www.jns.org The president is right to say that the United States must reject neo-Marxist wokeism if it is to defeat China, Islamism and antisemitism, as it did fascism, Nazism and communism.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, the number of Allied veterans of that conflict is dwindling quickly. Dubbed in America as the “Greatest Generation” for having survived the Great Depression—and then defeating Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan—they have been lauded both for their sacrifices and the values they seemed to exemplify. If the 20th century was the “American century,” it was largely because of the American people’s willingness to do what it took to defeat the greatest challenges to Western civilization.
Yet with that generation largely gone and the heroism of a “good war” that all Americans could support now part of a history that few who are living understand, let alone remember, they face other deadly threats to their civilization. The question facing their children and grandchildren on Memorial Day 2025 is not so much whether we’re honoring their legacy as much as we should, but whether they are ready to do what is needed to both preserve the American republic and the West.
That choice is made all the starker by the fact that Memorial Day weekend is also the anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The reaction to that brutal police killing five years ago seemed, at least momentarily, to signal that the belief in the basic values of freedom that had sustained Americans throughout the 20th century was now to be replaced by new woke ideas that turned them on their head.
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