Destroy America in Three Straightforward Steps

A rising variety of People need to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to construct—and so they’ll begin by canceling our shared historical past, beliefs, and tradition.

Conventional areas of civic settlement are vanishing. We are able to’t agree on what makes America particular. We are able to’t even agree that America is particular. We’re coming to the purpose that we will’t even agree what the phrase America itself means. “Disintegrationists” say we’re stronger collectively, however their assault on America’s historical past, philosophy, and tradition will solely tear us aside.

Who’re the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn’s A Folks’s Historical past of the US to the New York Occasions’ 1619 mission, many trendy analyses view American historical past by means of the lens of competing oppressions, a racist and corrupt experiment from the very starting. They see American philosophy as a lie – lovely phrases pasted over a completely rotted system. They see America’s tradition of rights as a façade that merely reinforces conventional hierarchies of energy, as a substitute of being the one tradition that ensures freedom for people.

Disintegrationist assaults on the values that constructed our nation are insidious as a result of they exchange every foundational perception, from the rights to free speech and self-defense to the significance of marriage and religion communities, with nothing greater than an elevated reliance on the federal government. 

This twisted disintegrationist imaginative and prescient replaces the normal “unionist” understanding that every one People are united in a shared striving towards the perfection of common beliefs.

Destroy America in Three Straightforward Steps reveals that to be a cohesive nation now we have to uphold foundational truths about ourselves, our historical past, and actuality itself—to be unionists as a substitute of disintegrationists. Shapiro provides a significant warning that if we don’t recuperate these shared truths, our future—our union—as a terrific nation is threatened with destruction.