After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 Americans were despondent.\u00a0 The propaganda machine was running 24\/7 pumping out rah-rah stuff to bolster American resolve and boost the efforts to get men in uniform as quickly as possible.\u00a0 But the beating the US Navy took at Pearl Harbor had shocked the American populace and devastated morale.<\/p>\n
FDR was a shrewd judge of American sentiment and knew instinctively what was needed to boost that morale.\u00a0 He told his War Department that the American people needed a symbolic act to prove that Japan hadn\u2019t destroyed our ability to take the war to their door.\u00a0 He wanted his generals to come up with a plan to hit the Japanese capitol, Tokyo.<\/p>\n
The result of that order was the Doolittle Raid.\u00a0 Basically, it was a suicide mission to send planes from an aircraft carrier to bomb Tokyo without enough fuel to return.\u00a0 Sixteen five-man crews in B-25B medium bombers were launched from the USS Hornet under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.\u00a0 Each plane dropped its ton of bombs on Tokyo and the surrounding cities and then flew off to crash land somewhere in China.\u00a0 Miraculously most of the crews survived the crashes and found their way back home.<\/p>\n
The bombs made no meaningful dent in the Japanese war machine but the message to the Japanese was clear and the lift it gave to American morale was critical.\u00a0 It proved that even knocked back on its heels by the Pearl Harbor defeat the US military was able to strike back at the very heart of the Japanese empire.\u00a0 It had exactly the effect it was meant to have and provided the morale boost needed, well in advance of when the effects of war time production and military mobilization would allow a meaningful assault on Japan.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the analogy, the fraudulent electoral victory by the Left is our Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 They have knocked us back with the dirtiest shot imaginable.\u00a0 And we have nothing to counter it with.\u00a0 Morale is rock bottom and more attacks are imminent.\u00a0 We need a win.<\/p>\n
We need a symbolic win.\u00a0 Not something chaotic and irrational like the Capitol debacle that boomerangs on the participants.\u00a0 We need an action that helps our side or hurts our opponents and for which they have no effective counteraction.\u00a0 As I said it doesn\u2019t have to be an important event or change.\u00a0 But it does have to have some clear symbolism that says we are pushing back against the all-encompassing attacks of our enemies and that we can organize a resistance that can\u2019t be crushed.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in this vast land someone has to take back some small corner and successfully say, \u201cOn this spot Free America still exists and will not be overtaken.\u00a0 And it can act as the foundation for a renewal of all that is good and normal and ours.<\/p>\n
Whoever can do that will be the actual leader of something more than one hundred million Americans who are completely fed up with the evil that has degraded almost every single organization and entity that makes up the civic and business life of this country.\u00a0 Maybe it will be a state governor or a state representative who takes that first step.\u00a0 Or maybe it will be a businessman who steps up.\u00a0 Or maybe it will be just some private citizen who figures out how to rally our people.\u00a0 He\u2019ll have to be smart and fearless and strong.\u00a0 But smart especially.\u00a0 Figuring out a move that can\u2019t be counteracted is not easy.\u00a0 But if he succeeds, he\u2019ll be as famous as Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln.\u00a0 Because he\u2019ll have saved the greatest nation in history from falling into tyranny.<\/p>\n
We need a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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