By Judd Dunning
Happy 250th, everybody! Love this great country. Thank you, God. Thank you, Founders. Thank you, fellow citizens. We’ve done this together. So amazing.
Loved President Trump’s epic Mount Rushmore speech and how communism can never exist in America. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now, or ever, in America. Amen.
As I wrote in my 2022 Newsmax article, “Globalists Are Using Cultural Marxism to Destroy America”:
“This, aka Cultural Marxism, Socialism and Communism, requires replacing truth with moral relativism. Most Americans still know what is true and when something is not true, good, or in line with values established by God. In these instances, we have a moral obligation and right to judge and discern.
Cultural Marxists thrive where all actions can be rationalized as for the greater good, meaning their greater good. Moral relativism brings their warped versions of tolerance and social justice.
Those seeking to destroy America weaponize moral relativism to engineer human outcomes for the purpose of control. This is why globalists and elitist technocrats want America to surrender its unique greatness to a world order.”
Today, we celebrate that America and we Americans are rare and exceptional, and amazing is not a hate crime, nor does it create inequity or unfairness. It is just a fact.
America is great. We are great because we were blessed, and we were just in the right time in history. We celebrate her today, and our part in making her great as well. As the late Dr. Charles Krauthammer noted, “If everyone is exceptional, then no one is exceptional.”
For hard progressive leftists, not normal, rational good Democrats like we’ve always had, and many of my dear friends still are, communists, socialists, globalists, and elitists, moral relativism prohibits any entity from being better or best. God is not sovereign and America is not great. These are their great lies.
Americans know better. There is a higher good. We can be trusted to choose for ourselves what is better and best. We do not need to be engineered by anything other than the silent whispers of natural law, divinity, our Constitution, and ultimately, God. No communism ever needed.
And look at what freedom has produced. America has, as Trump reviewed so beautifully last night, harnessed electricity, split the atom, given the world the telephone and the Internet, settled the West, won two World Wars, and put Americans on the Moon. We have created extraordinary advances in medicine, science, technology, industry, aviation, agriculture, energy, and space exploration. We have liberated nations, defeated tyrants, rebuilt former enemies, fed millions, defended allies, and carried the promise of freedom across the world. We citizens did that. America has spent trillions, fought war after war, and lost hundreds of thousands of her sons and daughters in the defense of global freedom. As Trump said, “No other country has done more good for this world than the United States of America.” That is not arrogance. That is history.
As I also wrote in my recent 2026 article:
That is why America remains such a rare blessing. Americanism is almost a winning historical lottery ticket, not just a nationality. It came from a remarkable collision of faith, philosophy, courage, timing, and sacrifice. The ideas behind America were shaped by centuries of struggle and thought, from the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights to Christianity, Judaism, natural law, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hobbes, and others. But ideas alone did not build America. Citizens with character, toughness, gratitude, and faith protected them. Most of human history has been ruled by domination through monarchies, dictatorships, theocracies, plutocracies, oligarchies, fascism, socialism, and communism. Against that backdrop, America was not inevitable. America was a miracle.
And for those citizens getting a renewed fascination with the DSA and some radical swing to another system, never forget these words:
“The goal of socialism is communism.” — Vladimir Lenin
That warning is not theory. It is history. Amazingly, in places like New York, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, California, Washington, D.C., and across the country, too many people have forgotten the brutal record of the 20th century, where communist regimes murdered more than 100 million people, crushed religious freedom, destroyed private property, and replaced individual liberty with state control.
And now, somehow, there are voices that want to run the same failed experiment again under softer branding, cleaner slogans, and a new generation of political packaging. It simply does not work. As history has repeatedly shown, bigger government tends to consume, corrupt, and repress by its very nature.
And in the words of President Trump last night at Mount Rushmore:
“There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country.”
“We’re not going to let this happen to us. Believe me, we’re not letting it happen.”
“Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere” and “the enemy of the Constitution.”
America was built on the opposite foundation: faith, freedom, private property, free enterprise, constitutional rights, and the God-given liberty of the individual.
On America’s 250th birthday, the message is simple: socialism is not a harmless experiment, communism is not a theory, and America must never allow either to replace the system that created the freest and most prosperous nation in history.
Happy birthday, America. 250 years.
Honored that I’ve been around for 59 of them, doing my part to help make it happen too, just like everybody else reading this has done in their own way.
We are awesome. America is awesome. God is awesome. Thank you, God.
Judd Dunning is a Newsmax Insider, author, and frequent guest TV and radio commentator on politics, culture, markets, and American life. He is the author of 13 1/2 Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal: And How to Enlighten Others and is known for his direct, fact-driven commentary on American exceptionalism, free enterprise, faith, freedom, and constitutional liberty
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