I agree with Dr. Gordon S. Wood that America is a “creedal nation” or, as G. K. Chesterton put it more than a century ago, a nation founded on a creed. It is not an ethnic state like Denmark or even a cultural one like France.
The problems that we face today are that a significant number of our own citizens reject the creed and we have the largest non-citizen population of any time in our history many of whom have never embraced that creed. It bears mentioning that even ethnic states and cultural ones are fraying at the edges under the pressures of mass migration.
I have no idea how a creedal nation can survive under such circumstances.
