As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, there is an undeniable irony hanging over the nation’s 250th birthday.

Americans are deeply divided about the very ideas that gave birth to this republic. We no longer merely argue over taxes or spending. Increasingly, we disagree about whether the American experiment itself deserves our admiration. A growing chorus on the Left, led by the America-hating communists masquerading as democratic socialists, dismisses the nation’s founding as something to be apologized for rather than celebrated.