In December, I wrote that pioneers, not immigrants, built this country. Last night, the president said the same thing.
“The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the toughest, strongest, fiercest, and most determined men and women ever to walk on the face of the Earth,” said President Trump at the State of the Union address. “Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness, [and] settled the Wild West,” among other accomplishments.
“This is our glorious and magnificent inheritance,” he said later. “We are Americans. We are pioneers. We are the pathfinders. We settled the new world, we built the modern world, and we changed history forever by embracing the eternal truth that everyone is made equal by the hand of almighty God.” ...