\/\">was published<\/a> in the magazine\u2019s May 31 edition<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Statement\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0live in an age of increasing national self-doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The American project, as such, is under assault. Our history is the subject of a revisionist critique that is all-encompassing, unsparing, and very often flatly inaccurate. Our traditional heroes are under threat of being run out of the national pantheon. Our institutions, from elections to the job market to law enforcement, stand accused of perpetuating a systemic racism that is impossible to eradicate. Our educational system, from kindergarten through graduate school, is increasingly a forum for crude propagandizing. Our system of government is attacked as archaic, unfair, and racially biased. Our traditional values of fair play, free speech, and religious liberty are trampled by inflamed ideologues determined to impose their will by force and fear.<\/p>\n<p>The national mood resembles those of the 1930s and 1970s, when radical critiques of America got considerable traction and our national self-confidence often seemed to hang by a thread.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this context that we reclaim what once was a consensus view of America that has now become bitterly contested.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>No matter the fashion of the moment, we believe that America is a fundamentally fair society with bountiful opportunity; that its Founding was a world-historical event of the utmost importance and established governing institutions of enduring value; that its original sins have been honorably, if belatedly, repudiated; that it came to be wealthy and powerful primarily through its own internal strengths, not via expropriation and conquest; that its model of ordered liberty is a boon to human flourishing; that its people are a marvel and its greatest resource; that its best days needn\u2019t be behind it, and that it remains a beacon to mankind.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that these notions are falling out of favor, it is the responsibility of those who love America to revivify them.<\/p>\n<p>Even some on the right have become disenchanted with the American project and are prepared to quit on it on grounds that it is already lost or hopelessly corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that the country faces severe challenges, many the result of shortsightedness and wishful thinking, but we still have an enormous capacity for renewal. It is because our ancestor patriots rejected despair and kept faith with America that we are here to fight another day.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate answer to the illiberalism ascendant on college campuses and elsewhere and to the rampaging anti-Americanism of our elite culture will have to be found in the common sense and decency of the American people. The rule of law, federalism, and the protections of the U.S. Constitution continue to be bulwarks against the most ambitious designs of ideological fanatics. Families, churches and synagogues, neighborhoods, and voluntary associations \u2014 all under pressure \u2014 remain the foundations of society, more relevant to the lives of individuals and communities than <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> or edicts from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In protecting and revitalizing America, there is no substitute for the hard work of public persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>We represent various points on the conservative spectrum and may <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> under different labels. We certainly have disagreements about policy questions and priorities. But we are united as devotees of America. We continue to be thankful for her, and we are determined to defend her and lift her up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elliott Abrams<br \/><\/em>Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations<\/p>\n<p><em>Ayaan Hirsi Ali<br \/><\/em>Author<\/p>\n<p><em>William B. Allen<br \/><\/em>Emeritus Dean and Professor, Michigan State University<\/p>\n<p><em>Ryan T. Anderson<br \/><\/em>President, Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Andre Archie<br \/><\/em>Associate Professor, Colorado State University<\/p>\n<p><em>Hadley Arkes<br \/><\/em>Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, Amherst College<\/p>\n<p><em>William P. Barr<br \/><\/em>Former Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> of the United States<\/p>\n<p><em>Martha Bayles<br \/><\/em>Boston College<\/p>\n<p><em>James W. Ceaser<br \/><\/em>Professor, University of Virginia<\/p>\n<p><em>Victoria Coates<br \/><\/em>Distinguished Fellow in Strategic Studies, American Foreign Policy Council<\/p>\n<p><em>Elizabeth Corey<br \/><\/em>Associate Professor of Political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> in the Honors College, Baylor University<\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Crenshaw<br \/><\/em>Member of Congress<\/p>\n<p><em>Marjorie Dannenfelser<br \/><\/em>President, Susan B. Anthony List<\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher DeMuth<br \/><\/em>Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Betsy DeVos<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dick DeVos<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Doar<br \/><\/em>President, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Doug Ducey<br \/><\/em>Governor of Arizona<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Eberstadt<br \/><\/em>Panula Chair in Christian Culture, Catholic Information Center<br \/>Senior Research Fellow, Faith and Reason Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Erick Erickson<br \/><\/em>Host, the<em>\u00a0Erick Erickson Show<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Niall Ferguson<br \/><\/em>Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed Feulner<br \/><\/em>Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matthew J. Franck<br \/><\/em>Senior Fellow, Witherspoon Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Ann Glendon<br \/><\/em>Learned Hand Professor of Law, Emerita Harvard University<\/p>\n<p><em>Allen C. Guelzo<br \/><\/em>Princeton University<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Katharine Ham<br \/><\/em>Author and Commentator, CNN<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Helprin<br \/><\/em>Author<\/p>\n<p><em>Hugh Hewitt<br \/><\/em>Host, the<em>\u00a0Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kay Hymowitz<br \/><\/em>William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Philip Klein<br \/><\/em>Editor,\u00a0National Review Online<\/p>\n<p><em>Yuval Levin<br \/><\/em>Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn C. Loury<br \/><\/em>Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University<\/p>\n<p><em>Tiana Lowe<br \/><\/em>Commentator, the<em>\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>\u00a0and the First TV<\/p>\n<p><em>Rich Lowry<br \/><\/em>Editor in Chief,\u00a0National Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Mario Loyola<br \/><\/em>Florida International University<br \/>Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Rachel Lu<br \/><\/em>Associate Editor,\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Liberty<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Myron Magnet<br \/><\/em>Author,\u00a0<em>The Founders at Home<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel J. Mahoney<br \/><\/em>Professor Emeritus, Assumption University<br \/>Senior Fellow, RealClearFoundation<\/p>\n<p><em>Harvey C. Mansfield<br \/><\/em>William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael B. Mukasey<br \/><\/em>Former Attorney General of the United States<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew C. McCarthy<br \/><\/em>Senior Fellow, National Review Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael McCaul<br \/><\/em>Member of Congress<\/p>\n<p><em>Charles Murray<br \/><\/em>F. A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Darcy Olsen<br \/><\/em>Founder, Gen Justice<\/p>\n<p><em>John O\u2019Sullivan<br \/><\/em>President, Danube Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>John Podhoretz<br \/><\/em>Editor,\u00a0<em>Commentary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ramesh Ponnuru<br \/><\/em>Editor,\u00a0National Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Wilfred Reilly<br \/><\/em>Associate Professor, Kentucky State University<\/p>\n<p><em>Naomi Schaefer Riley<br \/><\/em>Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Karl Rove<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Avik Roy<\/em><br \/>President, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity<\/p>\n<p><em>Diana Schaub<\/em><br \/>Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland<br \/>Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Carrie Severino<br \/><\/em>President, Judicial Crisis Network<\/p>\n<p><em>Serena Sigillito<br \/><\/em>Editor at Large,\u00a0<em>Public Discourse<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Christina Hoff Sommers<br \/><\/em>Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Talent<br \/><\/em>Former Senator from Missouri<\/p>\n<p><em>Pat Toomey<br \/><\/em>Senator from Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p><em>George Weigel<br \/><\/em>Distinguished Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Bob Woodson<br \/><\/em>Founder and President, the Woodson Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Signer affiliations are for identification and do not necessarily reflect institutional endorsement<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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