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Glenn: "The United States is the biggest wuss on the planet"

February 05, 2015
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The Jordanian king has taken swift action in the wake of the Islamic State's murder of a Jordanian pilot, executing two prisoners and quoting Clint Eastwood. The White House, on the other hand, continues to falter when it comes to taking any kind of action against Islamic extremism. Glenn reacted to the news on radio this morning.

Read the rough transcript below:

Glenn: Yesterday, we posted the video of -- of the Jordanian pilot being burned to death. And I -- I recommended that the world watch this video. I thought it was important for people to see this video so you know exactly who we're dealing with.

And if you watch the video, I couldn't get my wife to watch it. But if you watch the video, you saw something that was remarkable. One, you saw a lead-up of about three or four minutes that was worth watching in and of itself. Just, this is not the execution part, but they made this remarkable movie, and it shows truly that these people are very sophisticated and they understand Joseph Goebbels. They understand propaganda.

So that's the first part. Then once it gets into the execution. They march this guy out. They have doused him in gasoline. And they march him out into this -- almost this -- looks almost like a bullring in a way. They march him out into this -- into this ring, and the soldiers are all around in formation in a circle around this cage. They march him out. They put him in the cage.

Then in ceremonial fashion, they light a torch and they hit the ground. And in high speed photography, you see that flame slowly reaching the cage, and then it sets the cage on fire, and he begins to burn.

Then if you make it through that part, it is truly one of the most horrific things you've ever seen. If you make it through that part, then they put him out. After he dies and you see his body cook and he begins to almost just become a statue and he rises up a bit and then he falls back. And he's completely dead, but they need to put it back. Then they bring a bulldozer. And I couldn't figure this one out yesterday.

I thought, what is that all about? That's the way you're going to end this? They take a bulldozer full of rubble, huge stones, like, just like construction wreckage, and they take that, and they put it over the cage and they dump it on and the cage collapses under the weight of these stones. And through the stones and the rubble, they put him out.

Today, I want to explain why they did that. But I want you to know that these guys, listen to the president of the United States. This has nothing to do with Islam. This has nothing to do can W the Koran. Right?

Are we all clear on that?

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: Stu, Jeffy, you clear on this. This has nothing to do with Islam. This has nothing to do with the Islam.

STU: Sure. Yeah.

GLENN: Good.

STU: There you go.

GLENN: You got it?

So here is the story from the newspaper in Pakistan called The Dawn. And they have explained why this happened. It's not for Americans to understand or anybody in the West. We shouldn't pay attention to any of this. It's called -- and I'm probably mispronouncing this -- a qisa. Q-I-S-A-S. Qisas. The Koran provides two options to deal with somebody who is found guilty of intentional murder: Qisas. Whether he or she has to be killed in the manner that the victim was murder and forgiveness by the heirs of the victim.

So what was this guy's crime? This guy's crime was that he was a pilot and -- because it's against the Koran to burn bodies. You can't cremate bodies. So it's against the Koran to light a body -- a Muslim on fire. So what are they doing? Qisas. According to the Koran. What they did was they looked at his crime. He was a pilot. He was firing rockets. He was killing children and burning them with their rockets. And the rubble of the buildings fell and killed others.

So that's exactly what they did. They put him in a cage, and they lit him on fire, just like his rockets were lighting children on fire. And the rubble to put him out at the end was to signify the buildings collapsing on people.

PAT: So that he was killed in the manner that he killed, supposedly.

GLENN: Exactly right. So that's why they executed him that way.

PAT: But, again, it has nothing to do with Islam. Has nothing to do with the Koran?

GLENN: Nothing. Nothing.

PAT: I get so sick of these bigots that is it has something to do with Islam.

GLENN: That they're religious in nature.

PAT: Come on. They're secular people.

GLENN: This is a very secular organization.

PAT: Very secular.

GLENN: And that they're following some dictate in the Koran is ridiculous.

PAT: They're more secular than a Moose Lodge. They're like the Rotary Club, sort of. That's how secular these guys are. You can't get any more secular than ISIL. You just can't.

GLENN: What does the I stand for?

PAT: Islam.

GLENN: All right.

PAT: Had nothing to do -- just a name they came up with. They liked the sound of the word. That's all.

GLENN: Right.

PAT: Could have been just as well, could have been Rotary Club.

GLENN: Moose Lodge.

PAT: It doesn't matter.

GLENN: Right. Sure. Sure. So there you go.

Now, the Jordanian king has quoted Clint Eastwood. Now, of thing this. The Jordanians are getting tough on this. The United States is the biggest wuss on the planet. We have no respect. There's no one who fears us. There's no one who respects us anymore. The Jordanians quoted Clint Eastwood.

PAT: Yeah, they believe it to be -- they wouldn't say exactly which quote it was, but they believe it to be this one.

CLINT: Any man I see out there, I'm going to kill him. And if the son of a bitch takes a shot at me, not only will I kill him, I'll kill his wife, all of his friends, burn his damn house down.

PAT: Yeah, that's amazing if King Abdullah really did say that. Because --

GLENN: Well, they have confirmed that he did quote Unforgiven.

PAT: Yes. Yes.

GLENN: So what's more amazing to me is that we are told, we're too cowboyish. We don't want to be cowboys. You can't be cowboys. That was the complaint on George Bush. He's just a cowboy. He's just going in there as a cowboy. And nobody respects cowboys. Nobody -- you can't go over to the Middle East and be a cowboy. Here's King Abdullah actually quoting the most famous cowboy in Hollywood.

PAT: Uh-huh. Now, we don't quote cowboys. We're nothing like that.

GLENN: No.

PAT: We're not ready to kill anyone.

GLENN: No, no.

PAT: We want to -- talk them to sleep and make them calm again.

GLENN: And make sure they understand that we have no problem with Islam and that they aren't following Islam. That's what we want to make sure that they understand. By the way, guys, you know you're not following Islam. Right?

I know. I know. I know. You're actually following the Koran word-for-word. Now, we used to do those things 1,000 years ago with our scriptures. But what we did was we had a reformation. You guys haven't had one yet. So you're still following word-for-word your Koran. But I want you to know, guys, before you burn somebody else to death, I want you to know, you have nothing to do with Islam.

[laughter]

PAT: I don't think we're convincing them of that. They seem to feel like they do. But King Abdullah, according to -- I think this is the -- this is according to Duncan Hunter Jr. who has been communicating with him. And Duncan Hunter said, he's angry. They're starting more sorties tomorrow than they've ever had. They're starting tomorrow. The only problem they're going to have is running out of fuel and bullets. He's ready to get it on. He really is. It reminded me of how we were after 9/11. We were ready to give it to them. So that's apparently what the Jordanians are preparing for right now. And they said it's going to be a war to destroy these guys. We won't say that.

We don't come anywhere near that.

GLENN: No, we want to dismantle their infrastructure.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: The Jordanians -- don't mess with the Jordanians, man. They slaughtered the Palestinians. Slaughtered them in 1968.

PAT: That's when the Palestinians were conducting their terror strikes against the Jordanians. And they didn't seem to react well to that. They didn't appreciate that.

GLENN: Nope. You want to talk about the Holocaust that the Israelites are causing. The Jordanians slaughtered the Palestinians.

Now, meanwhile, we have the king of Jordan quoting an American cowboy, and Obama yesterday met with American Muslims about anti-Muslim discrimination.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: So he was -- while Jordan was talking about going after ISIS, our president was talking about going after Americans who might be discriminating against Muslims.

PAT: This is what happens every time. Every time, we turn this around --

GLENN: On us. Every time. It's why America has lost her way. Because we keep being told we're a bad group of people. We're not a bad group of people. We're not. We're good people. We just need to stop being told we're such bad people because it doesn't ring true to us.

And I warn you, the longer you're told you're bad people, the longer you accept being told you're bad people, the more likely you will become a bad people.

PAT: Yeah. And it is --

GLENN: We will become a very bad nation if we allow them to convince us that that's who we are.

PAT: And you're right. It's pretty ironic that on the same day that Jordanian's king is quoting Clint Eastwood movies, the president reiterates the administration's commitment to safeguarding civil rights to Muslims through hate crimes prosecutions and civil enforcement actions. What?

GLENN: Okay. I want to make sure everybody understands that I'm -- you take it out -- of course, we're against that. Of course, we're against that.

PAT: Of course, we're against discrimination.

GLENN: But even more closely to the point, while the Jordanian king is saying, I'm going to kill them. We're going over there and we're going to stop them. And having righteous outrage --

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: What does Josh Earnest, what's his reaction about being asked, do you agree with the execution of the two terrorists by the Jordanians?

VOICE: -- yesterday say, you know, we're here, we support Jordan. They're a key member of the coalition. They make this decision overnight. And you can't say whether or not you support the executions?

JOHN: It is certainly possible for us to continue to support and stand with the people of Jordan at this very difficult time. You know, clearly their nation, in the same way that we all are, is shocked and appalled at this terrible act of violence that was captured on video by ISIL and released to the world. And the United States stands with our friends in Jordan as they confront this awful, barbaric act.

But as it relates to decisions that are carried out by the Jordanian justice system, I refer you to them.

PAT: He's always referring.

JOHN: I don't have the -- a working knowledge of the Jordanian justice system to render an opinion on this. All I know is that the individuals that we're discussing here were individuals who were convicted of terrorism-related crimes. They were individuals who were sentenced to death. And these were individuals who had been serving time on death row. So --

PAT: I mean -- and then they move on to another subject.

GLENN: Let's be clear, yes, they were terrorists. If the Jordanian law says execute them, we're fine with their execution. We stand behind the Jordanians. This mealy mouthed wishy-washy apologist is going to be the death of us. We're headed towards war. What I've been warning about is upon is now.

Featured image courtesy of the AP

The Crisis of Meaning: Searching for truth and purpose

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Anxiety, anger, and chronic dissatisfaction signal a country searching for meaning. Without truth and purpose, politics becomes a dangerous substitute for identity.

We have built a world overflowing with noise, convenience, and endless choice, yet something essential has slipped out of reach. You can sense it in the restless mood of the country, the anxiety among young people who cannot explain why they feel empty, in the angry confusion that dominates our politics.

We have more wealth than any nation in history, but the heart of the culture feels strangely malnourished. Before we can debate debt or elections, we must confront the reality that we created a world of things, but not a world of purpose.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

What we are living through is not just economic or political dysfunction. It is the vacuum that appears when a civilization mistakes abundance for meaning.

Modern life is stuffed with everything except what the human soul actually needs. We built systems to make life faster, easier, and more efficient — and then wondered why those systems cannot teach our children who they are, why they matter, or what is worth living for.

We tell the next generation to chase success, influence, and wealth, turning childhood into branding. We ask kids what they want to do, not who they want to be. We build a world wired for dopamine rather than dignity, and then we wonder why so many people feel unmoored.

When everything is curated, optimized, and delivered at the push of a button, the question “what is my life for?” gets lost in the static.

The crisis beneath the headlines

It is not just the young who feel this crisis. Every part of our society is straining under the weight of meaninglessness.

Look at the debt cycle — the mathematical fate no civilization has ever escaped once it crosses a threshold that we seem to have already blown by. While ordinary families feel the pressure, our leaders respond with distraction, with denial, or by rewriting the very history that could have warned us.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

We have entered a cultural moment where the noise is so loud that it drowns out the simplest truths. We are living in a country that no longer knows how to hear itself think.

So people go searching. Some drift toward the false promise of socialism, some toward the empty thrill of rebellion. Some simply check out. When a culture forgets what gives life meaning, it becomes vulnerable to every ideology that offers a quick answer.

The quiet return of meaning

And yet, quietly, something else is happening. Beneath the frustration and cynicism, many Americans are recognizing that meaning does not come from what we own, but from what we honor. It does not rise from success, but from virtue. It does not emerge from noise, but from the small, sacred things that modern life has pushed to the margins — the home, the table, the duty you fulfill, the person you help when no one is watching.

The danger is assuming that this rediscovery happens on its own. It does not.

Reorientation requires intention. It requires rebuilding the habits and virtues that once held us together. It requires telling the truth about our history instead of rewriting it to fit today’s narratives. And it requires acknowledging what has been erased: that meaning is inseparable from God’s presence in a nation’s life.

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Where renewal begins

We have built a world without stillness, and then we wondered why no one can hear the questions that matter. Those questions remain, whether we acknowledge them or not. They do not disappear just because we drown them in entertainment or noise. They wait for us, and the longer we ignore them, the more disoriented we become.

Meaning is still available. It is found in rebuilding the smallest, most human spaces — the places that cannot be digitized, globalized, or automated. The home. The family. The community.

These are the daily virtues that do not trend on social media, but that hold a civilization upright. If we want to repair this country, we begin there, exactly where every durable civilization has always begun: one virtue at a time, one tradition at a time, one generation at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

A break in trust: A NEW Watergate is brewing in plain sight

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When institutions betray the public’s trust, the country splits, and the spiral is hard to stop.

Something drastic is happening in American life. Headlines that should leave us stunned barely register anymore. Stories that once would have united the country instead dissolve into silence or shrugs.

It is not apathy exactly. It is something deeper — a growing belief that the people in charge either cannot or will not fix what is broken.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf.

I call this response the Bubba effect. It describes what happens when institutions lose so much public trust that “Bubba,” the average American minding his own business, finally throws his hands up and says, “Fine. I will handle it myself.” Not because he wants to, but because the system that was supposed to protect him now feels indifferent, corrupt, or openly hostile.

The Bubba effect is not a political movement. It is a survival instinct.

What triggers the Bubba effect

We are watching the triggers unfold in real time. When members of Congress publicly encourage active duty troops to disregard orders from the commander in chief, that is not a political squabble. When a federal judge quietly rewrites the rules so one branch of government can secretly surveil another, that is not normal. That is how republics fall. Yet these stories glided across the news cycle without urgency, without consequence, without explanation.

When the American people see the leadership class shrug, they conclude — correctly — that no one is steering the ship.

This is how the Bubba effect spreads. It is not just individuals resisting authority. It is sheriffs refusing to enforce new policies, school boards ignoring state mandates, entire communities saying, “We do not believe you anymore.” It becomes institutional, cultural, national.

A country cracking from the inside

This effect can be seen in Dearborn, Michigan. In the rise of fringe voices like Nick Fuentes. In the Epstein scandal, where powerful people could not seem to locate a single accountable adult. These stories are different in content but identical in message: The system protects itself, not you.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf. That does not mean they suddenly agree with everything that person says. It means they feel abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to be trustworthy.

The Bubba effect is what fills that vacuum.

The dangers of a faithless system

A republic cannot survive without credibility. Congress cannot oversee intelligence agencies if it refuses to discipline its own members. The military cannot remain apolitical if its chain of command becomes optional. The judiciary cannot defend the Constitution while inventing loopholes that erase the separation of powers.

History shows that once a nation militarizes politics, normalizes constitutional shortcuts, or allows government agencies to operate without scrutiny, it does not return to equilibrium peacefully. Something will give.

The question is what — and when.

The responsibility now belongs to us

In a healthy country, this is where the media steps in. This is where universities, pastors, journalists, and cultural leaders pause the outrage machine and explain what is at stake. But today, too many see themselves not as guardians of the republic, but of ideology. Their first loyalty is to narrative, not truth.

The founders never trusted the press more than the public. They trusted citizens who understood their rights, lived their responsibilities, and demanded accountability. That is the antidote to the Bubba effect — not rage, but citizenship.

How to respond without breaking ourselves

Do not riot. Do not withdraw. Do not cheer on destruction just because you dislike the target. That is how nations lose themselves. Instead, demand transparency. Call your representatives. Insist on consequences. Refuse to normalize constitutional violations simply because “everyone does it.” If you expect nothing, you will get nothing.

Do not hand your voice to the loudest warrior simply because he is swinging a bat at the establishment. You do not beat corruption by joining a different version of it. You beat it by modeling the country you want to preserve: principled, accountable, rooted in truth.

Adam Gray / Stringer | Getty Images

Every republic reaches a moment when historians will later say, “That was the warning.” We are living in ours. But warnings are gifts if they are recognized. Institutions bend. People fail. The Constitution can recover — if enough Americans still know and cherish it.

It does not take a majority. Twenty percent of the country — awake, educated, and courageous — can reset the system. It has happened before. It can happen again.

Wake up. Stand up. Demand integrity — from leaders, from institutions, and from yourself. Because the Bubba effect will not end until Americans reclaim the duty that has always belonged to them: preserving the republic for the next generation.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Grim warning: Bad-faith Israel critics duck REAL questions

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Bad-faith attacks on Israel and AIPAC warp every debate. Real answers emerge only when people set aside scripts and ask what serves America’s long-term interests.

The search for truth has always required something very much in short supply these days: honesty. Not performative questions, not scripted outrage, not whatever happens to be trending on TikTok, but real curiosity.

Some issues, often focused on foreign aid, AIPAC, or Israel, have become hotbeds of debate and disagreement. Before we jump into those debates, however, we must return to a simpler, more important issue: honest questioning. Without it, nothing in these debates matters.

Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

The phrase “just asking questions” has re-entered the zeitgeist, and that’s fine. We should always question power. But too many of those questions feel preloaded with someone else’s answer. If the goal is truth, then the questions should come from a sincere desire to understand, not from a hunt for a villain.

Honest desire for truth is the only foundation that can support a real conversation about these issues.

Truth-seeking is real work

Right now, plenty of people are not seeking the truth at all. They are repeating something they heard from a politician on cable news or from a stranger on TikTok who has never opened a history book. That is not a search for answers. That is simply outsourcing your own thought.

If you want the truth, you need to work for it. You cannot treat the world like a Marvel movie where the good guy appears in a cape and the villain hisses on command. Real life does not give you a neat script with the moral wrapped up in two hours.

But that is how people are approaching politics now. They want the oppressed and the oppressor, the heroic underdog and the cartoon villain. They embrace this fantastical framing because it is easier than wrestling with reality.

This framing took root in the 1960s when the left rebuilt its worldview around colonizers and the colonized. Overnight, Zionism was recast as imperialism. Suddenly, every conflict had to fit the same script. Today’s young activists are just recycling the same narrative with updated graphics. Everything becomes a morality play. No nuance, no context, just the comforting clarity of heroes and villains.

Bad-faith questions

This same mindset is fueling the sudden obsession with Israel, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in particular. You hear it from members of Congress and activists alike: AIPAC pulls the strings, AIPAC controls the government, AIPAC should register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The questions are dramatic, but are they being asked in good faith?

FARA is clear. The standard is whether an individual or group acts under the direction or control of a foreign government. AIPAC simply does not qualify.

Here is a detail conveniently left out of these arguments: Dozens of domestic organizations — Armenian, Cuban, Irish, Turkish — lobby Congress on behalf of other countries. None of them registers under FARA because — like AIPAC — they are independent, domestic organizations.

If someone has a sincere problem with the structure of foreign lobbying, fair enough. Let us have that conversation. But singling out AIPAC alone is not a search for truth. It is bias dressed up as bravery.

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If someone wants to question foreign aid to Israel, fine. Let’s have that debate. But let’s ask the right questions. The issue is not the size of the package but whether the aid advances our interests. What does the United States gain? Does the investment strengthen our position in the region? How does it compare to what we give other nations? And do we examine those countries with the same intensity?

The real target

These questions reflect good-faith scrutiny. But narrowing the entire argument to one country or one dollar amount misses the larger problem. If someone objects to the way America handles foreign aid, the target is not Israel. The target is the system itself — an entrenched bureaucracy, poor transparency, and decades-old commitments that have never been re-examined. Those problems run through programs around the world.

If you want answers, you need to broaden the lens. You have to be willing to put aside the movie script and confront reality. You have to hold yourself to a simple rule: Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

That is the only way this country ever gets clarity on foreign aid, influence, alliances, and our place in the world. Questioning is not just allowed. It is essential. But only if it is honest.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

A nation unravels when its shared culture is the first thing to go

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.