Some of my favorite passages:
DePaul University professor Jason Hill is a Jamaican immigrant who is openly gay but politically conservative. Hill describes himself this way: “I’m mixed race, but I’m perceived as being black in America. And, like any person of color who has lived in America, I’ve experienced my fair share of racism. But I don’t see America as a nation of extreme bigotry.” the progressive search for demons no matter the facts or circumstances is rooted in a need to see themselves as saviors of people so “oppressed” they are unable to lift themselves up. A corollary of this ideology, which is known as “identity politics” is that to criticize individuals who are members of an “oppressed” group, even powerful members like Elijah Cummings, is to become an accomplice to their oppression. On the other hand, to view black leaders as part of the apparatus of oppression, as Trump suggested, is simply unthinkable—racist.
Democrat majority through demographic change—by, in effect, importing large numbers of future Democrat voters through illegal immigration. Pressures within the Democrat Party to greatly expand the influx prompted President Obama to revise the immigration law by executive order—something he had previously argued he could not do under the Constitution.
The economic costs of the illegal movement across America’s borders are astronomical. The costs of education, welfare, and medical services already provided to illegals are estimated to be over $116 billion nationally.66 The costs of California’s plan to provide illegals with health insurance have been estimated at $98 million.
between 2011 and 2016, noncitizens committed 21.4 percent of the nation’s crimes, not counting their immigration crimes.68 When Social Security fraud, identity theft, and forgery are included, 75 percent of illegal aliens commit felonies according to the New York Times.
Ironically, the Democrats’ three-year sabotage of Trump’s presidency succeeded in accomplishing precisely the goal Democrats claimed Putin sought by interfering with the 2016 election. Democrats divided the country, sowed chaos in government, and undermined the effectiveness of American policies at home and abroad.
(About the 1619 project):
To begin with, the term “America” is one that has applied to South, Central, and North America since 1507.109 “American slavery” dates back thousands of years, but this is not what the Times editors have in mind. The “America” targeted by the Times’ board was not conceived until 1776 or formally constituted until 1787, more than 150 years after 1619. American slavery lasted for only 76 years—not 400—until the Emancipation Proclamation. The slaves who were brought to the British colonies in 1619 were brought by people who identified as Englishmen, not “Americans.” Moreover, they were enslaved by black Africans who sold them at slave auctions in Ghana and Benin. A proper “founding” for black slavery would go back several thousand years, and would not even involve white—let alone American—slave traders. The Times’ 1619 Project is a project conceived in hate—hate for white people and hate for the nation they created, the center of whose story is America’s dedication to liberty and equality. To label 1619 as the year of America’s “founding” and “the beginning of American slavery,” and to call the slaves brought to the Virginia colony in that year “black Americans” is an act of repulsive defamation. It is a hateful lie based on a very pure form of racism, since the obvious continuity between the English colonies that existed in 1619 and the nation that was conceived in 1776 as a rebellion against England and its empire is that the majority of both populations were white. But their philosophies regarding slavery were diametrically opposed. That’s why it took a Revolutionary War to resolve them. In fact, one rarely discussed historical detail is that whites were not the only slaveholders in America. Blacks owned slaves in Louisiana, Virginia, and South Carolina as well.110 Thousands of enslaved blacks were also owned by Cherokees and went on the “Trail of Tears” with their Native American owners during the removal to the Indian Territory in the 1830s.111 What the Times’ 1619 Project seeks to erase is the fact of the American Revolution—that in 1776 a “new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” was born. This America immediately began freeing the slaves that had come with the British Empire and, within a few generations, completed the liberation process through a civil war—the bloodiest conflict in American history—at a cost of over 600,000 lives.
Since slavery was a normal institution in all societies for 3,000 years before 1776, America should rightly be seen not as a “founder” of slavery but its grave digger.
Slavery was abolished in America and then throughout the Western Hemisphere by the sacrifice of 350,000 mainly white Union soldiers who had never owned slaves but gave their lives to free their black brothers and sisters... For comparison, slavery still exists in Africa, 156 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is a slavery in which the masters are “people of color.”
despite Omar’s transparent racism and obvious sympathies for terrorists, her family’s role in a bloody dictatorial regime, her links to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Students Association, and other Muslim Brotherhood fronts, the freshman representative was appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, where among other things she received top security clearances. What does this say about the priorities of Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party?
Liel Leibovitz, an American immigrant from Israel and a Democrat, to write a lengthy piece in Tablet Magazine titled, “Ignore It at Your Peril: Just Because Trump Said It Doesn’t Mean It’s Not True: The Democratic Party Is Becoming Unsalvageable.” Expressing his concern for “the political future of American Jews,” Leibovitz offered evidence of “the unthinkable descent of the Democratic Party into being not just blind to anti-Jewish bigotry, but an engine of it. . . . [T]he Democratic Party has a very real and very deep anti-Semitism problem.”
Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, made a surprisingly unguarded statement to the Washington Post. Chakrabarti explained that the Green New Deal was not actually about climate change, although that was its selling point. Instead, from the beginning the goal of its supporters was to impose socialism on America. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
Socialism is a system of shared misery based on the fatally flawed notion that an economy can be run by a centrally directed “plan” imposed on the population, without profit incentives to motivate individual productivity and innovation. The fact that socialist command economies invariably fail, causing incalculable human misery, seemed lost on radical ideologues like Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and the now dominant progressives in the Democratic Party. Also lost were lessons to be learned from the totalitarian results of centralizing power in the hands of the state and stripping ordinary citizens of their freedoms.
While many of the Green New Deal’s proposals had nothing to do with climate change, they had everything to do with imposing communist master plans on a passive populace.
Another measure called for guaranteeing jobs at a living wage to everyone in the United States, and providing “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling [sic] to work.”150 In other words, the Green New Deal would remove incentives to be productive and work. In their place, like the left’s failed welfare system, it would provide incentives to expand the pool of dependency and despair.
Even if the Green New Deal’s provisions had not been so impractical and dangerous, critics pointed out that its measures would do nothing to “save the planet.” The United States was already a world leader in reducing carbon emissions. The Green New Deal offered no plan for compelling the world’s worst polluters—notably China and India—to reduce their omissions. If, as Cortez claimed, the planet had only a decade to thwart the eco-apocalypse, the Green New Deal would not make a degree’s worth of difference.
Trump and Pence set a high standard for religious tolerance and religious freedom. For the anti-Trump left, on the other hand, religious freedom is the freedom to hold whatever religious views you want so long as you keep them to yourself.
According to the Pulitzer-winning PolitiFact (a left-tilting website that’s clearly no admirer of Trump), President Trump has kept the following campaign promises: He promised to take no salary—promise kept. He promised to create a twenty-four-hour White House hotline for veterans—promise kept. He promised to slash federal regulations—promise kept. He promised to ban White House officials from ever lobbying for a foreign nation—promise kept. He promised to nominate a replacement for Antonin Scalia from a list of conservative, strict constructionist judges—promise kept. Trump promised to keep the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center open—promise kept. He promised to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—promise kept. He promised to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord—promise kept. He promised to persuade NATO nations to contribute more for their common defense—promise kept. He promised to halt emigration to America from unstable, terrorist-ridden nations—promise kept. And on and on, one campaign promise after another, kept by President Trump and checked off by PolitiFact.184 This isn’t the record of someone who aspires to be a dictator; it’s the record of a democratic politician who keeps his word.
Obama lied over and over, telling Americans that they could keep their doctor and their plan under the new law, and that it would reduce their annual health costs by thousands of dollars. He also lied in assuring them that it would not be available to illegal aliens. He also abused his authority in a dictatorial manner, telling immigration organizations and television audiences at least twenty times that he did not have the constitutional authority to approve DACA or alter immigration laws and then did just that anyway.
(On the impeachment): Worse, the whistleblower admitted to having no firsthand knowledge of the presidential call—the very facts on which the accusations were based. In short, Pelosi had launched an “impeachment inquiry” based entirely on hearsay evidence provided by a Trump hater from the deep state. This transparent attempt to frame the defendant would have been thrown out of any normal court of law—but not Pelosi’s court.
Matt Taibbi, a veteran journalist who had written two best-selling anti-Trump books. In an article published five days after Miller’s interview and titled “We’re in a Permanent Coup,” he warned of the threat to America’s democratic order posed by the deep-state conspiracy: “The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped. “My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.”
This warning from Taibbi was echoed by another liberal critic of Trump—Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. In a talk show appearance on New York’s AM 970 radio on Sunday, November 10, 2019, Dershowitz said, “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whether you’re from New York or the middle of the country, you should be frightened by efforts to try to create crimes out of nothing. . . . It reminds me of what Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB, said to Stalin. He said, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime,’ by which he really meant, ‘I’ll make up the crime.’ And so the Democrats are now making up crimes.”
In recent years, the people have become increasingly aware that “the joke” is on us. We play by the rules and pay our taxes while the politicians laugh behind our backs and treat us like fools. Enter Donald Trump. Trump was elected because he is not a politician. He promised to “drain the swamp,” build the wall, and make America great again. And he actually attempted to keep his promises. That’s why official Washington hates and seeks to destroy him.
Obama had allowed ISIS and its depraved leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to emerge from the ashes of the Iraq War, and to create a caliphate and establish the Islamic state in a territory as large as Ohio. While ISIS terrorists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis and created millions of refugees, Obama dithered, held back on using military force, and botched a chance to kill the ISIS leader.218 By contrast, from day one of his presidency, Trump made the destruction of the ISIS caliphate and the demise of its sadistic leader “the top national security priority of my administration.”219 In Trump’s first year in office, the caliphate and Islamic state were destroyed, and on October 26, 2019, al-Baghdadi himself was hunted down and killed in a daring raid in northwestern Syria by U.S. forces under Trump’s command.
In contrast to Obama, who was hostile toward Israel’s leader and critical of the Jewish state, Trump voiced a clear, unambiguous support for the only democracy in the Middle East. Five months into his presidency, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president ever to visit the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.
Trump was deeply disturbed by the 2014 news story of systematic neglect and abuse of America’s veterans by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Patients died waiting for appointments while bureaucrats and administrators falsified records to collect fat “merit pay” bonuses. The Obama administration promised a shakeup at the VHA, including firings of bad employees—but the New York Times found that at most three bad employees were removed. More than a hundred employees were “disciplined” by merely being moved to another facility or, worse, being placed on paid leave—an indefinite paid vacation at taxpayer expense for bad behavior. On April 27, 2017—three months after taking office—President Trump signed Executive Order 13793 to imp