Nick Adams - Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization

Advance Praise for Trump and Churchill

A must read for any Trump or Churchill fan, and anybody that loves history. A fascinating comparison of two giants from two different centuries with a dedication to saving their respective countries.

Pete Hegseth, Fox News

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Trump and Churchill:

Defenders of Western Civilization

2020 by Nick Adams

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Contents

Nick Adams has written a useful book that puts the experience of the Trump presidency in a deeply historic and indeed civilizational light.

As a longtime student of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a supporter of President Trump, I have to confess that until I read Nicks book it had never occurred to me to join the two as historic phenomenon.

Yet the minute I looked at the title, with its Defenders of Western Civilization focus, I saw how absolutely appropriate the parallels were.

Nick makes a good case that these were the two premier defenders of Western civilization. In our lifetime you could make a good argument for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (herself a passionate devotee of Churchill) and President Ronald Reagan (whose eloquence in defense of freedom and strategy for defeating the Soviet Union were historic).

Churchill of course stands alone as the singular person without whom the twentieth century would have decayed into a terrifyingly murderous domination by totalitarians with Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin creating a nightmare of death, secret police, and mass murders.

As a number of writers have noted, it was the unique courage of Churchill and his indomitable will to victory that sustained the anti-fascist forces at their low point. Had Churchill been rejected by the king and Halifax installed as prime minister, there is little question Halifax would have sought a truce, which would have left Britain at Germanys tender mercies.

If Churchill is obvious as a champion of Western civilization, the case for President Donald Trump is a little more challenging, but in the end I think it holds up.

Reagan was a great president (I campaigned with him and for him in the 1970s and as a member of Congress worked with him in the 1980s and based the Contract with America in 1994 on Reagans ideas). He had an enormous impact on the world and was the key person forcing the collapse of the Soviet Union (it is impossible to imagine a reelected President Jimmy Carter leading to the end of the Soviet Union).

However President Reagan did not wage the cultural war with the left, which meant that we defeated communism in Moscow but lost to it on campuses. The continuing drift to the left was barely slowed by the Reagan administration and not affected at all by the two Bush administrations.

President Trump is a much greater defender of Western civilization than his predecessor because he is in a much more difficult situation. In many ways the crisis of the West that Trump confronts is much like Britain after the disastrous withdrawal at Dunkirk.

The very seriousness of the current cultural civil war can be seen in the 92 percent hostile coverage in the major media. The three years of unending and dishonest investigations. The guerrilla war being waged by permanent civil servants especially in the Justice Department and the national security apparatus.

President Trump has been attacked and battered twenty times as much as President Reagan was because he is a mortal threat to the left.

The success of the Trump-McConnell team in getting 161 federal judges approved (as of the date I am writing, still more are in process) is a mortal threat to the most effective strategy the left has had. For two generations the left has developed weird un-American left wing ideas and then used unelected judges to impose them so the power of the government was coercing the American people into change.

Trumps strategic genius (a point Nick Adams makes clear) is in understanding that he wants to effect permanent change toward judges who want to enforce the law. The result has been a principle that all district court judges have to be under fifty years of age. The result is going to be at least a full generation of more constitutionally compliant judges.

These are the kind of changes that drive the left crazy and make Trump their mortal enemy.

Since the left was on the verge of destroying America as it has been and replacing it with a radical America, their frenzy at the defeat of 2016 is even greater.

Nick Adams has done a service for all of us and for future generations by tying together the leadership capabilities and moral commitment of these two great men.

Churchill did save civilization in the twentieth century.

Now it is our job to help President Trump save civilization in the twenty-first century.

Newt Gingrich

If you could sit on a bench and chat for one hour with anyone, from the past or present, who would it be? Its a good question! A difficult one to answer, no matter who you are.

While there are several choices that come to mind, for me it would be Winston Churchill. But if good fortune somehow allowed me to chat for one hour on a bench with two people, it would be Winston Churchill and Donald Trump.

Both men have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. Part of that fascination, I think, owes to my own unique background. I was born and raised in Australia, by a Greek father and a German mother, both of the conservative persuasion.

I attended an all-boys private day and boarding school very much in the British tradition, not at all dissimilar to Harrow School, where Churchill went. Throughout my childhood, I spent extended periods in Europe. After graduating high school, I went to the University of Sydney and got the political bug.

It never left me.

Through every stage of my lifechild, teenager, student, and political junkieI was enamored of everything American: the people, the country, the culture, the founding, the individualism, and the seemingly endless energy and optimism.

In fact, the first time I visited the United States, in 2009, I knew instinctively that I had found home. Over the years, I have often remarked that I was an American trapped inside an Australian body.

For the next seven years, I traveled to America as much as I possibly could, becoming a bestselling author and speaking across the country. On July 29, 2016, I made things official. I immigrated.

Three months later, Donald Trump shocked America, and the world, to become the forty-fifth president of the United States, defeating seventeen Republican candidates and the entrenched Hillary Clinton along the way.

I first heard of Sir Winston Churchill from my father, who made me read his speeches when I was a mere twelve years old. It did not take long for me to conclude that he was the greatest figure of the twentieth century, and for him to become my lifelong political hero.