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In the acrimonious climate of the current political debate, the biggest lie of all is told by Republicans who claim that Democrats are in disarray because they have no message to persuade voters to support them. Actually, they do have a message. But it is a message so obvious, destructive and forbidding that it offends Republicans so profoundly they would prefer not to recognize it, so they don’t.
But Democrats do have a message, which is this: Every policy of the Trump administration that is designed to make America safer, stronger, wealthier and more prosperous is a policy that must be resisted, sabotaged – obstructed by any means necessary. Worse, its proponents should be demonized and marginalized as extremists, dyed-in the wool fascists, enemies of democracy, and aspiring Hitlers.
What does this look like in the context of the real world and America’s cold war with heavily armed nuclear adversaries and totalitarian enemies, who have made no bones about their desire to destroy us? In this context, the Democrats divisive strategies weaken America, give comfort and aid to our enemies, and undermine our efforts to defend ourselves.
As his first acts in office Biden illegally opened our borders to somewhere between 10 and 20 million unvetted aliens, many of them with long criminal records, many on the terrorist watch list. Rejecting the results of the 2024 elections which showed the vast majority of Americans thought this dangerous and unwise, Democrats have dedicated themselves to obstructing the Trump administration’s efforts to deport the criminals that Biden subsidized and welcomed. This reflects poorly on Democrats’ concern for the safety of their fellow citizens and projects weakness to potential enemies seeking to infiltrate and invade our country.
Moreover, there is no indication that Democrats have given serious thought to the negative impact of their policies on the welfare or security of American citizens whether in regard to their obstruction of Washington’s efforts to deport criminal aliens, or their attacks on police, their demonization of America’s commander in chief and the undermining of executive authority in enforcing the law. If the commander-in-chief is dismissed as an “agent of chaos” what moral authority is left to defend us?
The anti-American posture of the Democrat Party is not focused on one or even a cluster of policy positions. To the Social Justice Warriors leading the Party, it is the American enterprise itself that is the villain. They see America as a nation created and still run by racist oligarchs who oppress people of color and with whom there can be no common ground. Social Justice demands revolutionary solutions, and revolutionary solutions demand no compromise and disregard for the Constitution and the law.
Democrats understand that their message of disloyalty in war time is toxic. So they project their disloyalty onto Republicans, hoping to tar them with the same treasonous brush. Republicans questioning the results of a problematic election – something Democrats themselves have done after every presidential election since 1980 – becomes an “existential threat” to democracy itself.
But do they believe it? We now know that Biden’s dementia and incompetence was known throughout the White House inner circle and with wars raging in Ukraine, Syria and the Middle East presented enormous dangers to America and the West. Did any member of the White House team invoke the 25th Amendment which was specifically designed to remove the president if he was no longer competent to be commander-in-chief? On the contrary, to a man and woman they denied and covered up his incompetence and impersonated him instead. While American military personnel were being targeted by Houthi terrorists 174 times in the Red Sea, some presidential imposter in the White House was ordering them not to defend themselves. Such was the contempt Democrats had for America’s military personnel and Constitutional safeguards.
It’s time for accountability and remedy. But when the Trump administration attempts this – unless Democrat patriots stand up, there will be an army of saboteurs working to resist them.
