Donald Trump and the GOP won the 2024 election, but the radical leftists have not surrendered and are doubling down on the culture wars. We cannot become lax and complacent, assuming one battle victory has ended the war.
Transgenderism, abortion, rioting, racial division, socialism, judicial activism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity, media dishonesty, censorship, critical race theory, DEI -- the examples of Democrats’ weapons in the culture war are endless. Hence, it is vital that now, more than ever, with Republican leadership on the federal level, we stay vigilant and not allow the Democrats to grow stronger as we grow inattentive.
In fact, that’s precisely the mistake we made after the Civil War, assuming, because we conquered the Confederates/Democrats on the battlefield, that we could put all that treachery and slavery and bloodshed behind us and begin totally anew. That was nonsense, of course. The Democrats never got over losing their slaves and being outmaneuvered in the war, and they have been trying to enslave all those they consider racially, mentally, economically, or politically “inferior” through political and judicial weaponization ever since. America cannot afford to make such a mistake, to be so dewy-eyed and deluded about the Democrats, a second time.
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Speaking of the Civil War, today, May 18, is the anniversary of the start of the battle or siege of Vicksburg, which was one of Ulysses S. Grant’s greatest triumphs, a triumph that proved a pivotal turning point in the war and spelled the ultimate end of the Confederacy, despite all their savage war crimes and desperate determination. Nearly everyone, including many Northern newspapers and some of Grant’s own officers, thought he was fighting a hopeless siege at Vicksburg. He was greater than they, and he won. One story in particular illustrates why he won, and provides us with the key to winning our culture war today.
Historian H.W. Brands relates how Grant was delivered a letter from Gen. Halleck, who was at that time his superior, with orders that Grant and his men had already exceeded. The messenger who brought the orders became alarmed at this fact, and declared worriedly that Halleck would certainly expect Grant to have followed the order. As they spoke, a cheer went up from the Union troops where Michael Lawler was heading a charge, and Grant didn’t waste time arguing with the messenger or wringing his hands over Halleck’s feelings. Gen. Grant stuck the order in his pocket, mounted his horse, and rode off to supervise his ultimately winning battle plan.
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Grant was certainly not lawless — there were times during his presidency he perhaps hesitated too much to deal with violence because he was so sensitive about potential Constitutional violations — but he did not follow stupid rules or orders or bureaucratic processes if they prevented him from accomplishing his goal. That is the sort of spirit we need to recapture again if we are to win our culture war.
