Irony of the day: We live in highly consequential times – encouraged to accept evil as good, good as evil, told to accept government centralization, public corruption, lawlessness, censorship, and now communism – yet we attach almost no consequences to bad acts, from falsehoods to violence.
At the national level, President Trump – together with his uncompromising administration – represents a refreshing counterpoint, acting daily with fidelity to American history.
Modern Democrats, dominated by their young, neo-communist, power-concentrating wing, continue to push unchecked illegal immigration, allow drug trafficking, press and excuse violence in response to conservative ideas, and ever-rising socialist spending, debt, taxes, and control.
President Trump, reflecting a majority of Americans, has modeled the reverse – respect for history, liberty, The Bill of Rights, and diffusion – not concentration – of power, seeking limited government.
To those who say the President’s resolve to tighten the border, deport illegal aliens, stop terrorists and drug traffickers, deploy the National Guard to stabilize cities spinning out of control, cut taxes, spending, overregulation, and bizarre rewrites of biology, law, and the Bible, I say stop: Study your American history. Every president up to Obama was on that page.
If you say no, I say: Pay closer attention. No president, until Obama, worse still Biden, disrespected American law enforcement, opened US borders, undermined military readiness, immigration laws, including the asylum threshold, or permitted nations like China and Iran to walk over America.
Ten presidents, back to FDR, deployed the National Guard to stabilize criminally overrun or threatened cities, including FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton (Democrats), deploying the Guard to stabilize DC, restoring respect for local, state, and federal law.
To those who say President Trump’s downsizing is too much, understand that our once small federal government has exploded, a quantum leap from Theodore Roosevelt to FDR’s New Deal, then Johnson’s Great Society, roughly a thousand times larger than the early 20th century, with millions of employees, 500 agencies, thousands of contractors, and hundreds of millions of dependents.
So, cutting the government 300,000 out of 4.4 million, ending waste, insider contracts, leftist agendas, stay-at-home employees, and contractors without value, was actually wise and legal.
Likewise, ending Iran’s nuclear program – a terrible, nuclear sword of Damocles over the West, supporting Israel against Iranian-backed terrorists Hamas and Hezbollah, banging heads for Middle East and Ukrainian peace, and hitting terror-affiliated drug boats while taming China is leadership.
In highly “consequential” times, Trump is re-teaching the basic value of consequences for bad acts. But at the state level, in places like one-party Democrat Maine, runaway bad acts continue – unsufferable taxes, spending, illegal alien indulgence, public fraud, drug trafficking, even Marxism.
Personally, a lack of consequences for bad acts – no accountability for overspending, taxing, regulating, and a rupture of the Maine culture – amounts to an unending attack on Maine families, parents, kids, and businesses. It has created the nation’s worst schools, highest property taxes, energy cost jump, poorest infrastructure, high drug trafficking, thousands of overdoses, illegal alien dependence, Medicaid fraud, and thousands of insider contracts to Democrat officials (audit).
In short, where blue states are in control, consequential damage is being done to the culture, to families, parents, kids, and businesses. This devastating turn reflects no consequences for bad acts. While President Trump reverses damage at the federal level, it is time at the state level.
Bottom line: A great irony walks the land. We live in extremely consequential times, deeply affecting our future, yet no consequences for bad acts, weakness, untruth, lies, and violence. The epiphany? No accountability invariably precedes a slide into darkness. We must rise to be the light.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!
On humongous consequence is the placement of radical liberal judges into power. There’s not a day that passes that I don’t see a news line about an anti-American judge blocking President Trump’s efforts to MAGA.
RBC, your “Bottom Line” comment is on the mark as to where this nation is heading. Many of the populace continue to “not get involved” and ignore what is going on. What happens in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections will determine the road that the nation will take — RECOVERY or OBLIVION.
Every thing. has consequences – in. nature the obvious, simple to grasp observation that if there is too much rain in certain areas during a certain period of time the consequence will be a flood. Those who ignore the idea of consequences for their actions are up to no good. Corruption camouflages itself in many ways, in large part to distract people from consequences . The last sentence is surely an idea in keeping with the parable of Christ about the Lamp. So, people who light a lamp and place it under a bowl , instead of putting it on a stand for others to see – those who would light a lamp and put it under a bowl Well, probably good. to keep a good distance from them — Let them walk around in darkness — Sensible , responsible, intelligent people are going to choose light instead of darkness any day ! In the first paragraph the words – “… with fidelity to American history. ” That is uplifting and praiseworthy of President Trump .That is the sort of thing that should provide a feeling of appreciation for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania being the White House residents. Some things that would help improve the culture would be attention to the idea of proper English language grammar. Communication depends on correct grammar – much more so than any electronic devices. And having respectful, uplifting humor ( that means no crude, vulgar or obscene words or expressions ) Music should reflect thoughts that are also respectful and uplifting – these cultural matters add up to being of great importance.
Lack of consequences and accountability are the result of decades of poor parenting, and a deteriorating education system. If it can be turned around it will take decades, but is not a sure thing.
Hey Mr.Charles…..what about the hundreds of billions we urinate away providing weaponry and targeting data to the child butchers in Israel or ditto to literal Nazis who seem to believe that “Russia” is a race of sub humans who must be destroyed because a mythical psychopath named Stepan Bandera said doing so was a good thing. Bandera for those that don’t recall was a renowned butcher whose cruelty disgusted Hitlers SS. And now the man with the tiny little orange cashew seems intent on spending more billions, perhaps like with Afghanistan, trillions on killing dirty old spics in Venezuela because……….well because sick sexually perverse creatures like Lindsay Graham tells Trump it’s the wise thing to do.
Hate this or love this, I don’t care but do me a favor and when the man with the tiny orange cashew calls you down to his kool aide tent………..DON’T GO