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trump’s cleanup crescendo

saturday, may 23th, 2026

It’s obvious to me that during the four-year hiatus from the White House occasioned by a stolen election, President Trump gave thoughtful consideration to what had to be cleaned up domestically and internationally. It’s equally clear that he mapped out how he planned to do that, and despite media, congressional, and judicial intransigence, he plowed ahead. We are at a point now where the blueprint is obvious. It’s a continuing, ascending trajectory.

The Americas

Having hoisted Maduro out of Caracas to stand trial here for his crimes, the U.S. made it perfectly clear that Russian and Chinese security personnel and military equipment were no match for a determined U.S. military. As an impoverished, abandoned Maduro pines away in prison awaiting trial, Cuba is next on the list of places that need fumigation.

The U.S. has offered $100 million worth of humanitarian aid for Cubans who are starving in a country that, absent free oil from Venezuela, is in almost perpetual blackout. Raul Castro has rejected such aid because we insist that it be distributed through designated private charities rather than the Cuban government, which would use it to sustain itself.

This Thursday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited there with a message demanding that Cuba open up its economy and send Russian and Chinese listening posts packing. There are increasing riots in the streets, and on Friday, the communist party headquarters in Havana was set on fire. The day after Ratcliffe’s visit, the press reported that Raul Castro was likely to face U.S. criminal indictments.

Jeff Childers explains the administration’s Latin American policy:

Another way you could look at it is that the Trump Administration is deploying Democrat-style lawfare against communists all over the American hemisphere. The historic nature of what we’re doing cannot be understated. Rather than using classic tools of diplomacy, international aid, covert ops, and the military, the Trump Administration is doing something new: using domestic criminal laws and simply exercising jurisdiction over the whole hemisphere as though it belonged to us.

The “criminal indictment” playbook resembles a classic decapitation strike, but without the war part. After January’s Maduro operation, Latin American countries are learning that the US can reach into their countries whenever we want and pluck out the violent strongmen who have always confidently believed they can send drugs and terrorists through our formerly porous borders, co-opt our local politicians and judges, and set up shop here -- without any consequences.

Well… fool around and find out. But it’s bigger than that. These “small stories” are an expression of a new hemispheric policy. We’re not just cracking down on domestic crime at home, we are policing the whole hemisphere. When you combine that with the President’s approach to Russia and China, you begin to see something immense emerging.

Trump has been very firm with Beijing and Moscow in our part of the world. He’s rudely evicted them from South and Central America, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean. But at the same time, he is also softening our positions on Ukraine and Taiwan, retreating from NATO expansionism in Europe, seeking trade deals with them, and courting both Putin and Xi with high-profile diplomatic outreach.

Wait -- this is where it gets really good. Every bit of all that geopolitical reorganization is happening completely outside the United Nations’ “rules-based international order.”

He is, as Childers observes, making the UN irrelevant. (I could argue that the UN did that itself over recent decades, but fair enough -- Trump has sealed the crooked, corrupt organization’s fate.)

China

There’s been lots of coverage of the visit to China, which, by my estimation, was very successful. As the parties were meeting, the U.S. allowed two or three Chinese vessels safe passage through the Gulf of Hormuz, a passage that China will now be less dependent on as it will be buying oil from our West coast -- a more secure, reliable, and shorter route.

In public statements of what the U.S. and China agreed to, Xi importantly said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” He said this just as U.S. forces are once again massing near Iran with the promise of forcing Iran’s capitulation to our terms, most important of which is surrendering its nuclear arms and ambitions.

Due to our blockade, Iran has not been able to ship out any oil. It has exceeded its storage capacity and must nevertheless keep pumping or severely damage its facilities, so it is simply pouring oil into the Strait of Hormuz, compounding its economic woes with an ecological disaster.

Counterterrorism

In line with our efforts to hamstring the mullahs and end international crime in the Western Hemisphere, our counterterrorism efforts are bearing fruit.

1. Late on Thursday night @FBI agents landed at New York Stewart International Airport with Mohammad al Saadi in handcuffs. Al Saadi, the leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi terror group is allegedly responsible for more than 20 attacks across Europe and Canada and for planning attacks in the U.S..

2. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, who goes by “Chuqui,” the highest ranking Tren de Aragua leader to be extradited to the U.S., also just landed in the U.S. in shackles. Flores allegedly oversaw TdA’s drug tra?cking, extortion rackets, prostitution rings and murder operations.

Then, last night, in an operation that makes any fictional representation look amateurish, American operators, working with local Nigerian forces, killed Abu-Bilal-al-Minuki, the second in command for ISIS global operations, a man with the blood of countless innocents on his hands, including many Christians.

Election Reform

Even as redistricting efforts take shape, the President has more success bringing foreign dictators around than he has had with Republican senators. He’s not giving up on the insistence of honest elections. Upon returning from China, he tweeted:

"Maryland just had 500,000 Fake Mail-In Ballots revealed.

"We cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!! Voter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship must be approved, NOW.

Crooked Mail-In Voting must be stopped!!! PUT IT ALL IN THE HOUSING AND FISA BILLS. MAKE AMERICA

GREAT AGAIN!!!"

"THE SAVE AMERICA ACT MUST BE PASSED, NOW. Use the Housing and FISA Bills to get it done!

As some Republican senators stall, more and more evidence is finally being made public about the corruption in the 2020 election. How much longer the holdouts can afford to resist in the face of such evidence is unclear to me.

And just as the 2020 election legerdemain becomes apparent, the evidence that J6 was a setup, involving Nancy Pelosi, the FBI, the D.C. police department, and the media, is no longer being hidden. In the latest development, a judge finally unlocked the body cam worn by Officer Michael Fanone, and it substantially contradicts his sworn testimony, testimony that was used to justify imposing severe criminal penalties on mostly innocent people who walked into the Capitol (often at the invitation of Capitol police).

Wokism May Finally Be Gasping for Air

Activists will probably always be with us, but the consequences for clinging to wokism -- for the media, drops in viewers and subscribers, and for academia, fewer donations and students, for example -- are growing, and I think its clout is diminishing. If so, this explanation of how this abominable French nonsense arrived here might be of interest to you.

(Translated from French) I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism). We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West. We must understand what they did.

Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality -- everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity. Taken individually, these are debatable theses.

Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison. For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism. Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberlé Crenshaw inherits the framework and invents intersectionality. At every step, the matrix is French: there is no truth, there is only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every institution is oppressive, every norm is violence, every identity is constructed and thus negotiable, every majority is guilty. That’s how three Parisian philosophers, who probably never imagined their practical consequences, provided the operating software to an entire generation of activists, university bureaucrats, HR managers, journalists, and legislators. That’s how we ended up with a civilization that no longer knows how to say whether a woman is a woman, whether its own history is worth defending, whether merit exists, whether truth can be distinguished from opinion. [snip] A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three. Not out of malice. Out of intellectual play, fascination with suspicion, hatred of the bourgeoisie that had nurtured them. But the result is there. An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere. [snip] What is being built now, in Silicon Valley, in AI labs, in startups, in workshops, in all the places where people still make things instead of deconstructing them -- that is the response.

Trump is the ultimate builder, and those titans who accompanied him to Beijing are the people who built Silicon Valley, the AI labs, the startups that make prosperity and peace more possible for more people, not the Europeans who conjured up every bad idea in recent centuries.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 8:00a on Saturday, a warm, 63°F, clear sky, breezy morning, I upped the heat briefly, made coffee, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let its 32 million lines of code load, had breakfast, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the leftover errands list. I scanned the weather and the breaking news websites, tuned into a "CP Show" Podcast 12-3p, on local WSBA-910, and relaxed for the morning.

After lunch, I ran a couple of errands, came back and unloaded, and grabbed a 2hr+ nap on the LR couch. I watched the evening news, switched to MT-Discovery's "Iron Resurrection" and TWC's "Deadline To Disaster" until 1a, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 7a on Sunday, another very warm 62°, cloudy, breezy morning. I had the AC on at 73°, and left it at that mark, made coffee and scanned the news and weather. The next 3 days are in the 90s. So much for a very short Spring.

After some Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bread Toast, I got ready for the day, and started laundry. By 2p, temps were already at 84°, and headed to 88°. I kept the condo mostly closed, to keep it cool. As I finished the last load of laundry, the R/S pain returned with a vengeance, and I was crippled for the day, existing on Tramadol painkillers and sleeping on the LR couch, for 1-2hr periods.

No TV for the day, just drugs and sleep, and finally, by 9:30p, the pain lifted somewhat, and I slowly crept back upstairs and went to sleep.

Awake at 5a, 6a, and 7a -- more R/s and leg pain -- I got up to a sunny, high overcast, breezy, 86° morning, and I could feel the heat coming thru the windows and glass doors, which I quickly shaded. Still more pain. I turned the AC down to 72°, made a carafe of Kona Coffee, and scanned the weather and news sites. I decided to leave 2hrs early -- 10:30a instead of 12:30p -- to avoid the heat-of-the-day, and get back home before it got ugly outside. Same for tomorrow, which is forecast to be even worse. And my email IMAP Server isn't working, since it crashed yesterday. Blech.

Two weather-related alerts -- ***SEVERE HEAT WARNING*** and ***POOR AIR QUALITY*** -- were posted on all the region's websites and on TV, so I'll just be staying inside for a couple of days, unless it's critical that I go out. By 1p, it was already 93° and getting worse. I did the 3 stops, and on the way home, the pain returned. After unloading the Jeep, I got back on the Tramadol, aspitin and LR couch routine, for the day.

In between 1-2hr naps, I watched some of the evening news, then switched to MT-Discovery's "Iron Resurrection" until 12 midnight, and quit for the day.

Up at 5:15a on Tuesday, an overcast, 70°, forecast to hit 96°, morning. I kept the AC at 72°, made coffee and scanned the weather and news websites. I had R/S pain, so I began taking the 50mg Tramadol every 3-4hrs, hoping that helps, and it did for a while, Sunday and yesterday. I retrieved the garbage and recycle bins from my driveway's edge -- one of the trucks woke me around 5a, but somehow I wanted to get up that early -- and smoked in the garage before the heat-of-the-day arrived. It's going to get ugly around 12 noon. Due to the pain, I didn't make it to the polls to vote.

By 11a, I was tired from the lack of sleep, over the past 3-4 days, called Sherry and we made a tentative day to get together, and I waiting for the Weis Market delivery. The delivery came around 11:45a, and I put everything away, had a light breakfast and headed for the LR couch. 2¼hrs later, I woke-up, had lunch and checked the weather radar maps, as the sky darkened. Big t-storms were on the way into the York area, along with thunder/lightening. I like it, as long as there';s no hail in the mix.

I measured 96° on the back patio's thermometer, in the shade, around 4p. After a short snooze on the LR couch, I watched the 6p evening news, then switched to History's "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" until 11p; then unplugged.

Up at 7a on Wednesday, another sunny, clear blue sky, very warm 73°, forecast to hit 91°, I left the AC at 73°, made coffee, and scanned the weather and news headlines. As usual, I tuned into the "CP Show", from 9-12, and checked the calendar for any app'ts or needed errands.

Crap, my ROKU unit went sideways and I can only get the main menu, nothing else. I now have to unplug the TV to shut it down, and no buttons on the remote control unit will work. I'm too tired to drive to Best Buy and replace it, so I'll go tomorrow. I had lunch, took a 3+hr nap, and woke to t-storms passing to our north and to the douth, but missing the York area. I had dinner, tried to turen on the 82" Samsung TV, but the TV was MIA, so I quit that, and watched the Indy500 time trials, and qualifying videos on YT, until 11:45p, and quit for the night.

Remember and Honor

Up at 7:30a on Thursday, a cloudy, rainy, much older 52° morning, I upped the heat, made coffee and scanned the weather and news headines. Sis stopped by with a homemade Ravioli Pasta, w/ Sweet Peas and Crumbled Bacon, in an Aflerdo Sauce. Mmmmmmm. After she left, I got ready for the day, and left for nearby Best Buy, to get a ROKU replacement unit. The rain continued.

I had lunch, ran 2 errands, came back and unloaded, and then remembered thatb I had 5 Rxs waiting at Weis Market & Pharmacy, so I drove over there and did some food shopping as well. I also p/u'd 2 cases of Rolling Rock beer. Back home, I took a 2hr snooze, finished some paperwork on my desk, and did some condo chores. I got ready for th evening news on TV, and remembered that it wasn't working, so I got the news on the trusty ol' HP desktop.

By 11p, I was fading fast from being so tired, I closed the computer, gave the TV the finger, and went up to bed.

Up at 5a on Friday, an overcast, drizzly, cool 51° morning, I upped heat, made coffee, scanned the weather and news, and tuned into the "CP Show", from 9-12. I had lunch, and Sherry arrived around 1:30p, but with my back pain, and rainy, stormy weather outside, we opted to inside at my place.

She was nice enough to help me ease the 82" Samsung 4QLED TV out 18" from its wall-mounted position, so I could install the new ROKU WiFi device. Then, I spent what seemed like eternity *sctivating* the damned thing, with all kinds of usernames, passwords, PINs, PINs etc. Finally done, it worked, but still needs filling-in the various MENUs. I'll work on it. Sherry left around 4:30, to get a couple stops done and get thru the traffic on a holday weekend.

After dinner, I watched the news and tried to get the several new, empty menus populated with favorite channels, but only had partial luck.Tired from getting up so early, and no nap, I bagged it at 11:30p. Lights out.

Tomorrow starts a new week here in the Journal, and except for getting some lab work done, and a quick visit to my Endocrinologist's office, I'm clear. I'll call Shery over the weekend, and find out what her coming week looks like.

ET Still Works for the CIA.

The Trump administration continues to release tranches of previously classified documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the preferred term that includes traditional sightings of UFOs. “Traditional sightings” is a strange admission, don’t you think? Aliens and UFOs have been part of our national conversation for eighty years, long enough to constitute a “tradition,” even though the public has few answers for the questions this “tradition” brings.

Whether the U.S. government will ever provide real answers to unexplained events that have perplexed Americans for generations seems a secondary issue at this point. The more pressing question is this: If our government has been in possession of critical information about the nature of our reality, why should it be empowered to decide what we know? Or asked differently: Why should the government be permitted to keep secrets from us — especially when we are permitted to keep so few secrets from our government?

For decades, the U.S. military, FBI, and CIA dismissed reports of mysterious lights in the sky as hoaxes, misidentifications, or routine weather events. Discussion of the 1947 Roswell incident was regarded as a “conspiracy theory.” First-person encounters with non-human technology or even non-human, sentient beings were ridiculed as delusions.

Over the last fifteen years, though, a steady stream of former government employees — who describe themselves as “whistleblowers” — have testified both in public and under oath that they witnessed fantastic things that cannot be explained by existing technologies or accepted understandings of reality. Although some of these people do have verifiable credentials, records, and careers that suggest they were in positions to have witnessed the extraordinary things that they describe, nobody can know for sure whether they are telling the truth. Or said another way, nobody knows whether they are genuine “witnesses” to the existence of non-human intelligence or whether they are intentionally or unintentionally misleading the public. If what they say is false, they are either active agents of disinformation or manipulated pawns being controlled without their knowledge.

What is most striking about this moment in history is that Americans are responding to the government’s rollout of these long-classified files — what UFO enthusiasts describe as “disclosure” — with something between a collective shrug and sheer disbelief. For most of the last century, a vocal contingent of Americans has claimed that the U.S. government has been orchestrating a mass cover-up of the alien/UFO issue. Americans have demanded answers. Thousands of books and documentary movies have been written and produced about this phenomenon. Hollywood has played with Americans’ imaginations by speculating that extraterrestrial aliens are real and that the U.S. government has long known that they are real. Steven Spielberg has another alien movie coming out next month. Now the U.S. government seems to be slowly admitting that UFO-enthusiasts have been right all along, but, instead of celebrating the news, many of those same enthusiasts are wondering whether the government is really telling the truth. Perhaps Spielberg’s friends in the CIA are just helping him goose box-office sales.

Aliens, UFOs, UAPs, interdimensional beings — whatever. What’s fascinating is that government authorities are so distrusted at this point in time that nobody believes what officials say. Who could blame people for having such a dim view of the government’s capacity for honesty? After all, ongoing UAP disclosures suggest one of two possibilities: Either (1) elements of the U.S. government have been waging an information war against the American people for most of the last century by covering up world-historic events of unprecedented importance, or (2) elements of the U.S. government are currently waging an information war against the American people by suggesting that non-human entities with vastly superior intelligence are real.

Pick your poison: Either the American government was maliciously lying yesterday, or it is maliciously lying today. However the dust settles, rational people should agree: Government officials are habitual liars.

I don’t say that flippantly. I think it’s important for citizens to understand that government is not their friend. Government is, at best, a necessary construct to keep people’s worst impulses in check. At worst, government is total oppression. Somewhere in between, government enjoys a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. It uses threats of violence or imprisonment to confiscate citizens’ property through taxation and to control citizens’ behavior through a system of laws, rules, and regulations. Government grows only larger and more powerful over time. It rarely chooses a scalpel over an axe. Its army of bureaucrats operate as vampiric tyrants trained to drain an individual’s liberty. Who would trust people who clothe themselves in institutional power and stand above the law? Who would hold in high esteem government bureaucrats who disdain the natural wisdom of the people yet proclaim themselves “experts” in everything?

Many smart people abhor the left/right dichotomy of Western politics. They correctly see it as a dialectical mind game used to divide and conquer populations. The term “Uniparty” is often used to acknowledge that Establishment Democrats and Republicans in the United States are part of the same Leviathan preying on the American people. While citizens are distracted by party politics, the Uniparty works to make Big Government ever more totalitarian.

Instead of left/right labels that often produce a distinction without a difference, it is much more helpful to ask whether a person worships or loathes government.

In the ‘90s, President Bill Clinton directed federal law enforcement agencies to target anti-government groups as domestic terrorists, a wholly un-American effort that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder expanded greatly by using the unconstitutional powers of the USA PATRIOT Act to target political enemies. Obama regularly mocks Americans who distrust government and insists that Democrat-controlled government is Americans’ best friend. During his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama released a storybook called “The Life of Julia” that purported to show how his government would take care of every American from birth to death. Likewise, President Joe Biden routinely mocks American firearm owners who believe that the Second Amendment is an indispensable check on government power. In arguing that Americans should be disarmed, Biden claims that Americans stand no chance against the U.S. military.

Similarly, many of the Americans who voted for Clinton, Obama, and Biden seem to believe that government is some benevolent force that gives “free stuff” to people. They cheer new government programs, agencies, and rules as if expansive bureaucracy were an inherently “good” thing. When their political opponents take power, however, they immediately complain about government corruption. It is perplexing how certain voters delude themselves into believing that Big Government is great when a Clinton, Obama, or Biden has power but awful when the wrong wing of the Uniparty takes control.

Those who choose to worship government find ways to recognize government corruption only when the “wrong” party holds office. Those who rightfully distrust government understand that bureaucrats aren’t saints, “experts” aren’t priests, and governments aren’t gods.

In the two hundred and fiftieth year of America’s experiment in limited government and expansive individual liberty, it has never been more important for Americans to remember that their country was founded on an inherent distrust of power and authority. Government is rarely a source of good because governments are comprised of men and women — not angels. Government bureaucrats are not emancipators; they’re freedom-killers. They keep secrets and tell lies. They manufacture consensus. They pretend that an uninformed population is somehow equipped to vote knowledgeably.

How can any society pretend to be “democratic” if its government perpetually keeps it in the dark? If a government can’t be trusted to tell the truth about UFOs, why should it be trusted to tell the truth about anything? Governments don’t give; they take. Americans must open their eyes.

The Democrat Party Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization (Oldie But A Goodie)

fter a long history of condoning, advocating, and participating in political violence, it is time to designate the Democrat Party a domestic terrorist organization.

Decades of extreme language, calling conservatives “Nazis,” claiming existential threats are around the corner in order to feed an assassination culture, and justifying the aftermath has brought a level of violence that is only one-sided: The left tries to murder or maim their political enemies.

On Wednesday afternoon, a shooter took the life of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, just as he was answering a question about left-wing violence in the United States.

Left-wing commentators at corporate media outlets — the mouthpieces of the Democrat Party — were quick to justify the violence, suggesting it was justified or that Kirk brought it on himself, even going as far as to suggest it was really a Trump supporter firing a gun in “celebration.”

In the world we live in now, there is no time to try to convince the left to ‘tone down’ their extreme rhetoric. They need to be treated like the domestic terrorists they are.

Democrats have a long history of calling conservatives the most vile things our culture can think of, and their friends in the media spread the message to anyone who watches them.

Democrats have recently been saying they “cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore.”

Just yesterday, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in an interview, “Our only opportunity, our only chance to save our democracy, is to fight fire with fire.”

Murphy brushed off “the fact that we’re blowing up norms,” adding that if you spend any more than “two seconds … being sorry for the fact that the old world doesn’t exist, then your democracy is gone.”

“We’re in a war right now to save this country, and so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country,” he said. Murphy’s media pal salivated over the sentiment, wondering if there were enough people who believe it.

What do Democrats think is “necessary?” Well, perhaps it is bringing a knife to a “knife fight,” in the words of Democrat National Committee head Ken Martin.

After all, as Kirk pointed out earlier this year, 48 percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justifiable to assassinate Elon Musk, and 55 percent say the same about President Donald Trump.

“The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response,” Kirk said at the time. “This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.”

The left-wing penchant for egging on and justifying violence has long been a staple of their political movement.

Democrats did everything they could to make Trump seem like the most evil person on the planet for years, so it was no surprise when Trump was shot last year and a second gunman attempted to shoot him only weeks later.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., said recently that “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” and then in the aftermath of Kirk’s death blamed Trump for the assassination.

All the way back in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson suggested that if Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater were to win, American families would be annihilated by nuclear weapons. He ran an extraordinarily on-the-nose campaign ad saying as much.

The 1960s was full of left-wing political violence.

President Bill Clinton granted clemency to Puerto Rican FALN terrorists who bombed and murdered their way across America, and President Barack Obama pardoned them. President Joe Biden granted clemency to those convicted of murdering police officers.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., threatened Supreme Court justices, and a man with a gun showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house intent on murdering him.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., existential threat language led one of his supporters to shoot at the Republican members of Congress practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017, nearly ending the life of now-House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

In 2013, a man intent in killing as many people as possible at the conservative organization Media Research Council went there with a gun and killed a security officer after disagreeing with the group’s stance on gay “marriage.”

Left-wing violence in Nashville, Tennessee, saw Covenant Christian School attacked by someone claiming to be “transgender,” and the Biden administration attempted to cover up the shooter’s writings, which exposed her motive.

More recently, children at Annunciation Catholic School were gunned down while they were praying by another person claiming to be “transgender” with a similarly demonic motivation.

But the left celebrated when Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down a healthcare CEO, and they cheered even harder when Black Lives Matter brought death and destruction to America’s streets.

In the world we live in now, there is no time to try to convince the left to “tone down” their extreme rhetoric. They need to be treated like the domestic terrorists they are.