During the state visit of King Charles III to the White House in late April, President Trump delivered a more or less straightforward historical observation: America’s founding institutions, legal traditions, and national character owe a profound debt to England and the Anglo-Saxon inheritance. The Common law, Magna Carta, parliamentary government, individual rights, habeas corpus, and jury trials were not invented on these shores but were reclaimed and perfected—albeit with an important “Enlightenment” twist added by John Locke and his successors—by the Founders, men in whose veins, Trump implied, ran that same courageous blood. The mainstream press reacted as if the president had unfurled a Confederate battle flag or swastika on the South Lawn. Jonathan Chait of The Atlantic claimed that the speech walked “up to the edge of white nationalism,” and Sunny Hostin of The View—who is, alas, not known for her wide and deep reading in the history of the English-speaking peoples—claimed Trump simply “doesn’t understand history.”
Their lament, of course, was essentially that Trump’s speech was not inclusive enough—of “Indigenous tribes and enslaved peoples,” for example—and therefore further proof of his constantly alleged racism. But even though the Left and their allies in the media and elsewhere do their level best to make it impossible for Trump or anyone connected, however loosely, with Trump to avoid this baseless accusation—it should go without saying that Trump himself has bent over backwards to build bridges with Hispanic and black Americans, for example—these commentators, as usual, were missing the fundamental point. The event the commentariat so decried was officially titled “The UK Royal State Visit to the U.S.: Honoring 250 Years of Shared Heritage.” Shared heritage between the United Kingdom and the United States. That’s it. It was neither the time nor the place to discuss the particular contributions, however noble or crucial, of so-called “Indigenous” tribes or “enslaved persons,” not all of whom, incidentally, came from Africa. The theme of the event, again, was the shared heritage between the UK and the US; as such, Trump’s speech about what Americans owe their “Anglo-Saxon” forebears was entirely appropriate.
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