Columbus Day Honors Our Civilization … Which Is the Real Reason Critics Hate It

Daniel McCarthy : Oct 13, 2025
The Daily Signal

"...This Columbus Day, more than 500 years since Columbus arrived in the New World, we follow his example, we echo his resolve, and we offer our gratitude for his life of valor and grit. Above all, we commit to restoring a Nation that once again dares to tame the unknown, honors our rich cultural inheritance, and offers rightful praise to our Creator above..." -President Donald Trump, from his proclamation 

[DailySignal.com] Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all—they're about whether America should exist. (Image: Pixabay)

"Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve, Columbus' journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas—paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776," President Donald Trump says in his Columbus Day proclamation.

Yet that's why the holiday has so many enemies.

Unlike progressive movements of decades past, today's ideological left doesn't particularly want to lay claim to America's heritage... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and a columnist for The Spectator and Creators Syndicate.