Trump’s Reaganesque Strategy for Victory over Jihad

Yesterday, Donald Trump delivered the best speech of his campaign to date. Newt Gingrich rightly called it the most important since Ronald Reagan left office.

In fact, in many ways, it was Reaganesque in its clarity about today’s existential threat to freedom – what Trump calls “Radical Islam” – and his prescription for securing the sort of victory over it that President Reagan achieved over the last such threat: Soviet communism.

Mr. Trump called for a comprehensive strategy aimed at protecting us against the hateful ideology Islamic supremacists call Sharia. Those who do not share our values and seek to supplant our Constitution with Sharia would not be welcome here. And he would roll-up the networks in this country that support Islamist radicalization.

The stage is now set for the sort of national debate – and choice – that is long overdue and absolutely necessary.