Editor’s note: Shillman Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield recently spoke to a gathering of David Horowitz Freedom Center members and supporters at the Four Seasons hotel about his new book ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left‘.
Laying out what he calls the Left’s 200-year war on America, Greenfield described how the Left’s war on America’s constitutional freedoms began at the same time as the Constitution did.
“Is America doomed? So many people come up to me and ask, can we get past this?” the Shillman Fellow told audience members. “That is part of the reason why I wrote, ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’. This is not a historical trivia book, though there is plenty of history to be found there if you’re so inclined, this is a book about how we fought the Left from the very beginning.”
Greenfield described his goal of telling the story of the American Left from the very beginning. “Why does the Left want to be invisible? Because if they’re invisible, they can’t be identified. You can’t actually charge them with being the authors of our misfortunes. It’s why they keep changing their names. They’re progressives, socialists, liberals, leftists or more recently wokes. But who are they really?”
Today’s conservatives, he argued, could learn from the Father of our Country.
“George Washington, sick, ill, toward the end of his life, becomes the only president to command troops in the field when he rides out against a Democrat insurrection organized by allies of the French Revolution,” Greenfield described. “The Founding Fathers were not afraid to confront the Left. They were not afraid to fight for our country.”
Greenfield then went on to describe how the Democratic Societies created by radical agents of the French Revolution, and which Washington described as an enemy of the Constitution who sought to destroy it, then went on to give their name to what would become the Democratic Party.
“We have been fighting this for over 200 years and we are still here.”
Don’t miss this stellar talk below!
After his talk, Daniel Greenfield stayed behind to sign copies of his book for Freedom Center members.
(Daniel Greenfield with Freedom Center President Michael Finch.)
Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left is available from the Freedom Center store and at online bookstores.
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Great speech.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that America is done, unless China collapses like the Soviets did. Islam will briefly inherit what China can't flog off and use, before the goatherds reduce it to scorched earth
A house divided against itself can't stand. You've let the liberals firestart their project, and it won't be easy now to settle with them
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