The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for Monday shows that 51 percent of likely US voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Trump was elected to deport illegal aliens. This is what democracy looks like.
CBS News just dropped this poll:
Pay attention to Democratic Party rhetoric. They’re saying that Trump is manufacturing a situation in California to justify authoritarian action. This is a false narrative. Many progressives presume Trump, a liberal businessman from Queens, is an authoritarian. The social media platform X is shot through with this madness. Madness confuses one’s sense of cause and effect.
Trump is lawfully deporting illegal aliens. Anti-American sovereignty movement—the street-level thugs for the transnationalist elite—are rebelling against the Republic and defying the rule of law. Trump is responding. He did not start this.
This is not the first time Democrats have blamed a Republican for creating a situation to justify intervention. Before the Civil War, Democrats blamed the Republican Party for creating a political and moral crisis to justify Northern intervention in Southern affairs.
Likewise, Orval Faubus, the Democratic Governor of Arkansas during the 1957 Little Rock situation, said that President Eisenhower’s decision to send federal troops to enforce school desegregation was a dangerous overreach of federal power. He framed it as authoritarian and militaristic. The federal government created the situation be enforcing desegregation.
Another Democrat, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, like Faubus, also denied black kids entry into public schools. He portrayed federal intervention in civil rights enforcement as authoritarian interference. The federal government was overreaching. States rights!
Returning to the antebellum South, we find another parallel with what is happening today. Democrats then argued that the Republican Party was hostile to the South’s way of life—particularly its slave-based economy. Democrats today are openly telling us that their way of live is its immigrant-based economy. Trump is trying to undermining California’s way of life just as Lincoln attempted to undermine the South’s way of life. How did that turn out for the South?
Why not employ citizens in California? It’s not as if there are no native-born workers there. What about the tens of thousands of idle blacks in California’s inner cities? As of April 2025, the unemployment rate for black Californians stood at around seven percent—and that just those who are actively seeking employment.
It’s impossible to find them work and liberate black Californians from crime and poverty? Or do Democrats need them dependent on welfare to secure the votes necessary to keep California under the Party’s thumb?
Think about it: Why do Democrats in California defend the exploitation of illegal immigrants while ghettoizing black Americans? California isn’t alone in this regard. Blue Cities across the country exhibit the same pattern.
In the run up to the Civil War, Southern leaders viewed Republican opposition to the expansion of slavery as a direct assault on their way of life. Framing the Republican agenda as provocative and radical, Democrats claimed that it was the Republicans who pushed the country toward disunion. It was Republican ambition—not Democrat intransigence—that justified Northern hostility and federal coercion.
Remember, it was the Democrats who started the war. They’re trying to start another one.
Same playbook, different era. Like I argued in a recent essay on Freedom and Reason, the Democratic Party hasn’t changed all these decades. Today they’re neo-Confederates, arguing for states rights to keep their super-exploited migrant workers.
If I’d been alive in 1957 I would’ve been 100 percent on the side of Eisenhower. We cannot allow states to defy the Constitution and the rule of law. Trump needs to be far more aggressive in confronting the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles. They are entirely out of line.
What we’re seeing is a rebellion against the United States. Trump needs to sign an executive order asserting the Insurrection Act and send the National Guard in full force into California. I wouldn’t rule out sending other military as well— as did Eisenhower, for the record. We cannot continue this way. The Democrats are driving us towards another civil war. Nip it in the bud.
Trump should’ve done this in 2020. He’s far too patient. He needs to fully assert his Article II powers. Bring the hammer.
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Want to see more of recent content on this subject? Here are some essays:
Deviance as Doctrine: The Post-Liberal Moral Revolution
The Politics of Grievance: Primitive Rebellion and Rhetoric of Social Justice
Tesla and Propaganda of the Deed
The Serfs Want More Serfdom. When Do they Want It? They Want it Now
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