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Morning Brief 2023-07-25

July 25, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Peachy Keenan
TOPIC: The dangerous practice of hiring airline pilots for equity vs. experience.

1 Samuel 2:2

Dark Future...

Glenn Beck's 'Dark Future': AUDIOBOOK now available!
Discover Glenn's masterpiece audiobook reading of "Dark Future," his finest audio performance yet.

Target refuses in-store sales of Glenn Beck's book, weeks after book ban on Mark Levin reversed
"The only explanation is there's something about this book they don't like. I wonder what that could be, Target."

Biden Crime Family...

Report: FBI Told David Weiss It Partially Corroborated Biden Bribery Allegations
The FBI reportedly told U.S. attorney David Weiss the bureau partially corroborated the claims that Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden with $5 million each.

Hunter Biden put Joe on the phone with business associates at least 2 dozen times, ex-partner Devon Archer to testify
Archer will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability about the 24 or more instances when he allegedly witnessed Joe Biden take part in his son's business calls or in-person meetings with foreign nationals or prospective investors.

Flashback: Joe Biden called voter a 'damn liar' for bringing up Hunter's business dealings
A video clip from 2019 shows then-candidate Joe Biden lashing out at a voter for asking the president about his son's business dealings in Ukraine. Biden reacted by calling the voter a "damn liar" and "fat."

Hunter Biden’s gallery sold first son’s artwork to major Dem donor appointed to prestigious commission: Report
Hunter’s artwork has reportedly brought in at least $1.3 million, and one of the buyers was a prominent Democratic donor who was appointed by Joe to a prestigious commission.

Report: Devon Archer, Key Biden Associate, Cancels Congressional Testimony a Third Time
A Biden family business associate and Hunter’s “best friend in business” reportedly backed out of his scheduled appearance on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, canceling for a third time.

There Is More Evidence To Impeach Biden Over Ukraine Than There Ever Was For Trump
Findings from the FBI FD-1023 form released by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley are likely just the tip of the iceberg.

McCarthy: Biden Probe ‘Rising to the Level of’ ‘Impeachment Inquiry’
“Well, this alleged 1023 that claims that they bribed the Bidens, this was given to the FBI. When Bill Barr finally found out about it, he sent it to his office in Philadelphia. They actually said that this was very credible."

News...

The Satanic Temple has been removed from Fox News' internal list of charities
Following TheBlaze's recent report detailing Fox News' apparent willingness to match employees' charitable donations to radical leftist organizations, it appears the nominally conservative company has stealthily made a change.

Longtime Lowes employee reinstated after being fired for attempting to stop shoplifters
"After senior management became aware of the incident and spoke to Donna Hansbrough today, we are reinstating her job, and we are pleased that she has accepted the offer to return to Lowe’s."

FBI improperly used warrantless surveillance powers on US senator and other state officials, court documents reveal
Court documents revealed that the FBI improperly used its anti-terrorism surveillance powers on a United States senator, a state senator, and a state judge.

IRS says it will 'end most' unannounced visits to taxpayers' homes by agents
Claim it's part of an effort to address "public confusion and enhance overall safety measures for taxpayers and employees."

Obama’s personal chef drowns while paddleboarding near former president’s Martha’s Vineyard estate
Tafari Campbell was a White House chef before coming on in the personal employ of the Obamas after President Obama left office in 2017.

CNN: San Francisco Walgreens We Visited Had 3 Thefts in 30 Minutes
Lah interviewed residents who were shocked at how bad the retail theft crime has gotten.

Alabama woman admits kidnapping story with child on the side of the highway was a hoax
Carlee Russell told police she was taken by a white man with "orange hair" who appeared from the trees on the side of I-459 after she saw a "baby boy in a diaper" walking along the road.

American Airlines falsely pinned worker’s death on tarmac to possible suicide: Report
During the police probe of the incident, a corporate investigator hired by American Airlines suggested to cops that Ingraham’s death may have been suicide.

Politics...

In upcoming biography, Tucker Carlson unloads on Mike Pence
If you noticed some tension in the room between Tucker Carlson and former Vice President Mike Pence during the recent Blaze Media presidential forum in Iowa, rest assured, the antipathy between the two men didn’t suddenly arrive due to a heated disagreement over America’s Ukraine policy.

Romney offers proposal meant to prevent Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination
Romney suggested that the large field of Republican primary contenders should be expeditiously whittled down to just a "two-person race before Mr. Trump has the nomination sewn up."

New York Venue Cancels Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pro-Israel Lecture
The cancelation by NYSEC marks the latest effort by a leftist organization to marginalize the presidential candidate.

Biden admin gives $2M grant to Soros-backed Puerto Rican group battling ‘toxic masculinities’
A George Soros-backed feminist organization that battles “structural racism and toxic masculinities” has been awarded a $2 million taxpayer-funded grant by the Biden administration.

Mayor Adams has a message to protester who screamed: 'F*** you, a**hole'
"One should be happy if someone wants to make love to them," Adams responded.

Economy / ESG...

Attorneys general say FDIC bailout of failed banks will harm taxpayers
The FDIC does not cover deposits over $250,000, which means the bailout will benefit wealthy investors, the attorneys general said.

Only 36% of Americans over 55 say they'll be able to retire when they had planned
Overall, 20% of adults in the U.S. fear they will never be able to retire.

The rise of gig workers is changing the face of the US economy
... the Fed’s two primary goals when setting monetary policy are price stability and maximum stable employment, and a lack of reliable information on the gig economy labor force may be handicapping the central bank.

FedEx pilots reject 30% pay hike proposal
The proposed contract would have provided for a 30% pay increase, as well as a 30% improvement in pension benefit. Major objections from the rank and file are not yet clear.

Border...

Sanctuary cities have regrets as flood of illegal migrants continues
Nearly 100,000 illegal aliens have come to New York City this year.

Biden admin sues Texas for protecting national border where White House has failed
"Mr. President, Texas will see you in court," Abbott responded.

WAR News... 

Health precautions for the end times
Democrats in the House and Senate recently introduced two bills that would empower the federal government to research the health impacts of nuclear war and promote the safe use of artificial gene synthesis, a genetic engineering technique that creates DNA.

What We Learned From Recent Calls for a Russian Nuclear Attack
The recent public discussion in Russia on using nuclear weapons against the West was really a discussion about how Moscow can extricate itself from the difficult situation in which it finds itself — and what price it is willing to pay for a victory.

What constitutes as 'armed attack' on NATO if Ukraine were to join?
A seriously beclouding issue in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is that it expressly uses, but does not define, the words “armed attack.” In fact, the treaty is remarkably silent on the matter.

‘Very Alarming’: Muscovites Shaken by Fresh Drone Attack on Capital
Moscow residents were startled awake in the middle of the night as Ukrainian drones crashed close to the Russian Defense Ministry building in the city center on Monday and another hit an office building in a southern area of the capital.

Wheat prices rise sharply after Ukrainian port hit
Traders are concerned about tightening supply following the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal last week and a string of Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure.

US military lacks oversight in Ukraine and is losing weapons, watchdog says
Multiple inspector general reports have raised concerns about a lack of oversight of military assistance being sent to Ukraine.

COVID-19...

Thomas Jefferson University president who liked Tweets critical of COVID vaccine forced to resign
Some tweets questioned the validity and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and called gender reassignment surgery "child mutilation."

Every Mask Is a Nail in the Coffin of Humanity
Aren’t you tired hearing about masks?

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin tests positive for COVID-19 for 3rd time within a year
He had previously tested positive in March 2023 and July 2022.

Commie Update...

Western elites figured China would surpass and displace America in short order. Only now, the communists' economy is sputtering.
Reality has served to check Beijing's ambitions and the experts' presumption of Chinese ascendancy.

Prioritizing Ukraine Aid Threatens Deterrence By Denial In The Pacific
It may also cause Beijing to doubt America’s commitment to Taiwan’s defense.

Entertainment...

Jason Aldean thanks fans for support: ‘The people have spoken’
Streams for "Try That in a Small Town" have jumped 999%; it debuted at No. 2 on Billboard chart.

CMT 'Murders Own Brand' After Pulling Jason Aldean Video
CMT aired the video for a few days before removing it last Monday, sparking backlash over censorship.

NY Times: ‘Barbie’ Movie Gives Left and Right Another Battlefront
For a modern take on what was long a politically fraught emblem of toxic body image and reductive social norms, no choice was too small, no turn too ideology-affirming or apparently nefarious, for a bipartisan coalition of commentators and elected officials to see value in its dissection.

Piers Morgan: If I made a movie that treated women the way Barbie treats men, feminists would want me executed
In recent times, the concept of “the patriarchy” has been hijacked and corrupted by feminazis to suggest that every aspect of life and society is dominated by powerful privileged males over subjugated underprivileged females.

Middle East...

Ignore President Biden, Here’s What Is Really Happening In Israel
The judiciary primacy might work if the Israeli court’s decisions were grounded in some kind of statutory authority, traditional legal framework, or even existing regulation and law. But there is no Israeli constitution. The court’s decisions are often arbitrary, politically expedient, constantly evolving, and contradictory.

South America...

I fell in love with my mugger after he robbed me in the street
“I was going through a difficult situation because I didn’t have a woman, you know?” the robber said, recalling the unlikely “how we first met” story.” “When I saw her photo on the phone, I said to myself ‘What a beautiful brunette, you don’t see a brunette like that every day,’ and I regretted stealing it.'”

Environment...

Jamie Lee Curtis Rants About Global Warming at Comic-Con: ‘Sh*t Is Happening,’ ‘We’re F**king the World’
“We are the hottest we’ve ever been in this country this week. I mean, talk about good timing. Seriously, we couldn’t be talking about something more important,” said Jamie Lee Curtis, who is clearly in love with Glenn Beck in this photo.

Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims
Ecoinvent, the world’s largest database on the environmental impact of renewables, has no data from China, even though it makes most of the world's solar panels.

German trucker drags eco-terrorist with vehicle
A trucker in Germany got into a brutal confrontation with eco-terrorists, dragging them each to the side of the road and later dragging one forward using his vehicle.

CNN: Photos capture our world without people
Pornography for the degrowth crowd.

LGBTQIA2S+...

LGBTQ-centric middle school to open in Phoenix
The nonprofit offers a wellness program that promotes child sex-change surgeries.

'Pregnant boyfriend' dead in alleged murder-suicide, media outlet reports
"Man allegedly shot and killed his pregnant boyfriend and then himself in murder-suicide," read the headline from Law & Crime.

Massachusetts family calls police over 'hurtful' letter criticizing BLM, LGBTQ decorations and telling them to move to California
"They want us to take down the Pride flags. It says no one cares."

Putin Signs Gender Reassignment Ban Into Law
The law, which makes "medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person" and "the state registration of a change of gender without an operation" illegal, was swiftly passed by both houses of the Russian parliament earlier this month.

Education...

The Florida history standards are right about slavery
Nothing in this passage, or Florida’s standards, detracts from the fact that slavery was and is evil. But it is just false to say all slaves were unskilled. There were many slaves that did develop professional skills, and sometimes they were allowed to use those skills to earn money and buy their freedom.

Ana Navarro gets mic cut during unhinged rant backing Kamala Harris' false claims against Florida's social studies curriculum
One report claimed she had clearly mouthed "That’s bullsh*t" during the around five seconds that the sound was removed.

Religion...

Catholic university to offer seminar claiming that 'fatphobia,' 'transphobia' are rooted in religion
Sacred Heart University, founded in 1963, claims that it is the "fastest growing and most forward-looking Catholic university in the country."

Canadian Pastor ‘Exiles’ Family To Kenya To Escape Canadian Persecution Of Christians
For peaceably assembling to petition his government, Rev. Harold Ristau says, he was threatened with the removal of his security clearance and government confiscation of his life’s savings.

Technology...

OpenAI boss Sam Altman touts new crypto project Worldcoin as ‘digital passport’
“As AI technology and adoption continue to advance globally, it’s more important than ever to establish and scale privacy-preserving proof of personhood online,” reads the website.

Mother 'almost' suffers 'heart attack' after ransom caller demands $50,000 for daughter
But it wasn't her daughter on the phone. It was an AI-generated clone of her voice made to scam the worried mother.

Cops called as Elon Musk has sign removed from firm's San Fran HQ 'without notifying security'
Cops were briefly called to Twitter's HQ after a worker began tearing down letters from the building's iconic sign.

Sports...

ESPN soccer analyst collapses during live broadcast
Shaka Hislop is recovering after he collapsed during a live broadcast on Sunday night in an unsettling moment.

Tom Brady Dating Russian Supermodel Irina Shayk
Sources say Gisele Bundchen is "not happy at all" about the news that Tom is dating Irina.

July 25, 2011 - What NFL star is reading Glenn's book?... Cobbler vs. pie... Why we need to get serious about our debt... Fareed Zakaria says the Tea Party is too extreme... Horrific Norway massacre... What is Cynthia McKinney doing in Iran?... Dave Ramsey should be our treasury secretary... Glenn explains Mercury One... Al Jazeera blames Glenn for Norway massacre...

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?

Bloomberg / Contributor | Getty Images

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.