The American experiment and its amazing success cannot be separated from the type of people that built it (white European Christians). We can’t upload these ideals to Mexicans or Egyptians and expect to see the same results.

The ideals are not a secret, and the landmass is not magical. The day I see a Muslim or African country adopt these open-sourced ideals and become a superpower with equal freedom as the US, I will change my mind, but I don’t see that day coming.

The unpopular prescription few want to say out loud is that this country will succeed to the extent it remains or becomes more Christian and more white. Diversity is not our strength.