It’s Time for Activism
Came the MAGA revolution, and suddenly America seems poised to turn the corner on decades of utopian globalism abroad and stifling socialism at home. MAGA’s strutting champion has vanquished the lying propagandists and censors, the corrupt judges, the weaponized minions of the Justice Department, the violent mobs, and even a pair of rifle-wielding assassins. He has unseated for the second time the damnable Clinton-Obama-Biden dynasty, and unsettled the smugly confident Deep State combine. Joining him in his triumphal rout is a promising new crop of America First GOP congressmen and a welter of new appointees who, rhetorically at least, appear to have Trump’s back and the best interests of the American people in mind.
Americans are justified in feeling a measure of satisfaction in these events. While far from a perfect candidate, Trump is doubtless sincere in his antipathy for globalists and his long-overdue advocacy of America first — the first such president in living memory. While far from a flawless enterprise, the MAGA movement, at times both fractured and fractious, is united by a desire to restore America-centric policies, and animated by resistance to radical elitists and indifferent Big Government. And while far from being unanimous in opposition to the status quo, both houses of Congress appear to have more elected members than at any time in recent history who are genuinely constitutionalists, and who want to reverse the direction of the runaway train of government spending.
All of these we at The New American view as largely positive developments. But there are also trend lines that give cause for concern. For one thing, even as a certain portion of the Republican Party becomes more and more consistently constitutional, the Democrats have become radicalized as never before. This is neither partisan nor anecdotal; in our latest Freedom Index (published in our last issue), only two Democrats — one in the House and one in the Senate — scored other than a zero! This, to my knowledge, has never happened before. The few Democrats who clung to some semblance of constitutional fealty (Manchin and Sinema in the Senate come to mind) have been driven from the Democratic Party and from office.
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