Trump’s Victory Alone Won’t Make America Great Again. We Have To Do That Ourselves
by Elizabeth Jerrell Visit on Twitter @MusingMusicianX
Twenty years from now, we could remember the coming four years as the beginning a new Golden Age for our country.
The 2024 presidential election delivered an American mandate to truly become a great nation once again. After years of nauseating reactionary politics from the right, Trump’s second administration promises more.
Once again a vision for America is uniting us, reaching across demographics and parties. It’s about much more than snooze-fest tax cuts with the New Right. It’s about striving for greatness. With brilliant minds such as Elon Musk at Trump’s side, the vision of greatness becomes tangible. We remember what heights of human achievement and flourishing are possible.
But the vision to make America great again can only be partially realized by Trump’s impending presidency. Each of us has work to do in our own lives.
We must seize the potential this moment offers — start the business, marry the one, struggle toward virtue, lift heavy weights, eat healthy food, and invest in our crumbling culture. No, not by returning to a less-awful cultural decade, but by building back better than any decade of American culture yet.
We have our work cut out for us. If art is a reflection of culture, we live in the ugliest time in human history. Our books, buildings, plays, films, paintings, and music revel in ugliness of the highest order. And it’s been this way for decades. We’ve come to accept it as just “the way it is,” as though the left’s monopoly on art is natural.
Look at any Gothic cathedral or listen to a symphony by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky and you’ll remember art has never been so dominated by leftist ideology as it has been recently. You’ll also be reminded that great art is rarely produced by those consumed with degradation. Ugliness begets ugliness.