Despite some appearances to the contrary, the tide of statism in the United States is ebbing. Mr. Trump is turning the power of the state against the forces that have used its power to weaken America economically and to poison it morally and culturally.

The battle for liberty will not end soon, nor ever.

Lovers of liberty — those of us who do not think of the state as a supreme being — should always remember and heed the spirit of these words from Churchill’s speech following the successful evacuation of Dunkirk:

[W]e shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender….