There can be little doubt as we start a new year and new government, that we are living at an extraordinary time—for both America and the world.
The political and cultural mandate of the incoming Trump administration is nothing short of a rediscovery of what has made America the greatest country in human history. The vision was cast in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but it could only begin to be fulfilled after the American Revolution succeeded in the defeat of Great Britain.
So, we are now at a Second American Revolution—only this is clearly a spiritual and ideological war. However, like the first, it is necessary to win in order that the people become free to pursue their dreams, create and build their lives. Let us hope and pray that this second American Revolution will not be a shooting war.
And critics should be grateful, if they value life and peace, that Trump has been raised up as America’s leader in a time such as this. There is no other current leader who has a superior combination of character and personality qualities that can deter enemies and bring about peace.
What Americans allowed to happen starting nearly a hundred years ago—but with increasing acceleration from the 1960s on—was the destruction of the moral capital that had previously defined America. And that moral capital was what enabled America to become the world’s military and economic superpower in just 140 years from its constitutional founding. That moral capital provided for and protected individual rights of freedom and independence such that America achieved material prosperity for more people, more rapidly than any other prior civilization. Additionally, the American constitutional framework enabled people to move closer to the divine image in which all people are created free and equal more than they would have achieved under any prior system.
We are not just at political crossroads. We are also at a time of a spiritual and moral reckoning.
We can’t go back to Woodrow Wilson or John Dewey who brought about a misguided global idealism that is now manifest in today’s Deep State, United Nations, World Economic Forum and others, and a secular progressive degradation of the American educational system that has lowered America’s stature in public education to a Third World Status. The Trump administration can and should get about the business of closing the Department of Education and turning back responsibility for academic curriculum, standards and funding of public-school education to the states. We can also withdraw financial support and membership from the U.N., and its corrupt subsidiaries, such as the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Economic and Social Council. The U.S. can and should withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Paris Accord, and build a powerful international coalition to boycott and discredit the World Economic Forum, which openly seeks to destroy national sovereignty and nation states and pushes depopulation through a radical reduction in global agricultural output.
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Trump has made his immediate domestic priorities clear: closing the border and deporting illegal immigrants, “drill baby drill” energy independence, job creation and tax reduction by increased reliance on tariffs, strengthening law enforcement, decreasing crime, and demolishing drug cartels, child trafficking and gang violence.
What is vital to the success of the second Trump administration is the reckoning at home. This second American revolution, which is a spiritual revolution, is captured in Psalm 59:14 that provides clarity about righteousness and justice being the essential foundation for good government. In the United States, a top imperative now is to reestablish equal justice under the law, which is essential for restoring the righteous foundation of America. It is righteousness that makes up the core of our moral capital and it is indispensable for functioning of our constitutional republic.
Lawfare that has been directed against Donald Trump and dozens of his aides and MAGA leaders has no place in the judicial system of a constitutional America. Ending this destructive judicial madness will surely be one of the most important priorities in rebuilding a foundation of righteousness and equal justice under the law.
For too long, our political leaders have neglected and squandered our moral capital to the point that now our enemies no longer fear us and our allies don’t respect us. Moral courage, which is the most important leadership quality, has today become the least abundant trait among American politicians, and is scarcer now than at any prior time in American history. And one only needs to observe the out-of-control deficit spending that is adding over $2 trillion annually to America’s national debt—that is nothing short of utter betrayal of future American generations—to understand that the depletion and destruction of moral capital leads directly to the collapse of financial systems and the ensuing societal chaos.
Slaying the many domestic dragons of deep state betrayal requires moral courage. And Trump’s vigor in the choice of cabinet and team leaders suggests there will be indictments and judicial prosecutions—a vital part of law enforcement to deter others contemplating traitorous and seditious actions.
In the end, it is no accident that Trump is the president going into 2027, when America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. What a July 4 celebration that will be.
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Scott S. Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger-China. His timeless book, Rediscovering America, has been a #1 Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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