American Greatness at Five: No Satisfaction

American Greatness began, as so many creative and political endeavors do, out of a deep sense of dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction with the Republican Party, obviously. Dissatisfaction with the conservative movement, certainly. Definitely dissatisfaction with legacy conservative media, which seemed entirely too satisfied with publishing “conservative” justifications for the downward trajectory of the country.

Above all, American Greatness was born out of a dissatisfaction with a status quo that required conservatives and Republicans to rationalize serial political defeat in the name of preserving their “principles.” (In reality, the “principles” in question had to do with preserving a small group of gatekeepers’ sinecures, status, comforts, and conveniences more than anything else.) After all, what else had they succeeded in conserving?

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