The Great Awakening by Jones Alex;Heckenlively Kent;Bannon Stephen K.;

Author:Jones, Alex;Heckenlively, Kent;Bannon, Stephen K.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 30668948
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2023-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

And then the week I started at Policy Review, the Soviet Union collapsed, which was an amazing thing. The coup against Gorbachev in the third week of August 1991 was the week I started at Heritage. And in retrospect, of course, you never appreciate the significance of things as they happen to you. You can’t really know what the movie’s about until it ends.

But at the time, we didn’t really appreciate, well, two things. One, how our entire political orientation was based on this war between the United States and the Soviet union, the Cold War, but very much a war. And every part of our politics, as you well remember, those of you my age or older, remember, every part of our politics revolved around that central conflict.

We were in conflict with a country that was both anti-markets and anti-Christian. And that put in stark relief our own beliefs. And what would happen when that ended, when there wasn’t that clear contrast? That’s the first thing. And of course, the second thing we could never have known the third week of August 1991, as we saw totalitarianism die, is that it would ever come here. We just couldn’t imagine that.

We believed that victories are permanent. They’re not, of course. That’s the first lesson of history. Nothing is permanent except our own demise and God. But we didn’t get that.20

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