Justice Clarence Thomas Says Progressive Ideology is Threatening the Founding Ideals of America
He extolls everyone to rediscover the founding principles that made the nation great.
By Catholics for Catholics
As the U.S. is poised to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary, America’s values are under threat and citizens need to vigorously defend the founding document’s principles of equality, freedom and liberty with conviction and courage against those motivated by greed, power or anti-American ideals, said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas said the values hallowed in the Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans, with “progressivism” looking to supersede the document’s assertions and the United States’ form of government, according to a story by Newsmax.
Speaking at the University of Texas Austin School of Law, Thomas gave a critique Wednesday of modern political trends, cautioning that the nation’s founding principles are under pressure from ideological shifts in academia and government.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said, contending that the movement shuns the idea that rights come from God and instead places power in government institutions.
As the Supreme Court’s longest-serving conservative justice, Thomas depicted a mounting “cynicism, rejection, hostility, and animus” toward the nation’s founding ideals.
Among the chief ideological culprits is the fact that many Americans no longer hold the belief that all people are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights.
In addition, Thomas stressed that the Constitution was conceived to limit government power and guard individual liberties.
In times where the country is deeply politically divided, Thomas called on Americans to revive the valor and fervor of the nation’s founders.
“In my view, we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration have so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs,” he said.
Link here <cforc.com/2026/04/justice-clarence-thomas-says-progressive-ideology -is-threatening-the-founding-ideals-of-america/> .
He extolls everyone to rediscover the founding principles that made the nation great.
By Catholics for Catholics
As the U.S. is poised to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary, America’s values are under threat and citizens need to vigorously defend the founding document’s principles of equality, freedom and liberty with conviction and courage against those motivated by greed, power or anti-American ideals, said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas said the values hallowed in the Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans, with “progressivism” looking to supersede the document’s assertions and the United States’ form of government, according to a story by Newsmax.
Speaking at the University of Texas Austin School of Law, Thomas gave a critique Wednesday of modern political trends, cautioning that the nation’s founding principles are under pressure from ideological shifts in academia and government.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said, contending that the movement shuns the idea that rights come from God and instead places power in government institutions.
As the Supreme Court’s longest-serving conservative justice, Thomas depicted a mounting “cynicism, rejection, hostility, and animus” toward the nation’s founding ideals.
Among the chief ideological culprits is the fact that many Americans no longer hold the belief that all people are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights.
In addition, Thomas stressed that the Constitution was conceived to limit government power and guard individual liberties.
In times where the country is deeply politically divided, Thomas called on Americans to revive the valor and fervor of the nation’s founders.
“In my view, we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration have so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs,” he said.
Link here <cforc.com/2026/04/justice-clarence-thomas-says-progressive-ideology -is-threatening-the-founding-ideals-of-america/> .
