Our republic is at a crossroads.
History is replete with turning points. When the Spartan King Leonidas and his 300 faced down a Persian army at Thermopylae, when Caesar took his army and crossed the Rubicon, when a small group of brave men defied the greatest empire on the planet, broke free and founded what would become the greatest nation in human history; as the saying goes, history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Turning points, those dates in history when everything could have changed, when everything did change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
We are now at a turning point. We see now the results of the "weak people make hard times" phase of our societal cycle, and are - we hope - moving into the "hard times make tough people"
Our opponents on the left are willing to do anything to stop us. But we're beating them.
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Democrats' supporters, their base, are becoming more unhinged by the day.
Democrats insanely scream at both VP Vance and Secretary Hegseth as they walk through Union Station in DC.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 20, 2025
This further proves why the Democrats can never have power again.
Look at how they act. It’s ridiculous.pic.twitter.com/kBC9n777bl
The National Guard will definitely be leaving DC as soon as they see this protest. Guaranteed.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 15, 2025
(realmodernsara on TT) pic.twitter.com/XnIopBl9Io
They harass elected and appointed officials. They find and release information about those officials: Their home addresses, their families, their children. They scream in outrage in the streets when ICE appears to do their legal duty, to enforce immigration laws, laws that were largely ignored during the tenure of the befuddled, incompetent Joe Biden and whoever was running the autopen.
But we're beating them.
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Watch, though, for the left to escalate. It happened in the summer of 2020, when to protest the death of a drug addict and criminal, the left took to the streets, looting and burning, causing as much as $2 billion in property damage. The riots resulted in several deaths, the loss of untold small businesses, and it was a dress rehearsal. The thugs in the black bloc would do much worse if they could. They would come into our homes if they could. They did, I remind you, actually take over a portion of a major American city, an experiment that ended in gross failure. And that's significant, because were these people to achieve what they want, our nation would end in gross failure.
It's always the left that is the first to call for violence. But if it came down to it - if we were forced into that ultimate circumstance - they would not like how that worked out. Even so, they will still call for violence, they will still carry out acts of violence, when they think they can get away with it.
But we're beating them.
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A year ago, I was much less optimistic. A year ago, the Executive Branch was "led" by a corrupt man, a befuddled man who never really achieved anything in his long political career besides gaining a reputation for graft and dishonesty. His understudy was a grating, cackling incompetent with all the personal appeal of toenail fungus. But things have changed. Donald Trump's resuming office was a big part of that, but it could just as well have been another Republican of the new, populist, America-first stripe; but Trump it was, and that's good. Now, in his second term, with no worries about re-election, he's doing what he thinks is right, and for the most part, the American people like what they're seeing.
President Trump has also dragged the political left out into the open. He's exposed them for what they are - hateful, unhinged, dishonest, and incompetent. There isn't a blue state or a blue city, run by Democrats, that is wealthy, clean, safe, and successful. Not one. And people are seeing the difference.
A beast, though, is most dangerous when it's wounded. That's why we fight. That's why we have to fight. That's why I spend 7 days a week, most weeks, at this keyboard, at an age when I should be thinking of retirement. This is important. Getting honest news out is important. Finding and telling people what the facts are is important. My country is important. I served it in uniform as a young man, the third generation in my family to do so, and I work for it now as a journalist. And that's what we must all do - every election, every vote, every debate, every day.
In our Civil War, at the Battle of Gettysburg, just before the Rebels charged Little Round Top, on a day that could have been just such a turning point, the commander of the 20th Maine, who was defending that hill, addressed his men. One apocryphal account has him telling his men, "We are going to have to be stubborn today." They were; the hard men of the 20th Maine defended that hill against wave after wave of attacks by Confederate troops. When they ran low on ammo, Colonel Chamberlain ordered them to fix bayonets. They charged down the hill and swept away the men of the Alabama and Texas regiments that opposed them.
We, too, are going to have to be stubborn. Every day, every election, every vote, every event, we are going to have to be stubborn. That's how we win. And America is worth the effort. It's worth fighting for. That's why we fight.
