We must hang together to save America’s fragile liberty
America has weathered past existential crises by hanging together and fighting. That’s still our job today.
Albin Sadar | March 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
America is only a few short months away from celebrating its quarter-of-a-millennial birthday, which is being officially feted as “America 250,” as well as its “Super Centennial.” But can America survive for another fifty years, all the way to its Tri-Centennial Celebration? Even as Trump fights an existential war abroad, there’s one here at home, too.
Without question, the country has had a long and glorious lifespan. However, as the world surely knows, its life has not been without errors when it was navigating rocky roads and dangerous waters, and its survival was iffy, at best. One need only go back 165 years to the Civil War to verify that observation.
Of course, at the moment of our nation’s creation, it experienced multiple “birth pangs.” But the men and women who willingly put their very lives on the line did so despite knowing that the outcome was not guaranteed. The nation could have been stillborn in the earliest days of its fight for survival against the overwhelming might of the British Empire.
Just recently, I was reminded of both the fight for America’s survival during the Civil War years (the nation might not have reached even its Centennial celebration) and its founding conflict, when I took one of my many walks through the famous cemetery in my neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of many captains of industry (families such as the Rockefellers and Carnegies), as well as this country’s very first internationally recognized literary giant, Washington Irving.
Within the borders of the expansive cemetery are monuments commemorating both the Civil War and Revolutionary War dead. These landmarks are stark reminders of how fragile a nation’s life can be.
The words carved in stone on the Revolutionary monument remind us:
Photo by the author.
1776 - 1783
In Memory
of the
OFFICERS and SOLDIERS
of the
REVOLUTION
who by their valor
sustained the cause of liberty
and independence
on these historic fields.
While we honor the dead, it’s important to remember the raw courage of the living, including those too old to take to the battlefield themselves. When he signed his name to the Declaration of Independence, an act of treason in the eyes of King George III and the British Crown, and therefore a hanging offense, Benjamin Franklin allegedly made this grim observation: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
That ominous observation recently came to mind when one of Barack Obama’s henchwomen, Susan Rice, laid out the Democrats’ game plan once they regain power. On a recent podcast, she warned that those who “take a knee to Trump” would be getting a reckoning. Rice stated that the Democrats would not be “playing by the old rules” when it came to retribution.
Rice was making it clear: Do not align yourself now with Trump or any of his tens of millions of supporters and followers. Your time is “not going to end well.” We know that’s not an empty promise. Those who ventured to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, not just because they believed that the 2020 election was stolen, but because they knew it was flipped for Biden...well, they saw that the Democrats excel at revenge.
Rice’s promised “lawfare” will once again be redefined, smashing all previous Funk & Wagnalls definitions (Rowan and Martin will be turning over in their graves).
So, what can derail the Democrats’ destructive engine?
Might “hanging together” in these critical days be strongly advised?
Might “patriotism in action” be the solution?
President Trump has made it abundantly clear that two major standards are needed for defining a nation: secure borders and honest elections.
The border is secure. However, the S.A.V.E. America Act is still twisting in the wind.
Within months of the spectacular celebratory events surrounding July 4, 2026, Americans will once again have the sacred opportunity to head to the polls to choose their leaders. The choices this year could not be more stark. The Democrats will be clearly and unabashedly out for revenge.
Two things are now necessary to—again, in Franklin’s words—keep the Republic: Patriots must maintain the pressure on elected officials to pass S.A.V.E., and then they must vote in overwhelming numbers this November. No one can afford to sit this one out.
These actions will uphold the Republican majority in Washington and assure that President Trump’s impressive and powerful agenda continues to stave off America’s “fundamental transformation.”
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