American Heritage Is No Myth, It’s The Source Of Our Liberty And Peace

A shared American identity and cultural heritage isn’t some nativist delusion, it’s the only reason we’re not a collection of warring tribes.

The most important debate in America today is not about immigration policy but about what it means to be an American. Our immigration debate is of course a proxy for that...

Vice President J.D. Vance endorsed this view last year in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. “America is not just an idea,” he said. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”

To truly be an American, in this view, means embracing an Anglo-American and Christian inheritance and insisting on certain western cultural norms. It means rejecting multiculturalism in favor of our founding Anglo-American culture, with the understanding that preserving this cultural base is the only way to ensure liberty and dignity for all American citizens, regardless of national origin.

By contrast, the liberal narrative foisted on us aggressively for the past forty years is that if being an American means anything it should mean apologizing for your nation’s history, repudiating its Anglo-American inheritance, and celebrating non-western cultures while allowing unlimited immigration from every corner of the globe...

The left understands the right’s newfound confidence in asserting an American heritage and identity is a direct threat to multiculturism...

... the assertion of an Anglo-American cultural identity isn’t just for the white descendants of European colonists, it’s for every American citizen — especially for those outside the Anglo-American inheritance. Absent that inheritance, there is no way for Americans from all walks of life to live together in peace and dignity...

The genius of our American nation is that we figured out how to maintain both peace and liberty. We didn’t do that thanks to some form of proto-multiculturalism, but thanks to the civilizational inheritance we received from our English fathers and Christian Europe...