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Morning Brief 2023-12-15

December 15, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Steve Baker
TOPIC: Baker, a Blaze Media journalist, is expected to be charged for his reporting on January 6 in the coming days.

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Glenn Beck...

Glenn Beck details Nazarene Fund's efforts
Glenn highlights the Nazarene Fund's work this year aiding persecuted religious minorities, trafficking victims, and terror attack survivors in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Glenn Beck Goes Nuclear On Republicans Who Voted To Extend Spying Powers
"... if you’re in Congress and you’ve fallen into that trap, which has been used over and over and over again by both sides, you’re a moron and not smart enough to be in Washington, D.C.”

News...

Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker says Justice Department will be charging him for his Jan. 6 reporting
"My attorney has just been notified by @FBI that I am going to be charged by @TheJusticeDept for my journalistic efforts on #Jan6," Baker wrote Thursday on X. "I have to self-surrender on Tuesday. Charges are yet unknown."

Capitol Police commander who ordered evacuations of Senate and House: 'J6 was not an insurrection'
"Vivek Ramaswamy got a lot right in this interview," former U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson began. "I’ve been saying publicly for a year that J6 was not an insurrection, but not many people would listen."

WaPo: Was the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism? It depends.
Yet there’s another version of the event, one less suitable for national mythology. A horde of White men disguised themselves as Native Americans — coppering their faces and donning headdresses in the same tradition that would lead to blackfaced minstrel shows decades later — to commit seditious conspiracy and destroy private property.

Pentagon falls 41,000 short of reduced military recruitment goals
The Army, Navy, and Air Force missed their recruiting goals. The Marine Corps and Space Force made their recruiting goals.

Pentagon to remove memorial to Confederate dead from Arlington National Cemetery
The group of Republican lawmakers penned a letter to woke Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that demands he leaves the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, untouched until at least the conclusion of the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process.

The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 Brought More Than 50,000 Former Enemies Together
The 50-year reunion was not just a gathering of aging veterans; it was a significant historical event symbolizing the healing of a nation and the enduring spirit of reconciliation. It provided a platform for former enemies to come together, share their stories, and honor the sacrifices made by both sides.

Parents find their 4-month-old baby in a fallen tree after tornado obliterates their home in Tennessee
“The roof came off first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with my baby, Lord, in it,” she added. “He was the first thing to go up.”

Nurse says 11-year-old carjacked her at gunpoint while she was making DoorDash delivery
"The little one approached me. I was thinking he was asking for money or something," she recalled, "but little did I know he was pointing a gun at me asking for my keys."

‘Protesters’ closing roads, bridges are RIOTERS — arrest them all
How many more times will we allow our roads and bridges to be shut down for the leftist lunacy of the day before we say enough?

Cult that practices ‘Vikingism’ accused of raping captive, offering puppy sacrifice ‘to the Gods’
A Louisiana woman with three husbands who practices “Vikingism” allegedly held a fourth partner captive as a sex slave, forcing her to denounce Christianity and offer a puppy as a ritual sacrifice “to the Gods.”

Man reportedly 'sexually molested' manatee statue at Florida restaurant
He also threw gator nuggets and caused a traffic jam at Rick's Reef on St. Pete Beach.

Christmas News...

Christmas video shared by Jill Biden compared to 'Hunger Games'
"Evidently the White House has become an elaborate set for the next Hunger Games movie," GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri tweeted.

NYC dance company Jill Biden tapped for Christmas video pushes ‘defund the police,’ prison abolition, ‘antiracism’ activists
While the bizarre tap routine appeared apolitical, the dance troupe’s website is anything but – promoting far-left policies that are even out of step with the Biden administration.

Boston's Democrat mayor defends segregated holiday party, reveals it's a tradition
As part of her defense, she revealed that this segregated party has been going on for over a decade, is held annually by a different member of the "electeds of color" club, and that this year it was Wu's turn to play host.

NYC rich kids are asking for designer products, not toys
“The age of asking for a toy stops at 7 or 8. They’re into makeup. They’re into jewelry — not Disney, real jewelry. It’s all about labels, labels, labels. I’ve seen kids wear Balenciaga.”

Biden Crime Family...

Biden’s Justice Department charged Trump folks with contempt — and must do so with Hunter, too
Biden's DOJ prosecuted and convicted former Trump officials Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon for similarly defying congressional subpoenas. Bannon’s sentence: four months in prison. Navarro is awaiting sentencing.

Hunter Biden says he's considering fleeing the country if Trump wins in 2024: Report
He also claims that Republicans are "trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle."

WaPo Analysis: Here’s how dishonest James Comer’s Biden allegations are
... we found that, yes, millions of dollars were paid to Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business partners — but that most of that money went to people other than Hunter Biden, James Biden (the president’s brother) or any other member of the Biden family.

IRS Whistleblowers Unable To ‘Verify’ Loans White House Claims Joe Biden Sent To Family Members, Testimony Shows
Both IRS agents testified Dec. 5 in front of the House Ways and Means Committee and neither could “verify” the existence of loans between Joe Biden and his family members when he was out of office, according to a newly released transcript.

Impeachment inquiry zeroes in on origin of Hunter Biden's China deals while Joe Biden was VP
Witnesses, emails suggest funds paid to Hunter Biden in 2017 from CEFC China Energy was for work done much earlier.

White House spokesman Ian Sams snaps when pressed on shifting Hunter story
CNN anchor highlights “evolution” in Biden denial narrative from no business discussions to no “financial” involvement, leading defensive official to accuse reporter of dishonesty.

KJP Denies There’s ‘Evidence’ Biden Did Anything Wrong 8 Times In Under A Minute
“There’s been zero evidence (1) — zero evidence (2) ... but there’s no evidence (3) ... there’s no evidence (4). There is no evidence (5) ... There’s none (6). Absolutely none (7). None (8) and that is just a fact."

Politics...

Biden’s approval rating plunges to just 33%, lowest since he took office: Poll
The dismal rating is the lowest that Pew Research has measured since Biden took office and represents a two-point drop since the organization’s last approval survey in June.

Biden's attempt to buy young voters with student loan cancellations isn't enough
A recent Morning Consult/Bloomberg News poll revealed that when asked, "Is President Joe Biden doing too much, too little, or is he doing the right amount for addressing student loans?," 43% respondents ages 18 to 26 answered "too little."

Rashida Tlaib says Democrats stood with 'the fascist side' when they voted with GOP to censure her
"I did not know that they were going to stand with the fascist side of the aisle and silence the only Palestinian-American, even after we’ve had heart-to-heart conversations," Tlaib explained.

Economy / ESG...

Horowitz: Inflation or recession
The debt crisis has placed the average American consumer in a tough spot. Endless debt servicing will create long-term sticky price elevation with the only escape being a severe economic downturn.

Feds may force Starbucks to reopen 23 stores — claim coffee chain illegally shuttered locations to block unionizing
The company shut down 16 locations in July 2022. The closed stores were located in a number of large cities, including Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago.

Immigration...

Chicago threatens to impound buses dropping off illegal aliens, illegally
The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance Wednesday that allows it to impound and tow buses that don't deliver "asylum seekers" to designated "landing zones."

Israel at War... 

Multiple Hamas Terrorists Arrested In Europe For Planning Terror Attacks: Reports
Seven people, including at least four suspected Hamas terrorists, were arrested in three European countries this week for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against Jews.

How Oct. 7 Destroyed an Israeli Peace Activist's Faith in the Palestinians
Irit Lahav was a peace activist who believed in the decency of the Palestinian people. Then, on Oct. 7, ordinary Gazans joined in a terrorist attack that left more than one in four of her neighbors in Kibbutz Nir Oz dead or abducted.

Chris Cuomo After Seeing Film Of What Hamas Did On October 7: ‘Israel Is Doing Far Less Than It Could’
"I had seen that bodies had been burned, but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was. They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims, being told, ‘Let them play with it.'”

Palestinians blame US as Israel-Hamas war takes a soaring toll on civilians in the Gaza Strip
Note that they don't blame Hamas.

Harvard forces Jewish student group to ‘hide’ menorah at night for fear of vandalism: Rabbi
“We have to pack up our menorah when we’re done. … Some students feel they have to remove anything about their physical appearance that suggests that they’re a target.”

Our youth are misguided, not evil: They’ve been taught lies about Israel, Hamas
Kids were never perfect and have often been rebellious, but young people have also never been this far removed from reality.

Ukraine / Russia...

Zelenskyy hails 'victory' for Ukraine as EU leaders open official talks with Kyiv on joining the Bloc
European Council President Charles Michel announced the decision to launch formal accession talks as "a clear signal of hope for their people and for our continent."

Putin says there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia’s goals are met
Emboldened by battlefield gains and flagging Western support for Ukraine, a relaxed and confident Putin said Thursday there would be no peace until Russia achieves its goals, which he says remain unchanged after nearly two years of fighting.

COVID-19...

Canadian woman battling long COVID applies for assisted suicide
A Canadian woman’s grueling bout with long COVID has robbed her of her life savings, the ability to get out of bed, and the simple joys of living — forcing her to seek out assisted suicide, according to a report.

Flashback: Federal study says long COVID isn't real
"We were not able to find evidence of the virus persisting or hiding out in the body. We also did not find evidence that the immune system was overactive or malfunctioning in a way that would produce injury to major organs in the body." The researchers did, however, find that women and those suffering from anxiety were more likely to end up with "long COVID."

Media...

Ousted NY Times editor rips paper's 'bias,' claims he was asked to add 'trigger warnings' to op-eds by conservatives
James Bennet blasted the leftist paper in a blistering 17,000-word cover story for the Economist titled “When the New York Times lost its way,” which was published Thursday.

Don Lemon says he listens to Ben Shapiro and Patrick Bet-David now
"Since leaving corporate media I cut the cord," Lemon began. "I have an extensive, eclectic streaming palate now," he continued before revealing his recommendations.

Afghanistan...

Taliban imprisoning women for their own 'protection from gender-based violence,' UN report says
Taliban authorities told the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that women who don't have a male relative to stay with, or whose male relatives are deemed a threat to their safety, have been sent to prison.

Environment...

UK researchers raise alarm that humans are contributing to 'global warming' — by breathing
Scientists at the U.K. Center for Ecology and Hydrology have raised the alarm that human breathing is contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, urging "caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible."

World Economic Forum demands $3.5 trillion per year to 'decarbonize' the planet, 'reach net-zero and restore nature'
According to the white paper, private organizations should surrender their autonomy to governments in exchange for an endless amount of credit and a backstop of protection should their business fail in the open market.

Washington Dems want people to serve jail time for using gas-powered lawn tools
Offenders "shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for up to three hundred sixty-four days, or by both for each separate violation," according to state law.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Democrat school board member sworn in on stack of 'LGBT' literature
A school board member in Fairfax County, Virginia, chose to be sworn into office on a stack of what was described as LGBT-themed books, including what appeared to be a controversial book that includes graphic content featuring children.

Ohio lawmakers pass bill banning child sex changes
One Republican Sen. Nathan Manning voted alongside all Democrats against the bill. The Republican governor has not yet said if he will sign the bill.

AI...

AI is a danger to the financial system, regulators warn for the first time
The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a team of leading regulators across the U.S. government, formally classified AI on Thursday as an “emerging vulnerability.”

Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video
Given difficulties in engineering, if and when that human labor replacement will actually happen still remains to be seen, but if what's shown in the video is true, it's looking like Tesla is making significant process toward its goal.

Technology...

Apple to require court order before supplying user data to law enforcement
Both Google and Apple confirmed that they have received such requests from officials.

Mark Zuckerberg building massive compound in Hawaii
Zuckerberg is reportedly building a sprawling $100 million Hawaii compound — complete with an underground bunker and its own food and energy sources — in a secret project suggesting the social media mogul is trying to conceal his doomsday preparations.

Threads to join 'fediverse' as Zuckerberg seeks to increase reach of struggling social media platform
Shockingly enough, "fediverse" has nothing to do with the feds.

Science...

Sun's strongest solar flare in years knocks out radio frequencies
The sun sent out a monster solar flare of high-energy radiation that NASA captured on Thursday in what NOAA Space Weather said was "likely one of the largest" such events ever recorded.

Sports...

Tara Reid says she had a fling with Tom Brady
Reid, who revealed the relationship for the first time, said things were way different back in 2002, with no cell phones or social media to follow their every move. “We used to go out, do whatever we wanted — then bam. It just changed so fast,” she said.

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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?

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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

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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

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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.