“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.” —James Madison (1825)
So, what’s next?
The Schumer Shutdown ended this week because, for the last month, the tide of public opinion has shifted blame toward the Democrats. Chuck Schumer was forced to fold his hand in what has widely been described as a colossal strategic failure — with one exception. The shutdown ensured that the margins favoring Demos in Virginia were not eroded by controversy — tens of thousands of government workers in Virginia’s DC suburbs were without paychecks, and they vote Democrat. (But there are good reasons for optimism in 2026!)
Of course, the Demo progressives are furious that some of their Senate kin voted to kill their filibuster. 2028 presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom (D-CA) summed up their collective displeasure with one word: “Pathetic.”
However, The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman, in “Democrats Irate Over Loss of Leverage,” posits, “Shouldn’t they pretend to be relieved that people will receive food stamps?” Bottom line: The Demo shutdown resulted in 1.4 million government employees on 41 days of leave with backpay assurance at a cost to taxpayers of more than $16 billion — and billions more in private-sector economic losses.
This chapter in the Demo clown show may be over, but as National Review’s Rich Lowry notes, “The government shutdown may have been pointless and dumb, but there is much more where that came from.”
So again, what’s next?
Democrat Party “progressives,” the current crazy cadre of Marxists hiding behind the more palatable socialist façade, are going to pivot back to the hate and division rhetorical model perfected by the Biden/Harris regime.
That is their go-to playbook to install fear in their legions of constituents suffering chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Just in time for our upcoming faithful observances of Thanksgiving and Christmas, you can expect some Demo hate rhetoric about “Christian Nationalists” to resurface. Leftists invoke that imaginary bogeyman as a derogatory label for faithful Christians who exercise their First Amendment rights, both faith and free speech, to shape culture and politics.
It’s just another way to label Trump’s MAGA base supporters as “Bitter, Deplorable, Racist, Misogynist, Fascist, Garbage.”
Of course, the Demos are joined by the “High Church of Woke,” the collapsing Episcopal sect, which is leading the charge against the “urgent danger of Christian nationalism.”
To be clear, Christians who exercise their First Amendment rights to shape culture and politics are being labeled “Christian Nationalists” — count me in.
Five years ago, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were warming up their hate rhetoric, I wrote a column, “The Left’s Next Target: ‘Christian Nationalists’.” I could see it on the horizon but did not see how effective the Demos would be at propagating this BIG Lie.
There is a reason that leftists are now focused on the question that poses the greatest threat to their power: Who endows the Rights of Man — God (as ordained in natural law), or government (as ordained by man)?
Our nation is founded on the eternal core principle that the “unalienable rights of man” and American Liberty are “endowed by [our] Creator,” as affirmed in our Declaration of Independence and codified in our Constitution.
And that irrevocable fact is the greatest threat to the unmitigated acquisition of statist power that the rising Demo socialists seek.
Our Republic is governed by the higher authority of Rule of Law, while democracies are governed by the rule of men. And that is precisely why a significant part of the Demos’ rhetoric over the last five years has been centered on the “threat to democracy” posed by Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans.
Recall when Biden was campaigning ahead of the 2020 election and attempted to quote the Declaration to his dullard constituents: “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the — g’oh — you know the — you know the thing.”
“You know the — you know the thing.”
He just couldn’t get it out without choking on his words. He couldn’t say “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Recall some eight weeks ago, when Demo Sen. Tim Kaine dared to say out loud what is core to his party’s claim to power: “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
He is embarrassingly wrong about rights “endowed by [our] Creator” being a tenet of a “theocratic regime,” and his lack of understanding, his assertion that this founding tenet is “extremely troubling” is anathema to his oath “to support and defend” our Constitution.
Perhaps he should pick up a copy of The Federalist Papers. Note that one of its three authors, Alexander Hamilton, declared: “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
That is completely antithetical to statism embraced by the current generation of socialist/communist neophytes.
Recall the essential question posed by Whittaker Chambers in Witness, his famous 1952 treatise on his rejection of communism:
The Communist Party is quite justified in calling itself the most revolutionary party in history. It has posed in practical form the most revolutionary question in history: God or Man? It is taking the logical next step which 300 years of rationalism hesitated to take, and said what millions of modern minds think, but do not dare or care to say: If man’s mind is the decisive force in the world, what need is there for God? Henceforth man’s mind is man’s fate.
And this question about the origin of rights being “God or Man” is the defining question between Right and Left, Liberty and Tyranny.
As I noted plainly in “Collapse of the Soviet Reign of Tyranny and Terror,” on the hundredth anniversary of the October 1917 communist revolution, there is no consequential distinction between Marxist Socialism, National Socialism, or the most recent incarnation of this beast, Democratic Socialism, in America. Indeed, Democratic Socialism, like National Socialism, is nothing more than Marxist Socialism repackaged. As noted above, behind the façades, there is little ideological distinction. They are all fascists under different labels.
I recently came across this succinct assessment of Democrat socialism in America: “Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance.”
Ignorance of the true and eternal source of the Rights of Man is fertile ground for the Left’s false assertion that only the state endows such Rights. It is also perilous ground, soaked with the blood of generations of American Patriots who have defended our unalienable right to Life and Liberty.
In 1781, Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of our Declaration of Independence, asked: “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
The simple answer is: No. American Liberty is not secure in the hands of those who reject the notion “that these liberties are the gift of God.”
In 1787, the year our Founders signed our Constitution, Jefferson declared, “The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
The official motto of the United States Army, as adopted the decade before the signing of our Constitution, is: “This We’ll Defend.” And we must stand ready to defend the eternal truth that our “liberties are the gift of God.”
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