Drew Allen writes for American Greatness about major contradictions in statements and actions from the political left.
As it currently stands in America, the criminal illegal alien is treated by the left as both hero and victim, while the ICE agent enforcing federal law is cast as the de facto villain and oppressor.
After a radical left-wing protester is killed during a confrontation with federal agents—an act authorities deem lawful self-defense—the left demands the dismantling and defunding of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But after an illegal alien rapes and murders an unarmed American woman out for a jog, the same voices continue to champion the very open-border policies that made the crime possible in the first place.
The left demanded unlimited funding and military support for Ukraine, insisting that no cost is too high to repel Russian aggression thousands of miles from our shores. Borders there, we are told, matter absolutely.
Yet the same voices ridicule Donald Trump for arguing that Greenland matters strategically to the United States—to counter Russian influence at our own northern doorstep. Prudence at home is mocked as lunacy, while recklessness abroad is sanctified as virtue.
How did we arrive here? And how do we inoculate the nation against this kind of political lunacy before it is too late—if it is not already? …
… Nearly a decade ago, in 2016, Hillary Clinton consigned half of Donald Trump’s supporters to what she called the “basket of deplorables.” Speaking at a private fundraiser, she smeared them as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic.”
Political disagreement was no longer merely disagreement. It was moral disqualification.
Soon after, Donald Trump and those who supported him were no longer dismissed as merely “deplorables” but branded Nazis and fascists—no longer political opponents to be debated but enemies to be confronted and expelled from respectable society.
The speed with which this language was adopted and normalized by progressive activists, media figures, Democratic elites, and your Democrat neighbor was shocking.
