Powerline reports on President Trump’s executive order on the reinstatement of Columbus Day. (HT: Fred)
The attack on Christopher Columbus by the cultural left and the democratic socialists was not intended as an attack on Americans of Italian descent. Instead, it was an attack on Western Civilization and its underpinnings.
I have pointed out previously that Columbus was from northern Italy whereas the vast majority of Americans of Italian descent were from southern Italy. At the time of Columbus, his hometown was part of a completely different country than southern Italy. The Italians that came to America would not have had a natural kinship to Columbus. But after the holiday was instituted many decades ago, they adopted him as their own; and it became their holiday.
Western Civilization was the bigger fish to fry for the cultural Marxists. They truly hate it. And thus it is good that Trump took action.
Attaboy for DJT. I have been to his tomb in Seville.
Yes, Fred, this was definitely a good call. You have been almost everywhere!