They Tried to Shoot Him — Twice.
They smear him always. They call themselves citizens of a country they hate. They call him a racist while they are the racists themselves. A few good men and women around him hold the line that others try to blur.
They tried to shoot him — twice. They try to smear him — always. They call themselves citizens of a country they hate. They call him a racist while they are the racists themselves. A few good men and women around him hold the line that others try to blur.
It is not a very thin line that the Marxists are trying to erase. They are trying to destroy the greatest nation on the face of the earth. The institutions they captured one by one over the past forty years — the universities, the courts, the agencies, the corporate HR offices, the legacy press — have been turned into instruments of a project the voters never consented to. The pretense was always that the project was consensus. It was not. It was capture. The voters figured it out.
Just a year ago I was certain Iran would soon cause a nuclear conflict in the Middle East — possibly even the end of our lives around the globe. The trajectory was visible in the proxy networks, the oil revenues that were quietly being allowed to flow despite the sanctions on paper, the regional war that was being fought through cutouts. It was one man, and his will to do what the weak and appeasing politicians before him would not, that kept that hour from arriving.
What he gets from his own countrymen, in return, is the most shameful behavior and the most irrational form of opposition one could have imagined.
Blinded by the leftist propaganda machine, they destroy property and attack the executive. They are assisted by elected officials, and even by judges who believe they themselves are above the law. The judiciary, an institution designed to apply the law without fear or favor, has in too many places become a tool of the political resistance — an unelected branch declaring itself superior to the elected one whenever the elected one acts on the mandate the voters gave it.
What accountability looks like
Accountability is what must come to them. You do not murder people and get away with it because a judge wants to defy the president. The constitutional architecture does not give the federal bench a roving authority to suspend immigration enforcement, suspend election-integrity statutes, or suspend the executive's lawful direction of the agencies that report to him. Where judges have arrogated that authority, they have done so as political actors, and they should be answered as political actors.
You do not get to vote if you cannot prove you are a citizen. The right to vote is the most consequential right a citizen has. A jurisdiction that extends that right to people who cannot establish citizenship is, by definition, diluting the voice of the people the franchise was designed for. Voter ID and citizenship verification are not radical. They are the minimum baseline that every other functioning democracy on earth applies without controversy. The American debate over this exists only because one political coalition has determined that it benefits from the absence of those baselines.
What is rational
These are the most rational and logical things I can imagine. A nation decides who its citizens are and counts their votes. A nation enforces its laws — including against those who would prefer they were not enforced. A nation defends its borders, defends its energy supply, defends its industrial base, and defends its constitutional architecture against the factions that would prefer to dismantle each of them.
The president has been doing these things, and the country has been measurably better for it. The opposition cannot answer the policy on the merits because the policy is working, so it answers with rhetoric, with lawfare, with bullets. The bullets failed. The lawfare is failing more slowly. The rhetoric is unraveling because the receipts are public and the voters can read.
Thank God for Donald Trump. Thank God for the men and women around him who have refused to bend. Thank God for a country that, on examination, turned out to be more itself than its institutions had given it credit for.