America didn’t always have a President who displayed weakness when speaking about the country most threatening to America.

Forty years ago, on March 8, 1983. the existential threat was the communist Soviet Union.

The President, Ronald Reagan, presented a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals that told the world that communism in general and the Soviet Union specifically was a threat to the world. The speech will forever be known as the Evil Empire Speech.

[To paraphrase an old TV theme song: Mister, we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again. If you get the reference, join me for shuffleboard and tell the youngsters to get off our damn lawns. — Ed]