David Limbaugh - Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Why The Democrats Must Not Win

Copyright 2019 by David Limbaugh

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To my fellow patriots joined together in our common struggle to save America from the political lefts insane and destructive ideas. Only through vigilance, commitment, and faith in God will we succeed in beating back the forces that seek to complete the fundamentaland sinistertransformation of this great nation.

E verything you need to know about Americas political division today, and what the two sides really believe in, was evident during President Trumps 2019 State of the Union address.

Originally scheduled for January 29, the speech was postponed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who cited security concernsspecifically, that the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security were lacking funds due to the partial government shutdown then in effect. The shutdown stemmed from congressional Democrats refusal to grant Trumps request to fund construction of a security wall on the southern border. Many Democrats balked at the walls $5.7 billion price tag, though within weeks much of the same crowd pledged support for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs Green New Deal, whose cost she has projected to be a staggering $10 trillionwhich now appears to be a dramatic underestimation.

Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen quickly debunked Pelosis reasoning, declaring that both her department and the Secret Service were fully prepared to provide security for the Presidents speech. That was irrelevant to the left, which cheered Pelosi for ostensibly humiliating Trump. Progressives were less ecstatic a few days later, however, when Trump retaliated by cancelling a weeklong trip Pelosi was scheduled to take overseas. Several Democratic trip participants, including House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, Congresss most prominent advocate of the Russia collusion hoax, were filmed exiting a bus that was supposed to take them to an airport but instead merely circled the block several times. At the time Schiff was left speechless by the affair and refused to comment to the press, a rare occurrence for him.

The shutdown was resolved about a week later, and the State of the Union went forward on February 5. The audience featured a large block of Democratic women, including Pelosi, wearing white as an anti-Trump protest. Undaunted, the president delivered a passionate defense of American greatness. He championed border security, deregulation, and lowering prescription drug prices while denouncing radical abortion laws that would allow infanticide. He touted the tremendous economic accomplishments his administration had achieved in just two years, particularly the great strides seen in minority communities.

In pledging common cause with the freedom fighters in Venezuela, Trump roundly denounced the brutality of that nations regime, tying socialism to totalitarianism and exposing it as a destroyer of prosperity and freedom. He then deftly segued to the alarming calls for socialism in America, noting that America was founded on liberty and independencenot government coercion, domination, and control. He endorsed Americas age-old appeal to liberty, underscoring the incompatibility of freedom and socialism. We are born free, and we will stay free, proclaimed President Trump. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

The speech was a tour de force of American exceptionalism and unabashed patriotism. On hearing these remarks, however, Democrats presented themselves in stark relief, with many refusing to stand against socialism. In fact, many Democrats defiantly refused to rise for: American greatness, middle-class prosperity, blue-collar wage increases, low unemployment rates for minorities, the disabled, women, cutting regulations, Americas leading the world in oil and natural gas production and becoming a net energy exporter, the USA chant, veterans, the child tax credit, legal immigration, an immigrant ICE agent who saved hundreds of women and girls from sex traffickers, ICE itself, angel families, school choice, the reduction of food stamp rolls by five million, the elimination of the Obamacare penalty, the banning of late-term abortion, deescalating tensions with North Korea, and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The women in white applauded very little in the speech, but they did give one line an animated reception, replete with hugging and enthusiastic cheeringTrumps lauding of the historic number of women now serving in Congress. In a speech filled with tributes to all sorts of individuals and groups as well as to America itself, they were roused to cheer for themselves.

Trumps optimistic address was filled with calls for unity, promoting American greatness as a benefit to all Americans. For the Democratic response, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams offered an entirely different perspective, one grounded in identity politicsa message that was less optimistic, less hopeful, and decidedly more divisive. Whereas Trump proudly recited Americas noble history and emphasized the sacrifices of all Americans, Abrams focused on the shame of the nations racist history and the continuing prevalence of racism today. She also took a shot at the nations sexism for good measure. We fought Jim Crow with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, said Abrams. Yet we continue to confront racism from our past and in our present. America achieved a measure of reproductive justice in Roe v. Wade, but we must never forget, it is immoral to allow politicians to harm women and families to advance a political agenda.

There could be no sharper contrast between the visions and agendas of the American right and the left today. Conservatives are proud of the amazing economic improvements President Trump has overseen and are delighted that they permeate our whole society, including the poor, minorities, and women. Were pursuing a vision of American greatness in which our government limits its own intrusive powers in order to unleash the awesome power and ingenuity of free American people. We have faith in the inherent goodness, generosity, and kindness of Americans and their dedication to their families, neighbors, and communities. We believe the American nation is exceptional and worth defending, including at the border.

The left, by contrast, is consumed with fury at their own nation. Leftists detest much of the history of our country, which they believe was born in the sins of continental theft, genocide, slavery, white privilege, sexism, and mercenary capitalism. They are on a mission to right all these alleged wrongs and to punish those still benefiting from them. The American people, in their view, are crawling with racists who want to resurrect Jim Crow. Thus, Americans need systematic indoctrination through every conceivable leverthe education system, entertainment, the media, corporate America, and social media, to name a fewto disabuse them of their backward mentality. Every element of American society must be politicized with this goal in mind. Every American must be shamed, publicly and vehemently, for any utterance that strays beyond rigid ideological boundaries. Rejecting the principle of equal opportunity for all, the left pits Americans against one another according to race, class, gender, and other categories in a grim struggle for power and government largess.