When one looks at the history of our nation’s birth, one sees events that are difficult to fully appreciate. Men pledged their fortunes and sacred honor to the cause. The five richest men in America signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. They really had fortunes at risk. The signing was August 2, 1776, when 50 of the 56 delegates to the Continental Congress signed the declaration.
Don Surber notes:
For the first 50 years including five presidencies, these men midwifed a nation like no other in the world because it was founded on the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They nursed it through its infancy.
The Founding Fathers faced the hangman for treason if they failed.
And Britain tried twice to end the experiment. First was the Revolutionary War. That was followed three decades later with the War of 1812. If they had succeeded in either one, many of our Founding Fathers would have been executed.
The restoration of our republic is facing similar headwinds. PDJT has assembled a team the likes of which we have not seen probably since the founding of our country. Let there be no pretending. These people face imprisonment if they are unable to bring this country back to its foundational values. Trump and others on his team have already faced such obstacles.
Don Surber takes us on a stroll to see just who these people are.
Trump’s net worth fell by $1,200,000,000—$1.2 billion—one-third of his wealth—in his first term.
Worth every penny because 47 is better than 45. Trump’s team could time travel 250 years back and win freedom from the British Crown.
Ben Franklin was indispensable. He was a publisher who fought for a free press. He invented the lightning rod, invented bifocals and the Franklin stove.
Elon Musk builds cars that drive themselves, retrieves rockets, bores tunnels beneath cities and turned Twitter from a liberal propaganda machine into a global town square.
Scott Bessent is the Alexander Hamilton of this revolution. Obama used the IRS to go after his political opponents. Bessent uses his powers as Treasury Secretary to go after narcotic traffickers and the terrorist Iranian regime. The use of tariffs as a tool in diplomacy is one of the most Trumpian ideas of all. Bessent has defended tariffs admirably on the TV news channels.
Marco “Polo” Rubio is the man jack of all trades, master of all. Rubio’s success and loyalty should not be a surprise. Needing Florida, Trump got Rubio to seek re-election. Many are convinced that had Trump not moved to Florida, the ticket would have been Trump/Rubio.
Stephen A. Miller won his first battle 20 years ago when as executive of the Duke Conservative Union, he dared defend the Duke lacrosse players against the media mob who wanted to railroad them because media pundits saw them as privileged white boys. Miller proved correct, which is why the media will never, ever forgive him.
Tulsi Gabbard is the spy who loves America. She follows the footsteps of Ric Grenell and Condoleezza Rice as chief of the spies.
JD Vance is Thomas Jefferson. He could have easily written the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
The central part of the preamble written in the current era could have gone like this.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—not the happiness of Wall Street bankers, university administrators, and coastal elites, but the kind of happiness that comes from a good job, a strong family, a safe community, and a country that puts its own people first.
Then there is Pete Hegseth. He could be compared to General Knox who traveled to Ticonderoga, NY in the dead of winter. He hauled the artillery there to the heights around Boston. This forced the British out of Boston never to return.
How about Karoline Levitt? A favorable comparison could be Betsy Ross sewing a flag full of truth for the people of this country. Levitt has raised the bar for press secretaries. She elucidates the issues directly, clearly and succinctly.
Our country is standing at the same crossroad as existed in 1776. I believe we can take heart in the fact that our country is in the hands of good people. Our current leadership is the closest to what helped birth this great nation.
America and Americans first. This is the treasure that this administration is trying to safeguard.
Perhaps this speech by Teddy Roosevelt is appropriate.
“Citizenship In A Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”