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........

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