It is interesting to reflect on how difficult it is to recognize greatness in one’s contemporaries. For example, think of Abraham Lincoln. One reporter covering the memorial events at Gettysburg in late 1863 described Lincoln’s address as dull and inconsequential. A year and a half later, immediately after Lincoln’s assassination, the editor of a Northern newspaper wrote of that as being a good thing. He thought Andrew Johnson would be a much better leader. Of course, there were others who recognized Lincoln’s brilliance and goodness during his Presidency, but it would take years for him to receive proper credit for his character and accomplishments.

I have come to believe that Trump bears the marks of greatness. I regard him as a Gulliver among Lillyputians. There is not one area of public activity that does not interest him — fighting for the nation state in opposition to the globalists, promoting traditional Christian mores against those who advocate for so-called new morality, striving for world peace, reenergizing our national economy, controlling immigration, suppressing crime, improving public health, restoring infrastructure, and building public monuments. He is indefatigable. The jury is still out on on how successful he might be, but there have already been many remarkable accomplishments. I see the distinct possibility that future generations may come to regard him as Donald the Great, the very best of our Presidents.

If he had the gift of oratory and demonstrated more marks of humility and magnanimity, his elevation to the very heights of human honor and fame would be assured.