Columbus Day Celebrates Our Civilization

Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher Columbus at all — they’re about whether America should exist.
“Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776,” President Donald Trump says in his Columbus Day proclamation.
Yet that’s why the holiday has so many enemies.
Unlike progressive movements of decades past, today’s ideological left doesn’t particularly want to lay claim to America’s…
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