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Morning Brief 2023-04-11

April 11, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Ben Spell
TOPIC: Do Americans ACTUALLY know what is in their meat?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Dom Theodore
TOPIC: Mecosta County, Michigan, residents are protesting a proposed EV battery plant with ties to the Chinese government.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Carol Roth
TOPIC: The dollar is dying.

James 4:11-17

Domestic News...

Report: FBI Hatched Plan To Surveil Catholics
The FBI hatched a plan this year to cultivate sources inside Catholic churches to investigate religious extremism, House Republicans found.

New Evidence Reveals Feds Possibly Instigated Violence During the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
Bodycam videos worn on Jan. 6 by undercover Metropolitan Police officers show the undercover officers cheering on the demonstrators, with chants of "Go! Go! Go!," "Stop the Steal!," and "Whose House? Our House!"

FBI links conservative internet slang to domestic terrorism
A domestic terrorism reference guide suggests that the use of the internet slang words "red-pilled" and "based," among others, might be a sign of a user's proclivity for or involvement in racist, involuntary-celibate, and/or fascistic extremism.

School shootings don’t drive kid gun deaths — woke DAs and Dems do
Tragically, gun deaths among under-18s are rising dramatically in the U.S. — 50% in the last two years.

Salena Zito: Stories of dignity and grace are everywhere; we need to tell them more
In my travels across the country most Americans resist relentless negativity and aspire for interactions that enrich their lives; we strive for hope and shrink from hate.

Where’s the Best Place to Ride Out the Next Cataclysm?
The wisest plan for any American worried about asteroids, volcanoes, or nuclear war: Just stay put.

Grand jury indicts mother of Virginia 6-year-old who shot teacher
Deja Taylor now faces a felony charge of child neglect and misdemeanor child endangerment involving a loaded weapon.

Politics...

Biden Is Still Covering Up His Deadly Afghan Withdrawal
Two years ago, the president said the "buck stops with me." It never does.

Reporter Grills Jean-Pierre On Why Biden Won’t Hold Press Conferences
"Is the administration trying to protect the president from our questions?"

Tapper Mocks Biden’s Odd Announcement About 2024
“I plan on running but we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” Biden said Sunday, prompting a confused Tapper to weigh in. “I mean, what is that? 'I plan on running, but we’re not going to announce it yet.’ So he’s running?”

Trump Campaign Shifts Strategy To Capitalize On Indictment Rocket Fuel
Trump’s campaign will capitalize on his indictment to alter the 2024 presidential campaign to be about “fear” of the “deep state,” Trump insiders told the Daily Caller.

19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.
Will a "Ron Revolution" come to the 19 states that have greater Republican control than Florida?

Another Louisiana Democrat flips to GOP in blow to party
A Louisiana Democratic lawmaker has left the party and plans to register as a Republican, marking the latest in a string of defections that have handed Republicans greater power in key state legislatures.

NBC: DeSantis and RFK Jr. misconstrue Fed’s digital plans in warning of government overreach
A classic media ploy by NBC. In this case they tie DeSantis in with “noted anti-vaxxer” RFK Jr., thus establishing a connection between the two.

RFK Jr.’s ‘disgusted’ family unlikely to support his bid for president
“Most of the Kennedys are disgusted with his attitude,” said Kennedy family biographer Laurence Leamer, referring to Robert’s recent anti-vaccination activism. “They still care about him, but he’s an embarrassment.”

Nashville sends ousted state Rep. Justin Jones back to legislature
The council members voted unanimously, 36-0, to return Jones to his seat, CNN reported. The state legislature voted 72-25 to remove him last week. He will serve as an interim representative.

Economy / ESG...

Carol Roth: Yes, the dollar is dying — another step toward the new financial world order
When you hear the phrase “new financial world order,” it may sound like a conspiracy theory. But much like every so-called conspiracy theory of the past several years, it’s very predictable, based on history and human nature.

CBO: Federal Debt Payments Up 41 Percent
The Congressional Budget Office on Monday revealed that the cost of payments on the federal debt soared 41 percent in the first six months of the fiscal year thanks to higher interest rates — driving the deficit up to $1.1 trillion over the period.

Florida lawmakers file legislation to reject central bank digital currencies
While many of the financial transactions in the U.S. and globally are digital, a CBDC would be digital only and not available in a tangible form.

Recession threat may mean stock-market investors no longer see bad news on economy as good news
Until recently, investors welcomed signs of a slowing economy, figuring it meant the Federal Reserve would soon stop raising interest rates, presumably in time to avert a recession as inflation cooled.

Bitcoin tops $30,000 for the first time since June ahead of key inflation data
Now that bitcoin has touched $30,000, a move into the mid- to high-30s will be “likely” said James Lavish, partner at the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund.

Border...

NYC wants $650M from feds to help alleviate financial crisis after welcoming 90 illegal aliens a day
So far, Gotham has only received a paltry $8 million in federal funding after an initial $1 billion request.

WAR News... 

White House Tells Journalists They Have ‘No Business’ Reporting On Leaked Intel
“Without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain,” Kirby said from the podium.

US scrambles to trace source of highly classified intel leak
Classified documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defenses to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some experts saying it could be an American.

US Is Spying On Zelensky: Here's What's Known So Far From The Leaked Intelligence Files
The U.S. intelligence document suggests that American officials have been worried about possible Zelensky decision-making to strike deep into Russian territory, which would escalate the war and potentially bring Russia and NATO into direct clashes.

Leaked Docs: New Chinese Hypersonic Missile Has ‘High Probability’ Of Penetrating US Defenses
Relatively little is publicly known about the DF-27.

NY Post: The six biggest revelations from the Pentagon’s leaked intel documents
Beyond the revelations about the state of the 13-month-old war between Russia and Ukraine, the scandal has also revealed spying by the U.S. on its allies and has almost certainly exposed American intelligence sources.

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked US document says
President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret "to avoid problems with the West."

Australia defense chief: US intel leak report 'serious' incident
"The issue of maintaining security of information is critical to the development of national capability and to the trust and confidence across allies and partners."

Putin's forces dig 45-mile 'mega-trench' in Ukraine as attacks intensify
New satellite images show a huge trench excavated by Russians in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.

Why do we think Putin won’t use ‘the bomb’?
From Putin’s perch, continuing to threaten a nuclear attack without doing it carries perhaps as much risk as doing it.

COVID-19...

Biden signs measure to end COVID-19 national emergency
While the measure Biden signed puts the kibosh on the national emergency, Politico indicated that it does not impact the public heath emergency.

Entertainment...

Blac Chyna reveals why she changed her ways
Celebrity Blac Chyna, whose real name is Angela Renee White, said she changed her life by giving up OnlyFans, some of the tattoos she had, and other things because she realized that she was living in the fast lane and she had to take care of her young children.

Al Jaffee dead at 102: Mad magazine cartoonist who created popular Fold-In
Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In in 1964, and it continued until he retired in 2020.

Media...

Biden Admin Taps Liberal Journalism Institute To Teach Reporters How To Be ‘Balanced and Bias-Free’
Poynter Institute came under fire for releasing a "blacklist" of conservative news organizations.

NPR says it won’t tweet from @NPR until Twitter removes false 'state-affiliated' label
We accept your terms.

Twitter Changes NPR’s ‘State-Sponsored Media’ Label
NPR is now labeled as “government-funded media."

Canada...

10 cops arrest pastor as he protests drag queen reading to kids
He spends Easter in jail — his latest stint behind bars for standing up to such events in Canada.

Vancouver officers now must take age, race into consideration before applying handcuffs
"A police officer cannot view handcuffing someone who is under arrest, detained, or apprehended as a routine action."

Europe...

Two men hospitalized after game of Monopoly ends in sword fight
A Monopoly game in Brussels turned bloody after an irritated man approached the players with a Japanese samurai sword.

Middle East...

Joe Lieberman: US political attitudes towards Israel have changed
Lieberman warned of the danger of losing bipartisan support. “We must not let that support go away,” he said.

Jerusalem Post: Make no mistake – Israel no longer decides when wars are fought
Hamas learned in a more systematic way, with Iran and Hezbollah assisting, how to instigate its own ring of fire around Jerusalem.

Environment...

Gallup poll: Most Americans don’t see country's energy situation as 'very serious'
Just 34% of Americans see the country's energy situation as "very serious," according to a new Gallup poll.

The Left’s Lightbulb Ban: Welcome to the Age of Unlightenment
Long a symbol of personal ideation and American ingenuity, the incandescent lightbulb is being banned, and the administration, congressional Democrats, and environmental special interests are ecstatic.

US Treasury Rolls Out Guidelines for Electric Car Subsidies
The rules are broadly aimed at diluting China’s market power over raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel and magnesium, which are key ingredients for electric motors and batteries.

LGBTQIA2S+...

The Offspring counters Bud Light boycotts
Remember them from the '90s? ... No? Well, they're so punk that they're taking the bold stance of supporting big business, and they warned that other bands are ready to do the same.

Men Are Sweeping Competitions In Yet Another Female Athletic Category
Male bicycle racers swapping out mediocre careers on men’s teams for record-breaking careers on women and girls’ teams.

Education...

Florida State University professor leaves job after accusations of faking race data
The study reported that as populations of black and Hispanic Americans grew, the public desire for discriminatory sentences also grew.

OU: Fake active shooter calls originated from outside US
After an alert was sent out Friday by the University of Oklahoma warning of an active shooter on campus, the university said these were swatting calls that originated from outside the United States.

Health...

UNC Doctors Slam ‘Hurtful’ Surgeon Who Denounced Affirmative Action In Medical Schools
Dr. John Calhoon was smeared as "racist" after he emphasized merit as the primary indicator of success in the surgery profession.

Musk says solution to fentanyl crisis is to 'legalize it'
"I think we should legalize it. The probability of overdose or a bad batch is greatly reduced if there is actual [Quality Assurance] & regulation."

The ongoing, unnecessary Adderall shortage, explained
Rising demand has collided with restricted supply — with consequences for millions of patients.

Religion...

NPR: The Dalai Lama apologizes for asking a young boy to 'suck my tongue'
In the U.S., the video has been shared by right-wing influencers as another example of pedophilia run rampant.

Technology...

Former Feds Fled Twitter Around Elon Musk Takeover
Daily Caller reports that dozens of former federal agents fled Twitter as Musk took charge.

Twitter Inc. no longer exists, now X Corp.
Twitter's slow transformation from micro-blog to everything platform has seemingly begun.

Should Robots With Artificial Intelligence Have Moral or Legal Rights?
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, researchers, scholars and ethicists consider whether robots deserve to be treated more like people.

ChatGPT: The 10 Jobs Most at Risk of Being Replaced by AI
The jobs most at threat, are ... tech, media, legal, market research, teachers, finance, traders, graphic designers, accountants, and customer service agents.

ChatGPT Planned My Dinner and I Have No Complaints
AI won’t kill cooking. Instead, it’ll help people become more creative and efficient in the kitchen.

Alibaba to roll out its rival to ChatGPT across all its products
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, announced Tuesday it will be rolling out its own ChatGPT-style product, Tongyi Qianwen.

FBI issues warning about public phone-charging stations
The FBI has issued a serious warning against using free public phone chargers, saying cunning delinquents have been known to use the USB ports to infect phones with dangerous malware and software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet, or computer.

AI company harvested billions of Facebook photos for a facial recognition database it sold to police
In a BBC interview, Clearview's CEO admitted to scraping user photos for its software.

Call to ban TikTok on personal phones gaining momentum
An Illinois Democrat has co-sponsored legislation that would ban the popular social media app TikTok across the U.S.

Cool? Or Just Clunky? The Fight Over Dashboard Touch Screens.
As luxury cars become rolling supercomputers, designers are wondering how big is too big.

Science...

NASA astronauts to make own drugs in space in 'Breaking Bad'-style labs
Researchers have announced that, in order to overcome the health concerns of people spending extended periods of time outside Earth's atmosphere, astronauts will need to make their own drugs.

Sports...

NFL QB struck by truck was drugged, blackmailed, and robbed before death: lawsuit
The lawsuit alleges that four individuals drugged Dwayne Haskins “to blackmail and rob him causing him and/or contributing to cause him severe injury and death,” though the suit does not include details about the allegations.

April 11, 2008 - Last day before vacation warning... News of the day... Tax Me More Bill... Economy... Randy Rhoads' stand-up comedy act... Glenn's liberal campus tour with his daughter... How Glenn tortures his kids... Glenn talks with Bob Costas about the upcoming Olympics from China... Callers...

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

NurPhoto / Contributor | Getty Images

Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

Spencer Platt / Staff | Getty Images

For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

Barbara Davidson / Contributor | Getty Images

In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.