Yesterday was Independence Day, so naturally, the left has America Was Never Great trending on Twitter.

It's an argument that's found some pretty serious support on the left in response to Donald Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.

Sean King, who's the white guy who pretends he's a black guy for the New York Daily News, he explicitly made the case for America was Never Great back in May.

He said, quote, what sustained period in the history of this nation, what decade, what era, what generation

was truly great for everybody.

While this country might have been great for George Washington, it wasn't great for the

Africans who were forced to live and work on his plantation, unquote.

This is a rather narrow definition of great.

It ignores all of world history, including modern history,

and sets utopia as the objective bar for greatness. Let's instead look at America's record in context.

When America was founded, no other nation on earth had the great and good philosophy America would

embody, the notion of a kingless constitutional republic, a land of liberty based on limited

government, given legitimacy

by the consent of a moral and religious people.

As Andrew Claven, who's usually unintelligent but here was smart, pointed out, quote,

now because of what America showed the world, even the darkest tyrannies have to call

themselves republics simply to maintain a pretense of legitimacy, unquote.

American notions of free speech, freedom of religion, these became the hallmarks of human

rights all over the globe. American beliefs in freedom against governmental intrusion became

the basic definition of liberty. For most of human history, virtually every society on earth

held slaves. America fought a bloody civil war ending in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of

non-black Americans in order to end slavery. In the 20th century, while the world decayed into

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