1) “Trump’s Smithsonian Counter-Revolution” (John Fonte, American Mind)
From the article — The current Secretary of the Smithsonian is Lonnie G. Bunch III, who is adept at dealing with donors, stakeholders, and Republican congressional appropriators. His language is mostly measured and reasonable. He talks in terms of truth, nuance, complexity, and non-partisanship. But in reality, Bunch is a partisan progressive, a skilled cultural warrior, and a promoter of the leftist “successor ideology.”
Bunch partnered with and promoted the biased 1619 Project, which asserts that slavery is the alpha and omega of the American story, and that maintaining slavery was a primary motivation for some American colonists who joined the revolutionary cause. The architect of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, bragged that it “decenters whiteness,” and she denounced her liberal academic critics as “old white male historians.”
Nevertheless, Secretary Bunch proclaimed, “I want the Smithsonian to legitimize important issues whether its 1619 or climate change.” On the Smithsonian’s participation in the 1619 Project, he declared, “I was very pleased with it.” Bunch proudly noted that people “saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on [the 1619 Project]. And that to me was a great victory.”
2) “‘The Earth Is the Lord’s’ — Arbor Day vs Earth Day” (Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Blog)
From the article — J. Sterling Morton’s call for tree husbandry was answered by the National Agricultural Convention meeting in St. Louis that year and by numerous municipalities, newspaper editors, and thousands of citizens. The result was that the very first Arbor Day, April 22, saw almost a million trees planted. But though J. Sterling Morton was a tree planter extraordinaire, he was not a tree hugger. His attitude towards the natural world was the traditional one; namely, that the earth was the Lord’s and man, acting as God’s servant, was to effectively oversee nature, to subdue it in a rational way, to beautify it, and properly benefit from it.
Morton was thus acting in accordance with the biblical mandate — the program originally given to Adam in the garden of Eden — a call to responsibly appreciate, nurture, and enjoy the created things with which God had adorned the earth. And most of the people who answered the challenge of Arbor Day were operating in the same spirit. They were planting trees because trees were good things. They bore fruit that man could eat. They helped with soil conservation and provided protection from wind. And they were pretty.
These people understood that trees were pleasant and productive plants, but they were for man’s use. They were good things, not fellow souls.
Regarding this topic, you might also like taking a look at — Donald Trump’s “Presidential Message on Arbor Day, 2025”
3) “King Charles’ Easter Message Accelerates Britain’s Fall: The King’s anti-Christian statement and mass arrests for those voicing unfashionable opinions are ugly signs of Britain’s rapid decline.” (Lou Aguilar, American Spectator)
From the article — The present King of England, Charles III, had a decidedly less saintly message this past Easter, one as far as possible from Alfred’s unifying Christian vision: “On Maundy (Holy) Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon Him,” Charles wrote. “His humble action was a token of His love that knew no bound or boundaries and is central to Christian belief.… The love He showed when He walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”
Almost every portion of Charles’ message is wrong when not offensive. Christ did not wash the feet of “those who would abandon him.” He washed those of his 11 (absent Judas) Apostles at the Last Supper, none of whom abandoned Him (though Peter did deny him thrice that night) and most of whom died in His name. His love did know boundaries, like for those who would morally misdirect children — “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” And the deep human instinct echoed in Islam is not caring for the stranger but destroying the infidel ones.
In truth, the twit monarch’s words drip with anti-Christian and antisemitic venom. Former Chaplain to the Queen (Charles’ late great mother Elizabeth II) Dr. Gavin Ashenden ripped the statement. “It’s very offensive both for Jews and Christians to have this put together,” he said. “It’s as if there’s no distinction between Jesus the Savior and Mohammed the warlord.”
4) “Let Next Pontiff Be a Catholic Pope” (Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, NewsMax)
From the article — Catholics believe that he is the Vicar of Christ on earth. But Francis may have been the worst pope in history.
He watered down Church teachings on marriage, sexuality and confession. He declined to judge right from wrong. He forbade the Mass that every canonized saint in Heaven attended and participated in since 1564. He has even claimed that all religions are equal and welcomed in the eyes of God — contrary to 2,000 years of express Church teaching. This is heresy. He attacked long-standing theology, universal liturgy and Thomistic Natural Law; when his principal job was to preserve them. He even questioned the concept of sin.
5) “Trump’s Counterrevolution Strategy: Flood the Zone, Drain the Swamp” (Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal)
From the article — I could go on, but you see what he is doing. He’s doing so many radical corrections in a way that a Romney or a McCain or the Bushes, even Ronald Reagan would not have dreamed of that he feels the opposition will say, “Well, what do we do? Should we reply here? Do we put our interest here? Should we do this?”
And so, what is the strategy that the Left is using? They’re flooding the zone, too. But they’re doing it not with counterproposals. They don’t say, “This is what’s wrong with closing the border and we wanna reopen it. This is what’s wrong with the Houthis policy. This is what’s wrong with the trade deficit. This is what’s wrong”—no specific proposal. They’re just flooding it with hysteria, the Spartacus talk, late-night comedy trashing him, another person arrested saying that he wants to kill Donald Trump, keying Teslas, firebombing Tesla agencies, outrageous things from Hollywood stars, videos from Congress. All of a sudden—we didn’t even know who Rep. Jasmine Crockett was. She’s filled that void.
But what I’m saying is they want to be so rambunctious, so crazy, so 360 degrees unhinged that they’ll create an image or a malu—where everybody wants to get almost in a fetal position: “Please, please make it all go away. I don’t know what Trump is doing but it’s so disturbing. Everybody’s so angry.” That is their strategy.
Now, what is Trump’s counterstrategy?