A Nation That Has A Government

A forgotten line from Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address.

As we round the corner from our 2000-month-long transition of power and prepare for the incoming Trump administration, I was reminded of how much soaring rhetoric there always is in the inaugural address. Hopefully, the Biden administration has given Mr. Trump enough time for his speech writers to prepare a good one. I went back after hearing a line from President Reagan’s first address that struck me as something particularly soaring that never got the wings it deserved in our terrible cabal-managed system. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to Ronaldus Magnus’s first address because of tribalist resistance, or because it has been nearly 45 years since you heard it, it is worth going back and listening to it. It’s just over 20 minutes and it makes a very compelling case for what was perceived in 1981 as the Reagan revolution.