The American Dream is built on strong families

Published August 6, 2017 4:01am ET



As we wrote in this space yesterday, it was “American Dream Week” at the White House last week. This can sound like an airy concept, but it was at the heart of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

“The American Dream is dead,” he proclaimed in his Trump Tower announcement in June 2015, eliciting the yell of one supporter, “Bring it Back!” That was the implicit promise in “Make America Great Again.”

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