The Four Musketeers

Are we witnessing a joining of forces to begin an American Renaissance?

Stop me if you have heard this one:

A teetotalling billionaire businessman turned populist president, a conservative kid who escaped Appalachia and found the American dream, a politically agnostic white African American who builds electric cars, generates solar energy, and flies spaceships, and an old line liberal from one of the oldest political families in America, walk into a bar...

But it isn’t a joke. It is real and happening.

If it was a joke, the punchline would be these are all people who love America and have united against the existential threat of a political party that cries “Diversity!” when “diversity” to them means segregating people based on physical attributes and economic status. Their diversity is topical, it consists of a lot of people who look different, but all say the same thing. This is a Democrat party united in collectivism and big government against this nation.

The most interesting thing about this collection of people, these four Musketeers, is that for all the hate they are now receiving, at one time or another they were darlings of the Democrat left.

Oprah wanted to run for the White House with Donald Trump. The left adored J.D. Vance and the life story he told in “Hillbilly Elegy,” Elon Musk delivered alternative energy and built electric cars, and RFKJ is a member of the Camelot Kennedy clan, perhaps the greatest Democrat political dynasty in the history of America.

In some way, each ran afoul of the dictatorial American left, the ideology that has consumed the Democrat party, by expressing opinions and policies counter to the approved orthodoxy of the now collectivist Democrat Party.

They all became apostates and “dangers to democracy.”

• Trump defeated Crooked Hillary and became president against all odds.

• Vance became a Marine, went to Yale Law, then joined and left a lucrative career with Peter Theil, expressed his conservativism and won a Senate seat.

• Musk came to understand just how far left the Democrats have drifted and then allied with the forces working to preserve an America where people could succeed in the same way he did.

• Kennedy experienced firsthand who the enemies of democracy truly are, having been refused access to the party his family built then becoming the focus of Democrat anger and lawfare to keep him off the ballots.

None of these four people hold the same views. When these people are in a room together, there exist the most diverse viewpoints and beliefs there have been since a group of men gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence and form a new nation and then to gather to create the constitution that would define freedom for generations to come.

Now, as then, what unites Trump, Vance, Musk and Kennedy is a love of the America of the Founding Fathers, the idea that the liberty and equality of the individual must never be usurped by an all-powerful government (or monarch) and the fact the Democrat Party is no longer the party of the people, but the party of government.

It is important to remember that America started as an experiment. There had never been a country like the Founding Fathers envisioned, and as such, these were men keen on testing new things and new ideas – and they had no idea if it was going to work – which was still in doubt until after the War of 1812. It should be no surprise that these men probed every corner of their intellect as they searched for the best mechanisms to preserve liberty.

Jefferson thought a constitution should be revised every 19 years. Thomas Paine believed in “Ground Rent.” In his 1797 pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, Paine advocated the use of an estate tax and a tax on land values to fund a universal old-age and disability pension – as well as a fixed sum to be paid to all citizens on reaching maturity – ideas that would be considered “progressive” by modern standards.

Unlike today’s progressive Democrats who experiment with perfecting the people, the Founders were experimenting with the perfection of liberty. The most important thing they knew was that they knew nothing – that’s why they based the country on transcendent, immutable Natural Laws. THOSE were the ONLY things of which they were confident.

I think these four men, these Four Musketeers, these men with diverse and sometimes conflicting views, might just be the beginning of an American renaissance.