Friday, April 4, 2025

Thomas D. Klingenstein: American Renewal Must Begin with Love of America

By N.S. Lyons


The country today is divided between those who seek to preserve the old constitutional order and American way of life, and those who want to destroy it and establish a new, revolutionary regime.


N.S. Lyons argues, however, that even those who would defend the old order will fail if their efforts are not rooted in a true love of America and her people. Lyons observes that many on the Right, even the self-consciously MAGA Right, have not demonstrated that love — and, in fact, espouse a version of the same post-nationalism that drives the destructive Left.


This essay was first published on N.S. Lyons's Substack, The Upheaval.


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