Nancy Pelosi Is Radical and Irrational, but the Democrat Party Keeps Following Her into the Un-American Swamp

PELOSI IS NOT BEHAVING RATIONALLY. There's no other way to say it. And, she is not only poisoning the well in Congress, but she will destroy her own Democrat Party if she is allowed to continue. • • • A THREE-WEEK TRUCE. The shutdown is over, for now. And, on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave credit to President Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and federal workers as the government shutdown came to an end. In a brief Senate floor speech that followed Trump's announcement of a deal being struck to end the five-week shutdown, Schumer said Democrats are ready to get down to business to come up with a solution to border security. Trump is giving lawmakers three weeks to work out a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the year, which includes money for the border. Senator Schumer said : "I want to thank President Trump and Leader McConnell. As just outlined, we have agreed to pass a clean, three-week continuing resolution to reopen the government. After over a month of increasing desperation, our dedicated public servants will get the relief and the paychecks they are entitled to, including backpay. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank federal workers who worked so selflessly this past month. They should never have to go through this again....As soon as the President signs the legislation to open government, we in Congress will roll up our sleeves. I genuinely hope that this process can produce something that is good for the country and acceptable to both sides." • Was Chuck Schumer being sincere? We'll find out soon enough. He spoke right after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised the deal that ended the government shutdown but cautioned that Democrats need to hold up their end of the bargain. McConnell said : "I was glad to see today the President's announcement that he and our Democratic colleagues have reached an agreement that will immediately reopen the government while providing the room to negotiate a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. Going forward, I hope our Democratic friends will stay true to the commitment they've stated constantly over the past weeks, that once government was reopened, they'd be perfectly willing to negotiate in good faith on a full-year government funding [bill] that would include a significant investment and urgently needed border security measures, including physical barriers." McConnell pointed out that the deal will only reopen the government for three weeks, so that a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives can hash out a deal for border security that would include money for a border fence. • For President Trump and for Mitch McConnell that means funding "physical" border security, an well as hi tech monitors and more money for Border Patrol and judges. McConnell said : "The days ahead will tell us whether our Democratic colleagues are actually serious about securing our nation, whether they actually mean what they say." • BUT, if Schumer's remarks on the Senate floor Friday are any indication, he is in no way ready to enter real negotiations with President Trump. Here is what Schumer said on Friday : “This agreement endorses that position. It reopens the government without preconditions, and it gives Democrats and Republicans an opportunity to discuss border security without holding hundreds of thousands of American workers hostage. Hopefully, it means a lesson has been learned -- shutting down the government over a policy difference is self-defeating....As just outlined, we have agreed to pass a clean 3-week continuing resolution to reopen the government. Also, we will pass legislation in the Senate that will be related to the Department of Homeland Security so the House and Senate can participate in a conference committee on that legislation. In the conference, Democrats and Republicans will have the opportunity to negotiate the details of the Homeland Security bill, which will include issues of border security, humanitarian aid, drug inspection technology, and many others. I genuinely hope this process will produce something that is good for the country and acceptable to both sides. We don't agree on some of the specifics of border security -- the Democrats are against the wall -- but we agree on many things, such as the need for new technology and the need to strengthen security at our ports of entry, and that bodes well for our coming to an eventual agreement. I believe there is good faith on both sides to reach an agreement, and we will work diligently to achieve one.” • Same old same old !!! Democrats do not understand the words "good faith." • • • PELOSI -- BELLIGERENT AND SPITEFUL. The three-week deal was struck in the Senate, and we have to believe it was not because of help from, but despite Speaker Pelosi's belligerence. On Thursday afternoon, President Trump had told reporters at the White House that he had a number of “alternatives” for reopening the government with funding for his border wall. Among them, he said, is demanding that Democrats agree to “some sort of pro-rated down payment on the wall.” He did not put a figure on the request. Then, the President tweeted in real time as Speaker Pelosi was addressing the partial government shutdown during her weekly news conference : “We will not Cave! Nancy just said she ‘just doesn’t understand why?’ Very simply, without a Wall it all doesn’t work. Our Country has a chance to greatly reduce Crime, Human Trafficking, Gangs and Drugs. Should have been done for decades. We will not Cave!” But, Pelosi rejected President Trump’s Thursday proposal for a “down payment” on a border wall as a condition to reopen the government. Walking off the House floor, Pelosi said the proposal is "not a reasonable" one. • • • A NATIONAL EMERGENCY TO FUND THE WALL? On Friday, Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News : "If an agreement is not reached on border security by February 15, then President Trump should 'go the emergency route' and secure the southern border....My belief is this needs to come to an end. Every commander-in-chief has an obligation to defend the country. How can you look at that border and believe it's not porous. A nine-month pregnant woman climbed over the wall. A couple of days ago, a hundred people came over the wall using a ladder." Graham called on Democrats to vote for a secure border, as legislation will bring further protection for DACA recipients, pointing out that in 2013, Democrats voted for $42 billion to secure the border, including 700 miles of fencing : "The President is willing to give a better life to the DACA recipients who will lose their legal status....As for shutting the government down, that makes no sense to me. What I want to do is shut down the crime coming across the border....this is the best chance I have seen since 2006 to get a deal that's a win-win for all of us. Take advantage of it....you secure your border and give a better life to the DACA/TPS population. If the Democrats do not work with us, the biggest losers, in my view, are going to be the TPS/DACA recipients. Because this President will secure our border through executive action.” • CNN is reporting, based on internal documents it says it has reviewed, that the White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route. CNN quotes a fragment of the proclamation : "The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency....Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C 1601, et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States.” • The draft was updated as recently as last week, a US government official told CNN -- but CNN usually gets is all wrong and offers FAKE news, so we need to be careful about how far the proclamation preparation has progressed. • CNN also reported that the Trump administration could pull $681 million from treasury forfeiture funds, $3.6 billion in military construction, $3 billion in Pentagon civil works funds, and $200 million in Department of Homeland Security funds, according to the unnamed official. The radical Democrat obstructionists in Congress have already vowed to oppose any national emergency proclamation with a lawsuit. • Gateway Pundit notes Republicans, such as Senators Graham, Chuck Grassley, John Thune, and Roger Wicker, have all said they want Trump to strike a deal rather than declare a national emergency. The latest suggestion from a group of Republican Senators, including Senator James Lankford, and Jared Kushner, revolves around a deal that supposedly gives green cards -- and eventually US citizenship -- to at least 700,000 illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Those amnestied illegal aliens would be allowed after five years to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country, a process known as “chain migration.” This could trigger a chain migration inflow just from the amnestied DACA population of anywhere between 2.2 to 4.2 million foreign nationals arriving in the US. • Considering that the ProgDem media is reporting all this -- CNN and the Washington Post -- we would be wise to wait for President Trump himself to declare his intentions about DACA and green cards. But, the President also spoke last week about alternative ways to fund the wall, re-emphasing its importance in stopping human trafficking, illegal drugs, and illegal immigration. Border crossings in November 2018 -- the last month for which data is available -- hit close to 52,000, marking the highest level of illegal immigration in the month of November since 2006. Projections indicate that illegal immigration for next year will reach 600,000 border crossings, the highest level of illegal immigration in more than a decade. Last year alone, about 2,000 illegal aliens convicted of murder and those suspected of murder were arrested by federal agents. And, drug overdoses in 2017 killed an unprecedented 72,287 U.S. residents, nearly three times the number of individuals killed by global terrorism. Nearly 50,000 of those deadly overdoses were caused by either heroin or fentanyl. Those figures, if we project them into the future, make the DACA / green card deal seem more reasonable. • AND, the Democrat Party refuses to accept the border facts. The massive increase of migrant families and minors crossing the border created a medical crisis for CBP officials to contend with. Officials report : USBP transported 2,224 subjects (5.3% of all southwest border arrests for the same period) to local hospitals since December 22, 2018. USBP has spent a total of 19,299 hours providing various levels of support to these hospital visits. This includes transportation to and from, and over watch for each person / family at the hospital; so there are less agents performing border security duties; officials cite an example from January 15 when Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 247 migrants. At least 50 of these migrants required immediate medical attention from a hospital. Transporting these 50 migrants to a hospital for evaluation and treatment. These migrants crossed in an extremely remote area of the New Mexico border region. Transporting them to hospitals “utilized nearly all available agents, severely limiting their ability to process the large group or respond to other border security duties.” This resulted in increased time in custody, delaying custody transfers, and slowing down Border Patrol agents’ ability to other types of illicit border crossings. Cartel connected smugglers now appear to be taking advantage of this to smuggle large quantities of drugs across unattended border areas. “Smugglers and traffickers then use these large groups as “cover” while USBP resources are utilized to arrest and detention-related duties associated with the large groups,” officials stated. The report cites examples of this behavior : On January 16, 2018, USBP apprehended a group of 253 illegal aliens and in a separate event seized approximately 265 lbs of marijuana. On January 17, 2018, USBP agents seized 705 lbs of Cocaine. On the same day, USBP agents apprehended a large group of 174. On January 18, 2018, USBP apprehended a group of 116 and in a separate event seized approximately 1,087 lbs of marijuana. • President Trump on Saturday promised supporters that the wall on the southern border will be built, but warned in a tweet that “both parties [are] very dug in : "21 days goes very quickly. Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. Will not be easy to make a deal, both parties very dug in. The case for National Security has been greatly enhanced by what has been happening at the Border & through dialogue. We will build the Wall!" • Breitbart reported on Saturday : "Between January 25 and February 15, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) illegal border crossings indicate that there could be at least 30,000 border crossings at the US-Mexico border. This accounts for the roughly 1,300 crossings that occur every day at the border. This is equivalent to about a caravan of Central American and Mexican migrants crossing the border every day for the next 22 days. This estimate could be upwards of 44,000 illegal border crossings for the next few weeks if there are about 2,000 crossings a day, as there were in November 2018, the last month for which DHS has released total border crossings data. Federal immigration officials have said only about half of illegal aliens who cross the southern border are caught. Most recently in Arizona’s Yuma Sector, a group of more than 110 illegal aliens scaled a border fence and crossed onto the US side of the border. The group was assisted by a human smuggler. A tweet read : "On Monday #CBP#YumaSector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 110+ Central Americans who illegally scaled the wall with the assistance of a smuggler with a ladder #NationalSecurity#SouthwestBorderpic.twitter.com/T19JzI3xeC — CBP Arizona (@CBPArizona) January 23, 2019." Border apprehension data from last month reveal that the number of adults traveling to the southern border with children has skyrocketed by 280% compared to the same time last year. 'Fiscal Year 2018 was a record year [for family unit crossings] and this year will surpass that if the current trend continues without any legislative fixes,' the DHS release states." • Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed on Sunday that President Trump will secure the southern border "with or without Congress," and did not explicitly rule out the possibility of another government shutdown in the coming weeks. Mulvaney indicated that the President is prepared to declare a national emergency to direct construction of a wall along the southern border if Congress is unable to reach a funding deal to his liking. Mulvaney told Fox News : "It’s still better to get it through legislation...the right way...At the end of the day, the President’s commitment is to defend the nation and he’ll do it either with or without Congress." Mulvaney also downplayed the consequences of what many saw as a capitulation by the President, saying that Trump will "be judged by what happens at the end of this process, not what happened this week....No one wants a government shutdown. But when a President vetoes a bill that’s put in front of him on a spending package, sometimes that has the effect of shutting the government down. We don’t go into this trying to shut the government down." • • • PELOSI STILL SAYS -- NO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. Senator Graham also told Fox News that he hopes with the shutdown coming to a temporary end, President Trump will be invited to give his State of the Union address next week : "It would be good for this country to have the President speak from the House chamber, with [Pelosi] over his shoulder, showing we have differences but we are also able to work together." • BUT, Breitbart reported on Saturday that : "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday afternoon at a press conference that she would not commit to scheduling the State of the Union speech in the House Chamber for President Donald Trump until after the government is reopened. Appearing alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss the deal struck with Trump to reopen the federal government after the longest shutdown in history -- a deal that does not include a wall along the US border with Mexico as Trump wants -- Pelosi was asked if the State of the Union will happen on this coming Tuesday, as it was originally going to before a dustup with Trump over the shutdown. Pelosi said she would not schedule the speech in the House chamber until discussing 'mutually agreeable date' with Trump after the government is officially reopened. Asked if the State of the Union will go on as planned, Pelosi says 'well the State of the Union is not planned now. What I said to the President is when government is opened, we will discuss a mutually agreeable date. And I'll look forward to doing that.' " • So, the government is reopening on the Friday before the originally scheduled date for the State of the Union address, but Speaker Pelosi is not agreeing to give President Trump the platform of the House chamber to deliver the speech on January 29. • • • PELOSI, THE TRUMP-HATING LIAR. Nancy Pelosi makes Harry Reid look like a paragon of truthfulness and probity. At least when Harry Reid lied, he would occasionally later admit it and say "but it worked." Nancy Pelosi seems unable even to know when she is lying. She is -- to be blunt -- a fanatic who is poisoning the United States Congress and American political discourse. • The indictment and reprehensible arrest for former Trump presidential campaign advisor Roger Stone early Friday morning by FBI agents at the behest of Special Counsel Robert Mueller -- a pre-dawn commando-like raid and arrest in Ft. Lauderdale -- reminded me of another FBI Florida shameful performance, the raid and seizure of the little Cuban boy, Elián González, who was stripped away from his mother's family in Florida by the Bill Clinton FBI under the direct order of Attorney General Janet Reno, and sent back to Cuba. • Pelosi had "fantasy" thoughts about Roger Stone's ridiculously over-violent arrest tweeting : "Roger Stone’s indictment makes clear there was a deliberate, coordinated effort by top Trump campaign officials to subvert the will of the American people during the 2016 Election. #FollowTheFacts....@realDonaldTrump’s continued efforts to undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation raises the questions :....What does Putin have on @realDonaldTrump, politically, personally or financially?....Why has the Trump Administration continued to discuss pulling the US out of NATO, which would be a massive victory for Putin?....The Special Counsel investigation is working, and the House will ensure that it can continue, free from interference from the White House. Read my full statement here: https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/12519-4/..." • Read Pelosi's statement, if you want -- it contains the usual radical ProgDem accusations WITHOUT REASON or EVIDENCE -- here is an excerpt : “The indictment of Roger Stone makes clear that there was a deliberate, coordinated attempt by top Trump campaign officials to influence the 2016 election and subvert the will of the American people. It is staggering that the President has chosen to surround himself with people who violated the integrity of our democracy and lied to the FBI and Congress about it. In the face of 37 indictments, the President’s continued actions to undermine the Special Counsel investigation raise the questions : what does Putin have on the President, politically, personally or financially? Why has the Trump Administration continued to discuss pulling the US out of NATO, which would be a massive victory for Putin? Lying to Congress and witness tampering constitute grave crimes. All who commit these illegal acts should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. We cannot allow any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from appearing before Congress." It is all FAKE -- the President is certainly not "surrounded" by anybody who has violated the integrity of "our democracy." President Trump has instead tried to save its "integrity" by cleaning out the Swamp of radicals like Nancy Pelosi. As for the 37 indictments -- Pelosi was obviously counting the two dozen or more "show indictments" of Russians and Russian companies by Mueller, who has no hope of extradicting them from Russia for trial. AND, the final Fake charge -- it is always the last insinuation made by Pelosi or Schumer or Schiff -- that the Mueller fiasco will be protected from "interference by the White House," is just a plain political lie. There has been no interference from the White House -- and perhaps there should be some, not "interference" but "intervention" to end the witch hunt that is destroying the lives of people who have no connection to Russia or the Trump campaign or "collusion," and spitefully rendering the presidency of Donald Trump less than completely in charge of its own destiny. • • • PELOSI -- THE MAD HATTER HOUSE SPEAKER. Illusions of Grandeur -- that is what Nancy Pelosi has. She is so sure that she has bested President Trump that she's acting as if she were President herself -- as if America would ever elect her. • Breitbart reported it on Saturday under the title " 'President’ Pelosi Uses Eight Pens in Signing Ceremony for Bill to Reopen Government." Speaker Pelosi actually had the indecency to hold what Breitbart called "a presidential-style signing ceremony Friday night for the continuing resolution funding the federal government until February 15 that passed the House and Senate moments before. Surrounded by several senior House Democrats, Pelosi signed the bill using eight different pens which she then handed out to her fellow Democrats -- just like Presidents do in special bill signing ceremonies." Pelosi even invited the media to cover her ‘presidential’ bill signing ceremony. Pelosi also had a live video online. Her office played it straight in describing the event, but the self-aggrandizing symbolism was self-evident when she tweeted : "The House just passed legislation to re-open government and end the #TrumpShutdown. Watch as we prepare the legislation to be sent to President Trump. #EndTheShutdown https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yNGaOmejLjxj." • The comments were fast in hitting social media -- Harry Townsend Secretary of Housing & Urban Development : "Well she is from California!! Maybe Russia similarities have her old mind confused?" /// "Pelosi has totally lost it.. she is nothing but an evil lunatic filled her lies and her hate...She is not fit to hold office..." /// "She's behaving like, and everyone, even Trump, is treating her like she is the one calling the shots. RIDICULOUS!" /// "Almost seems like Pelosi has been sniffing to much JP-6! She and her partner Schumer think they have a win, BUT Mr President I believe is giving them enough rope to hang them!!!!!! Go GET'EM MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!!!" • • • THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE BACKED THE PRESIDENT. Newsmax reported on Friday that the Republican National Committee voted unanimously to provide President Donald Trump its “undivided support” ahead of the 2020 election. The RNC voted to approve a resolution giving its “undivided support for President Donald J. Trump and his effective Presidency” at its regular winter meeting in New Mexico this week. The resolution was primarily sponsored by Carolyn McLarty, a committeewoman from Oklahoma, who told the Washington Examiner that “my reason for doing it is to support the President. As you know, there’s been so much belittling and that kind of thing going on, Washington elites attacking the president, and that’s the focus of mine, to give him support, give him encouragement. I didn’t need to go beyond that.” The committee also voted unanimously to re-elect Ronna Romney McDaniel as the party chair. • • • A WORD ABOUT THE ROGER STONE ARREST. It comes from American Thinker's Patricia McCarthy, who asked on Saturday : "Are we even America anymore? After news broke of the pre-dawn raid on Roger Stone's home Friday morning in Florida by 29 heavily-armed agents in 19 vehicles, lights flashing, CNN serendipitously on hand to film the raid, millions of us realized once and for all that we are no longer living in the America we knew and loved. Those same millions of us have known for over two years that the Mueller 'probe' is a huge and well orchestrated cover-up. There are now at least two books, Gregg Jarrett's and Dan Bongino's, and well researched investigative articles that prove this beyond doubt. Mueller was appointed by Rod Rosenstein not to investigate Trump collusion with Russia. The principals all knew that was not remotely true. He was appointed to conceal and obliterate the volumes of evidence of crimes committed by Hillary Clinton; her campaign; and a group of higher-ups in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA, all of whom were involved in a scheme to prevent Trump from being elected. All of them have lied under oath and before Congress. Mueller himself was involved in the Clinton scheme to sell 20% of US uranium to Russia. All of these felons are walking free; their homes are not being raided in the wee small hours of the morning, but their crimes are far more serious than anything Roger Stone or Paul Manafort might have committed." • Patricia McCarthy says : "Suddenly, it is catastrophically clear that America is no longer a constitutional republic, a nation of laws and justice. An unelected, tangential officer of the DOJ has for two years abused his position of power to destroy many lives in the cruelest of ways with impunity. No one is stopping him and his band of legal bullies....The man is every bit the scoundrel others have reported him to be for years. Read Sidney Powell's book, License to Lie. It is a primer on the abuse of power long exercised by Mueller and his pit bull, Andrew Weismann. These thugs revel in destroying people, and they keep getting away with it. Someone must stop them." • McCarthy asks : "Where is the investigation into the leaks to the media from Mueller's office? Who tipped CNN about the raid on Stone's home? What is acting DOJ head Whitaker doing? Twiddling his thumbs? How could the FBI head, Christopher Wray, have allowed this raid to happen? There are so many crimes being committed here, one on top of another. Is Whittaker a Mueller-Rosenstein plant, too? Are we to 'pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'? Just who is the man behind the curtain? Is Mueller the Wizard, or is someone else pulling the strings? Is Mueller more powerful than the President? It seems that he is. He has morphed into an American version of Lavrentiy Beria." • We can fully agree with Patricia McCarthy's hope that Mueller will one day "be tried for his crimes. May he be found guilty for the lives he has ruined, many of them long before he became special counsel for the current investigation. This man is a menace." • We can also fully agree with McCarthy when she says : "Trump is a courageous man; he needs to have the courage to put an end to this charade that is nothing but an engine of vile and corrupt hatred speeding toward his presidency with malicious intent. Mueller and his henchmen are violating every tenet of the Constitution and thousands of laws on the books since its drafting. They are out of control. That raid on Stone's home was the last straw. They don't use that much firepower for known gang members who they know are armed and dangerous....This entire enterprise, from the Clinton-DNC plot to ruin Trump to the Mueller "Russia collusion" probe is all of a piece and is the most monstrous political scandal in American history. We are definitely not over the rainbow; as a nation, we are in the throes of self-destruction." • You can read Patricia McCarthy's entire article at < https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/roger_stones_swat_team_arrest_are_we_even_america_anymore.html#ixzz5diunXG >. • • • DEAR READERS, American Thinker published anotehr article on Saturday, by Jeff Lukens, title "In Defense of Western Civilization." Lukens writes : "The rise of Western civilization has led to the greatest progress in human history. It has given the world democracy, freedom, affluence, equality before the law, the separation of church and state, and the notion of a sovereign state to protect it all. No other civilization on the globe can make that claim. Western civilization is the most prominent civilization because it is better than the others. Yet this point is lost on many of those among us. Western civilization is much more than a geographical area. It is more about the idea of inalienable rights and the intrinsic value of the individual. Beginning in about 1600 until about 1970, Western civilization was exported from Europe to the Americas and other parts of the world. The advances in science, manufacturing, and free enterprise were markedly different from those in Asia or Africa. Closing the gap on these differences in recent years is a result of non-developed countries adopting Western practices. Central to our civilization is the nation-state, which consists of people who inhabit a specified boundary, who rule their own government, and who hold a national identity. Joined with the incentives and liberties of free enterprise, this paradigm has remarkably reduced poverty around the globe to levels never before thought possible. Only the nation-state and its laws can protect citizens' liberty." Lukens states : "America was founded on an idea, and the idea is liberty. The American Founders created divided representative government that avoids the dangers of autocratic or mob rule. It is based on Judeo-Christian morality derived from respect for the individual. The Constitution provides for limited government based on natural law and respect for property rights." BUT, as Lukens adds : "Today, we are confronted with people who seek the downfall of the nation-state. They seek removal of the borders that protect it. Without borders, the nation falls into anarchy driven by people who would ruin the structure that has brought Western civilization to its current level of prosperity. Once defenders of free speech, liberals now work to suppress opposing views in education, in entertainment, on the nightly news, in social media, and in academia. They frequently do so by threats and intimidation. The right to bear arms is also under ceaseless pressure from the left who know that an unarmed, submissive public is necessary for top-down state rule. They believe that global government is the solution for what they view as a socially unjust America." • We can only agree with Jeff Lukens when he says : "The leftist self-loathing Faustian bargain with radical Islam to defeat conservatism will not end well. Together, these two groups would extinguish the essence of Western life....Leftists will do to Western civilization what it has done to the universities, race relations, the arts, religion, and the moral fabric of America. They will destroy it....Europe is floundering with low birth rates and a rising tide of socialism and sharia. It may already be lost to these trends, and we should not follow the Europeans down this hole....Progressives are pursuing a politics of disruption and division with the intent of overturning society. Their politics are modeled on the tactics of Lenin, not on the constitutional foundation of our country. Their goal is to overturn the founding concept of America and Western Civilization with a global socialist state....It would bring with it socialism and an economic breakdown, with its empty shelves, its lack of services, and the unintended devastation that happens when these leftists gain control of our lives. It would have the same consequences for the West as it did in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe....It's no exaggeration to say the left is engaged in an ideological war against traditional America. As a result, a new cold civil war has settled in, where compromise seems impossible....As sad as it may be, preserving freedom necessitates continuous confrontation against those who seek to destroy it." • America is enduring the outrageous, erratic, and irrational behavior of one of those waging ideological warfare against America -- her name is Nancy Pelosi. She is a menace to the Democrat Party, to Congress, and to America. She surrounds herself with those who lack any notion of restraint or compromise. • We who want to preserve and protect America and its constitution must be tough -- we must stand up to this dangerous Deep State insurrection that is led by Progressive radical Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. Our way of life as Americans depends on it. As Jeff Lukens says, "We must ignore their venom and reassert who we are as a civilization. And be proud of it." • And, that means getting rid of Robert Mueller and his thugs, getting rid of the senior officials in the Department of Justice who refuse to rein in Mueller, getting rid of the upper echelons of the Deep State FBI. And, YES, it means standing with President Trump and encouraging him to clean house in the Washington Swamp while he still can -- before the 2020 election campaign sweeps all else aside for a year or more. The Swamp clean-up should start with ousting Nancy Pelosi.