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Today is a day of remembrance. On 9/11, we #NeverForget the thousands of Americans who lost their lives due to the Islamic terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the US Pentagon, and the heroic men and women who perished in a Pennsylvania field. That fateful day etched itself into our collective memory because it not only robbed us of so many lives but also stripped away our innocence and the sense of security that once defined us as Americans. Since then, we’ve struggled with a constant feeling of vulnerability.

Yet, 9/11 represented more than just a tragic loss. Many believe it was the catalyst that started the decline of the once-great American Empire, marking the beginning of the end. This sentiment is shared by one very highly-respected conservative journalist, who shared his thoughts on this solemn day.

Here’s what Federalist founder Sean Davis had to say in his powerful 9/11 post on X:

In hindsight, 9/11 looks like it might have been the beginning of the end of the American empire.

It spawned the worst and most destructive foreign policy in the country’s history. The government response to 9/11 birthed the constitutional abomination that is the modern warrantless surveillance state.

The Patriot Act enabled the government to weaponize its vast resources against its own people. Bush’s failed foreign policy led to directly to Obama’s presidency, and indirectly to Biden’s, both of which are responsible for diminishing the U.S. at home and abroad, militarily and economically.

After two failed forever wars that wouldn’t have happened without 9/11, our government is now desperately trying to foment potentially nuclear forever war against Russia.

Meanwhile, all the massive surveillance powers claimed by the U.S. after 9/11 are being ruthlessly deployed against American political enemies of the regime via the most insidious censorship-industrial complex the world has ever seen.

And then there’s the crippling legacy of debt enabled by America’s response to 9/11. Not content to spend trillions on poorly thought out invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, our leaders spent as thoughtlessly at home, creating insane amounts of new entitlements, while doing nothing to put the country on a sound financial footing.

And where are we today? The ruling political party is criminalizing its opposition and attempting to throw its top political opponent and his supporters in prison, all under the guise of “democracy.”

We generally remember 9/11 as the day that the towers came down. I wonder if historians will look back on it as the day that America started to fall.

It’s truly disheartening to think that, in the end, Bin Laden might have accomplished more than he ever imagined. If we can’t come together as one voice, redirect the current course of events, and steer America back on track, we risk handing that evil monster his ultimate victory.

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