I am just old enough to remember the latter half of the 1970s – the Jimmy Carter years. I remember the Iranian hostage crisis and the botched rescue attempt. I remember my parents trying to purchase a home when interest rates were at double digits. Most of all, I remember a sense of malaise, a feeling that America had seen its best days, and that the sun was setting on the American dream. It took the election of Ronald Reagan to pull America out of its ‘funk,’ and restore American greatness.
Fast forward 50 years to the 2020s — the Joe Biden years — and the similarities are striking and frightening. We have an unpopular Democrat President, we are facing rising energy costs, crime runs unchecked in our streets, rank-and-file military personnel are demoralized, and the United States is no longer respected on the world stage.
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