What in God’s name is wrong with these people? Democrats in the US Congress seem to love high taxes, spending, hobbling energy production, driving inflation and interest to unsustainable highs, killing seniors’ lifetime savings, making housing unaffordable for the working young – and now this: Attacking law enforcement on behalf of illegal aliens. Really? In two bills?
On top of other inexcusable abuses of authority, US House Democrats have adopted the mindset of being anti-law enforcement and pro-illegal behavior – utterly disregarding the primacy of laws.
Last week, as if we needed to relive 2020’s miserable summer, those violent (organized) riots that occurred in 200 cities, from Portland Oregon to Portland Maine, Democrats did it again. They hammered police – and during police week of all things, when fallen officers are recognized. Does it get worse?
As Newsweek reported, “a majority of House Democrats voted against a bill put forth by GOP lawmakers that would require federal law enforcement to detain migrants who have entered the US illegally and face charges for assaulting a police officer.” Democrats voted against that bill.
So, notching up the craziness – illegality versus rule of law – a majority of Democrats voted for illegal aliens, who are illegally in the US in the first place, who assault a police officer? How in the world?
Democrats are more out of touch with regular people than I imagined. On top of this bill, they just – on Friday – voted, or 61 of them did, against a House resolution “condemning violence against police.” Seriously? While that resolution passed, fully 61 Democrats – radical left “Squad” members to people Maine’s arrogant, unapologetic Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Me). Are you kidding?
What, may I ask, is the point of laws, our Constitution, statutes, courts, and law enforcement to enforce them, view that people should respect them for civil order – if legislators disrespect them?
The word is shock. Even George Orwell, in his multiple books on how government might one day redefine words to enable oppression did not dream of this new twist – total disrespect for the rule of law, period – promotion of disrespect, inversion of right and wrong, anarchy advocacy.
The Democrats, every one of those who voted for those two bills, from the radicals in the House Marxist caucus, content with street violence defacing campuses and America, to the pretend respecters of law, like Chellie Pingree of Maine, should be ashamed and tossed out.
Net-net, this is a sign of where Democrat-controlled, left-lurching societies end up – at least in the modern iteration of “representative (really unrepresentative) democracy.” This is where – forgive my saying the obvious one more time – one-party government, federal or state, takes a people: Down.
So, what are the implications? This election cycle – at the federal and state levels – is becoming one for the ages. This is no longer about the economy, drugs, border, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Gaza, or the next moon mission. It is about reestablishing respect for law, citizens, and the nation, or losing fidelity to all three.
This is an election now about those who respect laws and law enforcement, order premised on morality and civility, versus those who brazenly, boldly, with indifference to regular people trash it for their private or ideological agenda. That is fundamentally un-American, not what most Americans want – or should tolerate in public office. The real choice? Civil society or none.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
