We live in interesting times, in the "ancient Chinese curse" sense. In recent weeks, our cities are once again blazing with leftist rage. They always take the part of criminals and thugs over decent Americans, so we shouldn't be surprised that this year's outrage is over the Trump administration's rounding up and repatriating dangerous people who are in the country illegally. The left has never, it seems, found a thug, criminal, even a violent sex offender or drug dealer they won't race to defend.
Summer's coming. It promises to be a hot one. This year's rioting and uprising may surpass the summer of 2020, when the left ignored the COVID protocols they pushed for to riot, loot, and burn over the death of a thug and addict. So what do we have to look forward to?
In the short term, I am not and have not been optimistic. I think this summer is going to be a turning point. The Trump administration shows no signs of backing down on the mass deportations that we voted for, that we put President Trump in office to do. President Trump is, in this as in many other things, simply doing what he had always said he would. And that's where I start to feel a little less pessimistic.
The repatriations are continuing. ICE and DHS aren't backing down. President Trump, unlike his first term, has assembled a team of people who have no craps left to give about what the left thinks. They are getting their jobs done. Secretary of War (I will never get tired of writing that), Pete Hegseth, is reforming our armed forces into a cadre of warriors. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is pushing ahead with getting illegal aliens out of our country, and she's succeeding, to the tune of two million to date.
Best of all, President Trump recently went to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum. He faced down the soft-shelled invertebrates that make up most of Europe's political leadership and, by all accounts, swept everything away before him.
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President Trump's second term is unlike his first. He's not leaning on Washington insiders. He's not listening to what's left of the Swamp. He's made some great cabinet picks, and unlike some presidents, he's mostly just let them get on with their jobs. That, to my thinking, is the mark of a great person for any specific job, and I've hired and fired a few people myself. You know a person is the right one for a job when you can point them at a goal and say, "go," and then leave them to it, knowing they'll get the job done. And they are getting it done.
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But Donald Trump and his administration are a symptom, not a cause. They are a symptom of a country where the people who actually get things done have had enough. We've had enough of being hectored about our carbon footprints and our selfishness about not caring if the planet warms up by three degrees over the next century. We've had enough of neurotic boys on our daughter's sports teams and in their locker rooms. We've had enough of being lectured on how our beloved America is a bad place. And we have had enough of the unproductive, with their shouted slogans, their strangely professionally printed signs, and their throwing rocks at cops. They don't know it, but they depend on us. They depend on us for the ink and paper that make up those signs, they depend on us for the wooden lathes they staple the signs to, they depend on us for their clothing, their smartphones, and the service provider that makes those smartphones work. They depend on us for everything. They need us, but we don't need them. That's why we will always win in the end; that's why, in the long term, I think the United States will pull through this mess and come out the other side. Because we, the people who make things, who get things done, we will always be the ones who come through. I do think difficult times are coming. I do think it may very well come down to open conflict. If it does, I think we will win.
Finally, let me say a few things about wolves, something the left needs to understand. Up here in the Great Land, we know a thing or two about wolves. They live around us. We have a local pack of seven or eight, and see their tracks, now and then. So we know this about the left, these protestors, these rioters, looters, and arsonists: They think they are the wolves, but they are sheep in wolves' clothing. We are the wolves. We are the ones who make things work. We are the ones who have always made America run. We, not they, are the strong ones.
And here's the thing: A wolf's strength lies not in its legs that let it run, or in its fangs that let it bite. A wolf's strength is in its pack, which lets it hunt.
Get out and vote in November. Vote as though the survival of the Republic depends on it, because it does.
