A lot of liberals will concede when pressed and only in principle, that the federal government is bloated, that major reforms are necessary, and even that Biden’s border policies were not a great policy choice. Yes, illegal immigrants–at least a lot of the new arrivals–should be deported.
They will concede that multi-trillion dollar deficits are unsustainable, and that a $36 trillion debt is genuinely scary, especially when it grows by $3 trillion a year.
But almost to a person they complain that the Trump reforms are chaotic, using blunt tactics that often have cruel results. Fine civil servants–yes, they exist–and decent people caught in a bad spot are being hurt. Trump’s deportations arguably violate the law, although he might win on technicalities.
“Due process” is the watchword of the day, and I have to admit that they have a point. While almost all the complaints you hear from the Pravda media and the liberal Democrats are rhetorical tools and not sincere arguments about the rule of law–they are like Letitia James prosecuting Trump for crimes she inarguably committed multiple times herself–the sincere liberals who listen do have a point in some of these cases.
Conservatives have, I believe wisely, not conceded an inch on any of these issues. And they are right for a simple reason: the alternative is much, much worse.
Cut the budget with a scalpel? Impossible. Literally impossible to do. It has been tried and failed. If you investigate every program, hash out every cut with every “stakeholder,” hold Congressional hearings on every dime of spending in a multi-trillion dollar budget, and examine every layoff in a workforce of 2-3 million, absolutely nothing will get done. Nothing, and that $36 trillion will be $50 trillion in a few years, and the economy collapses at some point.
Venezuela, here we come.
So you use a machete. Not because a machete is the ideal tool, but rather because it is the only way to do it. Nobody wants a limb amputated, but if that is the only way to treat the gangrene, you chop away.
Consider the “due process” argument on deportations. It sounds high-minded, Constitutional, wise, and lawful. But that is all bulls**t, and I will tell you why.
First, all those illegal immigrants are here because Joe Biden and company–their chosen leader–evaded the law by letting 12 million plus illegal aliens stream across the border, so any recourse to “the law” is complete horse manure.” For my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law.”
Second, because the United States was flooded with 12+ million illegals in four years, and likely has 20-30 million living here from decades of poor enforcement caused by policies chosen by the very people who suddenly discovered the niceties of the law, it is literally impossible to follow standard practices.
It would take centuries. What they are arguing for is a de facto amnesty–after all, Biden gave travel documents, work permits, Social Security Cards, and billions in food and housing aid to the illegals he let pour in–because it is beyond the capacity of any government to hold hearings, hire lawyers, process the paperwork, and dot every I and cross every T in the manner that the liberals want.
Impossible. I.M.P.O.S.S.I.B.L.E.
And that is the point for the liberals. Break the law to create a crisis, demand the law to prevent solving it.
NEW: Scott Jennings torpedoes Democrat shill’s entire MS-13 gang member defense—with one devastating question.
It didn’t feel like a CNN panel.
It felt like a National Geographic nature documentary—where a predator stalks its prey, just waiting for that one fatal misstep.… pic.twitter.com/n25obSi3Os
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) April 16, 2025
We are facing a crisis caused by the liberals and the hard left, and liberals set the rules for crises, as I recall. The Constitution was thrown out the window, and laws were ignored during COVID. Everybody’s civil rights were thrown out the window, and the excuse was public health. And it was excused as a crisis, and the emergency declaration made it vaguely legal to do so.
When a liberal decries the cruelty, ask them why they supported separating children from their parents, why dying people couldn’t see their relatives, why Secretaries of State rewrote voting laws without legal process, why every single damn cruel thing done during COVID was OK.
They will say it was because of an emergency.
Well, we are facing emergencies that threaten the existence of the United States far more than COVID right now. Our finances are about to collapse, Americans are getting raped and murdered by illegal immigrants at alarming rates, terrorists walked across the border, dangerous gang members have taken over parts of our cities, and Americans are desperate for relief.
There is a “reasonable” clause in much of the Constitution. For instance, we are safe from “unreasonable” search and seizure, and even the courts recognize that what is reasonable in some circumstances is not in most. We rightly expect that police don’t shoot citizens at random, but in exigent circumstances, we expect them to without remorse.
There is no due process for a mass shooter because the circumstances are dire, and time is of the essence. Nobody gets a court order for the sniper to take a shot.
We can argue about what circumstances justify enhanced government powers, but the same people who complain that an MS-13 gang member needs years of hearings to get deported stole every single American’s Civil Rights over a bad flu virus. I think we have a much better case.
A plurality of Democrats wanted to put the unvaccinated in jail, and take away their kids, and many wanted us to DIE without getting medical treatment because they feared–as VACCINATED people–that their vaccines didn’t work well enough.
So spare me high-minded lectures about “due process.” Their commitment to due process is situational, not principled. The question we are arguing about is whether the US faces an emergency, not whether due process is observed.
Are the crises we face existential–I, and most Americans, think “Yes.” Liberals kinda like this situation. That is the real argument.
