Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2025

“What does America look like four years from now when the next president is being sworn in? We heard a big game in his turbocharged, exuberant speech to Congress on Tuesday night. But this could go a lot of different ways.

It reminds me of what the father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, wrote of the French Revolution: “The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose; but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.”

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