What leaders would …

• Evilly force children to the front lines of their struggle to face hideous disfigurement or death?
• Coldly countenance the violent rape and horrifying slaughter of women in the blossom of their youth as a feature of their stratagem?
• Deliberately endanger large swaths of their citizenry by placing them in positions of vulnerability to potentially catastrophic attacks?
• Systematically suppress the will of the people for open, free elections and democratic processes?
• Coordinate with nefarious networks to combine perversive uproar with perpetual, perfidious propagandizing designed to dispirit, demoralize, and ultimately devitalize any opposition?

… all in a cruel, callous, cold-blooded, cynical, and ceaseless scheme to retain the ragged remnants of their hold on power by any means necessary?

Would that be the brutal, bloodthirsty, barbarous beasts known as Hamas? 

Or the fierce, fanatical, maniacal, murderous ayatollahs of Iran?

Yeah, them. But also … 

The despicable.

Deceitful.

Devious.

Despotic. 

And – increasingly – deranged Democratic Party.

In its scorched-earth opposition to the SAVE America Act alone, this domestic version of the Evil Empire has scored a five-fer in the above description. 

Its trench warriors are dug in against the Act’s proposed rescue of innocent and easily misled minors whose physical and emotional well-being and future fertility Democrats would sickeningly sacrifice on the sacred altar of the transgender agenda.

Their obstinate, obdurate opposition to its proof-of-citizenship requirements is a continuation of their contemptuous change-the-electorate crusade, the carnage from which has encompassed the brutal violation and/or murder of dozens of innocent women, whose families’ laments have fallen on deaf ears.

Democrats’ obsessive obstruction of the Act’s main provision – merely to require identification to vote – is a scornful slap in the face to 80+% majorities and disdainful denial of their will.

Its purpose: to press further the party’s radical progressive wing’s inexorable erosion of election security.

And any social media sojourn is met by a deluge of dire, reduplicated misdirectives – and pure projection – regarding SAVE’s straightforward specifications. It’s a poll tax. Disenfranchises women and minorities. Designed to steal the 2026 midterms. 

But the manufactured, multipurpose mountain of gridlock on Capitol Hill is nothing compared to what has been unfolding at the nation’s airports. There, thanks to the demagogic party’s parallel parrying of Homeland Security spending, taxpaying travelers have been exasperatingly, exhaustingly thwarted in getting from here to there. 

And actually more important, Americans have also been irresponsibly and recklessly exposed to extreme security threats – in those hubs and virtually every hamlet from sea to shining sea – when our nation is at war with an implacable foe that had four years of opportunity to implant sleeper cells while that faction’s counterfeit commander in chief called “all-ee all-ee in-free” to invaders from around the globe.

But wait! There’s more! Sanctimonious and/or senile pseudo-senators and other Pecksniffian pols are peddling pious poppycock, pooh-poohing the intrepid Armed Forces’ unprecedented precision pounding of that very enemy – undeniably and unforgivably undermining the undertakings of a genuine leader to protect his people from the portent of nuclear annihilation.

In short, like Gazan terrorists and Persian oppressors, these usurpers think nothing of preserving their occupation of positions of influence by imperiling their own countrymen, women, and children.

They’re figuratively huddling behind you, and putting their citizenry’s security and substance at risk in direct dereliction of their sworn duty to “insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.”

You, the American people, are the Democrats’ human shields. 

Take note … and take action.

Bob Maistros, a regular contributor to Issues & Insights, is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached at bob@rpmexecutive.com.

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