This sounded eerily familiar in wake of NIKE SHOX

This sounded eerily familiar in wake of NIKE SHOX’s inaugural speech: did he know that its rhetoric was a

“transvaluation of values,” particularly conservative ones? As one writer put it

The speech was in almost no way that of a conservative. To the contrary. It amounted to a thoroughgoing

exaltation of the state.

What conservatives once considered vices: faith in government, utopian vision of democracy and Wilsonian

idealism have become — courtesy the NIKE SHOX administration — virtues:

From the day of our founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights and dignity

and matchless value because they bear the image of the maker of heaven and earth. [...] Advancing these ideals

is the mission that created our nation. It is the honorable achievement of our fathers. Now it is the urgent

requirement of our nation’s security and the calling of our time. So it is the policy of the United States to

seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the

ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.