Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore and President Donald Trumps Independence Day celebration to deliver a pointed defense of Americas founding principles and a sharp rebuke of the progressive left.
According to Gateway Pundit, DeSantis spoke with Sean Hannity of FOX News during the July 4th festivities, reflecting on the endurance of the American experiment as the nation approaches its 250th year. Standing before the monument to four presidents, he praised the constitutional framework crafted by the founders and underscored how unusual it is for a republic to survive this long.
250 years if you think about it, republics are not supposed to last that long, DeSantis said, noting that the founders were acutely aware of the failures of past republics. When the founding fathers set forth these important principles, they knew that all these republics in history had failed and they were trying to confound history.
He argued that the framers grounded the nation in timeless moral and political truths, not passing ideological fashions. And what they laid down were enduring truths, he continued, stressing the conservative conviction that rights are inherent, not granted by bureaucrats.
Our rights either come from God or the government, DeSantis declared. If they come from God thats it, there is no more debate about it.
Governments either got to be limited or not. If it is, then we always have to have limited government, he added, reaffirming a core tenet of constitutional conservatism. Turning to the modern left, he singled out New York socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as emblematic of a failed ideological project.
And when I see the Mamdanis of the world, theyre basically offering these ideas, they claim they are progressive, theyre really regressive, DeSantis said. Theyre things that the founding fathers rejected, theyre ideas that have failed throughout history and we have a chance now with 250 to look back and say we are inheritors of an awfully good legacy.
Mamdanis own July 4th address, delivered despite his very recent naturalization, struck many as contemptuous of the country that granted him citizenship. With average Americans increasingly weary of the lefts relentless disparagement of the United States, DeSantiss remarks at Mount Rushmore captured a growing desire to defend the nations heritage rather than apologize for it.
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